Metaparadox

IMPORTANT NOTE: The situation with the one rater has been resolved.

Hi, I'm Olivia. I'm a 24 year old computer science student. I'm at home for the summer right now, so I have a lot of free time for swaps.

About Me: INTP, queer asexual, femme, Latina, chronically ill, autistic, introvert, zinester, programmer, artist, feminist, atheist, skeptic, secular humanist, LARPer, bibliophile, artist, writer, jewelry maker, gamer, lover of SFF, massive nerd, cat lover

My main love is zines, especially personal zines, compilation zines, and zines about interesting topics.

I write mostly personal zines, but I also make found object and fiction zines and minicomics, as well as edit some compilation zines. I write the zines (meta)paradox, Anecdata, Psychometry, and others.

In my personal zines I write about a wide variety of things, including mental health, being autistic, asexuality, college life, personal stories and dreams, queerness, atheism and religion, race and ethnic identity, identity in general, things I love, disability, having multiple sclerosis, science fiction and fantasy, and more!

Message me if you want to trade zines!

Zines I've Made:

All my current zines:

• (meta)paradox #1 - 80 pages, 1/4 size

• (meta)paradox #2 - 88 pages, 1/4 size

• (meta)paradox #3 - 44 pages, 1/2 size

• (meta)paradox #4: The Religion Issue - 72 pages, 1/4 size - (trigger warning for abuse)

• (meta)paradox #5: The Neuroqueer Issue - 88 pages, 1/4 size

• Anecdata #1 - 32 pages, 1/8 size

• Anecdata #2 - 32 pages. 1/4 size

• Anecdata #3 - 32 pages, 1/8 size

• Anecdata #4 - 32 pages, 1/4 size

• Psychometry: A Zine on Found Objects and Small Things With Hidden Meaning - 28 pages, 1/2 size

• Psychometry #2: Little Voices Everywhere - 52 pages, 1/2 size

• Possession Obsession - 88 pages, 1/4 size

• In Veritas Lost - 64 pages, 1/4 size - fiction zine

• Ailenn and Mark: First Meeting - 16 pages, 1/8 size - minicomic

• Ailenn and Jay: The Interview - 16 pages, 1/8 size - minicomic

• Mirror Walk - 16 pages, 1/16 size

• Dark Light - 16 pages, 1/16 size

• Asexual Content #1: Relationships - 56 pages, 1/2 size - not available for trade now - is available for free download online at http://asexualcontent.tumblr.com/

ABCs of Me:

A - ATCs, asexuality, art, atheism
B - BOOKS, beads, blue
C - Cats
D - Drawing, Disney
E - Etsy, ephemera
F - FANTASY, feminism, femme
G - Glitter, green apple flavor
H - Harry Potter, handmade
I - Indigo
J - Jewelry, Jumper series
K - Kittens
L - Lists, LARPing, letters, lavendar
M - Miniatures, Marvel, Muse, Mae, Metric, movies, mail art
N - Nail polish, notebooks
O - Ocean
P - Polymer clay, painting, pastries, periwinkles, pomegranates, programming
Q - Queerness
R - Resin casting, rainbows, roses, rubber stamps
S - SCIENCE FICTION, superheroes, stickers, skepticism
T - Tea, thunderstorms
U - Underwater
V - Violets
W - Washi tape, watercolor
X - X-Men
Y - YA
Z - ZINES

Favorite Teas:

• Earl Grey (especially Twinings)

• Mango

• Hibiscus

• Raspberry

• Peach

Favorite Pokemon:

• Mew

• Eeveelutions (especially Espeon and Vaporeon)

• Pikachu

• Clefairy

• Dragonair

• Mareep

• Jirachi

• Skitty

• Pink Pokemon in general

ZINES, ATCs, digital and traditional art (drawing, painting, etc.), making jewelry, resin casting, beading, polymer clay minis

Jumper series by Steven Gould, Harry Potter series, Rick Riordan's books, Contact by Carl Sagan, His Dark Materials series, Goving Bovine by Libba Bray, Philip Reeve's books, Gatekeepers/Power of Five series by Alex Horowitz, The Hunger Games series, so much YA and speculative fiction (lots of SFF short stories!), Neil Gaiman's books

