Category: General

Hello and happy spring from the land of Oz. Times are hard, but the sun is shining, and we need to have hope.

I hope this post finds you all well and keeping safe.

Slowly but surely is the mantra of things around here. I’m a bit impatient with myself, but it has been feeling very good to get things done. A lot of it is still in the background rather than here on the blog, but it’ll all flow in.

I’m still quite behind on reviews, and, even at two per week, that’s going to be the way of things for a little while yet. Everyone’s patience is super beautiful.

PSA: Always back up your stuff!

I know I wrote that in the last update post about things, but I think it bears repeating.

With the way this year has been going, I’m a little wary to committing to any sort of timeline for anything. That said, I’m hoping to get into data entry mode and get those shipping profiles set up. Because it’s the shipping profiles, not the listings, that are the real pain. Hahaha

YouTube is on my mind a lot at the moment. I have a lot of ideas about where I’d like to take things from here, but I’m trying to do things the smart way rather than my usual way of starting all the things without thinking through the consistency side of thins.

Thank you so much to everyone who sent in questions for a Q&A video. There are quite a few questions, so I might end up breaking it into two! Speaking of the questions, a couple of questions came in that got me thinking about…

The podcast! A couple of Q&A questions gave me an idea for the next podcast, and it really takes things back to the beginning for me in a few senses, so I’m pretty excited about it.

I don’t want to make one episode only to have a multi-month gap between that and the next one, though, so it’ll be a wee bit before I dive in.

*Phenomena 2 & Workaholic 2 – These zines are still happening! The cover art is in the works, and I have some great pieces for both. If you’d like to sneak in with a piece to one or both, please feel free to do so. These definitely won’t be done before the end of the month, so there is still time.

*Dear Anonymous 9 & 10 – I would like to wrap up the DA series by putting out both issues 9 and 10 at the same time, so there is still plenty of room if you would like to submit your work. Love letters, odes to your cat, hatred for oatmeal raisin cookies… Express yourself in DA.

*Missives From Murray Bridge – Missives are back! At least, the first Missive in quite a long time. I sent out a lot of them in the big ol’ mail send out. If you’re not on the mailing list, please feel free to get in touch. Some help with postage is always helpful (https://www.paypal.me/seagreenzines), but I completely understand if that’s not doable. I shall always do my best to send out to as many people as possible.

*The 24 Hour Zine Thing 3 – I didn’t get to do this during International Zine Month like I would have liked to. However, I love this so much and have had so much encouragement from True Zine Marin that I definitely need to make another one happen this year. Check out my Instagram @seagreenzines because that’s where I put out my calls for page ideas.

Hello, friends! After the last video, I wanted to give you all a short update on how things are going since letting you know about my mental health difficulties. Thank you all for being amazing.

Checking in. 💜

I wasn’t sure about making the video, let alone posting it to YouTube. What’s too much information? What’s going too far? Is this what radical vulnerability is? What am I leaving myself open to by talking about my mental health issues?

But I’ve always been one who says you are not alone. I’ve always been about being open about my own issues because if it helped even just one person talk and reach out when they are struggling, then it’s always worth it.

So yesterday I posted the video about what’s been happening. Why I’ve been falling behind. Why I get teary pretty easily and have been trying to thank you all so much in previous videos but keep feeling like it’s not enough.

I reached out.

And you have been reaching back. 💜

I still don’t have the words to express everything… but perhaps ‘thank you’ will be enough for now.

I got out of bed. I made myself a cup of tea.

Upward and onward.

Alas, the black dog has won today and won this weekend, but tomorrow is a new day, zine friends.

Tomorrow is always a new day.

After a great many technical difficulties and delays… Hello, zine friends! In this video I chat about Festival of the Photocopier 2020 in Melbourne, all sorts of fun things, and show you the awesome zines that came to me/I picked up while there.

As always, thank you for watching.

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Awesome Things/People Mentioned

*GoFundMe Supporters:
**True Zine Marin – https://www.instagram.com/truezinemarin/
**Luke You – ?
**Hahn Dostine – https://www.instagram.com/dream.pea/
**Feral Publication – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdCz8SvR304&feature=youtu.be
**Apples – http://chickencollective.storenvy.com/
**Anonymous

*Festival of the Bitsy Copier – https://stickyinstitute.itch.io/bitsy-copier
*Sticky Institute – https://www.stickyinstitute.com/

*Habitual Novelties – https://linktr.ee/habnopubco
*Zine Review: Kitchen Sink (Everything But The) – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-kitchen-sink-everything-but-the/
*Zine Review: Dr. Pigeon: Psychological Psychiatrist – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-dr-pigeon-psychological-psychiatrist/

*Table Neighbour – https://twitter.com/iurgiurrutia

*Saff Miro – https://www.instagram.com/saffmiro/
*Zine Review: Road Trip – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-road-trip/
*Zine Review: Adventures in Predictive Text – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-adventures-in-predictive-text/
*Zine Review: My Favourite Graphs – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-my-favourite-graphs/

