The Nine

The Nine was a planned charity zine for The Locked Tomb fandom. It was primarily an art zine, with some fic, and a variety of artists and writers submitted their work for inclusion. Potential contributors applied in April 2021, were accepted in May, final submissions were due August 31, and the zine was slated to be published in Winter 2021. (Accessed 14 August 2021) However, the zine was cancelled in August following controversy.
The charities were The Auckland Foundation Women's Fund and The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. (Accessed 14 August 2021)
==Content Rules==
Both gen and ship-related fanworks were allowed, with some restrictions. "Minor adult themes may be present. Violence, partial nudity and moderate gore are permitted. Explicit sexual content is not permitted."
Ship restrictions: 
*No Ianthe/Coronabeth or Cam/Pal due to the characters being related.
*"Suggestive/sexual depictions of Jeannemary or Isaac are not permitted."
*"Any pairings featuring Harrow or Gideon romantically/sexually involved with men will not be allowed, as these characters are lesbians."
Contributors must be 18+. (Accessed 14 August 2021)
On their curiouscat account, mods answered the question "If I have previously written romantic and/or sexual content between Camilla and Palamedes, but do not intend to do so for this zine, would I be allowed to participate?" with
==Controversy==
On August 8 a fanwriter whose work had been accepted into the zine revealed on twitter that the admin team contacted her to ask her to withdraw because other contributors objected to some of the fanworks on her AO3 account. The fanwriter noted, "The zine team claims not to support harassment or alienation, but considering the harassment I was subjected to on Twitter two weeks ago and the timing of this 'request', I think it's safe to say that the two are related." She also said she no longer felt safe participating in or supporting the zine., 8 August 2021 (Accessed 14 August 2021)
The incident was discussed in various fanspaces. The admin team posted a response to twitter on August 10:
Tumblr user hotbonegrunge (giseletheweaver on twitter) also made a post explaining that they were one of the people who complained. hotbonegrunge said:
Twitter user ahabthepredator later reported that in the ensuing debate giseletheweaver replied to a tweet using the wrong account, accidentally revealing that they had created moreoverisay apparently "to attack people supporting Jo and criticizing the mods". In screencaps, the moreoverisay account called people "hogs", "weirdos", and gendered slurs while accusing them of wanting to commit incest for supporting Cam/Pal, who are second cousins., 12 August 2021. (Accessed 14 August 2021.) ahabthepredator and others concluded that this incident was indeed motivated by anti-shipping.
On August 11, the zine team announced that the zine had been cancelled "Due to a doxxing incident and escalating harassment towards charity project members"., 11 August 2021. (Accessed on 14 August 2021.) According to twitter user NonaTheNinth and fail_fandomanon, the "doxxing" was a list of antishippers' twitter handles:
Anons at fail_fandomanon speculated that too many contributors had pulled out of the project in response to the writer getting removed for the zine to be viable, though this is unconfirmed.
Some fans commented on the similarities between this incident and Tamsyn Muir, the author of the canon, getting bullied off twitter for writing problematic fanfiction.
==Further Reading==
*, fail_fandomanon discussion thread, 9 August 2021
*, fail_fandomanon discussion thread, 11 August 2021
*, post in HobbyDrama subreddit, 31 August 2021
==References==
Category:The Locked Tomb
Category:Charity Zines
Category:2021 Zines