#rebelsandfools issue 5

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Rebels and Fools: Issue 5

We did it! Our five-year anniversary issue of Rebels and Fools is out! And what a special issue it is.

I still can’t quite believe that we’ve been doing this for FIVE YEARS, but it is finally time for another zine full of lovely, brand new Blake’s 7 fanworks!

Rebels and Fools: Issue 5 is ready for your viewing/reading pleasure!

Once more 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 of our dear huntress Dayna, drawn by @hadescavedish​​.

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

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1rp9r4f9t30e8y/Rebels%20and%20Fools%20-%20Issue%205.pdf?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 18th 2021 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!

[jaelijn]

Blake’s 7 - Rebels and Fools #5: “At Fault”

It’s time to post my @rebelsandfools art for this year, and there’s a whole bunch of it! Many of these I’ve been itching to share, some for literally months, but I’m starting off with this one because it goes well with the fanfic from R&F #5 I have also just posted, “Strays”, though it isn’t an illustration in any way.

This was inspired by one of my favourite Elfquest panels, though of course I made some changes, so instead of Skywise and his wolf you get Avon and his snow leopard.

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Under 2 months!

We’ve just broken the 2 months mark until the deadline - which means there is still time to get your submissions in for Issue #5, but also there’s only 2 more months left to do so! Time to panic yet?

The deadline for all submissions is midnight in the westernmost timezone on August 1st 2021.

It’s also come to our attention that several people have tried to contact us about zine business through Tumblr, but the messages either didn’t arrive at all or were hidden by Tumblr to be discovered only by chance. We do generally respond to all zine queries in a reasonably short time.

So here’s what to do if you don’t hear from us:

If you have sent in any kind of message through Tumblr and have not heard back in two weeks at the latest, please email us under the editorial email (rebelsandfools[ A T ]protonmail[D OT]com). Emails are less likely to be lost and I try to get to any email communications within a few days if at all possible.

(Also if you have emailed in a submission and have not had a confirmation of receipt, feel free to send along an email without attachments or links to check whether we’ve got it; we won’t mind. No confirmation at all shouldn’t normally happen unless there was a technical issue and we want to make sure all submissions reach us safe and sound!)

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Under 2 months to go...

As it has just dropped under the 2 months mark until our August 1st submission deadline for issue #4, here’s a couple of reminders and an announcement.

You can submit any time before the deadline. That means, if you have something finished, submit it right now! You don’t have to submit all your things at once, so if one is done but you’re still working on another - submit the one!

There is no limit to submissions per person. You can submit 1 thing, you can submit 10 things. In case of multiple submissions, feel free to specify which you definitely want to see in Issue #4, which can be put on a back burner for issue #5, and which you would rather withdraw if they don’t fit in issue #4.

If you have any questions about the zine, check out the FAQ and/or ask! We don’t bite.

On July 1st (in your own timezone), there will be an early bird check-in. What does this mean? 

If you have something ready for the zine already but need an official specific date to submit it by, submit it on July 1st as early-bird submission. Your editor will love you. (Again, you can submit finished things ANY TIME, there is no need to wait for August or July.)

If you have something for the zine more or less ready on July 1st that will definitely* be fully finished by August 1st, submit it on July 1st as a draft. Clearly state that it is a draft! You can still make changes to drafts and resubmit at any time before August 1st, but submitting a draft will give the editor a sense of what kind of submissions are coming in.

If you have a submission planned but it’s not ready for an early bird / draft submission BUT will definitely* be by August 1st, let us know what you are submitting. This can be completely informal, an ask, an email, a Discord message. Again, just to give the editor a sense of what is coming in (and how much).

If you are considering sharing a teaser of your R&F submission, consider doing it on July 1st! Use the hashtag #rebelsandfools and all teasers will be reblogged here to generate some excitement for the zine! 

You can still submit by August 1st without doing any of this, but it helps immensely for editing if we can get a sense of what and how many submissions are coming in, and we want to create a little excitement, so tease away!

