mail from the depths of your spam, from your junk drawer, from the word wide web and now in your hands. introducing our last issue of the year: garchives! what should be added to the archives? what would you put in a time capsule and bury for 100 years? what did 2025 mean to you? what idea did you mean to send into us that just didn’t happen? (╭ರ_•́)
send all proposals or initial drafts to ucgargoyle@gmail.com by november 14 at 5 p.m. with “issue 5 proposal for section x, contributor’s name” as the subject line. include a sample paragraph (~200 words) with your proposal. final drafts are due november 19 at 11:59 p.m. pieces can be anywhere from 1–1000 words. production night with scraps and scanning and old gargs will be happening at 5 p.m. on thursday, november 27th in the jcr.
some thoughts, musings, and wishes from our section editors:
uc: tell us about your least favourite themes from student publications on campus. steal from each other, leave ransom notes, demand obscene payment. we’re all connected, no one is safe…
arts & culture: we’re taking a trip down memory lane this issue. tell us about the oldest art you can think of. get historical with it! renaissance paintings, early 2000s pop culture, medieval romances, 80s campy cult classics – it’s all fair game. tell us about firsts: the first video game, the first blockbuster, your first brush with art that left you begging for more. narrate your life in art. give us a genealogy of arts. a&c’s fave themes: renaissance, y2k, antiques roadshow
politics: everything but the kitchen sink politics prompts. are poli sci students like that on purpose? online politics deep dive: jubilee media, breadtube streamers, and substack thinkpieces. top 10 moments in toronto politics (rob ford biopic needed). politicians who would have been better off abandoning doing drag.
opinions: this issue, anything goes.
nandini wants to know: your hot takes, your guilty pleasures, your niche obsessions, the hill you’d die on, the truth you’d whisper at 3am, and what you really think. ola wants to see: cities and hometowns and space, parents and siblings and cousins, culture and memory and inheritance. ROOMMATES. or, anything you’ve wanted to yap about that you haven’t had the chance to do so for before.
avant garg: sunday, november 9th, 2025. first snow. the gargoyle vol 67 iss 5’s theme was seasonal affective disorder, the son of a bitch that just won’t let go. how are you planning on making it through the winter semester? tell me about your small saving graces.
comics: half-assed sketches that you never got around to finishing, ideas on napkins, classroom doodles, pencil marks and ink stains, whatever you have. Mix up characters from different stories and let them meet. Dump everything you love into a box, give it a shake, and pour it out. Let our humble section be your dumping ground.
issue 6 extra: we’ve dug into the back of our brains and the basement of uc to find some old gargs, and masthead has complied a list of their favourite old themes. feel free to draw from any of these:
deep sea issue (vol 58, issue 3), the space issue (vol 59, issue 3), star wars issue (vol 65, issue 6), illusions issue (vol 56, issue 8), the clowns issue (vol 62, issue 1), the bread issue (vol 63, issue 7), the magical girls issue (vol 62, issue 3), cult (vol 66, issue 4; vol 69, issue 5), special renaissance issue (vol 21, october special), modern art (vol 68, issue 3), the sitcom issue (vol 61, issue 8), the eddie murphy issue (vol 60, issue 11; vol 61, issue 6), the yuppies issue (vol 61, issue 2)
stay greasy,
amareena saleh
communications editor
