Oh wow, thank you so much for letting me know about this. Looked into that zine on the VK page and it’s pretty cool looking. Seems the page was originally for a Good Omens fanzine and then became a GF zine project.

The art for it is amazing. The Russian Gravity Falls fandom is full of so many amazingly talented people and is still so underrated in the English fandom. I’ve always wanted to dive deeper into that part of the community one day. There always seems like there’s something cool going on with GF fans in Russia. In a lot of ways, they seem to care about Gravity Falls more than Disney ever has (then again, we all probably care about GF more than the mouse).

I have looked into some non English fanzines to archive, such as a few Japanese zines that I was told about, but those ended up being more so comic compilation books by individual artists instead of a zine project and others had some…not really PG content in them if you get what I mean. I’m only really after SFW fanzines to archive for obvious reasons. This one of course looks to be a zine that is totally safe and worth archiving.

My rules for zine archival basically are that the zine needs to be fully completed and has no prospects of ever being sold again. Given many of these zines are charity projects, I obviously don’t wanna freely make available something that is still being used to make money for a good cause. Hence why, although I bought a copy of it years back, I’m not gonna be releasing a download of the old Wayfaring Strangers zine, as the team behind it still makes it available to buy every now and then. Other zines like Epilogue or Summer Memories of course are fair game as they’re long over projects that never again will be sold. So for zines like that, archiving is beyond important.

As for this zine, given there are some names attached to it that I know like Cherryviolets, I might ask Cherry about it and see if there’s a digital copy of the zine that can be shared, if the project is completed that is. Of course, if there’s anyone who did buy that fanzine and has a copy to share, please either get in touch or publish it somewhere anyone can access it like the Internet Archive. If I find it and get permission to do so, I will of course publish it to my IA page without question.

I strongly believe all Gravity Falls fans should have free access to these fanzines once they are finished, as a means to preserve and archive them. What’s the point of gatekeeping these things long after they are finished and never to be sold again? I want new fans to enjoy these as much as old fans who bought them did. And that’s why I do the archiving work that I’ve been doing.

The internet isn’t as permanent as people tell you. Media goes lost every single day. And if no one is archiving this stuff or trying to find the people who have them, then it’s lost forever. Being a data hoarder in this day and age is not only good but should be more encouraged. There is always a chance that one day, something you saved off the internet years ago and is sitting in a forgotten drive, is something someone else has spent years trying to track down. Lost Media cases often come down to the right person saving the right thing and being able to find out and share what they got.

Hopefully this zine is out there too. Cause I would hate to see this become lost media.