*Milky Breath – https://www.instagram.com/milky_breath/
*Zine Review: A Guide to Soap Operas – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-a-guide-to-soap-operas/

*Rae White – https://raewhite.net/
*Milk Teeth – https://raewhite.net/milkteeth/
*Zine Review: Rabbits & Relics: Okunoshima (Rabbit Island) – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-rabbits-relics-okunoshima-rabbit-island/
*Zine Review: Diary of a Lavender Plant – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-diary-of-a-lavender-plant/
*Zine Review: Enby Life: Stories, poetry, & art by non-binary people – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-enby-life-stories-poetry-art-by-non-binary-people/

*Natalie Michelle Watson – https://nataliemichellewatson.com/
*Apples – http://chickencollective.storenvy.com/
*Zine Review: Dear Diary, Today I Died 1 – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-dear-diary-today-i-died/
*Zine Review: Dear Diary, Today I Died 2 – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-dear-diary-today-i-died-2/
*Zine Review: Dear Diary, Today I Died 3 – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-dear-diary-today-i-died-3/

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My PO Box:

Jaime Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia

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You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com

Sea Green Zines: https://seagreenzines.com
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/seagreenzines

Hello, dear zine friends!

A quick note for you today. Some fabulous zine mail has arrived in the post box over the past week.

However… Your fluffy zine enthusiast decided to have a go at ice skating recently. The results? A love for ice skating, and an inability to sit in the same position (if at all) for very long. Haha. I landed squarely on my tailbone at one point, and I haven’t been able to sit properly since.

It’s all good and fine – nothing permanently or even badly damaged. But it does mean sitting for a video is a literally painful endeavour this week and one I’d prefer to delay until next week. (I couldn’t figure out how to shoot the video on my stomach without it also being uncomfortable.)

Please forgive the delay! I’m sure I’ll be right back to it for next week’s Happy Mail Monday.

Hello, zine friends!

I hope this post finds you well and enjoying the start of the first full week of 2020.

*No mail has arrived in my post box over the holiday period, so no Happy Mail Monday for this week (and perhaps next). However, I am very, very happy to say an episode of The Zine Collector Podcast is coming soon! I feel like this is the first big step in getting back to what I want Sea Green Zines to be, and I’m very excited.

*Sea Green Zines is open for your calls for submissions, zine event announcements, and all sorts of other zine-related awesomeness! I make these sorts of posts every Saturday and Sunday, so please don’t feel shy about getting in touch at seagreenzines(at)gmail.com

*Festival of the Photocopier is coming soon! And Sea Green Zines will be there!

Whether I table or not, your fluffy zine enthusiast will be in Melbourne for Festival of the Photocopier 2020. I currently have a Go Fund Me to help make this happen. If you are able to help in any way be through donation or sharing the campaign, I greatly appreciate it!

*Resources Page – Is your distro, zine blog, zine podcast, zine YouTube channel, etc, listed on the Resources Page? If it’s not, please let me know!

Those are all the bits and bobs for now, friends. I will be back once again soon with a shiny new episode of the podcast and more!

Until next time, spread a little sunshine.

Hello, hello, and hello zine friends! A belated Happy New Year to you all and so many good wishes to you all for the year to come!

I hope you all had a wonderful wrap up to the year before and have had an excellent stop into this new year and new decade! There’s something magical to me about a new year, with hopes and dreams given a bit more space and power than they might otherwise. Hold onto those hopes and dreams, my friends. Hold them tight and don’t let them go.

The end of 2019 and beginning of 2020 has brought to me some completely unexpected things, but I’m incredibly happy to say that they are good things. I wish I could share more, but I’m afraid there’s still too much wrapped up that I cannot share.

That being said, I have wonderful plans for this year. We all know how my plans tend to go, but I keep making them anyway. Haha. If everything goes well, there may be some overseas travel included, so crossing fingers…

I also have many dreams and plans for here on the blog, so please bear with me as I get ready and gear up for what’s to come. Sea Green Zines will be back in usual action this Monday.

Until next time, spread a little sunshine.

Hello, dear and wonderful zine friends.

I want to thank you all for all of your patience and kindness while I have been dealing with a messy life and messier mental health. You have all been so incredibly kind without asking questions, without asking more, without demanding justification for me not keeping up with all of the things I had going.

It’s this kindness that has kept me going through the darkest of moments and helped me to not give up.

For that, I cannot possibly thank each and every one of you enough. I will be forever in your debt.

For a long time, I thought ‘just one day, just one week, just one… and then I’ll be fine’. Now I’ve taken a step back from such expectations and am simply taking things day by day. Thank you all for understanding as I learn how to carry on this way.

With that in mind, I make no big promises other than to do what I can as I can. And I simply say another heartfelt thank you and wish you all the very best in your world bubbles.

With love,

Nyx