#a book about fonts

[sygneth]

YES YES IT'S THEM AGAIN. I COULDN'T RESIST AND Y'ALL ASKED SO NICELY.

In this episode: messy haired Holmes

I have their story in my head up to the point of Victor's leave, and it's highly probable I will draw it all... I can roughly divide it into three chapters: 1st that is finished, 2nd concerning the events of the "Gloria Scott" and 3rd dealing with the mess afterwards.

Chapter 1 Chapter 2: part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 - part 7 - part 8

Holmes College Adventures Masterpost AO3

A couple more of my thoughts and headcanons on the topic that came up in the meantime (hopefully no spoilers?):

I wanted their relationship to be a queerplatonic one, so if you're here for romance, you'll be disappointed. Holmes has some things thought through (as I tried to show in the previous part), he does like Victor on a different level than he has ever experienced, but he doesn't know where his boundaries of being comfortable are, and, at least for now, this is all too confusing for him to experiment. So he's just enjoying the time that they have and doesn't dwell on in too much.

Second thing is, Holmes seems to be alright with thouch, at least the way I read him. (Honestly, the amount of touch provided by him, to Watson in the first place of course, but also to other, random people? That's a LOT to me. But my view may also be biased, I don't like touching at all.) Yes, so, Holmes is alright with casual touch, and the closer he is with someone, the more alright he seems to be. I can see him as a type who will start treating friends like furniture, if they're close enough.

Ah and the third thing. I believe Holmes to be the kind of student who did a lot of extracurriculars in his fields of interest, and barely passed or had to repeat all the rest. And I hc astrology to be his sworn enemy. Because what influence does it have on the results of his chemical research or crime? Exactly.

[zarla-s]

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Never know when a flashback will strike! Although actually Gaster had a pretty good idea that it was likely going in. He actually kept it together pretty well until the laughing started.

I was going to have one of the other ladies in there with Jockey and Mousey, but Hunter doesn’t like books, Smoker’s a grouch, and Charger wouldn’t laugh that much. So I went through my old sketches and found one of Jockey’s nerd friends who died in the zombie apocalypse, Lorelei. She’s happy to be here!

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[nevermoorsource]

Here's the full Silverborn Q&A from July 2024! [Transcript]

[muntadhir]

somebody probably already posted about this like 84 years ago but I've been doing a series on DW about "Interesting Things I Find in 2023's Hit Lies of P," so

what the GUI says the plaque says:

Great fortune to all visitors Rest for all travelers Blessings to all friends

what the plaque actually says (a quote from Pinocchio, spoken by the Fairy):

Let me tell you that every man, whether he is born rich or poor, is obliged to do something in this world—to occupy himself, to work. Woe to those who lead slothful lives. Sloth is a dreadful illness and must be cured at once, in childhood. If not, when we are old it can never be cured.’ Pinocchio

[pagesofkenna]

heres some more mormon stuff: I skipped out on 2 of the last 4 weeks of church because didnt wanna, so i don't know if my ward has been singing any of the new songs, but i hung out in the foyer after church to kill time before the library opened and heard the ward after us singing Come Thou Font, and i was super jealous *fingerguns*

[sylvrndoodles]

another fake novel cover, but for one of my projects this time ( ˙꒳​˙ )

[metallicabirder]

And don’t even get me started on Charlie Lastra as a character!! “You’re not that tall” “I’m not that tall” “if you’re the wrong kind of woman than im the wrong kind of man” THE HUMAN PANTHER CHARLIE LASTRA!!! He’s a perfect counter to Nora but not in the hallmark-movie-opposites-attract way. He understands her because they are, at their cores, the same. She’s not cold! She’s intense because she CARES! And he looked at her and went god I love my shark wife!

[trainwrecksys]

“Embleer Frith, I’ll blind him when I catch him!”

[glittergroovy]

Your Girl - Lana Del Rey

[six-demon-bag]

𐌋𐌄Ᏽ𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌀𐌓𐌙 𐌌Ꝋ𐌍𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌓𐌔 HERCULES (2014)

[star-trekster]

OOOOO YEAH

[samarecharm]

I know that peach game is like. For kids. Im SO aware of it. But its. So fucking cheap???? This is like the bloatware of nintendo games. What is going on here ???? Not to give nintendo even an ounce of credit…but they generally treat their main characters better than this. And especially after seeing mario wonder, its really obvious how poorly put together and boring this game is. Which is such a shame. Bc Super Princess Peach is right there. Go play that instead.

[fictionadventurer]

Was this written by future President of the United States Chester Arthur or Anne of Green Gables?

[coquelicoq]

crying laughing @ this edition of le fantôme de l'opéra that my dad got me for christmas it's just. i don't know how to describe it. every page is a scan of a page of the 1926 edition, with like 1-2 inches of margin around it??? and the letters are so small and the scan is not of very great quality so it's kind of hard to see the words?? interspersed with scans of pictures but some of them are upside down??? there's one page where the scan didn't really work in the upper left corner so it's just totally black???

the back of the book says

Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces œuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande.

(my rough translation: This publication is in line with a policy instituted in conjunction with the BNF (National Library of France) for the conservation of important works of French literature. In service of this goal, Hachette Livre and the BNF are offering a catalogue of unavailable titles digitized by the BNF which Hachette Livre will print upon request.)

so like this is on purpose but i have so many questions. first of all why the margins. okay i guess that is my most important question. why not just make the book correspond to the size of the pages in the original? or, if the size of the book is fixed, you could at least size up the images to use as much of that wasted space as possible, no?

i want to say how ridiculous this is and how there's no market for it but there clearly is one because i asked my dad to get it for me! i'm the market!! i told him to buy this edition because it was the only french-language print edition i could find to buy in the us for less than $50 (outside of amazon because fuck amazon). but like, why is that the case? the full text of this book, in plain text which could easily and legibly be printed, is available for free on the internet. why isn't there some publisher who's just printing that out and binding it? seems easier to do than printing scans. not to mention a lot easier to read!!

(to see what i'm talking about, go to the hachette BNF webpage for this book and click on feuilleter to download a sample of the pages in PDF)

[nenoname]

i just noticed that stan's handwriting is the same as ford when he does the 'writing in all caps for emphasis' thing

i was gonna say it was just for the "never been better" bit since it uses a thinner pen but then i noticed that wait no its stan's font in general

[revvethasmythh]

sometimes you just have to accept the kind of person that you are (woman who thought “wow I really like this font! looks like Adobe Caslon Pro!” while reading a book and then specifically looked it up and realized that she was exactly right about what font it was and felt very self-satisfied)