Unnecessary Feelings

Unnecessary Feelings is a SFW for-charity zine featuring fanfiction and fanart for the pairing NaruMitsu (Phoenix Wright/Miles Edgeworth) from the video game franchise Ace Attorney. Despite significant delays in shipping physical orders, the project was completed successfully.
==About==
An interest check for the project ran from August 5, 2019 to September 5, 2019, while moderator applications were open from August 10, 2019 to September 5, 2019. Contributors could submit applications from September 19, 2019 to October 19, 2019. Questions about the application process and the zine project itself were answered directly on the project's social media accounts. To maintain engagement, the social media account regularly engaged with followers about their opinions about the games and showcased work from the mods and accepted contributors.
Preorders opened on March 16, 2020 with the following pricing tiers:
* Digital Zine ($10 USD)
* Physical Zine ($15 USD)
* Mystery Bundle ($20 USD) - Physical Zine, Random Charm, Random Stickers, Bookmark
* Merch Bundle ($25 USD) - Acrylic Charms, Stickers, Polaroid Prints, Bookmark
* Full Bundle ($35 USD) -Physical Zine, Charms, Stickers, Polaroid Prints, Bookmark
When 70 Orders were made, the physical zine was upgraded to hardcover, and when 100 orders were made, all full and merch bundles would get an additional acrylic stand. Preorders closed on April 19, 2020, but the digital zine remained available for purchase up until the end of the project.
Shipping was slated to begin in late 2020, but due to signification delays caused by communications issues with the shipping mod, physical orders only began shipping in early March 2021 to July 2021. Leftover sales began on August 27, 2021 and ended on September 6, 2021. The project announced on October 11, 2020 that $328.42 USD was donated to the Innocence Project as promised at the beginning of the project https://twitter.com/ZineNarumitsu/status/1447607931625787396.
 Project Timeline
 	Start 	End
Interest Check 	August 5, 2019 	September 5, 2019
Mod Applications 	August 10, 2019 	September 5, 2019
Contributor Applications	September 19, 2019	October 19, 2019
Preorders 	March 16, 2020 	April 19, 2020
Shipping 	March 7, 2021 	July 29, 2021
Leftover Sales 	August 27, 2021 	September 6, 2021
==Shipping Delays==
On July 14, 2020, the zine project announced on Twitter that the shipping mod had fallen ill, presumably with COVID-19 https://twitter.com/ZineNarumitsu/status/1288901993310945280. The rest of the mod team informed customers that they would attempt to contact the shipping mod, and that shipping of physical orders would be delayedhttps://twitter.com/ZineNarumitsu/status/1283108113198075907.
Another update, this time on the project's Tumblr account and linked to by the Twitter account, arrived on September 17, 2020. The team reported that they were unable contact with the shipping mod, who had not been responding to email, chat, or social media. The update added that the "communication between them and the mod team has been so bad that [they] had to manually check all tracking numbers to know if any of the bundles had been shipped". The shipping mod later responded and explained their computer broke and their phone had been stolen weeks earlier. The team took the shipping mod's explanation in good faith and promised their customers that physical orders would get shippedhttps://narumitsufanzine.tumblr.com/post/629546790591545344.
The next update arrived on October 10, 2020 with a change in the team's tone about the delays, now acknowledging the shipping mod's behavior as ghosting and discovering the mod's communication failure to fulfill their responsibilities on other concurrent projects. This particular update is as follows:
On November 2, 2020, the mod team updated customers on the situation and their next steps to issue a C&D letter to the shipping mod for withholding the products:
The mod team updated customers on December 4, 2020 that the shipping mod ignored the C&D and continued to hold onto the product, prolonging the standstill. With their offline contact related to the shipping mod, the mod team planned an in-person meeting and move the products out to a different team member's location. Moderators added that they would resort to getting a lawyer to send a demand letter if this meeting failedhttps://narumitsufanzine.tumblr.com/post/636564833635057664. The next update on December 17, 2020 confirmed that the shipping mod agreed to a meeting and would hand over the products on January 8, 2021 https://twitter.com/ZineNarumitsu/status/1339705748000034821. The meeting was later pushed back to February 6, 2021. The merchandise was successfully reported to be retrieved on February 8, 2020 and would be sent to the finance mod, who now took over responsibilities for shippinghttps://twitter.com/ZineNarumitsu/status/1358834905917108225.
Not all of the boxes made it to the new shipping mod's location. On April 26, 2020, one of the boxes containing prints and sticker sheets were reported to have been lost in transit. The lost merchandise had to be reordered, adding further delays in shipments https://twitter.com/ZineNarumitsu/status/1386754920389517314.
==Contributors==
===Artists===
* A. Greenleaf (honystarsnyoom, spacebvcks)
* Arbit (arbitrarydelight)
* Celeste (mochiiknight)
* Crimsonfire3
* Cross (crossexamisan, hellocrossan) - Cover Artist
* DanTheVampire
* Elisa (elusive_elisa, kolpis)
* Felix
* Ghiramaita
* Grey (grey_owl22)
* hadronhaze
* Himemocchi
* Juju (waifujuju)
* Juliewithaxe
* Kathi (drawingaqua)
* Keto (eggtoast)
* Luchichu (luchichufer)
* Mango (islandofmangoes)
* Mat_Riales (mat_riales)
* McKenna (zolfik_art)
* Mika (sooshkaa)
* Nikukurin
* orcawhvle
* PD (pdthedaddy)
* Pyohato
* Rin (MadameRinRin)
* Sebun (seb7un, seb7n)
* Shan (shanblackrx)
* Squeaky (squeakyninja)
* Taz (tazisthemaster, tazatouille)
===Writers===
* Coslyn (pheenick)
* Lia404
* Nicky (nickyfics)
* Sonora (synthpop)
===Mods===
* Cirno Avery (cirates) - Graphics
* Livinglittlelie - Social Media
* Via (meganedoodledog) - Finance, Production, Shipping
* Yelhsa (rshinystars) - Organization
===Former Contributors===
* Erine (kurahii) - Shipping
==Gallery==
File:Aa unnecessary feelings full bundle.png|Full Bundle Listing
File:Unnecessary Feelings zine cover.jpg|Zine Cover by Cross
==Fan Reception==
The following are samples of posts retweeted, reblogged, or answered by the project's social media accounts about the shipping delays.
The following are samples of posts retweeted, reblogged, or answered by the project's social media accounts after the orders were shipped.
Chio wrote on Twitter
moonliel wrote to the project on Tumblr
Anonymous wrote to the project on Tumblr
Luchi wrote on Twitter
Lia wrote on Twitter
==References==
Category:2020 Zines
Category:Ace Attorney Zines
Category:Slash Zines
Category:Charity Zines