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by the by-- what's ya'lls fave archie character, and why?
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What do they genuinely think banning children from social media is going to do? Because I can tell you, what it's going to do once the ink is finally dry on the bill and it's been signed, meta or another social media company is going to examine the loopholes very carefully and create an online ecosystem that is just for kids. And it'll have reels. And shorts. And likes. And comments. And fortnite. And we'll all be having this exact same stupid fucking discussion in another 11 years.
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WORDS FROM THE QUEEN
[Originally published in Fashion Fag Digest Volume 3, Issue 4, Number 9, 1997]
My spirit is restless
my heart uneasy,
mind edgy.
I am at a crossroads,
a new branch,
a new root.
I feel the energy of change
move through my body like quicksilver
ever moving elusive not,
letting me move,
making me indecisive scared.
Scared of what might,
what might not,
scared of what could,
and could not.
Unresolved issues,
uncried tears,
unhurt pain.
Neutral surviving,
trying to keep my lungs clear
of the water that bogs
so many of us down.
Eyes on the prize,
try not to forget
why you tolerate this mess
why you must not give up.
It can win,
you can't win,
your self destructive,
self loathing,
hateful side
can't win.
Control,
we need it
I have it,
but no one can control emotion
and I am a fool for trying?
Maybe if I don't go there,
we don't touch that.
The hurt will go away
the pain fade,
the anger subside,
the bitterness abate.
I will keep on movin',
don't stop,
express myself,
not repress myself,
be young Black and gifted,
be brilliant,
if not for anyone else's sake
maybe just my own.

Welcome to the Poetry issue, as much as I would like to say that I am not a poet. I can't deny the words that God blesses me with. This issue is about coping and movin' on. The poems, reflect my journies and my love of the Black Woman.
Alot of you expressed that you felt very, unfulfilled and wanted more from the last issue, specifically from the stories Betrayed and When God. So I decided in this issue to tell the rest of the story and tie it up. Check out Reprimand, where I tell their side of the story.
I am particularly proud of my maturity as a layout artist, and especially our new logo. Enjoy and please let me know what you think. I want to bring back the letters page but I can't with out your participation.
Peaceful Journey in the new year.
Miss Trevah
[Afterwords: My nephew sends me a video meme of Wendy Williams attempting to gather her thoughts to say something and is just stumped, astonished and wordless, as the camera still rolls. This is how I feel after just reading this Letter from the Editor from my second and I believe final issue of Fashion Fag Digest.
I have done minor edits, added a missing word, and did line breaks more appropriate to a poem which I couldn't do in the original issue due to space constraints. As I read the piece aloud I could remember my reading the piece aloud before, its so weird how memory works, just saying my own words, connected me to the last time I said my own words nearly thirty years ago.
It wasn't exactly goosebumps, or the walking on of my own grave, but a mental connection to the past that occurred in a flash, as I recalled that albeit I was awful at proofreading, I did read my pieces aloud before finally publishing them. I needed to make sure the voice I heard in my head sounded the same when actual spoken, that the feelings, and whispers were all collected, collated and demonstrated on the written page.
Once again I am amazed at the word-play and the intermixing of pop culture references, which since I made them I immediately get. This space is meant for me unpacking my thoughts and feelings from my past, lets take a brief moment to isolate a few of the references giving them a bit more context.
Eyes on the Prize - is a documentary history program on PBS, they had a very catchy opening song from the civil rights movement attributed to Alice Wine from Johns Island, South Carolina. I knew none of that at the time I wrote this but my paternal heritage is from the sea islands of South Carolina amongst the Gullah and Geechee people. I will always say I am of Gullah/Geechee descent but never actively practiced the culture myself so do not consider myself Gullah Geechee.
"Cause it's all about control, and I've gots lots of it." - I have made abso-smurfly no attempts to hide that I am a huge Janet Jackson fan, I have personally collected all of her studio albums on vinyl. My line which wasn't a direct quote from her but was inspired by her lyrics on my go-to dance song in high school.
