{"id":40367,"date":"2018-03-14T19:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T11:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/?p=40367"},"modified":"2018-03-14T22:40:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T14:40:50","slug":"zine-friendships-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2018\/03\/14\/zine-friendships-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"A zine on friendships and loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Friends,<\/p>\n

I have been missing in action for a few months now, and I\u2019m sorry I didn\u2019t leave a note or an explanation. So many things have happened in between then and now \u2013 life got in the way (among many other things) and I just couldn\u2019t bring myself to write for the past few months. The good news however, is that I\u2019m easing myself slowly into being back into the groove of things (it feels like 2018 has just begun for me!<\/em>)<\/p>\n

While I didn\u2019t do much writing here on the blog, I do have something new to show \u2013 I created a new zine in collaboration with Weng Pixin<\/a> and it talks about friendship. Or rather, the lack and loss of it, all wrapped up and titled \u201cThis Ship\u2019d Sailed<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u201d. Now, I\u2019ve experienced friendships that have gone on and off, or perhaps even on again. We\u2019re not bitter nor angry about them \u2013\u00a0we just felt that there\u2019s a certain mystery about friendships, of how feelings and emotions tied to such relationships can affect us so much.<\/p>\n


\n<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Who hasn\u2019t lost a friend in their life? Or who hasn\u2019t felt the stung of rejection that arose from not feeling like they belong? Or what about feeling less than memorable? So much so that you feel tossed aside and ultimately forgotten? It hurts a lot, and I can relate.<\/p>\n

This was the reason why Pixin and I decided to create this zine \u2013\u00a0it\u2019s 40 pages long (yes!) and consists of 7 artists sharing their stories of lost friendships\u00a0\u2013\u00a0from friendly fallouts to eventual growing-apart-itis<\/em>. It\u2019s a less talked about subject \u2013 so many people were celebrating friendships that we thought that it might be interesting to talk about the flip side to BFFs.<\/p>\n

Having had my fair share of friendships that did not turn out as well as I had hoped, I was hoping that I wasn\u2019t the only one who felt hurt, left out and bewildered by such incidences. Turns out, it\u2019s quite normal (if what I see and read from the contributors are anything to go by). Perhaps you\u2019ve gone through something like this as well, to which I say sharing is really caring.<\/p>\n

So do share with me:<\/p>\n

Have you ever lost a friendship that was near and dear to you? Or perhaps you\u2019ve felt a little sidelined by a group of friends before? I\u2019d love for you to break open those floodgates and release your frustrations and feelings, and share them with me. Who knows? You might just help a friend or two (even if you don\u2019t know them as one yet).<\/strong><\/p>\n

To see the insides of This Ship’d Sailed zine in all its full-colour glory, head over to my Etsy shop<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for more pictures and to get yourself a copy!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[75,80],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40367"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40382,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40367\/revisions\/40382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}