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📚 ORIGINAL WORK: Want to read my original novel? Find "Love on Defrost" and other writings on my Substack. Or start from the prologue below:
Lou Daniels meets the creator of his favorite low-budget YouTube cooking tutorials, The Microwave Chef. Their friendship starts with a lie,
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Contributor Spotlight: MORETA / JENNELIKEJENNAY
Above is a sneak preview of two (of many!) beautiful vulcan script translations by the talented @jennelikejennay for TZD, our print K/S fanzine. Ordering begins soon, so don't miss out: Follow @the-zine-directive for updates!
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Most of you probably know the talented @jennelikejennay (she/ish-veh) from her fanfiction, but we asked her to join us for an entirely different talent... her understanding of the Vulcan language, both in script and transliteration! Our very own universal translator... or at least a darn good Vulcan one 😏 We just know she and Lieutenant Uhura would have a lot to talk about and are incredibly thankful for all she did for TZD 🫶
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✴︎ Most important question: Kirk, Spock, or Bones?
Spock.
✴︎ What is your “specialty?”
Taking kinks and making them soft and tender.
✴︎ What is something you've made that you're particularly proud of and why?
My fic A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By was just a way of combining some of my biggest interests, but it turned out so much more than that. I'm very proud of it.
✴︎ How has it felt to be a contributor in a fanzine?
I feel in continuity with the past. So many of my obsessions have been solo endeavors. This comes with a community that's been going on for sixty years.
✴︎ What does K/S mean to you?
It's the devotion..... being such a unique person that you can never find your match, then finding the one person who truly understands. Of course you'd be devoted!
✴︎ Anything else we should know about you?
I also write novels. They are not what you'd call popular but I am very proud of them.
✴︎ Where can people find you?
Tumblr | AO3
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Thank you so much @jennelikejennay! See more of our contributor spotlights here!
Did somebody say... Mirror Mirror?
Sneak peek: @the--nightcrawler
Sneak peek: @spongynova
Sneak peek: @jelliedlimes
You didn't think we'd forget about them, did you? Join TZD for a brand new kind of Mirrorverse fic by @gaytricorder...
Trust us, it's not what you're expecting!
sometimes being a fan of something means not wanting them to make any more of it
Contributor Spotlight: RIZUNO / APRETTYSMALLDOSE
Above is the title art for @rizuno's contribution to TZD (our print K/S fanzine), a lovely fic about a captain, his first officer, and their favorite activity! 😏 Scroll further down to see more sneak peeks! (title by @dogearedfriends ⊹⋆)
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rizu joins TZD from Texas 🤠 and, yeehaw is the story for she wrote for us great! if you're a fan of (ahem) alien anatomy, we're thrilled to carry on the tradition of zines of olde by introducing strange, bold new appendages (yes, plural! 🤭) in this fic!
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✴︎ Most important question: Kirk, Spock, or Bones?
That's just mean!
... Spock.
✴︎ What is your “specialty," or favorite thing to write?
I love to write the humor of characters interacting, and I think it's something of a specialty too. Even when I'm trying to write a 'serious' piece, I always do my best to lighten it up with humorous details.
✴︎ What is something you've made that you're particularly proud of and why?
The Unknown Saga, my Alien/Star Trek lovechild. I love everything I've done in this series, and it's very special to me, because when I started writing it, it had been over ten years since I'd last written anything. I kind of thought that was it for me and writing and inspiration, but Star Trek brought it back for me. I just sat down, and started writing like it was the easiest thing in the world. So, so, so happy in this Fandom!
✴︎ How has it felt to be a contributor in a fanzine?
SO AWESOME! I'm really honored to have been invited to contribute, and this project and everyone involved are the absolute best!
✴︎ What does K/S mean to you?
OTP.
Bonus sneak peek:
Preview of accompanying artwork by @pangaeastarseed ↓↓↓
✴︎ Anything else we should know about you?
I am going to become a cat mama very soon! I just placed my order for all of her cat paraphernalia. She's a stray who appeared at my parent's house out in the sticks. They call her Tansy, but I always wanted to name her Hime (princess) in Japanese. Tansy (rhymes with Pansy) is a kinda catchy name, but she really is just an itty bitty princess!
✴︎ Where can people find you?
AO3 (aprettysmalldose) | Tumblr (rizuno)
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Thank you so much, Rizu! See more of our contributor spotlights here!
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Absolutely thrilled to announce that I finally finished my latest trekkie project!!!
