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[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I've always wanted to publish a physical zine, and after years of dragging my feet waiting for the perfect time to start I finally took initiative last December. I rented a PO Box, bought a laser printer and all the toner, colored paper, and envelopes I would need to get the project off the ground.

On the 13th of each month I mail out a four to six page issue consisting of some combination of the following articles:

Originals

This Space for Rent: Astronomical Facts and News

25 Degrees North: Maps and Geography

Your Dewey Decimal Number Is: Where to Find Anything in Your Local Library

The Screen Times: Reviews of Film and Television on a 13-Point Scale (1 = unwatchable, 7 = mid/no opinion, 13 = g.o.a.t.)

Cover to Cover: Reviews of Literature (every book I finished in a given month)

Started to Finish: Partial Reviews for DNFs

Conlang 101: Lessons in Havric (my creative process while developing a constructed language for a story I'm writing)

Welcome to My World: Fantasy Worldbuilding (exploring the world of the characters who speak Havric)

Cryptid Column: Creatures of Myth and Folklore (anomalisticc zoology, a rational skeptic's version of cryptozoology, written by resident cryptid Bob Squatch)

More to come

Reader Submissions

Food for Thought: Recipes

Personal Space: Looking for Friends at the End of the World (building a penpal network for readers away from social media)

The Pet Zone: stories and photos of the past month

The Art Block: drawings and writing

Letters to the Editor: general questions and acknowledgements

Starting with Issue 6 I've been publishing reader-submitted articles; two or three slots available per month (depending on page count), 200 words per column (400 words max), email me by the 1st of the month to secure a spot, text deadline is the 10th. You can write for an existing article, or you can make one of your own.

Subscribing is free, just mail a letter to

The Some Times PO Box 420 Tavernier, FL 33070 United States

or email your name an address to [email protected] (digital subscriptions are available upon request).

As of July 23rd, we have 116 subscribers in 38 states, 4 Canadian provinces, and 7 other countries.

Special thanks to everyone who has contributed to the stamp fund:

Ruth C from Arkansas

Lee W from California

Polina W fro Colorado

Jess E, Faith K, Kaye N, and Chelsea G from Florida

Markus from Georgia

Catherine F from Indiana

Allan B from Iowa

Hannah N from Louisiana

ZS from Massachusetts

Amy and Chelsea H from Missouri

Kristin H from Montana

Kaitie H from Pennsylvania

Joshua H from Tennessee

Bethany from Utah

Abbey B and Laurance G from Virginia

And to my patrons (patreon.com/SomeTimesNews)

Snivy

ReaperfromtheAbyss

Krizzostopfero/Lovepunch

The Other Sara

Jules

Jess

The zine is a labor of love, and you all have helped me keep costs down so I can reach more subscribers for longer. If you'd like to contribute, please send stamps to the PO Box or donate to the Patreon.

New issues are printed on the 13th of each month and get mailed out to subscribers the following day; they will be posted here on a 1-month delay.

Backlog

Sample Issue 0 (January 2nd)

Issue 1 (January 18th)

Issue 2 (February 13th)

Issue 3 (March 13th)

Issue 4 (April 13th)

Issue 5 (May 13th)

Issue 6 (June 13th)

Issue 7 (July 13th; public release August 13th)

[digitaldiscipline]

Emily Wison, whose translation formed the basis for Nolan's version of The Odyssey, is brutal and unrelenting in her review of it.

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

[murderballad]

[lethalwizard]

[ledilettant]

[sandsvendor100]

[valdevia]

On June 2, 1991, passenger flight 283 from LA to Newark lost all contact with air traffic control somewhere above Kansas. The aircraft never landed, and no remains were located after an extensive search.

Ever since, rumors of a "ghost plane" have surfaced among aviation enthusiasts, who claim to have seen flight 283 attempting landings at various airports around the world. Over the years, descriptions of the plane present it as gradually more decayed. These sightings have sometimes preceded aviation accidents in the area.

Retired air traffic controllers claim to have heard radio interference in the 121.50 MHz band, reserved for emergency communications, around the time of "ghost plane" reports. Despite that, no communication has ever been firmly established with the craft.

