BEST BUDS

- a free, digital smallidarity fanzine -

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best buds is a free, digital fanzine centred on the ship between jimmy solidarity and joel smallishbeans’ minecraft roleplay characters! it’s a ship i’m quite passionate about, so i thought it’d be fun to host an event about it :D

if you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns, feel free to drop them in the inbox! first, though, please look through the #qna tag to see if your question has already been answered :]

this is being run by @solitairie, and i also own the smallidarity tumblr community [the site feature, not the concept] if that’s something you want to join!

[note: all dates are based on australian eastern/sydney time]

interest check: 24th-31st august

mod applications: 7th-21st september [results sent out over the following week]

contributor applications: 28th september-28th october [results sent out over the following week or two]

pitch submissions: 18th november-2nd december

pitches accepted/announced: 9th december

first check-in: 12th january [extension: 19th january]

second check-in: 12th february [extension: 19th february]

third check-in: 12th march [extension: 19th march]

final work submission: 15th april [extension: 22nd april]

final zine release: 30th june!

current phase: waiting on release!

[ynnxbun]

My piece for @smallidarityzine

[cromnch1]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Tada! My @smallidarityzine piece is now out on ao3!!

Thank you so much to the lovely @milkwithalittlebitofmadness for beta reading!! You should totally check out her work for the zine, as well as everyone else’s

[milkwithalittlebitofmadness]

so!!!!!! my @smallidarityzine piece is finally here, live on ao3, out now!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

it was SUPER FUN to write, especially since my brilliant collaborator did such a good job as well - shoutout to @elfiieapples, be sure to check out their illustration too!!!

i also wanna thank AceDasi (their work is in the zine as well!) and @actually-miles-edgeworth for betareading, it was very helpful <3

of course, id also definitely recommend seeing the whole zine for yourself! there was a lot of work and love put into it from both mods (thanks for being super patient and organized <333) and other contributors!

[elfiieapples]

my piece for the @smallidarityzine ! i also did a collab with @milkwithalittlebitofmadness, who wrote a fic to go alongside this drawing! link here!

[peepz-art]

Canary Gardens

My piece for Best Buds Zine, @smallidarityzine, which came out last week! If you haven’t already, go check out the full zine and all the amazing contributors that worked on it :D

[justhereforfancontent]

double take, triple take

“… About that,” Jimmy says after a long silence that Joel didn’t even realize had stretched out. “Lizzie does have a brother.” “She never mentioned him.” Joel crosses his arms. “I’m starting to think you’re messing wif me.” “Well, I’m not, ‘cause I sat behind you in English in Year Nine.” Jimmy leans back in his chair, a smirk pulling at the corner of his mouth. “You fell asleep once, and Ms. Leung smacked your desk with her copy of Hamlet to wake you up.” === Joel gets recognized by an old friend from secondary school.

the Best Buds Zine (@smallidarityzine) went live last week, and this is the fic i wrote for it! go check it out, it's got lots of other fics + fanart in there :D

[smallidarityzine]

Best Buds is now available for download!

you can find it in the link above!

thank you to the mods, the artists, and the writers who contributed their time and creativity to this project, and thank you for checking the zine out ^-^ we hope you enjoy!

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release date announcement!

apologies for the lack of posting/progress updates, but i finally have an actual release date for you all! best buds will be available for download roughly one week from now, on the 30th of june ^-^ so look forward to that :D we can’t wait for you all to see what we’ve put together \o/

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we’re now in the final stages of putting best buds together! we’re still on schedule for a release some time in june, but i will of course update if that changes o7 will also hopefully be able to give a more specific date at some point soon :D

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hey! is this abandoned?

no, i just haven’t had anything to post on this blog 😅 although contributor spotlights are going up at… some point… though so hopefully that’ll be reassuring jhsbjd

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all application response emails have now been sent out! :D

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everyone who applied, please remember to check your emails so we can get everyone in the discord server!

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all application response emails have now been sent out! :D

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no rush at all, but have you begun sending the emails already??

they’re being sent out today! sorry it’s taken a little longer than expected, but everyone should receive an email within the next 24 hours o7

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contributor applications are now closed! thank you to everyone that applied, and keep an eye on your emails over the next week to find out whether or not you were accepted!

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okay, so a bit longer than a week 😅 things are gonna be a bit delayed even from here but the schedule in the pinned post will be updated accordingly once things are back on track 🫡

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contributor applications are now closed! thank you to everyone that applied, and keep an eye on your emails over the next week to find out whether or not you were accepted!

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contributor applications are now open! — ♥︎

applications will be open from the 28th of september to the 28th of october 2025, so you have a month! please look over the schedule listed in the pinned post of this blog before applying, just to make sure you know you’ll have the time needed to dedicate to this if you do get accepted :3

as always, if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to drop them in the ask box!

artist application —

Smallidarity Zine Artist Applications

Smallidarity Zine Artist Applications

writer application —

Smallidarity Zine Writer Applications

Smallidarity Zine Writer Applications

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24 hours left to apply if you’d like to but haven’t gotten the chance yet!