diff --git a/scripts/zines.js b/scripts/zines.js
index e43206f..b8a8cfa 100644
--- a/scripts/zines.js
+++ b/scripts/zines.js
@@ -126,13 +126,6 @@ let zines = [
     format: "digital",
     blurb: "About severe disability with a bit extra on being a caregiver",
   },
-  {
-    name: "gup",
-    site: "https://cyberpunk.gay/@glyph",
-    format: "physical/digital",
-    blurb:
-      "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.",
-  },
 ];
 
 function makeZine({ name, blurb, format, site, fedi }) {
@@ -162,27 +155,39 @@ function makeZine({ name, blurb, format, site, fedi }) {
   return zine;
 }
 
-let zineContainer = document.getElementById("zine-container");
+function makeZinePage(zines) {
+  let zineContainer = document.getElementById("zine-container");
 
-for (let i = 0; i < zines.length; i++) {
-  zineContainer.append(makeZine(zines[i]));
+  for (let i = 0; i < zines.length; i++) {
+    zineContainer.append(makeZine(zines[i]));
+  }
+
+  let zineCounter = document.getElementById("zine-count");
+  let total = zines.length;
+  let physical = zines.filter(
+    (zine) => zine.format == "physical" || zine.format == "physical/digital"
+  ).length;
+  let digital = zines.filter(
+    (zine) => zine.format == "digital" || zine.format == "physical/digital"
+  ).length;
+
+  let p = document.createElement("p");
+  p.innerHTML =
+    total +
+    " artists. " +
+    physical +
+    " physical zines. " +
+    digital +
+    " digital zines.";
+  zineCounter.append(p);
 }
 