"...keep on moving. Don't stop like the hands of time" - Another lyric this time from another eighties song by the group Soul II Soul. I used just a piece of the song in my poetic flow. I did this because this is how my brain works, if I hear someone say something, sing it or write it I automatically flash to the reference I have in my head ergo I decided to share this inner dialog outwardly.
Express yourself - I shouldn't even have to say this, but this is obviously a Madonna reference from her famous song of the same name. So that was three parts Black, one part queer, that sounds about right in an exploration of who I am, and what I present to the world.
A poetry issue that honors my love for Black women, say what now? #MicDrop
Curiously I actually look forward to re-reading this issue or maybe just skimming it, because I set a lofty goal and I am really curious if I actually accomplished what I set out to do. This is a time of me acknowledging and embracing the creativity that I have always had, but had trouble fully recognizing and realizing. I think my peers saw it and this is part of what created the allure of Trevor Brown. I am not going to say that I didn't realize my own greatness, but I feel that that can be embraced and accomplished in a number of ways not just one that results in financial renumeration.
The feeling of pride that I now have is more than enough actualization in my opinion. The ultimate goal should be self-love and acceptance, I am overwhelmed with all the love I am feeling for myself and my very creative and brilliant mind. Once again I wish there had been someone around to nurture this because it truly could have become something bigger than what it was. Even in its smallness it was impactful the things that I attempted to share and disseminate into the world around me.
I want to be that encouragement that I never had to the young folks around me, pushing them to become their best-selves to lean into their own interest and creative revelations, to acknowledge there is no one like them, and what they have to offer has value. I just wish our society placed significance in how amazing the small things are, and the power they have, even if just to effect one life.]
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#zine#fashion fag digest#nineties#letter from the editor#poetry#poem#spoken word#verse#eyes on the prize#express yourself#soul ii soul#madonna#Janet Jackson#black women#encourage creativity#gullah geechee#sea islands#south carolina#heritage#queer#gay#black#journalling#writing#personal writing#Marlene Saunders
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Letter From the Editor: Expanding Our Writing Team
It’s been a long time since I’ve done a letter from the editor! I almost don’t know where to start. Since I last wrote to you at the end of January, six amazing months have gone by. There’s been so many changes in my life, in the world, and in Write Through the Night personally! I’m excited to catch you up on everything that’s been going on as well as to introduce you to a few new faces you may…
#by Jocelyn#hire writers#letter from the editor#meet the team#new team#new writers#notes from the editor#volunteer writers#writers
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I made Todd from Mario earrings. Pls watch and subscribe to Drawfee
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𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐨𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧!
𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧? 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐈 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞? 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝?
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Answering Asks -> #mail from fogtown postal
Fanart -> #blockson's favorite art
Mod Posts -> #letters from the editor
𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭...
How do our puppets work?
Is it stop-motion or live puppetry?
How do you light a puppet show?
A multi-puppet scene, explained
Fighting with puppets, explained
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#letters from the editor#fogtown#fogtown series#tv shows#indie filmmaking#independent artist#filmmaking#film#fogtown game#a rum case in fogtown#sherlock holmes#an updated pinned post abt our project!
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ARCHIE SONCI MENTUONE
ARCHIE SONIC MENYIOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(also............. i may be a baby fawn in the middle of a field regarding archie sonic stuff but would yr archie sonic server be open for someone just getting into it v slowly)
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I’ve decided to catastrophize about the fact that my editor didn’t respond to my message about her new cat because the book I sent her was bad because everything I’ve written since sdh has been bad and sdh was also bad and I’m far too much of a legal liability to publish anyway so I’m not sure why I’m still bothering
#never mind that the archives book needed a lot of help and of course an edit letter would take months#it’s a deeply complicated book#I think I never got past the editor that told me that legal told her to kick me from an anthology she wanted to keep me on#I think that one is coming back around to kick my ass#anyway! I’m fine it’s just been. hellish.#as things are.
