please pretend this was a poem
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]