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JATP Season 2 Wishlist

that i wrote in my notes app back in:

and realized i never posted it here? tbf i'm rarely on tumblr. but because i really miss them rn i want to share my ✨ brainrot ✨ that i had back when i thought they were getting a renewal.

Carrie Wilson

she was my biggest flaw in Season 1. I wish her "redemption arc" is fleshed out more in Season 2; give her either more context & backstory to validate her reason for unnecessarily antagonizing Julie, or screentime to properly address how she's just projecting an emotion completely different into bitterness and anger into Julie's recovery

show particularly her earlier dynamic w/ Flynn and Julie? Maybe as Flynn calls her out, we'd get flashback glimpses prior to Rose's death (maybe even Double Trouble temporarily being Triple Threat 👉🏽👈🏽)

for some reason i'm picturing a scene where she's in her dance studio (she has one in their mansion, of course) practicing some of her Dirty Candy routine when she keeps messing up and not in the right mindset to keep dancing. i feel like the best (maybe easiest but whatever) way to guide the audience into her artist mind is to make her be a perfectionist. in frustration, she blows up for a minute before slumping onto the ground and reminisces her fun times with Julie & Flynn

also when you have her develop, please don't make her lose her femininity and the bubblegum pop music, it's great

Old Songs Resurfacing

it'll prove how detailed & thorough you are as a screenwriter if you pay off the songs mentioned in Season 1 in passing to be actual songs in Season 2

Unreleased: Get Lost, Long Weekend, Crooked Teeth, My Name is Luke, and if that riff from the scene in EP. 5 that spurred on the Bobby reveal isn't from one of these songs, add that too

Demo Album: Late Last Night, Lakeside Reflection, In Your Starlight

Willex

imagine your queer couple gets to have their first kiss first than your het main couple, not only will that settle Madi & Charlie's statements about being uncomfortable in doing a kissing scene and maintaining the priority of Juke's emotional over physical relationship, it would also make an powerful statement

Reggie's Character Arc

i know that he initially had an arc that involved a romance with Flynn but because of the ages of who they casted, they scrapped it and didn't have time to rewrite the scripts for him as filming neared, so they have time to adapt to how jeremy portrayed him for season 2: a lovable dork who craves familial love

since there's a possibility that lifers can now see the boys, maybe some found family trope for Reggie and Ray Molina?

he has pretty much formed a parasocial relationship with him at this point

so why not instead of a love interest, Reggie can have his character arc develop & we see his family before thru flashbacks and paralleling those in the current times because he sees Ray as a father figure

picture this: it's raining, Bobby opens the garage door to the sound of knocking, the boys find Reggie soaking wet and out of breath when he tries to say he doesn't know where else to go then the boys immediately figure out another fight in the Peters household happened. Reggie tries to talk again when Alex (because even though they're the airhead-sarcastic duo, they know they love each other) runs up to hug him and tells the other he doesn't have to say anything

cut to a freshly showered Reggie, quietly watching tv with Bobby, Luke, and Alex in the garage, eating whatever

also a solo acoustic country song, pls. just to make him happy

The Aftermath of the Deaths

for both the boys and Rose

we get parallels about how Bobby dealt with trauma and grief to Julie

like, the reason why the clothes are still in there (are to have costume changes for the boys) is because Bobby immediately moved out of the house (therefore also the garage) and left the clothes there because he couldn't bear to burn it, or visit the boys' houses to break the news to their families and return the clothes, or donate it somewhere so he just...left it. it would make for a more solid reason (for costume changes) and an emotional context as to how Bobby really tried to forget them because it was "easier."

it would also make sense why Carrie and Julie ended up friends. Rose probably was there for Bobby when they discovered what happened at the alleyway, so they stayed friends over the years and had their respective families but still kept in touch, (bonus points if absolutely nothing romantic happened between them! yay to normalizing platonic male-female relationships) and why Rose would immediately think of Bobby's three late bandmates to send for Julie when she was on her deathbed

