Super Fairy Animal & Other Zines

Super Fairy Animal #14 - Ghost Moons and Monster Hearts

2010-08-16T17:32:00.000-07:00

CONTENTS:

Intro: Ghost Moons / Childhood Games / I Forget My Heart Can Beat in One, Two, Repeat / マンガで観たあの世界、その中で暮らしたい / 笑ってくれたおかげで僕も笑える / Translation of 「ガラスのブルース」by Marineko / Mix CD Review: On the Wire Mix (by Mils Gan) / REVIEWS: Tegan and Sara's Sainthood, BUMP OF CHICKEN's "HAPPY" / Mix: Ghost Moons and Monster Hearts / Review: 9 (by Huda Talib), (500) Days of Summer / Mix: Cover Girls / Excerpts from School Papers / Enchanted by Ella (on Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted) / Review: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (by Huda Talib) / Another Pointless Story / All of A Tremble Over Sarah Records / Fake Section Reports for February and April: Cthulhu, Vampires and Zombies, Oh My / Mix: Say Hi and Wave Good-bye / REVIEWS: Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan, Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, The Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Sandiford / Short Story: Raya / Outro: Monster Hearts

availability: First run already out-of-stock. For re-prints e-mail me at orokanadreamerATgmail; I'm only re-printing this issue on demand because of my shrinking budget. (>_>)

Super Fairy Animal #13 - Where Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops

2009-09-03T07:09:00.000-07:00

CONTENTS:

Where Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops / Waiting For Somebody Exciting Like You / Mr. All-Asians-Look-the-Same-to-Me / Dear Activity Girl / Mix: SugarDreamPop For My Favourite Girl / Happy Thoughts / We Met By A Trick of Fate /Album recommendation: My Maudlin Camera / Interview: All Girl Summer Fun Band / Ms. Biblioholic / Tape or CD? / Mix: All That Ever Mattered / Art by Faizal / Mix: Hang the DJ & Panic in the Streets of KL / From Me To You / Where You'll Find Me / Shortinity by Chewie / Huda Reviews Urban Odysseys / Shida Reviews Freedom Writer's Diary / Fire & Hemlock / Marineko's Favourite Teen Movies / I Was Critisized For Letting You Break My Heart / Zine Reviews / Another Pointless Story

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Super Fairy Animal #12 - Two Sides of Nowhere

2009-04-30T03:38:00.000-07:00

CONTENTS:
Here, Now / Dinarzad / Banana Girl / Harlequin Presents / On Libraries / Nowhere Girl / Not A Writer / The Autopsy / Nina Brujas / Love Story / Another Pointless Story / Gone Gone / Zine Reviews - Days & Nights #1, Misery Is My Muse #1 and #2, She Was Ready For Anything #8 // book recs - Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing by Abram Shalom Himelstein & Jamie Schweser, Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You by Peter Cameron, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, BitchFest by Andi Zeisler and Lisa Jervis, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, Cinderella's Big Score by Maria Raha, Double Duce by Aaron Cometbus, The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight, I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Stephanie Kuehnert, Beige by Cecil Castellucci // Untitled / Nowhere (Now, Here). Playlists: 1. Once More For Old Times' Sake, 2. Pop Songs Yr New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About, 3. Sentimental Education.

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issue 12 - delayed, as usual

2008-12-29T05:58:00.001-08:00

Actually #12 is complete. Was completed last month, in fact. I printed it out straight away, and all that was left to do was the copying, when I suddenly hated everything in it and wanted to re-do the whole zine. Again. This happened 3 times when I was working on the last issue, and this is the 2nd time it's happened with this one. So, it's being delayed again. Not sure until when. Until I have free time that is not being swallowed by BOOMARK or Kino-News or college assignments, I suppose.

Super Fairy Animal #11 - Happy, the end.

