Super Fairy Animal #18
August 2022 | you were here

CONTENTS: intro / take me with you when you go / your fave is problematic / dreaming at dusk / if the cat faces west / complete these dear unfinished tasks of mine / we need to talk about loki / playlist: you were here / liking fairy tales is an easy way not to be taken seriously / ye don't get seasick... do ye? / books: a taste of gold and iron; cold: a novel; sensory: life on the spectrum; i want to be a wall vol. 1; it sounds like this / take it so so

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Super Fairy Animal #17
May 2021 | secret identity

personal zine

out of print

Super Fairy Animal #16
October 2016 | going widdershins

My personal zine, full of fragmented thoughts and unfinished stories, along with comments on books and music.

out of print

Super Fairy Animal #15
2013 | though i am not afraid, i am not brave enough

As explained in the zine, this is not the "first" issue #15, but will be the #15 on record from now on because I lost all copies of the actual #15. CONTENTS: scarecrow in a pale dress (under her breath she says) / women + fantasy fiction / queer men + misogyny / how to say goodbye in robot / mixtape: cover girls, the beatles edition / things I love / queer YA + happy endings / another pointless story / review: Monstress by Lysley Tenorio / though I am not afraid, I am not brave enough / taxi driver

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Super Fairy Animal #14
2012 | ghost moons & monster hearts

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 / warattekureta boku mo waraeru / 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

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Super Fairy Animal #13
2011 | where troubles melt like lemon drops

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 Fine Me / Shortinity by Chewie / Huda Reviews Urban Odysseys / Shida Reviews Freedom Writer’s Diary / Fire & Hemlock / Marineko’s Favourite Teen Movies / I Was Criticized For Letting You Break My Heart / Zine Reviews / Another Pointless Story

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Super Fairy Animal #12
2009 | two sides of nowhere

CONTENTS: Here, Now / Dinarzard / 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, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Stargirl, Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing, Thirteen Reasons Why, Big Fat Manifesto, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You, Little Brother, BitchFest, Uglies, Cinderella’s Big Score, Double Duce, The Taqwacores, I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone, Beige / Untitled / Nowhere (Now, Here) / Playlists: 1. Once More For Old Times’ Sake, 2. Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend’s Too Stupid To Know About, 3. Sentimental Education

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Super Fairy Animal #11
2008 | happy, the end

CONTENTS: ghost girl (intro) / geek girl / doris ghost’s favourite 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 recs: Shadow Forest, The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden, Bookaholics’ Guide to Book Blogs, The Portable Door, The City of Saints and Madmen, The Ivory and the Horn / 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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Super Fairy Animal #10
2005 | living on the same planet/lost in the air

This issue came out after a year-long hiatus (for superfairyanimal), so I guess that’s accomplishment enough. I thought I was never going to zine again, after not feeling 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 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

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Super Fairy Animal #9
2004 | no xerox machine could duplicate my love

CONTENTS: Suicide Notes / 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 Un-hip, Not-Very-Comprehensive Guide on Mixtapery / Soundtrack: Girls, Be Ambitious

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Super Fairy Animal #8
2004 | suicide notes

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
2003 | escape velocity

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
2003 | freedom / no waiting / no delay

When Mackie submitted the cover she did for this issue, I knew it had to be in colour! So this issue cost the most of all my zines. I like this one; it’s all just stories by all my favourite people, and myself.

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 Lacquered Skies, Side B – It Ain’t Coca-Cola, It’s Rice

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Super Fairy Animal #5
2003 | left alone

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 of many reasons, one of them being deep depression.

CONTENTS: Misadventures of a Glitterfae / Untitled Poem (by Pacifique Luna) / D is for Depression / Learning to Live / Circle or Square? / Good Shit: Fruits Basket / 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
2003 | my beloved monster and me

This is the shortest zine I’ve made, not including mini-zines. And it’s about Amanda, or to Amanda, except for one poem.

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Super Fairy Animal #3
2003 | nostalgia is a weapon

I like this issue, because (1) Jun Kit did the cover, (2) Amanda’s artwork is in it, and (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. 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 Dream / Soundtrack: Nostalgia Is A Weapon / Morning Sad / Embun (review by Nadia Ang)

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Super Fairy Animal #2
2003 | space oddity

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. And… 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 and 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
2002 | what she did dreaming

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. I was in my last semester in Nilai and was about to leave for ODU when this issue came out. This zine is about heartbreak and senioritis. This is my favourite issue because I think after feeling kind of confined by Celestial Night, writing this felt really great.

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