Introducing
Enterprise Disco Ball
It’s so funny how like. Spock is queer bc of the subtext, the Otherness inextricable from his character, meanwhile William Shatner was handed the straightest man of all time on paper and fumbled the bag bc he couldn’t stop giving Leonard Nimoy fuck-me eyes and now he lives in a bi Kirk hell of his own devising, forever enduring the conshatquences of his shactions
a small self-indulgent comic about jim suddenly growing wings and spock being drawn to them
Contributor Spotlight: GLINA197
Above is a sneak preview of @glina197's contribution to TZD, our print K/S fanzine. Ordering begins soon, so don't miss out: Follow @the-zine-directive for updates!
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@glina197's style is instantly recognizable, and the art she made for our zine is no exception! she says so much with so little, always managing to capture the sweet, gentle yearning we love to see between kirk and spock. as another contributor joining us from russia, we really appreciate all the hoops she had to jump through to do this with us! learn a little more about her below ᯓ★
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✴︎ Most important question: Kirk, Spock, or Bones?
Spock 🖖
✴︎ What is your “specialty," or favorite thing to draw?
Trust & tenderness.
✴︎ What is something you've made that you're particularly proud of and why?
My very first comic I’ve literally ever made:
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✴︎ How has it felt to be a contributor in a fanzine?
Amazing. It’s my first time being not just included but invited(!) in a zine. A uniquely welcoming fandom, it’s an honour to participate in this project
✴︎ What does K/S mean to you?
Standards, baby! No less!
✴︎ Anything else we should know about you?
I tend to draw in blue line on yellow background. It has always been representing K/S.
✴︎ Where can people find you?
Just on tumblr, @glina197 ⋆ . ° ⊹ ₊
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Thank you so much, glina! See more of our contributor spotlights here!
STAR TREK The Conscience of the King | S01 E13
With orders opening soon and with the cat out of the bag, I can finally share that my contribution to @the-zine-directive is a Sha Ka Ree deleted scene! Or scenes, as it were.
This story, "Excess," is basically my silly, lightly angsty, deeply horny love letter to the decade of support y'all have given me as a writer and a human being. I don't want to spoil it too much, but it's about Pon Farr, so do with that what you will 😂
"Excess" is probably the last thing I will write in the Sha Ka Ree universe. And I cannot think of a better way to share it than in a zine that was created by a horde of Trekkies who exemplify the love, legacy, care, dedication, and joy I have come to associate with this fandom.
I have MANY more sappy things to say about The Zine Directive, our editors, and every incredible human who contributed to this project, but I want that to be its own post!
For now, I just want to make sure you all know that if you want to revisit Sha Ka Ree, a new story could be coming to a mailbox near you*. Sign up to be notified of orders opening here.
*Eventually I will also post the story to AO3, so if you miss your chance to buy the zine or are unable to buy the zine, you can still read it at some point!
Have you been wondering when we're going to stop talking about this thing and finally let you buy one?
Well...
We are pleased to announce that orders for The Zine Directive, our physical K/S fanzine, will open Wednesday, August 19th!
(What better way to celebrate Gene Roddenberry's birthday than a zine full of his characters being in love, right?)
If you want to be first to know when sales go live, please fill out this pre-registration form!
NOTE: This does not reserve you a copy or commit you to purchasing. We will send ordering information directly to your email when the date arrives.
Each copy of TZD will be $30 USD + shipping*, but...
What, exactly, are you buying? Let us remind you!
A 218-page fanzine printed on a vintage "replicator" (risograph), lovingly collated and comb-bound by hand
All-new, original fanfiction, poetry, & more typed on actual antique typewriters
Art & written work from more than 60 beloved fandom artists and writers!
Experience never-before-seen Vulcan anatomy (😏), get Kirk’s take on an ancient Vulcan text about Pon Farr, read Uhura's letters of advice for the crew...
Return to the epic world of Sha Ka Ree by @therebewhaleshere for a spicy missing scene!
Art from fandom foremothers Shelley Butler, Marilyn Cole, and Gayle Feyrer, published together in a physical zine for the first time in decades
An interview with fandom foremother CatelenaMara about early K/S, science fiction fandom, and the evolution of fan culture
A dedication by Jenna Sinclair, acclaimed author of the classic 1992 fic Sharing the Sunlight (+ many other fandom hats since the 70s!)
Extra features that can only exist in a physical zine like papercrafts, a crossword, madlibs, your very own mini zine, make-your-own bookmarks... and more!
See what else you can expect to find in our table of contents as well as our contributor spotlights (still ongoing!) If you have any questions please contact us directly on tumblr, or via email (thezinedirective@ gmail.com) ｡ ⊹ ₊ ⟡
*We plan to ship internationally anywhere shipping is available. If you're ordering from outside the USA, expect higher shipping costs and a longer delivery time. We wish we had transporter technology, but unfortunately still have to work with the postal service!
IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Contributor Spotlight: AERIALWORMS
Above is a sneak preview of @aerialworms' contribution to TZD, our print K/S fanzine. Ordering begins soon, so don't miss out: Follow @the-zine-directive for updates!
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@aerialworms (they/them, it/its) hails from England 🍵 and the zine is so much better for having them aboard! Not only did we get some fantastic mcspirk representation, but you can find little touches and details from them all around the zine <3
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✴︎ Most important question: Kirk, Spock, or Bones?
How dare you make me choose!? I love them all equally and I could never separate them, they're three parts of a whole and they're all wonderful in their own ways! ....... That said, it's Bones for sure 😁
✴︎ What is your “specialty,” or favorite thing to draw?
My fave thing to draw is comics or like. Narrative pictures. I always want there to be something more going on in the things I draw, so there's always a story or a joke in my head when I do art.
✴︎ What is something you've made that you're particularly proud of and why?
I am incredibly proud of Lifespans [LINK] because it was a simple idea that grabbed my mind and I wasn't expecting it to resonate with so many people. I put a lot of my heart into it, not only my grief over Jim's death in Generations, but also my personal feelings about living longer than my loved ones. I'm so touched that people reacted so strongly to it, too, and I go back and read the comments on it all the time. I share my art because I want to connect with people, and I never feel as connected to my fellow fans as when I see us all crying in the tags together :') If that one post is my legacy in this fandom, I'll be happy.
Although I think the original post stands on its own, I did also write out a meta addition [LINK] with my reasoning and working out of the maths (and feelings about it all), which I'm also very proud of.
✴︎ How has it felt to be a contributor in a fanzine?
Incredible! This is my first ever zine and I was a late addition to the team. I'd seen posts about it going around and wanted desperately to join, but I was too shy to ask. I was over the moon when I was asked to join, and I got so excited and filled with ideas that I couldn't sleep at all the first night! I'm so excited to see my art printed alongside so many other artists and writers' (and the wonderful editors') work, and to contribute to a tradition and fandom that is in its sixtieth year!
✴︎ What does K/S mean to you?
Trust, love, and commitment. I love their dedication to each other and the close relationship they share. It's clear that they love each other deeply, whatever type of love it is and however they express it. I adore that about them.
Besides that, "K/S" specifically reminds me of our fandom forebears who laid the path for all of us back in the 60s and 70s. The ones who would type up their fanfics on typewriters, and share fanart by mail, and have to speak in coded language to find like-minded fans. It's incredible to me that this fandom is still going strong to this day. I love learning about fandom history and looking at old zines. I thank those original fans for everything they've contributed to today!
✴︎ Any other information you would like to provide or be included?
I have so many hobbies! I collect crafts like a magpie. Off the top of my head, there's art (drawing, painting with ink, watercolours, collage, clay sculpture, all sorts!), writing (fics and originals, comics, and I've written a few twine games, too!), crochet, swimming, puppetry (both making and performing), gaming (Hollow Knight is my most recent obsession!), and those are just my most frequent ones! I also enjoy pestering my 19 year old cat (she is very long suffering) and infodumping to my friends about my latest hyperfixation (currently TOS, but Supernatural makes regular appearances, too!) I'd love to get into cosplay again, since I've been doing casual closet cosplay of Jim for a while now but I love costuming and sewing and want to make a screen-accurate cosplay to wear to cons and movie screenings!
Fun fact: The first Trek show I watched was actually Lower Decks! I was intimidated by the size of the franchise and thought the 20 minute format would be easy to get into, but three episodes in I realised I did not get most of the jokes and would have to go back to the roots. I watched some TOS, got bored, watched 5ish seasons of TNG, caught Wrath of Khan randomly while it was on TV, and *that* is what finally got me into TOS proper. That was summer of 2022, iirc, and I've been obsessed with TOS ever since!
Another fun fact: I'd seen the AOS movies with my cousin back when they came out, but didn't really get into them. Funnily enough, despite him being my absolute favourite guy now, the only character I didn't remember from AOS when I started watching TOS was Bones!
One more fun fact: Although I only did art for this zine, I do also write fic! I have several Trek fics in the works, the majority of which are McSpirk (and also the majority of which are explicit ;)
✴︎ Where can people find you?
Main blog | Art blog | Explicit art blog (18+)
+ Ao3 (check out my explicit fics!)
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Thank you so much, Aeri! See more of our contributor spotlights here!
