YOU DON'T NEED HIM: A HOMESTUCK FEMSLASH ZINE

Celebrating the women of Homestuck, and the romantic relationships they have (or should have had) with each other. Applications are now open! FAQ ♀ ABOUT ♀ APPLY ♀ TIMELINE

[homestuckffzine]

hey since its been around a year since crowdfunding was supposed to start i was wondering if we could ever get a statement on why this zine never moved forward after (from my understanding) most art was finished and submitted? im sure people involved had more insight but me and my friends were just anticipating buying the zine and wanted to know what happened

The real truth of it is that the epilogue coming out absolutely crushed any of the joy us mods had for homestuck and we (and a lot of the participating artists) did not want to go through with all of the difficult work of finishing this project. it just killed all of our momentum and since then we have had zero desire to return to homestuck fanprojects. Sorry. 

[homestuckffzine]

All emails have sent out!

If you didn’t receive either an acceptance or rejection email, please first check your spam and then let us know if you have changed or updated your email since applying

Thanks again everyone for your patience as we made our selections. You all made it really difficult for us (in a good way!) 

[homestuckffzine]

Update: we’re having issues trying to send the acceptance emails out

We think because of the attachments it contains it’s getting filtered as spam or it’s getting blocked so please bear with us and try checking again tomorrow if you don’t see anything!

[homestuckffzine]

All emails have sent out!

If you didn’t receive either an acceptance or rejection email, please first check your spam and then let us know if you have changed or updated your email since applying

Thanks again everyone for your patience as we made our selections. You all made it really difficult for us (in a good way!) 

[homestuckffzine]

Update!

Hey all- 

We’re so sorry about the lack of any recent updates. We’ve both been busy the past few weeks so this zine couldn’t really take priority over our real life responsibilities.

But we haven’t dropped this project! In fact you should expect to see acceptance and rejection emails before the end of this week!

Sorry again for the delay, but we’re definitely going to get the ball rolling on this zine before the end of the month! 

[homestuckffzine]

have you guys sent out letters yet? i applied but haven't received one at all

Sorry about this! We actually haven’t set out acceptance or rejection emails yet - we’ve got more deliberating to do than we thought we did because of the sheer volume of artists that we wanted to accept on our initial pass! We’ll be getting back to you all soon. Thanks very much for your patience.

[homestuckffzine]

Applications are officially closed!!

Thank you so much to everyone that applied- over 250 of you! 

Acceptance and rejection emails will be sent out by May 1st. We’ll also post a reminder here when those emails are sent.

Thanks again!

[homestuckffzine]

Can you clarify whether this zine is profit/non profit?

It’s nonprofit!

[homestuckffzine]

Are we allowed to incorporate ancestors or guardians in our work?

Yes of course!We encourage you to think outside the box with your ships, we’re very open to rarepairs (and non canon ships of course)

We want this zine to have variety in terms of ships and characters

[homestuckffzine]

Is participation open still

Yes, artist applications are still open for another week!! 

[homestuckffzine]

So will this be a physical zine or a digital one?

Physical, if it can be successfully funded.

[homestuckffzine]

What kind of merchandise would (maybe) be available / designed to go with the zine? (and are we allowed to link art examples that arent wlw / gals?) (this zine seems hella cool i can't wait to see how it turns out)

Thanks so much for your interest!

We don’t entirely know what merchandise will be happening but things like stickers, pins, prints, and maybe acrylic charms are a safe bet.

Your examples don’t have to be women or femslash; we’re not vetting art based on content, we’re vetting it based on stylistic appeal, so try and put your best foot forward visually speaking!

[homestuckffzine]

Would canon/noncanon moirail pairings be accepted in the zine, or just romantic pairings?

Pale ships are fine! And as always canon is not necessary

[homestuckffzine]

PSA for those linking google drive folders in their applications

Please make sure you edit the permissions so we have access to anything you link via google drive! We don’t need permissions to edit, just view, but I’ve already noticed a few links that we are not able to see at all

You don’t have to resubmit your application if this is the case, just edit permissions on the folder/file you linked so that anyone with a link can view and it should be good

[homestuckffzine]

I'm having a really hard time tagging the 3 links to my art without google saying that the url is not vaild. Do you have any tips?

You can try using a website like bitly.com to shorten the links

Alternatively, as long as you have a gmail account you can make a google drive folder and upload all 3 images there, and share the link to the folder with us 

[homestuckffzine]

YOU DON’T NEED HIM: A Homestuck Femslash zine is now accepting artist applications! 

APPLY HERE!

Applications will close on 4/13

faq | schedule

[homestuckffzine]

Applications open tomorrow at noon EST

Hope to see you all there!

[homestuckffzine]

is it okay if we hc a character as, like, bi ace or lesbian ace? w/b nonbinary lesbians? just wondering what hcs are accepted cos i know this is f/f but how far can we go with sexuality and gender hcs

All headcanons are fine by us but to be quite frank, I don’t imagine that level of specific detail coming up a huge amount. It’s really hard to convey ‘this character is ace’ or ‘this character is nonbinary’ unless you’re plastering them in pride flag merchandise which is not something we want to see on every piece.

We’re not pride-flag-phobic or anything but a lot of it would just. not look good from an illustration perspective