ivy thread. thread for asking ivy questions or sharing cool art with her. not about the plant

hi

there are like two threads about me on ilx both under my deadname, figured i should just start a new one. i'll prob share my published writing here as well (coming soon, a zine)

hi!

how are feeling

not a question, but looking forward to your writing.

Ooooh this is a promising thread. Hi ivy!

how are feeling

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 18, 2025 11:46 AM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

just about the saddest i've ever felt, trying to work on my zine anyway, even though it is about the very thing that is making me sad now

Apologies if this isn’t wanted but it’s brought me some joy this past weekend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtbEIMAsBsY

what kinds of cool art are you interested in seeing?

and i'm sorry to hear about the sad feelings. i'm curious what the zine is, although if you don't want to talk about it that's cool too. but i think it can be good to work things out in an artistic/creative fashion, so i hope the zinemaking is aiding with that even if it's a reminder of the sad thing, too.

thank you for asking about the zine. 2024 was the best year of my life. it was my first full year on feminizing hormones. i recorded an album with my band i'm exceedingly proud of, still. and i met and started dating the love of my life. she made something happen in me i still don't have the means to explain. but i started making a lot more art, and i started paying closer attention to everything

the zine is ostensibly a year-end list, consisting of the top five works of art i encountered last year that i found particularly moving or life-altering. they could be in any medium, from any year. i think i listed them out on some thread on this board. i wrote very long essays about each thing, and each essay will be accompanied by illustrations by my friends. but the essays very quickly depart from their purported subjects and become about something else. one is about a very gay novel i read called hugs and cuddles which, among other things, charts a man's transformation into a woman. so i wrote this really diffuse and murky essay that starts off being about the book and ends up being about my transition. they all work like this. and the real subject of the zine, the cumulative thing it is, is that it's all something i wrote to share with the love of my life. she's illustrating one of the essays, still, even though we broke up

I'd love to read it.

what kinds of cool art are you interested in seeing?

music and movie and book recs! and anything under the sun you think i'd vibe with

I'd love to read it.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 18, 2025 1:45 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you will!!! i'm going to be selling hard copies but i'm also putting it all on a neocities website

so sorry about the breakup! that sucks so bad. you are really reminding me of of my oldest kid for more than one reason. i wish you could connect with them somehow. i think you would both get along really well. they went through something hard and are going through changes of their own and they are recording an album!

anyway, maybe you will like this. it's my very favorite song by one of my favorite 80s bands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ochm-ilVHY

that song rules scott. and i wish i could meet your kid too!!! they seem so rad

Can't wait to read the zine! First time I'll have even looked at one of these since the 90s.

haha they're alive and well. i bought a music zine the other day from quimby's made by a girl currently in college and it looks and reads exactly like a music zine from the '90s

the other zine i bought was about bugs

Ivyyyyy… I approve of this thread and will donate some thoughts to it shortly

hey ivy, hope your day is going okay, are you into the band straightjacket fits at all?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9U9cKp9ybU

i've heard of them but never listened!!!! and i really like that song, immediately sent it to my guitarist who will also adore them if he doesn't already

A wonderful band for sure. I caught them near the tail end.

Hey ivy!

Do you know a band called There Will Be Fireworks? Little Scottish band, whose first album is the heart stuff for me. I don't know enough emo to know whether it'd be canon but it flays me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL_iDTfvLEo

i listened to this 47474743736 times in the 80s. loooooooooove so much. u.s. version. different than nz one i think. but looooooooove.

https://www.discogs.com/release/3346015-Straitjacket-Fits-Hail

Ivy, we need to talk about the new Ela Minus (but I guess there’s a dedicated thread for that)

Looking forward to reading your zine.

the new ela minus is so good, extroverts her style just the right amount

idk if i’m allowed to use extrovert as a verb but it’s my thread

chinaski, that is yet another band i’ve heard a lot about but never listened to!!! will report back