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one action that i haven't seen a ton of people discuss online is writing a letter to the editor (not one specific editor, that's just what they're called). i'm thinking of palestine, but a lot of this can apply to other things. jvp has a letter to the editor guide here if u think you'd find that helpful. it's specific to jvp members from what i remember, so take what applies. individual papers will sometimes have their own sets of guidelines as well so be mindful of those. letters are generally more likely to make it to print when it comes to local papers, but you can also write letters to like. the nyt or wapo. you're just more likely to not get a response. as tools for social change, letters' purpose is to sway public opinion and pressure via institutions of media. i focus on local papers because, like with bds campaigns targeting college campuses, this stuff is going to start on a smaller scale first, but can and does build over time. think of one berkeley branch voting to divest very soon after another did first. this is like that to me.
i recommend seeing what other articles individual papers have about palestine just to get a feel for what might be most impactful for you to write about, or what still needs to be said. for local papers, you might want to tie it to your community in some way (and that might even be a requirement to get in the paper), so you can talk about, for example, how much money comes out of your specific area for israel, using uscpr's funding map. you can talk about protests in your area. if there are arab, palestinian, and/or muslim communities in your area, you talk about them. if there are medical facilities or lots of families in your area, you can talk about them. if there's a big tech presence in your area, you can relate it to that. education, youth, food, policing, etc. there's something. there are probably multiple lines of connection between your local community and palestine. you can also just respond to a published article or lte.
if you are writing a letter to the editor, it will be considered an opinion piece, so you can include opinions or things that may be seen as more subjective. check out other letters to the editor to get a sense for the type of tone/content/etc they are looking for. don't be afraid to break or bend those rules, but it's helpful to be aware of the general vibe of the paper, what's likely to get published, and what needs to be said.
what do you want your community to be talking about? what needs to be brought to their attention? what misconceptions need to be corrected? what issues do you want to put on the table? what do you want to add to the conversation? what's missing? what should be done about it?
if you can't make it to in-person actions, this can all be done online. and if you consider yourself good with words, this may be an area in which you're uniquely effective.
ps: citing other articles or sources is always helpful and is a way to platform other articles/books/texts that u think should be shared, although i don't think that's usually a requirement for ltes. if u can't think of one, ask around.
#palestine#sudan#drc#actions#haiti#writing#letter to the editor#at some point i want to write about one state solutions with reference to jewish currents' dispatches from gaza#and like. help lay the groundwork for that to be something that's at least considered a possibility by the general public#but there are also papers where it's like. i think i need to write about like this language of self defense and who is presumed to be#violent and argue that it is a genocide and things like that#so you know. gauge where you need to push etc. not that you necessarily need to respond to what's there#also there are more than likely multiple local papers in your area. you can write to more than one#personal stories also work for this#if you've written or made artwork idk if every paper is going to pick that up but consider submitting to a local litmag#congo#free palestine#also i'm not an organizer or a professional. these are just some things i've been thinking about
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sometimes you start to wonder what the historical record for the guys you made up looks like in the fictional world where they existed. and then you make some fake documents about it.
[moth and compass is a collaboration with @natdrinkstea!!!]
#em draws stuff#oc time again hehe#moth and compass#the lieutenant: chadwick goodfellow#the cannon spike: matthew worley#Get Wikipedia-ed! [my writing style is not very good but you'd best believe that my typefaces and colors are as accurate as can be]#do not really like the way that semi-realistic older matthew turned out but I was tired of looking at him. So.#genuinely very proud of Poorly Scanned PDF Goodfellow though. fiddled around with textured eraser settings for Hours and it was Worth It.#anyway now it's FUNFACTS time! since this is of course not the only lore that there is on these guys#but just what one might find if you tried to research them now in m&c-verse#as we are in the timeline where these are just guys from mine and nat's heads there is More That Can Be Said#such as that the drawing of goodfellow in that article is copied from the second portrait of him#and if you've been paying attention to previous goodfellow drawings you may have seen it!#I've also previously drawn the midshipman miniature and it's around somewhere as well#also matthew + faith + george were all in a relationship while george was alive#but too few of their letters survive for wikipedia editors to confirm that :/#I feel. Weird about posting this for some reason. but it may just be on account of that it is fully 1am when I'm writing this. ah well.#also the places mentioned in here are Made Up also#there Was in fact a historical hms ophelia but she was over a hundred years later so Shhhh
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The August Wrap
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#books i read#by Jocelyn#letter from the editor#movies i watched#october wrap up#review list#the august wrap
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I'm going to the drawfee liveshow in LA this week should I bring a book to read during the show so they can all collectively think "wow... she's different"
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Heyo, it's Mod N here. I'm a huge puppet nerd (that's how I got onto the team!) and I'm thinking about starting a little series to talk about puppetry on here.
