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WE'RE BRINGING FANZINES BACK.

-- original version of this post can be found here --

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ART you can touch.

FICTION written on typewriters.

LOVE on every page.

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Created in the 2020s, at home in the 1970s, The Zine Directive will be a publication that could travel back in time without disrupting the space-time continuum. A fanzine assembled, organized, and created with the same love that started it all.

Distribution will begin summer of 2026, just in time for the 60th anniversary of Star Trek. Contact us at thezinedirective@gmail.com with any inquiries, suggestions, concerns, or just to show some love!

Updates on the process will be posted to this blog. Join us :)

Editors: ✧ @margottrek (Margot) ✧ @spirk-trek (Kat)

We are also on bluesky!

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***separate post since the original is very long and might get lost to scrolling***

The new blog for The Zine Directive is up and running:

thezinedirective

I've made a bluesky for it as well, since Tumblr's days seem numbered:

the-zine-directive.bsky.social

If you want an extra incentive to follow my personal account over on bluesky (spirk-trek), I'm going to start it off by going through my ever-growing collection of fanzines :) I plan to post updates about TZD on both accounts.

Thank you everyone for your kind words. I really wish it wasn't like this, but I've been thinking about it for days now, and tumblr just isn't a place for me anymore. Maybe one day it'll be different, but until then...

Peace and long life, my friends <3

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As promised, the new blog for the zine project is up and running:

thezinedirective

Thank you to those in the comments/reblogs for your indignation as well as your kindness. If you want an extra incentive to follow me over on bluesky, I am going to start my account off with going through my ever-growing collection of fanzines :)

I've made a bluesky for the zine as well, since Tumblr's days seem numbered:

the-zine-directive.bsky.social

I plan on posting updates to the zine on both accounts. Peace and long life to you all <3

Announcement: I will no longer be posting on Tumblr.

Not only have I gotten no response for my main blog being shadowbanned weeks ago, but Tumblr has now shadowbanned the blog of @the-zine-directive as well. All I did was invite my other editors to become members of the blog and respond to a single message. The ban came within minutes.

I am absolutely devastated, if I'm being honest. I have health issues, both mental and physical, that make it really difficult for me to make friends in real life. I never expected to make online friends either, or be welcomed into the fandom like I have. I never expected to find so much joy in exploring a side of Star Trek I never had through fanzines and its history.

Since my "ban," this is what almost all the notes on my posts look like:

My ability to interact with others has been completely taken away. I can't comment on posts, send asks, or receive messages. Artists can't even see the nice things I say under their posts. So, I keep asking myself, what's the point?

As you can see in the first image, my posts are also being auto-flagged. This is one of several posts still in my drafts that are "under review" for "mature content." If Kirk having bruises on his face is considered mature content, then there's absolutely no way for me to continue sharing fanzines even if I did want to put all the effort into restoring them for almost nobody to see.

Tumblr is broken, and those with the power to fix it don't seem to have any intention of doing so. Logging in just makes me sad now.

So, I'm moving over to bluesky, and I really hope some of you will join me there. It won't be the same, but I'm trying not to give into my instinct of just disappearing.

spirk-trek.bsky.social

The one silver lining is that I will be able to share some fanzine art there that I couldn't even think about posting on tumblr.

I'm also on discord @ katruyck

One last note: We will be remaking the blog for the zine, because it is still very much happening and we want to at least try to let people follow us along on the journey. Once that blog is made, I will reblog this post to announce it, and that will be the end.

Live long and prosper~ 🖖

[spirk-trek]

Announcement: I will no longer be posting on Tumblr.

Not only have I gotten no response for my main blog being shadowbanned weeks ago, but Tumblr has now shadowbanned the blog of @the-zine-directive as well. All I did was invite my other editors to become members of the blog and respond to a single message. The ban came within minutes.

I am absolutely devastated, if I'm being honest. I have health issues, both mental and physical, that make it really difficult for me to make friends in real life. I never expected to make online friends either, or be welcomed into the fandom like I have. I never expected to find so much joy in exploring a side of Star Trek I never had through fanzines and its history.

Since my "ban," this is what almost all the notes on my posts look like:

My ability to interact with others has been completely taken away. I can't comment on posts, send asks, or receive messages. Artists can't even see the nice things I say under their posts. So, I keep asking myself, what's the point?

As you can see in the first image, my posts are also being auto-flagged. This is one of several posts still in my drafts that are "under review" for "mature content." If Kirk having bruises on his face is considered mature content, then there's absolutely no way for me to continue sharing fanzines even if I did want to put all the effort into restoring them for almost nobody to see.

Tumblr is broken, and those with the power to fix it don't seem to have any intention of doing so. Logging in just makes me sad now.

So, I'm moving over to bluesky, and I really hope some of you will join me there. It won't be the same, but I'm trying not to give into my instinct of just disappearing.

spirk-trek.bsky.social

The one silver lining is that I will be able to share some fanzine art there that I couldn't even think about posting on tumblr.

I'm also on discord @ katruyck

One last note: We will be remaking the blog for the zine, because it is still very much happening and we want to at least try to let people follow us along on the journey. Once that blog is made, I will reblog this post to announce it, and that will be the end.

Live long and prosper~ 🖖

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Your top posts is so funny to me. Look at all those little guys watching star trek together

it makes me wanna cry 😭 this is my legacy

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On a scale of 1 to Jim and Spock, how far can you lovingly gaze at someone.

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S3E21: The Cloud Minders ⋆.˚ ✧ ⊹· ⋆.

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never and always touching and touched.

(click for better quality, thanks Tumblr)

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Sinner Repent

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Some Uhotty for the lovely obscenelybefuddled!

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Happy (late) Star Trek Day!!

Posted to Instagram September 10 2024

Progress shot under the cut

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S2E5: The Apple ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹

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I did this with no references, heinous work

I CAN actually finish art isn't that cray cray

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uhura sketch between commissions

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notboldlygoing:

i’m untalented so if you could draw me a picture of kirk and spock in their original series red academy uniforms (u know as old guys) and kirk could be ruffling spock’s hair or something cute okay thank

I couldn’t resist cute old tubby shatner!kirk is one of my favourite things especially when combined with flustered spock prime <333

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Bad day for the captain.