personal-r2-c · The zine, grown upWhat "come in" opens: the current seasonal issue is the front page and fills up as the season goes (1–3 things a month fills an issue naturally). Past issues sit below as covers, and an index by interest cuts across every issue. Evolves P5, with marcschuster.com's editorial calm and beige.zone's archival index.
This was on repeat on every cold bike ride in October. It sounds like the end of something, but in a kind way 🍂
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press play · nothing starts on its own · mock player, no audio
also this season
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gameswrite-up
Hades II and the comfort of trying again
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41 h playedSwitch 2★★★★½
Every run ends, and that's the point. I've been having a heavy autumn, and there's something gentle about a game that says go again, you'll be a bit stronger.
The witch-y moveset took me a while. Now I can't go back. The music is doing half the work, honestly. Best moment so far: finally beating the second boss on the bus home and nearly shouting.
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made by menew
carved it, then drew it 🎃
My first pumpkin in years. The drawing is honestly better than the pumpkin. Pen and one marker, ten minutes.
drawing placeholder31 Oct
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writingessay · 6 min
Why I cry at fiction and not at the news
A comic chapter about a goodbye got me more than a month of headlines. I think that's not coldness. I think it's scale.
When a story lets you sit with one person for long enough, their loss becomes something you can hold. The news hands you thousands at once, and my brain just files it under weather. I don't love that about myself, but I understand it better now.
Death has always hit me hard in stories. Maybe because stories are the only place where you get to rehearse it gently, with a page you can close.
So I've stopped feeling guilty about crying at a webcomic. If fiction is where I practice caring, then the practice counts. The trick is to carry a little of it back out with me, into the real week.
Anyway. Read Now Recharging. Bring tissues.
19 Oct · writing, life
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comicsa trope I can't quitnew
Reborn as the villainess, surrounded by lovely psychopaths
She wakes up as the doomed villain, decides to just be nice, and everyone around her gets weirdly, possessively obsessed. I know. I love it anyway.
The Villainess Lives Twicemanhwa · ongoing
Death Is the Only Ending for the Villainessmanhwa
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This page is still blank. Something will land here before the issue closes on 30 November, then Nº 05 opens for winter.
maybe a Kickstarter game?
Back issues
3 printed · one per season since winterclick a cover for its contents
2026
Each year gets its own row of four. After a few years this is still a short shelf, and the index below does the heavy lifting.