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June 2017: Zine idea started, because the zine bandwagon was shiny and I, confident from handling the HQ!! Ghibli Zine, wanted in on the action too.

June 2017: Idea shoved to backburner. Work had a massive project going on, and at the time I wanted to focus on my multi-chapter too. I knew I didn't want to half-ass this project so I had to leave it for the moment. In hindsight that was the right decision.

April 2018: Idea picked up again. I'd gotten obsessed with the thought of printing a Yamakage zine and roped Marge into my madness lolol. If I look at the activity on the zine's email account, things started getting active in end-Apr and that was when stuff really picked up. The zine now has a name! Nice Serve!

Somewhere along the line, I talked Marge into merchandise. Went with acrylic charms because they're my favourite type of merchandise that had the smallest possibility of happening. I started sourcing for print shops and acrylic charm makers. (So very nearly picked a print shop that turned out to be a sham.)

May 2018: Schedule? Done. Blog? Polished up with a nice layout. The tiniest what-ifs? Hopefully covered. Marge and I worked our butts off to cover all grounds.

15 May: Figured out the neat linking trick behind our cool Creator's List.

27 May - 17 June: Apps were up, we got 28 artists and 15 writers and we accepted all of them! Start of my how-many-pages-will-this-zine-have stress.

8 July: Decided how I wanted my fic pages would look. End of my how-many-pages-will-this-zine-have stress.

24 June - 26 August: Creation period. Our discord server is small, quiet but cosy. After the difficulties of the 1st and 2nd check-in, we learn we have our work cut out for us once it comes to submissions. Received my first rude email. Cried buckets and had regrets about embarking on this zine.

20 August - 6 September: ...yes, it took us up to a week after the deadline to get everyone's work. I learn that people do not know how to read instructions. Wrong DPI, wrong image size, unflattened PSDs. I've seen them all.

By this time, 7 people had dropped out and 4 were missing in action. We're left with 22 artists and 10 writers.

7 September: Got to work figuring out where the pieces should go while Marge worked with the final proofreading. I tried to put everything while keeping in mind how the whole thing would look in a book. Zine layout settled.

8 September 11 am: Zine compilation began proper.

8 September 11:41 am: I decided that fics with a ton of dividers were my enemies.

8 September 11:51 am: I learned that I was my own enemy.

8 September 2:45pm: Zine compilation done, after some adjustments and checking for typos and ensuring that the navigation worked flawlessly. Time taken: 3 hrs and 45 minutes!

9 to 11 September: More double checking and lots of hype.

12 September 12:03 pm: Zine is released on Tumblr.