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Few weeks ago I learnt about a zine fest that was happening this month and decided to not only to go but also scan and print some zines I've made and share some copies!

It was really fun! Sadly I struggled to talk with stall owners and other folks at the event (I hope I wasn't too awkward!) due to being overwhelmed by the big crowd and noise but, luckily they had a place to grab free zines so I put all the ones I didn't personally hand out to people in that section ^u^

In total I got 16 zines! as well as many stickers and badges :D I'm so glad to of been able to go to this event & buy so much from local artists & add more to my zine collection! All the zines I got were so fun and cool! I wanted to get more but sadly I had a set budget and had to stick to it >:3. This event has of course also greatly inspired me for future zine projects and in general ♡

As you can see from the pics above, the scan & print quality for my zines sadly isn't the best (last three pics comparing the prints to the master copies :P), luckily I only planned on giving these zines away for free but, in future when I do start selling at markets (I have wanted to do this on and off since I was a teen lol), I will make sure to have set up at home so I can print them at a nicer quality & cheaper than the library... maybe? Hopefully (love the library but it's printing is a bit costly for me ^u^J).

Last week I got sick which sucked but luckily, as I was getting better, I had a shower that gave me the perfect zine idea before June! Basically I occasionally do writing in my notes app when I feel some inspiration/motivational spark but none of these writings are big enough to justify their own zine (imo) so, the idea was to make my first A6 zine and combine a few in one collage zine!

A few days ago I felt like making another zine before the year ended and wasn't sure what it was going to be about until I dug up a memory from a few years ago.

I did an art course and one day in class we had 40 minutes to start and finish an art work. Then we got into small groups to present said art work and critic each other. I drew a simple character wearing a JSK/lolita fashion dress I designed and while most most criticisms were fair (pointing out anatomy flaws, explaining ways to improve the pose and overall composition, compliments on the outfit details and colour palette ECT.) but one of the artists said the drawing was bad and too shallow because it had no meaning.

To this day I'm still frustrated by that comment, not just because imo it's bad criticism, but also because it's a mentality in regards to art that I really hate seeing. The mentality of course being "good art" is deep and meaningful while "bad art" is shallow, meaningless and therefore useless. To me there is no such thing as good or bad art, sure I have my preferences (there is a lot of art I don't like or care about) but, I think art as a concept in of itself is inherently subjective, therefore all things relating to it are subjective.

Last week I scanned my first zine! Reason is because it's a 16 page zine (two mini zines to make one) and I knew I wanted to make another 16 page mini zine so I scanned & printed a copy to test stapling a zine so I could feel confident I would be able to sell copies of these 16 page zines in future :>

I also took pics of the master copies pages again for this post because my first ever tumblr post on this blog is of this zine! and you can tell... I donated the zine copy to my state library because it turns out they're wanting to create a collection of local zines so I may scan more of my zines for them soonish to donate ^u^

as for this zine and why I made it, well I used to be a full time decora! especially from 2021-2023, even used to have an insta account for it (before I got rid of all my instas for many many reasons). I don't wear decora much these days but I still love the style! Even if my feelings around it are a tad complicated due to a lotta personal stuff :P

Yesterday I decided to impulse make another zine! I have a LOT of stickers, with a good chunk being grabbed from a craft even I went to last month, so I wanted to try using a ton up... ended up making my wordiest zine as a result. XD I started with the simple concept of making a sticker based zine about colour and somehow it lead to a sorta perzine about my favourite colour, and how that's changed over the years... also yes this is why my username is cyan dreamz X3

First zine of 2025. Made it few nights ago because I just really wanted to make a zine and after grabbing out a bunch of stickers and scrap paper I got an idea to make a sweet and cat themed zine which lead to a weird tangent XD

Yesterday I got some red kandi beads and of course this meant I had to make a Miles Edgeworth themed kandi bracelet :D. Of course yesterday was July 1st as well (at least for me cuz time zones) which is the start of Narumitsu week, so of course I had to make a Phoenix kandi bracelet as well (plus Phoenix is a pretty cool dude imo) and, inject some narumitsu/wrightworth by putting some totally subtle heart beads of contrasting colour into both bracelets X3

Also a few more details about the kandi I made: Miles had black and white beads to represent both his outfit colours and my lack of red kandi beads :'), Pheonix has smiley faces because of what Mia Fey Always told him and, Blue flowers because they look kinda like his lawyer badge in shape (at least to me, plus they're cute beads).