-let zineCounter = document.getElementById("zine-count");
-let total = zines.length;
-let physical = zines.filter(
-  (zine) => zine.format == "physical" || zine.format == "physical/digital"
-).length;
-let digital = zines.filter(
-  (zine) => zine.format == "digital" || zine.format == "physical/digital"
-).length;
-
-let p = document.createElement("p");
-p.innerHTML =
-  total +
-  " artists. " +
-  physical +
-  " physical zines. " +
-  digital +
-  " digital zines.";
-zineCounter.append(p);
+fetch("./zines2025.json")
+  .then((response) => {
+    if (!response.ok) {
+      throw new Error(`HTTP error! Status: ${response.status}`);
+    }
+    return response.json();
+  })
+  .then((data) => makeZinePage(data))
+  .catch((error) => console.error("Failed to fetch data:", error));
diff --git a/scripts/zines2025.json b/scripts/zines2025.json
index f51c85d..f90e6c1 100644
--- a/scripts/zines2025.json
+++ b/scripts/zines2025.json
@@ -1,131 +1,114 @@
-{
-  [
+[
   {
-    name: "Artcollisions",
-    site: "https://vis.social/@artcollisions",
-    format: "physical/digital",
-    blurb: "Further cozy adventures of CC and friends, textile art characters"
+    "name": "Artcollisions",
+    "site": "https://vis.social/@artcollisions",
+    "format": "physical/digital",
+    "blurb": "Further cozy adventures of CC and friends, textile art characters"
   },
   {
-    name: "Cammie",
-    site: "https://worshipthesquid.tumblr.com/",
-    format: "physical/digital",
-    blurb:
-      "Mortsafe is a little biro zine about fungal zombies, non-human or gestalt minds, and life continuing differently after death :)",
+    "name": "Cammie",
+    "site": "https://worshipthesquid.tumblr.com/",
+    "format": "physical/digital",
+    "blurb": "Mortsafe is a little biro zine about fungal zombies, non-human or gestalt minds, and life continuing differently after death :)"
   },
   {
-    name: "Ashley McQuaid",
-    site: "eightofpentacles.com",
-    format: "physical",
-    blurb:
-      "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 & pencil drawings of critters for sure",
+    "name": "Ashley McQuaid",
+    "site": "eightofpentacles.com",
+    "format": "physical",
+    "blurb": "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 & pencil drawings of critters for sure"
   },
   {
-    name: "xyzzy",
-    site: "https://xyzzyzzyzx.xyz/",
-    format: "digital",
-    blurb:
-      "a perzine about my experience in a conservative catholic high school, called “shut up & eat your dirt”",
+    "name": "xyzzy",
+    "site": "https://xyzzyzzyzx.xyz/",
+    "format": "digital",
+    "blurb": "a perzine about my experience in a conservative catholic high school, called “shut up & eat your dirt”"
   },
   {
-    name: "Pesto Jaguar",
-    site: "https://sunny.garden/@pestojaguar",
-    format: "digital",
-    blurb:
-      "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.",
+    "name": "Pesto Jaguar",
+    "site": "https://sunny.garden/@pestojaguar",
+    "format": "digital",
+    "blurb": "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."
   },
   {
-    name: "bouncinglime",
-    format: "physical/digital",
-    blurb:
-      "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!",
+    "name": "bouncinglime",
+    "format": "physical/digital",
+    "blurb": "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!"
   },
   {
-    name: "lee",
-    site: "https://leecat.art",
-    format: "physical",
-    blurb: "2 color hand-printed zine with pictures of my dog",
+    "name": "lee",
+    "site": "https://leecat.art",
+    "format": "physical",
+    "blurb": "2 color hand-printed zine with pictures of my dog"
   },
   {
-    name: "Em/mett",
-    site: "https://proteanart.xyz",
-    format: "physical/digital",
-    blurb:
-      "So You Want To Be A Pen Pal minizine. About being a pen pal for incarcerated folks! And beginner advocacy work!",
+    "name": "Em/mett",
+    "site": "https://proteanart.xyz",
+    "format": "physical/digital",
+    "blurb": "So You Want To Be A Pen Pal minizine. About being a pen pal for incarcerated folks! And beginner advocacy work!"
   },
   {
-    name: "Mythical Type",
-    site: "https://mythicaltype.com/zines/",
-    format: "physical",
-    blurb:
-      "“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.",
+    "name": "Mythical Type",
+    "site": "https://mythicaltype.com/zines/",
+    "format": "physical",
+    "blurb": "“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."
   },
   {
-    name: "Acin Fals",
-    site: "https://shadowfals.carrd.co/",
-    format: "digital",
-    blurb:
-      "romantic m/m flash fiction with a theme of transitions, seasons, and/or memories",
+    "name": "Acin Fals",
+    "site": "https://shadowfals.carrd.co/",
+    "format": "digital",
+    "blurb": "romantic m/m flash fiction with a theme of transitions, seasons, and/or memories"
   },
   {
-    name: "play in progress",
-    site: "https://mastodon.art/@playinprogress",
-    format: "physical/digital",
-    blurb:
-      "a fold-out formal experiment combining letter shapes and ink drawings",
+    "name": "play in progress",
+    "site": "https://mastodon.art/@playinprogress",
+    "format": "physical/digital",
+    "blurb": "a fold-out formal experiment combining letter shapes and ink drawings"
   },
   {
-    name: "riotmuffin",
-    format: "physical/digital",
-    blurb:
-      "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",
+    "name": "riotmuffin",
+    "format": "physical/digital",
+    "blurb": "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"
   },
   {
-    name: "Léa V.T.",
-    site: "https://mastodon.art/@leavt",
-    format: "physical/digital",
-    blurb: `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>`,
+    "name": "Léa V.T.",
+    "site": "https://mastodon.art/@leavt",
+    "format": "physical/digital",
+    "blurb": "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>"
   },
   {
-    name: "Aaron El Sabrout",
-    site: "https://toreachpoise.itch.io",
-    format: "physical/digital",
-    blurb:
-      "new collection of poetry on nature, leftist politics, and transness!",
+    "name": "Aaron El Sabrout",
+    "site": "https://toreachpoise.itch.io",
+    "format": "physical/digital",
+    "blurb": "new collection of poetry on nature, leftist politics, and transness!"
   },
   {
-    name: "goblin jane",
-    site: "https://thewellandthetree.com/",
-    format: "physical/digital",
-    blurb:
-      "tiny tales of wandering thru interdimensional portals, meeting new friends big and small, and making stone soup.",
+    "name": "goblin jane",
+    "site": "https://thewellandthetree.com/",
+    "format": "physical/digital",
+    "blurb": "tiny tales of wandering thru interdimensional portals, meeting new friends big and small, and making stone soup."
   },
   {
-    name: "Limnetic Villains",
-    site: "https://limneticvillains.bandcamp.com",
-    format: "digital",
-    blurb:
-      "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.",
+    "name": "Limnetic Villains",
+    "site": "https://limneticvillains.bandcamp.com",
+    "format": "digital",
+    "blurb": "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."
   },
   {
-    name: "Wetdryvac",
-    site: "https://wetdryvac.net",
-    format: "digital",
-    blurb:
-      "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.",
+    "name": "Wetdryvac",
+    "site": "https://wetdryvac.net",
+    "format": "digital",
+    "blurb": "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."
   },
   {
-    name: "Evel",
-    site: "https://evel.life",
-    format: "digital",
-    blurb: "About severe disability with a bit extra on being a caregiver",
+    "name": "Evel",
+    "site": "https://evel.life",
+    "format": "digital",
+    "blurb": "About severe disability with a bit extra on being a caregiver"
   },
   {
-    name: "gup",
-    site: "https://cyberpunk.gay/@glyph",
-    format: "physical/digital",
-    blurb:
-      "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.",
+    "name": "gup",
+    "site": "https://cyberpunk.gay/@glyph",
+    "format": "physical/digital",
+    "blurb": "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."
   }
 ]
-}
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