(If Adam was alive) Lance and Adam are best friends™ and have a lot of inside jokes. Shiro and Keith are constantly scared of these two.
Platonic Kidge. Pidge and Keith are conspiracy theorie freaks and could talk hour about it. (Pidge secretly doesn’t trust the government)
Matt teaches/shows Romelle memes
Everyone ships Klance and they are open about it. Pidge “Tell your boyfriend to shut up” Keith “Lance is not my boyfriend” Pidge “Yeah, and I am Morgan Freeman”.
Shiro makes a lot of gay jokes
Shiro uses het emojis
The Paladins call Coran “Uncle Coran” most of the time (Like they call Shiro “Dad”)
A lot of adults are actually really scared of Pidge
The Paladins have a “Hunk’s cookies friday”. Hunk makes cookies every Friday and they all have a movie night.
Pidge secretly likes MCR
Keith is a weeb
The first time Keith heard about “Klance” he asked Lance what it means. After Lance explained it to Keith, they both got really red and were awkward around each other for a week
Lance adopted a cat and names her Blue (Blue and Kosmo are getting along really well)
Lance worships the bee-movie
Pidge, Hunk, and Lance call the Galra “Furries (is that how you write it?) Including Keith
The zines are here and we are now preparing to ship! We are still waiting on some of the merch to come in, so the zine only orders are going to be sent out tomorrow. As soon as the rest of the stuff comes in, which should be just before Christmas, we will send those out.
Good news! The preorder deadline for the Arms of the Ocean Zine has been extended until Sept 23. Thank you so much to all of you who have already made purchases, and thank you to all who have been sharing these posts! You all are fantastic!
Here is the link once again, have a wonderful night!
We have been informed that our ask box has been closed. We apologize for the inconvenience and have fixed the problem! If you have any questions or concerns please direct then to this blog or to our personal blogs!
Here is a list of the contributors for the zine. Please show these people so much love and support, this would not have been possible without their beautiful works and their constant support with us mods.
Here are the prices of the bundles and what they offer. You can have either a digital copy, both a digital and physical copy, or both of those PLUS the wonderful merch that our lovely artists created!
Here is the link to order! Just selct which bundle you would like to order :)
Thank you everyone once again! You all are amazing!
First off, I would like to apologize for the radio silence. I won’t be going into details, but a lot happened that kept postponing things, but we have finally made it!
Preorders will begin on August 19th, and will go on until September 16th. There will be a post about the prices coming after this so please spread the word as much as you can. Let’s get as many people as we can!
Thank you for applying and showing your love for this zine! Emails have been sent out to everyone about who has been accepted or not, so for everyone who applied please check your emails!
If you didn’t receive an email we will contact you in a different way asap!
Thank you again and please stay tuned for more updates :)
Thank you so much to everyone that has signed up for this zine! And thank you for spreading the word, we coukdnt have gotten such a great response without you.
Sign ups for the zine are now closed, so us mods will go through the applications. I’m sorry we can’t have everyone, but we’re going to have as many as we can!
Solaris: The idea of doing a shance zine came to me while at work driving from one state to the other, and when I had a break I texted King asking what she thought if I put together a shance zine. She was okay with it if she was able to be nosy, and it didn’t take long until she became my partner in crime because I had NO IDEA what I was doing.
King: Please I’ve been your partner in crime for much longer than this.
Solaris: Okay fair. Anyways, we spent a long time trying to figure out what the theme was going to be and how we wanted to put everything together.
King: It did take a bit of time especially when it came to figuring out the title of the zine. I remember we pulled up a random title generator to get an idea of what we wanted and some of them were so ridiculous we saved them for later. As one would do.
Solaris: My personal favorites were “Men of Consort” and “Laughing Pirates.”
King: There were so many more we did not save as well. Luckily we didn’t go with those titles. Yet we still needed a title that would fit shance. I first thought of the title after reading the quote from the shape of water. I’ve always associated the song “Never Let Me Go” with shance so it wasn’t hard to go from point a to point b with it. Comfort became the overarching theme for the zine.
Solaris: I of course loved it! I’ve always loved the comfort between Shiro and Lance in the various fics I read and I knew that was what I wanted for this zine. So, we started putting together the Tumblr and Twitter accounts, the email, the applications, getting everything ready. The first post I made on Tumblr was a bit of a trainwreck because I had no idea how the algorithm worked.
King: She’s got it now :P
Solaris: Barely. But things are starting to come together and I am so excited for this zine!
King: Rightly so! I feel this zine is going to be different than most and it will be. When coming up with this zine we discussed making it a quality zine, but that shouldn’t be at the cost of sacrificing people who have never participated in a zine. There are so many great and wonderful people in the shance fandom who sometimes feel very excluded because of the limits of the zines, and that the same people get chosen over and over.
So with this zine I wanted to offer my professional assistance where I can. This will help with quality control as well as making it a learning opportunity for those who would want it. AKA I’m offering to critique the work of those who want it critiqued! Think of me as your art director for the production of this zine… only if you want the assistance.
Solaris: And I will be offering assistance with writing. I know nothing about art, but I have taken various classes about writing, so I consider it one of my strong suits.
King: Unfortunately we will have a cap on who will be in the zine. I wish we could accept everyone but budgeting and page count are limited. However, if you do not make it into the zine we are both more than willing to give you personal feedback on where you can improve should you so desire.
Solaris: Definitely! Well, that is everything we have so far. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to shoot a message at us through either Twitter or Tumblr. Thank you to everyone who has shown interest in the zine and for spreading the word. There is no way we would have made it here without you!
The time has come to sign up for the Arms of the Ocean Shance Zine!
A few people were confused, and I apologize for not being clear earlier. That one’s on me. The theme for this zine is basically Shiro and Lance taking comfort in each other, similar to the song “Never Let Me Go” by Florence + the Machine and the quote “Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love, It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere” from Shape of Water.
If you have any other questions or concerns PLEASE do not hesitate to ask, we want to make sure everyone is on the same page.
