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🏴‍☠️ Contributor Spotlight : Adela Stammerjohan 🏴‍☠️

So lucky to have our mental health enforcer reminding the crew to take care of their mental health!! Her comic is also bound to lift spirits up! 💜

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Anaeeve designed a sticker sheet, a button pack, and two charms for our merch. She is also a Social Media Mod, and wrote about some of the cards!

Tumblr: http://anaeeve.tumblr.com

Artstation: http://anaeeve.artstation.com

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Likes: Animation, tea, Victorian and gothic #aesthetic

Dislikes: Awkwardness, snobs

Favourite Haikyuu character(s): Nishinoya!!!!! And Suga

Quote: “Spooky scary skeletons, send shivers down your spine” –Andrew Gold

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It is mentioned that the zine is for profit, will the chefs/writers/artists receive any compensation? Will they get a free copy of the physical zine?

All profits will be split evenly among ALL contributors! We answered the second question here: https://stardewcookbook.tumblr.com/post/185681955591/do-artistswriters-get-a-physical-copy-of-the-book Thank you for your ask! - Mod Abigail

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Meet the Mods

Name: Mix

Pronouns: They/Them

Age: 23

What is my experience with zines/leadership positions in general?

I’ve moderated/am moderating several other zines, and among the current zines are Please, Bokuto-san Zine, Aite Zine, and My Love, My Life Zine. I’m acting in a head moderator capacity for PBS and Aite, and for all my zine projects I have a specialization in finances, audits, and budgets as a result of my job.

I’ve worked as a bookkeeper/night auditor for a profitable restaurant/sports bar since Spring of 2014 and, on any given night I work, I handle and balance between $20,000-$25,000 (sometimes more, depending on how busy that audit day was). Through past work with zines, I’ve established relationships with manufacturers and I’m familiar with leading/organizing large groups of people. Some of my most recent experience with this, outside of zines, is through my University’s marching band, where I’ve been Student Leadership (Personnel Manager, Uniform Manager, and Section Leader) for three years and in charge of working with groups of people to help a 150 person band reach its goals.

Why am I heading this zine?

For a fairly well-written explanation regarding censorship that I support, you can click the link [Here]. For my personal opinions, keep reading. (Content warning for references to past sexual trauma, nothing explicit)

(Following section under Read More for length)

I grew up— and still live— in a conservative, rural area (I’m poor). There are many things I love about where I live. It’s quiet, it’s peaceful, I can see the stars and the Milky Way at night, and the full moon hanging over the mountains and illuminating the valley is so ethereal that it still makes it hard to breathe, even after almost 16 years of living here.

That being said, there are many other aspects of this area that I hate, and among them is the idea that some topics are inappropriate and thus not to be discussed, not to be brought up, not to be considered at all. My high school never offered a comprehensive sex education. I was never taught how to use a condom, or what types of birth control existed. In our Musical Theater class, the one (openly) gay kid in our school wanted to play the role of the heroine in a melodrama that maybe 30 people would attend, but was told he couldn’t because “some of the student’s parents wouldn’t like it”. Our theater department as a whole was stuck using musicals from the 50s (and then only select ones) because our schoolboard wouldn’t approve anything else as “appropriate” for high school students to perform. At one point, I wasn’t even allowed to say “Pour the wine” when performing a piece for an assignment because it wasn’t “appropriate” for a high school student to discuss alcohol, even when playing a character in a skit. I did competitive speech and debate, and my senior year I wanted to do an original oratory about gay marriage (then not legalized in my state) and the LGBT+ Community as a whole, but my coach told me that “judges wouldn’t like it,” so I backed down and got myself stuck with an Oratory that was dispassionate and lackluster.

I’m not campaigning that we should be talking about sex around five year olds, or showing porn in schools, but to try to police content, especially when its creators have been very clear in tagging that content with appropriate warnings and ratings, is abhorrent to me. Let me make my stance crystal clear: Censorship is a conservative agenda to police minds and thoughts, and to disengage critical thinking. Censorship breeds Authoritarianism and I refuse to live my life afraid of the hammer of a new age McCarthyism.

We don’t purchase tickets for an R-Rated horror film only to stand up in the middle of the film and start accusing its viewers and/or director as being murderers or serial killers. My mother loves Silence of the Lambs, but she is not a cannibal. I enjoy Pretty Woman, but I am not a sex worker, and I’m sure as hell not a billionaire (my student loans wouldn’t be quite so pressing if I were). Humans have a natural curiosity about the world in which we live, and other worlds in which we do not, and it is physically (and sometimes morally) impossible to actually experience every story, every sensation, every perspective that creative media allows us to.

