I plan on changing the title again maybe, working with it. I like the bedframe idea but I also may call it something like, “Tinder Troubles” or something with Tinder in the title? I also want to make sure each small story has Tinder tied into it somehow, I think I missed that in one or two of them. I like the idea of making all the story about one girl and a guy…but I also like the many different names because that is kind of my point, that this “thing” that is: guys not knowing how to decorate or have good communicational skills when it comes to relationships and sex in general, happens to a lot of people. This is not just one sad story of an unlucky girl, this happens to many people, half of my girlfriends have had stories almost exactly like these happen to them. That’s what makes it so relatable. It is a similar and slightly predictable formula, but I am trying to drive across a point without being boring.
Pg. 3:
It had been seven months, five days, and thirty-one minutes since Louise had texted her ex-boyfriend, Corey. She was in a serious dry spell. Tinder never seemed appealing. To her, it just looked like cesspool of shirtless horny men. As the little blue circle spun around while she waited for it to download, all of the potential bad first date possibilities soared through her head. When she opened up the fiery red application, she was bombarded photo after photo with guys holding dead animals and torso shots with no head just abs. Even though the application had only been opened for twenty minutes, the weird pick-up lines had already started…
*insert one of the pickup lines here*
I plan on adding a creepy message/pickup line after every small vignette. I am going to keep the one epigraph at the front of the zine and the same one at the end, and then disperse the messages after each section. I changed the first character/intro girl to be more obviously straight, because that is the narrative I am playing on/slightly critiquing here.
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