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It's our 7 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳 (Or it was on March 24th) 7 years since we started our journey to a digital B7 fanzine, which resulted in 7 issues of the Rebels and Fools zine, all of which you can find totally free as PDF download on this blog!

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about further, probably stand-alone zine projects, so keep an eye out.

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Post away!

Contributors to Issue #7, feel free to post your creations in the place of your choosing from this day onward!

Mention/link the zine when you do, and remember our AO3 collection, if that is the platform of choice!

Readers: As you know, this is the last zine of the Rebels and Fools series. While we hope you will continue to shower the current contributors with love, we also want to encourage you to look back at any previous issues you may have missed - there is a lot of amazing stuff to be discovered there!

As for the future - we'll be in touch! For now, enjoy!

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Rebels and Fools: Issue 7

It's time for the grand finale - the final, sparkling new issue of our digital Blake’s 7 fanzine, Rebels and Fools, has arrived!

Seven issues - what a fantastic achievement, at last complete. If you're new, you now have the full set of R&F issues at your fingertips - if you've been here forever, here's the final piece for your collection.

One last time a massive THANK YOU again to all contributors, without whom this zine wouldn’t exist. As our readers, please be vocal in your appreciation, in public or in private. You will find ways to contact the individual contributors in the zine, but I’m also always happy to take messages on this blog (ask box!), and appreciation posted into #rebelsandfools is most welcome and will be reblogged here (unless Tumblr eats the tagged posts because, well, Tumblr). And if you happen to be in the mood for a review - there is still space on R&F’s fanlore page!

Click here to get to the pdf download of the zine, or find the link for copy-pasting under this issue’s cover image by yours truly the editor, @jaelijn.

Here is the link to the zine again, and for copy-pasting: 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l889fts4u35tqfm0l4pcd/Rebels-and-Fools-Issue-7.pdf?rlkey=85bggvwjr1ikf5x90k38tnl5p&dl=0

Enjoy the zine!

Sharing and Promotion: You are absolutely encouraged to talk about and promote the zine to Blake’s 7 fans anywhere and everywhere! If you wish to publicly share the zine off Tumblr, please link to the original of this Tumblr post, not the direct Dropbox link. I will be maintaining the link on here, but cannot guarantee that the download link won’t change over time.

One caveat on promotion: you cannot use the cover image or any content that is not your own in full or in part for the promotion of the zine (or any other purpose, really) without the explicit permission of the editor (me) and the creator of the content in question - if you plan a bigger piece on/promotion of R&F, contact the editor. You are not permitted to profit financially from this zine in any way, including but not limited to promotion and/or sharing of the zine.

Contributors: You are absolutely allowed to post your own work elsewhere, as long as you don’t submit it to another zine. I would, however, ask you to wait just one little week until August 30th 2023 before doing so, just so people have time to appreciate the zine in full first, and that you mention the zine and link back to this post when you do. There is also an AO3 collection, if you want to add your works there. For now, you can absolutely point people to the full zine and highlight where to find your content, if you want. Please do not use any submissions to the zine to make financial profit. And finally: thank you again for your wonderful submissions!

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Coming soon...

Rebels and Fools Issue 7 will be out in just a few days, on Wednesday, August 23rd!

Time to get excited! (There is no fixed hour of release to allow for last-minute checks, but it'll likely be GMT rather any than later or earlier timezones.)

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Draft Copies are out!

I have just sent out draft copies to all contributors!

Dear contributors -

Please check your emails for information on what you need to do now and for the draft copy download.

If you think you should have received a draft but haven’t, please check your spam folders for the email and if you can’t find it, get in touch asap! 

Readers - time to get excited! If all goes well, there's just a little over a week to go!

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It's done!

The deadline is through and with that, the contents of the final issue of Rebels and Fools are all decided.

As always, we’ll start immediately on the editing, though I aka the editor have found myself somewhat busy this week and many submissions came in close-ish to the deadline (meaning I haven't been able to get a headstart on them), so we might be having a slightly slower editing period than we've had in the past. Either way, if you have submitted something, keep an eye on your emails in case of questions and for the draft preview.

If you haven’t had some confirmation of your submission as of now/shortly after the end of the deadline - poke us! Sometimes things go wrong with the email and we don’t want anything to get lost!

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Final Hours!

There's not much time left! If you have yet to get your submission in, do it now!

(Everyone who submitted so far should have had a reply - if you haven't heard from us, please get in touch ASAP!)

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Final Day!

You have a little more than 24 hours to get your submission in for Issue 7 of Rebels and Fools!

Remember, this is the final issue of the Rebels and Fools range and as of now the last fanzine by Rebels and Fools Press - if you want to be a part of a B7 zine this year, this is your final chance!

