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04 - 05 Crossword Puzzle With No Right Answer Shelby Bigelow 06 Fruits Basket Headshots Novalee Dunnil 08 Shonen Frenzy Hannah Strong 08 Stars Kat Leman 09 - 11 Welcome to the Host Club! Moon 10 Ready for Battle Dezyrae Batzer 12 - 13 The Mandalorian, The Sith, The Droids, The Padawan, The Bounty Hunter Bryanne Michelle Gordon 14 - 17 Five Times The Fellowship of the Waffle Stayed Together and One Time They Didn’t Andrea Grabowski 18 The Portrait Elsie Campbell 19 Halloweentown Recreation Taylor Kolberg 20 Frances McDormand Keaton Wilder 20 Northern Winter Wonderland Jenna Wilkinson 21 Little Mermaid and Friends Gabrielle Edgecombe
22 Calling Cards for Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Rachel Nickerson 23 Unconditional Friendship Debe Jones 23 Fireflies Meredith Keeler 24 Lost in the Multiverse Riley Dent 24 InFINity War Emily Piper 25 The Horn and The Grey Wizard Stacy Heather 26 Sorcerer’s Stone Rachel Nickerson 27 Over A Self Portrait Hal Papcun 28 Scary Movies Makenna Malinao 29 Gogh Fuck Yourself James Asava 30 “You’re killin’ me, Smalls” Alissia J.R. Lingaur 31 untitled memory Liam Strong 32 - 33 To Dig or Not to Dig: Two Perspectives of Eugene’s Record Co-op Dylan Musser 33 So Long, Theseus Lee McGrath
34 Love on Tour Detroit Lillian Morrison
49 The Love of Wendy’s Lily Briggs aka Lil’ Lil (Wendy’s Stan)
34 - 35 Cherry (Track 5) Shelby Bigelow
50 High Noon Gavin Bebb
36 Rear Window Title Credit Parlay Caroline L. Schaefer-Hills
51 Ley Lines Andrea Grabowski
37 a bad samaritan Liam Strong
52 Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Molly Kaufmann
38 Dwight, in Many Words Michael, in Many Words Gabrielle Edgecombe
53 Calling Cards Martha Sprout
39 - 41 Y Yo A Ti Anna Parsons 42 Tralfamadorian Bastian Sanborn 43 Game of Thrones Caroline L. Schaefer-Hills, Coreene Kreiser 44 Baron Vladimir Harkonnen Bastian Sanborn 45 Ranger Across Worlds Kane Williams 46 Beetlejuice Lindsey M. Wormell 47 Benrey Rodrick Meyers 48 Diet Culture James Asava 49 A Fine Day for Fishing Noah Krajnik
54 - 55 Learning to Do Something New Susan Odgers 56 - 57 Staff Photos Staff 58 - 61 Letters from the Editors Staff 62 Design Specs Design Staff 63 QR Code with Recordings Literature Staff 64 Crossword Puzzle With No Right Answer (Key) Shelby Bigelow
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1. the dark area where vampires hang. 4. what is Spiderman losT in? 7. paRt of the key phrasE from the 90s movie, the sandlot. 8. novalee dunnil created heAdshots from what aniMe? 11. while allies on the dReam smp, tEchnoblaDe reveals a hidden base to tommyinnit and says to him, “welcome home, ________!” 13. what TAYLOR Swift album was released on october 22, 2012, and then again on november 12, 2021. 14. noah krajnik’s piece is made up of? 17. rear window is an example of a 1950’s classic what? 18. go go _____________! 19. hashtag for the piece titled, “baron Vladimir harkonnen”. 21. american title of the first harry pottEr book? 23. prince eric, flounder, sebastian, king tRiton, scuttle…. 24. kat leman has three pieces featuring this game. 29. _____high School host club 30. elizabeth's love interest in pride and prejudice 33. security guard who works at the black mesa 34. what is the acronym for world of warcraft? 35. what album was the piece “cherry (track 5)” inspired by? 38. tv show in which the pretzels make you thirsty. 40. title of the photograph featuring a leather jacket the raven boys would love. 42. what show are dwight schrute and michael scott from? 43. hannah strong’s pIece features characters from what type of anime? 44. acronym for the show featured in pieces by caroline schaefer-hills and coreene kreiser.
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2. what artist’s cOncert photo is featured in this issue? 3. red dead ___________. 5. “please don't kill me mr. __________ i wanna be in the sequel.” 6. the pieces infinity war and lost in the multiverse are from what fandom? 7. what is one of the hashtags on the piece “y yo a ti” by anna parsons? 9. what piece has the hashtags #slaughterhousefive #kurtvonnegut? 10. dutch post-impressionist painter. 12. what movie is aggie cromwell featured in? 15. tim burton’s titular character whose name you shouldn’t say three times. 16. the characters in winnie the pooh live in the 100 _______ woods. 19. what band is a hearing-impaired divine realm? 20. half of the twins alice meets in wonderland. 22. northern winter wonderlaNd by jenna wilkinson features the hashtag #thecomingglobal_________. 25. what game is featured in “learning to do something new” by susan odgers? 26. what breakfast food do the fangirls in andrea grabowski’s creative memoir call david tennant’s tenth doctor? 27. what is the title of meredith keeler’s piece? 28. what famous detective solved the mystery of the hound of the baskervilles? 31. the ______ wizard mentioned in the piece by stacy heather. 32. what restaurant is featured in the piece that contains the hashtag #cancelchickfila? 36. long-playing vinyl record or a ______. 37. frances mcdormand (1996). 38. what kind of portrait is being shown in hal papcun’s piece? 39. james asava’s botticelli remix, ___ culture. 41. darth vader is an example of a __________.