*”definitely” means: It will 100% be submitted August 1st, unforeseeable circumstances excepted (such as: “my entire computer was eaten by space enzyme on July 31st and I lost all my files”).

[rebelsandfools]

This is a general reference post for the ongoing work on a digital Blake’s 7 fanzine (issue #1?)!

This is completely fanmade, for fun and not for profit. Once the zine issue is done, it will be a full-colour pdf free to download (and home-print for personal use, if so inclined).

Project tag (tracked): #rebelsandfools

I’m @castielslight / Jaelijn.

GETTING IN TOUCH:

For now, use tumblr ask or submit to get in touch. If needed (and it probably will be for submission), I will set up an email address specifically for zine business.

And please do get in touch! I want this project to be as collaborative as we can possibly make it.

(I try to answer queries as quickly as I’m able. Bear in mind that my “battery” sometimes runs low.)

A note on promotion: If you want to promote the zine on tumblr, just reblog any posts - this is a good one for it! If you want to promote the zine on other sides, please contact me, the editor, first. I will let you know how to go about it.

WORKING SCHEDULE:

Ambitious / ideal deadline for content submissions: end of July 2017.

Absolute deadline for content submission: end of August 2017.

This gives you 5 months. You can submit at any time before then.

This schedule is to allow me to finalise editing in the course of August and get the zine out before my RL gets chaotic in September and I have no idea when the editing might be done after that.

If this turns out to be completely undoable, we can talk about pushing the deadline back to October, and hope that I might have time to get the editing done by the New Year.

WHAT CAN I SUBMIT?

Short answer: any self-created B7 content that fits into a static format. I want this to be a zine for which everyone can find *something* to contribute.

Long answer:

art, fic, meta, filk, poetry, crafts, recipes, fic recs, zine recs, character-themed song rec lists, etc etc etc (whatever else you can think of!)

no gifs (they move and therefore can’t be printed), videos (they also move), or stand-alone screencaps (we don’t want to invite copyright issues beyond the usual for fanworks; elaborate edits, photomanips and caps as meta evidence are all fine)

all work should be new for the zine (i.e. not previously published).

theme-wise, I would exclude nothing, but ask that visual submissions be SFW (some light nudity etc is fine, but let’s avoid the very explicit things)

there will be a separate post with more specific rules for wordcounts, file size etc and for what I need from artists and writers in terms of “meta data” - e.g. summaries, titles, ratings, warnings…

as this is a digital zine, I see no reason why we should limit ourselves in numbers of submissions, but if we get a lot of material, there might be an issue #2 (or #3…)

OTHER THINGS

You’ll see that I have titled this project “Rebels and Fools”, which is the title I picked for my B7 livestreaming. This does not have to be the title of the zine unless people like it; I think of it primarily as the name of the “publishing house”. Feel free to suggest a title for the zine!

If people would like a specific theme or themes for the zine or for elements of it (such as optional themes for art and fic), I’m happy to take suggestions!

If you want to collaborate on fic and art, or write a joined meta, it is up to you to organise it in a way that it’ll be ready by the deadline. I’m happy to fascilitate via this blog - i.e. if you’re an artist looking for someone to fic your art, I can give a shoutout etc.

I’m absolutely serious about the ficrecs. This should be something everyone can contribute a favourite to, and we’d end up with a whole list of great B7 fic to explore after we’ve read through our own zine! I imagine this to be quite simple in format, so it doesn‘t require reviewing skills (though if you want to submit a page length fic review too, knock yourself out!). Details HERE.

Remember to refer to the detail post (HERE) re: specifics for different types of submission.

If you have your own beta, please please use them. Or if someone is willing to offer proofreading services for this zine specifically, please let me know. I will casually proofread for spelling and grammar as I edit, but I won’t have the time to give a detailed proofread to every submission.

Want to help with editing / handling submissions / answering questions? Let me know. This is a sideblog, so I can add multiple users to it.