Bobby never really "moved on" (because grief is a really complex thing). it's showed that he has a therapist and everything, and this could definitely have some aftereffects on his daughter. Carrie growing up seeing her father be this amazing rockstar but a negligent father and only showing love in ways she doesn't need (like riches and fame and connections to the music industry) because he's actually a really lonely man on the inside and no one can see that except for Bobby's spouse and Carrie. it'd explain why Carrie is spoiled, and other negative character traits that Carrie has on the surface

it's even why Bobby changed his name to Trevor: 1) Bobby is so closely associated to Sunset Curve and it's an absolute pain to be reminded of that every day, 2) it's a stage name and artists really do get that

More Worldbuilding

they already had some pretty creative concepts/ideas in the first season, so why not expand/expound on them a bit more

the instruments are attached to their souls that's why the boys at first can only touch them, like how Willie's skateboard and helmet are attached to him

which is why when they attach themselves to the world of the present, they gather up energy and focus on touching tangible things like the picture frame

this may follow the logic toward the end where they are finally able to touch Julie because she has become attached to their souls. emotionally.

More Creative Collaboration

i believe in the principle that when a story is finally released/published/told to the world, the world shares it. this is also visible in film/tv where when the scripts are finished and actors receive them, the story becomes part of theirs to work on. which means that they have some sort of autonomy over their characters' motivations, a chance to be heard of their ideas and pitches, and why some certain scenes wouldn't work, etc etc. it doesn't just become the director's story nor the screenwriters'.

the actors' ideas such as Perfect Harmony and their solos from Nothing to Lose are great because they let them in. they took risks, and it paid off incredibly well. more of that please. have them be a part of the writing process, (also the story), but never forget what made the music production great in the first place. be coherent and don't be like others that let too many hands work on one piece—it will lose its sound, its identity.

Julie Knowing

that Nick is possessed by Caleb. ohmygOD. hear me out.

the same S1 ending will play somewhere in 2x01, but it will be revealed that Julie was watching through the window the entire time and when she opens the door to receive the flowers, that last look she gives him is actually her scheming.

determined to get Nick back, imagine The Promised Neverland's level of mindgames Julie could play with Caleb because we already know our girl's smart

Free Willie Willie's Freedom

since the boys feel indebted to Willie's help, they insist on helping him too with getting rid of Caleb's stamp

maybe through his connection with Alex? or maybe Willie's family or friends who are still lifers (which is unlikely but either way). he needs to be saved !!

Song Sequences Ideas

juke counter melody duet like Rini's "Even When/The Best Part," Shane & Mitchie's "Wouldn't Change a Thing," or dodie & Jon Cozart's "a love song/a non love song"

emotional carrie ballad paired with lyrical hiphop choreo

willex song - i absolutely have no idea where this could go directionally but maybe alex on an acoustic guitar with a really soft sweet tune

reprises of S1 songs but in the complete opposite of their original style (the fandom's lonelier All Eyes on Me version, i see u)

nick guitar solo - just because Sacha actually plays, idk how it'd fit in to the plot yet but hey

Nothing to Lose (Reprise) - back in the '90s, a producer manipulates Bobby to sign a record deal to become a star but on one condition: disassociate himself with Sunset Curve, to which he first declines until he slowly gets persuaded. (sort of like Todrick Hall's So Lucky to Be You meets Lyn Lapid's Producer Man)

"So how about it, Bobby Shaw? Do we have a deal?"

"Trevor."

"I'm sorry?"

"Call me Trevor Wilson."

i'm pretty sure someone made an animatic with this idea too but i cannot for the life of me find it !!

