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Let's have fun with it!! 🙌🎉
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“Link... You are the light - our light - that must shine upon Hyrule once again.”
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Thank you everyone for filling in the Interest Check!! After weighing the options and votes, we're going with the theme of Unconventional Self Portrait.
Go ahead and read some of the details below, then come on back up and Fill Out The Sign Up Form HERE!
Sign Up Period: May 21 to June 3, 2026
Creation Period: June 4 to August 2, 2026
There will be 3 check ins via email to keep everything organized.
No group chat. Only email required for communication/check ins, though I also have Tumblr DMs & Discord if needed.
Maximum number of submissions per person: 2
Media: visual, written, and audio
No portfolio needed. All skill levels accepted. Safe for Work (SFW) so no nudity, sexual themes, swearing, or other 18+ themes. Non-profit, not for charity; this zine is free.
Theme: please depict yourself, without literally depicting yourself! You can show us... how you see yourself, how you think others see you, yourself as your nickname, a literal interpretation of your name or an alias, a username, a persona, who you wish you were, who you used to be, you at your best or even your worst. It's up to you, and not limited to these suggestions! There is a lot of creative freedom here for you to explore and create with.
For example, I will probably make a drawing of myself as one of my nicknames. I have a couple silly animal-themed ones (Kitty, Shrimp, Bunny lol). Online I am often called Wolf (from my old Werewolfsister account), so that could be cool too! Or a gargoyle, from Gargoylesister 😏 So many possibilities!
Got questions? Comments? Concerns? Send them all my way! I am very open to communication, so do not hesitate to send messages.
If you have filled in the sign up sheet and already have an idea, there's no stopping you from beginning your piece(s) now. Have fun with it!
This is kind of random but at what point do you say you don't actually like matcha but like the curated InstaYoutubetok amalgamation that is so far removed from its ceremonial roots?
Currently Reading: re-read of Nona the Ninth and fanfic wise, What it Means to be Chosen and In the Shadow of Death.
Last film: Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. Son’s pick. It was okay.
Last show: Witch Hat Atelier. It’s SO GOOD! I just bough a couple of volumes of the manga to start reading ahead.
Coffee or Tea: coffee is too hard on my stomach so tea, Earl Grey, Hot.
Video Games: working on 100% for BotW, and just traded for DKC Tropical Freeze and Megaman 11 so I’ll be trying those soon. I want to go back to Metroid Dread, as well.
Working on:
Two main writing projects right now are A Link Against the Dark and a series of short snapshots that will be a sort of prequel to The Masked Rogue. Also working on refining the plot for the ACTUAL Masked Rogue story.
Art-wise, I’m practicing a stained glass effect with markers because I want to use it on an illustration for A Link Against the Dark and I don’t want it to be my first time trying it.
Tagging @raginghummingbird and @batrogers, as well as @hurricane105, @drsteggy, @zarvasace and @spoiledspine.
Thanks for the tag! I’m afraid I’m not super interesting of late.
Reading: mostly stuff to make sure I’m giving out correct information for a workshop I’m hosting next month. Yikes
Last film: recently attended a screening of UHF but I was sort of working behind the scenes so I’m not sure I saw much… but I’ve seen it dozens of times.
Last show: Survivor because my MIL likes it so when it’s on we all watch it.
COFFEE
Video Games: I’m kinda doing maintenance stuff in Animal Crossing (ousted a village I despised today!), a deep replay of Tears of the Kingdom and a lot of Pokémon Go
Working on:
- a 2 hour presentation on getting started with performance showing plastic horses to be delivered at our huge con in like. 5 weeks.
- two fics that were offered as prizes for events I agreed to before getting sidelined with surgery.
- Draw Everything June and realizing I need to put in more dedicated practice as I think I’m at that point where I don’t like what I’m doing because my ability to see vs do are flipped
- a wig to boots rebuild of my BOTW Link cosplay which is definitely not making its original deadline either, thanks so much uterus.
- obsessive tourchasing a favorite musician which is why everything else is in a holding pattern until Friday
Tagging @studiorat @st0rmyskies @uwudonoodle @tnc-n3cl @gargoylesister and anyone who wants to share.
Gonna Double Team this because I forgot to respond to your other tag, asking to list things I'm happy about!
What Am I Up to?
Currently Reading: Finished Dungeon Crawler Carl, reading another litRPG series, Defiance of the Fall (3).
Last film: The Cave (2005). I recently dove in the exact place where this was filmed. Watched it with my parents and they said "as your dad I have to tell you, kid, please don't go into cave diving." 😏 ok dad
Last show: DanDaDan, then a little bit of Chainsaw Man. So good. I'm really enjoying the fighting/action anime but Witch Hat Atelier is calling my name...
Coffee or Tea: I love tea but someone made me the best café olla (coffee, cinnamon, honey or brown sugar, chocolate powder) I've ever had in my life and I'm getting hooked
Video Games: Painfully slowly working my way through PL:ZA but I'm trying to level up my team so I can defeat Jacinthe! Grabbing The Great Ace Attorney every once in a while to scream over Sherlock Holmes. I think I'm finally feeling ready to play Persona 5 soon though! Argh I gotta finish Pokemon first!!!!
Working on:
Art: Comic diary entry for my side scuba website 🪸 Working on my comic for June Moon is kicking my butt (detailed transformation sequences can be time consuming!!) 🌝 and working on submissions for the like 5 zines I've entered ough ⭐
Scuba: I'm getting a Specialty Course certification tomorrow! "Dive Against Debris." Figuring out what I want to focus on next.... Everyone I talk to is trying to get me to go the Instructor route but I don't feel confident 👀💦
Tagging... @vanali-of-winterfell @thealphabard @juncodraws hmmmmmm I'm not gonna tag more just so I don't tag EVERYONE haha but if you see this and you'd like to update us on all the fun things you're doing then fill in the template!
As for things I'm looking forward to:
1 There's a whale shark season here and snorkel trips just opened. Can't wait to get back in the water with them.
2 Got a friend coming to visit (if the stinky seaweed and storms don't scare them away) and I'm super looking forward to that.
3 My birthday is drawing near, perfect excuse to treat myself to... some kind of fun scuba maybe, I dunno! Haven't decided what I'll do. I'm taking suggestions 👀
Thanks for tagging me, this was a really good way to kind of take stock of where I'm at and reminded me of some things I gotta do. I love getting roped into ask type games like this
if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems