Hello! Lately I’ve been seeing so many lovely little bees in my front yard pollinating our flowers and we’ve got a bunch of purple ones and daisies growing! I’m not super knowledgeable about flower types but it makes me smile every time I see them when I leave my house. Everything sucks for everyone but at least the flowers are blooming.

After a bout of markets depleted my stock, I restocked my online store! You can buy any of my bumper stickers and zines (excluding my minizines) online at my store here. I’ve been tabling with a limited bumper sticker selection for the past few weeks so there are some stickers available online that I haven’t had in person in a while, so check it out! I’ll probably add my minizines and collages to the store in the coming weeks so prepare for another newsletter update when that happens.

If you’re in Gainesville or the surrounding area and don’t want to fuss with shipping, feel free to order and then shoot me an email with your information and I’ll refund your shipping and organize a drop off! You can email me at contact.acdworks@gmail.com

I also revamped some of my table set up! I love my letterboard price sign, but it can be hard for people to see and it doesn’t automatically read as a price sign, so I’m doing away with the prices board and instead individually pricing everything. Here’s about what that’ll look like on my stickers

Shoutout to the Repurpose Project for the truly massive amount of paper clips I got from them the other day!

And since my letterboard is precious to me, I’m using it now as a sort of promotional sign with all my necessary links on it. Here’s a peak at it

Shoutout again to the Repurpose Project for the huge bag of letterboard letters I got from there when I picked up all the paperclips

Lastly in a.c.d works news: I’ve got a new 16-page zine in the works. This one will be printed by me and a lot more of a DIY look than my other longer zines! It’s called “10 songs to lose your mind to” and is part playlist part perzine and all experiment. I can’t wait to finish it!

With all the updates out of the way, I’ll close out this newsletter with a little something from the a.c.d works archives. For those who don’t know, I have a few different poems up on my website that I don’t advertise very often, but I’m proud of all of them! Here is one that I wrote a few years ago:

I HAVE THIS RECURRING DREAM WHERE I AM THE FINAL GIRL by a.c.d

LIGHTS!
rich red curtains fall over the theater of a dead body.
the show is over, folks!
her eyes have dimmed their shine
and her film-roll nervous system has played the
final scene.

CAMERA!
no one can see anything that happens in your head.
you can see everything that happens in your head.
these facts are true of everyone.

ACTION!
you’ve never been stabbed before but you’ve been
cast in the face of death as the role of the
girl under attack
enough times to know that the only way to guarantee your survival is to
wake up.
there is no way to guarantee hers.

CUT!
when the credits roll,
your name fills the screen.
she did not have a name,
none of them ever do.
but they are your best friend,
they are your brother,
they are your ex.
you’ve never seen these people before in your life.
this is not your life.
this is the set where they filmed your last two years of high school.

THE CAST AND CREW WOULD LIKE TO THANK [______] FOR HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STORY. THIS FILM WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT HER.
you want them to get up after the cameras stop rolling, and
give you a pat on the back for a job well done,
smile at you over shitty craft services because
horror doesn’t win oscars so why waste the studio money on feeding you and the other
nobodys in the cast.
except in twenty years you’ll all be stars, and
this movie will be on its third remake, and
they’ll all still be dead.

THANK YOU.

remake your grave,

a.c.d