7. Season 2 starts the same way as Season 1 does before the opening song plays

Black screen that reads a text "Hollywood 1995"

a pan down to the Orpheum's overhead sign that reads "SUNSET CURVE SOLD OUT"

cut to the interior with Rose finishing up her cleaning when a stage manager calls out: "Sunset Curve!" to which Bobby abruptly stops his pacing back and forth to look up. he and Rose look at each other. music swells until...

cut to him running onto the alleyway, "are they still not finished eating? those gluttons are dead to me i swear—" he cuts off his own words when he sees the boys getting dragged onto stretchers. but we, the audience, don't see it. just a close up of bobby as the ambulance lights reflects his face. rose comes up behind him, still clutching their t-shirt.

[i honestly have no idea if Bobby should get on stage because it just proves Luke's theory of The Orpheum's opening bands eventually becoming big & successful so it'll explain the Trevor Wilson fame even though at first he only did it for the boys, or if he shouldn't because according to the article Julie googled he ran away immediately after they were pronounced in the scene] but either way, this is how the opening starts.

then it progresses to Rose and Bobby respectively having children so they could parallel each other blah blah

8. Julie plays a simple song on the piano while the guys watch her in awe

Storytelling through Props

let's dive deep into Rose's luggage/suitcase and use the props to head for Julie's emotional attachment with them

they already did it with the wardrobe: Rose wears the black leather vest in the pilot while Julie wears the same thing in EP 6

add depth to the characters' relationships like us finding out Julie's multilayered necklace is actually a gift from Carrie or something

SOYON ANN YOU'RE A GIFT FROM GOD. Bobby's necklace is present in both young and old!him

**Rose in flashback scenes should be wearing clothes we've already seen Julie in Season 1 just for greater effect.

The Bobby Conflict

definitely needs to be brought up again by Season 2; they only discarded somewhere in the middle because more pressing matters like the boys' existence blipping away was pushed to the forefront of the story

however, The Bobby Conflict changes. it'll be cleared up that he was offered a record deal as a solo artist by a manipulative producer. and given that the poor boy is only 17 (too, maybe), he agrees. what he doesn't know is the contract's fine print: giving up Sunset Curve's royalties

that information clears it up to the audience and the band, so the conflict becomes this: Bobby's Survivor's Guilt. god wouldn't that be so good tackling that in a kids'/family show.

#julie and the phantoms #jatp #julie molina #reggie peters #luke patterson #alex mercer #carrie wilson #bobby wilson #trevor wilson #willie #bobby shaw #ray molina #carlos molina #rose molina #flynn taylor #uranus

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damn i posted that analysis in defense of kanthony but their fans still insulted me in my inbox. okay then

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not to intellectualize and defend bridgerton's mid ass writing but for me S2 was never really a love triangle.

sure they marketed it heavily that way, had charithra join jb & simone for main promos etc., but edwina has always been a representation of what was truly hindering kanthony to love each other: DUTY.

kanthony are both eldest children who were raised to take care of their younger siblings, stepped up to practically be the heads of their respective households, and had to carry the burden of responsibilities at a young age.

edwina is literally the physical manifestation of that reminder. anthony never loved her, we get like one (1) scene of edwina and anthony alone together because they never made him develop romantic feelings for her.

kanthony are both too stubborn because time and time again they KEEP prioritizing her (= DUTY) instead of themselves. it's why it takes kanthony's moms' apologies for putting them in such a role so young when they faced heavy losses in their lives — for KA to actually recognize that it's okay to have something for themselves.

jb said it himself: anthony needed to go through such a long and slow character arc before really committing and fully devoting himself to kate. he "surrenders" himself to the thing he has deprived himself off of for most of the season (for months, in show time): happiness.

i thought ppl understood that but apparently not. they're too busy complaining about the lack of KA screentime when that's literally not true???

and that apparently kate's backstory wasn't that fleshed out? these people think flashbacks are the only filmic device to give depth to a character when that is the furthest thing from the truth. you get to know her through her scenes with other ppl, her relationship with them.

you see all her facets: her horsemanship, her love for newton, her competitiveness, her disposition as a spinster, how little she feels because of her grandparents, how she subconsciously desires her mother's approval, her strength, womanhood, and capability in conversations with eloise, how edwina is literally an extension of her (taught and shaped her as a person), & of course her own desires and wants.

