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[Image description. A long vertical collage in three sections. All text described has unusual formatting due to being cut out from magazine titles and articles. Section one has a blank background and a lot of disconnected text crowded together. Text described in order of top to bottom:
- First, I will tell you about barriers, dysfunction, memory leak.
- Image of a ribcage with a question mark cut out. Text below reads: I have a hole in my chest. It's who you are. You forgot lazy, disrespectful, and a piece of shit
- Light and wrong
- Image of a shouting skull being zapped by lightning. Next to it is the word "Lie".
- I have poor expectations
- Sorry state. Anxious and angry. And very cold, my mind and body.
- Who the fuck cares about how productivity could be improved. Fuck that lie
- I need change
- My brain's patchwork and puzzle piece-y. You can't turn that shit off.
- The devotion required to realize a project of this magnitude is so fucked.
- Image of a broken heart
- Degraded
- Opposition
The transition to the second section is made of two columns of text with a poster in the middle. The first column says:
- Can you believe we've been doing this bullshit for 20 years?
- You start to think about it too hard.
- The crack.
- I think it's easy to forget we exist
- Vanishing
- Falling
- What you can fucking expect in the near future
- A growing sense of bloody isolation
- heart and brain at an all-time low
- How do people live here? I ask myself, panting, climbing up stairs carved into the wall of the impossibly steep a (text gets cut off).
- And thus began a long bout with self hate
- The route over misery pass
The poster between the columns is titled, "Have you seen him". An image of a man running is posed to look like he's running out of the poster and falling into the second section. His face is blocked by the frame of the poster and text that reads, "How to know when it's going to blow."
The second section has a dark background. Text reads:
- Not quite too late. because we haven't been gone.
- We exist despite our environment
- The good news. There's a different way
- Not so fast. Down a notch. Community. Support. A little help along the way. Connection is a powerful need, and I believe it's what drives so much of our behavior.
Text over the border into the third section reads, "Pathways to a Greener World"
The third section has a colorful background. The start looks like a sky, with text reading, "With a mix of joy and angst pride unfurls." Pictures of roses surround the text. Below that is a picture of a neighborhood at night. The man who was running out of the poster before is now sitting on the ground. Text above him reads, "You were making it up as you go along. That's peak perfection." Beside the neighborhood photo is a column of sideways text. First is, "Still dysfunctional," with pictures of candy hearts posted above the words. Second is, "Sloppy, unprofessional, cool as fuck." with a picture of a cat wearing sunglasses beside the words. The end of the collage is a quote. Quote reads: McGuire says, "Even if it's the worst life of all time, it's better than 100 percent of the lives that don't get made." -jimmy cooper | Gratitude Fanzine #3. End quote. the words "life" and "lives" are pasted onto the quote from somewhere else. End image description.]
Woe, "do you like the color of the magazine collage" be upon ye.
