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Here's my (finally) finished transcription of Mira Bellwether's Fucking Trans Women.

I implore you to purchase a digital copy of the zine if you're able to here. My image descriptions do no credit to Mira's talent for design and collage.

The zine is also available on archive.org here. As Mira states in FTW, it is our zine. Money should not be a barrier to access this work.

There’s a band out there that needs this as an album cover for sure! ( not my sticker)

#deathmetal #unicorn #stickers

Got some time to do some reading so picked a favourite author to sink into

Elements of nature

#penandink #comics #art #abstractart #nature

publiccollectors

[Apologies to On Kawara]

Sometime yesterday, March 17, 2024, someone hacked my Facebook account, connected it to their Instagram account, and was promptly caught by Mark Zuckerberg himself probably (such a hero) and my account was disabled. Thus far I have not been able to re-able my account and it is locked. There is nothing to see here (there). Facebook’s instructions don’t work and they haven’t invited me to rejoin the party. I’m trying not to feel hurt.

So many thoughts have crossed my mind. I could create a new account but—and this is such a weird thing to think about—I would never be able to reconnect with my Facebook friends that are dead to see how their old posts are doing.

About 14 years of posts are just gone, I guess? I could start a new account (maybe, if I’m allowed) and feel like Rock Hudson in the creepy movie Seconds, starting a whole new life (except with probably a lot of the same friends all over again and the same job and stuff, so maybe that's not a good comparison).

I made entire publications of my Facebook posts, and the posts of others that I collaborated with. It could be a very productive space for me, and a lot of new friendships sprouted from being on that platform. A lot of old friendships became deeper too. I wrote and posted a lot. It was mostly a very positive place in my experience. Being on Facebook generated a lot of creative opportunities. It has also destroyed a lot of people and countries and attention spans. I'm sure I read fewer books because of it. It has come with a price.

When Facebook started and all of my friends were signing up and talking about it, I waited. I hesitated to join because I was afraid that I would like it too much, and I would lose a lot of time using it. I eventually joined and quickly found out that I was correct. There are many people on that platform that I have not met in person but interact with online all the time, and have only known through email and social media for multiple decades. In many cases I don’t know any other way to get ahold of them. If I choose not to start a new account or can’t get my old one back, I will miss my interactions with those friends.

Multiple times over the years people have told me that they enjoyed my posts so much that I was the only reason they stayed on Facebook. That’s a lovely compliment (that I mostly don’t believe). Now that my account is gone, I assume they will all leave the platform en masse.

In the meantime, I suspect that my productivity will soar, at a time when I have multiple creative projects that demand a lot of attention. So for now, I am here and I am still alive. Feel free to message me, or email me at: marc [at] publiccollectors [dot] org. I love you. It’s been facetastic.

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finally got some of these put together!! it took a lot of test prints to get the colors in working order, and they still aren’t perfect, but I think it’s pretty good for at-home printing :]. The back cover is a little block print of noodle

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Zine numero dos of my zine subscription is done! You’ve got two days to get in on the first month of my year o’ zines! If you purchase a six month or twelve month subscription at any point, you can still get the back issues—but tomorrow (January 29) is your last day to get the first two zines at the same time everyone else gets ‘em! This one has a fabric cover that can be turned into a patch! Visit ko-fi.com/rustbeltjessie/shop to subscribe.

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Rosalie never left the park, which was surrounded by high walls, from Comtesse de Ségur’s Old French Fairy Tales by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1920)

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Illustrations from The Flying Islands of the Night by Franklin Booth (1913)

I got to do a special piece of art for someone a few weeks ago and as they’ve now seen it, I’m going to post what may be the most 70’s sci-fi art I’ll ever draw

#art #scifiart #penandink #painting