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Such a delicately sad song. The voice acting is very strong. The stark contrast of the two choices is a great start. Very comtemplative, and So much contrast!

I want that too, umbrosa!

The reading version is missing the other pages

You mean like, an essay/analysis about other people OCs on the web? Honestly that feels like it counts, that's media. Feel free to submit!

(And I'm happy with more zine essays existing either way!)

Beautiful and touching. 

I believe they can love, and be loved too!

Yes, i do and I loved this zine!

I love this essay, love, love it! It's so well written it healed my soul! 

Despite not really being involved in discourse, I was very much falling for the “good representation” you criticize here, this gave me a lot to think and ponder on in a very great way. Going to be thinking a lot about it.

Thank you for making it and for such a great submission for the jam!

As someone that has been meaning to get into andy kaufman, and likes wrestling, this was a particularly engaging zine to me. Really, really great read. It's cool to see a new zine from you! Thanks for making it! 

How does one go about purchasing a copy?

I'm happy my template is being useful! Zines are awesome, hell yeah to making your own! And, since you're using the template, feel free to share the link here when you finish your zine! Wishing you success!!

I think this is some of the greatest advice/argument for creating things I've seen. I especially liked the part about obssession and devotion. Thanks for making this.

I loved this! The tenderness, the ache, so beaufitul! Really like the colour choice as well, so soft.

This was so beautiful! The page with the hands is specially very striking to me. 

Very nice collection of essays! I really like the variety, the first one and the one about reincarnation were my favourites. I've never seen Sailor Moon, but this gave me a lot of respect for the series. A small thing, the text in the Pluto essay is a bit hard to read. 

Thank you and your sister for making this zine and  for submitting to the jam!

Make as many media essays/zines as you want!! Collected essays are a lot of fun.

Coffee!!! Thank you very much for the print version! Re-reading the zine in my hands gave me lots of joy again!

Yes! Thank you for hosting the jam, was the inspiration I needed to make this zine!

Really loved the visuals in this!  It feels conforting in a way. "a visit from the one I killed" was my favourite poem. 

These are great topics! Especially the first one.  Accessibility, my love. 

Looking foward to what you end up making (multiple submissions are, of course, welcome too), and thank you for joining the jam! :D

This zine filled me with so much joy! I love coffee! Very creative and very fun. Thank you for making it! 

(would love if there was a printable version so I could print my own copy)

I loved this zine! The visuals are beautiful and conforting and the message is so important and truthful. Incredibly well made, thank you for making it!

Really liked the feel and feelings in this, the brief lenght of each prose feels right for the relaxed and sweaty summer love. Glowing and Househusband were my favourites, they made me smile.

[unrelated, but I started a jam to encourage folks to make more essay zines, if you'd like to join and make a new essay zine :D]

This was so interesting! I didn't really understood it (will need to reread), but I really enjoyed the experience of reading it. These sort of essays provinding insight and deep consideration into the depths of mundane acts are very fascinating. I really liked the presentation as well. Thanks for making it!

Yes! Jam ends on Feb 25th of 2026.

Yes! It's painful, but the realization is very important. Thank you for reading and commenting! 

(by the way, my friends live on my phone!)

I really appreciate you taking the time to try again, print versions are hard to figure out! I mess it up all the time myself!

So, one thing I failed to consider when I first asked for a print version is that zines, to be printed, need to have their page count be a multiple of 4, so you would need to add two more pages to your zine (total of 20) so it can work as a print.

Another thing I also failed to consider it's that your zine is very colour heavy so it would take a lot of ink to print! The print version you have right now it's formated as a half-page, so it would make for some fairly big images for each page. (which is not really a issue issue)

In terms of the page order itself, with half pages zines you alternate the page sequence from left to right for each "sheet" (i don't know the best world to use, but your print zine has 9 sheets). So, if the cover is on the left side of the first sheet (like it currently is), in the next sheet, 'page 1' would be on the right side, then on the next sheet, 'page 2' would be on the right side and so on. (hard to explain, but if you can fold two sheets of paper, this will be easier to visualize)

It's probably too much work to work out a print version for this zine specifically, specially considering the files are old and tiny, but if you ever want to make a print version for a future zine, these are the templates I first used when I started figuring out how to make mine. 

Sorry for not considering this stuff before, and thank you for all your effort in figuring all this stuff out! 

Hi, it seems you uploaded only the cover of the zine.

I really loved this. It spoke to me in a really deep way, and the presentation is incredibly excelent! Thank you very much for making it!

I'm really impressed by how well you blended the fonts with the images, they feel organically united. Some very evocative imagery, specially liked the false reality page. Thanks for making it!

Hi! Sorry, by printable I meant a version of the zine where the pages are already formated to be printed as a booklet. The version you uploaded it's still just the individual pages! (I don't want to incovinience you too much so no worries if a printable version is not possible)
 

Whatever works best for you! I'm not sure what size the pages of your zine are but a pdf so I can print and fold the zine myself would be great! (i have a print template for a quarter-page zine on my "how i made this zine" zine if that's useful)

Really loved the combination of visuals and poetry, some really striking pages and words. Thanks for making it! (any chance for a printable version?)

Very informative campy zine. I really liked the selection of quotes, presentation and image choices (page 15 was my favourite!). It was a bit hard to read at points tho, increasing the font size and adding shadow to the white text would be good, i think. 

This was so visceral and impactful. So many hard-hitting lines. The desolation, the rage, so good! Thanks for sharing!

Yes!

As someone deeply in love with metatextuality, this was genuinely fascinating and resonating. Ended up reading it twice to better absorb it. Thanks for making it and sharing your reality.

This was so good! The artsyle is so cool and visceral. haikus usually aren't my thing, but the poems really resonated, really liked them. Thanks for making it! I gotta print it now.

Thank you for reading! I'm glad it resonated.

Really liked this zine! I love how you presented and ilustrated the quotes. Made me rememeber how much I liked this show. Thanks for making it!

Writing a short poem about someone faking their sainthood, something about the idea of becoming imortal through belief. Like with Nostradamus, more about feelings and ideas than anything concrete.

This made me smile. I'm not familiar with blaseball, but the feelings on the essay very much resonated with me.

The visuals, design and colour choices are just gorgeous and striking. Really beautiful and powerful zine. 

(Also happy you're still making stuff I really liked your fashion zines as well)