Wolf's Head
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| Title: | Wolf's Head |
| Editor(s): | @ghostsjogging, @injuuns, and @melpaisleyart |
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| Type: | non-profit |
| Date(s): | 2019 |
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| Fandom: | Red Dead Redemption |
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| External Links: | @RdrZine |
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- You might be looking for Wolfshead (disambiguation).
Wolf's Head is a Red Dead Redemption zine put together mostly on twitter by @ghostsjogging, @injuuns, and @melpaisleyart. It began taking applications for art, poetry, writing, and "other" in December, 2018.[1]
When asked what it was about, @ghostsjogging replied:
Anything you’d like! You can draw or write about your favorite characters. Aiming to keep shipping to a minimum in hopes of creating a larger profit to donate! If there is enough willingness in content creators, I imagine I’ll compile a digital only NSFW ship as much as you -
Like version of the zine as well![2]
@ghostsjogging also wanted to keep the zine mostly spoiler-free[3]
Applications closed on January 5, 2019.[4] On January 6th, the zine mods announced that they'd received 125 applications[5] Artists were contacted on the 19th[6] and writers were contacted on the 21st.[7] The official list of contributors was posted on January 22, 2019.[8] The
Purity Wank and Art Theft
At about 8am EST on February 1, @RdrZine posted an somewhat vague announcement indicating that one or more contributors had been removed from the project:
Announcement: we have been contacted regarding some issues with some of the contributors to the zine. We want to thank you for reaching out and want everyone concerned to know we take these things seriously and have taken action. Thank you.[9]
The same morning, the zine mod @ghostsjogging had the following exchange with another user, replying to a tweet that has since been deleted:
[@ghostjogging]
Sorry again that that was even a threat to begin with. We are glad that someone made us aware.[10]
[@beeeboxx]
Its alright. Sorry for just deleting that tweet, also. It felt pointed and unfair despite frustrations. Thanks for actually taking action about them.[11]
[@ghostjogging]
Oh it’s alright! I just felt the need to apologize. Whether intentional or not, THAT presence in the zine was an issue. I understand your frustrations. ❤️[12]
Several hours later, an anonymous user posted to fail_fandomanon's Fandom Venting thread complaining about mods in an unspecified fandom zine removing contributors in response to purity wank brought up by callout posts:
[FFA subthread OP]
I was asked to contribute to a (medium/small) fandom zine. Today the mods made an announcement on the zine Discord that they're kicking some contributors off the project because the contributors have a history of "unsavory content" (i.e underage and incest) and some people have made callout posts about them. The mods did this while claiming they don't have time to play "purity politics" (and yet they do have time to play purity police..). FML.[13]
A nonnie asked, "Will it be okay to withdraw yourself or do you think that’ll make you a target too?"[14] leading to this conversation indicating that more than one artist might be removed from the zine:
[FFA subthread OP]
They've asked anyone else who might have made similar content to bow out so they don't have to "address these allegations and have to scramble for awkward remedies" in the future. They haven't named the contributors they've kicked out at least, but they cite public callout posts so presumably their names are out there. Ughhh.
I'm probably going to withdraw and make it clear I'm not comfortable giving them my work any more. I haven't written underage but I have written incest and xeno/bestiality so I'm probably a target in someone's eyes.[15]
[FFA subthread OP]
Yeah, it sucks. :( This is the first time I've ever been picked for anything like this and I was super excited to be part of it but I'm not really comfortable contributing to something that's being influenced by anti culture like that. It sucks to see artists being removed from a project because someone has been shitty about them in public - and not even about the content they'll be making for the zine.[17]
The subthread OP was encouraged to "name and shame"[18] and did so, revealing that it was the Wolf's Head zine[19] and that not only had they figured out which artist it was that had been pulled from the zine, but that the artist was being targeted for art theft:
They provided links to the art theft in question, showing @glytchling, the art thief, posting the unsourced art the day before @RdrZine's announcement.
[@glytchling]
Artist is a fucking freak but this is a nice pic so I'm just gonna post it without cred :^)[20]
Neither @beeeboxx (the user who seems to have complained about the artist's involvement to the mods) or @glytching are zine participants, but they do appear to be friends in the same social circle with the same vernacular and ideology.[22]
Nonnies on fail_fandomanon were very sympathetic towards the subthread OP and outraged on the artist's behalf, several of them suggesting that the artist should file DCMA takedowns with twitter.[23]
The subthread OP also added:
[FFA subthread OP]
...it sucks that the mods would rather support the bullies/antis than the artists that they supposedly respect/love enough to ask to be in the zine.
[...]
Calling someone who has done underage/incest art a "threat"?? Fuck offffff.[24]
Several days later, the subthread OP posted in a different thread saying that several more people had dropped out of the zine and that @glytchling was still stealing art from the first artist targeted by the antis.[25][26]
References
- ^ Red Dead Redemption Fanzine Application (archive) on Google Forms, posted to twitter (archive) on December 22nd, 2018 by @ghostsjogging.
- ^ Posted in two tweets (archive) on December 22nd, 2018 by @ghostsjogging.
- ^ Posted on twitter (archive) on January 4th, 2019 by @ghostsjogging.
- ^ Final call for applicants! posted 5 Jan 2019. (archive)
- ^ Proud and so happy to report that we had 125 applications! (archive) posted January 6th, 2019.
- ^ UPDATE: Busy day for us mods!, posted January 19th, 2019. (archive)
- ^ WRITERS -- We've completed going through all your applications, posted January 21st, 2019. (archive)
- ^ official list of contributors, posted January 22nd, 2019. (archive)
- ^ Announcement, posted February 1st, 2019. (archive)
- ^ @ghostjogging, posted February 1st, 2019. (archive)
- ^ @beeeboxx, posted February 1st, 2019. (archive)
- ^ @ghostjogging, posted February 1st, 2019. (archive)
- ^ Nonnie in Post #1024 Fandom Venting. February 1st, 2019.
- ^ Nonnie in Post #1024 Fandom Venting. February 1st, 2019.
- ^ Nonnie in Post #1024 Fandom Venting. February 1st, 2019.
- ^ Nonnie in Post #1024 Fandom Venting. February 1st, 2019.
- ^ Nonnie in Post #1024 Fandom Venting. February 1st, 2019.
- ^ Nonnie in Post #1024 Fandom Venting. February 2nd, 2019.
- ^ a b Nonnie in Post #1024 Fandom Venting. February 2nd, 2019.
- ^ @glytchling on January 31st, 2019. (archive)
- ^ @glytchling on January 31st, 2019. (archive)
- ^ @beeeboxx has an AO3 account that's gifted a birthday gift to an account that seems to belong to @glytchling. Also, in this tweet, @beeeboxxing notes that they support the horny posts of "non freaks", and @glytchling liked the tweet.
- ^ Nonnies in this subthread. February 2nd, 2019.
- ^ Nonnie in Post #1024 Fandom Venting. February 2nd, 2019.
- ^ Nonnie in Post 1028 It all returns to nothing Tumblr thread. February 8th, 2019.
- ^ "Hey @newvegas_ the freak posted some good shit again" — @glytchling on February 2nd, 2019. (archive)