#cuz theres stuff that isnt animation and then theres stuff that is border

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had to look on my past feelings about it and see what has changed or not. it is easier to define a zine as what it isnt. i share questions ive asked or seen while defining zines.

i think a short summary it should to be:

self made: put together yourself or by people (referring to contents)

self distributed: put out by the individual (vs a publishing company)

does the making include going to a printing studio, online or in person, and having them make your copies? or only using your own printer or xerox machine in the local library? to me, it is “i printed/made copies myself, or went to a printing studio online/in person”. some people like to have a nice glossy finish on their final work and thats okay. sometimes the medium ask for it, such as photography or digital art. as long as the final distribution is done by the individual, then i think it can still be considered zine. you totally get bonus points if you are having a fellow zine maker print it for you. i do think an element of tactileness should be part of making a zine, no matter where or who that comes from. you should absolutely learn basics of printing to print a zine by yourself at least once!

are digital zines still zines if there is no tactile element? sure, because they fall under self made, and self distributed. i think tactile element or "DIY" is very very very important when it comes to making a zine for yourself. but having tactile element be a definition of zine, excludes digital zines, so i would not use that to be a definitive requirement of what is/isnt a zine.

when does a zine stop being a zine? is everything self published a zine? age old question. here is a thread (<-link) to read about it. these are some answers that make me think. (please do not go arguing with them, this is food for thought). i do think this is one of those things where some people kinda butchered the original intent, to an extent, and why its harder to define now, and trying to causes a heated debate. see: original definition of bullet journal and how the community is having the same problem of defining what is/isnt a bullet journal vs an art journal or scrapbook or junk journal etc.

Actually, there is one of my own i can give of when I think a zine stops being a zine. Zines should not have a barrier of entry of any kind when it comes to the making of, but especially if its skill associated. In a nutshell.

do i have other personal thoughts on zines? yeah you suck in my book if you have any requirements to participate in a community zine. maybe dont call that a zine.

anything beyond what i've typed will bring boiling hot water on me and i dont want that. im not here to debate, only share some of my own thoughts. thanks for reading if you got this far :)

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What areas of the world would u want Pokémon to base a region on?

omg thank you for this question i have so many answers to this question okay okay so

i know this is self centered but i actually think the delmarva region would be pretty cool, weve got like, a big penninsula, and a big bay, and a flat area and a hilly area and a super mountainouse area, and like, there’s the mining-themed far west of virginia, you could even include all the battlefields (maybe gauche, idk there might be a way to do it tastefully) plus there are arguably like 3 or 4 cool cities in the delmarva area (baltimore, DC, richmond, like, newport news or something) PLUS theres all the spy/fbi/pentagon shit around here which could be really cool, plus theres a bunch of rivers. actually living here is boring but the general area does have a lot of stuff. maybe have...three branches of govt legendaries? would that be too cheesy

this is obvious but like. i cant believe they havent done italy or greece yet. like, come on. maybe do them both at the same time with a sort of like, johto/kanto connection....obv so much potential here

okay so i dont know enough abt africa for this but i actually think a pan-african pokemon game could be really cool, esp if they did a BW style thing and had a wholly new pokedex. i mean like, geographically a lot of africa is really homogenous and it doesnt even have any big penninsulas (WHAT IS THE POINT OF GEOGRAPHY W/O PENNINSULAS.....) but yeah i think this could be cool, not that gamefreak should actually do it (absolutely do not trust them to do it in a way that isnt super racist)

any sort of high mountain area would be great, maybe the alps or the himalayas? i mean, if youve been here a while you know i love ice types and i think mountains give a lot of potential for ice types, plus like, you could have isolated valleys and secret passages and tons of caves its just. its all good.

AUSTRALIA....mostly because uluru seems like such a pokemon-ish thing. like just a giant rock in the middle of nowhere. maybe have a region that’s heavy on the ground types, also, again they could do a BW thing with a bunch of unique animals cuz marsupials

okay so i dont think this would ever go over but i feel like china could be really good, tbh i think gamefreak excels when it does asian aesthetics cuz theres just a lot more personal familiarity, plus you get the himalayas, a big desert, a bunch of cities, a bunch of history, rivers, etc.

here’s a hot take: great lakes region! okay so first of all it has a national border right in the middle and like. i HAVE to know if theyd include that. but also like, i think the geography of the great lakes is really weird, and lets you like, backtrack in a way thats still interesting (like, go around a lake one way, then unlock a route back the other way, sort of like how sinnoh did), plus you could have a hoenn-ish emphasis on water types, its just, all very good

okay so sort of like africa i think any one area of south america is too geographically homogenous to be a region on its own (like, its basically either jungle or mountain (or shore)) so i think a pan-south-american region would be good, epscially because like, it could be cold at the bottom but super lush at the top, a giant jungle could be cool, maybe the legendaries could be the andes and the amazon?

okay so this is super obscure but i think doing nunavut+greenland as a sort of like...northern counterpart to hoenn could be really cool. i just love the geography of that region and i think pokemon could benefit from more tiny islands, i love tiny islands. theyd have to take a ton of liberties because that area is mostly empty but like, they do that anyway so

okay this got super long but ive decided im also gonna complain about the regions we do have. i cant believe we go both a france AND uk region, like, theyre both so homogenous, what the fuck is the point, is it ANY coincidence that gens 6 and 8 were....bad