Hi Freax!Thanks for reading the FIFTH Crafty Perverts Social Club newsletter. I feel honored and elated that you are reading this right now. And the beauty is that I don’t even know that you are. I hope that you’re reading this, but also my reward for writing this is the joy of going through the process of writing this. This newsletter has become my journal—a place for me to process my thoughts and refine my approach to art. And I love this process. Hopefully this newsletter resonates with you, but if it doesn’t, I encourage you to write your own. Remember when we wrote, contributed to, bought, sold, and traded a lot of zines? Somehow Livejournal and Tumblr got in the mix and many of us managed to share our thoughts through both mediums. Eventually Facebook came along and then Twitter and Instagram and Fetlife and all the other social media. Don’t quote me on the specifics of this timeline, but feel free to guess how fucking old I am if some of these references are lost on you. Anyway, when was the last time you wrote a zine and mailed copies to your friends? When was the last time you published any sort of longform or midform content? And how much time did you spend last week on social media? How does that reflection make you feel? At least now you can say that you spent a few minutes reading a pervy midform email just for fun. Most of us aren’t great writers, nor even great thinkers, but writing and thinking are worthy pursuits even if we’re bad at them. So fuck it, write something and share it. Or draw something and share it. Or just spend time thinking about something that matters. You’re gonna love it.
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