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Fruits Basket Headshots by Novalee Dunnil #anime #fruitsbasket
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Stars Three Genshin impact Poems
By Kat Leman
#geshinimpact #notabreathofthewildclone #spoilers #WeWillBeReuinted
Traveler Twins, hopping from world to world, stopped by an unknown god, Ripped from each other, one wakes in ruin, the other in peace. All those in the seven nations hail the star child. Voyage on! Seeking their sibling Even though there are no investigations, only posters. Lost radiance and wings. The Bough Keeper Every citizen reaches for help— Reject the prayers, search on. Dainsleif, the Twilight Sword of Khaeri’ah, Amongst the flowers he called, “Can you save them?” Instead of the Traveler, he asked the PLAYER. Narrator of each new face, Skills and powers, weapons and weakness, Levels and bosses, leveling materials and abilities, Every single character. Inside the tavern he warns, Durin the gods lie. with a Down Flourish, he exits. the dragon child falls Unloved till the very end. Ruptured onto the blood-soaked snow, in an Icy grave. Now, the dragon lies as bones
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1 https://urbanstems.com/ peony-color-meaning 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_ of_flowers 3 A host club is a night club where male staff attend to female patrons or vice versa 4 The host club they run usually only allows students to be the customers 5 Approximately 72,145.20 USD 6 https://www.floraqueen.com/ blog/learning-more-about-the-bluerose-meaning 7 https://www.bloomsbyheinau.com/ rose-color-meanings 8 Episode 25 and 26 in the Anime 9 A video of all his lines in the anime is exactly 3:56 10 The author of Ouran 11 Chapter 40 in the Manga 12 Chapter 41 in the Manga 13 https://www.billyheromans.com /blog/meaning-behind-different-colors-roses/ 14 https://www.rd.com/list/6-rose-colors-and-their-meanings/
Flowers have a subtle language that can go unnoticed by those unfamiliar with it. If someone were to give you a bouquet of white peonies, you would think “Aww, pretty flowers,” but peonies usually represent enduring beauty or sorrow for wrongdoing1, something the giver may not have realized. Flower language is very in-depth and detailed. In fact, the symbolic language of flowers has been around since the 18th century2 throughout Europe and Asia. It is well used in many different art forms: fine art, movies, TV shows, theatre, and anime. One of the many anime that use flower symbolism is Ouran High School Host Club. Ouran High School Host Club, or OHSHC, focuses on Haruhi Fujioka, an honor student who attends the elite Ouran Academy. While looking for a quiet place to study, she wanders into what she thinks is an empty music room. What she actually wandered into was a host club3,4 and is flabbergasted when she realizes it. While trying to leave, she accidentally knocks over a vase worth 8 million yen5. To make up the debt, she has to work as a host herself. Due to her androgynous appearance, most of the club thinks she’s a boy. By the end of Episode 1, all of the hosts realize she’s a girl. That is the beginning of wonderful friendships and hilarious plans to keep the rest of the school from finding out her gender. It is one of the most loved romantic comedy shows in anime.
The host club consists of seven characters, all unique with different personalities. All of the characters are represented by a colored rose. Roses also show up in the opening credits, and the theme song “Sakura Kiss” mentions roses in the line, “If I had to choose a rose / in this garden of romance / maybe we could take this chance / maybe you’re my love.” The rose in the line embodies the love the hosts have for the main character. Dark blue roses represent unrequited love, loyalty, and mystery6,7. This rose exemplifies the tall, mysterious Takashi “Mori” Morinozuka. Many of the moments that show his rose’s meanings are his loyalties to the Haninozuka family which the Morinozukas served until the families merged. Mori also shows his loyalty to the club by fighting to keep them from disbanding due to Tamaki’s sudden betrothal to Eclair8. The mysterious part of his rose is shown by how little he talks9. The unrequited love is represented by the possibility of him being a love interest for Haruhi before Bisco Hatori10 rewrote him in a supporting role. It could also show the crush he had on Honey11 and how unattainable that is due to Honey’s engagement to Reiko Kanazuki12. Pink roses represent femininity, refinement, and sweetness13. The lighter rose also stands for grace, joy, and happiness1⁴. This rose perfectly represents the sweet little Mitsukuni Haninozuka or Honey. One of the many ways he expresses his rose’s symbolism is by his endless smile and happy demeanor. Honey’s femininity is shown through his love for cake and stuffed animals and his rejection of gender roles.
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One way we can interpret grace is how well he fights; his swift yet calculated movements almost guarantee a win for him. The sweetness can be interpreted in two ways: his love for sweets or his general attitude towards people. His kindness can be attributed to his future wife, Reiko Kanazuki, and how he helped her up after she tripped on his beloved stuffed bunny. The joy and happiness can represent his love for the host club and his friends who are a part of it. Orange roses represent desire, fascination, admiration, and strength15. This rose embodies the more mature brother of the Hitachiin twins, Kaoru Hitachiin. While more mild-mannered than his brother, Kaoru usually goes along with Hikaru’s schemes. Kaoru admires Hikaru but also wishes they could expand their little world16 and not depend on each other as much. Before Tamaki befriended the twins, they were anti-social and self-centered but longing for someone to tell them apart. While slowly opening up to Tamaki and others, they became more sociable and less dependent on each other. Kaoru admires how easily some people accept others, as they were betrayed by a maid they trusted. It also shows strength to try and open up after a betrayal such as that. Light blue roses represent unrequited love as well as sensitivity and feeling17 18.This rose exemplifies the more hot-headed twin, Hikaru Hitachiin. Hikaru has a hard time hiding his emotions. While in Karuizawa, Haruhi runs into a friend from middle school and Hikaru treats him poorly. He also becomes emotional during Episode 21 when he is separated from Karou due to the Black Magic club meddling in the Test of Courage Tournament. His unrequited love is about his crush on Haruhi. The reason for the crush may have been Haruhi’s ability to distinguish Kaoru and him apart from each other19. He eventually confesses his love20 to Haruhi and is rejected by her21. Even after he is rejected by Haruhi, he invites her to visit the New Year’s Shrine22 to let her know they’ll still be friends. 15 https://www.bloomsbyheinau.com/rose-color-meanings 16 Episode 21 and Chapters 11 and 32 17 https://www.bloomsbyheinau.com/rose-color-meanings 18 https://www.floraqueen.com/blog/learning-more-about-the-blue-rose-meaning 19 This was in Episode 5 with their little “Which One Is Hikaru Game” 20 Chapter 59 21 Chapter 62 22 chapter 62
