Petrarchive – Ventoux, Issue 1

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No.5543 Anonymous>>6746 2025-06-12 10:17:38
Ventoux, Issue 1
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We are pleased to release the first issue of Ventoux, an online literature magazine with contributions from the users of Petrarchan.

See the announcement post on Substack here:

https://ventouxmag.substack.com/p/issue1

Or, download it right away:

https://petrarchan.com/ventoux/issue1/ventoux-issue1-web.pdf

Thank you to everyone who contributed. Submissions remain open for Issue 2, please send your work to [email protected]
No.5545 Anonymous>>5546 2025-06-12 11:01:53
I saw your post on /lit/ about this
>with submissions from /lit/ notables including Lewis Woolston and Lucas Bineville!
I'm pretty sure those two are only remembered by /lit/ for writing badly, if at all.

It looks nice anyway, so I'll try to give it a read. Is there a particular reason why I can't select the text? From the way it loads, it looks like it's embedded in there and not just a vector, but maybe I'm wrong (the filesize is also a little surprising).
No.5546 Anonymous>>5547 2025-06-12 11:03:22
>>5545
You can select the text in the accessible version
No.5547 Anonymous>>5548 2025-06-12 11:09:53
>>5546
...but they're the exact same otherwise?
No.5548 Anonymous 2025-06-12 11:25:18
>>5547 yes
No.5549 Anonymous 2025-06-12 12:05:42
Fuck yeah, I made it in.
No.5550 Anonymous 2025-06-12 12:15:22
Kudos to all who made it happen.
No.5551 Anonymous 2025-06-12 13:38:55
well done
weird that there's no cover but nice that the table of contents actually matches the .pdf page #
No.5552 Anonymous>>5553 2025-06-12 13:45:31
Congratulations. For the next issue let someone do some Latex formatting for clickable table of contents
No.5553 Anonymous 2025-06-12 13:47:42
>>5552
Noted. The phone version has some links.
No.5569 Jack 2025-06-13 10:41:49
Open question to everyone who has read it, what is your favourite piece from issue 1? Why do you like it?

Also, what sort of things are you hoping to see more of in issue 2?
No.5575 Anonymous>>5588 >>5592 2025-06-13 11:18:02
I thought it was a great community effort so I won't trash it, but my taste leans squarely non-fiction. I didn't find any of it personally gripping. I also prefer to write instead of read others' writing at this stage. So it goes.
No.5588 Anonymous 2025-06-13 14:53:32
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>>5575
>I also prefer to write instead of read others’ writing at this stage
No.5592 Anonymous>>5612 2025-06-13 18:13:46
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>>5575
This is very gracious of you.
No.5609 Anonymous 2025-06-14 00:56:32
good effortpost
No.5612 Anonymous>>5621 2025-06-14 02:01:24
>>5592
>asks for opinions
>doesn't like when opinions are given
No.5621 Anonymous>>5636 2025-06-14 14:19:33
>>5612
The framing is the part I think is dumb. Like if someone reviewed a book of poetry by saying "I don't like poetry." I don't particularly like the handful of pieces I've read so far in this issue either, but it's not because I don't like poetry or fiction or non-fiction.
No.5636 Anonymous 2025-06-15 00:01:26
>>5621
Stop trying to logically disprove a mild critique. This is the first edition of an e-zine that only has one word as its title and is explicitly open-ended. It doesn't say "Ventoux: The Tumblr Prose Files" so why are you trying to epically own me by saying I should have known what was inside before I opened the file?
No.5655 Anonymous 2025-06-15 16:01:44
>5636
The biggest problem with "Ventoux" is its gay name.
No.5690 Anonymous 2025-06-16 07:08:47
Good issue. The highlight was definitely Wrestle Tough.
No.5724 Anonymous>>5726 2025-06-16 13:30:53
When do you stop accepting submissions for issue 2
No.5726 Anonymous>>5765 2025-06-16 13:43:23
>>5724
not yet, it depends on the rate of incoming submissions.
No.5765 Anonymous>>5775 2025-06-17 12:34:56
>>5726

Are they pouring in now that it's a real project?
No.5769 Anonymous 2025-06-17 13:31:18
very nice
No.5775 Anonymous>>5877 2025-06-17 15:24:04
>>5765
It was always a real project anon :^)
No.5877 Anonymous>>5894 2025-06-23 11:07:18
>>5775
agreed, just meant, made real in the ether of online worldism
No.5894 Anonymous 2025-06-23 14:36:43
>>5877
fair enough, yes we have had some submissions coming in over the last week, am looking forward to sitting down with a cup of tea or maybe a glass of wine and reading through them

archiving the original thread before it dies
https://archive.md/obMug
No.5967 Anonymous 2025-06-27 23:03:17
Great work jg!
No.6034 Anonymous 2025-06-30 22:42:31
You retards never went to a serious college neither had any life experiences before yet you think you can write.
No.6035 Anonymous 2025-06-30 23:40:14
Why would anyone post their work on one of these?
No.6042 Anonymous 2025-07-01 03:36:49
Why would anyone post this?
No.6058 Anonymous 2025-07-01 22:05:09
Why?
No.6061 Anonymous 2025-07-02 01:46:37
?
No.6062 Anonymous 2025-07-02 06:58:37
Beautiful! Keep it up.
No.6745 Anonymous>>6747 2025-08-05 01:07:12
where is issue 2
No.6747 Anonymous 2025-08-05 04:31:55
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>>6745
How about you give them a minute damn