Zine Club, and Ideas

Last night, I attended a queer zine club at a local LGBT museum and archive. The open meeting was hosted by a gay man who had been making zines for a few years, and we had access to a few scrap materials from the archive for collaging. I ended up contributing a page to the meeting's collaborative zine about the first skirt I bought when I was 26 and in the closet.

Among the collaging materials were a number of redundant copies of old indie newspapers. I found a July, 1974 issue of Lavender Woman - "Chicago's Lesbian/Feminist newspaper.' I hope to read through it soon.

I also came away with a desire to bind a small zine of my own. I recall seeing a post by ~insom over on Mastodon, where he bound an RPG rulebook with floss:

• ~insom: My first time binding a zine together. I had a hammer and nail, some floss and a needle. Turns out that’s all you need.

Trouble is, I don't have a zine to do the binding with. But, I have an idea. I've been compiling notes for the story of a video game that's in my maybe-someday pile of aspirational projects (where this zine may well end up, too), and one of the side-quests would involve visiting a satellite that's lost communications for repairs. While being there, it would become apparent that the computer running things had changed after it's string of isolation. My thought is to repurpose that story, altered slightly; make it an episotlary story, with each page of the zine collecting a document - a newspaper article, a reddit-style comment log, transcripts of mission communications, etc. The point of tension in the story would be whether the computer's seeming isolation madness constituted evidence of consciousness, with there not being anything conclusive either way. Could make for a fun little zine.