#innerstar u

[agmagazinescans]

Interior Cover Ad

American Girl Magazine, July/August 2011

[Ko-Fi Donations]

[melofairie]

wish someone could make an innerstar u rewritten game. somebody pull some strings.

[pleasantville-publications]

Rules of Submissions

What do we take?

We take fan made content that can easily be translated into a printed publication. This includes, but is not limited to;

Written Pieces, such as:

Fan Fiction (Ex: Felicity and Elizabeth kill Annabelle with a Banana: The Saga)

Original Character overviews and fiction (Ex: Meet My 1830s Character, Meet (insert your characters name))

Opinion pieces that do not target real individuals by name (Ex: “All the Reasons Collector Sarah is Evil and Terrible” would not be allowed. However, “This is Why I Don’t like Felicity Merriman,” “Why Kailey is the Best GOTY,” “AG Dolls with Heavy Makeup Make me Uncomfortable,” “Why You Should Support Corrinne,” and “Why Tenney Is Not That Bad” would be allowed.)

“Ranking” Articles (Ex: “All Of Kirsten’s Outfits Ranked,” “The Historicals: Ranked,” “My Least Favorite American Girl Outfits.”)

Articles Relating to the Culture or Time Period of An American Girl (Ex: “Why Gwen’s Story is Still Relevant Today,” “Toys Addy Would Have Had,” “Basic Spanish with Josefina”)

Reviews of AG Books, TV shows, Stop Motion or Movies

Personal Posts (Ex: “Why I Collect AG,” “What AG means to me,” “Collecting while Black”)

Speculation and Discussion of Leaks that does not include the leaked photos or content itself.

Art, such as:

Digital, or traditional fan art that can be mass printed without me needing a scanner (so a clear photo, or your willingness to give me copies of your work).

“How to Draws”

Showing off DIY Projects

Tips, Tricks and Instructions

Doll Repair Stories

Doll Repair How-Tos

Fake Ads for Ridiculous Doll Products

Photography (if you want your photo to be put into the magazine in a specific way that isn’t just printing it out, like it being a Polaroid taped into the zine, you will have to tell me and possibly provide the materials.)

FLAT extras (if you want to provide me with stickers, business cards, prints, bookmarks, etc to stick into the zine as an extra)

Activities, such as:

Riddles, Word Searches, Crosswords, Word Scrambles, Etc..

Personality Quizzes, How Well Do You Know ___ Quizzes, etc

Recipes

Songs

Colouring pages

Lists of Books and Other Media that is relevant to a given character (Ex: Like Addy? Read these books!!)

Recipes, Activities, Party Ideas, Etc.. from RETIRED American Girl Content (must tell me the source)

Submissions to Standing Columns, such as:

The Advertising Column (Ex: Advertising your small business, account, or if you need donations)

The ISO Column

The Baby Boom Column (Got a new doll? Want to show them off?)

The CYO and Custom Doll Column (Got a new CYO/Custom? Have a Favorite? Have a CYO you really want but can’t justify the price? Want to them off?)

The Help! Column (Run like the Help! Section of American Girl. You can send in Help! Submissions through ask for the community to respond to, and to eventually get published in the zine. Can be serious inquiries or funny ones.)

The Meet The Collector Column (Run Like the Meet The Reader column in American Girl. Basically… An Interview… With Yourself.)

Cover Art (PLEASE)

Misc. Such As:

Scans of Illustrations and RETIRED AG Content

Anything Else

We Do Not Accept:

Defamatory Content towards Individuals, Interpersonal Drama, and Mean Rumors.

This isn’t a drama tabloid, and we won’t publish anything that could run someone out of the community, severely affect their mental health, or affect their irl life.

Anything That Could Get Me Sued.

This is why I allow speculation and talking about rumors, but I don’t allow photos of leaked products. Publishing scans and retired content is a very grey area, but AG doesn’t often get angry at older, obscure content being posted.

Plagiarism and Stolen Content.

Again, this is rather grey, considering I will allow scans and retired content. However, I will never allow large portions of main series books (or popular books like the mystery series), recent content (2018 onwards) that hasn’t been “changed” in some way (making a Corrine collage would be okay, posting chapters of her book would not), other collector’s photos that haven’t been used with permission (stock photos are fair game), etc. Everything must be credited accordingly, and you must get permission if you use other collector’s work.

Bigoted Content and Elitism.

