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“People suck”

Okay but what about the person who brought this injured dragonfly to a wildlife rehabber

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Guy who has heard other guys refer to their wives as "ball and chain" and "battle-axe" and wrongfully assumed you can refer to your wife as any medieval weapon: oh there's my beautiful Lucerne hammer

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Swan Song

METAL COVER!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

not gonna lie this is mostly bennie's brainchild, i just contributed vocals and a bit of flute. she even made a music video! it's AWESOME!!! you should all check it out :D

find the rest of our covers here :]

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In this house we:

Cut the cord

Go explore

Be untethered

Be unequaled

Grab the sword

Be emporer

Be yourself

Be an orb

Be a spirit

Don’t fear it

Explore the music (of your essence)

Be a photon (luminescent)

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A comedy keero fic idea I’ve had for a few weeks now:

Syril survives Ghorman, joins the Rebel Alliance, and… as his combat skills are less than perfect, he has no navy or pilot experience, and his intel-gathering achievements hardly impress Draven, the Rebel Alliance finds only one task for him that they think he can do successfully.

He is now in charge of the Yavin laundry.

Syril spends his days bringing order, stability, and personal hygiene to a jungle planet military base.

His side quest is to make Mon Mothma’s cape the same shade of white she wore in the Senate and then maintain it that way “for the sake of troop morale”.

His arch-nemesis Cassian Andor won’t change the sheets regularly — no matter how abundantly clear Syril makes his demands. Syril spends two days writing the new laundry rules in excruciating detail, and Andor just ignores his work.

Another minor antagonist, the Yavin Barber, disregards Syril’s meticulously curated list of stylish and practical haircuts from Coruscant barber shops — which prompts Syril to declare a war on Yavin bowl cuts.

Every day is a battle, but Syril perseveres. After all, he has a goal in mind: achieve high rank and respect in the Rebel Alliance, make it orderly and efficient, and get his ex-girlfriend, an ISB supervisor, to see the light and join the right cause.

Because it’s easier to see the light when the windows are clean and the curtains are neatly ironed, you know?

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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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I've been writing a fan-fiction where the Toymaker takes the "disguise" of a mid-18th-Century London theater manager/comic actor. Kind of a hyper specific idea, but it's self-indulgent and I thought it would be a cool characterization, if he can already choose to be a 1920s shopkeeper or 1930s pilot. And I actually know a lot of the way people spoke back then, and did my best to make him speak with accurate words and expressions that would fit in from back then...

Only to realize now, just before it's finished, that bad accents are his entire thing. I could have had him saying like "I have been waiteth for thine, and ye shalt naught get the better of mineself, you prat."

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I'm telling you, a good proper bone folder is well worth it. Plastic is an alternative, but it really is nothing to the real thing. I happened to have a plastic one before my ox bone set, and even though my real bone ones are honestly on the cheaper side, they are just miles ahead. They don't leave major scuff marks, they burnish better, and they just feel nicer to work with.

Buy the bones, people.

Ended up with some cheaper 'bone' folders with a new book press kit and I gotta say. It's worth it to get a real bone bone folder cause this plastic stuff is not it. It's serviceable but damn did I realize how nice my current bone folder is.

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Wow. Look at me. Sipping on an overpriced chai latte and eating a cheese danish from a hipster coffee shop as I watch Comic-Con cosplayers walk past the window. I check my blog. I feel like a real Tumblr.com user.

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Headcanon: the Toymaker's got no sense of music tone. Sure, he likes music, and can dance and all (The Giggle showed us that well enough), but when it actually comes to rhythm, he has no idea of what anything is. Maestro being his kid, therefore, it happens every so often that he discovers a rhythm game (like Geometry Dash) and, determined to figure it out, calls them up to help. It's the closest thing they've got to bonding.

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Bad Tumblr confessions:

For the longest time I thought "superwholock" was pronounced to rhyme with "bollock"

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Origin of my favorite Ao3 tag.

You can't be referring to groupings in eighteenth century politics with those labels modern baby

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I know we've seen him as a craftsman, a puppetmaster, a band marcher, a... dancer (? the Frenchman), among others, but do you think that playing the part of an actor/stage manager would be in the character of the Toymaker? Because I do think that I would love the persona of him as an actor, when he's already acting out being one in the first place. So many opportunities to play with presentation and identity.

This is somewhat a rhetorical question - I'm already writing him as that.

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I'd like to think that this is just chess with normal difficulty to him. What we play as chess? Piece of cake to him. Hardly anything more than tic-tac-toe. Whatever the heck 5D Multiverse Time Travel Chess is? That's his type of game.

i think the Toymaker is the only being in existence that would actually, properly, 100% understand how to play the 5d chess with time travel game

I think he'd like it :)

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Made a house in Minecraft!

I wanted to destress, so I just made a world in which I didn't do much, except for building this house. I actually didn't even explore, except for going out to a pond to the west where I could get clay, and a forest to the north where I got spruce.