2008-11-27T18:40:00.000-08:00

CONTENTS:

ghost girl (intro) / geek girl / doris ghost's favorite fairy tales (vignettes) : the wild swans, the goose girl, the twelve dancing princesses, the little mermaid, sleeping beauty / on bookwenching / another pointless story / ani's story: ghost / ani: i am a ghost / book recommendations : "shadow forest" by matt haig, "the orphan's tales: in the night garden" by catherynne m. valente, "bookaholics' guide to book blogs" by rebecca gillieron and catheryn kilgariff, "the portable door" by tom holt, "the city of saints and madmen" by jeff vandermeer, "the ivory and the horn" by charles de lint / mix-cd: upon time (side a) & ever after (side b) / for someone who don't drive, i've been all around the world / Happy, the end. (outro)

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New SFA Blog

2008-11-25T22:29:00.000-08:00

I will no longer be updating on the LJ zine blog, as I'm rarely on LJ now. I'm not entirely sure that the zine warrants a blog, even, since lately I seem to come up with a zine a year, instead of every month like I used to. But since I don't do distros or sell my zine at Wondermilk anymore (is Wondermilk still around, anyway? I never go there anymore since it's too far away) I might as well have this blog to announce new issues, so that people who do want the zine know how to get them.

Since Super Fairy Animal is not my only zine (I do one-shots now and then) and I might write about zines other than mine, this blog will be for zines in general.

Issue #12 is more than halfway done, so who knows? If I finish it by next month that will be TWO issues this year. Wow! Haha...

my name is doris ghost #1

2006-04-22T18:31:00.000-07:00

2006. / half-size
this zine is almost a graphic novel, with art by hermitstyle. it contains true stories, or confessions.

this zine is a collaboration with jun kit (tape-chan).

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Super Fairy Animal #10 - living on the same planet / lost in the air

2006-01-12T18:18:00.000-08:00

2005. / half-sized.
this issue came out after a year long hiatus, so i guess that's accomplishment enough :p i thought i was never going to zine again, after not being motivated to do so for so long. even though i finished this zine in late 2005, all the writing in it are from 2004.

CONTENTS:
Always, No Sometimes It's Me / I'm Feeling Sorry For Myself, I Keep Taking Everything to Be A Sign / And In This Moment I Am Happy / "the sharpness of the midnight fallen stars" by Amanda Shin (drawing) / 10 Good Reasons That I Can't Find / Take These Broken Wings And Learn To Fly / Days Like These I Don't Know What To Do With Myself / Break My Face My Back My Arms My Neck But Please Don't Break My Heart / Even If Everyone Forgets / A Book You Read In Reverse / I Hate the Big Decisions That Cause Endless Revisions / I Know Where I Stand, I Don't Need You To Hold My Hand / soundtrack 1: Will You Still Love Me In December? / I Hate the "Gay Thing" / Excerpt from "Star Gazing" / Music Reviews / Not A Pretty Girl / A Friend In Need Is A Pest Indeed / Soundtrack 2: side a - asleep, side b - awake / Tokyo Is My Barcelona

2 copies left. email at yureichan[at]gmail(dot)com.

Chantal's Carnivorous Cat

2005-05-21T18:53:00.000-07:00

November 2005. / quarter-size
the entire zine is just one sestina, that i wrote around 2003. it's the first fixed form poem that i wrote, and the last poem i've written in a very, very long time. it is accompanied by artwork by Amanda. the zine was credited under "Koneko Mari and Amanda Shin" XDDD

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Super Fairy Animal #9 - no xerox machine could duplicate my love for you

2004-10-12T18:21:00.000-07:00

2004. / half-sized.
the obsessions issue. CONTENTS:
Contributors / Suicide Notes: just because i hate akademi fantasia / On Being the Onigiri In A Fruit Basket / Last Ode to Star (by Pacifique Luna) / Yaoi: Plotless Smut or a Lesson in Gender-bending? / Ramly Burger: the Unsung Malaysian Product (by sidneyficance) / Harold Sakuishi's BECK / Vaishnavism and Homosexuality (by R. Kumaran) / I Kill Myself Because Manson Said So... Not! / No Xerox Machine Could Duplicate My Love For You / The Music Obsession (album reviews) / Instant Music / An Absolutely Unhip, Not-Very-Comprehensive Guide On Mixtapery / Soundtrack: Girls, Be Ambitious

