Death to Realism! 027
Death to Realism! 027
Hello! Welcome back and greetings to new subscribers. Just a reminder that this newsletter is now PWYW and you can change your subscription using the links at the bottom (especially if you were having an issue with this before, it should be sorted out now.) If you need a refresher on the origin & nature of these bi-weekly updates, check out the first issue before reading on.
What's New?
An interview I did with Jaroslav Švelch about his extremely interesting history of homebrew game development, hardware building and game distribution in 80s Czechoslovakia is now online! It was a really fun conversation and I'm excited to see it go up.
I also put up a creepy bit of short fiction on my personal blog.
Coming Soon
We're now a month out from the rough deadline for Plaintext Distro submissions. Let me know if you are interested in putting some of your work in booklet format for print distribution at Glasgow Zine Festival! We'll be tabling at the festival for in-person purchases on July 3rd, and if you'd like your work to be available there please read over the site and submit it to me by June 17th.
Additionally, Red Futures is also accepting short fiction on the theme of "automation" through the end of the month (I still have to finish mine!).
The Rec Room
Dracula Daily has so far been a fun experiment alongside my other reading, experiencing an epistolary novel at the pace the letters and journal entries were written. It's still fairly early on, so an evening of binge-reading could probably catch you up if this interests you, via email or RSS
The Southside Games Festival is this week, right around the corner from our new place, for any Glasgow-based subscribers
Manifesto Jam 2022 was also run recently, in the spirit of and with a shoutout to the original Manifesto Jam I ran years ago! There's a ton of interesting stuff in the entries, so check it out!
We also made a trip to Edinburgh over the weekend, where I got to visit the National Gallery of Modern Art. I got to see two of my favorite paintings again, Dorothea Tanning's Tableau Vivant and Victoria Morton's portrait of Daphne Oram, and was really enthralled by Amie Siegel's film work Bloodlines.
I've Been Reading
This weekend was the Edinburgh Zine Festival and Artists' Book Fair at the Fruitmarket gallery, and I also tied in a visit to Transreal Books. I got zines of parody Chick tracts, local cat sighting scene reports, and doodled diary comics, as well as a new translation of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Lame Fate/Ugly Swans, and a lovely copy of the novel Pupa by J.O. Morgan, which I jumped right into.
Around the web I liked this little zine about tilesets, as well as this in-depth blog post on building your own personal site, with a great list of resources that gives me a lot to chew on while I think about how to re-work my own a bit!
I think that's all I have this bi-week! For new subscribers who have signed on since the last newsletter, you can check out the archive of past issues at any time!
Thank you again for your support,
Emilie