life: made of waffle cones since 2005

Vile Things is a (hopefully) recurring free zine project aiming to publish artists who create for niche fetish audiences, primarily engaging subject matter considered horrifying, disturbing, obscene or otherwise taboo. We hope to provide a layer of anonymity + community to artists in a time of increased sexual scrutiny.

Who are you?

This zine has two editors: Rat (It/He/She) and Valeria (She/It). Some of you will know us from elsewhere, others won't. You don't need to know us to participate in this project. We are in an Australian time zone, so don't expect responses from us at American hours of convenience :)

What's the financial situation?

The question on every starving artist's tongue. Vile Things is a free zine project. We will not ever charge for a copy of this zine (except shipping outside of Australia, but we will also host print formatted copies), and we will host digital copies for free online. This means the zine makes no profit & submissions are given on a volunteer basis. Everyone who is accepted will receive copies of the zine in multiple formats, including shipped directly to their home if they like.

Who can submit?

Anybody, anywhere in the world, as long as you are 18 years or older. As a matter of legality we can not knowingly accept any information from or distribute this zine to anyone under 18; any submissions suspected of being such will be deleted from our inbox. Otherwise, anybody is welcome in this space provided you're here in good faith.

What can be submitted?

Fiction writing, poetry. descriptions of IRL BDSM scenes, art, photography, letters to the ed. As long as it's kinda smutty and kinda freaky, it's good. See our submission guidelines for further details!

What if I don't like something in the zine?

Don't read it.

What if I really don't like it?

Stay up late thinking about it for weeks on end until you jerk off shamefully like the rest of us and get over it.

How do I contact you? Our email is [email protected] where you can submit your art, join our mailing list, or just plain ole chat to us!

What is the current submission deadline?

Submit your art by June 24th to be printed in the first volume! See more here.

We will keep this post updated with important details & answers to questions.

Including the exact same one my city buses have!!

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

i mean, the movies thing is correct-ish, though there's a lot more nuance to it.

books, on the other hand, are not made and published by one person. they are the result of months and months of the work of agents, editors, proofers, (unfortunately) marketers, and an army of others in the publishing industry. fewer than there used to be, yes, but while the drafting process can be a solo endeavour--and even that often isn't completely--books are still written and put out by an entire group of people and can sometimes take years in the making, not including the writing.

Also, in the sense of those real-world protection laws, sure, it makes sense to group together newborns through 18-year-olds. but doing so is genuinely completely fucking useless when talking about a narrative. "This is a story where the main character is a minor!!!!" you could be talking about Bluey you could be talking about The Catcher In The Rye you could be talking about Yellow Jackets. I don't know how else to express that story about a 7-year-old, a story about a 12-year-old, and a story about a 17-year-old are are, structurally, completely different things despite all being about "minors," and how grouping them together makes no sense. it's reductive at best and destructive at worse. Imagining sitting down and being like "oh yeah, let's look for a story about minors to recommend to minors" and you hand children's picture book No, David! to a high school senior.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.