Ready for Battle by Dezyrae Batzer
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Lavender roses show love at first sight or enchantment23. They also represent royalty and power2⁴.The lavender rose personifies the ‘Shadow King25,Kyoya Ootori, perfectly. While others may consider his enchantment to be for Haruhi or Renge’s26 love for Kyoya, I disagree. I believe it is to his best friend, Tamaki Suoh. Episode 24 shows Kyoya when he first met Tamaki two years before the events of the show. Kyoya befriends Tamaki at the request of his father to keep friends close and enemies closer. Eventually they become close friends, and he helps Tamaki start the host club. Power is expressed through him buying out his father’s company and immediately returning it in Episode 26. Royalty can speak for his family’s status as a well-respected health care zaibatsu27. It could also express his knowledge of running a club’s finances as he is the vice-president of the host club. White roses represent several different things, including purity, innocence, grace, and humility28. These flowers have also been popular at weddings which represent new beginnings and budding love29. The white roses of grace represent the King of this host club, Tamaki Suoh. Tamaki is very innocent in the love he feels for Haruhi and often calls it “fatherly” love. The innocence and purity could also be his naivete toward Japanese culture as he was raised in France until age 14. Eventually, he realizes his feelings for Haruhi are romantic and not fatherly. At the end of Episode 1, when Tamaki realizes Haruhi is a girl, he begins to blush. Kyoya even remarks, “Now, I could be wrong but I think we may be witnessing the beginnings of love here.” With every following episode, we see Tamaki becoming progressively more overprotective of Haruhi. Grace can be attributed to his good looks, impeccable dancing skills, and amazing piano skills. Red roses represent romance, love, beauty, and perfection30 which is why they are usually given out on Valentine’s Day. While the representation of the rose isn’t expressly given off, it suggests our protagonist Haruhi Fujioka. The beauty and perfection epitomize her personality which could be why most of the club falls in love with her. Haruhi, throughout the show, is a hardworking individual. Although reluctant to join the host club, she still tries her hardest to be a good member and wants to keep the host club together. Throughout the series, Haruhi has been courted by many different people that are not in the host club, which is funny due to her inability to understand when people like her. While the anime concludes open-endedly, the manga finishes with the canon ship of Tamaki and Haruhi living together happily with the members of the host club as their neighbors. While these are just my opinions, I do love the connections between the roses and the hosts and I hope you do too. Now you know to look for flower symbolism in any form of art or literature.
23 https://www.billyheromans. com/blog/meaning-behind-different-colors-roses/ 24 https://www.bloomsbyheinau. com/rose-color-meanings 25 The one who really runs the club 26 Episode 4 and small random appearances throughout the rest of the show 27 A business conglomerate whose size allows control of significant parts of the Japanese economy 28 https://www.billyheromans. com/blog/meaning-behind-different-colors-roses/ 29 https://www.rd.com/list/6-rosecolors-and-their-meanings/ 30 https://www.billyheromans. com/blog/meaning-behind-different-colors-roses/
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i. We’ve begun calling David Tennant the waffle. Why? Who knows. We’re four teenagers in a pizza parlor, Kai’s photoshopped a waffle onto the face of Tennant’s Tenth Doctor, and we’re laughing so hard we’re dying, collapsing on the booth table. Of all the inside jokes to come—from an apocalypse of cows to mounting Teen Wolf’s Derek on the wall as an art installation—this is what sticks the most. The Fellowship of the Waffle! We’ve christened our quartet, our fangirl squad, our oasis against outside troubles. There’s Linnea in her vintage-style bandana headband, her smirk I love so well. She’s the eldest, and far more popular than the rest of us. Kai has a brilliant smile and long curly braids, a bedroom filled with books: my surrogate little sister. Aspen often wears her shiny dark hair in a “Katniss braid” while she rhapsodizes about Jennifer Lawrence’s humor and Brendon Urie’s vocal range on Tumblr and at our sleepovers. In another booth, there’s an all-too-familiar face, trench coat, shirt and tie, spiky hair. Ten, I whisper. The Waffle. Nobody notices. They’re too busy chaotically singing “Radioactive.” He gives me his signature smile, but sadness lurks behind it. “A very good friend told me something once. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... everything has its time. And everything ends.” He looks at the girls beside me, as if these words are targeting them, us. Coldness seeps into me. A melancholy I’ve felt more and more this summer. The Tenth Doctor is always right—but here, he has to be wrong. I’ve never had a by Andrea friend group like this. Grabowski ii. Doctor Who isn’t our only fandom. We’ve devoured every book featuring sarcastic son of Poseidon, Percy Jackson, and we wait impatiently for the next in the series. Percy has a thing for blue food, so we do too, eating blue jelly beans to celebrate his birthday on August 18th. And Mockingjay, Part 1 is coming out this fall: we’ll go together, holding hands through the saddest parts. Pizza is our prime nourishment, eaten with cucumber slices on top. We are good Whovians, so we must have fish fingers and custard, but we can’t find pre-made custard, so we substitute vanilla pudding. We aren’t sure if the combination actually tastes good, but piled onto the couch together, with Amy and Rory and the Eleventh Doctor saving the day on the screen, it doesn’t matter. One of the aliens in this episode is Madame Vastra—her species, Silurian, her residence, Victorian London, her lover, Jenny, a human woman. I’ve never seen girls kiss before. My chest tightens, and I resist the instinct to look at Linnea. There’s a shadow flickering in the corner, and it distracts me. But it’s not just a shadow. It’s a whole person. And I recognize him: Nico di Angelo, son of Hades. I want to hug him, but I’m stuck to the couch. His fleece-trimmed aviator jacket, skull t-shirt, shaggy black hair, shadowed eyes. “I was crushing on Percy for so long,” Nico murmurs, twisting his silver skull ring. He’s the first gay character I’ve ever spent time with in a story. But I don’t know why he’s talking about this. Why is he even here? Kai and Aspen coo at the ship of Vastra and Jenny. But there’s no sign of Linnea’s smirk.
