#ezine

ALIVE

is a Billy Hargrove -centric, free e-zine that revolves around the theme of Billy being ALIVE.

Simple as that.

The zine welcomes all contributions from fans in the form of original fics, art and comics. The creations can be canon derivative, fix-it, full AU—you name it. As long as our boy is alive, you’re good. Fics and art can also be made as "mockumentaries": interviews and articles with art as editorial "photos".

Collaborations for the zine are very welcome and encouraged. We can also help you pair up with someone. Collaborations are not required.

The zine will be put together in the format of an e-magazine and it'll be available for free as a pdf you can print out yourself.

SIGN UP HAS CLOSED!!!

64 amazing creators joined. We're going to have heck of a zine!

It has the names of all the Ai..."artists"...crossed out. I don't even really care about this subject, I'm just very curious! If something managed to get banned from both ao3 and the wayback machine/internet archive, that means there was something weird in there, right? I don't recognize any of the AI images on my own since I've never been involved in that sort of stuff, so I have literally no leads for who the names mentioned could be. Any info would help! Thanks for being cool!!

Oh god 😩 😮‍💨

Yeah I don't want to be too rude with him because he really was a huge help with the project early on. But Clover was also one of the most singularly infuriating humans I have ever met. Cuz he could never just give me the information outright and had to just hint at everything and make me ask a thousand questions to drag it out of him like he was the goddamn pedophile version of the Riddler.

So his official story was always that he never got around to releasing the version with the names and info uncensored. And that he no longer had the original drafts anymore. And that he didn't remember what site / community it was that had even been writing about in that zine.

Bear in mind that I had met him maybe... I think it was within six months of when that zine was dated? So I would argue that those claims seem unlikely, even bordering on unbelievable.

Well, despite that I haven't been able to track down any further info on a number of his claims: some alleged major clearnet website for photorealistic AI images of children, these alleged "AI artists" mentioned, "Figlet's AI Guide," "Fashioli Magazine," etc. It's frustrating because so many of his other ludicrous claims did end up being true and he even provided the documents to back them up (ie. several of the so-called "pedophile guides).

So whatever. He's currently missing in action anyway. But maybe someone more clever than me can shed some light on all this stuff.

This week's #zine #review is "Wither and Grow: A Solo Journaling Game" by @junkfoodgames, available here on Itch.io!

You play as a sentient plant. There are six ideals that form your character -- I thought of them as sort of genres for the story -- and through dice and journal entries, you grow and change.

I found the game fun. It's open-ended enough that I could go multiple ways in the story I was telling myself, but there's also enough structure that it feels like the story has stakes. The rolls I got on my second playthrough were very different than the first, and so were the stories!

Camp Zine & There is a non-profit, fan-made, fan-run Camp Here & There fanzine dedicated to showcasing some of our favourite parts of the podcast. With 10 contributors and over 20 pages, we hope you have as much fun reading this as we did creating it! Camp Zine & There is a completely free electronic zine, and can be downloaded via our Gumroad link: