#taz zine

[amnestyzine]

24 hours in and we’ve got a lot of responses! Please continue to share and let us know what you’re interested in!

Hot off the press!!

The Lamplighter's Interest Check is NOW OPEN!

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🔮 find it here: https://forms.gle/1CVJRwgMAWNbsbg18

[vesselsart]

Through the Static Contributor Spotlight!

I am absolutely delighted to share that I am part of Through the Static: A TAZ Balance Fanzine! I am part of the art team for this project, along with so many other amazing artists. There are lots of wonderful other creatives on this project too, so I'd strongly recommend checking out the other contributor spotlights that @taz-balance-zine have been sharing. And keep an eye out for more news about the project!

[bluedelliquanti]

While organizing my office, I came across copies of The Adventure Zine, a TAZ Balance fanart book organized in 2016 that I have a piece in (along with many other artists), and I'm auctioning off both copies to raise funds for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF)!

If you're interested in one of them, place your bid!

Copy 1

Copy 2

[taz-balance-zine]

WHOA

Magnus RUSHES IN….

to fill out our interest check!

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[under-the-etherzine]

Interest Check!

Welcome to the interest check for Under the Ethersea, a fanzine for the Ethersea arc of The Adventure Zone! Below you can find a Google Forms link to our interest check. We'd love it if you could fill it out for us! It will be live until June 15.

[honeybard]

what if I drew my pokemon aus instead of just thinking about them (wip... in varying levels of quality lol)

[podcastsexyman-battleroyale]

Art Request

Hi folks! We’ve got a large number of participants for our little tourney! Since these are podcast people, most of them don’t have official/free to use art. So, especially since we have multiple characters from the same podcasts, I need your help!

Below is a list of characters. If their name is not crossed out, that means I need art! Please dm me your art (and how you would like to be properly credited if it differs from your blog handle). Do not send art that isn’t yours unless you have explicit permission from the artist.

Characters are ordered by show (shows listed alphabetically) and not by bracket listing. Brackets will be revealed after preliminary rounds.

Alice (Alice isn’t Dead)

Rat/Jacob (Archive 81)

Aava Arek (Campaign Podcast)

Amos Faraday (In Transit)

Kayne (Malevolent)

Kellin

Hastur/The King in Yellow

Collins/The Butcher

Wallace “Andrew” Larson

Isaac Prince (Mayfair Watcher’s Society)

Queen of the Summer Sun (Mistholme Museum of Mystery Morbidity and Mortality)

Bryony Halbech (Red Valley)

Barret Racket (Rusty Quill Gaming)

John Hunger (TAZ)

Kravitz

Roger Kaplan (The Bridge)

Mark Bryant (The Bright Sessions)

Nyathi (The Secret of St Kilda)

Sid Wright (The Silt Verses)

Katabasian/mason

Elias Bouchard (TMA)

Oliver Banks

Gerard “Gerry” Keay

Michael Shelley/The Distortion

Tim Stoker

Mike Crew

Mikaele Salesa

Jordan Kennedy

Peter Lukas

Sasha Wire (TPP)

Ty (Woe.Begone)

Marcus Cutter (Wolf 359)

Eric Chapman (Wooden Overcoats)

Kevin (WTNV)

Earl Harlan

Kasper Rodes

[tubapun]

Can't believe the new taz season starts with griffin bringing back his anti-furry hate again smh

[jewishtommycoolatta]

rbing freelatta like. the bitches gon loveeeee this

[the-candlenights-zone]

Candlenights is coming soon! So is an interest check for The Candlenights Zone, a fanmade collaboration for artists and writers to secretly create art for a fellow fan!

how does this work?

Apply to the application on September 7th, give us some prompts of art or writing you’d like to see of your favorite TAZ characters, and wait for an email with a discord link! When you’re accepted, you can join our discord server and you will be assigned another person to draw or create art for. It’s like a secret santa, but nondenominational!

who’s running this event?

Two fellas forged in the fires of friendship! Q (qt33pi on instagram, tumblr) and Rebekah (woodland.dreams instagram, woodlanddreams tumblr) are two artists experienced in the zine world and very excited to bring this project to life! Read more about them and their work on the carrd!

i still have questions!

Send us asks here on our tumblr or check out our carrd for our full schedule and rules!

[amnestyzine]

Interest Check Opens Nov. 22nd

at 12pm EST!

[caitmayart]

I’ve been watching your art from a distance ever since I met you at 2018 Otakon (you gave me and my friend free mini TAZ zines), and I’ve had a print of yours hanging up in my room for about six years. Every time I’m back at Otakon (it’s only been once so far) I make sure I stop by your booth to see what you’ve been up to. YOUR DIMENSION 20 ART! IS INCREDIBLE!!!! It’s so amazing to see how far you’ve come in the last few years - an official artist of critical role and dimension 20 and a published author. I admire you and aspire to your art practice. Also, every time your character art comes out for the bad kids it hits me like a truck. Thank you ❤️😭👍

Holy smack thank you SO much?! What an amazing message to start my day, this means the world to me ♥ Thank you thank you thank you!

