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Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈
@taplingzines.bsky.social
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LGBTQ+ zines and community artbooks 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
Run by @tapiocawizard.bsky.social + @sacredsapling.bsky.social

Current project: We've Always Been Here (Unseen Queer History)
Status: Artist selection period

https://taplingzines.carrd.co/
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Thank you for over 300 amazing applications! All decisions for the “We’ve Always Been Here” zine have officially been sent. 💕

Keep an eye out for our official artist announcements starting soon!
An image with a rainbox background and a photo of paintbrushes laid out on a table. The text reads, "All application decisions for the 'We’ve Always Been Here' zine have officially been sent! Thank you for so many wonderful applications, with ideas from all over the world! If you’re an accepted artist, please make sure to reply to our email to officially confirm your participation!"
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Applications are now closed! Thank you so much everyone!

For those that applied, we'll be in contact soon! 💕

#Zines #ArtZine #QueerArtists #LGBTQArt
A graphic with a rainbow stripe background, a white text box, and a circular image of several people creating art together on mini canvases. The text box reads, "Thank you for over 300 incredible applications! We’ll be reviewing them shortly, and everyone who applied will be contacted by mid-November. Emails will be sent in batches, so don’t worry if someone else receives an email and you haven’t been contacted yet. To make sure our email arrives, please add hello@taplingzines.com to your email contacts or safe sender list."
October 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Happy Indigenous People's Day from your local two-spirit mod (Felix) ❤️💛🤍🖤
A photo of a hand holding an abalone shell which is being used as a smudging bowl. The iridescent blue shell holds sage and tobacco leaves which are burning, with smoke visible around it.
October 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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We're tired of LGBTQ+ content being censored.

Tired of people pretending that being queer or trans is a new "fad", and not something that’s existed, perfectly naturally, for as long as people have been around.

Check out our mission, and join us in fighting censorship. 🏳️‍🌈
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Rainbow stripes with a white text box over it, and an image below of a person holding the intersectional pride flag over their back. The text box reads: "As a team of two trans (Sapling is nonbinary and Felix is two-spirit!) husbands, we’ve felt exhausted online lately, with censorship closing in on us all. Queer content is being banned, restricted, under fire, and we’re sick of it. So we’re creating something offline, a physical art book, a collaborative community project. Something to give us all hope. Something to connect us through our many cultures, all across the world. With our first zine, “We’ve Always Been Here,” we aim to show just this: that we’ve always been a part of history, and we’ll always be a part of the future too." Rainbow stripes with a white text box, and an image below of two Black men getting close, with one kissing the other on the cheek. The text box reads: "'We’ve Always Been Here' focuses on the 'unseen' queer history of the world. There’s plenty of names we all know of real people who have made their mark: Marsha P. Johnson, Alan Turing, Audre Lorde, Oscar Wilde, Frida Kahlo, and many, many more. But what about those that didn’t ‘go down in history’? What about the woman down the street from your great grandmother, who lived with her ‘best friend’ for decades until she passed? What about the medieval king who kept his lover secret his whole life? What about the cowboys who used the wide, open ranges with no one else around to keep their relationships a secret?" Rainbow stripes with a white textbox, and below are three circular images of two Korean women walking together, two African men laughing as they talk, and two Indian women chatting and laughing. The text box reads: "Our zine focuses on this, on the everyday people that no one knew about, that no one wrote about. The people that modern society wants to pretend never existed. LGBTQ+ people just living their lives, throughout all of history and all of the world. We want to show one simple thing to the world with this collaborative zine: We’ve always been here. And we always will be." Rainbow stripes with a white text box, and below is a colorful image from a pride parade, with rainbow flags waving high into the sky. The text box reads: "How to support our mission. Share us on social media! @TaplingZines on BlueSky, Instagram, and Tumblr. Join our email list! Sign up form at taplingzines.carrd.co And tell all your friends!"
October 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Only one week left! We've already received a lot of wonderful applications, but we're still eager to see what else you all have to show us!

We've Always Been Here is a queer historical zine, aiming to show that LGBTQ+ people have always existed, and always will.

Apply:
forms.gle/MssWPMukkE39...
A graphic with stripes in the background in a blue-green-yellow gradient, reading: "Queer zine! Paid opportunity! One week remaining for artist applications!" Below is a watercolor image of two masculine figures sitting overlooking a canyon, and one has their arm wrapped around the other.
October 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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As of today, we are officially halfway through our artist application period, with just two weeks left!

"We've Always Been Here" is a queer historical zine, aiming to show that LGBTQ+ people have always existed, and always will.

If you haven't applied yet:
forms.gle/7r8B6TZ1RdaK...

