babyteeth winter '25 issue 3

Hi! Babyteethers really rose to the occasion with this one.

As you know, heat rises, so this issue must be on FIRE! Some may say babyteethers are the cream of the crop.

Or the feet of the foot! And by this toeken, walk your FEET on over to our termly WORKSHOP 12-3 THIS SATURDAY in SAYLES 252! Drop in any time and stay as long as you want. We will be creating a physical zine together with a panoply of art supplies, vegan chocolate chip cookies, and pure sincere love. Suck it up! (the cookies and the fun) That’s all for now, adiana “why do they call it” contreras sofia “of in . . .” durdag lily “oven” akre olivia “of out hot eat the food?” ho

editors: ayla faitelson nicky pierce ralph adiana contreras lily akre max votruba violet pody nadia hutson eliza farley sofia durdag STEWIE GOON!

contributers: STEWIE GOON! dashiell tidrick adiana contreras billy bratton owen roth the ore barons eliza farley tyler chodera olivia ho sofia durdag

eye dee kay, man. eye dee even SEE. say whatever you want about it.

this piece of art is: >beautiful funny

stupid

just please don’t say you don’t get it. eye don’t see. but i care too much for you not to.

DASHIELL

TIDRICK

very cold in our house

‘did you tell her we lie in seperate beds?’

inhuman was it that then too when i lied across the bedtable and peeled my fingertips open?

am i the only person worried about what counts as art when it’s stuff like this, and i am just TWH (typing while high) and have nothing really to sustain myself except for a shelf of old cards and letters cut open and so anyways, all of a sudden it’s just you’re blowing bong smoke out the window and trying to hold your breath when you pass certain hallways or the other. every time i go to work i think about the panic attack i had there and when my heart was pounding and paining. I called my mom and she told me hang up, call campus security, then they will call 911. uncle tony was on the highway over before i took a breath for air and the ambulance driver says look kid it happens to me too, and you say:

here are dashiell’s toes

An Economic Catastrophe

Ore or orphan Which is more imp-ore-tant?

The Barons

eliza farley

The Room That We Were In The Other Day For the sake of time, I’ll have to summarize Developments of late, but where it starts Is in that ornate room of pinned-down butterflies Framed under glass. There, somewhere near my heart, A vital muscle in an instant ceased to hold.

I felt in my extremities a creeping cold, That, at the time, I didn’t even realize Would soon consume me, but it now has been Three days and half a night since it materialized, And it has grown. I’d say in terms of pins-and-needles, I have never felt them worse before.

I cannot seem to move my body anymore.

Do you recall the room? Just now the butterflies Began to move, as if meaning to tease Me. Pins popped out. The glass then dematerialized, Allowing them to swarm and bite like fleas.

All this is just to say that if you can, as soon As possible, please come and drag me from this room owen roth

how how is is your your comps comps going? going? is is eroticism eroticism aa historiographical historiographical method. method. is is mysticism. mysticism. are are dreams. dreams. sacrality is is an an ocean, ocean, aa boundless boundless ocean ocean without without shore. shore. ii imagine imagine sacrality myself myself flfloating oating or or drowning drowning in in this this ocean, ocean, sinking sinking to to the the bottom bottom where where the the profane profane must must lay lay in in silty silty quiet. quiet. thursday thursday night night ii am am sleeping sleeping in in somebody somebody else’s else’s bed bed and and have have feverish, feverish, muttering muttering dreams dreams that that perhaps perhaps if if ii lived lived in in the the fififteenth fteenth century century ii would would have have interpreted interpreted as as aa divine divine force speaking speaking to to me me in in the the tight tight close close dark. dark. except except ii live live now now and and ii force wake wake up up and and walk walk home home and and there there is is no no god god in in me me at at all. all.

ii am am trying trying desperately desperately to to get get to to the the bottom bottom of of divine divine love. love. ii look look for for it it everywhere. everywhere. my my sister. sister. jstor. jstor. but but it it lays lays beneath beneath something. something. it it is is in in my my eye eye and and beyond beyond it. it. in in the the fififteenth fteenth century century ii would would have have known known without without aa doubt doubt that that there there are are two two worlds—the worlds—the invisible invisible and and the the visible, visible, the the felt felt and and the the known. known. and and there there is is aa barrier, barrier, an an isthmus, isthmus, but but it it is is permeable, permeable, thinner thinner than than the the width width of of my my palm, palm, if if you you are are aa demon, demon, god god (in (in all all various various forms), forms), or or have have aa perfect perfect shining shining love love under under your your skin. skin. is is love love in in history, history, or or only only echoes. echoes. are are the the echoes echoes constructivist constructivist or or positivist. positivist. if if ii had had lived lived in in the the fififteenth fteenth century century last last saturday, saturday, ii might might have have understood understood drunkenness drunkenness as as aa metaphor metaphor for for the the ecstasy ecstasy of of divine divine union, union, aa sip sip of of heaven. heaven. oh oh ii wonder wonder what what intoxication intoxication feels feels like like when when you you can can taste taste god, god, and and not not somebody somebody else’s else’s hamms hamms on on somebody somebody else’s else’s mouth. mouth. is is my my paper paper compromised compromised by by this this failure failure of of understanding. understanding. ii think think yes yes probably. probably.

ii bury bury my my face face in in my my hands hands and and ii truly truly think think all all troubles troubles can can be be reduced reduced to to wanting wanting yet yet not not having. having. how how can can ii cite cite that. that. wanting wanting is is rapture, rapture, if if it it is is of of the the right right kind. kind. is is wanting wanting aa thesis. thesis.

[sofia durdag]

by Tyler Chodera