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Super Fairy Animal #8 - Suicide Notes

2004-03-22T18:23:00.000-08:00

2004. / half-sized.
CONTENTS:
Zinestar / Misadventures of a Glitterfae / The Art of Spewing (by Mackie) / The Postal Service (by Afi) / There Will Be No Sun Shining Through the Clouds (by Michelle) / Reaction to the In-Denials (by Tania) / She Said She Said / Poem (by Afi) / Excerpts: "The Perks of Being Charlie", "Lord of the Golden Snitch", "Magical Writing" / Friends (by Tania) / Soundtrack: Anchovies - A Tori Mixtape / Good Shit

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Super Fairy Animal #7 - Escape Velocity

2003-09-20T18:36:00.000-07:00

2003 / half-sized.
CONTENTS:

Misadventures of a Glitterfae / Untitled Poem / Untitled Prose (by Zihan) / Men (by Mackie) / You Are So Annoying (by Tania) / Akiko Supersampled / Lost Pieces of Mine (Mind) (by Nazleen Luna) / This January Night / Recommended / Good Shit: Parallel Lines zine / Soundtrack: Just Because... I Need Escape Velocity / Another Pointless Story

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Super Fairy Animal #6 - freedom / no waiting / no delay

2003-08-12T18:40:00.000-07:00

2003 / half-sized.
when Mackie submitted the cover she did for this issue, i knew it had to be in color! so this issue cost the most of all my zines, hahahah... but i like this one; it's all just stories by me & all my favorite people.

CONTENTS:
Misadventures of a Glitterfae / Dirtyslut (art by Jiji Ishak) / Teenage Dirtbag (by Nazleen Luna) / A Sort of Fairy Tale / Lust (by R. Kumaran) / Untitled (by Amanda Shin) / Pirate Girl / Good Shit: But I'm A Cheerleader! / Recommendations / Soundtrack: Side A - Under Pink Laquered Skies, Side B - It Ain't Coca-Cola, It's Rice

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Kuala Lumpur Espionage

2003-07-22T18:54:00.000-07:00

2003. / full-size
a zine made from complete fun, with silly doodles, photographs, and sketches by Pixie Paul (me), Pony John (Amanda), and Tape-chan (Jun Kit), with a guest appearance by Luna (Nazleen) and Monk-chan (Kumaran). besides the images, the three of us also wrote an account of THE JANUARY NIGHT from our own point of views, and there's the list of songs from the mix cds we each made for that day.

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Super Fairy Animal #5 - Left Alone

2003-07-16T18:41:00.000-07:00

2003 / half-sized.
with this particular issue, i really wasn't quite sure what i was doing. i was feeling a bit lost because i just dropped everything in ODU and moved back to KL because suddenly i wasn't sure what i wanted to do anymore, or perhaps i just felt that it wasn't healthy for me to stay in my room for weeks and weeks without seeing anyone. -__-

CONTENTS:
Misadventures of a Glitterfae / Untitled Poem (by Pacifique Luna) / D is for Depression / Learning to Live / Circle or Square? / Good Shit: Fruits Basket by Takaya Natsuki / Memory of a Relapse (by Amanda Shin) / Chan Marshall (by Amanda Shin) / Soundtrack: Left Alone / ReadListenWatch / August Celebration (by Julie Ring-Fry) / Another Pointless Story

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Super Fairy Animal #4 - My Beloved Monster and Me

2003-06-10T18:46:00.000-07:00

2003 / quarter-sized.
this is the shortest zine i've made. and it's about amanda, or to amanda, except for one poem, which i had written way before i knew anyone i know now.

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Super Fairy Animal #3 - Nostalgia Is A Weapon

2003-04-13T18:47:00.000-07:00

2002 / half-sized.
i actually like this issue, because (1) jun kit did the cover, (2) amanda's artwork is in it, (3) a lot of the writing in it meant a lot to me, not because i think they're so great or anything, but because writing them taught me a lot about things. a lot of love letters to kuala lumpur and my friends, that kind of thing.

