Growing Together

Growing Together: An MP100 Zine is now ready for download!

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Hi everyone! School and zines have me pretty busy but one of my zines has recently been published and is available for anyone to read, @mp100naturezine! It’s a nature zine, so all the art and writing inside is heavily inspired or features nature of some kind. It was a super fun experience and it’s really awesome seeing the finished product! If you’d like you see it for yourself, you can get the link to the pdf file here. Be sure to leave a like or a comment to let us know that you appreciated the project!

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It’s Teru who originally suggests that they all do something fun together before the warm season ends and it gets too cold to go out anymore. It’s autumn, early enough in the season that the lingering warmth of summer can still be felt but late enough that the trees have already begun to change colors and shed their leaves. In a few months, the ground will be blanketed in snow, and the icy chill of the winter air will prove too much for outdoor activities.

Shigeo is agreeable enough to the idea. A waterfall hike is a little more physical than he’s used to, but he’s never one to turn away from a chance to improve his physical strength further, and Ritsu seems excited to do something different before they’re thrown back into their structured school schedules again. Even Shou has decided to tag along, despite his tendency to be a little flaky about when and where he decides to hang around, and he happily chats up Ritsu as the four of them get off the train at the beginning of the trail. A modest information stand sits at the front of a building that appears to be a combination gift shop and cafe, and directly beside it sits the trail’s entrance. Even from the bottom of the cliff, it’s easy for them to see all the way to the very top. There’s so much to see, in fact, that Shigeo finds his eyes constantly wandering as the four of them begin their ascent.

The waterfall is, first of all, huge–it towers far, far above their heads from the top of a rocky cliff too high up to see what’s beyond it and crashes onto the rocks below with a cacophonous crash. The sound of it drowns out most conversation around the four of them as they stand at the base of the hiking trail and take a moment just to stare. Everything here is green and vibrant and alive, from the moss growing on the banks of the river that flows from the base of the waterfall to the trees enshrouding the top of it and poking out from the side of the steep cliff face. Shigeo can feel the mist from the swiftly falling water hitting his face even from a distance, and when he breathes in, the air is fresh and clean.

It’s Shou who breaks the silence first. “Well, what are we waiting for?” he asks enthusiastically, and he’s the one who takes the lead as they begin to explore this new environment.

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Growing Together: An MP100 Zine is now ready for download!

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They take a slow, meandering pace to start out, the waterfall disappearing behind the trees and fading into background noise as they enter the forest and begin the winding path that will take them to the lookout halfway up. Here, the trees are much taller than in the city, the tops of them stretching so far above their heads that Shigeo can’t see through the myriad of branches that make up the forest’s ceiling. They shift constantly as the breeze stirs them, the noise of it reminiscent of the sound Shigeo might hear when it rains late at night outside his bedroom window. Shou and Ritsu end up pulling ahead of him and Shou, but Teru lingers behind to keep pace with Shigeo.

“The air is so clean here,” He remarks, climbing carefully over a stray tree root that pokes up through the floor of the trail. “It’s a lot different from living in the city, that’s for sure. You’d never be able to find trees like these in Seasoning.”