thank you from the bottom of my heart for posting these. I remember almost all of them and had forgotten looking at them over and over until I saw the first pic and just. gasped aloud. these legitimately had a more profound impact on me than the magazines themselves because they were my first exposure to the knowledge that you could just grow up and be a magic weirdo in real life for fun all the time. Like the goth version of Dolly Parton's story about wanting to grow up to be the town tramp because she was so pretty.

God these are so beautiful and so funny and SO SO directly placed in exactly their time, thank you so much!!!