but no, they want to waste time getting mad at edwina to see all of what they've been trying to show us, and determining whether a character is well-written only when she is "likeable" or within the standards of morality like ohmygod give me a BREAK

#bridgerton #bridgerton s2 #bridgerton season 2 #anthony bridgerton #kate sharma #kathani sharma #edwina sharma #kanthony

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THIS is exactly what I want. They are friends! They love each other’s company! They can giggle like little kids together! BECAUSE THEY ARE FRIENDS THAT LOVE EACH OTHER! God I hope there’s more of this in season 3!

Also I don’t know who made this gif so if you did or know who did please let me know and I’ll gladly credit!

#carriage scene this #mirror scene that #what i need is THIS #them being really good friends #laughing and gossiping at the side of a ball #enjoying each other's company #talking to no end #colin getting that rush #that heady feeling mid laugh #and he just looks at penelope thinking oh #wow i kind of want to spend the rest of my life with you??? #and then REALLY looks at her #and gets Even More Emotions™️ #like COME ON BABE U GOT THIS IM ROOTING FOR U U CAN FIND UR BRAINCELL #polin #bridgerton #bridgerton s3 #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton

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rick riordan dickriders on here will be like "why are you complaining about the pjo tv show, go watch the movies and see what a bad adaptation really looks like" ok well listen to the musical watch it on youtube and see what a good adaptation looks like bitch. it can be done. as a fucking stage musical. what did that 15 million per episode do for disney that chris mccarell couldn't

#oop #👀🫢 #i fear you spilled op #also tags! yeah! like if i didn't find the show at least enjoyable i would've cared less !! #but i waited for two years for THIS?? #like 😭 #sighh #pjo crit #pjo criticism

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second snippet of my work

in @badbuddyfanzine, out this Tuesday! the total word count of all my long-form free verse poems are 2,133.

as i said in the writer's spotlight, it rewards a close reading. the more details you notice, the more you'd hopefully appreciate it. 🥹

to pre-order: badbuddyfanzine.tumblr.com/preorders 🍉

#holy shit i'm so 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 SOFT #over this #thank you so much !!!! #one of the beliefs i hold as a creative writing student is to simply make my readers feel #so it makes me incredibly happy that this piece succeeded #this is so awesome of you to share <3 #bad buddy fanzine #bad buddy #free palestine

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marina to pen: colin sees you as you are and regards you no differently than he does eloise

literally colin:

#bridgerton #polin #colin x penelope #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington

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“Don’t Let Them Change Us: A Bad Buddy Fanzine for Palestine” is OUT!

Don’t Let Them Change Us is a digital Bad Buddy fanzine raising money and awareness for Palestinian liberation. Check out our statement of solidarity with Palestinian liberation and actions you can take for Palestine to learn more about why we created this zine.

All zine proceeds go to We Are Not Numbers (WANN), a youth-led organization in Gaza that shares the stories behind the numbers and fights for Palestinians’ human rights, or to direct aid for their writers and their families who are suffering under Israel’s genocide. 

order your copy of the zine!

The digital fanzine, which is now out, is a full-color PDF with 244 pages and alt text for all images, and includes:

9 fanfics and 1 suite of fan poems

10 full-page works of fanart, plus the cover art featured above

13 smaller spot illustrations, many embedded within fanfics

Our sixteen contributors have been absolutely fantastic! We’ve been spotlighting each of them in our #contributor spotlights tag, but if you missed those, here they all are:

Artists: nandskarth, theoryofarson, science, Maggie, greybrocolay, Cinnamon Seadragon, and Tasha

Writers: mahuhumaling, Galauvant, Yarrow, seekingmoonscapes, midnightfreeway, Manoragazza, Faillen, patbestboi, and fiercynn

We’re also thrilled to share that, just through pre-orders, we’ve already raised $1,969.50 USD for WANN and direct aid for WANN writers! This fandom has come through big for WANN, allowing us to meet our stretch goal, which means we’ll be raffling off two print copies of the zine among everyone who pre-ordered. We’ll continue taking zine orders at least through the end of May – potentially longer if there is interest. And if you pre-ordered but have not yet received your copy of the zine in your email, please do email us to let us know at BadBuddyFanzine [at] gmail [dot] com.