Sometimes the stories are dark, but humans have dark thoughts, that’s inescapable. No one wants to have a serial killer after them, but every year hundreds of thousands of people sit down to watch Halloween or Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street because we want to experience the rush and the adrenaline and the question of “What happens next?” in a controlled environment where we are, ultimately, safe.

Sometimes stories don’t have any deep meaning, and exist only to make the audience feel some sort of emotion, be it fear, sadness, happiness, humor, or anger. Sometimes stories involve sexual, physical, or mental abuse, and sometimes stories don’t have happy endings. Sometimes dark stories are created as outlets, or mediums, for the pain and suffering a creator has gone through.

If you are an audience member who has gone through some form of trauma or abuse in your life, and you don’t want to engage with these stories then that’s okay. If you are an audience member who has gone through some form of trauma or abuse in your life and you do want to engage with these stories, then that’s also okay. How you choose to process trauma is your prerogative, and no one else’s.

I am a victim of Child Sexual Assault, and my assaulter was a member of my family who was trusted to babysit me for the night. I was four years old. He never faced any legal consequences for his action, and my family hushed it up and swept it under the rug. To this day, I’ve convinced my family that I don’t remember this happening to me— that I was too young and the memory didn’t stick— but I remember. I remember, and I am 23 years old now, but I am still not ready to tell my story in detail. I’m not ready to tell my story, but I don’t want my story trapped inside my head, and I’m not the only person in the world who feels like this— far from it.

Maybe some creative media involving sensitive topics is just porn, pure and simple, and— well— so what? Porn exists, and it’s never going to stop existing. The Sex Industry is home to the oldest professions in the world and people have been trying to stamp out the sex industry for thousands of years on account of its obscenity. However, they’ve never been successful, and they never will, because, while Asexual individuals absolutely exist (I should know, I’m on the Ace Spectrum), the majority of humans have sex and enjoy it.

However, there is too large a percentage of creative media intended (and marked for) adult audiences that isn’t just about sex, and to ban one is to ban the other— to open people and creators up to questions of “artistic quality” and “social relevance” that are subjective to the individual and can never be anything but.

Stories, artwork, film, literature— they’re all ideas, not actions, and when we try to censor ideas or behave like they have the same weight as an action, we have allowed Authoritarianism to rise, and critical thinking and engagement with media to fall by the wayside.

This is the reason I choose to work on Blacklist, and why I’m determined to see this through. I don’t want to live in a world where ideas are policed, and where adult spaces that have been marked as such are invaded and told they shouldn’t exist. No one deserves to be told their story isn’t okay to tell.

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🏴‍☠️ Contributor Spotlight : jude ganag 🏴‍☠️

Our shipwright has been doing an amazing job repairing our ship and constructing her page artwork! 💜

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🏴‍☠️ Contributor Spotlight : ArKADesZ 🏴‍☠️

Meet our awesome duo of snipers who collaborated together as one of our page artists 💜

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🏴‍☠️ Contributor Spotlight: PixelizedPanda 🏴‍☠️

please be nice to our ship's crybaby 🥺 not even tears can stop her from creating the cutest merch! 💜

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🏴‍☠️ Contributor Spotlight : Majora 🏴‍☠️

While our explorer searches the vast seas for many wonders, she also prepared a wonderful artwork we can't wait to share 💜

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🏴‍☠️ Contributor Spotlight: saltydori 🏴‍☠️

Our navigator is helping us sail the stormy seas, but also working on a beautiful artwork for the zine! 💜

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🏴‍☠️ Contributor Spotlight : Sid 🏴‍☠️

If you think you've seen it all, wait till you meet our crew's talking cat who also just happens to be one of our amazing comic artists! 💜

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🏴‍☠️ Contributor Spotlight : Giiana 🏴‍☠️

Our naturalist doesn't only know all there is about nature and cooking but she's also an amazingly skilled artist!! 💜

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🏴‍☠️ Contributor spotlight: rico 🏴‍☠️

Introducing our swashbuckler and one of our skilled page artists 💜

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🏴‍☠️ Contributor Spotlight : Brodsky 🏴‍☠️

Our sniper is aiming right at your heart with their wonderful art page and print! We can't wait to share their gorgeous work~ 💜

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🏴‍☠️ Contributor Spotlight : Chechula 🏴‍☠️

Peeling potatoes and doing things she's good at, this artist has stunning artworks and print prepared for the zine we can't wait to show you! 💜

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🏴‍☠️ Contributor Spotlight : Atty 🏴‍☠️

Our mischievous artist is drawing a mustache on whoever is sleeping instead of doing their duty! — but that's not all she's drawing, we can't wait to show her amazing artwork! 💜

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🏴‍☠️ Contributor Spotlight : Jenny Q Peng 🏴‍☠️

She may be a freeloader but she's still got an amazing artwork prepared for the zine! Introducing one of our page artists 💜

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