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stupid thing about me is I don’t cut corners but I also have no work ethic. if I do something it WILL be done right. no telling whether I’ll actually fucking do it tho

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We’ll see how much I get done as life took a turn (in an optimistic way). But here we are! Teeeam fossil!

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They’re saying it’s gonna be a Paul Simon summer

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@phoen1xr0se LOOK AT THIS

Fanbinding(ish): Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

(More photos below the cut, and I'll add the rest in another reblog.)

I had the idea for this four years ago. I actively started on the typeset about two years ago. I finished the typeset in about two weeks before the NG news broke--in fact I'd sent him an ask on tumblr just before he left, asking him if there's an explanation for Good Omens's inconsistent dropcaps. Maybe I'll ask the publisher.

Anyway! I almost didn't keep going, but I'd already put an insane amount of hours into the typeset, and also, fuck it. So I did it mostly for me, but also for Terry Pratchett, and also for the vine.

For those who aren't familiar, a red-letter Bible is one where everything Jesus says is in red. I thought it would be funny to do one where everything the antichrist says is in red--and then I also thought it would be funny to do pull-out quotes like my Catholic Youth Bible had, and then I thought, why stop there, and that's when things started to get weird. Trying to get the text to line up coherently around the trees and the mountains especially was delicate--and of course if I changed something on the page before it would throw everything out of whack.

The cover was inspired by those giant Bibles with covers that are an inch thick with a cross or something like that debossed in the middle. The text wasn't long enough to make it that thick, but it's two layers of thin board glued together. Leather on top, and then I used a foil quill to do most of the design--anything that's a circle is a brass stamp.

I make the design on Illustrator, and then had the cricut trace it onto the foil with a sharpie. I found that a lot more effective than printing it out and trying to do the foil quill through the paper stencil. I'll let you try and guess what shape I used instead of a cross, and will put the answer under the cut.

Doing gold page edges was a bitch and a half; I sanded off attempts about a dozen times. Fake gold was a bust; so was heat activated foil. I ended up doing one layer of acrylic paint and about five layers of gold acrylic.

And because I got this a lot about My Immortal: no, I'm not going to share the typeset. Even before Everything, I feel fine justifying this because I own the paperback, the deluxe edition hardback, the DVD, the script book, and the coffee table book. But I'm not actually into book piracy. (Unless you are the Terry Pratchett estate, in which case, sharing is caring.)

I'll do another reblog with the rest of the interior images.

(And for those who were looking for it: the cover is, of course, the dread symbol Odegra/the M25 motorway.)

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esoteric form of roleplay where instead of actually roleplaying you just make up characters together and discuss in abstract how they'd interact and how their story would go

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“I got a jar of dirt, I got a jar of dirt, and guess what's inside it!”

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One of the best insults I've ever heard is "Anyone can be bought for the right price, but DAMN do you sell for cheap"

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This is the only live action I will accept, thank you

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“Now, shall you deal with ME, O Prince - and all the powers of HELL!”

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the original leeroy jenkins video was posted may 11th 2005… 10 years ago today… yowee

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reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them

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fossil record patisserie

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You heard it here last! Homestar Runner is celebrating reaching "renting a car" age with a new 'toon. Back to a website.

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I'm going to try something new.

I am going to resist insulting the quality of the things I make. I'm going to stop captioning my art and writings with self-deprecation and making fun of my shortcuts and fallbacks.

If it's bad or cringey or whatever, then so be it, but I still made it, and it exists because I brought it here, and I will no longer apologize for creating

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New WoW OCs! Lexigail and Lysander are twins who started out in Kezan, but noped out of the faction conflict shortly before Pandaria, settling in Undermine and going "freelance." This didn't actually do much to improve their fortunes, and now Lexigail is in over her head in bad deals... and dragging her brother down with her.

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All right. I could use some opinions that are not mine.

The last chapter of my CrossOmens comic was planned and scripted months ago, and I'd meant to draw and release it, but... well, STUFF happened (I'm sure I don't have to tell you what).

And in the meantime, I got involved in writing original content with friends, which then turned into an original project I hope to make into something publishable later... with the end result being that the draft of CrossOmens Part 4 has been sitting in my hard drive all this time practically untouched, and I'm not sure what to do with it.

Any thoughts? The writing holds up fine, but it needs visuals, and I'm not sure that drawing an entire comic is worth it anymore.

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There are a lot of things in Once Upon a Time that make me mad (everyone in that freaking town is bouncing around exactly ONE braincell, and it's a villainous one), but its costumes, especially Regina's, were stunning. I've seen a couple of them up close at various events, and there really is no contest at all.

one side of this post is the costume design from a big-budget theatrical film meant to live up to the hype of the first animated film ever made for wide-release and another side of this post is the costume design from an abc soap opera where dwarves hatch from eggs and i think you guys will kill me if i tell you which is which