Careful Ren Zine

There is also someone who just sent me a payment 9 days ago with a name and email that matches nothing in my records, and no info or message with address or anything.

I don't want to drop names on main, but I'll give it a day to see this and then I'm gonna have to post your names to find you.

ALL the zines (except for 5) have been mailed out! <3

If your name starts with a G and you only sent me $3, I've been trying to get a hold of you. PLEASE check your email!

I'll put you on the wait list!

Post by @carefulrenzine · 23 images 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · BIG PROGRESS UPDATE! · I wanted to share some pics of how it's all been going down! I started with assembling all the boxes. We had 215 orders in total, and about 200 of those w…

Big progress update over on tumblr!

www.tumblr.com/carefulrenzi...

I will also be finishing up the PDF this weekend if I can and get that out ASAP to everyone who ordered!

Due to weight restrictions (and my already having underestimated postage), I cannot combine orders. If you ordered more than one, they will arrive separately!

The first 75 orders have been mailed out!

It might take me a bit longer from here out to get the rest moving, as I have to work part time tomorrow.

It took about 4 hours to mail out the first 30 zines, if you need an idea of how awful it is to mail shit in Japan. XD But it’s getting done! (I’m carting 10 at a time back and forth from my house to the post office. They’re HEAVY!) I also underestimated the postage. 😅

There might be one or two extras, but it’ll have to wait until the first 200 are shipped out for me to be sure!

The slipcase (a black cover with Kylo’s saber and the FO symbol, to look like a “10”).

The spine.

The book cover peeking out from the slipcase.

A random set of pages (w art by GenerallyHuxurious and blackkingsdream). OMG it looks so fucking good!!!

LOOK AT THEM

12 (HEAVY) boxes of zines!

The unboxing!

IT’S JUST THERE INSIDE THE BUBBLE WRAP!

*Poltergeist voice*

They’re heeeeeeeere!

(And they’re BEAUTIFULLLLLLLL!!!!)

Stacks of boxes plus trading cards and the wrapped dog tags!

Only thing left is waiting on the last ~100 dog tags arriving and then the books themselves!

Origami paper, stickers and dog tags in little baggies, also a row of completed trading card sets.

Trading cards all packed! Now I’m going to wrap all of the dog tags in an extra layer of origami paper so they don’t scratch the books.

(Please don’t judge my awful wrapping skills. 😂)

A set of trading cards in a polybag and a shitton of empty bags and cards that still haven’t been sorted into sets.

Today it’s sorting and bagging trading card sets all day. 🎉

The PILE of merch and boxes for the zine!

Me, hand trimming 800 bookmarks.

A stack of finished bookmarks and point cards.

The merch is all here (except for the extra Hux dog tags)! All the trading cards have been cut, and the “point cards” and bookmarks have all been hand trimmed. That was A LOT but it’s all done now!

Tomorrow I will be packing the trading cards into baggies and starting to box things up for mailing!

We were freaky in ALL the ways!

Me with a paper cutter, separating and trimming trading cards!

It begins!

Emails have been sent confirming Zine purchases and the schedule for mailing of the physical zines and the PDFs, so please check your spam folders!

A lot a lot a lot a lot of postcards that need to be cut into trading cards.

The trading cards have arrived and they look amazing! Now I’m going to be cutting cards for a decade. 😅

This is NOT just for creators! It's open to ALL kylux fans! Let me know what makes them special to you, and I'll put your quotes in the PDF version!

You can leave them as replies here, or send them to the email. If you wish to be anonymous, just send them as a DM.

CarefulRenZine (at) gmail (dot) com

The cut off is Friday night (Nov. 7th) at midnight (Japan time).

If you missed a chance to be IN the zine, I want to hear from you!

What got you into kylux? Why are they important to you?

Please write a short blurb (1-2 sentences) and I will add it to the zine!

FORMAT:

"Blah blah blah. blah blah blah!"
~@YourName (pronouns, if wanted)

THANK YOU! <3

Just in time to go play SWTOR at reset! 🎉

215 handwritten thank you cards for the zine orders!

Not that long, actually! 😻🌸

16 different designs of sakura blossoms and cute cats as little thank you note cards that I will be filling out to include with the zines! <3

Bets on how long it takes me to hand write 215 thank you notes? 😂😭😂😭😂😭😂

🎉IT IS DONE! 🎉

Now it's just the waiting game til everything arrives!

I'll be taking a break for a few days, then I'll get the PDF version prepared and sent out in a week or so!

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! <3

Thank you!

ORDERS FOR THE PHYSICAL ZINE ARE NOW CLOSED!!!

The PDF ONLY version is still available!

THANK YOU ALLLLLLLL!!!! <3

3 HOURS LEFT to order the physical zine package!

A bag full of individually bagged Hux dog tags.

DONE! (Still need to order like… checks notes… almost 100 more? 😅)