We also hope that as you’re enjoying the zine, you’ll also keep letting folks know about it if they have not ordered themselves, and also sharing your reactions and feedback with our contributors! If you are so inclined, you can post or tweet about your reactions to the different works in the zine, which we can then share with the contributors:

On Tumblr, tag the contributor's blog if they have one (it'll be listed in the zine) and use the tag “#bad buddy fanzine”, but make sure you list it as one of your first five tags on the posts so that it’s more likely to show up

On X/Twitter, tag the contributor's account if they have one and use the hashtag #BadBuddyFanzine or tag us @/BadBuddyFanzine

Thank you again to everyone who made this happen! We are so, so grateful for everyone’s support and collaboration, and we hope that you will continue fighting for Palestine both in fandom and in all the other parts of your lives. 

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

Your zine mods, @fiercynn and @sciencebluefeelings

#out now!! #bad buddy #bad buddy fanzine #free palestine

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"colin doesn't appreciate penelope she deserves better"

he always has, just not in a romantic way. we are not watching the same show let's be fucking serious

#bridgerton #bridgerton s3 #bridgerton season 3 #polin #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #colin x penelope

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second snippet of my work

in @badbuddyfanzine, out this Tuesday! the total word count of all my long-form free verse poems are 2,133.

as i said in the writer's spotlight, it rewards a close reading. the more details you notice, the more you'd hopefully appreciate it. 🥹

to pre-order: badbuddyfanzine.tumblr.com/preorders 🍉

#bad buddy #bad buddy fanzine #free palestine #pran parakul #parakul siridechawat #pat napat #napat jindapat

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an excerpt from my work

in the zine, one of my poems from the collection "ampersand." 🍉

"Don't Let Them Change Us" is coming this Tuesday!

if you haven't pre-ordered yet: https://airtable.com/appsodIGmTNXCcg5c/pagGVstsLLp21YfwQ/form

cc: @badbuddyfanzine

#bad buddy fanzine #bad buddy #free palestine

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Daphne: Don't we Bridgertons love a challenge?

Colin: bet

Colin: *marries Lady Whistledown*

#bridgerton #polin #colin bridgerton #bridgerton s3 #penelope featherington

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How is it that such a popular book series can have a 2 films and a tv show and the best adaptation is still the musical with such a low budget but so much love to give

#so true. i could make a whole dissection post about why hahahahahahaha #the lightning thief musical #percy jackson

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STRETCH GOAL MET!

We’re just over a week from zine publication, and we’ve got a few more announcements: firstly, we have MET OUR STRETCH GOAL OF $1,200 USD! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Thank you so much to all of you who have donated to We Are Not Numbers already to help get us there! This means that we will be raffling off TWO PRINT COPIES of the zine to people who pre-ordered. If you have not pre-ordered and want to be eligible for the raffle, there’s still time: as long as you submit your pre-order form by 11:59pm U.S. Pacific Time on Tuesday, April 15 (here’s a countdown clock), your name will be in the draw.

Secondly, we wanted to offer another option for donations that count towards a pre-order. Your donations to WANN, a Palestinian youth-led organization, have been going both towards its long-term mission of telling the stories of Palestinians to fight for their human rights, and also to their more immediate aid campaign to provide power kits for their writers and their families in Gaza. However, as this genocide has grown horrifyingly worse, more and more Palestinians are needing other kinds of direct aid. 

