The Magic of Pockets turns 3 YEARS OLD this month, and a brand new Canadian edition, with a brand new cover, is out now. more to come, promise, but i finally drew this alignment chart i had written up for fun, while i was finishing the book in 2022.
i'm usually some flavour of lawful or neutral in these things, but i think i'm a little evil about pockets
your PDF BFF bought a thermal printer and had to go looking for user manuals. what i've read is that zebra makes the best, and they last forever, which made the guy at the electronics recycling place where i bought it from scoff.
the printer is drowning in tomato soup.pdf
some good reblogs this month
- I love asking friends, without context, “what are you really into this week?”
- me? i’m 3 weeks into my bookkeeper training, and now that i actually understand excel, thinking about spreadsheets as zines
- “if i could figure out how people interact and sewing machines work i would be unstoppable” click the link for a satisfying sewing machine gif
- MY SHOW IS BACK end of the world cancelled; 911 is back on my tv (I wrote a primer if you really wanna get into it)
- every fire crew needs their boom mic and camera operators
- look at this crochet monstrosity! which reminds me: shing yin khor's little guy manifesto
some zine-flavoured links
- Coyote, a new worker-owned alt-weekly in the Bay Area, was just launched by some writers I've been reading forever
- and The Flytrap is coming up on a year now. (I backed both of these in their crowdfund stages.) this story by s.e. smith about houses and hauntings spoke to my broke millennial soul
- Chrysalis is a brand new zine for trans youth by trans youth (with a little help from some trans adults). go buy issue #1 and help them make #2!
- buy 203 games and zines for $12 in this bundle supporting legal aid orgs in Richmond, Virginia, to help Americans navigate the current horrors
- Rhett at Modern Bartender wrote about Ada Colman, bartender at The Savoy in London from 1903-1926: "she built The Savoy the reputation it still has today and has never since gotten the respect she deserves."
- (if you're in the Lower Mainland, join me at the Haunted Manor on October 25?)
i browse itchio jams so you don’t have to
- Revival jam, (make anything old new again), deadline October 22
- Rework-a-ween, (finish unfinished projects), deadline October 27
- Handcrafted jam, (TTRPGs), deadline October 31
- Folklore jam, (analogue games), deadline October 31
- Grim and Grimy jam, (poetry), deadline November 1
- Meat Circus, (TTRPGs), deadline November 1
- and, of course, Sunday Zine Club! #16! the theme is ESCAPE, deadline November 9
and this onion headline which cracked me up