#trigun: stampede

[mafo0]

[mythrilthread]

CAUSE OF DEATH (See instructions and examples) by @floofyfluff

So, one morning I woke up to notifications of the first four chapters of this dropping. I opened the first one, went into a fugue state, and emerged hald an hour later with the design concept READY TO GO.

I typeset this fic as it came out (which is not the smartest or most efficient way to go about it, but I just couldn't help myself), and it was A BLAST. The last two chapters doubling the word count might have given me a pause, but no, I CRAVED THAT CONCEPT.

The format of this thing is pretty interesting, because it's like half an A5 or A6 but sideways? I had a lot of fun figuring out how to make it happen.

And for the cover design/materials I went with a reference that’s funny only for me: it looks A LOT like a late Soviet-era medical record. They obviously didn’t have a third of an American death certificate on the cover, but I needed that, because it’s pretty much title page/table of contents rolled into one. Oh, and I carved my imprint logo into a stamp for the back cover, and found an actual stamping pad, because why not.

I went for that even heavier in the typeset, with each chapter being a box in the certificate, so first lines look like they were written into the box by hand. Ish.

And for the author’s notes I chose another reference — they are vintage prescriptions. A neat stack of them lives in a pocket cut into the back cover.

All in all, extremely proud of this project! And if my rabid rambling was not clear enough, let me quote Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood: read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it.

[3-minnnn]

[improbabledreams900]

Vash the Stampede (Trigun: Stampede) & Percy de Rolo (The Legend of Vox Machina)

Bonus:

[dogtchu]

Just bros bro-ing

[fleshbugart]

vash time vash time vash time!!!

[whollyunnecessary]

POWER plant.

A POWER PLANT.

A facility for the generation of electricity.

But a person.

Not a vegetable.

A POWER PLANT.

[submarine-06]

VASH ICONS VASH ICONS VASH ICONS PLS PLSPL PLSP LSP PLSPLS PLS

⠀₊ ⠀⌣⠀ ⠀YOUR REQUEST HAS BEEN ACCEPTED !

₍ ♫⠀⠀VASH ICONS⠀⠀ ┈⠀⠀TRIGUN⠀ 𓈒✚

⠀⠀ ◌⠀⠀◠◠⠀⠀⠀F2U WITH CREDIT⠀⠀

𝜗ϱ⠀⠀.⠀ ⠀PSD USED⠀⠀⠀◡◡⠀ ⠀♡⃞⠀⠀⠀✶

[shasivyy]

Knives Millions.

Vash the stampede.

Some headshots i made of our fav blond twins, Vash and knives :D ( i really like this tho. i hope its not going to flop like most of my posts :/ )

[thegoldenshi-shi]

I just finished Trigun: Stampede, and now Mr. Stampede himself is back to ruining my headspace.

If you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favor and go watch it!

[mafo0]

My samurai is in prison today

[jeshomie]

TRIGUN STAMPEDE - Vash & Nai (Million Knives)🥀🥀🥀

[mythrilthread]

Neck in a Noose (Kick the Chair, Hang Loose) by @floofyfluff

So, I had a good long 5-year dry spell in reading fanfiction, and this story? Hell of way to come back to it! I really, REALLY loved it, and with it being pretty much the perfect length for an itsy bitsy teeny tiny book (it's about 3x4 cm) I had a good idea of what I wanted it to look like. (Which was - invoking the glowy thing Plants in Trigun: Stampede (because I don't remember enough about the original anime to know if they look the same there) as much as possible.) (And, thanks to @simply-sithel I managed to get a copy to the author! Always a great time)

Turns out, the full effect of the materials I chose is very hard to capture on camera, but the cover has a nice pearly seen, and the endpaper are actually pearly vellum, so they also have a nice translucent thing going on.

And yeah, it does the thing. It actually GLOWS IN THE DARK. It's very funny in the context of the story, which is, you know, only 3,808 words... ;)

[3-minnnn]

Reverse

[adraarts]

...Warning. The following information is classified... Subject SS04: Simela Simeonidis Age: 28 Gender: Female (She/Her) Nun of the Eye of Michael & Gung Ho Gun The Dragon "...Subject was scouted from the orphanage in December for Sister Mirofora's Melee Weapons Project. The fourth subject and only successor to survive and achieve outstanding results from The Spear's training regimens, programs and testing..." ...Error. Board clearance required to read further information. Access denied...

Character Information Spotify Playlist O.C Tag Please click on the images for full view and the ALT text for a little bit more information! Further artists notes beneath the cut!

PLEASE NOTE: - That the head scarf that my O.C is wearing on her head is known as an 'epimandylion', otherwise known as the 'apostolnik'. A lot of her imagery is drawn upon Christian Eastern Orthodoxy (Particularly the Greek Branch). E.g. Her gun lance, Ascalon, named after the spear that Saint George used to slay the dragon. - While the only thing separating Simela's appearances between her Trigun: Maximum/Trigun: 1998 and Trigun: Stampede looks is the Eye of Michael symbol on her nun's habit for Trigun: Stampede, the difference is mainly in the personality. In Trigun: Maximum/Trigun: 1998 she is a lot more reserved with her true emotions, thoughts and feelings, she is a lot more cold. In Trigun: Stampede, she is very open with her thoughts, feelings and emotions, and actively goes out of her way to be assertive and stand up for herself. Not to say that her Trigun: Maximum/Trigun: 1998 self doesn't, it's just that the Trigun: Stampede version is more extroverted and a little bit more brash.

But boy.

What a passion project this was.

I feel like I don't have the words to accurately describe how much this O.C has healed me.

This whole thing was almost a years worth of progress, and one of the many contributions involved in my journey of falling in love with art again and wanting to draw more after many years of not drawing and/or being inconsistent and unhappy with my art. Making Simela after a particularly rough December 2022, and discovering Trigun in 2023, was what I needed. I needed to make an O.C that was equal parts me and the things that I loved; The NieR series, One Piece, Pontic-Greek culture, Greek culture, Dragoons from the Final Fantasy series, strong female characters, the list goes on. There was a time in my life where I was made to feel ashamed for putting cultural and ethnic aspects of myself into my O.C's; what representation was for me out there, as a person of Greek background, in anime? None. This is where my Trigun O.C came in and turned my goddamn life on my head! Thick brows? Check. Dark, thick hair? Check. Hip dips? Fuck yeah!

Making and further developing this O.C (Along with being in the Trigun space in general) has made me discover parts of myself that I otherwise would have never known of/discovered. Fuck, Trigun made me write again freely without any restrictions or rules, it made me make art again.

Thank you Trigun, and the people I have met in the fandom ;v;/