Cythera

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I make silly zines while wrangling my cat from eating tape. A happy home has paper dust scattered everywhere. Zines, mail art & other paper things

#BookWormSat Paul Gallico wrote this novel in 1957. Thomasina the cat had three lives: meeting Bastet in one, a Scottish witch in another, and finally finding her way home to Mary, the little girl who loves her. In 1963 Disney released a movie based on the book. I loved both versions.

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Working on a next zine and I think I might go back to pamphlet binding this time. It's not because I found a lot of threads I bought for this purpose during the move

From the author: Highest % is 6.43%! No bachelor's degree Yes, certain God exists with no doubts Yes, gun in the home No, same-sex relations are not "not wrong at all" Yes, both parents US-born Yes, has children No, household income under $110k 2nd highest is 6.28%, same as above but without gun.

One of my zines alerts just turned up a zine contest at a public library. Y'all zine contests are missing the point of zines and not okay. I really wish people could embrace zines without changing the culture. Here's a lovely zine definition from Nina Echozina. Note "zines are non-competitive."

zine detail with the text: What is a zine? My definition. "For me, a zine is not just a self-made and self-published but it is also situated within DIY culture. This means it is non-profit, non-commercial, low budget, and non-competitive. Topics and styles can vary, but it's important that zines remain accessible, both to readers (everyone can afford to buy or trade them) and to writers (everyone can make them). Zines don't exist as little paper islands but they are connected and blossom within a mutually supportive zine community"

Nijsten, Nina. Scissors & Chainsaws No. 2 : Diary Comic Zine Made in July 2020 During International Zine Month. Gent, Belgium: Nina Nijsten, 2020.

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope Leo: Literature must be a 'school of fraternity and peace' - Vatican News

Pope Leo XIV sends a message to the Turin International Book Fair, taking place this week in the northern Italian city, reiterating that literature ...

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