Rambled about it on Bluesky already (full 2am brainstorm can be found [here]), but I'm thinking about hosting another jjba zine 🤔
The catch: it would be fanfic centric! The idea I'm toying around with is initially accepting authors (around 10-15) and then opening apps for 5-10 spot artists down the line...fewer if authors want to supply spot art for themselves, or if there isn't enough author interest in spot art. Would also open applications for proof readers; these individuals would still get credited and receive a copy of the zine like any other contributor would, in my ideal world.
This comes from my experience as a fan fic author participating in zines... there simply aren't many spots available for fic authors due to the amount of pages their pieces require. It can be a bit demoralizing haha. It's also sometimes hard to get the support you do need during a project, since there's typically only 1 writing mod who is responsible for reviewing/editing/moderating ~5 works/authors--more if there's an NSFW side.
The theme I like the most so far is a zine focused on Stands--the inner lives of Stands, the relationship between a Stand and its user, AUs revolving around Stands... etc etc etc. The Standverse au lives in my mind rent free, so it def inspired me haha.
If anyone (moots especially!) have any thoughts or suggestions abt this project concept then plz lmk! I may try and work out details a bit more tomorrow...I'm a bit unemployed atm so job hunt has to be my main priority 😭