We did it! TMA Big Bang! It’s done! I got to work with the incredibly talented @gruhukens on their piece On The Subject Of Our Former Selves. It’s beautifully written, they’ve got heartache and humor and sweetness and creeping unease, and their depiction of Martin and Jon was SO DELIGHTFUL. You know when you find that multi-chap fic that keeps you on the edge of your seat but also wraps you up in love and softness? Yeah…. Yeah.
Go check it out, and the growing list of fics from the 2021 @tmabigbang in the AO3 collection (seriously, it’s so good).
[Begin ID: a digital drawing of martin, a fat filipino man with black-speckled white hair, asleep in bed. He is lying on his stomach and wearing a white tank top. He is smiling very slightly and wearing orange earplugs. His bedspread is greyish blue and his blanket and pillowcases are light green with a plant pattern. Next to him on the bed is a book of Keats poetry open face-down. On the windowsill above him are a pair of glasses, an Oyster transit card, and a cell phone. The phone is plugged in and the screen is lit, showing a time of 3:25 pm and a background with a cow sitting in grass. There are 3 text messages on the phone from Jon, reading (bottom to top) “I found a new lead…” “When you wake up…” “I hope you’re having…” The windowsill and bed are in shadow, with diagonal streaks of light as of the sun shining in through venetian blinds. End ID]
That’s right! It’s time for TMA Big Bang, bay-bee!! I had the absolute honor of drawing for @cadetdru and their incredible fic Unconscious Cassandra. This story is so original and atmospheric and a super fun read. If you’re looking for the kind of creeping fear that canon TMA provides, please read this fic. Plus, it’s got such a good s1 crew dynamic 🥺
Y'all there’s so much good work being done for this event, check out the collection on AO3 and the tag, as well as @tmabigbang’s main page. So! Much! Content!!!
[ID: A digital drawing of Gertrude and Leitner dead on Gertrude’s desk, with blood splattered across the desk as well as on the figures themselves. Gertrude has 3 bullet wounds in her back and Leitner has blood coming from wounds on his head. Gertrude is holding a bloody pipe and Leitner is holding a handgun. The room is dark and foggy, with light coming from a single lamp in the corner. Scattered across the desk are statements on yellowish paper, and on the ground are a few stacked cardboard boxes. There are a few light spiderwebs stretching between the lamp and table, between boxes, and coming off Leitner’s chair. END ID]
It’s time for the @tmabigbang everyone! Here is my first piece, I was very lucky and honored to make art for the wonderful fic “please pretend this was a poem” by @bisexualoftheblade and @elledritchorror
the writing style is absolutely gorgeous and so beautifully painful that I couldn’t decide on a single scene to depict and chose to make a comic showing multiple of the events! please be mindful of the tags and warnings and otherwise, enjoy it here!
detailed ID under cut
[ID: A twelve panel comic depicting the following scenes: 1) Martin staring out at the Sizewell B reactor site. 2) Jon and Gerry staring affectionately. 3) Gerry reading from a spiral notebook. 4) Jon laying in a coma in the hospital. 5) Martin’s radiation scarred right profile. 6) A closeup of Jon and Martin kissing. 7) Martin holding a black jacket with buttons on the lapel. 9) Jon, Gerry, and Martin shotgunning. 10) Jon standing in the Lonely. 11) A closeup of Martin’s boot squishing a cockroach. 12) Martin staring down with a solemn expression. END ID]
[ID: A twelve panel comic composed of four rows with three panels each. The comic is composed of present day and flashback scenes, with the flashback scenes tinged in sepia. The panels sit on a dark gray background that slowly fades into neon green as it approaches the bottom right corner.
The characters featured throughout are Martin Blackwood, Gerard Keay, and Jonathan Sims. Their character designs are as follows:
Martin Blackwood: A heavyset white man of average height whose face is covered in freckles. He has short brown curly hair that is dyed a bright green at the top.
Jonathan Sims: A taller, thin, white man with a scruffy beard and mustache and shoulder length wavy brown hair. His face is covered in small circular worm scars.
Gerard Keay: The tallest of the three men, he is depicted as thin and white with dyed black hair that has bleached blond roots showing. He has multiple facial and ear piercings and eye tattoos on every joint and circling his neck.
Reading from left to right, top row to bottom row, the scenes depicted are as follow:
Scene One: A present day image of Martin looking over the water surrounding the Sizewell B reactor. He is wearing a blue jumper and facing away from the viewer.
Scene Two: A flashback depicting Jon, wearing a green jumper and black square glasses, and Gerry, wearing a black hoodie, staring affectionately at someone in the distance.
Scene Three: A flashback scene depicting a cutoff scene of Gerry’s chest. He is wearing a black hoodie and holding a spiral notebook that contains Martin’s poetry.
Scene Four: A flashback scene depicting Jon laying in a hospital bed in a coma with a breathing mask covering half his face.
Scene Five: A present day scene depicting Martin’s right side profile. His face is bubbling with radiation scars.
Scene Six: A flashback scene depicting a closeup view of Jon and Martin’s mouths as they kiss.
Scene Seven: A flashback scene depicting a closeup of Martin’s hands holding the lapel of a black jacket that has four buttons sewn on, each button representing a funeral he attended.
Scene Eight: A flashback scene depicting Gerry laying in a hospital bed as Martin, wearing a dark brown jacket, stands over him. Martin’s hand is resting on Gerry’s face, which appears to be twisted in pain.
Scene Nine: A flashback scene decpicting Jon, wearing a green sweater, Gerry, wearing a black hoodie, and Martin, wearing a yellow jumper, sitting side by side. Only their chests and lower halves of their faces are visible, but is clear they are embracing as they shotgun a cigarette.
Scene Ten: A flashback scene depicting Jon, wearing a beige trench coat, standing surrounded by the fog of the Lonely.
Scene Eleven: A present day scene depicting a close up of Martin’s shoe, a laced up black boot, that is squishing a cockroach.
Scene Twelve: A present day scene depicting another close up of the right side of Martin’s face. The radiation has scarred into red skin and he has a solemn expression as he gazes downward.
END ID]
[ID: Three digital pieces of characters of the podcast The Magnus Archives. In the top right there is a fully coloured painting of Martin. He is depicted as a young white man wearing a grey-green sweatshirt. He has freckles all over his face and a pensive expression. The top of his chestnut-coloured hair is dyed bright green. There is also an uncoloured sketch of Martin, with his back to the viewer, kissing Jon who is shorter than him. Jon is cupping Martin’s jaw and has his eyes closed. He is depicted as a white man with short light hair who is wearing a long sleeved sweatshirt. At the bottom there is another uncoloured sketch of Martin sleeping against Gerry’s shoulder. Gerry is depicted as a thin white man with long dark hair. He has multiple piercings in his ear, lips and nose and also a tunnel earring. Gerry is wearing a t-shirt and has eye-shaped tattoos on his visible joints. He has his left arm draped loosely around Martin’s shoulders. Jon is sitting on Martin’s other side, watching them fondly and smoking. In this sketch, Jon’s worm-skars are visible. /End ID]
[ID: A black and white digital bust sketch of Jonathan Sims. He is depicted as white with thin framed glasses, chin length wavy hair, a thin mustache, and small circular scars dotting his face and neck. He is wearing a crew cut shirt and is depicted looking over his shoulder with a solemn expression. END ID]
[ID: A black and white digital bust sketch of Gerard Keay. He has shoulder length hair, a ripped tank, a septum and bridge piercing, various helix piercings, and gauged ear piercings. There are eye tattoos on each tattoos on each joint of his finger, circling his neck, and on his shoulders. He is smiling and relaxed with his arms crossed. END ID]
[ID: A black and white sketch depicting Gerard Keay (right) and Martin Blackwood (left) from the shoulders up. They are shotgunning and smoke is visible between their lips. Gerard is a white man with various nose and ear piercings and long black hair loosely tied in a half bun. Gerard is resting one hand on Martin’s shoulder with a cigarette between his fingers. His eyes are open and he is staring at Martin with an awestruck expression. Martin is a white man with with very short fluffy hair and lots of freckles. His eyes are closed as he inhales the smoke from Gerard’s lips. END ID]
Here is my second piece for the @tmabigbang, for the fic “(un)seen” by @janekfan! it’s such a beautiful fic with an incredible writing style and interesting concepts to the role Jon plays as archivist, and the beholding, and focuses on jon’s and daisy’s friendship and i’m just absolutely soft for it, and so happy to have made art for it! (i might even make more art)
