Destiny (Beauty and the Beast zine)

Destiny is a het anthology. They were edited by a combination of Kathy Cox, Karen D., and Beth Blighton. The third issue of this zine series was the first SND zine.
==Issue 1==
 
Destiny 1 was published in November 1988 and contains 180 pages. The covers and interior art are by Beth Blighton, calligraphy by Carol Anne Gordon. All stories are by Kathy Cox and Beth Blighton.
Regarding the different editions: The second edition September 1989 and contains 120 pages. The third edition was published in March 1990, and presumably contains 120 pages.
Regarding the second, and subsequent editions: 
From the editorial: 
NOTE: the pagination below reflects the first edition.
* Destiny (1) (poem)
*Celebration (3)
*P.O.V. (Point of View) ~ Vincent, Beyond a Happy Life (15)
*In the Chamber of the Falls ~ Suite:
** Prelude (17)
** Freedom (11)
** Journey (33)
** Soliloquy (40)
*P.O.V. Father, Beyond 'Soliloquy' (45)
*To Ron Perlman (46)
*P.O.V. Devin, Beyond Promises of Someday (51)
*Brothers (53)
*P.O.V. Vincent and Catherine, Beyond 'Brothers' (78)
*Might Wine (79)
*My Own Breath (81)
*P.O.V. Father, Beyond 'My Own Breath' (107)
*Ancient Myths/Magic Words (108)
*The Gift - Glossary of Script Terms (110)
*The Gift (111)
*P.O.V. Vincent and Catherine, Beyond 'The Gift' (163)
*Center of My Spirit (165)
*Seraphs (167)
*To Our Readers (178)
===Issue 1, Edition 1: Sample Gallery===
Image:destinybb1-1.jpg|inside issue #1
Image:destinybb1-2.jpg|inside issue #, an example of Guys Crying
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Image:destinybb1-5.jpg|inside issue #1
===Issue 1, Edition 2: Sample Gallery===
Image:destinybb1-1-1.jpg|inside issue #1
Image:destinybb1-2-1.jpg|inside issue #, an example of Guys Crying
Image:destinybb1-3-1.jpg|inside issue #1
Image:destinybb1-4-1.jpg|inside issue #1
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===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1===
==Issue 2== 
 
 
Destiny 2 was published in May 1989 (second edition: September 1989) and contains 204 pages. There were at least 1300 copies printed.
Covers by Beth Blighton (front in color); Interior art by Blighton, Kevin Hopkins, Wendy Rae Smith. The writers are Kathy Cox, Karen Dorrell, and Beth Blighton. The calligrapher is Carol Ann Gordon. 
The editor thanks, among other things: "Minute Maid Orange Juice and the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, a new Mita copier and an old IBM typewriter and on more than one Dark and Story Night, by Paul Masson Pale Dry Sherry...."
It was the winner of three Tunnelcon fanzine awards. 
It also came in a "Gold Edition" with special stamping and art printing. The artist comments on this: 
From the editorial: 
 
*To Ron Koslow (1)
*Songs of a Life:
** Jacob's Song by Kathy Cox (3)
**Elizabeth's Song (4)
**Devin's Song ("Braveness") (6)
**Narcissa's Song ("Treasures") (possibly the same poem as Beth Blighton's in Castles in the Air #1) (10)
**Graham's Song ("A Time For Secrets") (14)
**Father's Song (18)
* These Curious Days: Episode I by Karen Jean Dorrell (21)
* Echo by Kathy Cox (37)
* Beyond Echo (47)
* Dawn (48)
* These Curious Days: Episode II (49)
* The First Time I Loved Forever (65)
* Vision of the Heart by Kathy Cox (67)
* The Code, a teleplay (79)
* These Curious Days: Episode III (119)
* Shards (133)
* Love and Light by Kathy Cox, a fable which was expanded and made into a separate zine titled Love & Light...The Fable (158)
* information about The Eyes of Beauty Project (202)
Image:destinybb2-1.jpg|from issue #2, "Heaven Lies About Us in Our Infancy," a version of this was reprinted in Wildheart
Image:destinybb2-2.jpg|from issue #2
Image:destinybb2-3.jpg|from issue #2, Ron Koslow and a silhouette of Vincent Wells
Image:destinybb2-4.jpg|from issue #2
Image:destinybb2-5.jpg|from issue #2
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Image:destinybb2-7.jpg|from issue #2
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Image:destinybb2-10.jpg|from issue #2, Beth Blighton, reprinted in Love & Light...The Fable
 