This zine will be open to all opinions, however I reserve the right to draw the line if your content is eye meltingly offensive. If your fan art has racist caricatures or is severely white washed, it will not be published.

Explicit Content.

This includes content sexualizing American Girl Dolls, EXCESSIVE swearing (fine in moderation), DDLG (does not include age regressing as a coping mechanism) and any sort of k!nk, any sort of slurs (even in reclamation. I am autistic and cannot tell whether a slur is being used as reclamation or as a slur), g0re and trauma porn (With certain historical characters, there will be need to talk about hard subjects like police brutality, lynching, domestic violence, etc.. And that’s allowed. But it must be done tactfully and not for shock value.), and using the zine as some type of tindr. Just don’t be a weirdo.

Submissions that are not Predominantly in English.

For now. This is to keep the community safe, and make sure that all the content published in the zine follows the guidelines. I know quite a bit of Russian and Spanish, but I’m still not comfortable reviewing content in those languages. Maybe in the future we will have others who can vet content in other languages, and this will be updated to show that. Any dialect of English is acceptable, and you do not have to be fluent in English to submit. This publication does not condone racism, classism or ableism towards how someone may speak and write in English.

Hard to Read Fonts and Colour Combos.

If you submit your writing using highlighter yellow wingdings and are adamant that it be published using highlighter yellow wingdings, it’s not going to be published. Be respectful and pick a legible font for the body of your writing. Go crazy with the title and headers though.

Personal Information that Could Put You Or Others in Danger.

Don’t dox yourself!!! In sections like ISO, include a social media account you can be messaged on, and THEN go over sensitive details. Use your own judgement when including things like your city, state, PayPal/Venmo/Cashapp information, other social media accounts, your phone number, etc. Make sure that sensitive information such as your address is blurred or otherwise covered in photos you submit. If you’re still in grade school, please DO NOT tell us your school. I can’t catch everything, but I still reserve right to ask you to omit something!!

Younger People and Submitting.

American Girl is targeted at kids, and young people are allowed to submit. With this in mind, this is a publication aimed towards adult collectors, and may not always be kid friendly in its tone, language and content. If you are a young person looking to submit, please do not go behind your parents’ backs. I am a college student and don’t want to deal with your angry parents. I have my own parents to deal with. You know your rules, and if you go against your parents, you will not be allowed to submit anything until you turn 16, and I will have to block you. It may be harsh, but I’m saving your ass and my ass. Either don’t go against your parents, or be sneaky about it. Just don’t get me in trouble.

With younger people, I also have to amp up my safety rule. If you are under 16, I request that you use a pseudonym, or we will pick one for you. Do not name drop your school, or city. Do not include links to unrelated accounts. Do not include photos of yourself that show your face. Don’t include your age, birthday, etc. Make sure you have complete parental permission, and if you are 13 or under, I will need direct contact with a parent to make sure that it is okay to post your work.

When working with minors, we urge you to be professional, and understand that the rules exist for a reason. Before publishing any work from 15 and unders, we request that you email us at [email protected].

Rules for Submission//How To Submit.

If you are over the age of 16, you can submit to our zine very easily!!

We request that you include:

How you want to be credited

A name or explicit instructions that you want to be anonymous

Pronouns

Your fandom account on any platform (dollblr… agig…) (optional)

Watermarks for your work as you see fit (we will not add them for you)

Any file, PDF, google document, etc.. Must have sharing turned on so we can print and edit it into the zine.

Any specific instructions or wants as to how you want your piece to look in the magazine. (This includes if you have a font preference).

Whether or not it is okay to edit your work (We will always okay the final copy with you. Editing would mostly fix spelling errors and minor grammatical errors. The only edit that will be done without your permission regardless is proper crediting if you use excerpts from another work in your writing. I don’t want my ass to be Mattel grass.).

How To Submit//Contact Us!!

The admins of this account are currently @kirstensleepey and @doll-collecting-aerialist, and you can reach out to us for questions. @kirstensleepey usually handles the design inquiries (if you want to help with that, talk to them!!) while I handle the technical and organizational stuff.

We have an email, which can be used for minors who wish to publish their work, lengthy inquiries, large files, and anything else. We ask that if you use our email, to keep it professional.

Our email is [email protected]

For more casual information, @kirstensleepey has a discord server with a channel dedicated to the zine. We will respond to you almost immediately over there. We also have our asks turned on with this account (and you can send media through them!!). DMs are finicky on this account, so we’d rather if you dmed submissions to our personal accounts or to our email!!

