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<h1 id="fedizinefest-2025-zines">FediZineFest 2025 Zines</h1>


<p>19 artists. 13 physical zines. 16 digital zines.</p>


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      <h2 id="aaron-el-sabrout">
        
          <a href="https://toreachpoise.itch.io">Aaron El Sabrout</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made physical/digital zines called...</p>
        
          <h3 id="read-me-to-filth-i-m-dying-of-thirst">Read Me to Filth/I&#39;m Dying of Thirst</h3>
        
          <h3 id="i-have-a-weird-relationship-to-clothes">I Have a Weird Relationship to Clothes...</h3>
        
          <h3 id="i-love-myself">I Love Myself</h3>
        
          <h3 id="leave-them-bee">Leave Them Bee</h3>
        
      
      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>new collection of poetry on nature, leftist politics, and transness!</p>
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      <h2 id="acin-fals">
        
          <a href="https://shadowfals.carrd.co/">Acin Fals</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="the-rose-woman-and-the-bear">The Rose Woman and the Bear</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>romantic m/m flash fiction with a theme of transitions, seasons, and/or memories</p>
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      <h2 id="artcollisions">
        
          <a href="https://vis.social/@artcollisions">Artcollisions</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a physical/digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="adventures-of-dd-fifi-and-pepe">Adventures of DD, Fifi, and Pepe</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>Further cozy adventures of CC and friends, textile art characters</p>
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      <h2 id="ashley-mcquaid">
        
          <a href="https://eightofpentacles.com">Ashley McQuaid</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a physical zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="tales-from-rockery-loop">Tales from Rockery Loop</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>I am leaning towards making a miniature field guide of the birds, mammals, and plants that live on my favorite trail. Back and forth on whether I want to include some personal narrative but pen &amp; pencil drawings of critters for sure</p>
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      <h2 id="bouncinglime">
        
          bouncinglime
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a physical/digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="postcards">Postcards</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>four postcards printed on cardstock (physical) or for printing on cardstock (digital) in black-and-white that can be colored and otherwise decorated and sent out!</p>
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      <h2 id="cammie">
        
          <a href="https://worshipthesquid.tumblr.com/">Cammie</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a physical/digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="mortsafe">Mortsafe</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>Mortsafe is a little biro zine about fungal zombies, non-human or gestalt minds, and life continuing differently after death :)</p>
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      <h2 id="em-mett">
        
          <a href="https://proteanart.xyz">Em/mett</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a physical/digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="so-you-want-to-be-a-pen-pal">So You Want To Be A Pen Pal</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>So You Want To Be A Pen Pal minizine. About being a pen pal for incarcerated folks! And beginner advocacy work!</p>
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      <h2 id="evel">
        
          <a href="https://evel.life">Evel</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="let-your-disabilities-hold-you-back">Let Your Disabilities Hold You Back!!!</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>About severe disability with a bit extra on being a caregiver</p>
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      <h2 id="goblin-jane">
        
          <a href="https://thewellandthetree.com/">goblin jane</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a physical/digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="doorways-are-portals">Doorways are Portals</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>tiny tales of wandering thru interdimensional portals, meeting new friends big and small, and making stone soup.</p>
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      <h2 id="gup">
        
          <a href="https://cyberpunk.gay/@glyph">gup</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a physical/digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="untitled">(untitled)</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>fortune teller/ cootie catcher foldable. prefolded for physical, print and fold yourself for digital. decorated with hand carved stamps. black and white. i need to buy nice paper.</p>
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    <li>
      
      <h2 id="lea-v-t">
        
          <a href="https://mastodon.art/@leavt">Léa V.T.</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a physical/digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="grand-jaloprix">Grand Jaloprix</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>I made a small comic this summer and i'd like to print it in zine form with bonus illustrations and prep sketches. It's about a bunch of kids living in a dieselpunk junkyard racing wacky vehicles. Friends become enemies and enemies become friends, lots of vroom vroom. <a href="https://mastodon.art/@leavt/113056897528979869">preview</a></p>
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      <h2 id="lee">
        
          <a href="https://leecat.art">lee</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a physical zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="kestrel">KESTREL</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>2 color hand-printed zine with pictures of my dog</p>
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    <li>
      
      <h2 id="limnetic-villains">
        
          <a href="https://limneticvillains.bandcamp.com">Limnetic Villains</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="auditory-ossicles-issue-1">Auditory Ossicles Issue 1</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>A fake 1970s punk zine, including interviews, photos, reviews, fake adverts for products and bands that don't exist, in the style of the time.</p>
</blockquote>
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    <li>
      
      <h2 id="mythical-type">
        
          <a href="https://mythicaltype.com/zines/">Mythical Type</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a physical zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="text-message-moods">Text Message Moods</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>“Text Message Moods” is an 8-page mini zine that illustrates what text message conversations look like, depending on people’s moods. Hand-drawn, printed in color on white paper.</p>
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    <li>
      
      <h2 id="pesto-jaguar">
        
          <a href="https://sunny.garden/@pestojaguar">Pesto Jaguar</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="swimming-through-treacle-issue-00">Swimming Through Treacle Issue 00</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>abstract, absurd, surreal, experimental?... Perhaps comics-adjacent or sciFi-adjacent?... some manner of weird zine, mainly images with some text like experimental prose or poetry, even?... Around 20 pages in A5. No 'AI' or image/text generation, just human made digital art.</p>
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    <li>
      
      <h2 id="play-in-progress">
        
          <a href="https://mastodon.art/@playinprogress">play in progress</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a physical/digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="a-murder-of-crows">A Murder of Crows</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>a fold-out formal experiment combining letter shapes and ink drawings</p>
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      <h2 id="riotmuffin">
        
          riotmuffin
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a physical/digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="you-gotta-leave-rebel-stories">You Gotta Leave: Rebel Stories</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>I’m gonna try to do that George Floyd uprising alternate history I was thinking about last time, but I might also do something else. In any case, it’ll be SHORTER than last years honker lol</p>
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    <li>
      
      <h2 id="wetdryvac">
        
          <a href="https://wetdryvac.net">Wetdryvac</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="rivet-drainage-lair-w-fzf-002">Rivet/Drainage Lair W fZF | 002</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>The Vac is a contract/consent ethicist with forays into art, music, literature, and whatever else strikes its fancy. This usually means being somewhere under a cat.</p>
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      <h2 id="xyzzy">
        
          <a href="https://xyzzyzzyzx.xyz/">xyzzy</a>
        
      </h2>

      
        <p>made a digital zine called...</p>
        <h3 id="shut-up-and-eat-your-dirt">Shut up &amp; eat your dirt!</h3>
      

      <p>and the original blurb was...</p>
      <blockquote><p>a perzine about my experience in a conservative catholic high school, called “shut up &amp; eat your dirt”</p>
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