 
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2===
==Issue 3==
 
Destiny 3 was published in late 1989 and contains 138 pages. It has the subtitle: "The Gentlest of Hands." 
This issue was mentioned just after the news came to fans about the show and its third season.
Originally inserted inside the zine was an open letter by the publisher to fandom about the changes in the show's direction and casting. See Open Letter to Beauty and the Beast Fans.
Art Information: covers by Beth Blighton. Interior art by Blighton, Kevin Hopkins, Barbara Gipson, Dragon, and Wendy Rae Smith. 
The art for "Those Curious Days: Episode Five" was reprinted from Castles in the Air.
*Dream Within A Dream, by Edgar Allen Poe, art by Beth Blighton (1)
* Genesis by 'Nea Dodson ("The earliest days of the Underground Society are explored.") (2)
* The Great Bath Battle of 1966 by Kathy Cox; art by Barbara Gipson ("It's quite all right when Vincent and Devin recreate the adventures of Huck Finn and Jim, even up to and including the building of a raft to float down their underground Mississippi. But when the youngsters decide that in order to stay "in character" they must give up soap and water, it's War.") (7)
* An Easier Lie by Kathy Cox; art by Kevin Hopkins, Beth Blighton and Wendy Smith ("In his teenage years, the trauma of his first love's rejection brings Vincent into a confrontation with the dark side of his nature. He survives the near-death experience but is changed by it, as is his life's direction and purpose, for the next seventeen years...") (16)
* Interlude by Linda Mooney; art by Beth Blighton ("A richly romantic evening celebrating Catherine's birthday.") (26)
* Those Curious Days: Episode Four by Karen Dorrell (30)
* In Daylight as One by Linda Mooney; art by Beth Blighton and Kevin Hopkins ("Catherine and Vincent's dream of a trip to the countryside may be more of a curse than a blessing: If through the bond Vincent always knows her emotions, does he always understand the truth within them?") (33)
* Destiny (57)
* Those Curious Days: Episode Five by Karen Dorrell (58)
* Mouse Tale by Karen Dorrell (66)
* Legacy by 'Nea Dodson; art by Kevin Hopkins ("When Catherine must pack up her late father's home, Vincent gently helps her to deal with the emotions of this last goodbye.") (70)
*Where The Angels Fly, pro song lyrics by Chris Spheeris, art by Kevin Hopkins (75)
* These Curious Days - Episode Six by Karen Dorrell; art by Beth Blighton ("More of the ongoing stories featuring Katie Lawson as the treasured friend and Helper she has become to Vincent and Catherine and the Underground world.") (77)
*Walk With Me, pro song lyrics by Chris Spheeris, art by Beth Blighton (84)
* A Deeper Sight by Kathy Cox; art by Kevin Hopkins, Beth Blighton and Wendy Smith ("During a rare total eclipse of the full moon, their bond seems to be giving Catherine and Vincent an extraordinary additional communication, but before the night is out Vincent discovers there is more to this gift than either of them first realized.") (86)
* Clear Unopened Space/Chrysalis/Sunlight by Kathy Cox; art by Beth Blighton (101)
* Chrysalis by Kathy Cox (113) 
*Sunlight by Kathy Cox; art by Barbara Gipson, Drafon, Beth Blighton (120)
*Ads (136)
*And the Magic Will Live Forever art by Dragon (138)
Image:destinybb3flyer-2.jpg|page one of flyer
Image:destinybb3flyer-1.jpg|page two of flyer, "140 pages in proportional print, not compressed type but sized exactly as this flyer, it's very readable yet saves about 25% in page count." 
Image:destinybb3-1.jpg|from issue #3
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Image:destinybb3-4.jpg|from issue #3
Image:destinybb3-5.jpg|from issue #3
Image:destinybb3-6.jpg|from issue #3
Image:destinybb3-7.jpg|from issue #3|"Fury" by Beth Blighton, reprinted in Wildheart
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3===
==Issue 4==
Destiny 4 was published in November 1990 and contains 144 pages. It has the subtitle, "Eternities of Time."
Front color art by Beth Blighton, back cover by Jean Kluge, interior art by Blighton, Kluge, Barbara Gipson, Kriss Farrier, P.S. Nim, Pam Tuck, Lisa Stubblefield, Lynette Combs, Sheri Pruehs, M.A. Smith, Cheryl Duval, Kevin Hopkins, Dragon. 
* Dedication (iii)
* I Am, I Said, song lyrics by Neil Diamond 
* For Ron Perlman, art by Beth Blighton (1)
* The First Time: Father by Kathy Cox, art by Lynette Combs (2)
* ‘Neath the Sheets of New York by Debbie Hicks, art by Barbara Gipson (4)
* Edge of Seventeen: The Ribbon by Kathy Cox, art by Beth Blighton (10)
* Magic by Margo Quigley, art by Beth Blighton, calligraphy by Kristy Effinger (14)
* The First Time by Catherine by Kathy Cox, art by Sheri Pruehs (16)
* To Soothe the Savage Breast by P.S. Nim, art by Kriss Farver, Pam Tuck, Kevin Hopkins, P.S. Nim (18)
* Moment by Linda Mooney, art by Kevin Hopkins (58)
* Your Move by Sheri Green, art by Lisa Stubblefield (59)
* From the Gallery ... "Desperado" by Beth Blighton (62)
* These Curious Days—Episode Seven by Karen Dorrell, art by Beth Blighton, Barbara Gipson, Kriss Farver (includes a fan-casted Lou Diamond Phillips as an original character) (63)
* These Curious Days—Coda by Karen Dorrell, art by M.A. Smith (83)
* Whispers by Mari Lynn, calligraphy by Kristy Effinger (87)
* Double, Double by Linda Mooney, art by Pam Tuck (88)
* The Ultimate, Intimate, etc. by 'P.S.Nimpho’, art by Cheryl Duval ("Editor's note: We regret that the rest of this story had been lost in ellipses. But that was inevitable, wasn't it? Author's afterword: The preceeding parody of fanfic consummation stories was composed in a vindictive fit of pique, after this author foolishly glutted herself on a surfeit of less-than-polished fan-written epics. I have tried to make all the most popular mistakes, but wish to NOTE -This piece is not a parody of any one fan-written story or zine, but is based on fanfic consummation stories in general!") (93)
* LimmerPoem by Cynthia Hatch, art by P.S. Nim (96)
* A Rendezvous with Sunlight by Kathy Cox, art by Jean Kluge (98)
* Changes by Kathy Cox
** The Kindness of Pretense, art by Beth Blighton (106)
** Insensible, art by P.S. Nim (110)
** To Dare to Dream, art by Dragon, Kriss Farver, Jean Kluge (113)
* The Million Kisses by Kathy Cox, art by Lisa Stubblefield (123)
* Jubilation by Kathy Cox, art by Barbara Gipson (126)
* The Homecoming by Kathy Cox, art by Lisa Stubblefield (130)
* Child of the Dream by Kathy Cox (132)
* Eternities of Time by Kathy Cox, art by Pam Tuck (134)
* The Dream Can Never Be Ended, art by Kriss Farver (140)
 
