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Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · Jul 3

Are you a 35+ aged fan who's active in intergenerational fan activities? Looking for essays, art, poetry, and more for Volume 3 of Act Your Age: Fandom at Age 35 and Beyond.

Deadline: October 24, 2025

#zines #fandom

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Submissions Wanted!

Are you a 35+ aged fan that's active in intergenerational fan activities? Looking for essays, art, poetry and more.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 4h

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

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Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 3h

Episode 2 of Rough Draft is out! This week, @caboosezine.bsky.social and I talk about the big summer in Chicago zine fests, shout out the peeps who brought us together, and share some fave local zinesters.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

The sort of organizing we're doing here is honestly crucial right now. If your organization wants to learn more about organizing fans, ping me!

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 1d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/why-...

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 3d

The orange douchebag is threatening Chicago with the National Guard again so I just printed 250 more copies of this single-sheet zine that I wrote/published at the end of August. Free with any order from www.halfletterpress.com. Read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1u8xW...

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 3d

as a wee lad in the early 90s who thought it would be fun to make cartoons for a living, I did not expect to chronicle the descent of the so called american experiment into blatant fascism, but I guess you play the hand you are dealt

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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 4d

Of the 37 people detained during the late-night apartment raid in Chicago, which agents rappelled into from helicopters, only two were accused of being cartel members and six had criminal records. DHS said four children were separated from their parents.

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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 4d

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Heather J. "Witchy" Wood🧙‍♀️ @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 4d

The Canadian book industry definitely needs the post office. Among other things, Canada Post is usually the most cost effective way to send review copies or for independent presses to ship direct orders to readers. #CanLit

Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 4d

But I thought no one needs the post office anymore
www.thestar.com/business/sma...

Small business say it’s nearly impossible to survive in the face of postal workers’ strike and Trump tariffs

Canada Post workers from coast to coast walked off the job for the second time in less than a year on Sept. 25, causing disruptions for many business owners.

www.thestar.com

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 4d

americans were raised to be so sinophobic that most of us can’t even recognize that china is doing everything they can to save our future while our own leaders drag us further and further behind

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d

"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah

Solar: main source of EU electricity in June with 22%

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 6d

We're one of 4,075 verified accounts alongside the New Yorker and the Atlantic. You can just become your own official Literary World.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 6d

Lording it over the Paris Review. We are the Literary World's Prestigious, Notable and Recognized Taco Bell Quarterly.

bsky.check @bskycheck.com · 6d

Congrats on your new blue check 🎉

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 7d

Far too many people in the US are already totally untethered from reality. Enter AI:

“Part of what keeps us sane is other people’s perspectives, which are often in tension with ours,” says Carissa Véliz, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI. “When you say something questionable, others will challenge you, ask questions, defy you. It can be annoying, but it keeps us tied to reality, and it is the basis of a healthy democratic citizenry. Truth is intersubjective, meaning that we need other people — their testimony, their experiences, their rationality — to be well informed. And chatbots are not people. They don’t have experience. They are not witness. They are fancy wordplay.”

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B. @missxbri.bsky.social · 7d

I met an older black lady at the park who was out there selling brownies & pecan candy to cover her seizure medicine after losing her Medicaid coverage. If you follow me & live in New Orleans, if you’re ever near Harrell Stadium, please go buy something from her!

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Liz Mason @caboosezine.bsky.social · 7d

It's been so hard to keep this under wraps! 😊 So excited to premier this new podcast I'm doing with @wildramppublishing.bsky.social called Rough Draft about our steady flow of popular culture. Check it out on Podbean and Apple Podcasts! Holler what other streaming services you all want it on! 📣 📣 📣

Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 7d

VERY excited to announce my new podcast, "Rough Draft" with the fab @caboosezine.bsky.social! We're yapping about zines, pop culture, fandom, and life in short, 15-20 minute bursts. Join us!

roughdraftwithkeidraandliz.podbean.com

A promotional graphic for the podcast Rough Draft with Keidra & Liz. The background is black with torn-paper–style aqua blue accents at the top and bottom edges.

At the top, in small white text, it says:
“Listen now!”

Below that, in large bold text with a glowing blue effect, the title reads:
“Rough Draft with Keidra & Liz”

Centered underneath, in smaller white text:
“a semi-unprocessed podcast about how we process culture”

Below this tagline is a stylized neon-blue image of a typewriter tilted at an angle.

At the bottom of the image, white text reads:
“roughdraftwithkeidraandliz.podbean.com”

The overall design has a DIY zine-like aesthetic with tilted white dividing lines separating the other text sections.

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Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 7d

Here's my new mini zine bundle! Two short reflections on fandom. This batch is slightly discounted by $1 due to a small error in one of the zines: wildramppublishing.bigcartel.com/product/fand...

Fandom Mini-Zine Bundle

* discounted price for this batch, due to one of the zines having a small error. Two mini-zines that look at fandom in a critical way: "In...

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Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 8d

Coming up next: a mini zine bundle!

Two zines: In Defense of Casual Fandom and A Zine About Musical Microaggressions

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

Go to the dinner, to the card game, to the Museum visit, to the concert, to the BBQ, to the walking tour, to wherever others are gathering...

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 8d

A mini-playlist for people who like Doja's new album but are also not old enough to drink alcohol:

Klymaxx www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUda...

Klymaxx - Meeting In The Ladies Room

YouTube video by BrownPrider Funk

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 10d

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Bright orange individually packaged whistles, stapled to English and Spanish literature designed by Pilson Arts Community House in Chicago. They are placed inside a little free library in my neighborhood: Avondale in Chicago.

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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 11d

i love absolutely everything about this

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11d

A man here is passing around Italian beefs to people protesting Border Patrol.

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Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 12d

Finished another mini zine this afternoon and also started planning Act Your Age 3. Still have another month before the submission deadline!

forms.gle/tVF3y9XGgYg2...

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 15d

This is a really great read on how we've tipped from being open about experience writing fanfic (good! fanfic is great and gets unfairly stigmatized!) to a flood of books that are just fantic/someone else's IP with the serial numbers filed off.

With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor

Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.

reactormag.com

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