Spinning through the seasons!

Welcome to the blog of a fanzine project to celebrate the Bakuten Shoot Beyblade series! The theme of this zine is the passage of time and the change of the seasons. Both writers and artists are welcome to join! This is intended to be a small and fun project for our small fandom, so feel free to join whatever your skill level is! This zine is going to be completely non-profit and in online PDF format, free for everyone to view and enjoy.

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Spinning Through the Seasons - Beyblade Fanzine.pdf

THE PUBLIC PDF TO THE ZINE IS FINALLY LIVE! 

I could be listing excuses for why it took me this long to upload it (participants received a private link to the pages earlier, at least!) oooorrr then I could just say.... happy Easter, hope everyone is doing okay during these hard times, and hopefully the zine can give you a few minutes of something fun to think about instead of the current situation!

Thank you everyone who carried through with participating and helped me put it together! And sorry for totally falling behind my own schedule. I think I’ll leave organising fandom projects like this to other people in the future, I’m way too easily distracted. X)

- mod Misi

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News on the zine!

Just in case someone is wondering if it’s not happening at all or what! It is happening but just very slowly, I can’t do the graphic design side of things on my own and both I and my helper are very busy (or rather than being busy I’m just being fucked over by life in general) so it’s kind of not moving anywhere at the moment. I will get it finished as soon as I can, though! Sorry for the wait in the meanwhile.

- mod Misi

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I love beyblade, I’m so sad I missed this. I can’t wait to see the final product tho.

Aw!! Maybe you can take part in some other fandom project/activity sometime! 

(Also as a status update in general because I’m too lazy to make a separate post, the zine is still underway and I’m currently looking for some graphics help, the submission deadline ended up so extended that I only recently got all the submissions and the zine is a bit late from its overall schedule :P)

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There were a couple of mistakes on the first version of the creator list post but it’s now edited and fixed! X) That’s what you get doing everything on your own pfft

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Apologies that this is so overdue (it’s been one busy month for us all), but here is the list of the creators contributing content for our Bakuten Shoot Beyblade zine! A few people didn’t make it with their art/writing samples but that’s okay, we love them anyway, right?

☆ ARTISTS ☆

Aduah (tumblr) Alec Moguilner (instagram) Bairu (twitter) Cheersart (tumblr | twitter) Dana ‘Space Seawitch’ Ueda (tumblr) Elina/Sipsinekku (instagram | twitter) Encb (tumblr) fengtianshi (tumblr) Fyrua (tumblr) Guardiandany (instagram | twitter) IchigoKitten (twitter | tumblr) IzzyMeadows (twitter) Jenny (twitter | tumblr) kareshirt (twitter) Kira Avon (tumblr | deviantArt) Kogami (tumblr | deviantArt | instagram) Kone (twitter) Kris (twitter) Kuruwaba (twitter) Leah Marie (tumblr) Linda/I am Bleu (twitter) Maggie K.S. (deviantArt) Magnoliacanis (instagram) Mari (deviantArt) MarineHaddock (twitter) MISAKON (facebook | deviantArt) Misdre (twitter) Nev (tumblr) Robin Zentara (twitter) SlumberPoppy (deviantArt) Smonch (tumblr) SongofNanuk (tumblr) Sploonch (tumblr) Syfien (tumblr) Tea (twitter) Tee (instagram | tumblr) Ten7 Asselin (instagram) TrashyArtz (tumblr) Wamped (deviantArt) Vattallini (tumblr) Weronika "Akemi Flameborg" Chojnacka (deviantArt)

☆ WRITERS ☆

Aleksei/silentGambler (twitter | AO3) Indigo Jupiter (tumblr) Judin (tumblr) Lemon-m (tumblr) Marcie (twitter | tumblr) Maxxiekin (twitter | tumblr) Misdre (AO3) Sakura Hiwatari (aka, Julia Fernandez Hiwatari) (tumblr)

The free online PDF zine will be out in September! See you all then. (ง ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ)ง

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All participants, please check your email!

