#pnw zine

[wormyorchids]

New zine printed!

You can find it at Etsy.com/shop/wormyorchidsart or sign up for my mailing list for a zine every month at Patreon.com/wormyorchids :))

#illustration #my work #drawing #art #sketchbook #creature #natural history #nature journal #moss #lichen #Bellingham #olympia #Washington #pnw #pnw zine #travel zine #perzine #minizine #mailing list #zine mail

[strawberri-draws]

My first zine :-)

#my art #strawberridraws #zine #art zine #pnw #nature #art #washington #college #this was made to experiment with new formats and materials #so pls don’t bully me lmao #also probably shouldve hidden what/where my college was but eh too late #do it for the zine ig #but yeah there’s so many silly animals/college students it’s great

[satansfavoritedyke]

I made my first zine! I'm gonna get copies at the local library and leave them around town in inaccessible places I'm unable to go because I'm a disabled mobility aid user with mobility restrictions, so that people start noticing how horrifyingly inaccessible this stupid town and the world at large is.

#zine #zines #zinemaking #zinemaker #pnw artist #queer artist #disabled zine #disabled art #accessibility #disability #mobility aid user #you can call me al

[audrey-connor]

My most focused project of the last two years is finally world-ready. It aims to briefly and convincingly catalyze or affirm reparations-related work by white settler and settler descendants in the Pacific  Northwest, because none of us are free until we all are. 

So hop on over, shall we?

Available in PDF, ebook, and print format, with any proceeds redirected towards the Salish School of Spokane. :)

#pnw #Reparations #redress #redistribution #decolonize #zine #colonial settler

[mellific]

it's time for the FALL/WINTER 2023 (zinefest) COLLECTION -- catch me around the pnw at SF Zine Fest, Olympia Zine Fest, and Portland Zine Symposium!

#convention

[harriertail]

American (PNW) here! I got my zine yesterday and its beautiful! My girlfriend was baffled it came from the UK; I had to break it to her that the cats are also from the UK lol

the cats are bri'ish and shop at poundland. thank you for getting the zine!!!

#asks

[diagic]

My cover for the September issue (VOL 2) of BANSHEE, a local music publication / zine for the PNW alternative music scene.

You can either pick up a copy in person as it will be posted around the Seattle / SeaTac area starting in early September or contact them via Instagram @Banshee_Zine for a mailed copy!

#original art #linework #illustrator #art #blackwork #artist on tumblr #drawing #engraving #illustration #pointillism #pen and ink #mixed media #wheat #plant #plants #flower #flowers #reaper #grim reaper #dark art #esoteric #occult #occult art #woodcut #ink #dotwork #line work #black work #zine

[romaine2424]

Daily Blog July 1, 2023

Another gorgeous day in the PNW! It really does feel like summer here now. Daughter has no Covid symptoms as of yet but is still positive. Her boyfriend is sick but only mildly. He's had it before and said last time he was out for 2 weeks and it was horrible. Fingers remained cross.

What I'm reading:

Okay, I'm in shock. I'm not reading anything at the moment besides the results for Google research I'm doing for my fic. LOL I do have a fic lined up for tonight. It will be Everybody Hates a Tourist (51K). The 2nd posting today for @hd-wireless so it's by Anon. :)

Tumblr Interesting Posts:

Today is the first day for claiming a prompt on @hd-fan-fair!

Today is the first day of posting for @hd-wireless. And oh, what an opener!!! It's Art!

Also the @hdwickedwixen has extended the deadline for pre-ordering the new Drarry Zine until July 4th!!!! So very excited to see this as I put in my order for a physical copy.

Fic Rec:

I've recced this fic before on Tumblr, but it was awhile ago and I think I might have had 20 or so followers at the time. :) So I keep saying this fic is in my top 3 and I should stop that because it's actually my favorite h/d fic. I love so many others, but this one has stuck with me since it was first posted as a gift for me back in 2008 for the first annual Creatures Fest. It could've fit right into the @lcdrarry (Lights, Camera, Drarry) fest as some of Harry's words and the title were adapted from the movie I Am Legend (2007).

