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Scribendi 2025 was designed to be carried with you—wherever your journey takes you. This year’s edition captures a spectrum of moments: wandering through the woods, sipping tea in a quiet study, or resting beneath a coffee cup in a bustling café. With its handmade aesthetic—ripped paper, hand-drawn lines, and organic framing—this edition feels personal, tactile, and uniquely yours. The Scribendi staff invites you to interact with it freely—underline, jot notes, sketch in the margins, and make it your own. Pre-stained and deliberately imperfect, this edition is a beautiful mess, a curated chaos that reflects the creative energy of 2024.

What you’ll find in this issue:

The 2025 edition features thirty-three pieces by thirty-one honors students from sixteen schools throughout the nation. In Scribendi 2025, you will find gentle words amongst the mountains, a video game with fashion and monsters, and cleverly crafted emotional literature. If you’d like to hold the physical copy in your hands, you can order the print edition here. Please donate $10 to help cover mailing, printing, and general operating costs. You can also download a digital edition by clicking on the cover above.

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what mountains do when people go • by Raychel Kool 

“what mountains do when people go” is an entirely analog zine made using imagery from a Patagonia magazine, text quotes from Poetry magazine, a glue stick, an X-ACTO knife, the school copy machine, and the artist’s insightful recognition of earthly bodies that become activated outside of human perception. The physical form of this zine has outer spreads containing solid imagery and interior spreads that reveal cutouts—their negative space representing. An absence of people in the natural landscape. It merges mysticism with unexpected personification of the wild side of non-human life.

“I Exist Becaust of the Trans People That Came Before Me”: Recordando Nuestros Trans’ Antepasados • by Reyes Reynaga

Drawing from trans artist and activist Mars Wright, Reyes created ““I Exist Becaust of the Trans People That Came Before Me”: Recordando Nuestros Trans’ Antepasados.” Filled with colorful paper, these remembrances show that the past was just as proud and lively as the trans community is today and how all types of people have existed, and persisted, throughout human history. Featured from left to right is Sylvia Rivera, Amelio Robles Ávila, and Geraldine Portica. Each tin carries an informative zine of their historical trans icons. Housed inside Altoid tins, these traveling ofrendas repurpose a recognizable object into a treasure made with great care. 

Get ready to slay monsters and walk the runway in MALLPOCALYPSE! This two-and-a-half-minute highlight reel shows off Valentine’s senior thesis: a playful video game of dress-up and survival. Dressing up isn’t just about looking cute. The more accessories you have, the deadlier your attacks will be. Want to survive? Then you better add a keychain to your sword. And if the blade doesn’t quite match your style, don’t worry—pummeling monsters with your trusty handbag works just as well. The nightmarish creatures and liminal layout of the mall are balanced by pastel colors and sassy quips, making for a unique blend of horror and chic that is worth the watch.