[valdevia]

So this edit and story actually came to me in a dream! It was a pretty standard and boring dream where I was taking a friend to the airport. I was standing right outside the building and looked up. For a split second, I saw the lumbering shape of the ghost plane above me, flying low, but it quickly got covered by the shape of the building behind me. It looked just like the picture, with its fuselage tearing apart like a ribcage. I immediately got a terrible sense of dread, like something really bad was about to happen, and woke up.

So obviously I had to turn it into an edit and try to communicate that vibe to you! Hope you liked it :)

[cosmicanger]

learn from this

[innerchildabortionclinic]

breaking bad is actually a documentary on how being a suburban father in the united states can give you a mental illness where your ego doesn't feel fulfilled unless your life and your family's life is at risk. it's not about healthcare only because walter in particular was given another option in that regard. now if you think about it this is not the only plot in hollywood where a guy fucks up his life beyond belief for personal fulfillment and the whole time his life was kinda fine before competitively. like look how much awful shit is happening in the world. the american economy had to go downhill because of this mindset

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[jacobtheloofah]

Visit Original Link

side note, teaching myself to pronounce that last one felt like learning a new fucking language

[jacobtheloofah]

hey so uh next year will be a decade of dobonhonkeros. how about that shit huh.

[obstinatecondolement]

Happy ten year anniversary of this post.

[nsomniacsdream]

I love two things: stealing, cheatng on my taxes, and lying about how many things I'm gonna list

[captain-price-returns]

[quasi-normalcy]

I don't understand how this is even a defence in the age of drone warfare.

[graham-folger]

Or even like... Cannon warfare.

[quasi-normalcy]

Yeah, the Ottomans could have taken this in the fourteenth century.

[forgotn1]

It's because it's not meant to go up against the government. It's made to survive a race war or keep people out after economic collapse. It's a castle for racist, isolationist assholes who think they're important enough to be targets if society falls apart.

[vaspider]

... right... and it's still not really gonna do shit.

[damaramegido]

you could construct an entire theory of the sapphic gaze based on how much the camera in steven universe focuses on pearl’s hands

[damaramegido]

an episode literally called rose’s scabbard has six separate fragmented shots of pearl’s hands in its eleven minute runtime. which could mean nothing

[damaramegido]

the further narrative significance of her hands also being the thing physically blocking her from telling the truth about rose. hands as symbolic of the part of the body that acts (the cliche of “blood on your hands,” for instance)—representing agency, yet warped by that final order into stolen agency. like there’s also a narrative reason they’d want to draw your attention to her hands, and also additional character symbolism, and yes also pearl and rose definitely fucked narsty and that’s basically just text.

[cumdumpstiel]

so cool how advanced the algorithm has become, it literally only takes like a decade or more of spying on all my internet activity and then it can expertly curate a selection of 15-20 youtube videos that i don't really want to watch, and then keep showing me those videos over and over again for a week so i can scroll past them again. the future is now

[shittysawtraps]

interested in a movie where jigsaw is a municipal position that one can be elected to, half because the idea of the government funding serial killers in order to create a culture of people who are constantly worried they’re going to be punished for not being good enough is really narratively interesting, half because i want to see those fucking campaign slogans

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

County Sheriffs are already a thing

[moonshynecybin]

have you guys ever seen a crocodile with its fingies out

[moonshynecybin]

[devilishdescent]

[magicratfingers]

[nyancrimew]

[eosofspades]

[bethanydelleman]

My son gave me a card that said, "You are the best mom ever" so I asked him if he collected empirical evidence to back up that claim. He admitted to doing no research at all; therefore it's purely anecdotal and cannot be trusted. I have hung this sentimental atrocity on my office wall.

[bethanydelleman]

#Point of order: “best mom ever” is basically unfalsifiable even if he did do research#“Not the worst mom ever” or “in the top 5% of moms locally based on these metrics” <- now we would be cooking#We can safely state what was presented is an entirely unscientific statement- possibly a folkloric belief- and let it through unscathed#Laugh rule (thank you for these excellent tags @loreofcardigan)

[thelastsongimwastingonyou]

no way

[thelastsongimwastingonyou]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

NASA lapel pin.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]