the Internet Bedroom September Issue (but in October) featuring girls skateboarding, girls wearing full suits of armor, and girls indulging in time consuming hobbies so they don't have to think/feel.
hey i think this might be your kind of thing! from the memoir of marie mancini (1639-1715):
“I still remember that at about this same time, when I wanted to write to one of my friends whom I loved very dearly, I eventually tired of writing "I love you" so many times in the same letter; so I told her that I would just start marking a cross to stand for those three words. Using this fine invention, I sometimes found myself writing letters to that girl containing nothing but lines of crosses, one after another. One of those letters later fell into the hands of some people who had an interest in penetrating the mystery, but they could never find fault with such a devout cipher.”
thank YOU for appreciating it! fyi there are more vivid anecdotes about her girlhood in the court of the sun king in her extremely well-written memoir (historians do her so dirty by portraying her as a “mistress”) if you want to read (i accessed it on jstor iirc), her sister Hortense also published a memoir, and there’s this website about her too https://cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/mancini/browse.html
hey i think this might be your kind of thing! from the memoir of marie mancini (1639-1715):
“I still remember that at about this same time, when I wanted to write to one of my friends whom I loved very dearly, I eventually tired of writing "I love you" so many times in the same letter; so I told her that I would just start marking a cross to stand for those three words. Using this fine invention, I sometimes found myself writing letters to that girl containing nothing but lines of crosses, one after another. One of those letters later fell into the hands of some people who had an interest in penetrating the mystery, but they could never find fault with such a devout cipher.”
you’re an actual angel 😇🥹 thank you for this!!
thank YOU for appreciating it! fyi there are more vivid anecdotes about her girlhood in the court of the sun king in her extremely well-written memoir (historians do her so dirty by portraying her as a “mistress”) if you want to read (i accessed it on jstor iirc), her sister Hortense also published a memoir, and there’s this website about her too https://cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/mancini/browse.html
that skate video was rad and super inspiring....even the wipeouts were rad.
If you come across zines in Japan, i want to know everything about them!