CONTENTS:
Misadventures of a Glitterfae / Realities / Alien She / Ideology / When I Grow Up / Time Takes Its Toll On The Places We Go (by Jun Kit) / SFA#3 pixie drawing by Amanda / How I Spent Thanksgiving / Never Knew What A Good Time Was Til I Had A Good Time With You / Untitled / When I Lie Awake At 3 a.m. I Think of This / Girl Angel Juan of My Dreams / Soundtrack: Nostalgia Is A Weapon / Morning Sad / Embun (review by Nadia Ang)

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Super Fairy Animal #2 - Space Oddity

2003-01-22T18:49:00.000-08:00

2003 / quarter-sized.
i worked on this soon after #1, and i guess even now i think it was a bit too rushed, but at the time i really wanted to have the material for the zine done. if i remember correctly, i finished this zine really really fast :// aaaaand... it's about leaving malaysia, i guess.

CONTENTS:
Misadventures / Soundtrack: The Space Oddity / Travel Journal: KL to Honolulu to Minneapolis to Norfolk / Risky Business (by Gnute) / Thai the Spy / Hot Topic (drawing by Jun Kit) / Canvas (by R. Kumaran) / Book & Movie reviews by Marisa / Ghost World review (by Amanda) / Take Care of My Cat review (by Gnute)

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Super Fairy Animal #1 - What She Did Dreaming

2002-08-14T18:50:00.000-07:00

2002 / half-sized.
i just couldn't do another issue of Celestial Night and i didn't zine for about six months, before i suddenly worked on this. the zine name was from the title of an article about Bjork XD

i was in my last semester in Nilai and was about to go to ODU when this issue came out. this zine is about heartbreak and senioritis (sp?). this is my favorite issue because i think after feeling kind of confined by Celestial Night writing this felt really great.

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Celestial Night #13 - The End

2002-01-22T18:58:00.000-08:00

2002. / half-size
CONTENTS:
Those High School Days / Dear Nikolai / to: GirlAgainstSanity / A Poem About the First of July / A love that dares not speak / The Butterfly Boy (by Nazleen Najemuddin) / Mischief Books / Untitled Poem / Journal Excerpts / Drawing (by Michael) / Teenage Dirtbag (by Nazleen Najemuddin) / Myself the Amoeba / Rant (by Marisa & Joanne) / Untitled Poem (by Girl Barking) / Untitled Poem (by Natelie Love) / Emily's Head (by Emily Mae) / The Tale of the Infinite Night / Fuck You / Clutterpage / I Am Not Religious, I Am Spiritual / Misadventures / Fairy Tales / Reviews

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Celestial Night #12 / My Secret Diary #5

2001-06-25T18:59:00.000-07:00

2001. / half-size
joint zine with Natelie's My Secret Diary (Amarita has left this zine by this time). extra-thick, since it's a joint zine, and... yeah. i really liked this issue. it's definitely the most fun to make, as i was in college at the time, and Natelie still in Form 5, and on weekends i'd head to KL and we'd hang out at Mos Burger and just work on the zine together for hours.

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Celestial Night #11 - Misadventures of a Glitterfae

2001-05-15T19:01:00.000-07:00

2001. half-size
my favorite CN cover - yes, more cut-and-paste! this issue was re-named misadventures of a glitterfae, although i went back to Celestial Night the next issue. and the John Lennon quote on the cover - "I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak." some of my favorite contributions to ever grace CN were from this issue, too.