(You don’t have to be professional on Tumblr/Discord lol)

Group Submissions.

Sometimes we will have prompts for the community to weigh in on that will get published!! This will either be done through a tumblr post (which is why you should follow us) or a google survey.

Will My Work Be Chosen?

It will never be our aim to be exclusionary, and we wish to give everyone the chance to have their thoughts seen. This is why we do not discriminate based on English fluency and dialect.

This is still a relatively small zine, so I wouldn’t worry about not getting chosen. I will literally make this 60 pages long if it means everyone gets their work published.

Not to mention that more submissions means more issues that we can make.. So please, submit to your hearts content.

We want to remain a relatively neutral zine, and will not lean towards one opinion or another, but we also do not tolerate any sort of bigotry. If you are a well known bigot, a TERF, p3d0, or elitist, we will not publish your work.

Influencers do not get special treatment. You have to pay for your copy like everyone else, or download a digital file of it. We will also never make a zine specifically about YOU due to your “influencer” status, and your work will not automatically become priority simply due to this status. You’re not special, you just have a lot of followers.

Will I Get Paid?

No. This is a purely voluntary, fandom made zine. Etsy costs cover shipping and supplies expense, and anything else benefits a charity AG is currently partnering with (AAPI Youth Rising, or Girls that Code as of Jan. 2022) or if a member of our dollblr community is in need (housing, rent, medical bills).

We might have some hiccups along the way, and may need to play with the price of the zine, but we promise to try and be as transparent as possible when it comes to what we’re doing with your money.

Why is this voluntary/unpaid?

For starters, we wish to keep the zine affordable, and we wish to follow the model of zines in the late 90s and early 2000s that were “scrappy” and community based, over making a profit.

There is also a mega grey area when it comes to the legality of profiting off of fandom work. With AG’s recent crackdowns on fandom content, I’d rather lay as low on the raydar as possible. I doubt they’ll be super angry with a $2.50 magazine.

[doll-collecting-aerialist]

This outfit was made for Kailey 🍂

[myastoners]

god i miss the virtual games that defined my childhood. the ones that all closed down... petpet park. monkey quest. build-a-bearville. the american girl innerstar u game. pixie hollow. club penguin. where have the good times gone

[pleasantville-publications]

Welcome to the AG Collector Zine!!

This is the hub account for the zine, and is currently only run by @doll-collecting-aerialist, who uses she/her pronouns. In the future I may get more collaborators on this account (although it’s a side account that used to be used for my 11 year old self venting in 2011 so.. I don’t know if I want others to see those drafts lmfao).

I am looking for others to regularly help with design input, as well as looking through submissions, coming up with ideas for returning columns, etc.. So if you’re interested, reblog and/or DM, and we’ll figure out what platform to create a group chat on.

Submissions can be sent through DM, and media can also be sent through asks!! There may be Google surveys and whatnot that the community can participate in as well!!

This zine will be a pay per issue zine available on Etsy. The price will only cover the cost of shipping and materials, and if there’s any left over money, it will go to whatever organization American Girl has chosen to support that year with their GOTY (this year it is AAPI Rising). When we get things all figured out, we may also have a free online option available.

This zine is purely voluntary, and no one, including myself, will be making a profit off of it. Everyone contributing to the zine is working on their own time, and issue release dates may be spotty!! Dollblr is generally a respectful community, but as always, don’t rush the people putting this zine together!! This is only one of my hobbies, I gotta work at the circus and do college work as well!!

Keep an eye out for Rules, Columns that need community participation, and more specific information!! And if you’re over 18, you can join @kirstensleepey’s discord, where there is also a channel for the zine.

And if you have any name suggestions for the zine, by all means shoot them at me.

[doll-collecting-aerialist]

I’m getting into digital art, and I’d really like to make some dollblr stickers and possibly pins. If anyone would be interested or has ideas, please shoot them my way and interact with this post :)). I have a picture of Maritza a while back if you want to see my art style.

[doll-collecting-aerialist]

The Makena Truly Me Style Edit

Outfits:

•Ski Trip Outfit

•Jacket and Skirt Outfit

•Petals and Plaid Outfit

•Photographer Outfit

•Sparkly Sport Outfit

•Butterfly Twist Dress

•Bright Stripes Outfit

•Golden Sparkle Outfit

•Pink Ruffles Dress

•Pretty Print Outfit

(part 1/3!! Will be reblogging with style edits for Evette and Maritza.)