Greetings, everyone! I’m Lily, who you might know as the person behind Archanea Monthly. While I’ve been keeping it up for a few months mostly on my own with some help here or there with featured writers, I admittedly need some help lol. Some of you may know that last month’s magazine did a Houdini and disappeared right off my computer, which gave me a good amount of time to reflect on how I run Archanea Monthly. The big conclusion I came to was that if I wanted to not work myself to the bone deadline-to-deadline, I need someone to work alongside.
I’ve got to warn you, if you’re not sure if you’d be dedicated to working on the magazine, I wouldn’t recommend signing up. While we won’t be so strict as to demand that either of us meet ultra tight deadlines, there is still a good amount of work that’s put into writing and putting together pages. It’s a bit of a hefty commitment though, so if you don’t think you can keep up or if you might have some problems, I’d say it’s not for you. Or if there’s a problem but you still want to work something out, you could DM me too and we can talk about it; I keep myself understanding.
Here’s what it would entail:
- Playing hacks
- Writing articles/reviews for hacks
- Doing interviews
- Designing magazine pages
To address another obvious fact, you won’t be getting paid for this at all. It’s a bit of a philosophy of mine that the magazine is made first and foremost for the audience and their benefit, so we won’t really be caring about anything in return really. It’s the same reason I wouldn’t really consider opening any kind of donations for the magazine either. If we come across anything in the magazine process that might require any kind of money for some reason, I’d just pay for it out of my own pockets.
The program I use to put together my pages is Krita, and if you have experience in it, that’s amazing! If you’ve never touched the program, that’s alright, as long as you’re willing to learn! It’s a free program, so there’s not much to worry about.
The application process works like this:
If you want to apply to be part of Archanea Monthly’s staff, you’ll fill out this form, which will stay open for submissions until February 16th, 2025. After that date passes, I’ll look over the applicants and contact everyone who filled out the form to just get a feel for you, then give them all a test related to making magazine pages. Then once I’ve got all those, I’ll look over everything again and pick someone.
That being said, if you have any questions, feel free to DM me or ask here in this thread! Have a wonderful day, and I look forward to seeing who volunteers!