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Trigger warning: discussion of someone who died by suicide. Does not go into any detail about specifics.

This is a zine for my old best friend, he was an amazing person and I miss him a lot. He was never a burden on me he should’ve been helped better by the adults looking out for him. I’m sorry we stopped being friends. And I’m sorry he’s gone. I hope he’ll see this at his grave soon.

If you’re struggling with suicidal thoughts it can get better with a lot of dedication and treatment. Reach out to someone you trust first and foremost but if you don’t have anyone you can trust there are lots of hotlines. I suggest ones for your specific identities. There are ones for lots of different minority groups I can’t put them all here. But I can’t recommend America’s suicide hotline since cutting support for lgbtq+ callers. I wish you the best!

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I have an official (yet free so it has a silly domain) website where y’all can download three of my zines now that I’ve made free! This zine isn’t available for free sadly but I still hope y’all enjoy it! This zine isn’t available about my gender journey through the years.

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This new zine was a request from my speech therapist who wanted tips on better helping neurodivergent patients! I think it’s awesome I now have so many awesome providers who are interested in how to better help all kinds of patients.

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Trigger Warning:OCD spiral/ mentions heavy topics without going super into to them.

Sorry it’s been a minute y’all I’ve been making zines but they all turned out too personal to share. But anyways this zine is a slight peek into how my brain spirals with OCD intrusive thoughts. It doesn’t go too into them (trust me they get way worse) but I mean it gives you an idea for sure. OCD is my least favorite neurodivergence.

On another note I’d love tips on how y’all zine trade/distribute without sharing your address? Do you have to buy a PO Box? Also if anyone on the vast interwebs has an idea of how to freely distribute (some not all) my zines digitally that’d be awesome. Feel free to tell me about ways you do it. I’m thinking there’s gotta be free ways to distribute pdfs while still having an idea of who has access to your work right? I know people can copy paste and screenshot but like I can try to hide from plagiarism. As far as google based file sharing I’d like to steer clear because of data and such (but if it’s the only choice I’ll do it). But are there even secure and easily accessible ways to file share? And would I need a website to have the pdfs on? Cuz that is expensive crap! Please enlighten me in comments.

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This is a sleepy zine. “I’m tired of being tired…ZZZ” is a zine about my incredibly overwhelming issues with sleep.

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The painting in the background of all the pages combined (which make a single sheet of paper folded into 8 parts) is a wooden bed with white sheets and blue shadows. The moon is lopsided and yellow with purple-Blue shadows. There are bright white stars.

Title page: “I’m tired of being tired…” line drawing in black and white paint pen of myself closing my eyes ZZZ. @ZanyZines”

Page 1: “I’m so tired all the time & I sleep so much I’m missing out on life”

Page 2: “I wanna feel like awake again. There’s so much I want/need to do during the days.”

Page 3: “I wanna work one day & feel like I can handle driving & other adult stuff”

Page 4: “It just feels unfair sometimes that I throw a pity party.”

Page 5: “I wanna be independent & be able to take care of myself”

Page 6: “I’m over being tired but I’m gonna be stuck for a while.

Back cover: “I gotta go sleep bye… @ZanyZines”

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Made an easy sketchbook zine this week focused on these crayons I’ve been playing with! It’s been super fun. Enjoy these doodles!

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I made myself a valentine zine! I fully understand this might be a hard zine to read so I’ve included the alt image text on the last photo just in case you can’t read the cursive embroidery. And yes I’m very much so a beginner sewer but I enjoyed making this a lot!

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This week’s zine is a little get-to-know-me zine! It’s a one page zine with 16 sections/little pages detailing some of the “Things That Keep Me Afloat”. I used lots of stickers and glitter for this zine so I hope you like childish art!

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Trigger warning: medical trauma and gaslighting is touched on in this zine.

Finding proper medical care shouldn’t be as hard as it is. This zine touches on how hard it is to find adequate care. And touches on how to find better physicians. I hope this zine can help someone on their journey to find proper medical care.

Image description: these pictures show a colorful zine booklet about medical struggles specifically for finding adequate care. On the pages are line drawings that show my struggles finding proper healthcare as well as tips finding proper healthcare.

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Here’s my new zine “my favored fidgets” it’s all about finding the right fidgets for your needs and goes into descriptions of sounds, feelings, and textures of my favorite fidgets. I’m hoping this guide can bring you some joy!

Image description: collage and hand made zine that features descriptions of various fidgets with photos and text and stickers and fuzzy sparkle orbs (really didn’t wanna say balls there) and rhinestones. It’s very colorful and bright and cheerful.

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Here’s my first post! I really love making zines and will post more colorful ones soon but this one conveys how I feel about stuff right now.