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(Mail-art / narrative world-building project—participants welcome!)

The Grave Bound Archives — Call for External Submissions

The Grave Bound Archives has recently reopened after a very long period of silence. Within its files are fragments, correspondence, and evidence connected to the vanished town of Thistlegrave (1872 – 1919).

We are now accepting external materials for review: found notes, ephemera, photographs, or any item that might have originated from—or refers to—the town. Mail-art,…

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Added by Amber Scribble on October 29, 2025 at 1:53pm — 1 Comment

interested??

I’m building a town that doesn’t exist—but its records do.

🕯️ Thistlegrave, est. 1812:

Business registries with revoked licenses.

Civil records are full of contradictions.

Clerk’s addenda that should’ve been redacted.

I’m turning it all into mail art: aged ledgers, town memos, fake ordinances, and suspicious correspondence. If you love fictional towns, bureaucratic oddities, and paper that feels like…

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Added by Amber Scribble on August 13, 2025 at 9:25pm — 4 Comments

Valentine from Norma

Added by Amber Scribble on February 14, 2019 at 7:59pm — No Comments

GIN! ARE YOU KIDDING ME !! I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS

Added by Amber Scribble on September 27, 2018 at 8:00pm — No Comments

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