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Pre-Orders for the Royal Alliance fanzine are open!  They will run through December 6th.  They can be found here: https://loturazine.bigcartel.com/products

There are four tiers of product, each with the option of physical zine or digital zine. Some questions that have already come up:

Q) Will I get a PDF with the physical zine? A) Yes you will. Q) If I get a merchandise tier, but digital, can I still get the merch? A) Absolutely!  That’s precisely why we did the tiers that way, so people could opt for the digital version but also still get some merch with it as well. Q) If I just want the digital zine, why am I being charged for shipping? A) That’s an artifact of trying to streamline this as much as possible.  Someone from the zine will be in contact with you about refunding your shipping either entirely if it were just the zines, or partial if you ordered merch.  If you want to throw your email in the comment when you order, it’ll make it quicker to find.

November 15!  Check out our pricing tiers!

The zine will be available in both digital and archival format.  Archival format will include a hardbound, linen-wrapped, foil embossed hardcover book measuring 8.5″ x 11″. This will include both the SFW and NSFW add-on.

We’re so excited!!

We have three bundles available, please check them out at our shop! 

 All funds after production will be donated to NSPCC. 

 Pre-order your copy at https://loturafanzine.bigcartel.com/   💜💖

Stella Errante is a 80+ pages fanmade zine featuring 35 full color illustrations and over 14,000 words of fan fiction dedicated to Prince Lotor and Princess Allura, from the Netflix series Voltron: Legendary Defender.

Our bundles include:

• Digital Zine: - A PDF copy of the zine

• Physical Zine: - A PDF copy of the zine - A physical A5 booklet of the zine, 80+ perfect bound pages

• Merch bundle: - A PDF copy of the zine - A physical A5 booklet of the zine, 80+ perfect bound pages - One mini print - Two stickers   - One double-sided charm

Apologies friends, this is far, far overdue.  The Royal Alliance Lotura Zine is well on its way to completion as contributors are finalizing their work and moderators are working to figure out the details of printing and merchandise. Check out our stellar lineup!

We are so thrilled to be working with these amazing and talented people!

A couple of things about our zine:

1) It will be available as both a printed version and a PDF.  When hardbound versions are selected, a PDF will be included free of cost.

2) We are hoping to include some merchandise as well, but more information to come as that becomes finalized.

3) There will also be a secondary publication consisting of NSFW art and fiction from those contributors who wished to produce content for that.  It will be available as an add-on to the main zine, also printed.  (With a free of charge PDF.)

Stella Errante - A Lotura Fanzine

OFFICIAL CONTRIBUTORS LIST

Great work, but I would just point out that the count is famous for his ghostly white skin, because of his lack of sun in the prison.

Thank you!

AND THIS IS TRUE (believe me, I’ve thought about this quite a bit). But in the end, I decided that it just felt right to me to have the Count be mixed. As significant as his paleness is in the novels, it’s not exactly necessary. Countess G can still regard him as a vampire (due to the fact that he hardly eats, sleeps, owns an underground mansion, is shrouded in mystery, the list goes on). 

If you’ve read the novel, Dumas leaves a note saying there were two stories that inspired him to write the Count of Monte-Cristo. He says one is easy to find, the other not so much.

The easy one is the real event of a vengeance that didn’t succeed but was quite extravagant. It’s called “Le diamant de la vengeance” (The Diamond of Vengeance) and was about a simple man who’s friends betrayed him, sending him to prison and stealing his fiancee (If I’m not getting my facts mixed up). Thanks to a diamond (if I recall well?) he was able to get rich and went on to murder his ex-friends, only to be killed before he completed his vengeance.

But the other inspiration that is harder to find is the story of Alexandre Dumas’ father, who lived unfair imprisonment and was left for dead. The theme of memory in the novel is based on this. General Dumas (A. Dumas’ father) was forgotten during his time in jail, even though he had been one of the best generals of his time. In some way, writing the Count of Monte-Cristo is Dumas avenging his father’s memory.

I did my IB Extended Essay on this novel’s use of imposture, and discovered this upon reading the intro of Tom Reiss’ The Black Count

Here’s what I learned which proves a mixed Count is not unthinkable:

General Dumas had a white father and a black mother (which is why his son Alexandre Dumas was a victim to racism for being mixed).

- Fun fact! Another story from the same series served as inspiration for the poisoning subplot: A Family Crime (Un Crime de Famille), from tome 2 of the same series. -

But as you said, people didn’t exactly make the connection between the Count and Dumas’ own father. Certainly not as strongly until Tom’s book came out (which is a fantastic read and I heavily recommend). General Dumas was one of the many testaments that people of colour (and more precisely, black people) could very well be in positions of power at the time. 

Great work, but I would just point out that the count is famous for his ghostly white skin, because of his lack of sun in the prison.

Thank you!

AND THIS IS TRUE (believe me, I’ve thought about this quite a bit). But in the end, I decided that it just felt right to me to have the Count be mixed. As significant as his paleness is in the novels, it’s not exactly necessary. Countess G can still regard him as a vampire (due to the fact that he hardly eats, sleeps, owns an underground mansion, is shrouded in mystery, the list goes on). 

If you’ve read the novel, Dumas leaves a note saying there were two stories that inspired him to write the Count of Monte-Cristo. He says one is easy to find, the other not so much.

The easy one is the real event of a vengeance that didn’t succeed but was quite extravagant. It’s called “Le diamant de la vengeance” (The Diamond of Vengeance) and was about a simple man who’s friends betrayed him, sending him to prison and stealing his fiancee (If I’m not getting my facts mixed up). Thanks to a diamond (if I recall well?) he was able to get rich and went on to murder his ex-friends, only to be killed before he completed his vengeance.

But the other inspiration that is harder to find is the story of Alexandre Dumas’ father, who lived unfair imprisonment and was left for dead. The theme of memory in the novel is based on this. General Dumas (A. Dumas’ father) was forgotten during his time in jail, even though he had been one of the best generals of his time. In some way, writing the Count of Monte-Cristo is Dumas avenging his father’s memory.

I did my IB Extended Essay on this novel’s use of imposture, and discovered this upon reading the intro of Tom Reiss’ The Black Count

Here’s what I learned which proves a mixed Count is not unthinkable:

General Dumas had a white father and a black mother (which is why his son Alexandre Dumas was a victim to racism for being mixed).

- Fun fact! Another story from the same series served as inspiration for the poisoning subplot: A Family Crime (Un Crime de Famille), from tome 2 of the same series. -

But as you said, people didn’t exactly make the connection between the Count and Dumas’ own father. Certainly not as strongly until Tom’s book came out (which is a fantastic read and I heavily recommend). General Dumas was one of the many testaments that people of colour (and more precisely, black people) could very well be in positions of power at the time.