tastes like drowning [pdf art zine]

“Taste Like Drowning” is a digital art zine that combines art and quotes to understand the suffocating experience of being the person who always texts first, cares more, and somehow makes loving someone your entire personality. It’s for everyone who’s ever been told they’re “too intense” and then spent three weeks trying to figure out how to be less of themselves.

This zine reflects the specific panic of realizing you’ve become one of those people who obsessively check read receipts and then get genuinely upset when someone doesn’t heart react to your messages immediately. It highlights that drowning feeling when you realize you’ve been putting more effort into someone else’s happiness over your own—an experience many Millennials and Gen Zers know all too well when loving with anxiety.

The zine format is perfect for this topic because mainstream media wouldn’t understand the unique torment of loving so much it makes you physically nauseous, or how you can simultaneously know you deserve better while also being completely unable to want it. It turns that overwhelming “I would die for you, but you won’t even change your Netflix password” energy into something meaningful.

Perfect for those who’ve ever had to consciously stop themselves from writing paragraph responses to one-word texts, this digital publication offers validation and a gentle reminder that maybe loving someone shouldn’t feel like you’re constantly underwater. Download “Taste Like Drowning,” and remember that the right person won’t make you feel like you’re too much.

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This zine is part of The Early Years Collection.