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Did I know you once in another life?

Are we here just once, or a billion times?

Well I wish I knew, but it doesn't matter

'Cause you're here right now, and I know what I feel

And these are real things

Yeah, these are real things

Oh, what a world

Don't wanna leave

All kinds of magic all around us, it's hard to believe

Thank God it's not too good to be true

Oh, what a world, and then there is you

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🏞️ Never Enough Time: a Brokeback Mountain 20th Anniversary Fanzine Contributor Applications are Now Open! 🏞️

If you're interested in being a part of Never Enough Time: a Brokeback Mountain 20th Anniversary Fanzine, click on the application link here!

📅 Applications will be open from January 24th through February 23rd at 11:59PM MST.

📌 Applicants will hear back from the zine on March 2nd by 11:59PM MST.

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🏞️ Never Enough Time: a Brokeback Mountain 20th Anniversary Fanzine 🏞️

Never Enough Time is a free, digital fanzine celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of the critically acclaimed neo-Western film Brokeback Mountain.

Over the last two decades, millions around the world have found themselves moved by this monumental film. This zine is by and for all those who found that the only way they could process the profound love and devastating loss flowing through the story was through the act of creation. If this has ever been you, please consider applying!

Contributor applications will open on Friday, January the 24th at 6PM MST! Hope to see y'all there!

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I know our days are heaven sent

Lord knows I know not where they went

Shake my head and I wonder how

I'll ever get to heaven now

Glad to be kicking off the start of 20 years of brokeback mountain with this piece ❄️ I know their lives were very sad, but there were some good times between all the hurt, too. I like to illustrate those times, however fleeting they were.

Happy 2025 ❤️

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What if we were two boy sheep and we were in love and we also head-butted some poor suckers who were taking care of us and stole their hats? 😳🐏

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The Sky Above, by @mediumorange

I am SO excited to finally share this project with everyone!! Way back in the fall of 2023 I embarked on my first foray into bookbinding, and I thought, what better work to start this hobby off on than with one of the greatest works the Brokeback Mountain fansphere has to offer, written by my dear friend Emily?

And so began my year-long journey with this work, haha.

The book is a square back bradel style binding, covered in turquoise bookcloth. I used a kettle stitch to sew the textblock, and then Lineco-brand PVA glue as the adhesive for everything that needed to be adhered.

While I'm proud of the entire book, I have to admit the thing that I'm most proud of is the cover design.

To make a long story short, I wanted to find a way to make fully illustrated covers on bookcloth, and most of the popular methods of cover design that I had seen were all very limiting for me as an artist to do the things I wanted to do. Thus much of the time I spent making this book went into deep-diving into the world of textile design and ink transfer methods.

In my research, I discovered these types of toner sheets called Direct-to-Film (DTF, lol) transfers. Basically, you can print any design you want at most any size using the full range of the CYMK color spectrum + black + white, then you use a heat press to transfer the design onto your fabric et voila: your design is embedded into the textile.

Because neither the Renegade Bindery discord nor the bookbinder reddit groups really knew what I was talking about when I asked if anyone had ever tried this method out, I put my little rodent ears on and became the guineapig lol.

The first practice attempts I made at this came out tentatively successful, and when I tried it again for the real cover, it came out perfect. I'm still floored by the results tbh. This is such a game changer and I hope more binders can utilize direct-to-film transfers in the future!

Anyways, I really hope you love your belated birthday gift as much as I loved making it, Emily 🥰 Thank you for sharing your talents with such a small fandom sphere, and I can't wait to bind more of your works in the future!!

Editing by me

Typesetting by me

Binding by me

Art by me

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Home is where I want to be, but I guess I'm already there

I come home, she lifted up her wings. I guess that this must be the place

I can't tell one from another—Did I find you, or you find me?

There was a time before we were born

If someone asks, this where I'll be

Where I'll be

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"Good Luck, Babe!" – Chappell Roan (2024) | Brokeback Mountain – dir. Ang Lee (2005)

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Brokeback Mountain Discord Book Club

@nopeferatu and I are reading the 26-page short story on April 14th at 8:00 PM EDT. Come discuss isolation, longing, violence, and age!

We recommend seeing the film, but the discussion will be about the short story. DM me or Nickie if you're having trouble finding a copy. Make sure to read the New Yorker version that has a prologue, not the Close Range version.

We will meet on this Discord server. No pressure to use a camera.

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The long-awaited sequel

Thanks @mapleburger for reminding me that i needed to redraw this

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I just cut my hand and in a snap! Something out of Edgar Allen Poe has happened 😰

happy halloween!! 🎃

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Dude I know ur neck deep in brokeback these days but I just wanted to say that anytime I get anxious abt drawing/posting/showing a hetalia chara w visible top surgery scars or otherwise visibly trans a little voice in my brain goes "nickie would do it :)" and then I go yeah ur right and draw them extra trans

If you're ever questioning whether or not you should make your characters look visibly trans, just ask yourself, "what would nickie do?" And then make them look as transgender as possible.

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What's this! A wild transgender englishman appears!!

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Have you ever started a decompressing doodle to try and ease your way back into drawing consistently again and you end up looking at it for so long and getting so frustrated that you've avoided drawing altogether? That's what this was for me

Anyways Jake Gyllenhaal has resting bedroom eyes and I just needed to express that somehow

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A Better Time to Meet — Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek | Brokeback Mountain — Ang Lee

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I guess I've always been something of a weird 80's media fanatic, thanks in large part to both my mom and dad for sharing pieces of their own childhoods with me as a kid. Nothing is more evident of that fact than my introduction to Pee-wee's Playhouse when I was maybe six years old.

Although I was born 14 years too late to have ever enjoyed the show when it first came out, the nostalgia my dad had for it made it possible for me to grow up with Pee-wee as a staple of my own childhood. I will be forever grateful for all all the joyous memories I made sitting in front of the TV, laughing at those rented Netflix-disc episodes.

Hope you rest easy, Paul Reubens.

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"C'mere, darlin'. Stand with me for a spell." 

For the first time in a good, long while, Jack had not been acutely aware of the sharp pain that naturally came with his affection for Ennis del Mar. In tender moments like this it usually surged through his body until it forced him to seek some space from Ennis, enough to topple him over onto the ground gasping for air, his eyes burning with the sting of heavy unshed tears. Loving Ennis del Mar was a blessing and a curse, both punishment for and reprieve from the ugly nature of his deep-dwelling desires.

But not at that moment. At that moment, all Jack knew was Ennis' arms around his waist, Ennis' lips pressed to the back of his head, and their swaying in time to the soft crackling static on the radio station. 

WIP