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I want to make it very clear to certain people: I am not afraid of you. I am aware of what you have done. And I am not going to be quiet when you profit off of my work and efforts. The work behind a Story of Seasons: A Brand New Zine was mostly mine.
I helped the mods, who were unfamiliar with zines, with every single step of the process. Applications. Reviewing. Selecting contributors. When the main mod had her wedding, I was the one who picked up the slack.
It HURT when you made fun of the styles of my friends. "That one doesn't even play Story of Seasons! Why did they apply!" you said, mocking someone's art who is MY FRIEND. She's probably still in your zine too.
"Her style is weird! I don't like it." These are not constructive ways of assessing people's work. I stayed quiet and tried redirecting the conversation.
I invited my friends and followers to participate. I got my group behind it. I helped with advertising. I contributed well over 80+ hours into this.
I even helped with setting up the google bulk email when Leanne told me she didn't know how to use it.
When the graphics mod ghosted us, I was told to do the contacting. When they left, I did the graphics for the list. Because a contributor had an issue with me, (one I vouched for! they didn't want her in the zine!) I was told I wasn't going to get credit for images I did work on.
Yes, that contributor was tatertotarmy_. They didn't want her in because of drama initially. I don't care who knows. I'm aware of our history. I don't care. At first I thought your malicious comments about her were in jest, then I realized you were just cruel to everyone.
That went on for awhile. I wasn't given the credit for anything. And they continuously asked about private matters between me and another contributor, and made me second guess my decision to put that behind me.
Almost like they were setting me up to fail and pressing my buttons purposely to try and kick me when the work was done.
My days I was sick? Never affected the zine, but you seem to make sure everyone knew I was ill. Thank you for that. I was kicked because I didn't want to pay artists with exposure. I did my work. I did the work for people who dropped as mods. I gave you advice until 4:00 AM.
"oh sad you can't do more because of tatertotarmy_" so I'm not getting credit? for any of it? Thanks. I thought I knew Tay was a fair individual who wouldn't back people who were for using artists for exposure without payment and would treat mods this way, but I guess not.
"Saltytater" was apparently not enough for her to realize that backing such a project is not a good idea.
Neither are the mods of this zine now. Whoever you've brought on to back your project because "one mod got sick" or "she brought up too much drama" I hadn't mentioned Tay since February when I got upset you told me I wouldn't be credited due to her.
You took something personal to me and told me that was why I didn't deserve credit for something I poured my heart and soul into every weekend. You people are terrible.
Please spread this. I wouldn't trust the mods with one single instance of my personal information after all of the things they pulled with threatening me to continue working after locking me out of the gmail account in February.
Yes, I stayed on for a whole month more just trying to make it work because I felt obligated to the contributors, even the ones who don't like me.
I suggest you don't buy a zine run by people who promote the behaviors above and use a community in this way. The community deserves way better.
If you want to know more, just ask. I'm not going to hide anything. I shouldn't have to.
(Correction note: The name of the zine is: A Brand New Season Zine. Funny enough, I mistakenly wrote "A Brand New Zine" on some of your acceptance letters when I sent them individually (all 60+ of them.) Repeated habits from actually doing the work die hard, I guess.)
