Author: Nyx

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Happy Mail Monday – Game of Shrooms Edition

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Hello and welcome back to Happy Mail Monday! After a pretty disasterous month of May, I am back with a freshened up zine cave and some super awesome goodness to share with you today.

Like what I do here? Consider supporting me and Sea Green Zines on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/seagreenzines

Thank you so much for watching.

Awesome People/Places/Spaces Mentioned:

*True Zine Marin – https://www.instagram.com/truezinemarin/

*Game of Shrooms – https://yumfactory.com/gameofshrooms/

*Latibule – https://www.instagram.com/latibule_art/

*Adam Gnade – https://adamgnade.com

*Xerography Debt – http://www.leekinginc.com/xeroxdebt/

*Pocket Thoughts – https://www.etsy.com/shop/pocketthoughts/

*The Stay at Home Girlfriend – https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/missmuffcake

*Portland Buttonworks (shroom buttons) – https://portlandbuttonworks.com

*Sticker Robot – https://stickerobot.com

*Small Zine Volcano – https://smallzinevolcano.bigcartel.com

*Sticky Institute – https://www.stickyinstitute.com

My PO Box:

Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia

You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com
https://seagreenzines.carrd.co

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Happy Mail Monday – Fritkot Edition

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Welcome back to another Happy Mail Monday! This week I talk about photomontages, comic perzines, and show some awesome mail.

Like what I do here? Consider supporting me and Sea Green Zines on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/seagreenzines

Thank you so much for watching.

Awesome People/Places/Spaces Mentioned:

*Antek – https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/pleasetakeonebooks
**Learn English With Mr. Wood Review – https://seagreenzines.com/2021/10/01/zine-review-learn-english-with-mr-wood/

*‘Museum’ should rhyme with ‘amusement’: the credo of a toy collector Video – https://aeon.co/videos/museum-should-rhyme-with-amusement-the-credo-of-a-toy-collector

*M Elias Hiebert – https://www.instagram.com/eliashiebert/
**https://spideroak.com/browse/share/eliashiebert/tapes/SATURATED_FAT_TAPES/ (DM for password)

My PO Box:

Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia

You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com
https://seagreenzines.carrd.co

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Done, Doing, Dreaming – May 2022

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Hello friends! Grab you hot or cool drink, settle in, and let’s chat. Today I’m relaxing and talking about some changes to Missives mail outs, setting up a Ko-Fi, how I’m still dreaming about the podcast returning, spoonie life, and more.

Like what I do here? Consider supporting me and Sea Green Zines on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/seagreenzines

Thank you so much for watching.

Awesome People/Places/Spaces Mentioned:

*Juuniper Bunny – https://juuniperbunny.carrd.co

*Billy – https://www.patreon.com/iknowbilly
**https://www.youtube.com/user/iknowbilly

My PO Box:

Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia

You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com
https://seagreenzines.carrd.co

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Happy Mail Monday – Water Under the Bridge Edition

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I am back again, friends, with a lovely zine and new book (!) from Jen at Three Chairs Publishing. Check out the beatiful zine, beautiful book, and beautiful words this week on Happy Mail.

Like what I do here? Consider supporting me and Sea Green Zines on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/seagreenzines

Thank you so much for watching.

Awesome People/Places/Spaces Mentioned:

*Jen Payne – Three Chairs Publishing – https://www.instagram.com/3chairsbooks/
**https://linktr.ee/jenpayne
**https://3chairspublishing.com/manifest-zine/

*Zine Review – Manifest Zine #1 – https://seagreenzines.com/2022/01/13/zine-review-manifest-zine-1/

My PO Box:

Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia

You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com
https://seagreenzines.carrd.co

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Happy Mail Monday – She’s Back! Edition

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Hello zine friends! I am back after my long break with an extra long Happy Mail Monday video to share with you. There are stickers, zines, postcards, and all sorts of goodies to enjoy.

Like what I do here? Consider supporting me and Sea Green Zines on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/seagreenzines

Thank you so much for watching.

