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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · May 26

for #ofmdzineweek, extracts from the sketchbook of edward teach, scout's watch fire lookout, summer 2022

front and back pages of a zine. they are on brown card, the front cover designed to look like a "field notes" notebook. cover is labelled with "scout's watch - 2022. e. Teach".
the back cover has two small illustrations of fire lookout towers in the bottom two corners, connected with a dotted line with a heart in the middle.

layout of page 2 and 3 of the zine.
page 2 is torn squared paper that reads:
"Queen Anne Ntnl. Forest
south one - scout's watch -> door code 091717
south two - twin oaks
2022 season - stede bonnet (year one)
radio freq - 4
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north one - cliffside
2022 - jim jimenez
radio freq - desktop 2
north two - estuary peak
2022 - olu boodhari
radio freq - desktop 3"

page 3 is a painted illustration of a sunset over a lake in portrait orientation. it is all orange and red tones with silhouette trees and rocks.

pages 3 and 4 of the zine.
page 3 is squared paper with an in-progress game of battleships. there are doodles in pencil all over the page, and a game of noughts and crosses.
page 4 is a landscape colour painting of a fire lookout in the distance, the foreground is rocks and grassland with some trees. the sky is shades of blue with a few clouds.

page 5 and 6
page 5 is a landscape watercolour painting of a rocky canyon. in the background are green hills. the sky is a light blue colour with hints of green and yellow.
page 6 is a series of scribbled notes including:
a shopping list for the 10th june:
sugar - 1kg, mixed nuts, tortilla chips, kettle chips, apples/pears, tea - normal and mint, cholula (orig)
a starred note: stede resupply 14th.
a highlighted note: check cashe #492 fire damage
a doodle of a forest service cache in pencil.
note *handrail @ overlook broken - temp fix, needs replacing.
a highlighted note: bg recycling for resupply crew!
shopping list for aug 12th:
rice, tuna, veg stock, eggs?? sugar, coke
a note surrounded by a box:
do i think i could fall in love with someone i've never met?!! fucking hell.

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 3h

I personally think I am god's strongest soldier for surviving this entire 8 week term whilst in the depths of the first trimester/early second trimester trenches with only ONE SINGLE SICK DAY. god's strongest fucking soldier.

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 2d

Psyching myself up to ask to resign from the leadership part of my job because I'm so fed up of carrying other people's ineptitude that I'll just deal with the fact that it will fuck me financially for the next year. I'm just so done.

em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 4d

(I am surviving! Trying to turn it into thriving!! Thank you for asking/hoping 🥰)

em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 4d

Update: I wrote 500 words today which is the most I've written since *checks notes* JULY so. Progress!

em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote 2 sentences and then took a break for lunch 😌

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 4d

I don't wish to alarm anyone but

Photograph of an open laptop. Browser tab is set to an ellipsus document with a short paragraph at the top of the page.

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 6d

I teach far too many teenage boys for this Claire 😭 I did NOT think this far ahead 😭

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 6d

I am running out of plausible bump deniability and will soon have to tell the kids that no, it's not a result of mcds opening 10 mins from the school, it is, in fact, a baby. And the issue with that is that there isn't a single child in my school (secondary) that doesn't know how babies are made 🙃

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 8d

Had a checkup this morning (all good, fetus very cooperative 👍) but now I am at work and I swear, just BEING IN the school building drains all energy from me. Banter central with the midwife, now I am sitting at my desk desperate for a nap 😭

em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 11d

Great news on the writing front! I've upgraded from considering wiping my WIP from the face of the earth (ao3) to reading everything I have that's currently unpublished, and writing the rest of the chapter in my head?? Great success! (Still need to get something down on paper, but baby steps!)

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 18d

Tbh I might have to drag Mr em out for a pub Sunday lunch next weekend. Maybe a little walk in the woods first to pep me up for it (I am so jealous I wish that was me today)

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 18d

It's 6.45 in the morning and I'm just laying in bed thinking I could absolutely demolish a roast dinner right about now. No energy to cook one, I just want to eat it.

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 19d

Well now I absolutely need a rock/popstar ed fic in which he writes an entirely unnecessary, cringe, and very much not asked for song about how his new boyfriend's massive dick changed his life.

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 25d

Karaoke sex chicken sequel except it's 5 times ed and stede managed to toe the line of public sex offences at jackie'z and the one time they broke an all time record for both Jackie penalty points and the length of their resulting ban ✌️

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 26d

How's pregnancy going you ask? Well, I just spent 10 minutes sitting on the kitchen floor uncontrollably sobbing because I accidentally broke the little bowl I made in my first proper ceramics class that my cat eats her treats from 😔

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · 27d

Mr em has covid 🙃✌️

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · Sep 21

This probably earns a CW for pregnancy but if I'm honest, please mute me if it's a tricky topic for you because this is both the best and absolute worst thing that's ever happened to me and I will be celebrating/complaining about it for at least the next 6 business months

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · Sep 21

My "growing a new human is very tiring" afternoon lay downs have become such a staple of my day that I am now the proud owner of a special sofa duvet set and memory foam pillow I can have "actual rest, not just sad lay downs" - direct quote from Mr Em

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · Sep 18

Hello I am pleased to announce that despite Dr Doom's empathy lacking not-diagnosis back in August, we have now confirmed, with the help of the most lovely sonographer, a kiwifruit sized em jr with all the right parts a baby should have at this stage of growing 😌

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · Sep 11

Perhaps this is quite niche but I have caught up with the sewing bee and to say I am shocked, appalled, and deeply upset would be an understatement

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · Sep 8

My limited internet time truly RUINED by being blocked from all the nsfw channels in every discord under the sun because I refuse to verify my age 😔 I just wanna look at rude things in peace 😔

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · Sep 1

Some positive news re: this hell. Saw my community midwife for the first time today and she's SO MAD about this, apologised so much for our experience, and has directed us to the feedback and complaints 😌 best believe I've got my typing fingers ready.

em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · Aug 17

Cw: pregnancy. Not really the way I saw myself sharing this news, but I need somewhere to Feel about the abject cruelty of a male Dr *laughing* through his explanation of "bleeding at this stage of pregnancy goes one of two ways and we'll find out at your 12 week scan which one it is!"

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · Aug 30

Man, I miss the person I was three years ago when I was in the depths of plotting and writing seven point three miles. I was a Storytelling Machine back then 😭

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · Aug 29

the real answer, i know, is both. both is good. but authors: would you rather nail the opening line of a story, or the closing line?

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · Aug 26

Extreme closeup of my best boi™️ cubone who I am preparing to stitch onto everything I own.