We Are Legend (38K) by @vaysh11 is very far removed from standard h/d fics but holds their essence like no other. It's a dystopian AU fic, the ultimate dystopian fic, 80 years into the future. The war against Voldemort is still being fought. There's been major major losses but Flash Man carries on. Here's the summary and then I'll say a bit more: Eighty years into the future, Voldemort won. Harry Potter is a renegade wizard, Portkeying Muggles out of London to Hogwarts, last sanctuary in a Britain ruled by the Dark Lord. On a mission he encounters a powerful phoenix Animagus fighting on the Death Eaters' side. He recognises Draco Malfoy whom he thought long dead. But the differences between them are perhaps even greater than before. Enemies may become lovers, but can Harry return Draco the phoenix to humanity? And will they together be able to defeat Voldemort? This is the legend of Flash Man and the Blue Phoenix …

This fic carries a big warning of MCD. But please, oh please do not let that stop you from reading this masterpiece in writing. There's action, there's lore, there's Indian food, and birds. But most of all we have h/d in small place high above it all. Harry is our Harry. Brave and powerful but also kind. Draco is beautiful but so so hurt in the state he's in. Together they have to figure out how to end this war and for Draco finally to be at peace.

We Are Legend on AO3.

Give the author, @vaysh11, who is definitely still around lots of love. @vaysh11 continues to mod @hdowlpost...like forever. And has previously modded more hd/hp fests than you can imagine. One of those magical elves. :)

Okay, I'm off to do my writing for the night. Enjoy your Saturday or for some I think it must be Sunday.

Rom

#romaine2424 daily blog #July 2023 #Drarry Fic Rec

[lakecitylifeline]

Our Grievances

On Thursday July 13, the volunteers of From the Heart PNW unanimously voted to leave the org. In the interest of transparency with those who have donated to and otherwise supported this org, we are linking here what we’ve come to call our Grievance Zine:

We share our account in the hope of interrupting the cycle of recruiting/abusing/burning that Lindsay has been perpetrating within this org for the past 5 years. We do not know when or if she plans to resume FTH’s operations, but if she does we strongly urge: do not join.

We do not share this information in a spirit of vindictiveness. Rather, we believe it is crucial that people know the specific harm Lindsay has caused so that they can make informed decisions about how or whether to continue engaging with her going forward.

#Seattle #mutual aid #communism #anarchism #socialism #abuse

[upthewitchypunx]

The weeks of super busy all the time hasn't stopped. Thursday and Friday Ian B and I are going down to camp for the Mt Angel Oktoberfest. They fly in real German Oktoberfest beers and they are fresh and delicious! On the way down we are going to stop at the cemetery in Amity, Oregon where my first Oregon settler ancestors is buried. He grew hops in Amity around the turn of last century. I'm going to place some hops I grew on his grave. I'm the first in the family to grow hops in 100 years.

Saturday I'm headed up to the Riverhouse to get some writing done for the VGS zine, then I have CritWitchCon meetings, then an PNW Animist meeting where we are going to make witch candles out of mullein stalks.

Will next week calm down? Probably not. Lots of CritWitchCon meetings leading up to the event at the end of the month.

Something has been devouring my cabbages! Like, whole leaves and stems of pretty good sized brussel sprouts. I've been covering them with buckets at night and that seems to keep something away. I'm mad about it though.

