Hey all, been an intense few days, and realised I haven’t actually posted here about the fact the crowdfunder for The Magnus Archives RPG by the incredible Monte Cook Games is live RIGHT NOW.
It’s going amazingly well, far beyond what we could have predicted, and I’m so excited by it. It looks amazing and I’m so psyched to see how Monte and the team bring the Archives to the tabletop. As someone who’s been roleplaying since the 90s, Monte’s work has obviously been a big feature in my gaming life, so you’ll have to forgive me if there’s a slight fanboyish tinge to how I talk about the project!
My 1st year doing the Rusty Quill Big Bang run by @pilesofnonsense !! This is my first piece (Second here) for the absolute riot (and subsequent unexpected heart wrenching) fic, written by SmallishWormMasterOfTheUniverse on ao3, here!!! I recommend giving it a look!! Absolutely fantastic!!
🌙If you’d like to support me at all here’s my ko-fi !!🌙
My 1st year doing the Rusty Quill Big Bang run by @pilesofnonsense !! This is my second piece (1st piece here) for the absolute riot (and subsequent unexpected heart wrenching) fic, written by SmallishWormMasterOfTheUniverse on ao3, here!!! I recommend giving it a look!! Absolutely fantastic!!
An absolutely heart melting scene from my pitch hit assignment for Rusty Quill Big Bang hosted by @pilesofnonsense !!!! The lovely fic by @quillquiver can be found here!! Highly recommend for the Jmart girlies who love the safe house era <333 Please go give lots of love and support to the author!!!
the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the ambition of the world | phynoma
[ID: Two pictures of two hand-bound books, the first of which shows their front covers and the second of which shows their spines and part of their front covers at an angle. The leftmost book is bound in yellow bookcloth and has a hand-embroidered smiling mouth with bloody teeth on the bottom portion of the front and back cover. The title, “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the ambition of the world” is in the top right corner in black as well as the words “volume one” in maroon. The rightmost book is bound in red bookcloth and has a hand-embroidered ribcage on the lefthand side of the front cover and the righthand side of the back cover. The title, “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the ambition of the world” is in the top right corner in black as well as the words “volume two” in white. Both volumes have stitching across the spine that joins the embroidery on the front and back covers so that the design stretches across the spine. /End ID]
It’s finally time to share the books I made for the 2023 Rusty Quill Big Bang, hosted by @pilesofnonsense! This year, I was paired with the wonderful @phynoma, who wrote a post-circus AU entitled the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the ambition of the worldwhere Jon is marked by an entity known as the Consuming that feeds off hunger and desire and focuses, in Jon’s case, around sexual hunger and desire. It’s a truly spectacular fic with excellent worldbuilding, spot-on characterization, and a wide variety of sexual encounters of all flavors, and I highly recommend it!
As this fic is written in transcript format, I wanted to go with an open-spine binding style that would have the advantage of both lying extremely flat when opened and giving the fic a more screenplay-like appearance. Also as a consequence of the transcript format, the final page count ended up being large enough that I split the fic into two volumes, the first of which covers season three and the second of which covers seasons four and five.
[ID: Two pictures of the same hand-bound books, the first of which shows volume one and the second of which shows volume two. Both books are fully open to display their front and back covers touching. We can see that the embroidered design, half of which is on the front cover and half of which is on the back, forms a complete picture when the book is fully open. /End ID]
Each volume has hand-embroidered front and back covers, with titles done in black, white, and maroon gel pen. The covers were designed so that when the book is fully open, the front and back cover designs come together to form one single cohesive image. Additionally, when the book is closed, the spine stitching was done so that the design stretches across the spine, thus making the full design complete whether the book is fully open or fully closed. I’m really proud of how these covers turned out, and even though the embroidery took much longer than I anticipated it taking, it’s definitely something I would do again!
More description and pictures of the interior of the books are below the cut:
kinda- kinda guy to try or even succeed at wiping out their whole world to stop the spread of something tremendously powerful spreading to other worlds. kinda- kinda guy to do that-
If you recently followed me for my TMA blogging, I apologize for the sudden influx of SPN posting but it is my blorbo Castiel’s first appearance birthday today. I cannot not celebrate. We will get back to me live blogging TMA and blorb-ifying Jon soon. 😌