#Zines #Zine
A graphic with a rainbow background, announcing, "Queer Zine! Paid opportunity! Two weeks remaining for artist applications!". At the bottom is a watercolor painting of two masculine characters kissing, cropped into a semicircle shape.
October 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Introducing the second half of our husband/mod team, @sacredsapling.bsky.social 🌱

As Tapling Zines, we're publishing collaborative queer print media to combat increased censorship online. 💜

Artist apps for our first zine, We've Always Been Here, are open until Oct 17.
forms.gle/zTMRy7TEN16S...
A colorful image titled, "Meet the Mod: SacredSapling". The background has vibrant rainbow stripes with a white text box that reads, "SacredSapling, aka Sapling (he/they/it), is a disabled genderfluid watercolorist with a passion for painting queer and disabled characters! He’s obsessed with fine details, patterns, and flowers. Sapling oversees the majority of project logistics: print specs, legal, finances, and art direction. They have successfully run two previous Kickstarters and shipped over 1000 products globally." Below the text box are five circles showing off samples of his traditional watercolor art.
October 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Introducing our first mod, @tapiocawizard.bsky.social

Tapling Zines is run by a team of two husbands passionate about creating queer print media to combat increased censorship online. 🩵

Artist applications for our first zine are open until October 17!
forms.gle/YTBcJYf5yfHJ...
A colorful image titled, "Meet the Mod: TapiocaWizard". The background has vibrant rainbow stripes with a white text box that reads, "TapiocaWizard, aka Felix (he/him), is a digital artist and polymer clay enthusiast. He is two-spirit and mixed race, working on reconnecting with his Kanien’kehá:ka ancestry. Felix has a passion for drawing diverse bodies and using bright colors. For Tapling, he handles most of the social media and general organization (writing artist guidelines and emails, creating forms, etc.)" Below the text box are five circles showing off samples of his digital art.
September 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Our artist applications for "We've Always Been Here" are now open! Help us show that queer people have always existed, and always will 💕

Please share and tag your favorite artists!

forms.gle/zHiVqh3SrsnT...

#ZineSky #AToZines #Zine #Zines #ArtZine #QueerArt #LGBTQArt #ZineApps #ArtistsWanted
A graphic with a vibrant rainbow background, announcing "Artist applications now open!". The white text box below reads, "Artist applications are now open for 'We've Always Been Here', a queer history zine. Let's show everyone that queer people have always been a part of history. This is a paid opportunity, contingent on our Kickstarter successfully funding." Beside the text box is a digital illustration of a north African girl with short, curly hair, wearing overalls, sitting beside an easel with an oil painting she's made of another girl.
September 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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To prepare everyone for our artist applications opening tomorrow, today we'd like to share our full artist guidelines!

This better explains what sorts of ideas we're looking for, the art creation timeline, approximate compensation, and more.

➡️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#Zine #ArtZines
Vibrant rainbow stripes with a white text box laid over top. In black text, it reads, "We've Always Been Here: Queer History Zine, Artist Guidelines."
September 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Our interest check is officially closed, thank you so much everyone for your feedback!

Now, we'd like to share a rough schedule of the upcoming months with you, including the official date our artist applications will open... just two days from now! 🥳
Artist applications open September 18 and close October 17. Artists closen early-mid November. Art creation period is between December and February 2026. Kickstarter launches around February or March 2026. Delivery begins around spring or summer 2026.
September 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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We are happy to announce our first zine's official title: "We've Always Been Here" 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Through different characters in various time periods and cultures, we aim to show that queer people have always existed, and always will.

Artist applications will be opening next week!

#Zine #QueerZine #LGBTQ
A colorful image titled "Official Zine Name Announcement". The background has stripes in various rainbow-esque colors, with a rounded white text box that reads: "We are finally ready to reveal our zine's official name: We've Always Been Here. We aim to show that LGBTQ+ people have always been a part of history: in ancient Greece, precolonial Indigenous cultures, Victorian England, and more. We've always been here, and we always will be." To the left of the text box is an image of two women from the Korean movie The Handmaiden, where one girl holds a parasol over the other's head.
September 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Theme Announcement: Queer History!

50+ artists will be coming together to illustrate LGBTQ+ characters in historical settings, to show we've always been here. 💗

But first, we need to do an interest check! ➡️
forms.gle/ewvoEN6weYhY...

More engagement here = more art, merch, & impact 🌈
Please share!
A watercolor painting of two masculine figures sit on a canyon edge overlooking a large ravine. The text overlaid reads "Theme announcement and interest check: Queer history."
August 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Want to fight queer censorship with art? Follow for collaborative art book projects, including our upcoming zine!

In this age of digital censorship, we’re returning back to print media—so no one can censor our queer joy. ✨

Don't forget to repost and tag your friends! 🌈
A watercolor painting of flowers in various colors of the rainbow, with a purple textbox overlaid. Text reads: Join us in fighting queer censorship with art!
August 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM