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![That’s right, women, the next issue of Womanzine will cover one of our all-time favorite topics: PATTERN.
We’re calling for your submissions, which will be due Friday, May 17th. If you’d like to pitch an idea before you work on a submission, get in touch with us ASAP. Send submissions to womansinc [at] gmail.
Though visual patterns tend to rule on the Internet, we want you to know we are looking for submissions related to all kinds of patterns. Including, but not limited to: speech patterns, flight patterns, migration patterns, weather patterns, relationship patterns, psychological patterns, the pattern of history, the pattern of one’s day, etc. Patterns can be template-based, mathematical (fractals), or observed through smell, taste, or sound.
As usual, we’d love for you to get creative. Ways you might present a pattern:Found sound
Video, image, vine, etc. <— we love multimedia!
Pattern gif
Emoji pattern gif (too meta?)
Re-create a pattern (visual or otherwise)
DIY/how-to pattern lesson
Pattern research (i.e. migration patterns of beetles, a design history profile of Ray Eames)
Personal essay on that significant gift someone got you and its giftwrap pattern or other some such
Patterns in pop culture
Wallpaper patterns on television
The patterns of Golden Girls
Document every instance of Hinson’s Martinique wallpaper (starting with GG!)
Fashion: how to pattern mix
A qualitative approach to thrifting patterns
More!
We’ll be Tumbling inspiration for the issue, which, beyond giving you ideas, will just be incredibly rad. Because patterns are the best.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/00f34f44a952704d79208b25795c3bd2/tumblr_mleti80CpV1qahyc8o2_r1_400.gif)
Overwhelming fear, suprised probably pale afterwords, scare tactics.
iEmoji old name: About to scream, depressed
Unicode note: Shocking (like Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”)
Softbank: 表情(ひえ～) 「表情(hie～)」U+E107
Google: U+FE341
—iEmoji.com’s description of “Face Screaming in Fear”
Face Screaming in Fear
Watercolor and text by Samantha Meier
It is unclear to me who invented the screaming face emoji, by which I mean I can’t find it easily via Google. But then, it seems like any deep understanding of emoji would require access to a historian of Japanese digital culture and do those even exist or speak English (probably). It seems as though the scream emoji was meant to be active; the Unicode page suggests as much. The animated face does not appear to be screaming, in fact, so much as shouting, calling out for something or someone:
(though
also exists)
Read the rest of Samantha’s story in the Emoji issue of Womanzine.
Engagement Emoji
by Phoebe Connelly
Look back through my text messages for the middle of December 2012, and you’ll find a section comprised largely of: [above images]
First, we told a bartender. Then, the car rental guy who’d teased us about being on a honeymoon. The ticket checker at customs. Called: parents, siblings, best friends. Crashed a friend’s dinner party with a bottle of cava. And then we started texting.
Within a 24-hour span, I used more 
s, 
s, and 
s than I had previously thought possible.
I’m beyond happy about my forthcoming union, and yet a part of me still isn’t sure how to talk about it. I consider happiness of the long-term variety a saccharine, if pleasant, fiction.
I want to celebrate my engagement and plan my wedding like a giant party, but sharing the news has at times made me feel like an uncomfortably heteronormative 1950s housewife.
And so I use a lot of emoji to talk about it.
Read the rest of Phoebe’s story in the Emoji issue of Womanzine.
![Engagement Emojiby Phoebe Connelly
Look back through my text messages for the middle of December 2012, and you’ll find a section comprised largely of: [above images]First, we told a bartender. Then, the car rental guy who’d teased us about being on a honeymoon. The ticket checker at customs. Called: parents, siblings, best friends. Crashed a friend’s dinner party with a bottle of cava. And then we started texting.Within a 24-hour span, I used more s, s, and s than I had previously thought possible. I’m beyond happy about my forthcoming union, and yet a part of me still isn’t sure how to talk about it. I consider happiness of the long-term variety a saccharine, if pleasant, fiction. I want to celebrate my engagement and plan my wedding like a giant party, but sharing the news has at times made me feel like an uncomfortably heteronormative 1950s housewife. And so I use a lot of emoji to talk about it.
Read the rest of Phoebe’s story in the Emoji issue of Womanzine.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/e8801dac407e5e2adbedcda9fd027ccd/tumblr_miv5ggT72Q1qahyc8o2_1280.png)
![Engagement Emojiby Phoebe Connelly
Look back through my text messages for the middle of December 2012, and you’ll find a section comprised largely of: [above images]First, we told a bartender. Then, the car rental guy who’d teased us about being on a honeymoon. The ticket checker at customs. Called: parents, siblings, best friends. Crashed a friend’s dinner party with a bottle of cava. And then we started texting.Within a 24-hour span, I used more s, s, and s than I had previously thought possible. I’m beyond happy about my forthcoming union, and yet a part of me still isn’t sure how to talk about it. I consider happiness of the long-term variety a saccharine, if pleasant, fiction. I want to celebrate my engagement and plan my wedding like a giant party, but sharing the news has at times made me feel like an uncomfortably heteronormative 1950s housewife. And so I use a lot of emoji to talk about it.
Read the rest of Phoebe’s story in the Emoji issue of Womanzine.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/7c4d04f77025dae5eb473d38dfeb0a9f/tumblr_miv5ggT72Q1qahyc8o7_1280.png)
![Engagement Emojiby Phoebe Connelly
Look back through my text messages for the middle of December 2012, and you’ll find a section comprised largely of: [above images]First, we told a bartender. Then, the car rental guy who’d teased us about being on a honeymoon. The ticket checker at customs. Called: parents, siblings, best friends. Crashed a friend’s dinner party with a bottle of cava. And then we started texting.Within a 24-hour span, I used more s, s, and s than I had previously thought possible. I’m beyond happy about my forthcoming union, and yet a part of me still isn’t sure how to talk about it. I consider happiness of the long-term variety a saccharine, if pleasant, fiction. I want to celebrate my engagement and plan my wedding like a giant party, but sharing the news has at times made me feel like an uncomfortably heteronormative 1950s housewife. And so I use a lot of emoji to talk about it.
Read the rest of Phoebe’s story in the Emoji issue of Womanzine.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/92d667881d014c14cc5cd9d4b8eda46b/tumblr_miv5ggT72Q1qahyc8o1_1280.png)
![Engagement Emojiby Phoebe Connelly
Look back through my text messages for the middle of December 2012, and you’ll find a section comprised largely of: [above images]First, we told a bartender. Then, the car rental guy who’d teased us about being on a honeymoon. The ticket checker at customs. Called: parents, siblings, best friends. Crashed a friend’s dinner party with a bottle of cava. And then we started texting.Within a 24-hour span, I used more s, s, and s than I had previously thought possible. I’m beyond happy about my forthcoming union, and yet a part of me still isn’t sure how to talk about it. I consider happiness of the long-term variety a saccharine, if pleasant, fiction. I want to celebrate my engagement and plan my wedding like a giant party, but sharing the news has at times made me feel like an uncomfortably heteronormative 1950s housewife. And so I use a lot of emoji to talk about it.
Read the rest of Phoebe’s story in the Emoji issue of Womanzine.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/74af78b0037c1587687c58b5056e132e/tumblr_miv5ggT72Q1qahyc8o3_1280.png)