Contact, Donnie Darko, Avatar, Matilda, Harry Potter Movies, Inception, Edward Scissorhands, The Princess Bride, most Marvel movies, most Studio Ghibli movies (especially Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind), most Pixar movies, Lilo and Stitch, Interstellar, The Martian, How to Train Your Dragon, Rise of the Guardians, The Prince of Egypt, The Shawshank Redemption, Sky High, the Star Trek reboot movies, Star Wars movies, various Disney movies, LOTR and The Hobbit movies, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Doctor Who, Heroes, Supernatural, Star Trek (various), Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis), ATLA and LOK, Misfits, Firefly, Sliders, Sherlock, Law and Order: SVU, Warehouse 13, Teen Titans, Kim Possible, Danny Phantom, Sailor Moon, X-Men: Evolution (lots of nostalgia here), Strange Days at Blake Holsey High, Spellbinder, The Girl from Tomorrow, Ocean Girl, Mirror, Mirror (some Australian and NZ shows I watched on the internet in high school), W.I.T.C.H.

Portal games, Dishonored, Bioshock games, Final Fantasy, most Batman games, Tomb Raider reboot, Minecraft, Osmos, Don't Starve, old Sim City games, Plants vs. Zombies, various indie games, Welcome to Night Vale, The SCP Foundation, Cards Against Humanity, Homestuck, Ava's Demon, xkcd, Gunnerkrigg Court, Nimona, other webcomics, atheist and skeptic podcasts, Settlers of Catan, MIT style LARPs, Sentinels of the Multiverse, ASMR videos

Traditional and digital art, stickers, art supplies, stationary, rubber stamps, ATCs, glitter, beads, polymer clay, resin jewelry, dangly earrings, atheist paraphernalia, comics, self published books (the worse the graphic design the better), washi tape, jewelry making supplies, sparkly stuff, bizarre postcards, tiny books, pinback buttons, magnets, keychains, nerdy stuff, found objects, unnatural hair dye, stamps, queer and feminist stuff, tea!, thrift and dollar stores, pretty paper

Metric, Mae, Muse, Florence + The Machine, Enya, The XX, Wolfgun, Muchuu, Coldplay, Arcade Fire, Arcade Island, Royksopp, Zella Day, Ladytron, Radiohead, Hans Zimmer soundtracks, Two Steps from Hell, Kim Boekbinder, Stars, Chameleon Circuit, Lana del Rey, Lily Allen, Uh Huh Her, MGMT, Pat Matheny Group, The Beatles, Sigur Ros, Skytree, The Glitch Mob, The Mechanisms, This Way to the Egress, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library, Yuna, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Top 40 garbage

• I don't care for chocolate, though I'll eat candy with chocolate coatings. I've never had chocolate tea, but it sounds awful to me, so I'd rather not receive that. Or cocoa mixes.
• People actively trying to preach to or "encourage" me in a religious way, though I do collect some religious tracts for the kitsch or ephemera value.
• Literary fiction that's too full of itself
• Anything racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, etc.
• Plain index cards. I have enough of these.
• Coffee. Just don't like it.

• Mermaids
• Alien women
• Cats and kittens
• Star Wars characters
• Princesses, especially space princesses
• Women with unnatural hair colors
• Pusheen
• Cute Pokemon
• Disney characters, especially princess and Lilo and Stitch
• Doctor Who characters
• Harry Potter characters
• Cupcakes, donuts, and pastries
• Women in general
• Zentangle style art
• Star Trek characters, especially Spock
• Butterflies
• Sea creatures
• Subtly creepy stuff (no gore)
• Welcome to Night Vale
• Homestuck characters
• Gunnerkrigg Court characters
• Superheroes
• Nostalgic characters (Teen Titans, Kim Possible, Danny Phantom, etc.)
• Sailor Moon characters
• X-Men characters
• Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra characters
• Avatar Na'vi
• Pixar movie characters
• How to Train Your Dragon characters
• Studio Ghibli