Tumblr 2.0 17 iii. Click! I pull my camera away from my face to check the latest shot of Kai as Calypso from the world of myths and wisecracking demigods. I’m Sally Sparrow, the girl who faces the Weeping Angels statues in Doctor Who. Our cosplays are always sourced from one another’s closets—my colorful scarf is Kai’s, and Aspen’s jacket holds my trusty iPod blaring Fall Out Boy’s newest lyrics: “you will remember me, for centuries.” I feel a lot of kinship with Sally Sparrow. Our cameras and dishwater blond hair, sensitivity and love of old things. Seeing her lets my insecurities breathe easier. So too, with Percy’s girlfriend Annabeth Chase, but in her, I see who I want to be. Stronger. Smarter. There are so many powerful women in our fandoms. They protect their loved ones, slay monsters, debate aliens, show vulnerability in the face of danger, rule kingdoms. We don’t yet understand the fluidity of gender. All we know now is that Johanna Mason or Rose Tyler or Thalia Grace don’t care about finding a good husband or a good college, if their skirts are long enough, Bible study notes pretty enough. Here, we do not have to cosplay as good Christian girls. Here, we wear bow ties and leather jackets, Camp Half-Blood t-shirts and purple capes. We reach out of Midwestern woodland suburbs and touch the pillars of Mount Olympus and the endless interior of the TARDIS. Linnea is late. Very, very late. It’s Kai’s fifteenth birthday, and we’ve already had dinner and cake, are watching an episode in the cozy nest we’ve made in the basement. David Tennant walks majestically through a wall of flames. “The Waffle is getting toasted!” Aspen shrieks. “The Toasted Time Lord!” Kai collapses onto my lap. But Linnea still hasn’t texted us back. Percy’s fatal flaw is loyalty. Linnea’s surely isn’t.
Betrayal stings like a tracker jacker. In the corner where we’ve hung a bedsheet for photos, someone sits on the concrete floor. Nico, again. “Are the Waffles going to fall apart?” I whisper. Linnea has chosen others before me over and over. But I thought the Waffles, and what the Doctor means to us, would be enough to bind us four together unbreakably. Nico shakes his head and flips a large, gold coin. He tosses it to me. “The Roman god, Janus,” he says. There’s a two-faced man engraved on the coin. “God of doorways, and time.” Nico nods at the TV. “And duality.” “Duality,” I repeat. “We’re a lot more alike than you think,” Nico says. He pulls a phone from his pocket, and his downcast face lights up. “It’s Will. I gotta go.” He stands, smiles at me. “You’ll find a Will someday.” Before I react, he walks into the adjoining room. Aspen falls asleep and Kai and I lay curled together, talking away the betrayal, talking of the future. But it feels so far away. The idea of my Will, unimaginable. Linnea shows up in the morning. She’s not very apologetic. We forgive her anyway.
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iv. We have a Christmas party, a “Galentine’s Day” party, laughter buoying us through blizzard season. For my seventeenth birthday, Aspen gives me Doctor Who socks from Hot Topic, and we all put on a pair. I love these three so much, I want to tuck them inside my chest. I must be graced by Tyche, Greek goddess of luck. But that night, I feel small and hollow, like all their laughter washes over me, their jokes, superficial. It is not a new feeling, but it’s new with them. I cry to Linnea, because my fatal flaw is loyalty, or maybe it’s hanging on to things that hurt me. Linnea wonders if I’m depressed. I don’t believe her. I share her confusion: why would such a thing be present in me? Depression is for Nico, for Katniss after the war. But Nico sits in the corner and stares Stygian iron swords at me. “There are so many quotes from that space show that make you feel worth something,” Nico says. “So what’s in the absence of that? What about how you feel when you can’t sleep and read hurt/comfort fics about Percy and Annabeth or me and Will so your mind doesn’t eat itself alive?” Nico doesn’t mention the fics I write about him, the depths of the shadows that claw at his insides. “But — ” I’m at a loss for words. He chuckles. “Do you still have the coin?” “I’ve kept it on my bookshelf.” We’ve buffered Kai from her siblings’ bullying, but we don’t know the depths of the dysfunction. Kai sewed an entire Peggy Carter costume for Aspen, but Linnea didn’t talk about breaking up with her boyfriend. Duality. Maybe I see it now.
“There’s a lot of things you need to know to get across the universe.”
v. It’s only at Percy’s birthday party right before my first day of college that I see Nico again. There’s been many more cosplays, pizzas, cucumber slices. The Hunger Games movies are over, but somehow we’ve hung on. Despite the ways we’ve each grown up, despite the melancholy that clings ever tighter to me. Despite the ways Linnea has made it even clearer how little ranking we hold for her. We’re walking through Aspen’s neighborhood past midnight, making up silly word games and befriending the cat that emerges from the manicured bushes to follow us. There’s a dirt road that snakes out of the polished suburb and into a patch of woods that once served as photoshoot backgrounds. Someone stands there. No, two someones. Nico, and Ten. David Tennant. The Tenth Doctor. The Waffle. Nico nods at me. “Janus is the god of endings. He could be the god of The Fellowship of the Waffle, too.”
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i. It’s not like Kai and Aspen and I haven’t had a group chat without Linnea for a while. Hey, Kai texts. What if we just had the three of us at my birthday this year? I look around for Nico. But I don’t need him to tell me to welcome change. Yeah, I reply. Let’s do that. Now, I’ve long since stopped cosplaying as a good straight girl. I’ve long since understood queerness isn’t the only thing I share with Nico—I’m learning to make friends with the shadows in my head. I haven’t seen Linnea in years. Sometimes Aspen will text the group chat. Kai lives seven hours away, but we talk nearly every day. And when she visits me, we always eat waffles.
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The Portrait by Elsie Campbell #whatwedointheshadows
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Halloweentown Recreation
#halloweentown #aggiecromwell #disney by Taylor Kolberg
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FRANCES McDORMAND
#francesmcdormand #film #fargo #threebillboardsoutsideebbingmissouri #nomadland
by Keaton Wilder But her friend is nowhere to be seen Now she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she’s hooked to the silver screen —David Bowie, “Life on Mars?”
Marge Gunderson is a friend of mine The friend you never were or could be You and I choreographed our affinity’s end in darkened theatres, our homes playing host to the morose glow of blue light and the lethal aim of truth The tears cried an imagined sadness steeped in perception and sincerity not reality A tsunami which expunged you from my mind and cleaved your reluctant presence out of my life My 20s a cutting room floor littered with the shrapnel of broken promises and gaslit praise An association bookended by Frances’s most recent Oscars, Mildred Hayes drew the keyless map of our absent bond, while Fern charted the course for my next starring role: Alone in friendship at last
Northern Winter Wonderland by Jenna Wilkinson
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An oyster pearl Starfish A dinglehopper #littlemermaid #disney #lookandfind
Little Mermaid and Friends by Gabrielle Edgcombe
Find it all? Give some color toAriel’s underwater world!
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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.
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Unconditional Friendship by Debe Jones
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#robinhood #maidmarian #disney
Fireflies by Meredith Keeler
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Lost in the Multiverse by Riley Dent
#marvel #infinitywar #ironman #tonystark #spiderman #peterparker #tomholland #spidermannowayhome
InFINity War by Emily Piper
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“You’re killin’ me, Smalls” by Alissia J.R. Lingaur
They suggested I write a dictionary of terms they use and know, me the anthropologist and they, a covey of fanon, fandub, fix-it fics. When I was a kid, stamped Pink Panther tees, Popples on the kindergarten bus. Columbia House Record club, So. Many. Cds. Beatles posters and concerts: Better Than Ezra, Domestic Problems, Eve 6, twice Everclear, Moby, Bush. We snuck smokes in the woods, in windowless basements, at parties.
#80skid #90salternative
They inhale code, slip online, and maybe feel what I did: the off-limits tingle, my lungs, on fire.
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#blackmetal #shoegaze
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bitter legs
with red
crippled by granite
bones [full of ] dishonest space with sky bury dirt and concrete salt eulogy
i am no father’s
i am a maze of twist
grief and moonshell
the last of my/his sins
hindered with the weight
of brightness
and towel sweated against
yellow grass
with dirt shine
like a dog
curtains
him love me
of God
his
i am congruent ever[y]
fantasizing the theme
a memory of a dream
is he my [family’s]
drunk with 5 a.m. ocean
white hallway i am watching
behind the trees i am drooling
my blood [or] his
father
nails pressed into my teeth
his ugly petal
is a tomb hunched with smoke
blood or son
laid down
with celebration
with gospel
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#music #records #LPs
To Dig Or Not To Dig: Two Pespectives on Eugene’s Record Co-op by Dylan Musser
Descending the stairs of a nondescript, commercial building in the heart of downtown Traverse City, you feel as if you are entering another world. Away from the blinding sun and hustle and bustle of the streets, you find solace in the softly lit den of Eugene’s Record Co-op. Inquisitive ears are greeted by the warm crackle of vinyl as the sweet hum of Marvin Gaye’s soaring vocals fill the quaint space. Eager crate-diggers are welcomed with the familiar smell of old record sleeves. And there, resting beneath the thick wooden rafters, are records of all genres. Gems wait to be unearthed in this little gold mine. After making a selection, patrons may take a seat at the listening station and experience their LP of choice. At the far end of this musical haven is a stage often occupied by talented artists and completed with a vivid light show. In the display case in the storefront lay little pieces of history for sale: vintage turntables, receivers, tuners and amplifiers. Behind the counter sits the wavy-haired owner of the establishment. He is a man of many hats: businessman, record producer, lighting technician, and live sound engineer. Though it took him ten years to make his business profitable, his faith never seems to have faltered. ~~~ Descending into the basement of a commonplace commercial space in downtown Traverse City, you find yourself missing the warm sun and lively foot traffic found above ground. The precious few lights in the bunker that is Eugene’s Record Co-op are hardly inviting. All that guides the smattering of patrons down the establishment’s steps is the sound of tired records reverberating
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off its brick walls. The place reeks of musky old vinyl sleeves. As you browse the poor selection, you wonder if the splintering wooden rafters that bow over your head will hold the weight of the roof much longer. If the ceiling has yet to crash down upon you, have a seat at the rickety listening station and try the records out—if you can find anything of worth. True collectors will find the variety of this selection disappointing. Towards the back of the store is a shoddy stage host to bands no one will hear of again. Within the storefront’s display case are overpriced dinosaurs of audio technology that should have gone extinct long ago. The shaggy owner may be found lounging behind the display. The businessman, record producer, lighting technician, and live sound engineer has stretched his attention thin. He seems to have faith in his business even though it took him ten years to make it profitable.
So Long, Theseus
by Lee McGrath
#minecraft #dreamsmp #tommyinnit
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Love on Tour Detroit by Lillian Morrison #harrystyles #loveontour #signofthetimes
Cherry (Track 5) by Shelby Bigelow #harrystyles #stylers #onedirection #harries #fineline #cherry #track5
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Rear Window Title Credit Parlay by Caroline L. Schaefer-Hills #rearwindow #hitchcock #classicfilm #thriller
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it’s better to imagine Jonah as the golf ball in the blowhole of the whale. George Costanza challenges god by simply having a dream. god challenges george by having no dreams at all. the architect is the highest of aspirations. meaning all skies are beneath his construction. it’s better to imagine Art Vandelay as the visage of Judas. his virile lips parting concrete like a trowel. when god betrays Vandelay, myrrh unfurls
a bad samaritan by Liam Strong #seinfeld #themarinebiologist #season5episode14
from heaven. when Judas betrays god ten thousand mackerel have nightmares for the first time. George studies the ocean like a labyrinth of undulating pipes. not un like his encyclopedic memory of Manhattan bathrooms. he knows all water leads back to god. every femur of infrastructure amputated & cast away in a form of praise. it’s better to imagine george as the voice of Kohelet. his movements made of vapor, his glasses fogged with serenity or futility or both. mud, limpet shards, & saltwater fail to remain in George’s cupped palms. he burns sea holly thorns as kindle in hopes to catch the wind. so he can hand it right back to god. for the waves to lap at his boots like a dog. for god to leave even praise go unnoticed.