[juliettelime]

since it’s portfolio day on twitter and instagram, here’s some of my favorite recent work ~

hi! i’m kiara! i’m a filipino-american illustrator based in the pnw and i love narrative art, character design, and sparkles ✨ i recently graduated from art school with a bfa in illustration and currently i am busy with zine and commission work but would like to get more into the publishing realm (editorial, cover art, etc)!

here are more links for contacting me and finding me and my work elsewhere on social media:

🪄 instagram (most active)

💭 twitter

📍 portfolio site

💌 [email protected] | commission info (updated july)

#portfolio #portfolio day #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #commissions open #commission info #artist #illustrator #about me #digital art #fanart #illustration #digital illustration #editorial

[sleepvines]

Welcome! Here’s a directory:

my art / misc personal posts / asks / insp (inspiration/motivation)

Headworlds and projects:

Growing Pains (nonhumanity novel set in my homeland)

Alderhill (fairy setting and novel)

Verdens || old Verdens (anthro fantasy setting)

Hodpod (modern slice of life fantasy setting, also has a sideblog, @hodpod)

Curvor (🔞) (gothic fantasy & curse setting)

About: Hi! You can call me Kell. I’m one of those creatures that posts my art and writing online. I reblog a lot, so my art is best found through my tag. You’ll also find artistic gore and blood here, but it’s usually tagged unless tame. You can always ask me to tag something for you and it does not guarantee I will.

My interests include: folklore and fantasy, animals and nature (particularly the PNW and similar environments), nonhumanity, transformation, and specbio.

If you like what I do and want to see some pdfs, here is our ko-fi! If you want to find some of my zines, games, etc. here's our itch.io!

My headmates use this blog as well, (this is the main account, asks come from here) so please be mindful of that when messaging! Additionally we ask that you don't treat our status as a system like a spectacle or conversation topic. It's just how we exist.

A guide to who you're interacting with: (you can use "he" for any of us.) 🍀 • Kell/"Sleep" || ☀️ • May || 🍂 • Winn || 🌙 • James ||🌲 • Hatchet || 🗝️ • Vaughny

No Minors.

#pinned post

[adamgnade]

Read what Centrum.org has to say about K. Van Petten's audio book my label released, for someone. Full text below.

Seattle poet and songwriter K. Van Petten released their debut cassette tape of hybrid music and poetry last week ‘For Someone’ via Hello America Stereo Cassette. 

Van Petten created ‘For Someone’ in Port Townsend where they sampled sounds, wrote music, and recorded spoken poetry in residence with Centrum at Fort Worden. Since 1980, the Centrum Artists-In-Residence program has welcomed hundreds of artists and creative thinkers to immerse themselves in the historic charm and natural beauty of Fort Worden, which inspired Van Petten’s project. 

“This record was heavily influenced by rituals set to the acoustic qualities of the Pacific Northwest, on the traditional territory of the S’Klallam and Chemakum people,” said Van Petten. “I wanted to bring the feeling of a place, and the in-between of where we listen and where we go, to the listener.”

Alongside sweeping views of the Olympic and Cascade Mountain ranges, miles of wandering beach and forest trails, and a peppering of World War I–era batteries and bunkers, Van Petten captured the feeling of the PNW with the sound of water, waves, birds, boats, trees, and more. Many sounds recorded in an offset of the 2 million-gallon concrete cistern, deemed the Cistern Chapel by Dan Harpole, with its iconic 45-second reverb time. 

“I brought my mic with me everywhere I went– on hikes, swims, ferry rides, bus rides– everywhere. I even recorded the sounds of a local saltwater bath house. I found myself interacting with what is sonically possible. How would this leaf sound in water? How does this grass sound different from morning to night?” 

Adam Gnade, founder of Hello America Stereo Cassette and author of the viral book ‘After Tonight Everything Will Be Different’ hand selected this release from countless submissions. Gnade defines this emerging genre of music as “talking-songs” in a subset of “audio literary arts”. 

“The music- gentle and light as air, a tapestry of earthy sound. The words are illuminating like sunshine after a long night. There is a benevolence to these 11 pieces of writing that will stick with you long after listening. For Someone is in fact for someone for you, for me, for anyone who needs it, and I feel certain a very large number of people need this encouraging, sweet, magical creature of a debut album.” -Adam Gnade

For years, Van Petten has made poetry and music separately, and the thought to combine the two never hit them until walking by a sign outside of Everyday Music is Capitol Hill that said ‘first spoken poetry record since the beats’, and they were talking about Ross Gay’s collaboration with Bon Iver. From there they found Hello America Stereo Cassette,the record label for writers releasing cassettes of poetry. They took what they learned from taking classes with local poets like Bill Carty and CAConrad, and the rest is history. 

