Black Roses Zine

Welcome to the Unofficial Ladybug charity Fan Zine created to support and share the love between Ruby Rose and Blake Belladonna from RWBY! 📌Pre-Orders Announcement📌 Check out the NAVIGATION BAR at the top of the blog for members, contributors, zine expenses, and more! and for mobile users, check out the CARRD! our FAQ is here!

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Pre-orders are almost here!

"BLACK ROSES -- A Ladybug Zine" will be opening pre-orders on February 1st, 2022, featuring artwork from 9 incredible artists, writing from 4 amazing authors, and merch from 6 awesome merch artists!

And I'd like to take a moment to thank my amazing mods and friends who helped pull this together. Without them the project would have never happened, so let's all give @tangerinemage and @biyikes some love!

We're excited to finally be moving forward with the project!

Bundle information will be posted in the following days.

Let's have a great pre-order everyone!

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you have to appreciate the irony of the massive Christopher Nolan biopic about the guy who developed the nuclear weapons that were dropped on Japan getting surpassed by the low budget Japanese kaiju movie about the survivors guilt of the people who survived those bombings and the threat of further US imperialism

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I have an order from you and looking for a update on where it is. Order # : Sygh-870524

Fighting with the post office. They're refusing to send me a refund for the 50$ I spent on shipping for packages they Straight Up Refused To Send Out because apparently polymailers less than 3/4" thick don't count as large envelopes now (even though they did back in September). So I have to pay shipping out of pocket at a higher cost [full packages]. I'm going out tomorrow to do so.

I'm super sorry for the inconvenience, I know this is frustrating for everyone including myself.

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post office denied my request for a refund <3 i am in agonies so now i have to pay shipping all out of pocket when i get paid on Wednesday i am literally SOOOOO sorry guys.

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Fighting with the post office. When I sent out the first round of bundles they were fine with them being sent as "large envelopes" but now they're saying they must be shipped as packages. Please don't be surprised if your packages don't show up until late next week while I try to fight this 😔😔

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If you are in the United States: You should get an email today saying your package has shipped (if you got a physical bundle). All of those packages are estimated to arrive to their destinations between Saturday (12/3) and Tuesday (12/6).

If you are OUTSIDE of the United States: I'm working on filling out the customs forms I'm required to and will hopefully be back at the post office later today/tomorrow morning to ship out those zines.

ALSO:

You will be seeing a refunded amount of $8. This is the amount that was charged individually for the two iron-on patches. Unfortunately we didn't make enough in sales after the production of the zines and all other merch to make the patches and be able to still ship out everything. You will still be getting everything else if your bundles though.

Thank you all so very much for your patience with this.

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made it through the hurricane relatively unscathed but unfortunately a big chunk of my town including our post office has no power as of right now. i'm trying to keep up with updates from the electric company but everything is just "we can't give an estimate when power will be restored". I will try to keep you guys updated

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Okay so beyond the broken finger, hurricane prep took up a LOT of my time. Currently trying to wait the storm out. I'm so sorry for another delay but natural disasters wait for no one I suppose. Keep Florida in your thoughts during this time, please.

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Small update: Shipping was pushed back slightly because of an injury I got at work (urgent care says my finger isn't broken but it is bruised and swollen to the middle knuckle so...)

It should resume tomorrow! I just had to get a better splint so I could carry stuff.

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First round of shipping has happened! Next round will be Tuesday, 9/20, and then finally international packages will go out on Wednesday, 9/21!

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Im aware there’s been some delays in shipping but are we ever gonna get a new estimated date on when exactly our zines will arrive?

I get that youre probably trying your best and things tend to come up… but for the shipping to first be delayed in May all the way to September of this year is a REALLY long wait

I hate to sound impatient but im sure the several people who both contributed and preordered might like to have some idea of where the project is still headed. even if it gets delayed again some updates on social media are better than not knowing the status at all

no i absolutely get it! ive been trying to stay on top of updated for my contributors but a lot of things have slipped through the cracks in regards to the social media which i absolutely apologize for. if i get my way tomorrow i will be shipping out everything tomorrow morning (sunday, september 18th) and i'll be sending out shipping info by wednesday (september 21st) at the latest

i guarantee its just as frustrating for me (2 bouts of covid, a pneumonia scare, and a couple other medical things, plus work schedule changes among everything else) as it is for y'all. i want nothing more than for everything to calm down long enough for me to toss these babies in the bin at the post office and see everyone's reactions to the zine!

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So sorry to bother you, but my address changed and the info on the physical bundle isnt accurate, do I just send an email to fix that?

Hope everything is getting better, I understand its been a rough patch when setting up the bundles

Yep! Just send us an email and I'll make sure to get that updated. I've had two other people email and let me know so I've held off on shipping. We'll probably be sending out a last call for address changes email just to make sure!

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Hi I dont mean to bother but is there an update on what's going on with the shipping at the moment?

Thank You!

I am so so sorry shipping has been delayed so much. Real life issues decided to wack me in the face (another fucking covid scare because my coworkers won't wear masks, car issues so i cant go to the post office, my work schedule got completely rearranged) so right now i've mainly just been getting bundles put together. i SHOULD be mailing them out this week (or at least starting to) and i apologize so much for the inconvenience.

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Update: Delay

So. My wallet got stolen today and I have to push back shipping until I can get all of my stuff replaced, since I have no way to access the zine funds to ship without at least my debit card.

I'm so very very sorry to anyone who was excited to get their zine soon! Zines SHOULD be sent out by roughly mid-May (it will take 7-10 business days to get my replacement cards).

Once again, so sorry for this delay :(.

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We're unboxing the first round of merch!

stickermule did INCREDIBLY on these buttons and stickers! we're waiting for the zines and last few pieces of merch to arrive (plus a surprise you'll all see when you get the zines 👀)

featured artists: @jojobearoo and @sketch-shepherd

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We're unboxing the first round of merch!

stickermule did INCREDIBLY on these buttons and stickers! we're waiting for the zines and last few pieces of merch to arrive (plus a surprise you'll all see when you get the zines 👀)

featured artists: @jojobearoo and @sketch-shepherd

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Production update!

We have moved into the "waiting for things to arrive" status! Shipping should be started by the first week of May, so long as there are no production snags.

We're so excited to get y'all your zines!