#jodel

Last term was really big for student-led magazines, I find that pretty exciting but,,, we'll see dubious quality. There's of course the fool which publishes every tournament operates pretty professionally and from what I hear operates entirely in the red but se la vie. Fairly early in the term All of these posters for a new magazine called "fagmag" appear, The one I remember most clearly had the design of a '60s or '70s cigarette advertisement with their name and lettering reading why be a fool when you can have a fag. a clear bash at the fool which was continued in their submissions forum where it claimed that they only published good articles unlike some other publications. When the magazine was published this was proven to be aggressively untrue. Sorry. Like it was a freshman magazine so I kind of feel bad about being too harsh on it but the articles ranged from I think there were two kind of sweet and cute ones I liked but the majority were either pretentious or worse. You can see for yourself I have a PDF linked hopefully below, I scanned my copy as they made me pay $5 for this like 17 page bs, and when I complained on yodel they have the guts to say that it was pay what you can when I asked them what it cost and they said $5. They insisted they were justified in doing so as they were still in the red but they only spent money on buying the paper considering they used the school printers do it, lake sure they bought alcohol for their launch party but I can't exactly call that a production expense. Their launch party that they kind of from what I heard had the editorial staff of the fool setting up for mostly but not my monkeys not my horses...

I might make a separate post for this,,, In the final days of the term a second new freshman run magazine was published titled bits, focusing on The strangest aspects of Bennington students sex lives. This was really exciting because it was in like the whole pervert chic thing. It's all goofy and evil and awesome. I also paid $5 for this but it was free I just figured it was fair. They had beautiful little bits of writing about strange occurrences some student jerking off to their nosebleed I really was fond of. But you'll have to wait since I never scanned ts

And it’s fucking Les Mis RPF.

But like I’ve been spreading it around acting like I’m not the one who wrote it, and people actually like it and idk how to feel about it.

People want more, and I did joke about writing some about the women, but like, am I really going to start writing fanfiction because I thought being a jodel troll was funny? (It was don’t get me wrong)

And the two it was about not only read and reviewed it they also asked if I could write more… and my friends were reenacting part of it RIGHHT NEXT TO ME. I had two people read it out loud to me. And NOBODY KNOWS I WROTE IT!?!??!

It leaves me at a crossroads though. Do I give the people what they want and continue to write about people as gay versions of their characters? Or do I go ghost and leave people with the mystery?

Either way someone asked for it to be posted on ao3 so they could save it.

And to clarify it was at a state event that I posted and (sorta)popularized a fanfic about two people who don’t know that they know the author.