[ID: a digital painting of Alice “Daisy” Tonner, Basira Hussain and Jonathan Sims. Jon is laying on the ground, curled up in a fetal position with his back to the viewer. He’s a brown man with long, brown greying hair and pockmarked skin. He’s wearing a white jumper and washed out jeans, his feet are bare. Basira is kneeling on her right knee next to Jon’s head, one of her hands feeling the back of his head, her expression concentrated and worried. Her other hand is resting on her left leg. She’s depicted as brown woman wearing a yellow hijab black puffy jacket and black shirt, tan pants and black boots. Daisy is standing partially in the shadows behind the two, hugging herself and looking down at Jon and Basira with concern. She is a short, thin white woman littered with scars and freckles. She has stringy blonde hair with streaks of white down to her chin and is wearing a grey hoodie, black shorts and white sneakers. On the wall beside them hangs a painting of a man in a pinstripe suit in an ornate frame, the face is not visible but a sign below the painting reads Jonah Magnus. A golden plaque with an arrow pointing to the hallway branching off behind the three hangs on the same wall as the painting, close to Daisy’s head. END ID]
[ID: A digital drawing of Daisy from TMA driving a car. She has one hand on the wheel, her other arm resting on the top of her seat, and a serious expression on her face. In the back of the car is a duffle bag and assortment of weapons, along with ducktape and rope, and in her lap is a rifle. A dark trail with eyes in it weaves through the car, which is full of blood stains and scratches. Daisy is a pale, muscular woman with short blond hair and scars across her arms and on her face. End ID. ]
this is for @pilesofnonsense‘s Halloween Bingo, for the prompt “The Hunt”! @Lua on ao3 made a LOVELY fic to go along with it, go check it out! :D
softness my lovely friend @pinehutch has an AU in which everyone gets to be happy and Daisy and Basira retire to the countryside and get to have a garden and dogs and get married and are happy. And i love it so much so i had to draw them being older and happy in their garden. they deserve it!
hearing jon say what he said about daisy, how he didn’t have to forgive her to care about her (and that he never would because that was the time he was most scared in his whole life) and thinking about how he was almost disappointed that she didn’t recognize him in her feral state. and like. damn. i love the complicated layers to that friendship.
[ID: Seven drawings of Tim Stoker wearing entity-inspired button-down shirts all drawn from the waist up on a light pink background. He is a slim Latino man with light brown skin and a lilac mullet with the sides shaved, a small goatee, ear gauges, painted nails, and a wristwatch. All drawings have the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, and some have him wearing rectangular purple glasses. His gauges and nails all match the shirts he’s wearing.
The first image has two drawings. One of him wearing the glasses with a dark blue shirt with a purple flame coming up from the bottom. He is gesturing and smiling as if speaking. The other drawing is of him wearing a dark purple shirt with a swirling purple fractal on it. He is also wearing a dark magenta necktie. He is leaning on something with one elbow resting up high, gesturing and smiling smugly as if talking.
The second image has two drawings. One of him wearing a slightly unbuttoned bright orange shirt with pink paws all over it, raising his hands in a claw-like pose, and making a playful growling face. The other drawing is of him wearing the glasses, a muted pink shirt patterned with cartoon hams, and a white apron. He is standing with his back turned, mixing something in a large purple bowl with a wooden spoon, smiling over his shoulder.
The third image has two drawings. One of him wearing the glasses and a pale green shirt patterned with colorful gummy worms. He is smiling shyly with his shoulders up, one hand in his pocket, the other scratching the back of his neck. The other drawing is of him wearing the glasses and a bright green shirt with a repeating eye-like pattern on it and a black neck tie. The glasses obscure his eyes as he stares down at his purple phone, the other hand in his pocket. His expression is neutral.
The fourth image is a drawing of him wearing round sunglasses and a black shirt with a lightbulb on the pocket. The shirt is completely unbuttoned and half of it is tucked in, exposing his chest and stomach, including chest hair and top surgery scars under his pecs. He slouching back with a surprised expression with one hand raised by his chin, almost limp-wristed, the other in his pocket. end ID]
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tim wears patterned shirts. what if they were vaguely entity themed.
(i am going to do the rest of the entities!! just wanted this up for tim stoker tuesday :3c)