Since we have already raised over $1,200 USD for WANN as an organization, we want to encourage folks who have not yet pre-ordered to donate directly to writers and others in the WANN community who need help with food, medical treatment, surviving and rebuilding in Gaza, or escaping Gaza entirely. WANN has a page with links to individual fundraising campaigns. If you would prefer to donate to any of those individual direct aid campaigns rather than to WANN generally, we will count $10 USD (or more) donations to those campaigns as a pre-order. 

We’ve updated our How to Order Your Zine page and our Order Form to reflect those options. You’re also still welcome to donate to WANN if you are unable to donate to any of the individual campaigns. 

Finally, we wanted to let everyone know that one of our contributing writers has had to drop out of the zine because of tough life stuff going on. Her help and guidance has been invaluable in helping us put this zine together, and we’re really glad that she is taking the time and space she needs! And we still have a lot of amazing writing and art to share with you all in the zine.

Other links that might be helpful:

Our statement of solidarity and actions you can take for Palestinian liberation

More about We Are Not Numbers and why zine donations are going to WANN

Our ongoing spotlights on our 16 contributors, which will continue through this Thursday

And finally, our FAQs!

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 

#SO SO HAPPY AND EXCITED #i'm so glad this happened you guys !!! #bad buddy fanzine #bad buddy #free palestine

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Writer Spotlight: mahuhumaling

Tumblr: @mahuhumaling

Type of Fanwork: Poetry

Tell us a little about yourself!

Hi! I'm Atria (pronounced Ey-tri-ya), a 21 year old graduating student from the Philippines. My pronouns are she/her, and I'm sapphic.

I have heard about this show because of my stan twitter mutuals from a previous fandom. They were all raving about the show, and I didn't have time for the hype because I was still struggling in my semester and I was also very inactive in my account. The night episode 5 aired though, wooh. It was like witnessing the breaking of the internet 2.0. And even though I was intrigued as to what the context of the rooftop scene was (why they were crying), I still didn't watch it. Two weeks later, I gave in and ended up binging in spontaneously even though it was Hell Week (*ahem* exams *ahem*) and subsequently, joined this fandom a few days after Episode 7 aired. I guess you could say I saw the coming and going of my mutuals and non-mutuals, saw how people fell in and out of love with it.

Have you ever created, contributed to, or otherwise participated in a fanzine before?

I have not! Very honored and grateful to be invited here.

Why did you want to participate in a fanzine raising money and awareness for Palestinian liberation?

One of the organizers of this fanzine personally reached out to me describing the fanzine, and at first I wanted to decline because I was so stressed out and had little to no time to sign up for even more writing workload, but when I saw that it was for Palestine, I couldn't not. As someone who has parents who once threatened me to drop me out of my studies and move me to the province to live with my grandparents (36 hours away from my current home) if I so much as associated myself with political radicals, this was one of the few avenues I could participate in for Gaza and in general for the liberation of Palestine. I do want to clarify: it's not out of guilt, but the determination to act in a home where I can't. 

Can you give us a quick description of your piece in the zine?

"ampersand" is a suite/collection of poems centered around the lives, thoughts, and feelings of the most prominent Bad Buddy characters, separated by pair per poem:

"pageants & planetariums" is about Dissaya & Ming,

"waiters & windbreakers" is about Wai & Korn,

"cameras & cakes" is about Ink & Pa, and

"STRINGS & STICKS" is about Pran & Pat.

They are formatted in such an experimental way where the left is one character, and the right the other.

I hope you like the piece, as I have put a lot of brainpower in the details, the form, and the images as they are all found in the show. You could say it rewards the most observant, or the people who have rewatched it most haha.

What are some of your favorites of the Bad Buddy fanworks you’ve created in the past?

visual edit – untranslateable words

video edit – all the stars (inkpa & patpran)

fanfic – anamnesis, a Teen Wolf Season 6 AU where Pran is taken by the Ghost Riders, causing Pat and literally everyone else to forget his existence and every memory about him.

other – post velum (which is latin for behind the curtain, the name of the novel), one long poem about each episode of bad buddy + our skyy in the perspective of patpran.

