Hello everyone!
You may have noticed there was never a January-February Magazine, and there may not be a March-April one either. The reason is just that we don't have enough participation. 

There isn't anything wrong with that, since Vari-A is a completely optional-based group! However, people who did initially commit to doing more are the reason the magazine is possible, so when your life gets busy or you just forget, we just can't do it. For that reason, from now on the magazine will not be on a schedule and will just come out once we've collected enough entries to make it worthwhile!

The prompts, likewise, will be permanently open, but you will get more 'model credit' as usual for doing whatever the most recent prompts are. However, you are always free to draw or write for any of the past prompts that you feel inspired by. Once enough entries for an issue of Vari-A Magazine come in, we'll put it out with the most high effort entries as the main feature!

It's important that Vari-A stays as something fun, optional, and relaxed, and for that reason we will no longer be using the model categories as a measure of participation. You are free to do as much or as little as you want, though if you are completely inactive we may poke you perodically just to ask if you want to leave your character as part of the world. 

With the exception of other people's characters that you do not have permission to use, you can make use of the Vari-A lore however you like in your characters' stories, so have fun with it! Anything you make can be submitted to us, even if it isn't connected to a specific prompt, we love to see what you've done with this world. 

Thank you all for being members of Vari-A, and look forward to some new prompts and news very soon!