#yoiauzine

[zephyrine-gale]

full piece of my life is strange au for @yoiauzine !!

[awanqi]

I’m so excited to finally be able to share this!

I did this for the YOI AU zine: Lifetimes @yoiauzine and my AU was the myth of Eros and Psyche. The inscription carved into the base is: "By the sweet wounds of thy piercing darts, by the pleasant heat of thy fire" (Lucius Apuleius, Book IV:28-31 of Metamorphoses)

Obviously, inspiration was derived from the skating program’s music, but it’s also my favorite Greek myth, so I’m super glad it turned out so well in my favor.

Prints are available here as well! 

[rainlikestars]

YOI: Atlantis AU

My first ever zine illustration, drawn for @yoiauzine. Thank you for having me in this project. It’s a beautiful book, I hope you guys got to see all the other contributors’ works!

Also, I’m happy to announce that in addition to the current charm available with the bundle, more charms will be available for this AU as well as prints that I will be producing independently. So please keep an eye out for that! :D

Gentle reminder to please do not repost without permission. Thank you!

[yanumii]

“Yuri Plisetsky finds himself in a string of magical events after accidentally unleashing the sealed Clow Cards. Together with the Judge, Eros - who happens to be the alter-ego of his brother’s boyfriend, Yuuri Katsuki; the guardian Cerberus who possessed his cat Potya, and the mysterious exchange student from Kazakhstan, Otabek Altin, Yuri then must collect all the cards to become the new Master of the Clow.”

My full piece for @yoiauzine! It was such an honor to be part of such an amazing line-up ★ (close-up shots from my preview here!)

Thanks again to @candarella and @kriselledraws for the help with the summary ❤  

[rianemone]

since we can share this now ✨ full version of my Peter Pan AU for @yoiauzine  thanks so much for having me!

[min-xie]

piece for @yoiauzine! thank u for the hard work + everyone’s support ^ q ^

omg the tree trunks i love *pats self*

[fuwishi]

This was my piece for the @yoiauzine​! 

It’s a stage magician’s AU 🎩 ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ Making up this AU was so much fun, and everyone’s art is amazing!! Thank you so much for letting me be part of this project (✿ ◜◒◝ )

[shelliihe]

╰(*´︶`*)╯this was my little doodle for the YOI lifetimes zine ✨!! I’m so incredibly happy to have been able to work alongside such talented and sweet people 😭💖💖!! There were lots and lots of amazing AUs ohmygosh from fluffy ones to bittersweet ones they’re all so perfect 😭!! I’m super excited to see the book in person eeek!! Thank you so very much for having me!

[yoiauzine-receipts-blog]

The Yuri on Ice AU Zine was created and modded by Angela (@xintaowan on tumblr and twitter) and Vil (@cmdrrockhard on twitter) on March 2017. 

We are writing this post to address the mistreatment of the artists by the mods, the mods’ conduct, and the lack of proof of donation to the intended charity. 

Before we begin we want to let everyone know that we don’t want anyone to use this post to attack the mods in any way. We are just deeply annoyed, aggravated, and saddened that we were all treated this way and we wanted the public to finally learn about it.    

And since there are many new zines being created and in the works, we also hope this post can serve as a “what not to do” when organizing a zine project or any project. We want both clients and artists to be aware of how important it is for projects like this to be transparent and honest for the protection of all parties.

The Start

The zine ran smoothly up until pre-orders opened, with the exception of a few rude responses to asks sent to the zine's official blog. (More on that later). And that a charity had never been announced even when the project was nearing its end. 

Around when pre-orders were about to begin and all the artists were finishing up and turning in their works, one of the artists received a crushing email from the mods about their piece. The mods decided that their work wasn’t appealing enough to be in the zine, and they only chose them because they liked one certain style they drew in. (Which they did not specify to the artist upon acceptance to the zine.)  

They gave the artist five days to either fix the artwork or to start a completely new piece. Keep in mind that this zine is for charity, none of the artists are getting paid and our only compensation is the zine itself. We found this email to be more than harsh and even insulting. The artist was always on time with their WIPs and they never gotten critiqued on them and we know the mods saw them. 

The artist replied back apologetically and they tried to work on a new piece but they couldn’t do it in the time due to their full time job and other responsibilities. The artist sent back another email asking if they could use the picture they had originally submitted. 

The mods replied back with this, telling them that they would not be accepting their piece and that they believed 5 days was fair. They went as far as bullying them and their artwork, as well as kicking them out of the zine discord. 

Angela even publicly tweeted about their art, (without mentioning the artist’s name) and called it “half-assed”. 

The Artists’ Response

When the rest of the artists of the AU zine found out about what had happened to this artist, a private discord was made so we could discuss what was going to be done about the situation as well as to discuss the matters of the mod’s previous rude behavior on the tumblr, and lack of transparency as to which charity would receive the zine’s funds.

The artist received all positive feedback, encouragement, and solidarity from the rest of the zine’s participants. Some artists even wanted to pull their own pieces out of the zine to stand with them. In the end we decided that we would write the mods an email addressing all of this, even share screencaps of our conversation. We wanted this to be solved privately because we still wanted this zine to be a success.

Unfortunately, some people had told Angela that the artists were discussing this and at first Angela believed that the artist had contacted us themselves to “bother us” about letting them back in the zine.

Angela’s DMs

Our email in reply

The mods’ reply

The mods had apologized and let the artist back into the zine, however since then Angela believed that the artists formed together to create a “lynch mob” in order to attack her, which was never the case. We were even against public call outs from the very beginning. Nevertheless, an email was still written and given to Angela about what we were talking about and why. 

The mods did address some issues on the tumblr, like their rude behavior and the lack of a charity listed. The charity they wound up choosing was HopeforPaws a non-profit animal rescue. 

The Following Weeks

Angela since began vague tweeting from that point on about the AU zine artists, firmly believing that the artists were out to attack her, when all we wanted was to defend a fellow artist, ask for a charity, and address rude behavior.  

One | Two | Three and many others.

And here are some DMs Angela made to one of the artists on the zine. 

We all quietly put up with it, figuring that as long as the zines are printed, the customers and the artists receive them, and the charity receives its donation, then we could just ignore the whole thing.

The Zines & The Charity

Some time between these incidents we noticed that the AU zine discord had been deleted. 

We received an email on September 4th, regarding the zine bundles for the artists.  We learned that our copies were damaged and we would be getting new copies printed so we had to wait a short while for them to get made. 

On September 24th, we received another email saying our artist zines would be shipped the following week.

On October 17th, we received yet another email saying that the zines were shipped out that same day and every artist would receive an individual email with their tracking numbers. Except we never did. 

Many artists contacted the mods themselves for weeks and many did not receive a reply back. 

One | Two | Three

An artist contacted the mods and the mods claimed to have sent out the tracking numbers + pdfs to the artists already but the pdf file size was so large that it probably didn’t go through. But upon checking the tracking number, it shows that the zine was NOT sent out on Oct. 17 like they said they did, but rather on November 7th. 

After more artists contacted the mods, we received a very extensive email from Angela. We redacted a big chunk of information out of the first part to protect Angela’s personal privacy. 

Angela’s Email

While we understand that everyone may experience personal difficulties that will hinder them from working on other things, we believe that it’s still not an excuse for the poor treatment the artists received for trying to reach out to the mods, as well as the various lies we were told and negligence of this zine, even when she knew she was going to get found out. 

Vil was also a mod and she could have helped Angela with some of the burden or they could have found some help elsewhere if they felt too overwhelmed. if these issues were explained to the artists instead of hiding and lying about them we feel that the zine would have ran a lot more smoothly.  

A tweet was made on the AU zine twitter on November 15th, about how the amount raised for the charity was going to be posted at the end of that week but we have yet to see a receipt for it as of November 25th.

Zine Conditions

One of the artists received their zine today 11/25, in very poor condition. 

The Damaged Zine

The zine was packed in a bubble mailer with no additional bubblewrap protecting it nor any cardboard backing. The acrylics and the stickers were stuffed in the middle of the zine with no extra protection and stuck to the saddle stitching of the zine. The book itself arrived warped and creased. There wasn’t even an effort to pack the zines properly and it arrived damaged. It just adds onto our mistreatment.   

Step Sequence Zine

Angela also moderated the Step Sequence zine back in Late 2016 - Early 2017. 

One of our own AU zine artists had bought the Step Sequence zine around 5 months ago and never received their copy. They are currently unable to get in contact with the moderators of Step Sequence because the zine’s twitter, tumblr, and tictail store have all been recently deleted. 

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We will keep updating this blog as we get further information and as artists receive their zines.

As of right now, we are still not getting answers for any of our questions, and we feel like our hard work on the zine has gone unappreciated. We have tried to speak with Angela on multiple occasions in order to avoid making this public, but the problem has still not been solved and we have no reason to believe that it will be solved. We hope our honesty has given everyone an understanding of our situation. Thank you for reading.

[turtlingturtle]

Received my @yoiauzine today 😍 SO much went into every page of this zine, it's beautiful. Tysm to all the wonderful artists & organizers! ✨

[supermisu]

Heyy!! We’re free to post our full pieces now but the Lifetimes Zine is actually open for orders again until Oct. 14th! You can find additional details at @yoiauzine and buy the zine at the tictail shop!

[sunshunes-yoi]

I finally got my copy! Thank you @yoiauzine for this beautiful zine! ♡♡♡

[haedraulics]

PREVIEWS FOR MY SPREAD IN THE @yoiauzine​ !! PREORDERS OPEN HERE

i did a musicians au! the pressure was high on this project because of how amazing all the other artists are OTL i’m not just gassing it up or anything it’s actually crazy good so do try to get yourself a copy! (º̩̩́⌣º̩̩̀ʃƪ)

[rainlikestars]

More Atlantis AU for the @yoiauzine! These will be made into chaaaaarms!

[yanumii]

“Yuri Plisetsky finds himself in a string of magical events after accidentally unleashing the sealed Clow Cards. Together with the Judge, Eros - who happens to be the alter-ego of his brother's boyfriend, Yuuri Katsuki; the guardian Cerberus who possessed his cat Potya, and the mysterious exchange student from Kazakhstan, Otabek Altin, Yuri then must collect all the cards to become the new Master of the Clow.”

A preview of my submission for @yoiauzine, a YOI x CCS AU! Very very many thanks to the moderators for their infinite patience with my piece and also for the honor of being able to contribute to a zine with a lot of amazing artists I admire ;u; (please check out their blog for pre-order updates!)

Also, thank you to @kriselledraws and @candarella for helping me fix the summary, as well as the composition of the artwork, and to Ayyah for again, being my lamay buddy (it never ends!) 

UPDATE: FULL VERSION HERE

[sportsharumaki]

Pre-orders opening soon! Please keep an eye on @yoiauzine for more info. Thank you!