Image:destinybb4-1.jpg|from issue #4, Beth Blighton
Image:destinybb4-2.jpg|from issue #4, Lynette Combs
Image:destinybb4-3.jpg|from issue #4, Barbara Gipson
Image:destinybb4-4.jpg|from issue #4, Beth Blighton
Image:destinybb4-5.jpg|from issue #4, Kriss Farver
Image:destinybb4-6.jpg|from issue #4, Kevin Hopkins
Image:destinybb4-7.jpg|from issue #4, Lisa Stubblefield
Image:destinybb4-8.jpg|from issue #4, Beth Blighton
Image:destinybb4-9.jpg|from issue #4, Beth Blighton, a fan casted Lou Diamond Phillips
Image:destinybb4-10.jpg|from issue #4, M.A. Smith
Image:destinybb4-11.jpg|from issue #4, Pam Tuck
Image:destinybb4-12.jpg|from issue #4, Cheryl Duval
Image:destinybb4-13.jpg|from issue #4 
Image:destinybb4-14.jpg|from issue #4, Jean Kluge
Image:destinybb4-15.jpg|from issue #4, Beth Blighton
Image:destinybb4-16.jpg|from issue #4, Jean Kluge
Image:destinybb4-17.jpg|from issue #4, Lisa Stubblefield
Image:destinybb4-18.jpg|from issue #4, Pam Tuck
Image:destinybb4-19.jpg|from issue #4, Pam Tuck
Image:destinybb4-20.jpg|from issue #4, Dragon 
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4===
 
==References==
 
 
 
Category:Beauty and the Beast Anthology Zines Category:Beauty and the Beast Het Zines
Category:1980sCategory:1990s