Sorry for the multiple reminders for those who are also on the Discord server, but I’m trying to reach as many of you as possible and some will probably see this post first :> It’s about making the zine creator list, which will hopefully happen soon! So stay tuned, the rest of you. (Hopefully the creators will also stay tuned.)

- mod Misi

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The zine Discord is now up!

A link to the server has been sent to everyone by email! We got a pretty lovely litle corner in there already, and all participants are welcome to join if they want to. All the important news will be sent by email in the future as well, though!

- mod Misi

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How many applied?

There were 47 applications total!

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Will there be an announcement for who's in the zine for non participants to see?

Yes there will! I’d hope to first hear from all (or at least most) participants though, it wouldn’t look very good to make the announcement and then have a lot of those people dropping out afterwards.

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All the follow-up emails have now been sent!

Please check the email address that you included in your application information! And remember to check the spam folder/trash can too in case you haven’t received anything, or then just throw something my way (either here or [email protected] or on twitter) and we can sort out why you didn’t receive yours.

This also means that the tentative deadline for all art and fics is now August 20th! This may be extended if multiple people are interested in submitting more than one work and would like it extended, but you can expect it to be somewhere at the end of August anyway.

I hope to receive some kind of sign of life from all participants soon so I can put together a post listing all our contributors! If someone just kind of disappears from the face of Earth and never replies to me, I will take it as withdrawing from the project.

Also, one of the participants asked me about setting up a group chat (on Discord or so) for the zine so that people could discuss what they’re going to make and avoid two pieces ending up too similar or such. Please tell me if you’re interested in this kind of thing! I wouldn’t mind setting one up.

That’s all for now! Remember to have fun making all your fanworks!

- mod Misi

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The Discord channel idea got a lot of positive response so I'll be setting it up soonish! Maybe tomorrow (I'll send everyone a message about it separately).

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All the follow-up emails have now been sent!

Please check the email address that you included in your application information! And remember to check the spam folder/trash can too in case you haven’t received anything, or then just throw something my way (either here or [email protected] or on twitter) and we can sort out why you didn’t receive yours.

This also means that the tentative deadline for all art and fics is now August 20th! This may be extended if multiple people are interested in submitting more than one work and would like it extended, but you can expect it to be somewhere at the end of August anyway.

I hope to receive some kind of sign of life from all participants soon so I can put together a post listing all our contributors! If someone just kind of disappears from the face of Earth and never replies to me, I will take it as withdrawing from the project.

Also, one of the participants asked me about setting up a group chat (on Discord or so) for the zine so that people could discuss what they’re going to make and avoid two pieces ending up too similar or such. Please tell me if you’re interested in this kind of thing! I wouldn’t mind setting one up.

That’s all for now! Remember to have fun making all your fanworks!

- mod Misi

[beybladezine]

All the follow-up emails have now been sent!

Please check the email address that you included in your application information! And remember to check the spam folder/trash can too in case you haven’t received anything, or then just throw something my way (either here or [email protected] or on twitter) and we can sort out why you didn’t receive yours.

This also means that the tentative deadline for all art and fics is now August 20th! This may be extended if multiple people are interested in submitting more than one work and would like it extended, but you can expect it to be somewhere at the end of August anyway.

I hope to receive some kind of sign of life from all participants soon so I can put together a post listing all our contributors! If someone just kind of disappears from the face of Earth and never replies to me, I will take it as withdrawing from the project.

Also, one of the participants asked me about setting up a group chat (on Discord or so) for the zine so that people could discuss what they’re going to make and avoid two pieces ending up too similar or such. Please tell me if you’re interested in this kind of thing! I wouldn’t mind setting one up.

That’s all for now! Remember to have fun making all your fanworks!

- mod Misi

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Applications close today!

Hey everyone, in case someone’s been hesitating up to this point, today is your last chance to apply for the Bakuten Shoot Beyblade fanzine!

