“A Little Chaos Is A Wonderful Thing...”

when two adhd girls link up... ANYTHING could stop us

If you missed out on sign-ups the first time, now’s your chance to get involved! We’re looking for a sticker artist - send us a DM or shoot us an email at thasminzine@gmail.com to chat to us about it!

One of our writers, @katiegangel, summing up our thoughts process while making this zine:

They’re on our minds, what can we say! They just deserve an entire zine to honour them 🏳️‍🌈

I think about them a lot.

Oh that’s GORGEOUS

They’re so confident about the imaginary content-restricting version of libraries that exist in their heads.

When I was eleven, I checked out weird ass fantasy romance erotica on my library card.

I went to the library. I asked the librarian where the books were. They led me to the section. I picked out the fantasy romance of my choice. They asked if I needed help checking it out. I said no. I checked it out. I read it.

No one can stop you from reading anything at the library. No librarian will tell you not to read a certain book. They might suggest a book to you, but they won’t tell you not to read anything.

One of the questions on the job interview I did to get a job at the library was basically “the library’s policy is to let anyone checkout anything. a child comes to the checkout desk with a book with a nude figure on the cover. what do you do?”

The correct answer is you let that child check out that book.

That’s library policy. The library would back me up on this if a parent got angry at me.

As a library worker I sometimes helped kids find scary books in the adult section. Never had to deal with the hypothetical nude, haha. But plenty of times where I would have to check with a kid if it was okay if I walked them out of the section their parents left them in to take them to the adult section of the library. But other than that, I let kids read what they wanted. It was their parents’ job to talk to them about what they were reading, not mine. And I knew that some parents would be very permissive and some were very controlling. It was not my job to make judgements or parent anyone’s kids. It was my job to let anyone checkout anything they wanted to read. There are suggested age categories at the library, but no age restriction on the books in the library.

Most libraries these days have self check-out machines. It’s possible that an individual librarian might go against library policy and balk at letting a kid check out Last Exit to Brooklyn, but these days you often don’t even need to go through them.

(Looking through the notes it looks like some libraries in some states have separate kid cards, but I’ve never been in one that did.)

Librarian here! If you don’t want your kid to look at certain materials, don’t leave them unsupervised in the library! It’s not my job to parent your child. It’s yours.

Also a librarian here - I don’t know if this is a country difference, but in the UK there is a restriction. Anyone under 16 can’t take out adult books. A lot of this stuff is done through self checkout and the machine will flash up red and say an adult card must be used. And they can reserve an adult book, it’ll look like they did it, but the reservation will never go through and just stay as a record on their account until a librarian looks at it and tells them they can’t reserve an adult book and that’s why it didn’t work.

This is Aziraphale. He like his personal space.

This is Crowley. He also likes Aziraphale's personal space.

They’re also writing a piece set in season 12 for the Zine 👀 @thoscheitrashdhawan

Wonderful Art Mod Vicky is also doing some historical themed art for the Zine! @vixxnev

And Caitlin is writing us an amazing story about Thasmin going on a historical adventure 👀 @timetravelbypen

how should the word "zine" be pronounced?

ETA: the question is how SHOULD it be pronounced. not how you pronounce it. please bear that in mind thank you

It’s literally short for magazine!! Fanzine!! It’s ZEEN

Happy Doctor Who Day <3

my half awake brain is fascinated by dw’s choice to portray the very concept of time as, in essence, a God, in the midst of an era that is heavily critiquing false prophets. 

#strictly speaking the concept of time should be omniscient bc it is Literally everywhere at once. it just IS. #it wasn’t threatening 13… just a bit of a terrifying heads up. it Knows what will happen bc it Is time it knows literally everything that #ever happened or ever will #the concept of time is not a bad guy. it just Is. #it is the truth in an era that repeatedly condemns the liars and the manipulators #tim shaw and the lone cyberman and the ravagers and even the master #the ultimate figure of truth in the time travel show is… Time itself. #time will tell…. and it sure did. (op’s tags)

Applications close tonight, in about 9 hours (10PM BST). If you haven’t sent one in and you want to be a part of our thasmin fanzine, now’s your last chance!

You can apply as a writer, artist, and/or merch designer!

Our application form now has a closing date - Sunday 27th August! I love every application I’ve looked at so far, I can’t wait to see more! 👀

Since there’s been a lot of interest in our Zine, we’ve made a mailing list so we can keep you updated (not too frequently, I promise!) and let you know when they’ll be on sale. Just put your email in below to subscribe!

We’re creating a Thasmin Charity Fanzine - a catalogue of stories and art celebrating sapphic relationships through space and time, and the Doctor and Yaz’s experiences with them.

It’s a project that’s going to span the entirety of their timeline, from before Yaz met the Doctor to just before they parted. We’ve got tons of ideas around this already, and we’re looking for artists and writers who might be interested in joining in!

If you are, here’s a link to our application form. There’s no exact closing date yet, but we’ll let you know - until then, feel free to share this around so we can find people who might like to be involved!

All you need to do is tell us if you’re a writer or an artist - and if you’d be interested in designing things like stickers or keyrings - and show us examples of your work.

We’re aiming to have this printed in Spring 2024, so the timeline on your creativity won’t be too constricting 💖

so that doctor who episode huh,,

(twitter)