The Shadow You Cast

The Shadow You Cast is a zine focused on the character Vanitas from the Kingdom Hearts games.
==About==
The zine was announced on July 24, 2019, with an interest check gauging for demand and feedbackhttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1154049882270904320. The interest check was closed early on July 28, 2019, due to overwhelming responsehttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1155251554968047617. Contributor applications for artists, writers, and poets opened on July 31, 2019, and closed on August 23rdhttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1156776819519086592. The project's social media account reported 100 applications by August 14, 2019, during the applications periodhttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1161827913320345602. By the end of applications, a reported 169 applications were submitted, 81.5% artists, 16.7% writers, and 1.8% poetshttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1166118041748496386.
Preorders went live on December 1, 2019https://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1201366605021827077. The following is an approximation of the pricing tiers:
* Tier 1 - Digital Zine, Paper Box Cutout
* Tier 2 - Digital Zine, Physical Zine, Mini Prints, Stickers
* Tier 3 (Limited to 100) - Digital Zine, Physical Zine, Mini Prints, Stickers, Button, Acrylic Standee
The Tier 3 bundle sold out on multiple occasions and had to be restocked, then capped to 100 orders by December 12, 2019https://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1205165526760198144. A giveaway for this bundle was run from December 14, 2019, to January 2, 2020https://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1205925217165598720. The winner of this giveaway was Twitter user Pashi_Foxyhttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1213997281260789760. Preorders closed on January 2, 2020https://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1212962815444697090.
Packaging was expected to begin on June 15, 2020, but the project faced delays on May 27th, and shipping was pushed backhttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1265793350722105347. In the meantime, the project's digital store reopened for Tier 1 bundles only for all of July 2020https://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1281802968640217090. Further delays were made due to the mod in charge of quality checking the zines was now busy with full time work and unable to ask for helpers due to the COVID-19 pandemichttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1291056128747544576.
On September 17, 2020, a thread was posted explaining the reason for the significant delayshttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1306769807338020866. The mod tasked with packaging and finances left the project and fandom early for personal reasons, leaving the head mod to weather the rest of the process alone, combined with further stresses of personal problems caused by the pandemic. The head mod promised that the packages would be shipped in the next few weeks.
The first physical orders were sent out on October 5, 2020https://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1313162116568883209. Digital sales closed orders on October 9, 2020, to take a break until leftover saleshttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1314654018963210241.
Leftover sales went live on April 15, 2021, selling leftover merchandise and misprintshttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1382861425484328962. All physical items were sold out by April 17thhttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1383587497687453696. Digital sales would continue to the end of the month.
On May 19, 2021, the project closed with a donation announcement of $2,083.32 USD to The Trevor Projecthttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1395255102093602816.
 Project Schedule
 	Start 	End
Interest Check 	July 24, 2019 	July 28, 2019
Contributor Applications	July 31, 2019 	August 23, 2019
Preorders 	December 1, 2019	January 2, 2020
Shipping 	October 5, 2020 	-
Leftover Sales 	April 15, 2021 	April 30, 2021
==Contributors==
The following names were taken from the project's social media accounthttps://twitter.com/VanitasZine/status/1167653449682575361.
===Page Artists===
* rouwan
* fisheemammal
* _milliott
* spacejamtwo
* Nico Yarou
* Tele (acidicchoArts)
* 週末 (shmz042)
* Walter (WaltYaMart)
* Raikachu
* AClockworkClown
* Moe (terraswill)
* a0rii
* linvanlin
* kenzichi
* Nico (tinyshoopuf)
* CaptainPalu
* wanologic
* MorningSeaFoam
* kipper (kipskiff)
* PIN6 (onlytoeight)
* dolly (dreameaterven)
* Destiny-Islanders (DaPandaBanda)
* Hackwolfin
* EmtheLimey
* sarukuiyamato
* uultima_
* rina (todoyamas)
* Peatootin
===Writers & Poets===
* oathbreaker
* bribird_wings
* noa_rat
* sid3walk
* clavisvanitatum
* Jennie (venvans)
* vanitashours
* nichi (waywardriot)
* Toppie (toppiegames)
* Bookwarmally
* FAEDEMYX
* shoulderpads-mcgee2
* pinkvanitas
* Eskandar (eskandarrohani)
* Speedyelite - Writing Mod
===Mods===
* c0ralsky (softfaekitty) - Project Lead, Art Mod
* Speedyelite - Writing Mod
* AltomareCity - Writing Mod, Poetry Mod
* kiriichu - Server Organization, Merchandising
==Gallery==
File:Kh shadow you cast cover.png|Zine Cover
File:Kh shadow you cast giveaway.png|Tier 3 Bundle Listing
== Fan Reception ==
The following posts are a sample of posts retweeted by the project's social media account about the zine.
Exekyl wrote on Twitter
Savy wrote on Twitter
Blimpcat wrote on Twitter
Beth wrote on Twitter
Moe wrote on Twitter
jix wrote on Twitter
vaguely unhinged wrote on Twitter
Nana wrote on Twitter
== References ==
Category:Kingdom Hearts Zines
Category:2020 Zines