The schedule from tomorrow onwards is that I (mod Misi) will go through all the applicaitons, sort out who gets to draw or write which season and look a bit at the character preferences, then send everyone a follow-up email that includes your assigned season and a potential recommendation for which character(s) to focus on (it’s not really a rule, just some advice to even out which characters are represented in the zine, but if you’re really feeling like working on another character instead, that’s fine too). For now I’ve given myself one week to get this done, so don’t worry if you don’t receive a follow-up email immediately! There will be another post on this blog once I’ve sent everyone their messages so you’ll know if yours got lost somewhere.

Schedule-wise the two-month period for creating all the fic and artwork will start once I’ve made the post about all follow-up emails having been sent, but technically you’re free to start working on yours as soon as you know what your subject matter is.

Very excited to see this project actually take off!! Thank you to everyone who’s applied to participate so far!!

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The application form is now closed!! You can all twiddle your thumbs for a week now while I get everything sorted out and send emails containing all the instructions to everyone! The planned schedule is to then give everyone two months to finish their art and writing and submit it by email, so the deadline would be somewhere in mid-August, but this can be still changed at this point – if you feel like you need more time, feel free to say so!

[beybladezine]

Applications close today!

Hey everyone, in case someone’s been hesitating up to this point, today is your last chance to apply for the Bakuten Shoot Beyblade fanzine!

The schedule from tomorrow onwards is that I (mod Misi) will go through all the applicaitons, sort out who gets to draw or write which season and look a bit at the character preferences, then send everyone a follow-up email that includes your assigned season and a potential recommendation for which character(s) to focus on (it’s not really a rule, just some advice to even out which characters are represented in the zine, but if you’re really feeling like working on another character instead, that’s fine too). For now I’ve given myself one week to get this done, so don’t worry if you don’t receive a follow-up email immediately! There will be another post on this blog once I’ve sent everyone their messages so you’ll know if yours got lost somewhere.

Schedule-wise the two-month period for creating all the fic and artwork will start once I’ve made the post about all follow-up emails having been sent, but technically you’re free to start working on yours as soon as you know what your subject matter is.

Very excited to see this project actually take off!! Thank you to everyone who’s applied to participate so far!!

[beybladezine]

The application form is now closed!! You can all twiddle your thumbs for a week now while I get everything sorted out and send emails containing all the instructions to everyone! The planned schedule is to then give everyone two months to finish their art and writing and submit it by email, so the deadline would be somewhere in mid-August, but this can be still changed at this point -- if you feel like you need more time, feel free to say so!

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Is the beybladezine email on the rules page what we use to email our fanfics to you? And do you want it as an attachment or a copy and paste format? I’ve never done anything like this before and am not sure how this works completely. :)

Yep! But you’ll receive a follow-up email from that address first, so you’ll have the contact in your email by then! Very short fics can work in copy&paste format but attachments are preferred.

[beybladezine]

Applications close today!

Hey everyone, in case someone’s been hesitating up to this point, today is your last chance to apply for the Bakuten Shoot Beyblade fanzine!

The schedule from tomorrow onwards is that I (mod Misi) will go through all the applicaitons, sort out who gets to draw or write which season and look a bit at the character preferences, then send everyone a follow-up email that includes your assigned season and a potential recommendation for which character(s) to focus on (it’s not really a rule, just some advice to even out which characters are represented in the zine, but if you’re really feeling like working on another character instead, that’s fine too). For now I’ve given myself one week to get this done, so don’t worry if you don’t receive a follow-up email immediately! There will be another post on this blog once I’ve sent everyone their messages so you’ll know if yours got lost somewhere.

Schedule-wise the two-month period for creating all the fic and artwork will start once I’ve made the post about all follow-up emails having been sent, but technically you’re free to start working on yours as soon as you know what your subject matter is.

Very excited to see this project actually take off!! Thank you to everyone who’s applied to participate so far!!

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Hiii I was wondering if we are suppose to get a follow up email? Because I just want to make sure the my application made it c:

Follow-up emails will be sent once the application period is over! So starting from next Thursday.