Zines!

A long while ago I saw this fun example of how to make a simple 8-page booklet from an A4 paper. I saved the image and thought about it for a while. I made a version with 'Front', 'Back' and page numbers and printed it out to try and keep as an example for future ones.

I started with Solar Cyber Punk and the one about this site, Virtually Isolated. I used my ancient copy of photoshop 7 and slapped them together. I'm using a crappy printer so they all have those lovey white edges. I tend to print a few colour ones and copy the rest as black-and-whites.

I left a buch of black-and-white copies of my Solar Cyber Punk zine in local green libraries and gave out some of the later ones at a festival.

I'm leaning more into to making little personal ones as opposed to educative ones, save for Solar Cyber Punk. It's a quick combo of a little writing and a little design which is pretty much the only things I'm okayish at.

I thought about making SUPER personal ones and just trying to 'draw' with cube and rectangle shapes on no background. Maybe, maybe I'll try that. Old scans of ancient pictures over dreary reminiscing text. More little tabetop character ones maybe.

Solar Cyber Punk was a small mini guide on how to locally maybe get started with growing a little of your own stuff.
It quickly covers getting pots, soil and seed. Then 4 little pages about Potatoes, Tomatoes, Mint and Lavas. I've tossed a bunch of these in little green libraries around the neighbourhood.

The Virtually Isolated zine is an early little thing I made to talk about the website itself. It refrences the Garden Blog because I thought I might merge the domains somehow at some point. It mostly talks about the tabletaop resources and me akwardly calling myself a girl in a piece of printed media that left my hands and inner circle. That makes it more special then anything else about it, to me at least.

I have always been normal about Pokemon is a about a little thing I felt once. The road is littered and steeped in just little things here and there that lead to whatever we're at now. While I played Blue and Silver on an actual GB, I wanted to try Crystal on my PC and I had to think for a moment when given the choice at the very start. I had played games with female protagantists before, but never something where I could self insert as such in a way.

We used to run Rise of the Runelords for Pathfinder a lot. People would drop or we'd not play for 2 months or so and we'd restart. The group played very meta and demanded video gamey roles in Tank, Healer and DPS. I always ended up making some Paladin or Cleric I didn't care about that had to be some form of Lawful Good everytime for spell selection and Cure bonuses. I never wrote a backstory for these characters and I didn't care when I had to throw them away after 4 sessions.

Once, I made a character named Nayu Kiln. A life Oracle. The group was a little uncomfortable with it. I tried to avoid combat and always tried to give everyone a chance. The group didn't like parts of this because it slowed down the progress or stood in the way of the milestone level-up their about to recieve.

I got my retribution a little later when in a random encounter Nayu was maimed by an acid attack. Charisma was my main casting stat and determined how much spells I could learn and all that. By getting her face maimed and the loss of an eye I was now horrible at doing the only thing they wanted from me, healing and buffing. The DM gave a treasure to the party the next session. An old golden eye that would lower my "percieved charisma by NPC's" by another 2, but would restore my CHA for casting purposes.