Awesome People/Places/Spaces Mentioned:

*5:46 – Vixxie – https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/VixxiesShop
**Vixxie Plans – https://www.youtube.com/c/VixxiePlans

*13:50 – Anna Gecko – https://oleandrsstudio.carrd.co

*21:40 – True Zine Marin – https://www.instagram.com/truezinemarin/
**Nite Owl – https://www.streetartsf.com/tag/nite-owl/
**Sticker Robot – https://stickerobot.com
**KDHume – https://kdhume.com
**Lara Sidra – https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShoeboxZines

*27:56 – Sarah Hoffman – https://www.sarahehoffman.com

*37:37 – Victoria (Screaming Monkeys) – https://www.instagram.com/ilovescreamingmonkeys/?hl=en
**https://linktr.ee/ilovescreamingmonkeys

*45:57 – Purple Bat Press – https://www.instagram.com/therese__walton/
**https://theresewalton.gumroad.com

*53:12 – Kendy MissMuffCake – https://linktr.ee/Missmuffcake
**Twenty-Two Zines (Wesley) – https://www.instagram.com/twentytwozines/
****https://twentytwozines.storenvy.com

*1:00:00 – Connor Ovenden-Shaw – https://linktr.ee/connorovendenshaw

*1:06:31 – Myth & Lore – https://www.instagram.com/mythandlorezine/
**https://geistart.bigcartel.com/product/myth-lore-zine-issue-1-pre-order

My PO Box:

Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia

You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com
https://seagreenzines.carrd.co

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Call for Submissions: Elegies for Hallownest

Seeking poetry submissions for a poetry fanzine inspired by the world and characters of Hollow Knight!

Hollow Knight is a game that’s lore and dialogue reads like poetry and that’s storytelling leaves lots of space for speculation.

Elegies for Hallownest is a community project that seeks to gather work from writers who have been inspired by the game’s aesthetics, themes, characters, lore, environment, and dialogue.

Your work can take any aspect of the game for inspiration, so long as you can picture yourself stumbling across it within the world of the game, on a lore tablet or in a wanderer’s journal (though, if your piece gets a little more meta, please still send it in, I’d love to see if we can make it work).

Poetry is defined as broadly as possible; your work can be as structured or unstructured, rhyming or discordant, stanza-based or prosaic as you’d like.

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/elegieszine
On Tumblr: https://elegieszine.tumblr.com/post/674660777927606272/seeking-poetry-submissions-for-a-poetry-fanzine

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The Possibilities of Zines Are Endless 

I’ve been making zines since 2016, currently under the moniker Milky Breath. I live and work in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) on unceded Wurundjeri land. Upon reflection, I’ve been making zines since I was around 10, I just didn’t know it. They helped me to express myself. I value accessibility and as someone who has never had much money to buy art supplies or be involved in exhibitions, I appreciate zines for their accessibility and possibility.

As a non-binary zine maker and a mental health advocate, I try to use my zines and my media platform to speak candidly about my mental illness to encourage others who are struggling to reach out when they need help and to show them that they’re not alone. I use my art as a way to overcome the stigma that surrounds mental illness.

I began my creative journey in 2016 when my psychologist suggested that I start drawing pictures and comics as a form of mindfulness. I always enjoyed drawing, I just didn’t think I was any good. When I had enough drawings, I turned them into my first issue of Fully Sick, Chronically Sad, my ongoing comic series about living with Borderline Personality Disorder.

My friend Ziggy (@ziggyfilth on Instagram) was my inspiration to begin making zines, she gave me the idea and encouraged me to put my drawings into a zine in the first place. I can’t thank her enough. Zines are such a huge part of my life. I’m grateful to have met so many new creative and kind people. My boyfriend, Michael, also inspires me, I wouldn’t be able to create without his constant love and support.

The possibilities of zines are endless. They can be in any format, about any subject – no matter how niche. My mum thought she couldn’t make a zine because she doesn’t draw, but we just made a zine together this year. Zines don’t have to ‘be’ anything, which is the greatest part about them.

AJ Dance is a chronically ill zinester and writer living on unceded Wurundjeri land.
Instagram: instagram.com/milky_breath
Shop: milkybreath.bigcartel.com