CONTENTS:
A Painting for Grace / Coffee Shop Dream / Dear Nikolai / On My Way (by Shambala) / The Skinny Girl (by Jessica Disobedience) / Starchaser Part I / Emily's Head: Empire Records (by Emily Mae) / Fairy drawing (by Amarita) / Sweet Himiko (by Natelie Love) / Girl Loved (by Natelie Love) / Journal Excerpts / Reviews: Sniper (film by James Lee), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (novel by Stephen Chbosky), I Was A Teenage Fairy (novel by Francesca Lia Block)

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Celestial Night #10

2001-02-02T19:03:00.000-08:00

2001 (February 2nd). / half-size
another one of my favorite issues, this time because of the cut-and-paste job, which i really had fun doing. i still can't believe i used Bratmobile flyers that people sent me, though, because it's not like those things are easy to get here... ;_;

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Celestial Night #9

2001-01-22T19:04:00.000-08:00

2001. / half-size
college! hahahah.... this issue actually meant a lot to me, because it was the ninth issue... (i first started making CN after reading FLB'sGirl Goddess #9 after all..) at this point Natelie had her own zine with another ex-CN contributor, Amarita (Aimee), called My Secret Diary. in this issue is a feature on the Phillips Rush-X event, Daria quotes, and the postcard i received from FLB (i had sent her a letter).

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Celestial Night #8

2000-10-22T19:06:00.000-07:00

2000. / half-size
definitely one of my favorite CN issues. there's a small Harry Potter feature (this was when it wasn't quite big yet here, folks... in fact, i had a hard time looking for people who read it for the Q&A part... :///) and... well, it's just the making of this zine was so fun, you know?

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portrait of a dream

2000-08-22T18:54:00.000-07:00

2000. / half-size
a witchbaby zine, made from writings and art by members of the witchbaby list on egroups. it wasn't originally meant to be a one-shot, but i never got around to making the second issue. but since it's one of the few witchie zine projects that actually made it into a firstissue, i still consider it a success XD

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Celestial Night #7

2000-07-20T19:08:00.000-07:00

2000. / half-size
more improvement... i was starting to have more fun with the whole cut-and-paste thing by this time, because i was finally getting to see/read zines other than my own, and getting ideas from them. i co-wrote this story, Pretty Good Year, with Tania, which was supposed to be a series, although we never wrote more than the first two parts. :/ hmm... what else... by this time i was practically the only one working on the zine, although i still get contributions from the others from time to time. Natalie Princess changed her name to Natelie Love. XD

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Celestial Night #6

2000-06-22T20:28:00.000-07:00

2000. / half-size
improved even more, with contributions from Amanda and Maithili and Marmar :D. there's Tania's Lexus High story (credited under "Somebody") which I loved, and an insert on Female Genital Mutilation.

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Celestial Night #5

1999-12-13T20:30:00.000-08:00

1999. / half-size
Nazleen (Natalie Princess... how come everyone but me and Rosyam used the words "Princess" in our names?) joined the team. A bit less embarrassing than the others, but still pretty bad.

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Celestial Night #4

1999-08-10T20:30:00.000-07:00

1999. / half-size
it's got a quote from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on the cover!!! other than that, still pretty damn embarrassing. another girl (Rosyam / Cean Andre) became one of the "editors" - she did some pretty cool cartoons for us, I remember....

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Celestial Night #3

1999-03-16T20:31:00.000-08:00

1999 / half-size
previously titled rosefire, #3 of Celestial Night zine was published around 1999... i think. i'm not absolutely sure.

at this point CN was a joint zine with Yasmin and Sylvia, respectively Witch Princess and Vampire Princess. looking back at this, is really embarrassing ^_^;;;

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Rosefire #2 (Celestial Night)

1998-08-15T20:36:00.000-07:00

1998. / half-size
Yasmin was starting a series under this zine, and i had various contributions from my classmates.

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Rosefire #1 (Celestial Night)

1998-05-14T20:37:00.000-07:00

a bit of history: CN was first created as "rosefire", on April 1998. the name changed to "Celestial Night" after a vote. practically all of these (except maybe the last issue) is really embarrassing and i feel like burning them or something, but i have this stupid instinct to preserve history. XP

1998. / full-sized.
my first zine, that i wrote after knowing what a zine is (as i've written before, i did do a zine called sunflower when i was 10, but i didn't know what zines were back then so i didn't call it a zine). i found out about zines from FLB's Girl Goddess #9, which actually pretty much saved my life. i was determined to start my own zine, even though i had no idea what "real zines" looked like. i had a lot of help from other friends who also had no idea what zines were like, like Yasmin who became a co-editor.

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