{"id":24,"date":"2014-04-27T08:11:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T08:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2016-11-09T07:40:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T07:40:32","slug":"zines-and-fanzines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/non-fiction\/zines-and-fanzines\/","title":{"rendered":"Zines and fanzines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pale Girl<\/h3>\n
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\"The<\/a>
The Pale Girl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My tumor\u2019s heart is dead fluid, making it a different shape to most. This means it can only be treated with surgery, not radiation.<\/p>\n

A part of me almost likes this horrible fact, that it\u2019s liquid not solid, dead not living. Aggressively expanding in a way the living, circular little ones don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I am the rarest of a rare kind. It is a horrible horrible miracle that this pale girl in me lives at all.<\/p>\n

I am Schroedinger\u2019s writer. Whether I live or die, this story exists on the razor-thin line between the possibilities. Whichever happens will cast its shadow backwards, of course. Such is the nature of the past as seen from the present.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Mary Borsellino discovered she had a brain tumor, she coped with it the only way she knew how: by writing about it. And New Zealand. And the Antichrist. And dating sim video games. As one does.<\/p>\n

I left a piece of my heart behind in that day. I wish I could go back to it now, and live in it, static, forever and ever.<\/p>\n

But time and life don\u2019t work like that. We leave pieces of our hearts behind in the memories of the good days, but we can\u2019t go back. Only forward, into the dark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can download the .pdf for free here<\/a>, or get it for free\/.99c (depending on if you have kindle unlimited or not) from Amazon here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(This is probably the closest thing to a\u00a0\u2018sequel\u2019 to Sharpest<\/i>\u00a0that I\u2019ll ever write. It\u2019s also kind of sketchy and disjointed and weird.<\/p>\n

I hope some of you like it.)<\/p>\n

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Sharpest<\/h3>\n
\"Sharpest:
Sharpest: A Tour Diary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There are so many things people can be that are metaphors, tricks of speech, a word to mean a mood or talent. We can be dull, blunt, hard, soft, cool, cold, hot, warm, green, blue, bright, dim, tough, smooth, slick, thorny, broken, sharp. As far as things to be made from went, the sharpest things sounded good enough to me — better sharpest than dullest, even if it meant never being softest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A tour diary through concert crowds, international travel, the darkest hours before dawn, music journalism, love, depression, songs, grief, and the moment when the lights go down and the audience cheers.<\/p>\n

Any revenue I make from\u00a0Sharpest<\/em>\u00a0is donated to suicide prevention organisations.<\/p>\n

Buy paperback<\/a><\/p>\n

Buy Ebook<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

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Patchwork Children<\/h3>\n
\"Patchwork
Patchwork Children<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Patchwork Children is a free, downloadable zine produced by me and featuring work by a variety of contributors. Raw, clever, profound, and strange, this collection stitches together disparate notions about the body, the self, art, revenge, magic, technology, analysis of nineteenth-century science fiction, viscera and dreams.<\/p>\n

Attempts at creation are, in fact, the events which prompt their destruction. The doll-maker Madeline, turned into a vampire by Louis at Claudia’s behest, and the Bride created for Adam by Victor, each act as catalysts which turn Claudia and Adam’s creators into creation-destroyers. Madeline has the potential to create other vampires if Claudia demands she do so, and it is very soon after Madeline\u2019s creation that Lestat has both Madeline and Claudia destroyed. Victor destroys the Bride because if she and Adam were allowed to depart together, they would possibly have children some day.<\/p>\n

In this light it become especially interesting that Elsa Lanchester plays both the Bride and Mary Shelley in the second Frankenstein film, since Mary Shelley is of course Adam\u2019s ultimate creator, his author. The Bride isn\u2019t just a monster – she\u2019s the mother of monsters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Download Patchwork Children<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Fanzines<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"Sapphire<\/a><\/p>\n

Sapphire Blue<\/span><\/em> is a zine I put together for when I was a guest at the 2014 Room 801<\/a> convention. \u00a0It contains two fics, one of\u00a0Free! (Iwatobi Swim Club)<\/em> and one of\u00a0Dramatical Murder<\/em>, plus illustrations and extra content. \u00a0[Download<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Pretty<\/a><\/p>\n

Texas A&M University contacted me about preserving some of my zines in their digital archives, and I used this as an opportunity to create a comprehensive single-document collection of my most academically cited\u00a0fanfiction work, the Lord of the Rings story “Pretty Good Year”. [Download<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n

\"One<\/a><\/p>\n

I was very, very prolific in the Gotham\/Batman fandom circa 2004\/2005.\u00a0Very<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>This zine is 500 pages of small type, and it’s not even all of the different series<\/em>\u00a0of stories I wrote, let alone all the stories. [Download<\/a>]\u00a0[Buy hard copy<\/a>]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"True<\/a><\/p>\n

This multiple-fandom collection of stories showcases some of the work I’m particularly pleased with, and early collaborations with the extremely talented Audrey Fox.\u00a0[Download<\/a>]\u00a0[Buy hard copy<\/a>]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Zines I’ve contributed to<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"Famous<\/a><\/p>\n

Famous Last Words: A Tribute to the Black Parade<\/em> is a\u00a0zine collection of original art and essays celebrating the 10th anniversary of My Chemical Romance’s third album, The Black Parade<\/em>.\u00a0I contributed an excerpt from my zine\u00a0Sharpest<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Noble<\/a>
\nNoble Rot <\/em>is a\u00a0\u00a0fujoshi culture zine. I contributed an essay about Erika from\u00a0Durarara!!<\/em> to the third issue.<\/p>\n

\"YOU<\/a>
\nYou are cordially invited<\/em> is a zine for the NBC show\u00a0Hannibal<\/em>. I contributed the essay \u201cOf reboots and entr\u00e9es: the construction and destruction of metatext in Hannibal<\/em>\u201d, and a collage of Stephen King homages present in the show, to the first edition.<\/p>\n

\"Pretty<\/a> \"Pretty<\/a>
\nPretty Good for a Girl<\/em> is a feminist music zine. I contributed interviews and articles to the first and second issue.<\/p>\n

\"SuperGrrrl<\/a>
\nSupergrrrl Action Comix<\/em>\u00a0is a feminist comics zine. I contributed a personal essay to the first edition.<\/p>\n

\"Nurturing<\/a>
\nNurturing Paws<\/em> is a collection celebrating the healing and supportive role animals can play. I contributed a personal essay.<\/p>\n

\"Watch<\/a>
\nWatch it for the plot<\/em> is a collection of essays about the show Supernatural<\/em>. I contributed a comparison between the show and Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Lotripping\"<\/a>
\nLotripping<\/em> is a fanfiction collection about the actors from the Lord of the Rings<\/em> trilogy. I contributed the story Eleven ways not to start an autobiography<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Inside<\/a>
\nInside a Song<\/em> is a fanfic zine about Sam and Frodo. I contributed the story The Echo of Bells<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pale Girl My tumor\u2019s heart is dead fluid, making it a different shape to most. This means it can only be treated with surgery, not radiation. A part of me almost likes this horrible fact, that it\u2019s liquid not solid, dead not living. Aggressively expanding in a way the living, circular little ones don\u2019t.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/818"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}