Collaborations!
This is the long promised clarification post for collaborations with regards to the zine.
What is a collaboration?
When a writer has an artist doing art for their fic, or an artist has a writer write something for their art OR if two artists/writers work on something together - for example two complimentary drawings, or a two-part fic.
Can I do that for the zine?
Yes!
But...?
The collaboration goes into the same zine. That means, by the time the end of July rolls around, I need to have all elements of the collaboration ready to go, for example both the art and the fic. This doesn’t mean that you cannot be inspired by something in the published zine and create something based on it after the fact with the permission of the original creator, but for the purpose of the zine, a collaboration is a work by several people that goes into the same issue of the zine, and therefore needs to be put together before its publication (naturally!).
Okay, so how do I do this?
You will need to arrange this mostly on your own with your collaborator. Three options:
1) You already talked to someone privately, and all is set, and all you need to do is get all parts of the collaboration to me on time.
2) Make a post to the #rebelsandfools tag, or the general #blake’s 7 tag looking for a collaborator. Don’t spoil your thing (especially don’t post it/bits of it! especially not art!), but give some detail, especially of things that might put people off (e.g. the pairing, character death, triggers and squicks). I will see it and reblog it to this zine tumblr.
3) Let me know in the 100% sign-up form and I will include you in a collective tumblr post for interested parties to find.
There is no guarantee that you will get a collaborator this way - in particular as we are also short on artists - so if your work absolutely needs a collaborator, you might have to put some effort into finding one on your own.
I found someone! Now what?
It’s in your hands now. Talk to them. Seriously, communication is key. I do not have the time to chase after your collaborators for you. Get everything together between yourself for the deadline, and submit!
As you submit, especially if you do it separately, let me know what belongs together so it won’t end up spread all over the zine! Ideally submit more or less at the same time, or have one of you handle the submissions for all parts at once.