The cassette tape will be available for purchase alongside cassette players on Hello American Stereo Cassette’s website, and in Seattle at Light in the Attic Records inside of The Gathering Space at KEXP, alongside Caffe Vita. 

About K. Van Petten

Van Petten (they/them) is a queer and non-binary poet and songwriter based in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. You can find their music under ‘Baddy Gold’ and their poems in zines floating around Seattle coffee shops. ⁠They are the founder of Pandemic Poets, a movement of poets writing donation-based poems benefiting COVID relief funds and Not A Press, a small press dedicated to publishing work from underrepresented poets in the PNW. They currently work for local coffee roaster Caffe Vita, and poetry magazine Poetry Northwest. 

Baddy Gold is the songwriting project of K. Van Petten. Their debut record ‘Quiet World’ was released independently, followed by an EP of demos from Quiet World called ’EVERYONE HERE IS SOMEWHERE ELSE’, raising funds for Covid Relief and Black Lives Matter. They are currently working on their band’s debut album, set to release in 2023 with Dance Cry Dance.

#kvanpetten #adamgnade #centrum

[mellific]

Is there a place I can buy your zines online?

hey!! lskdjfds so i got like 70% of the way through setting up an online store and then got distracted / now need all my stock for conventions BUT I DO REALLY WANT TO uh, like, let people who do not live in the pnw get zines! if they want them! so..... i'm thinking like. nov/dec of this year (after portland zine symposium)?

tl;dr Watch This Space i WILL get my act together and offer some stuff online, hopefully soon

#SORRY TO EVERYONE WHO HAS ASKED IN THE PAST #and dealt with my wishy washy ''yeah!! i'd love to!!'' inaction sldfkjdslk

[slowinglycomic]

The second printing of It's Okay That It's Not Okay, a graphic novella about workaholism as a coping mechanism to avoid the maw of grief...and what it takes to actually slow down, stop running around, and face the music.

You can purchase a copy from my online shop, via Radiator Comics online shop, or in indie comics stores in and around the PNW thanks to the distribution magic of Emerald Comics Distro. I also try to (re)stock copies at Silver Sprocket in SF whenever I get into town, but supplies may vary.

Or find me tabling at a zine fest near you! (Scroll down to see upcoming appearances.)

#it's okay that it's not okay #grief #webcomic #loss

[dungeonmistrix]

artist for hire! ♡ let me draw your characters~

Hi there! In case we haven't met yet - my name is Liz (she/her), & I'm a queer Jewish artist from the PNW~ I am a full-time fantasy, scifi & ttrpg illustrator, specializing in character portraits, character design, & emotion-filled scenes [I love both romance and tragedy, in equal measures~] I'd love to make art for you, whether it be original characters or fanart!

Pricing: Pricing may vary per piece (i.e. bust/half-body/full-body, amount of design work needed, complexity); a general range is as follows (USD):

Digital Art - Standard Inked & Colored: $125-225

Digital Art - Watercolor: $175-300

Additional characters can be added on at 60% of the price of a single character.

In addition to private commissions, I'd also love to work on longer-form projects like RPG sourcebooks, novels, visual novels/video games, websites, zines… If you think my style is a good fit for your project - reach out! :)

If you have further questions or want to make an inquiry, feel free to message me on Tumblr or e-mail me at [email protected] ♡ And please pass the word on to anyone you think may be interested!

#artists on tumblr #artist on tumblr #illustration #fantasy art #character illustration #commissions #commission work #commissions open #visual novels #gamedev #indie dev #zines #looking for work #thanks for reading :') #marketing oneself is the ninth circle of self-employment hell!