12kingdoms | New Mod, open call for fannish activity suggestions, postcard giveaway!

Hey there! Decided I should probably make a little introduction: My name is Lukadian and I suppose I’m a new mod here, so I’ll be helping out here in keeping this comm running on DW for those who’ve retired from the fandom, this platform or who are otherwise are a little too busy to keep up with things here. I’m honored and thankful for this invitation to assist and do any needed housekeeping!

Twelve Kingdoms has been one of my most enduring fandoms and I’ve been in love with it ever since I discovered it some time in… apparently 2011 after I did some digging for a different post I’m still noodling up about how I came to discover Fuyumi Ono’s novels and eventually the anime which was my true entry point for the books. My kicks of obsession for it come and go but it’s never quite left me and while I’m of the mind to pursue fannish activities amidst re-reading the series in anticipation of properly catching up with Eugene Woodbury’s translations of the 2019 books, I’d love to post more here and see what, if anything, the community here would like to see moving forward!

I love organizing events and traditional zines and have the ability to manage and print small projects, I enjoy encouraging others and giving spotlights to creatives and have entertained the idea of finding and showcasing various talented people’s work like fan artist and fic writers, and I have a deep and abiding love for all things meta, commentary, analysis and archival! A goal of mine is to bind some of the available fan translations into books for my personal library, and perhaps, to share the typesettings with the fandom at large to bind their own copies. (Or maybe we could organize and harass some publishers to try to take another whack at bringing this series to western audiences!) If there’s any interest in seeing a fan week or zine or other such event here, feel free to reach out to me, my PMs are always open!

Lastly, I recently came into possession of the White Heart postcard set featuring the original/classic Kodansha book covers and illustrations by Akihiro Yamada! Since I have both his art books already featuring this artwork, I’d absolutely love to gift and trade these postcards with fannish friends and folk who might enjoy them! This set includes roughly, all colored cover illustrations, several interior scene illustrations and a few more promotional pictures used in a few of the early 2000’s calendars! If you’d like to be sent one of these post cards at random or would like to request a favorite character and a little note, please comment and I can PM you to arrange sending you one! PO Boxes perfectly acceptable (I’ll be using my own if a return address is needed), can’t be too careful with personal information in this day and age, but I thought it would be nice to offer these little treasures out!

PS. Per my initial suggestion, I’ve been given the go ahead to give members of this comm the ability to broadly create and use new tags for their posts moving forward, I’ve added a few as well for tagging posts containing fanart, fanfic and cosplay among other things!