hi-fi scribs

Back for more. Chai-centric edition.

Roxanne Vandelay, in her early-to-mid twenties, as featured in a magazine article on rising female tech entrepreneurs.

[Courtesy of the Vandelay Museum archival collection.]

Hello rockstars!

It's been a long road. With many ups and downs, delays and reworks. You've all been great, sticking with us this far. Your patience and support means more to us than we could ever express. So it's time we paid that back! Digital Copies will be emailed soon, so keep an eye on your emails. We'll post when they're officially sent!

As for the physical books- after many revisions and delays, the books are in our hands! We will be packing and shipping ASAP, so keep an eye out for emails. We have updated all addresses that we have been contacted about, but if your address has changed please reach out by email as soon as you can!

We apologize again for so many delays. 2025 was a rough year for a lot of us. Issues with careers, intense college semesters, and losing a team member left us scrambling to keep up. Just when we thought we were in the clear, we'd realize a revision we needed to get done, or personal issues would sweep us away. Again, we cannot thank you all enough for sticking with us and waiting so patiently. You all are truly rockstars.

So what's left in the process? Once the books are packed, they will be shipped out to you. After that, we will be donating any leftover profit to our charity. We will also open a leftovers sale, so keep an eye out for it! Thank you all again, and keep rocking on!

"So..." she asked, turning back, "What do you think? How do I look?" "You look like you feel beautiful." Roxanne beamed.

As thanks to @f34therhead for keeping the home fires burning and continuing to produce the best Vandelay mother-daughter content out there, even as the HFR fandom has quieted down, here's Peppermint feeling (and looking) like a million bucks in a nice dress, from their short fic, Tears and Fears and Feeling Proud.

girl's night!

ive been meaning to color this sketch i made a little bit ago. finally got to it

Like...look at her confused, slightly nervous reaction, the first time Chai casually salutes her. She's new here, she's totally unsure of how to conduct herself, she's just escaped a wildly hostile work situation and she's still running on strict personal protocols. (Two minutes later, Peppermint is correcting how she does the Mission Briefing Report, and Chai is already trying to get her to loosen up and chill out a little.)

At least three ladies in-game have them, and all in some sort of position of power. Shoulder pads were a big element of power dressing among women who were trying to establish themselves in male dominated fields (late 70s - 80s - early 90s). Of course, the padded shoulders can be traced back in fashion much earlier than that, and the game itself isn’t necessarily using them because of the reason previously mentioned, but I find them to be interesting nonetheless.

With Mimosa and Roxanne the shoulder elements are up and sharp, almost if not outright adding the “V” of the company to their silhouettes.

Korsica’s padded shoulders are not super pointy, yet I still find them an important element of her outfit before joining the team. I think Korsica, with her admiration for Roxanne and desire to establish herself among other bosses, could be the one trying to give herself that powerful look with her shoulder pads.

It’s interesting to me how Korsica loses the exaggerated shoulder after joining Tea-m. She still has shoulder pads, but again, they are more subdued, classic, just her own thing.

The Fact that Peppermint is the only female character who doesn’t have shoulder pads is also interesting. Better yet, the fact that the shoulders of her jacket are completely ripped makes her look more punkish, rebellious in her pursuit of trying to do her own thing. No “V”, just “P”.

Super duper excited to finally show off my art piece in the Hi-Fi Rush: Megamix Zine!!

Fun Fact: this is the first Zine I've ever been a part of!! It was amazing to be a part of this project.