u/zerothefoolzine

What are your personal, unique, mourning customs? Not the traditional stuff you were raised with, but things you have developed intuitively through your own experiences of loss.

I hope this post is okay - for the past several years I've been classic creatures for Halloween. I always make my own costumes. This year I thought a mythological creature would be cool.

I'm leaning towards something Celtic but am pretty open to suggestions. The only criteria I have are: 1. the lesser known, the better and 2. the more specific (standout physical feature, niche role/function, etc) the better. Whatever it is will be interpreted through an unhinged/diy lens.

I'd love to hear some suggestions! Also happy to share the results of whatever I chose in October.

Can someone please walk me through step by step what I need to do in order to resize my pages in the simplest way? I don't own a scanner or copy machine, so I'll be doing this at the library with assistance but I want to have a clear understanding of it.

I hand draw my zines on standard 8x11, no borders. Because virtually no copy machines have a bleed setting, I need to scan and shrink my pages down a bit before printing copies. I do not know how to do this. What percentage do I shrink down? Does every copy machine default to the same border size, and what is that border size? It looks like maybe 5mm?

This may be fruitless. Many years ago I was channel surfing and stopped for a second on an old black & white film (I'd wager to guess 40s-50s era), a man and a woman were talking to each other and he said "I CANNOT abandon you" very dramatically.

That's literally all I can recall. It has stuck with me for years and I've always hoped to find out what it was.