"If steampunk was when goths discovered brown, cyberpunk was when science fiction authors discovered class." - me 😺.
Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books
@greatworm.ca
Since 1999, Great Worm specializes in selling well-written zines, books by zinesters, with a focus on first-person narratives. Secondary focus on selling books about the Kurdish freedom struggle. My couch is ready to host you for a zine event in Toronto.
According to the most rigorous studies, 10.8% of college men perpetrate at least one rape before graduation. This statistic always comes to mind when I see men in power reacting with disgust to the idea that one of their peers could face even a shred of accountability.
Montreal Anarchist Book Fair 2026: Popping the bubble October 10 and 11, at CEDA. Deadline for submissions: Aug. 10, 2026 www.anarchistbookfair.ca #DIYzines #anarchism #bookfair
The cheezienium core has been assembled – Canada is ready to unleash its nucheezlar weapon response to the American States of Cheetoh Mussolini's new tarriffs.
Jillian Tamaki@dirtbagg.bsky.social · last wk.
Forgot to share before, but @comicsjournal.bsky.social had a write up on Zine Dump, a new zine fair in Toronto which me and several other Toronto-based zinesters organized last year, with our 2nd event happening this November. Thank you Luis!!
There is Hope For Your Embittered Heart: Zine Dump 2025 Scene Report - The Comics Journal
Zine Dump 2025: resetting the standard for community-building in the comix world? Luis Ramirez-Liberato investigates.
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So on top of the air & salad being poisoned my summer bingo card now includes “wasps came flying out of little free library just now”.
Great Worm Express Distro will be tabling at Zine Dream 16 in August! Come check our table! See who else will be exhibiting here: zinedream.com#exhibitors
"This is my emotional support fascist artwork" No it's not. Grow the fuck up.
Just a reminder! If you aren't seeing the Odyssey in 70mm IMAX you are missing a lot of information.
"although why one should excuse oneself for having such a quiet and peaceful occupation [writing] I really don't know. Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody."
Where to Find Me in the Afterlife
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I've got a joke about Icarus, but it's too hot for the room.
Chuck Jordan@sasquatchers.wtf · 3w agoGlad to see this is picking up again! I’d been wanting to add a joke about Theseus and Ariadne, but I’d lost the thread.
A single graphene sheet is ~0.335 nm thick, 300 thousand times thinner than a sheet of paper, and 10 million times thicker than JK Rowling's skin.
hannah einbinder before the movie: this movie is for everyone but looking around this room, i think its for a lot of people here in particular like okay, clocked
seeing camp miasma at fantasia and every trans woman i've ever met in my life is here
For anyone else who has gotten published before: how are direct/retail publisher sales accounted for in your contract?
cam@littlegoodfrog.online · 3w agoplease give this a read! this has been a very difficult and stressful part of a very difficult and stressful year. still, being surrounded by people who look out for each other and push for better treatment has given me hope and I’m so proud that this statement exists 💜
Imagine reading zines with THESE FINGERS!! ❤️🔥🕸️
Tilde Swiñton@frandroid.tabnet.ca · 3w agoMy new claws, let me show them to you!!! 1/2
“The zine is not about functioning better under capitalism so you can be a productive human and make money. It’s about feeding yourself.” - Sonali Menezes
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3y agoI got to interview Sonali Menezes, creator of 'Depression Cooking,' and she's every bit as cool as you think she'd be. This is part of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's Low and Slow series, which has a ton of amazing feature reads around food and disability.
I learned a lot of things about myself while packing up my books, starting with I can stop trying to impress some imaginary book critic who might one day look at my shelves. lithub.com/how-and-why-...
How—and Why—to Cull Your Book Collection
“Books make me so mad.” That’s what my friend, who used to work part-time as a mover, told me when he learned that my husband and I found a new place to live and I had a lot of books that I needed …
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Want to get published with a major press? It might not be everything you dreamed of. Joining us to talk about how the sausage gets made is @jeremyszal.bsky.social , author of the Common Trilogy.
Season 3, Episode 3: What the Big 5 Don't Tell You ft. Jeremy Szal - Wizards and Spaceships
A contract with one of the five big publishing companies means placement in bookstores and libraries, reviews in major publications, award nominations, and a huge advance—even a chance to get on the b...
wizardsandspaceships.ca