SSMY Secrets 'Zine

Again,. we are sorry for all the delays. Sickness has been an ever-present issue in the mod team the last couple of months but we are still behind this project with all our heart and want to see it happen. We are now done reviewing applications and will start reaching out to all applicants with the information if they have been accepted or not. If you have not supplied an email address, please make sure you have your DMs wherever your main platform is located.

Hello there!

We're sorry for the lack in communication. Keeping several social media platforms updated can be a bit challenging as we have been rattled a bit with real life and sickness. But we're getting ready to get in touch with everyone that applied to the zine and will be updating very soon. We have been a little more active on twitter, so we'd also suggest to keep an eye on that.

We're sorry for the lack of updates here! With real life being busy, it can sometimes be hard to keep several social media platforms going. W"e have been updating folks a bit more regularly on Twitter, so feel free to head over and follow us there s you don't want to miss out! In ether case, we will do our best to be more active here as well.

With the applications now closed (did you manage to apply? If not, send us a message!), we have started revealing 2 of our guests already and it has been so excited. We don't want to keep them from you here so please meet... ChouNke! We're not aware of a tumblr account for them but f you have checked twitter or instagramm, we are sure you have seen their mind-blowing art before! They were someone highly requested in our interest check and we are happy that they agreed to work with us

Mayu! On the Twitter and Ao3 community, Mayu is well known for their fluffy and domestic ssmy stories and AUs that just don't leave any eye dry as soon as they see them. She is excited to put her skills and we can't wait to see what else she comes up with!

For now, that is all the news we have. There will be more guest intros in the near future, though. We are currently going through the applications that closed a bit over a week ago but it will still take a bit of time for us to settle and contact on everyone that gets picked.

Hello!

Applications are now open!

Wow! Today is FINALLY the day! It's already been a ride for us, but applications are now officially open and will remain open through April 13th. Just click this handy link to apply as a writer or an artist!

We would love to see many of you apply so we can bring you the best fanzine you could possibly imagine! No matter if it is for art or writing, we want to hear from you!

After applications close, the mod team will take a bit of time to review all of them and then get in touch with everyone that applied.

We have been a bit inactive on our accounts and we sincerely apologize for that.

However, while communication was scarce, we haven't been lazy! All mods have been suffering with sickness for a bit (can you infect each other via discord?!), but we have kept planning and this is what has been going on.

We have reached out to some amazing folks that have been requested in our interest check and, to our delight, the accepted our request to join us as guests. We'll introduce you to them once applications open, which brings us to the next point!

Applications for writers and artists (and possibly mods) will start in March! We're in the thicket of preparing for this event and look forward to seeing hopefully a lot of you apply to be part of this project!

We'll do better keeping you updated!

Hello! Thanks for checking in!

Hello everyone!

First of all, thank you for all the people that filled out our interest check form and have got in touch with us. The interest check form is now closed. We're happy that the response was higher than we expected to things are looking good for us to move forward. Nonetheless, we will need some time to process the answers and plan for the steps going forward. We'll update you here and on Twitter as soon as we can. In the meantime, we would like to introduce our last mod to you, completing our team of 3. He is the one that approached us and had the idea to kick this off. Let's welcome @bakubowwow!

Today, we have a message to spanish-speaking part of this amazing fandom from our recently introduced art mod!

Wow, it's already been 2 weeks. Our interest check will close on January 19th, that's only a couple of days away. So if you haven't yet, please fill out our form and spread the word to help make this project happen. What will happen once the interest check is over? We mods will take bit of time to have a look at all the answers and evaluate if and how we move forward from here on out. Ideally, we will open applications for people that are interested in contributing soon, but we will make sure to update you here and on twitter (X). We also have Bluesky but we aren't quite as active on that one, so it's better to keep an eye on the other platforms.

Time for our second mod to introduce herself! She is the artistic genius behind all our art (even the cute sketches for our mod pics!) and we're so happy to have her with us! Feel free to drop a hearty hello to her!

Are you curious who is behind the scenes of this project? We don't want to keep you guessing for too long so we have prepared some small introductions of ourselves to let you know who we are. Let's start out with our overall organization mod: Chessala!

Hello! Thank you for your question!

You can absolutely submit art from other fandoms! We'd love to see your art for the Sasaki to Miyano fandom as well, but it is not mandatory if you just don't have any at this point yet :) Judging betas/editors is a little tricky. Ideally applicants would have written their own fanfics before (also not necessarily for this fandom), so we can see how they handle their own works.

Hello! Thank you so much for your question!

We'll be looking for 3 examples from you during the applications. If you have the published somewhere, we'd be happy to get the link to it so we can have a look.

Interest Check open until January 19th!

Have you filled out the interest check already? Since this is the first time a fanzine is being attempted for the Sasaki to Miyano fandom (at least that we are aware of), we're trying to see how interested the fandom is - that's where you come into play!

By filling out and sharing the interest check form here, you help us see how interested the fandom is in this project.

We, the mods, love SSMY and want to share this love with the fandom this way. But it is also a lot of work for everyone involved (including the talented artists and writers we hope will join us in this endeavor), so we want to make sure other people are just as excited as we are.

If you are not sure what a fanzine is, head over to our FAQ for some more information.

Interest Check - Now Open!!

‘Tis the day! Allow us to welcome you into the new year with our fanzine project Secrets! If the Walls Could Talk… Interest Check here

We’re very excited, and we have some questions about what you would like to see. This fanzine is made by fans for fans of Sasaki to Miyano, so let us curate this experience to your tastes! 

FAQs here