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This story. These nerds. The rest of my life, at this rate.

Happy October 3, FMA fam. ♥

You’ve been waiting for months now… we’re incredibly excited to announce that Preorders for Flame and Steel, a RoyEd Fanzine, are now open!!

ZINE SPECS

5.25″ x 8″ (roughly A5) perfect bound

21 artists and 11 writers, both new and old to the fandom

All physical orders come with a PDF copy

Pick up your copy for only $25!

MERCH BUNDLE

All bundles come with the following:

One zine

One digital PDF

One cat-shaped button

One 2.5" charm

One 2" x 6" bookmark

Five 2" stickers

Two 4" x 6" miniprints

One 1.5" enamel pin!

All of this for just $40—it’s a total steal!

STRETCH GOALS

As we get more orders, we’ll be adding more items to the bundle!  Currently, our first stretch goal is 50 orders: a digital NSFW zine for anyone 18+ who makes a purchase, as well as another merch item, which will be revealed as we get closer to the goal~  Make sure to follow us and stay tuned!

CHARITY

All profits will go The Center for Victims of Torture!

Click here to place your order!

Preorders close June 30.  Full contributor list under the cut:

A couple of days ago, Berlin started acting strangely—vomiting, not eating, and acting very tired.  While I initially thought it might just be a bad hairball, when I took her to the vet, they found out that she had swallowed something she shouldn’t have—we think it might be a set of headphones.  It’s caused an infection, and her kidneys have shut down. The vet is currently doing what he can for her, but even if she manages to pull through tonight, I’m still looking at a surgery that will cost at least a thousand dollars. I’ve just moved, and this expense on top of everything else leaves me in a pretty tight spot, especially with about $2k of rent and bills due just from regular living expenses. I’ve already paid a $500 vet bill, and the costs are only going to go up from here.  Any little bit will help. Berlin has been with me for six years now, and one of my best friends in the entire world.  I’ll drop whatever cost I need to save her, if she has a chance, but that could end up being a ton of money. I really appreciate you taking the time to read this.  If you have a spare few dollars you don’t mind tossing my way, it would mean the world to both of us.  If you can’t donate, a share would be appreciated, as well!

Additionally, I’m currently offering flash commissions to anyone who donates.  If you send me a copy of proof of your donation and a prompt, I’ll write you a small ficlet—I can’t guarantee that it’ll be too long, since I’ve got a lot going on right now, but I’ll do my best.  You can check out my About to see what fandoms I’m familiar with.

fma au week day 1_ behind the scenes!

meanwhile behind the scenes, these idiots decide to have a weightlifting contest

Hello, Fullmetal Alchemist fans, and happy holidays!!! To spread some much-needed holiday cheer throughout this fandom, we would like to announce the first annual FMA Secret Santa! (At least, the first run by us. You can call us, the mods, Bex and Very, and we’re at your service!)

“Secret Santa? What??” We’re glad you asked. This is a gift exchange for content creators in the FMA fandom. Participants sign up by filling out this form; then, we, the mods, will use your responses to assign you both a Santa—who will create something for you—and a recipient, who you are responsible for.

Your job, with the information we will then give you, is to create a gift for this person! This can be anything: a fic, a piece of fanart, a graphic, etc.!

Then, around holiday time, you’ll post your gifts, reveal yourselves, and we’ll reblog all your wonderful content here for the whole fandom to see!

For more information, check out our ABOUT page, and please take care to read our RULES to make sure this stays fun for everybody.

We’re back for another, awesome third year, and this time I actually have a blog.  Amazing.

Here’s the deal!

Starting today, you can sign up to give and receive fanworks, including gifsets, fanart, graphics, fanfiction, fanvids, etc. for the holiday season!

How do I sign up?

Just fill out this form!  Please answer everything, as we need it to pair people up.  Email, age, and “pinch hitter” status will be kept strictly confidential.

Second of all, it would be greatly appreciated if you could give this post a signal boost!  Ours is a smaller fandom, and I’d really love it if we could reach as many people as possible to make this awesome.

How does the exchange work?

Signups run from now until November 12.  I will spend the next week or so confirming that everyone registered is still participating, pairing up assignments, then send out the assignments via email.

The gift exchange will be the dates December 25th-January 1st, just like last year!  Whenever you’d like to post them during this time period, please do.   This is to give some flexibility for massively different timezones, and the fact that the season is very busy for some people.

Please spend some time on these gifts!  Though we don’t have a word/detail/color/song/etc. count, remember that everyone else will be working hard—you wouldn’t like to spend hours on a piece of art only to receive a hundred word fic if you were hoping for something lengthier (if someone requests flash fic, of course, that’s totally fine!).  1000 words is a good idea for a fic minimum, though the rest of the categories are rather nebulous.  Please use your best judgement.

I will also send out confirmation asks before I set up the assignments.  Please make sure your askbox is open.

About one week before the deadline, I will be emailing everyone to make sure that they will be able to finish their gifts.  If I do not hear back within 48 hours, I will assign a pinch hitter to be sure that everyone receives a gift.

Please keep these gifts anonymous until the reveal week, December 25th-January 1st. If you want to send little snippets of fic or hints of art to your recipient (anonymously!) before the reveal date, feel free, but do not reveal your identity until the posting week.

Once the week rolls around, post your gift!  You can tag it #RoyEd Gift Exchange 2016.  This is different than last year’s tag!  Make sure to take note of it!  Be sure to send them an ask letting them know where it is, if not on tumblr—youtube, DeviantArt, AO3, etc.  I’ll be creating a collection on AO3 for fanfic and reblogging all gifts!

Content Rules:

Minors will not be permitted to give or receive NSFW works.  If you create NSFW work for this exchange, ensure that any spicy bits are underneath a cut, so we are able to reblog.

Be respectful of your partner’s dislikes.  Try to avoid anything that’s too much of a niche enjoyment (such as threesomes, infidelity, any major archive warnings, extreme angst, etc.) unless your partner requests such.

When posting, ensure that all common triggers and content warnings are tagged for.

I’ve recently fallen into some financial trouble and I’ve decided to open commissions again as I could really do with some extra income.

For more examples of my art here’s a link to my art tag and my Twitter.

Please click here for additional details, guidelines, etc.

If you’re unable to commission me, please consider reblogging this post as it would really help me out! I also have a Ko-Fi page if anyone would be interested in buying me a coffee.