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Z I N E

Honestly, I have been feeling lost in my thoughts and ideas of what I want my zine to be. For starters, I know I want my zine to give off a kind of scary and unsettling vibe. I want there to be an incorporation of horror. Psychological horror to be exact. I want to dive deep into the human psyche and explore some ways to portray paranoia, delusion, and insanity. I also want it to be very art-based and am worried about the challenge of telling a story with very few words. This then leads me to think about if I want to do more of a theme or an actual plot story. So many ideas and minimal decision making is being done. I like the fill-in drawing zine that we saw in class. That was super inspiring for the zine I plan on making and hope to add my touch to it. Some characters I have been thinking about while in this process is: Yumeko Jabami– from the anime Kakegurui. I just really like how innocent and sweet she portrays herself as but at the same time how calculated and smart she is. Yumeko loves the excitement of leaving things up to chance. I believe that I have always been drawn to the idea of luck and being lucky. Therefore, I feel like I have some sort of connection to her character. Although the idea of luck may be stupid, I am hoping to incorporate luck and horror together. Everything is an existential game of Russian roulette. Every decision we make and every situation we encounter carries an element of danger or unpredictability. But we only die once anyway?