zinesbyscout

i make zines about music and shoot from the hip and being queer and sometimes other stuff :D you can download and print my zines for free here https://zinesbyscout.carrd.co/

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made a zine to celebrate the happy lesbians and one of my favourite long forms

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crawlers are back so i made a quick and simple afraid to die zine with just some stamps and lace (i am obsessed with the little lace butterfly i found second hand)

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ONLY DIGITAL SPACES LEFT

Due to absolutely incredible levels of interest in this project we now only have spaces left for the digital version of the zine. If you registered your interest in our original form but haven't signed up yet don't worry because your spaces are reserved and sign up reminders were sent out earlier this evening giving you until the 12th June to sign up before your spots will be forfeited and made available again. Thank you so much everyone who has signed up so far, I am so excited to see what everyone makes. And if you have missed out on the physical zine don't let that put you off as we will also be making a digital version which you can be a part of and depending what people submit you may be able to be included in one of the minizines we make to hand out at future gigs.

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i didn't realise i would be allowed to share this outside of the patreon discord channel but i can !!! this is one of the patreon exclusive demos from notes from the cutting room floor and i absolutely adore it, it is such an important song to me. i found these stamps and knew i needed to make this.

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i went to a zine workshop focused on clothing and identity so i finally started (then went home and finished) a zine about how i became known as that one green guy (spoilers: i blame bears in trees). i always make such different style zines at workshops, probably because of the more limited material, and i should really try to let myself make zines like this at home as well.

if you can't read my handwriting:

Page one: My decent into greeness began when I needed a new colour to dye my hair after a botched attempt to go from red to blue. Around this time Bears in Trees released 'I can't see anything I don't like about you' with the line 'botched green hair in disrepair' I had to GO GREEN

Page two: After this I continued to wear my usual clothes - not much green. Until I bought this hoodie at a Bears in Trees gig. That gig was hugely important to me for sentimental reasons - first it was my first Bears in Trees gig as an adult, first where I knew I was surrounded by friends but also when I started to wear more green

Page three: The other item of clothing to turn me green were these trousers I bought at a folk festival with my Mum.

Page four: By now it was August 2024 and I was rapidly becoming 'the green guy' as many people know me today. I started dyeing white t-shirts green and buying white and beige band merch with the intent of dyeing it green. I still do this and my bathroom cupboard is full of Dr Pepper bottles containing green dye. I refer to this as my 'unsupervised phil era' after amazingphil of dan and phil

Page five: The catalyst for my taking my final green form was You Me At Six breaking up and going to their final gig then a queer punk all-dayer the next. YMAS breaking up unlocked something within me, maybe a reminder that things end. But I had a breakdown and within a week got my septum pierced (I have green jewellery for it) dyed my eyebrows green (which i try to maintain) and shaved the sides of my hair + committed to rat tails at the front.

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WE ARE ORGANISING A COLLABORATIVE BEARS IN TREES ZINE !!!

This will be an A5 Stapled zine which, once finished, will be available both to read digitally or to download and print yourself + we will be sending a copy to the band's PO Box. Contributions can be anything you like as long you've made it (no AI) and it can be printed into a zine. That can be a drawing/collage/poem/piece of writing about anything to do with Bears in Trees, from specific songs to the community to your own experiences. Communications and announcements will be primarily made through Discord so please join the server here if you're contributing or thinking of doing so!

We had a lot of responses when we just put out a form to gauge interest so we will be capping this project at 60 contributors for the printed zines (on a first come first served basis, with priority to anyone who filled out the initial interest from) but for the digital version we will be able to accept more. We will reach out to you if you have missed the window to get into the printed zine. We also want to use any of the pages that are still legible at a smaller size to make 8 page minizines to hand out at gigs and for those we can use both contibutors to the printed and digital versions.

To sign up or learn more just go to our carrd or feel free to dm us if you have any questions :D

All skill levels are welcome, this project is far more about community than it is making "good" art !!!

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BEARS IN TREES COLLABORATIVE ZINE

Greeting fellow Bears in Trees fans !!! We are planning a collaborative zine and need YOUR help. If you would like to contribute anything at all please fill out this form to let us know !!! Contributions can be anything you like as long you've made it (no AI) and it can be printed into a zine. That can be a drawing/collage/poem/piece of writing about anything to do with Bears in Trees from specific songs to the community to your own experiences. All skill levels are welcome, the more the merrier !!!

BiT collab zine interest

We are organising a collaborative Bears in Trees zine in which you can contribute a page on anything you like as long as it's Bears in Trees

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i am working on organising a collaborative zine so if any bears in trees oomfs would like to join in or even just share that would mean the world to me i am so excited about this project !!!

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i had been wanting to make another animation for a while and that combined with wanting to get more use out of my lino stamps, missing my friends and listening to bears in trees full discography on shuffle all week meant this is what i ended up making. i may have lost my mind a little bit figuring out the sunrise colour order but it was worth it. i also decided to mix in a bit more digital editing to add the text afterwards so it was easier to time right. cut corners was one of my first favourite bears in trees songs and has been with me since i was 16 and with the friendships i've made and experiences i've been lucky enough to have with them this song has only become more special to me.

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i made a matching zine to go with it, i can't believe it took me this long to make a cut corners zine

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i had been wanting to make another animation for a while and that combined with wanting to get more use out of my lino stamps, missing my friends and listening to bears in trees full discography on shuffle all week meant this is what i ended up making. i may have lost my mind a little bit figuring out the sunrise colour order but it was worth it. i also decided to mix in a bit more digital editing to add the text afterwards so it was easier to time right. cut corners was one of my first favourite bears in trees songs and has been with me since i was 16 and with the friendships i've made and experiences i've been lucky enough to have with them this song has only become more special to me.

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Omg hi I literally met you today, and your blog just appeared in my recommended

Thank you for the zine <3

hi !!! i am so glad i was able to give you a zine, i hope you had an incredible show <3

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I really liked the idea I had for this zine, using the ocean patterned paper and campfire lino stamp but I think this really confirms that I don't like handwritten text in the vast majority of my zines because I don't really like this one very much

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me and oomfs were assigning each other bugs and it got me to finally make the dan zine i had been thinking about doing since the song came out

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i am cold zine !!! i didn't have much of a vision for this other than that i wanted it printed in blue on grey. i decided to just use encyclopedia page cut outs for each page and basic text over the top and i actually really like how it turned out.

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my second attempt at multi layered printing and i am quite happy with it. i wanted beach images for the background (i intend for the cover and beating in my chest pages to be the other way around but i actually quite like it this way too) then basic collage on the top. after printing those layers i then added the text amd scanned a third time before printing onto blue paper. i decided i liked the misaligned look so didn't worry too much about making this perfect.

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i originally had a different plan for this zine but then i saw the tiktoks they were posting to it with the colourful plasters and decided to do this instead because i started making the i see blue zines with a week until tour and needed something quick but cute. the background scanned as more green than i would have liked but i am still happy with this zine.

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all them horses zine that i made the day after the great divide came out because i fell in love with it instantly. this was my first attempt at multi layered printing on a standard office printer and i adore it. i decided to make this zine more personal and use train tickets from going home and bits of map from the rough area of the country i grew up, where i go to uni and the in between

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my second i see blue zine: nights like these !!! i wanted to really lean into the religious themes in the song with this zine, i found the image for the cover and knew it was perfect. i couldn't find enough other religions images that matched the aesthetic so i went with candlesticks and i am really really happy with it