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Dwight, in Many Words Michael, in Many Words by Gabrielle Edgecombe #theoffice #dwightschrute #michaelscott
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Y YO A TI by Anna Parsons #supernatural #destiel #deancas #happyending #foundfamily #spoilers TW: Mentions of death, implied PTSD
Dean allowed himself one last glance at Jack’s sleeping face before he finally backed out of the nephilim’s room and closed the door. “He’ll be fine,” Cas assured. Dean shook his head as he turned to face Cas. “Nothing’s ever ‘fine,’ not with Jack. Not with any of us. There’s always something that goes wrong, and after the shit he just pulled, how am I supposed to expect everything to just be...fine?” The Winchesters paid in blood for moments of joy. Smiles were lethal, and Jack had brought Dean back from death. He’d bargained with the Empty even though last time, it had cost Cas his life. “You’re only here because Jack was stupid enough to make a deal to get you out!” Cas set a heavy hand on Dean’s shoulder, drawing his attention so their eyes met. “Chuck is powerless. We’re no longer his pawns, and he can’t hurt us anymore. No one controls us.” “Jack made a deal with the Empty—” “To silence it. All the Empty wants is sleep, and Jack made that happen. The Empty returned me in exchange. It’s over.” Dean ran his hand through his hair and tugged at the short strands. Paranoia crawled beneath his skin until he couldn’t stay still any longer and strode away from Jack’s room. Cas followed Dean down the hallway until the two of them reached the map room. There, Dean planted his hands on the table and hung his head. “Do you really believe that?” he asked quietly. “You really think it’ll be that easy this time?” “I do.” Cas circled the table until he stood across from Dean. “There is no God, Dean. Jack released that power into the universe after he brought us back. We have free will to use as we wish.” Jack had ripped up Chuck’s script and thrown it away, but that didn’t mean the curtains would close. Chuck could’ve left behind one more trick, a twisted last laugh to take them down once they finally relaxed. Dean grimaced. “What do we do when everything goes funkytown again? Demons won’t cut deals with Sam and I anymore. Jack’s about as powerful as a goldfish right now, and your angel batteries are dead.” Cas’ gaze dropped to the table. “About that…” Bright light erupted from Cas’ body. Dean squinted into the blinding white as it faded, revealing a Cas who Dean hadn’t seen in years. Cas’ eyes glowed piercing blue, golden light danced in his palms, and his trenchcoat fluttered when two enormous shadows slowly unfurled behind him. A faint, high-pitched keen rang through the air. Above them, a lightbulb exploded in a shower of sparks. “Holy…” Dean trailed off. He couldn’t look away even after the light faded and Cas’ wings disappeared. “I am.” The corner of Cas’ lips tugged into a slight smirk. “Jack must have recharged my batteries when he brought me back. Even my wings were repaired.”
42 NMC Magazine For the first time since Jack gave up the power of God and collapsed at his family’s feet, Dean smiled. “Well, I’ll be damned.” Cas nodded. “Good things do happen, Dean. Not everything has to end in tragedy.” Dean’s grin faded. “I wish, Cas. I want to believe it, but I can’t. Even if you’re right.” He touched a hand to his chest where a fresh scar hid beneath his shirt. His fingers dug into fabric. “I mean, Sam and I were supposed to be safe after Jack took Chuck’s power, but look what happened. I helped bring down God, then got taken out by a rusty nail and a dollar store vampire.” Cas jabbed a finger in the direction of Jack’s room. “And Jack brought you back because you deserve better. You deserve to live out your life on Earth however you want, because no one has sacrificed nearly as much as you to keep this universe intact. You can retire from hunting, become a mechanic, leave the holy water at home, and stop sleeping with an angel blade under your pillow.” “How did you know—” “I’m an angel, Dean. I know about the blade. I know you hid a bag of Jack’s favorite candy under the Impala’s driver’s seat to give him when he’s upset, and—” Dean stepped back from the table and waved his hands dismissively. “But I can’t. Yeah, I want to get out of the life, but no one leaves alive, alright? You know that. Everyone knows that.” “Dean, this world no longer runs on Chuck’s rules. You’re allowed to be happy, and—” “Since when can we have what we want?!” Dean hissed, slamming his hands on the map table so hard that the light beneath his palms faltered. His chest heaved with quick, shallow breaths as memories clawed their way up from the depths of repression. The day of the fire, when four-year-old Dean’s childhood ended in ash. When his father sold his own soul to save Dean from Death. The first time Sam died. The night Hellhounds dragged Dean to Hell. Bobby’s death at the hands of the Leviathan. Kevin and Charlie, murdered because they got too close to the Winchesters. Waiting, helpless, as Jack’s own power killed him. Watching Cas die fighting Michael. Watching Cas die to protect Jack from Lucifer. Watching Cas die to save Dean from Billie. Dean’s voice quieted to a hoarse whisper. “Since when…?” Cas’ gaze fell to Dean’s chest, where Dean’s scarred hand once again pressed into his shirt. Ever since Dean’s most recent resurrection, Cas had noticed him pressing that spot over and over. He did it when Jack collapsed, when Sam left to find Eileen, and every time he woke from a nightmare. Thinking the old wound hadn’t fully mended, Cas once touched Dean’s shoulder to heal his pain. He found none. Physical pain, that is. Cas could fix physical wounds. Mental ones, however, no amount of angelic grace could soothe. Only time. Slowly, Cas rounded the table. He stopped in front of Dean. “There is more to life than suffering. You showed me that. Life is about setting off fireworks in the middle of the night. Joyrides in the Impala. Drinking whiskey together after a long day. You’ve lost a lot —we all have— but losing isn’t all we’ve done, even if it feels that way. The bad memories may hurt more than good memories comfort, but that doesn’t mean the good never happened.” Dean looked away from Cas’ eyes in favor of the floor. “So we just forget about every-
“Good things do happen, Dean. Not everything has to end in tragedy.”
