#aprine

this zine may not be about you. for a long time these thoughts were in my brain but only to lovingly yell at my friends. this zine may be about you but not helpful to you at this time. i hope it's helpful to some though.

if you like this zine you may also like the body neutrality movement. and the song "can't go back" by the crane wives, which i kinda quoted as well. leave the rest behind.

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

some things that didn't fit in this zine were:

you gotta learn. you gotta learn that learning doesn't mean feeling bad.

i had great fun with the formatting for this one. the bar at the bottom is actually the exact same colour and texture as the bar near the top in the light mode of ao3. or at least it was until my mediocre printer had its way with it.

the fonts are also the same as what's used on ao3

did y'all know that on firefox you can screenshot specific elements of the html of a webpage? very handy, to have it immediately cropped to what you need (used for the navigation ui, i couldn't easily replicate that)

you may see a fully toki pona zine from me in the coming period, but for now, just a description of my learning process

i think it's so fun to learn toki pona. it has my favourite parts of learning languages without my dreaded part (memorising so so much)

'tis the season. happy april fools, and thanks to everyone whose jokes i copied down, so thanks to:

@toastyglow @ehlers-world-problems @streetlight-spam @spidermanifested and @fwizard

some fonts! they're all findable online somewhere, save for the font from my own handwriting. i wrote the name of the font and then a unique pangram every time. it was a struggle to find this many pangrams! i hope that this can help you if you're looking for a font :)

i downloaded a Lot of fonts with hearts for a project once so they got a full spread

errata: i accidentally forgot the h in lathi. the last heart font is called lathi

thanks to @littlenosie for reminding me of some things i enjoy saying

this was inspired by me saying thumbsupsing in a discord voicecall, which i don't say with great regularity but i did enjoy it very much. the rest are regular occurrences in my vocabulary

a zine without text! all these drawings were made with coloured pencil (non-watersoluble), and then with watercolours

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

under the cut some closeups!

i like watercolours: a zine

another zine about perfectionism? of course

i did this by cutting 2 a5 sheets of watercolour paper into shoddy quarters (i didn't want to fold the paper), and then i put watercolours on. meanwhile i folded a zine from printer paper, and then i glued the watercoloured pages on. when i was confident the glue had dried i took it back to my paper guillotine and cut the edges off so they'd be straight. and then i did the text