Wolf's Head

: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.Red Dead Redemption Fanzine Application (archive) on Google Forms, posted to twitter (archive) on December 22nd, 2018 by @ghostsjogging.
When asked what it was about, @ghostsjogging replied:
@ghostsjogging also wanted to keep the zine mostly spoiler-freePosted on twitter (archive) on January 4th, 2019 by @ghostsjogging.
Applications closed on January 5, 2019.Final call for applicants! posted 5 Jan 2019. (archive) On January 6th, the zine mods announced that they'd received 125 applicationsProud and so happy to report that we had 125 applications! (archive) posted January 6th, 2019. Artists were contacted on the 19thUPDATE: Busy day for us mods!, posted January 19th, 2019. (archive) and writers were contacted on the 21st.WRITERS -- We've completed going through all your applications, posted January 21st, 2019. (archive) The official list of contributors was posted on January 22, 2019.official list of contributors, posted January 22nd, 2019. (archive) 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:
The same morning, the zine mod @ghostsjogging had the following exchange with another user, replying to a tweet that has since been deleted:
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:
A nonnie asked, "Will it be okay to withdraw yourself or do you think that’ll make you a target too?"Nonnie in Post #1024 Fandom Venting. February 1st, 2019. leading to this conversation indicating that more than one artist might be removed from the zine:
The subthread OP was encouraged to "name and shame"Nonnie in Post #1024 Fandom Venting. February 2nd, 2019. and did so, revealing that it was the Wolf's Head zineNonnie in Post #1024 Fandom Venting. February 2nd, 2019. 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.
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.@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 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.Nonnies in this subthread. February 2nd, 2019.
The subthread OP also added:
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.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)
==References==
Category:Red Dead Redemption
Category:2019 Zines