43 Tumblr 2.0 thing and start fresh? Shrug off a few hundred deaths, more funerals than we can count, and sit around the fireplace eating s’mores?” “We take care of Jack while he recovers, and we teach him how to live safely as a nephilim and a hunter. We wait for Sam to find Eileen and bring her home. We do what we want, be what we want, and have what we want, because there isn’t anyone to tell us ‘no’ anymore.” Cas’ words rang in Dean’s ears as his heart clenched. Dean wanted to retire from hunting. He wanted to live without fearing what lurked around the corner. He wanted to sing to himself while he cooked Jack’s favorite foods, stand at Sam’s side as his brother’s best man when Sam and Eileen finally tied the knot, and see the day he’d become an uncle. He wanted to fix cars while sipping cold beer and face any monsters that dared come after his family with his angel guarding his back. His angel. There was that, too… “And when something goes wrong, what do we do?” Dean asked. What does one do when their best friend says he loves them, then dies for them? What does one say when they’ve spent years pretending not to want what their heart begged for, only to be told they could’ve had it all along? “Well,” Cas began, “we deal with it when it happens, like we always have.” He held out a calloused hand, one that had healed a million wounds and taken countless lives in battles he’d had no choice but to fight. “Together.” For a moment, Dean stared at the hand offered to him. He glanced at Cas’ face in search of any signs of dishonesty. Since returning from the Empty, Cas hadn’t spoken of the confession he’d made before his death. Dean assumed that meant they were pretending it never happened. Decades of practice made Dean a great pretender, but he didn’t know what to do when the pretending ended. His dad would tell him to step back. John Winchester would give him the look that always struck Dean’s gaze to the ground and his hands to his sides. He’d say angels were dangerous, especially ones like Cas. Chuck wouldn’t have to look at either of them. He wouldn’t even have to be in the same room. When Chuck was still God, he could do anything he wanted at any time. He could kill one of them, both of them, or make them kill each other. But Chuck wasn’t God anymore, and John Winchester was dead. They weren’t there to say ‘no,’ just like Cas said. Dean inhaled, slow and deep. His heart thundered. His fingers trembled as he reached, hesitant. Their hands grazed. Warm palms slotted together. Fingers intertwined. Cas stepped closer until they were inches apart. Their eyes closed and their heads tipped together until their foreheads gently touched. Dean and Cas stood, motionless in the silence of the map room. The tension in their shoulders eased as they breathed. Maybe tomorrow would plunge them into chaos. Maybe something horrific awaited around the corner. For now, though, there was peace. No matter what tomorrow would bring, today, they were together. Today, they could have what they always wanted.
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Tralfamadorian by Bastian Sanborn #slaughterhousefive #kurtvonnegut
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Game Of Thrones by Caroline L. Schaefer-Hills & Coreene Kreiser #winteriscoming #GOT #whitewalkers
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Baron Vladimir Harkonnen by Bastian Sanborn #dune #frankherbert
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Ranger Across Worlds by Kane Williams #powerrangers
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Beetlejuice by Lindsey M. Wormell #beetlejuice #timburton
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Benrey by Rodrick Meyers #halflifeVRbutheAIisselfaware #HLVRAI #wayneradioTV #twitch
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Diet Culture by James Asava
#sandrobotticelli #birthofvenus #classicart
A Fine Day for Fishing by Noah Krajnik #brickworldchicago #lego
The Love of Wendy’s
by Lily “Lil’ Lil (Wendy’s Stan)” Briggs #cancelchickfila #stanwendys Crispy chicken, extra pickles, I love that dill. This is my order, pick up the bill. DoorDash — where it’s at. Scholars Hall 221 this is where it slaps.
This lego piece was created using inspiration from images of Slavic fishing villages. About 1,500 lego bricks were used in this build and its creation took roughly two weeks.
Ice cold cherry Coke the world’s best ice— DON’T CHOKE! Hot and crispy guaranteed. This is true, I am pleased.
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High Noon by Gavin Bebb
#reddeadredemption #oldwesterns #thegoodthebadandtheugly
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#theravencycle #cabeswater #adamparrish #ronanlynch #maggiestiefvater
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Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth by Molly Kaufmann
#janeausten #prideandprejudice
Calling Cards
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by Martha Sprout
My name is... Born a slave, destined to scandal.
It is my business to know what other people don’t know.
#sherlockholmes #arthurconandoyle
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Learning To Do Something New by Susan Odgers
In general, I’m not a puzzle person. I attempt crosswords and Sudoku, bailing fairly early because I’m so unskilled. The irony is that I’m trained as a psychologist and have taught psychology at NMC since 1989. Figuring out the puzzling aspects of human behavior is one of ‘my things’. The curiosity of what makes people tick, has been with me since childhood. I also enjoy problem solving of any sort. Obviously, word or number puzzles are different. Sometimes, when I’m waiting in traffic or for an appointment, I’ll notice a word on a sign and mentally move the letters around to make other words. In such moments I can also appreciate, in a narrow way, how folks with dyslexia might experience the world. I challenge myself to see how many possible new words I can come up with. The exercise focuses my mind and helps me pass the time. I like words. Now, I have breast cancer. To deal with the stress, sometimes I watch “The DoDo” animal videos on YouTube. Seeing the best of human behavior, calms, distracts and inspires me. Often the simple beauty of inter-species kindness brings me to tears, which is a great release. Additionally by chance, I found the Spelling Bee puzzle in the Sunday New York Times Magazine section. At first, I misunderstood the rules and my scores were dismal. But I kept at it and now have the daily puzzle on my phone.