[utilitycaster]

It’s so interesting how spot-on you were with the thoughts about toxic Beaujes folxs fleeing to D20. The same person who’s been starting shit on twitter just found out that CR doesn’t allow mass-produced zines, and used that fact to make some batshit generalization about how “that’s why the fandom is corporatized and violent and racist towards any canon-contradicting fanon like all my beaujester friends told me and now I’m parroting it uncritically”.

So I think this might be my last post on this unless some more wild shit goes down (very possible) not because I disagree but just because I am also trying to be conscious of overshadowing my genuine excitement for The Ravening War. But yeah...like, I followed a few people who were CR fanartists until Beauyasha started happening and unfollowed them once that went down; it was extremely exhausting watching a bunch of (mostly white) people in their early 20s suddenly claim a show they'd watched over 200 episodes of was hopelessly problematic simply because their ship didn't happen. It was a truly vile combination of normal shipping drama plus appropriated social justice language about said shipping drama plus, as others have noted, middle-class white queer people [a demographic I fit into myself] shoving aside narratives about POC or working class people because they aren't explicitly queer narratives (or even narratives about queer people that aren't to their exact specifications of what queerness looks like; see people who refuse to respect Molly's pronouns or who erase Vax's bisexuality because he was primarily romantically involved with a woman).

The zine thing is fucking wild in particular for the following reasons:

The two CR-centric zines that person has mentioned as not ultimately moving forward were both zines that intended to pay the artists, ie, at least partially for profit rather than charity zines.

I am not personally in a creative industry but I've been reliably told by basically everyone who is that CR's policy is boilerplate.

CR has a pretty extensive history of showcasing and hiring fanartists; this is not opposition to fan content, which is how this wack job is attempting to portray it.

Similarly no one is devaluing fan content; they're just saying "you are throwing a big old hissy fit in public about the hypothetical scenario of The Ravening War not honoring a ship that has, and I am not joking here, six fics on Ao3 in total." (For reference: Lapin/Theo, a ship that person actively dislikes, has 56 works, which, idk I feel that's almost ten times as widely accepted fanlore.)

Their twitter currently is bragging about their cookbook zine (which as far as I know wasn't based in fanon but was just a cookbook with fanart in it) and not about their currently active charity zine (which is the one about Belizabeth and Citrina). Also that charity zine is available for free which really undercuts the "for charity" aspect. Anyway a cool thing to do is to not buy it, but just donate directly to the International Rescue Committee or your refugee-supporting charity of choice.

Anyway. This was an opportunity to rant a lot but I will leave you with this: I am not the right person, obviously, to enumerate every possible issue with CR's portrayal of characters of color nor the lack of diversity of the cast. I think discussions of racism and lack of representation in actual play are important to have. But it's telling that fanartists, specifically, who left CR over Beau and Jester not getting together but pretended this was about social justice, always seem to go to D20. Or NADDPod. Or Friends at the Table. Or have their art featured in the TAZ graphic novels. All majority white or entirely white main casts.

They rarely seem to go to, say, Rivals of Waterdeep, or Into the Motherlands, or Three Black Halflings (and those are still some of the better known examples, frankly). People complaining that Critical Role hates lesbians for having a lesbian relationship they didn't like never seem to check out The Broadswords, or use resources like this to find women-led actual play. It's about getting clicks; they want to find an existing fandom to adore them rather than use the power they claim to wield to popularize something underrated.

Anyway that's the last reason why I think I'm done for now: I think the best and most satisfying thing is to starve them of attention, and to enjoy the Ravening War and art and fic about it from fans who are happy to be here.

[bluedelliquanti]

Copy 1 is only available to US folks in terms of shipping options, but Copy 2 is available to ship internationally!

Thanks for your interest in a genuinely fun art book and in your help raising funds for the PCRF!

While organizing my office, I came across copies of The Adventure Zine, a TAZ Balance fanart book organized in 2016 that I have a piece in (along with many other artists), and I'm auctioning off both copies to raise funds for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF)!

If you're interested in one of them, place your bid!

Copy 1

Copy 2

[taz-balance-zine]

👖 It's the moment you've all been waiting for!

🔥 Contributor applications are NOW OPEN, from May 3rd-May 31st.

🪼 We will be looking for writers, artists, merch artists, and cosplayers! Check out the link below to apply!

🚀 Apply here! https://forms.gle/FeW9nQJcmRUU4w3p6

Interested?

Check out more information on our Carrd, which also contains links to our other social media!:

Any questions can be directed to our tumblr or our retrospring:

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[under-the-etherzine]

Contributor Applications!

Applications are now open!

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