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The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

I am quite happy with this typeset and since the text is in the public domain I've decided to share it! I think it's good. It's in A5 size, feel free to do whatever you absolutely want with it. Assorted thoughts under the cut as usual.

Typesetting this was a blast. The excerpt from the play at the start of The Mask is my favorite of it all, I think that page looks really good. One change I made to the original text is that I went with the more... academic, maybe? approach of italicizing any mention of the play's name instead of having it in quotation marks - the original work also italicizes the names of newspapers so it only felt fair to do it to the play, too.

And yes, I only did the first four stories. I have to admit I've never managed to read the nonbe-King-ed stories in this collection.

This was my first time attempting to print on bookcloth. I only have access to a DinA4 black and white laser printer so my options were relatively limited - I decided to use a nice yellow bookcloth to offset the lack of color in the cover image, and designed the image specifically in black and white for this very purpose. Due to the size constraint I decided to do a sort of three piece bind, with the covers being seperate pieces from the spine material. I could've decorated the back too with this method but honestly every time I fed bookcloth through this paper printer was nervewracking (even though thankfully it all turned out perfectly fine) so I just left the backs blank as with all of my other binds so far.

This was also my first time stamping individual letters on leather. It went... okay. I accidentally stamped the "O" in "yellow" so hard it cut through the leather - and then I liked that effect so much I cut the O out of the other copy on purpose. Not wanting to buy more specialized paints left me with rather limited options to fill the letters in. I ended up wiping them down with white fabric paint designed for (linocut, etc.) printing, then painting over the excess white with black leather paint. End result: not perfect, but passable for what it is.

I bound two copies of this, one of which I was planning to give to the free little library around the corner. Unfortunately I somehow managed to make the front cover of one of the binds half a centimeter too short. I have no idea how the hell I accomplished that. The defect is large enough that the text block is partially exposed from the front when the book is closed, which I feel like makes the text block too vulnerable to be put into strangers' hands so it'll just have to live on my bookshelves instead. I guess I'm doing the public a service by not inflicting the terror of the King in Yellow upon them. It does really bum me out that this happened; I know this is just my fourth completed bookbinding projected and when compared to, like, my fourth ever drawing then all things considered it's not only pretty good but also completely understandable that I would make some sort of silly mistake, but still. Ugh. Trying not to beat myself up too hard about it.

The cover image was adapted from an illustration by W. Heath Robinson, with an assortment of other public domain work used alongside it. The title page is an illustration by Ephraim Moshe Lilien with added parts from an illustration by Charles Augustus. My source for the text was Wikisource, which transcribed an 1895 edition. The endpapers are a majestic blue Italian carta varese - I chose blue as a color contrast to all the yellow.

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Love love LOVE self aware aus. Can it be angsty? Yes. Funny? Also yes. HORROR?? Yup!

Nothing better than suddenly being aware that there's Someone higher above you having control over almost every little thing. So much potential.

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Dark Cacao glaring at Mystic Flour at my campire :)

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Dispatch actually being an ok guy who wants to help Arnold, but is also in a really shitty situation himself.

He's not allowed to acknowledge any complaints or sympathize with the employees he guides, not allowed to help them or feel bad about their dying screams. His responses all have to assume a happy and professional reply from the other employee, because that's how the audio will sound once Fazbear edits the other side of the conversation accordingly.

Fazbear has very little use for him these days, they're fazing out dispatchers. He needs the money and can't afford to disobey their orders, under threat of being let go.

Post SotM, post his signal getting hacked and him losing contact with Arnold, Fazbear decides to get rid of Dispatch. But not in the way he thought.

That contract he signed makes his voice company property. Makes him company property. And really, his voice is so useful. What a perfect automated system it would make...

It hurts. God it hurts. But he's not capable of saying anything other than what he's been programmed to. A perfect machine, forever guiding employees, trapped in speakers and intercoms, silently screaming in pain.

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this is actually legitness

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"... You're what??"

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Choices when talking to Ralsei in Deltarune feel like this

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"Temptation... I can't escape YOU

Desire

You're my forbidden fruit

Forbidden fruit "

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I must spread the tiny Kris agenda

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Recently drew up a swap au ^_^

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one step closer to fitting in

close ups:

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popular culture used to be very much about eroticism. rockstars used to be on stage in sequins and thongs and thigh high boots playing guitars like they were masturbating. girls used to wear velvet mini dresses and no bras and red-brick-brown lipstick and mascara on their bottom lashes. people used to have body hair on television and in the movies. people used to be sweaty. people used to touch each other over denim and under cotton. foreplay used to be staring at someone over the rim of a glass across a bar across a park across a dinner table. people used to want. i think we’ve lost something

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tbh my take on the whole “should batman kill the joker” thing is that batman is a volunteer gig, and bruce is allowed to have boundaries

should *someone* kill the joker? maybe, idk. that’s above my pay grade. but just bc bruce wayne is willing to shoulder the weight of the world (whether anyone actually wants him to or not) doesn’t mean we should all just accept that it belongs to him. he chooses to help in what ways he is able, the ways he can live with, and if killing is the one line he won’t cross no matter what, well, it could be worse. but he has no actual moral obligation to do any of what he’s doing, actually, and if having this one boundary firmly in place is what keeps him from having a mental breakdown and becoming the thing he swore to stop, then i say more power to him and we could honestly all stand to learn from his example

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Eternal Sugar desperate for a kiss

from her other half :9

me asf:

if you liked it, please reblog so others can see Yuri too!!

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Starting to seriously wonder if Fazbear entertainment has ever had an original thought in there heads.

Because it seems like they stole and repackaged practically every idea Edwin has ever had.

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And if someone it's going to hurt, let it... just be ME Okay?

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Is Donald Trump funny?

Yes

No

Note: this is NOT asking if you like him, or if he's a good person, or if he has good ideas or policies. Just whether he's funny when he says or posts things.

Note: this is NOT asking if you like him, or if he's a good person, or if he has good ideas or policies. Just whether he's funny when he says or posts things.