Irregular periodical • Slot 01 • No assigned department

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Anything I want, really.

Stories, games, history, culture, jokes, arguments, implications and accidental poetry.

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The Greatish capsule opened across an editor's desk, releasing an impossible dimensional model and a vivid disorder of printed ideas Issues come in Attention Deficit Order.

Editorial policy, such as it is

Feel the awe of the Big Dumb Subjects.

If you are the type of person who needs to know what something is before you can enjoy it: reader discretion is advised.

FictionGamesHistoryMythCultureMakingWhatever next

The run so far

Schrödinger's catalog: Continuing or Complete, depending on when you look at it.

The magazine is dead, and you're attending the wake. It's a "For You" feed that's not for you. Not everything can be for you.

Greatish issue 1A cover featuring a gold statue and headlines about American novels and Odysseus's dog
1 HeartHistory begins here, allegedly.
Greatish issue 1B cover featuring Moby Dick DJing aboard a ship
1 SpadeFrom hell's heart, a beat drops.
Greatish issue 1C cover showing an American flag being ironed while it burns
1 ClubIrony in America.
Greatish issue 1D cover featuring an anthropologist in a gorilla suit
1 DiamondGatsby, nostalgia, and making a mess.
Greatish issue 2A cover featuring a monochrome masked man and superhero imagery
2 HeartSuperheroes never die.
Greatish issue 2B cover featuring a woman holding an enormous cocktail with a skull inside
2 SpadeExcuse me, princess.
Greatish issue 2C cover featuring a woman riding a chess knight in a cocktail bar
2 ClubThe Fitzgeralds enter the game.
Greatish issue 2D cover showing Zelda Fitzgerald crossing from a family portrait into Wonderland
2 DiamondPortraits are only doors with frames.
Greatish issue 3A cover, Refuse Your Own Adventure, featuring a player ignoring a wizard's invitation
3 HeartRefuse your own adventure.

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On the desk now

Issue 3B is still deciding what it is.

There are clues: an old game cartridge, a strange triangular device, a dark shape, and a direction that has not finished becoming a direction.

Not published • Not promised • Very much alive
A worn parody game cartridge titled The Zelda of Legend: Twee Lit Princess Exhibit 3B / one possible beginning
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Subject to fascination without notice.

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