Fogtown uses some really cool tech! All our backgrounds are digital, but are physically displayed behind the puppets using screens. There's a few rare greenscreen moments for key shots, but most of the effect is done in-camera (and aided by our talented lighting team!). Puppetry in film and TV has a long history of being at the forefront of special effects technology, I think it would be super fun to talk more about some incredible works that helped us get to where we are today making Fogtown!
Some of my ideas at the moment:
Waldos & 3D rendering (Jim Henson's Secrets of the Muppets)
Blue screens (Wubbulous world of Dr Seuss, Jim Henson Hour)
Mixing mediums with live puppetry with stop-motion (The Golden Key 1939)
Syncing in-camera animated backgrounds (Vinton's The Adventures of Mark Twain)
Let me know if this sounds fun. I'm also still trying to think of a name for the series / a tag to give it. So I'm open to ideas :D
-Mod N
#letters from the editor#can't really tag this with fogtown can i#puppetry#filmmaking#indie filmmaking
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it may be a long time coming-- but are there any issues y'all look forward to me reacting to?
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could I ask about Nightwing recruiting people for Brother Blood?
This is the fic where Tim joins the Church of Blood because of that time Nightwing got brainwashed and went on television publicly endorsing them. It's currently on hold because I need to get around to finishing reading that arc in New Teen Titans.
Currently all that's written is a scene which sets up Tim as a sad, lonely kid stuck at boarding school for the summer and thus vulnerable to cult recruitment:
"There's only a week and a half left of school," Tim said. "You guys always come home for summer break." He tried very hard to sound like he was pointing out facts and not like he was whining, because he wasn't. "You know we're trying our very best," his mom said this time. "We'd much rather be home with you and if things weren't so complicated over here, we would be. It should only be a couple extra weeks and then we'll be home." "A couple weeks I have to spend at school." "Belmont Academy has an excellent summer program," his dad said. "You can spend your time running around with your friends instead of getting weighed down by your ole' mom and dad. It'll be fun, kiddo."
#letters to the editor#Anonymous#tim drake#tim tag#havendance writes#despite the title of this fic#from the planning i've done so far Nightwing does not actually play that major of a role#besides being important to tim that is#carthago delenda est
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DANI HAINES x CARLOS OLIVEIRA / template.
#mine.#pair: dani x carlos#oc: dani#click for better quality as always ♡#so um i meant to post this the same time as the claire on last year but just completely forgot then found out i lost my psd so oops#i wanted to do like a stencil or army font for their names but also wanted that handwriting look so the letters overlapped...aughgh#gave up on looking for pics of carlos' face model as well i'm so sorry like there were none with his long hair and the ones from cosplay#they weren't hd or big enough so i was like whateva i'll use this pic that kinda looks real anyways 🤷#anyways yes dani has falling in love with her friends disease. she's so real for that actually#and there's something going on in my brain chemistry seeing dani be the one with two partners yet she's the jealous one...inchresting#again i'm fighting for my life with the new html text editor so hopefully this posts properly...i think the ewskers family tree#posted fine but also that one was a bit more complicated with the read more and line break pics...but omg trying to use gradient text#now...so yes anyways here are my other beloveds !! if i notice an error after posting this i'll blow up cause the new editor makes it harde#to do literally everything lmaoo i hate it sm
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