If you have any last minute questions, don't hesitate to get in touch.

Everyone who has submitted so far has had a confirmation email as of August 1st, 7:30 am GMT. If you haven't received a confirmation when you should have, let us know asap! We don't want any submissions to be lost.

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7 Days!

We're entering the final week of our final submission period!

Remember to get your submissions in by 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight in the westernmost timezone) on Tuesday, August 1st 2023!

Confused by timezones? At the easiest, aim to have your submission in by midnight August 1st in your own timezone. No matter where you are, you will be good.

If you really need every last hour, remember that giving everyone until at least midnight means that, for most of the world, our deadline is on August 2nd! Here is our deadline in various common time zones:

Sydney (UTC+10) - Wed, Aug 2nd, 21:59 Beijing (UTC+8) - Wed, Aug 2nd, 19:59 Brussels (UTC+2) - Wed, Aug 2nd, 13:59 London (UTC+1) - Wed, Aug 2nd, 12:59 New York (UTC-4) - Wed, Aug 2nd, 7:59 San Francisco (UTC-7) - Wed, Aug 2nd, 4:59

As before, all messages and queries up to this point have been answered. If you sent a submission in and haven't heard back, please get in touch!

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14 days!

That's right, it's now only 2 weeks until the deadline of the seventh and final issue of our all-things-Blake's-7 fanzine Rebels and Fools.

Deadline: August 1st 2023!

If you want to be part of the zine (again or for the first time), this is your chance. There will be no extensions to the deadline.

If you have contacted us somehow and have not had a reply as of today (18th July, 9am GMT), something went wrong with your message. Please try again or get in touch through a different method!

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I have been working on a few contributions for the last Zine. They are not quite finished yet but I just wanted to ask, if I have more than one contribution should I send them on one email or separately, I was not sure which would be better for you. Thanks

Hi! Hurray, we're looking forward to receiving them when they're done! As for the emails, generally one email per contributor is preferrable to an email per submission, so we can have all your submissions in one place. The only reason why it might be better to send separate emails would be if your files are quite large (complex pieces of art etc.), as there may be limits to how much you can attach to a single email. So if you run into technical issues, several emails is always an option!

And, as always, if you have any concerns that any message/email may have been lost, don't hesitate to ping us for confirmation. Sometimes it simply takes a few days to get around to things, but we don't want anything to go lost or unanswered.

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AO3 down?

Go work on your zine fics!

We have a little under three weeks to go for our deadline of

August 1st 2023!

All people who have messaged in one way or another should have had a reply (as of 11th July, morning GMT), so if you sent something and haven't heard back, assume your message has been lost and try again!

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1 month!

Look at all our lovely B7 fanzines! Want to be part of the project? Submit something to our 7th issue!

We've officially entered the final month until the deadline for Rebels and Fools Issue #7:

August 1st 2023!

The first submissions have started coming in, so don't hesitate to submit early or get in touch if you have any queries!

And if you're currently busy working away on your submissions, enjoy and we look forward to receiving them by August 1st!

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2 months!

With June on the way, here is your official two month warning for the deadline of

August 1st 2023!

Want to be a part of our everything B7 zine Rebels and Fools? Now is your (final) chance!

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Ready, set...

Production for issue #7 has officially begun today (hurray!), so here's a tiny little reminder:

The Deadline for Issue #7 of Rebels and Fools is August 1st 2023.

which is roughly 2 months plus a few days away - which might be no time at all depending on your pace. Remember that you can submit at any time - no need to wait for the deadline - and that this is our final issue. So if you want to be part of the zine, it's now or never!

As ever, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch!

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Happy Birthday, Rebels and Fools! 🥳

Friday, March 24th 2023 was the 6th anniversary of the creation of this blog and the inception of this little fanzine of ours, with 6 successful zine publications done to date!

Join us for the seventh grand finale issue of "Rebels and Fools", deadline August 1st 2023!

Submission info: https://rebelsandfools.tumblr.com/subrequirements

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After the zine is before the zine etc...

It's coming! The grand finale of the Rebels and Fools zine series is up ahead in just a few short months!

The deadline for our final issue #7 is August 1st 2023!

As ever, you can submit at any time from right now until August, and don't hesitate to get in touch if you have questions.

As it's the final issue, and in case you would like some inspiration, we offer you the loose themes of

Finale/Endings

Reflection

(Post-)Gauda Prime

This includes fanworks, of course, but we also welcome personal fandom-related reflexions or other more meta level writing, such as reviews and recs.

What if the submission I have planned doesn't fit the themes, you ask? Worry not! The themes are an open suggestion, not a must. You can submit anything that you would usually be able to submit, related to the themes or not.