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Hello everyone,

We’re here with the final sales and donation information for you. With your help, the zine raised $389.99 (oddly specific!) during our sales period. Yay!

[ID: A screenshot from the gumroad account for A Context of Fear, showing the sales total of $389.99 for full the sales period of October 1st through 31st]

After splitting this roughly in half and doing the conversion (and rounding up a wee bit because it makes Fushi very distressed to not have round numbers, okay), that’s $200 for MSF, and £155 for MIND!

[ID: Two screenshots of receipts with personal details omitted. The top shows a donation amount of 200USD on the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders website with accompanying information about the organization. The bottom shows a paypal receipt for a donation of 155GBP to MIND, dated November 4th 2020]

Digital sales for the Context of Fear, a non-profit Magnus Archives zine featuring over 150 pages of art, stories, and poetry focused on the Fears, will be closing at the end of tonight. Get yours now while it’s still available!

Zine Details:

Sales Period: October 4th through 31st, 2020

Price: $5

Charities Supported: MIND & Doctors Without Borders

The Context of Fear, a non-profit Magnus Archives zine featuring over 150 pages of art, stories, and poetry focused on the Fears, is currently available for digital purchase via gumroad. Many thanks to everyone who has supported this project in raising over $300 thus far!

Zine Details:

Sales Period: October 4th through 31st, 2020

Price: $5

Charities Supported: MIND & Doctors Without Borders

Content previews and contributor information available on our blog 👁️  

The Context of Fear, a non-profit Magnus Archives zine featuring over 150 pages of art, stories, and poetry focused on the Fears, is now available for digital purchase via gumroad!

Sales Period: October 4th through 31st, 2020

Price: $5

Charities Supported: MIND & Doctors Without Borders

If you’re not familiar with the zine, check out our blog for more details, a list of our 51 contributors, and a collection of previews of the content within.

With the release of the zine coming in about 24 hours, now is a great time to check out our preview collection if you haven’t already! It features snippets from a variety of pieces by the 50+ writers and artists who have contributed their own takes on the Fears to the zine, like these...

...and many more!

Hello everyone! First, the news you’ve presumably been waiting for: orders for the zine will open this weekend, on October 4th.

Before we get going with the fancy promotional posts, though, we want to make sure that those of you who have been looking forward to the release know the situation with the lengthy delay in production and the changes that have been made accordingly.

Due to a combination of extenuating personal circumstances preventing the original mods from continuing work on production, the sheer volume of content (especially written content) requiring proofreading and formatting, and the logistical challenges raised by COVID, those working on the zine have needed to reevaluate the original plans for the project multiple times. The major changes you should be aware of are:

The moderators leading this project are now Fushi (aka stopitjon) and J. Quadrifrons (aka backofthebookshelf). Linn from the original mod team is still present in an advisory capacity and providing as much help as possible, but please consider Fushi and J your main points of contact.

The zine will be digital-only. This allows us to release immediately (and is much more cost-effective than trying to balance the production and shipping costs of this frankly massive book). Contributors preferring to release their pieces on their own rather than with the zine due to the lack of a physical version may do so.*

We have lowered the price of these digital copies from the original $10 to $5. This does not reflect a significant reduction in content from the original estimate: mainly we just want the zine to be as affordable as possible, since a lot of people are in a difficult situation right now.

That’s the gist of it! You’ll notice that various pages of the blog have also been updated with the most recent information, so feel free to poke around. If you have any further questions, you can always send us a message.

Let me begin by apologizing for the length of time between project updates!

As you have likely noticed, production of the zine has been delayed. This is due to several challenges that I have been working to address, not least of which is that Mod River is no longer able to assist in work on the zine due to real-life commitments.

I have since been able to get the assistance of some friends I will be forever grateful to, and together we have resumed the work of finalizing the zine for production.