57 With lots of practice, most days, I reach genius level scoring on the puzzle’s own scale. Such a status feels both rewarding and irrelevant. Equally, I enjoy board games such as Scrabble. I’m a good enough player but far from being a tournament contender. In Scrabble, the goal is amassing points. In the Spelling Bee puzzle, the goal is finding the largest number of words. In the Spelling Bee puzzle, one needs to create words at least four letters long and use the center letter in all of the words. There are a total of seven letters to work with. Both of these games have influenced and improved my scores in each. My dear friend, Mrs. Prindl, age 107.5, said playing lots of Scrabble games helped keep her mind sharp. I don’t know anyone personally who regularly works the Spelling Bee puzzle. I’ve researched the puzzle editors and the very large and active on-line Spelling Bee puzzle community, but have yet to join. Maybe I am a puzzle person after all. nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee
#puzzles #spellingbeepuzzle #scrabble
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Caroline Schaefer-Hills #designadvisor #starwars #princessleia #leiaorgana
Dezyrae Batzer #victoria #victorian #victorianera
#Design Staff Kamron Williams #designeditor #starwars #sith
Gabrielle Edgcombe #joker #batman
Martha Sprout #toystory #disneypixar #jessie
Shelby Bigelow #designeditor #taylorswift #evermore #folklore #woodvale
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Andrea Grabowski #editorinchief #doctorwho #herosof -olympus #agentcarter #falloutboy
#Lit Staff
Alissia J.R. Lingaur #litadvisor #80skid #90salternative #CDs
Kat Leman #descendants #disneyvillians
Moon #catnoir #ladybug #MLB
Anna Parsons #liteditor #supernatural #deanwinchester
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There is so much that can be said about 2021. There were many highs and many lows for a lot of people, and at times like this, the fandoms we love tend to help us through anything. I think this quote from Harry Styles puts it best, “If you’re happy doing what you love, nobody can tell you you’re not successful.” This edition of the magazine gave way for massive amounts of creativity and allowed for everyone to truly express themselves in a unique way. Every piece submitted truly showcased the love for something unique to them whether it be a film, musician, artist, book, etc. So If you’re happy creating anything whether that be a piece of writing, or a piece of art, you are successful. And to all those involved with the making of this A very special thank you to the semester’s magazine, from Zoom students of this semester’s meetings to the pieces Typography II class who came submitted, I offer my greatest thanks. through and helped with assembling the layouts in our time of need.
#From the Design Editor
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After being on the design team for three issues now, I have learned a tremendous amount about not only the process but about myself. We have always had a good team, and this semester was no different. It was a pleasure to work with such an amazing team of designers and writers, and I’m hoping that in sharing these thoughts it might inspire you to be a part of this. When the issues are finally published, and you have a physical copy of all the work you and the team put in, that is a tremendous feeling that I think everyone should experience.
#From the Design Editor
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Fandoms. A place of great creativity, escape, community — and yes, a fair Virshare of drama. But it is the strength found in the love of films, shows, tual books, music, and more that is collected in this issue. When we decidaded on this theme, I was incredibly excited. Fanfiction helped me ventures hone my writing, and I know that’s the case for so many others. on Stardew There’s something powerful about slipping into the worlds of Valley or Guild favorite characters, ones who may have even helped save Wars 2 with my your life, and walking with them, or giving them happy best friends made endings. So too is there power in bringing these charquarantine less loneacters to life with paintbrushes, digital pens, or a ly. Reading the same costume and camera lens. Not only are characters queer books as people such as Dean Winchester, Spiderman, and Elizhundreds of miles away led abeth and Darcy vivid in these pages, but the love of music is as well. From 90s alternaus to each other even when we tive to black metal to Harry Styles, it’s could not leave our homes, and clear how much music resonates with gave us depictions of healing, of fightus all. ing for liberation. Depictions that are
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both mirrors and doors. I am so grateful to The companionship of charour design and lit staff, the typography class acters, songwriters, Youfor the hard work and heart they poured into Tube gamers and more this issue, and to the NMC community for your has become especially stunning submissions. As Matt Smith’s Eleventh necessary in the era Doctor says, “We’re all stories in the end. Just make it of Covid-19. Taylor a good one, eh?” And so. Step with us into the TARDIS Swift’s “epiphand let it carry you through a quest of Star Wars paintings, any” grieved LEGO villages, anime analysis, and above all, a deep love for with me, the creative works we surround ourselves with. with the world.
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Fandoms may sometimes be a point of conflict, but more often, they form communities. Strangers bond over shared interests and become friends overnight. Games, music, fiction, and other forms of creativity provide solace for people of all backgrounds, all around the world. This theme was a new and exciting one for the entirety of the staff. Such a broad theme is inclusive of all things created and loved by humanity, regardless of whether it is reality or fiction. Seeing the art, stories, and analyses within these pages, I feel the love and devotion poured into them. The hours of trying to get the shading just right, or searching for the right words to describe something dear to our hearts. In these pieces I see hunger for symbolism and subtext, heartache for the happy endings that never happened, reflection on the down upon, gives me hope that meaning of friendship, and the euphoria other creators who hesitate to share of lyrics and places carved into jovial their work will understand the power hearts. The effort applied of their words and paintbrushes enough to share their creations with the world. by the magazine staff and There is no shame in loving, not even when NMC community as a what one loves isn’t real, or when others don’t whole—both current stuunderstand it. Love music. Love art. Love stories. dents and teachers and Love people. Love places. There is no shortage of alumni—has warmed love in the world of fandoms, which overflows with my heart. The level support for fellow fans and source material. There is no of respect for shame in taking part. There is nothing wrong with loving fanworks, that which cannot necessarily be seen or held, only felt. Singwhich are er and songwriter, Alec Benjamin, said it best: “‘Cause life is so often short and love is sweet, so love until you’re dead.” Love it all, and looked never regret.
#From the Lit Editor
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Additional Fandom Sections Graphic Designed by the Typography II VCA126 class: Anime Section— Rachel Nickerson Movies, TV Shows and Book Section— Gavin Hanna Movies, TV Shows and Book Section Part 2— Jenna Olszewski
Design Specs: Paper: Cover: 80.0 lb Cougar Opaque Cover Smooth Inside: Uncoated pages: 60.0 lb Husky Opaque Offset Gloss pages: 80.0 lb FLO Gloss Text Printing: BRD Printing Incorporated, Lansing. Cover Design: Kamron Williams
Fantasy Section— Lindsey Wormell Random Fandom Section - Gavin Hanna
Typefaces: Anime Ace BB Star Jedi Started by a Mouse Harry P Magadeth Staff Meeting Fink Heavy Champion HTF-Heavyweight Doctor Who Nightmare Station Tuna
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