Rosemary @honeybrew_coffee@computerfairi.es

I'm gonna get it scanned for printing another time but here we go! My first completed zine in years— Guileless: A Collection of Three Poems By Rosemary Lark

Now to finish the zine where I express my love for and extol the virtues of pillow princesses

There, made my first zine in years. Guileless, a collection of three poems. Will post later

I'm just doing the ding dang thing dings and dangs be damned. Did I get it two thirds of the way done and realize that I have it oriented in a less than ideal way? Yeah. Am I gonna publish it this way anyways? Yeah.

I'm slowly getting stronger, my biceps can hardly fit in my shirt today, this is exciting news as someone who lost all their muscle mass due to severe illness years ago

I miss my old zine club, where I got to make zines with people who barely knew any of those things and made them for the expressive joy of making something, where the adults just doodled and the kids made the funniest comic books you have ever read in your life. It made it easier to just be messy and slap it together.

In think what always trips me up when trying to make a zine is that I get caught up with attempting to be technically precise. But it's hard not to when I spent my childhood running around printing presses and I have the technical knowhow. I eagerly advocate for the "do it; and if it must be messy in order to get it done at all, do it messy" ideology but struggle to apply it to myself.

It's been ages since I've been able to collaborate with another craftsperson/artist/storyteller and it's always such a joy

I really need to find a local leather worker. Partly because I want to get a strap and some harnesses but also because I would love to collaborate as a woodworker to make things with other people

I think I'll make burritos tonight

I cannot express how important it is to protect your community by making, especially when sick. Despite all my efforts, despite my respirator and air filter, i caught somethung at work. I haven't had a respiratory infection in three years before this

I was born to do things that people long ago thought impossible

Lazer Ted you were a real one

Great first date idea— read your deeply sincere erotic fanfiction to them, it worked for me

The effort my nesting partner (my nestie <3) is going through to try to learn ASL without making it my job to teach them is genuinely warming. Hearies don't ask your partners to teach you, don't tell us you'll learn for us, just do it without making it our problem. I promise it'll mean more to us than you can imagine

Can't seem to focus today, geez I wonder why