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Now that Leon is no longer champion, he becomes Raihan and Piers's trophy husband. He's perfectly happy that way.

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THE PDZ CONTRIBUTORS APPS ARE NOW CLOSED! THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR SIGNING UP AND SUPPORTING US!!

We’ll be sending out emails in one weeks time to give us time to sort through everything!

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Hello! We’re now running a 2nd interest check to figure out what we’d like to do with merch as well as hammer out the future of the possible PG-16 version of the zine. This check will last for one week and end on 01/18/2020, aka Next Saturday!

Check it here!

In that same breath, we’ll be opening the mod apps in a few days, so please keep an eye out for that!

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HEY GUYS FRIENDLY REMINDER THE INTEREST CHECK IS STILL ON GOING!

Hopefully we can get many more people interested and get their opinions on what they would want in the zine! In other news we now have a twitter account for the zine! It’s a little bare bones right now but all the relevant info will be updated soon enough.

Please spread this around as much as possible so we can keep all the buzz for PDZ up!!!

[punkdragonszine]

Interest Check Results and Zine Future!

The cat’s already out of the bag: THIS ZINE IS HAPPENING!

The number of people interested in this zine blown us away, even though this is a pretty niche ship. As is, we got over 50 people to fill out the interest check!! That’s kinda wild to me haha. I never thought over 50 people would be interested in something I would share with maybe 5 tops, but here we are!

Now for the IC Results!

tl;dr: Seems like everyone’s interested and we have a nice artist to reader ratio! The zine will be free/PWYW e-zine with a possible limited paid physical run with some merch (physical and digital)! The zine will currently stay pg-13 with a possible pg-16 version hidden behind a paywall or as a sequel zine. The zine will focus on a mix of their relationship as well as other interactions/moments and solo character art!

Because this might get long (as I’ll be going through each question and their results and what they mean for the zine), this will be under a cut! The direct action that got affected by the results will be bolded for easier viewing.

Question One: The Actual Interest Check

A whopping 88% of you said you were interested in the general premise of the zine! Not too big of a surprise considering we were mainly looking for fans of the ship in the first place! So basically, this zine is happening baybee!

Don’t worry about the small sliver of those said no are actually two people; one that I believe is a mistake on a person’s part (it happens!), and the other is a known dud from a friend I had kindly asked to check the questionare for spelling errors, etc. and had filled it at random.

Question Two: The Type of Interest

This is pretty straight forward; we have a 72% contributor to 25% reader ratio! (and a small 1% who wants to mod! I can’t wait to meat you 1%! Your passion is exciting!) This is a pure statistical question, but isn’t it interesting!

Question Three: The Willingness to Pay

This one actually surprised me; over 50% of all surveyors answered yes to being willing to pay for this zine! That’s astounding and I love all of you! In another surprise, 38% are on the fence or unsure. You guys are completely valid, just like the 7% who wish to not pay.

As a result, after some deliberation, we’ve decided that the zine will be free or PWYW, to allow people afford the zine on their own level and get it even if they cant afford other (purely paid) bundles! This is a really important result imo, because it does affect future paths and the way we’re handling some results.

Question Four: Physical VS. E-Zine (merch edition)

Exactly 50% want to buy a physical copy with merch! Wow that feels like a statistical rarity, but I’m not a math expert! Due to the previous result, we’ll be having some bundles with different types of merch that will most definitely be paid for. This also affects a future question result and how it impacts the zine’s future. For now, the zine will stay as an e-zine with a possible limited physical run/bundle!

Also if you just happen to see a strange response, please simply ignore it, as I have stated it is a dud from my friend.

Question Five: The Type of Merch

Due to the strange nature of people wanting different things for merch, this will be addressed in a future merch specific interest check in order to properly understand what people want. But most seem to want charms and stickers; I can’t blame you!

Question Six: The Zine’s Rating

Here’s the loaded question of the zine that some people may have some objections to the way this zine will be run, but I genuinely think it’s the most even road possible.

Basically 66% of you want to have a PG-16 zine. And I get it! Raihan, Leon, and Piers are attractive and sometimes you wanna draw some guys kissing a little bit passionately. But Pokemon is also a very PG-13 IP and as a result, I believe the best course of action is keep the PG-16 action behind a paywall or save it for a future sequel zine. So for now the actual zine will be PG-13 with a possible PG-16 variant behind a paywall or as a future zine sequel!

This will be obviously broached in a pending interest check (which will cover the previously mentioned wild card that is merch)! The fact is, the ones who are willing to pay are more likely to be the ones to be who want a PG-16 zine. You guys are an incredibly large percentage. (Like very incredible wow!)

If you wish to express an opinion, please don’t hesitate to send an ask or a comment, we’re all curious here!

Question Seven: The Final Question aka What’s even IN this zine guys?

The answer to this question was very straight forward, and something I expected to be honest. Questions 1 and 2 are the only ones that got the results I expected. 51% would like an even mix of relationship and other aspects/interactions while 38% wants it to mostly focus on the relationship with the side of other stuff. The zine will have best of both world; a 40% focused on the relationship, 40% on other aspects/interactions, and 20% on some solo art!

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THIS ZINE IS HAPPENING!

A long post is currently being written and will be posted soon, but I’d like to update everyone ASAP about the zine’s future!

Thank you all for your support, the full update will be coming shortly!

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Punk Dragons Zine 2nd Interest Check Breakdown

This one will be a lot quicker I think, due to how straight forward everything is. Our answer pool was significantly smaller than previously, but I partially blame that on it’s shorter lifespan. We still got a good enough data!

The TL;DR of this is that we WILL have a small printed run for the zine with a print-only PG-16 version of the zine if enough artists can contribute to it.

As usual, we’re gonna break down each question down and how it impacts our decision.

Questio 2: What You Wanna Do 2.0

The first question was about ages for statistical analysis and to see how it would impact the following questions, but because age is a personal thing I think it’s better to keep that private instead of putting that on blast.

Instead we’re starting with question 2! This was a breakdown of who wanted to do what and not surprising a lot of you guys wanna be artists! But a good amount wanted to be writers and even merch artists! This is amazing. 

Question 3-4: The PG-16 Zine Situation

So a lot of you chose yes to supporting an alternate PG-16 zine or sequel. Since the answers are exactly the same and the questions are similar enough, this is just getting bundled together. 

As a result, an alternate PG-16 zine will be created if enough artists contribute to it!

Question 5: Physical Zine or E-zine 2.0

I think this one is fairly straightforward too! As a result there will be a limited print run for the actual zine!

We will still have the free/PWYW e-zine, but thanks to demand, we’ll try for a print version with physical merch!

Question 6-8: The Merch Debate

These last three questions sort of inform one another, so I’ve decided to bundle these together. (Get it, like merch bundles? haha, please laugh at my puns, no one else will.) The merch wanted is still pretty varied, but now we know a little bit better exactly what people want, and that’s what’s important. It seems that people want mixed type of merch, but mostly physical merch for the bundles! 

We’ll see what we can do about specific merch type and what’s available to us, but for now everything seem’s pretty set!

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Application result emails have been sent! Please be sure to check your spam folders in case you haven’t gotten your emails. If you still haven’t received any email, then please privately reach out to us so we can resend your results.

-Mod Em