Where else online can we find you and your fanworks?

There's quite a lot in my Twitter and Tumblr, but for easier viewing and navigation, it's on my Tumblr blog (@mahuhumaling), under the tag #mars for visual edits and creations (from percabeth as patpran series, to song storyboards), and the tag #uranus for meta commentary and ramblings about the technicalities of Bad Buddy.

I also make video edits on my Instagram editing account (@saturnvegaspro). It's locked at the moment, but only because it was recently hacked. But I'm relatively active on there, so I'll surely accept you.

#waaaaah hello!! #bad buddy fanzine

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your questions answered!

We've had some good questions come in this week that we wanted to address! These have been added to our FAQs as well.

I don’t have a credit card. Is there another way to donate to We Are Not Numbers?

If you have a friend that you trust who has a credit card, they can make the donation on your behalf and you can send them the money whatever way is easiest for you. They will just have to share the receipt that they receive by email, and you can use that to fill out the form. If it’s a person who is also buying a copy of the zine for themselves, they can just fill out the form for both of you (they will put "2" for the number of "copies" that they're purchasing) and share the PDF with you when they receive it. If you don’t have someone with a credit card who can make the donation for you, email us at [email protected] and we’ll work with you to figure out another option.

When I receive my copy of the zine, can I share the art or writing in it with others, either online or otherwise?

No, not unless those people have donated for their own copy of the zine, or if you have donated as a proxy person for each of them. We know this is kind of unusual for fanworks, which are usually meant to be shared widely. But because this zine is intended to both raise donations and awareness for Palestinian liberation, we want people to donate in order to see any of the content, and to receive the full copy of the zine where they can read more about what they can do to support Palestine and why this zine was created for that purpose. This is of course on the honor system, but we ask that you respect this because that is the purpose of this zine. You can, however, share any art that is posted on our Tumblr, most of which is promotional art for the zine by @sciencebluefeelings! We just ask that you share a link to the zine as well so that it's fulfilling its purpose.

If you have other questions that are not answered in our FAQs, please feel free to email us at [email protected]! Our asks are closed on Tumblr, but that's just because we want to streamline questions to one place so that we don't miss anything, and email is the most accessible way to do that. We welcome your questions!

#bad buddy fanzine

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We’re super excited to announce a new digital Bad Buddy fanzine for Palestine – both to raise money for for We Are Not Numbers (a youth-led nonprofit based in Gaza that tells the stories of Palestinian youth and advocates for their human rights), but also to be able to keep talking about the fight for Palestinian liberation, why we cannot get used to this genocide, and what we can do to fight Israel’s settler colonialism and ongoing nakba until Palestine is free from river to sea.

Your mods for this zine are Science (@sciencebluefeelings) and Deepa (@fiercynn)! It is both of our first times modding a zine, but we’re fortunate to have guidance from friends with much more experience. The digital zine will feature new fanart, fanfic, and fan poetry exclusive to the zine, made by seventeen different contributors in Bad Buddy fandom. We expect the zine to be out in mid-April 2024.

We’re also opening up our Order Form now so that you can pre-order a copy of the zine if you choose. Our How to Order Your Zine page explains how you can make your donation directly to WANN and share proof of your donation with us while still maintaining your privacy. Of course, if you want to wait until we’ve shared more about the zine, or until the zine is completed, that is totally fine – the order form will stay open through the end of May 2024 at least. 

You can follow us here and/or on Twitter (@/BadBuddyFanzine), where we’ll be sharing more information in the coming weeks, including spotlights on our contributing writers and artists, more about We Are Not Numbers and the fight for Palestinian liberation, information, and more! Or, if you just want to be updated on when the zine is completed, you can sign up here to join our email list. 

Check out our FAQs for more information, and email us any additional questions you have at [email protected]. (Our asks are closed so that we can keep information streamlined through email.) Stay tuned, and please share so that we can make this a successful zine and fundraiser!

#bad buddy fanzine