How To Write A Fascist In 14 Easy Steps!

Tell stories about fascists and resisting them.

Tell stories about how people become monsters and how monsters become people. 

Tell stories about resistance because we need them.

Tell stories about fascism, because it's been here all along. 

A docform zine for #TTRPGManifestoJam.

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Praise for How To Write A Fascist In 14 Easy Steps!:

...damn.
-Elizabeth Sandifer, Eruditorum Press

We tell stories to understand and navigate the world we live in, and it is tempting in this unthinkable world to assume the fash are some faceless other with one defining trait: badness. Jacqueline Bryk’s 14 Easy Steps to write a fascist character an easy read, full of humor and personal experience with both the far right and storytelling. They are given in the context of gaming or fiction, but I’d honestly recommend it to anyone who’s staring at the news in uncomprehending horror.
-J. Penn Wiggins, comics artist and cultural critic

In this zinefesto, celebrated and award winning writer and game designer Jacqueline Bryk offers up a quick guide to writing or portraying fascist characters, drawing on historical, artistic, and personal references to give the reader guidelines to better inform their creative process. Although short, this work packs in a great deal of detail, empathy, and warning that anyone curious about including fascists in their own works would benefit from referencing. Directness and specificity are employed to help unpack this much banded-about term and to move it from muddled caricature to visceral reality. This boring centrist highly recommends it!
-Leeman Kessler, actor and real-life mayor of Gambier

I would absolutely use parts of this to teach my students about what fascism is. It’s a lot more accessible than many of the academic sources, while being more honest than many of the “age appropriate” sources.
-Mx. Ed Lambert, civics teacher

Jax nails why the fascist is terrifying, not because they are an all powerful inscrutable terror, but because they are living breathing humans like you and me. It's not an excuse for their evil, but a reminder less separates them from you than you might like to pretend.
-Natalie Pudim, Luck of the Harbor

Jax Romana's voice carries, and with good reason. The clarity of their work is matched only by the empathy and this zinefesto (to quote my brother in warm voiced horror, Mayor Kessler), is Jax to the core. 
There's rage here and there should be. There's humour here and there has to be. There's horror here because what else can we feel when we realise the calls are coming from inside the house and the house is owned by people who want us dead?
 We can write better stories.
We can write better futures.
Jax knows that.
Listen to Jax.
-Alasdair Stuart, voice actor, professional enthusiast, and game developer