Day 10 : Festival 

people will say "why cant the eldritch gods just be nice to humans :((" and then kill a bug for existing near them

my dearly beloved mutual you cant just leave this in the tags

While exploring a vast and inscrutable city which seems to predate life on earth I am gently picked up by something incomprehensible with the higher-dimensional equivalent of a cup and piece of paper, then lovingly set outside in my natural habitat. Unfortunately the being exists outside of time and can't really tell human cities apart from one another so I appear without warning in ancient sumer.

Comic I made a few years ago for an anthology

oh my god this is wonderful

young messmer

My latest for Atlas Obscura is up! I reported on Reid Byers's truly wonderful "imaginary books" collection on display at the Grolier Club in Manhattan right now—and I got to sit in on his class about how to make an imaginary collection at the Center for Book Arts!

These are physical books that were mentioned in other books, split into three categories: "lost," "unfinished," and "fictive." All three are delightful, but the fictive category has *so* many fandom favorites—Death's memoirs from Discworld, a monograph by Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Maturin’s Thoughts on the Prevention of Diseases Most Usual Among Seamen, an entire case of the in-universe books of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, and many more.

The collection is on display at Grolier until February 15th and it's free to the public; in March it moves to San Francisco. (You can also look at it online—but seriously, these books are incredible in 3D if you're in the area in the next few weeks.) I think fanbinding folks would be especially interested in the material aspects of this project. (And I suspect some fanbinders will have also created in-universe books from their favorite source material!)

Some of my favorites from the online version of the exhibition:

Kubla Khan by Coleridge (if the man from Porlock hadn’t gone and interrupted him at a crucial moment)

Outside the Town of Malbork—but due to a printing error, this volume contains a different book entirely—Leaning From the Steep Slope. (All of them fictional books found in fragments in If on a winter’s night a traveler)

A concise francophone guide to English poetry by an intellectual gentleman by the name of Humbert Humbert

That famous volume of the Encyclopedia of Tlön discovered and described by Professor Borges.

Hannah Jarvis’s seminal monograph on the hermit of Sidley Park, whom she proves conclusively was the former tutor Septimus Hodge.

The manuscript of The Oak Tree: A Poem, which its author/authoress labored over through four hundred or so years (and multiple genders)

Jonathan Strange’s masterwork, The History and Practice of English Magic.

And finally—and maybe this is the funniest one of all:

A GODDAMN SAMUEL FRENCH ACTING EDITION OF THE KING IN YELLOW

The opening event for the San Francisco exhibition is tomorrow and will also be livestreamed! https://www.bccbooks.org/event/imaginary-books-lost-unfinished-and-fictive-works-found-only-in-other-books/

CORY BOOKER BROKE THE RECORD

Pondering my orbs.

help

Pictured here is the process of trying to write Dark Souls III fanfiction while staying as close to the lore as possible. Like "oooh I feel good about this one! I could just about post it somewhere for others to enjoy as well. Oh? What's this? A single line of flavor text on a shield that nobody even uses was mis-translated by the localization team and that one clue was the key to interpreting the society of an entire fallen kingdom, that doesn't actually appear in-game but is crucial to the narrative I created? Cool. Very nice."

“Why should rich people pay more” because fuck ‘em

“So you are okay for paying more when you have money” I am not excluded from ‘fuck ‘em’ when relevant

“I am not excluded from ‘fuck ‘‘em’ when relevant” is surprisingly powerful as both a statement and philosophy

Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?

The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.

These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.

These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.

Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.

Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.

saw a wild Silly Thing (banana slug) while out walking. the way the little eyes are peeking at me makes me smile. you might get a kick out of it as well.

It won’t let me edit this submission but I love him deeply. Truly this is a Mollusk Mtuesday

Lin Onus - Reflections (Barmah Forest) 1994 – 95

Lin Onus (Australian, 1948-1996), Reflections (Barmah Forest), 1994-95. Acrylic on canvas, 182 x 182 cm.

so the current commission is, and i quote "The mind killer but as like art a catholic grandma might have on her wall"

what do we think so far lads this is the biggest illustration I've ever done for a piece holy shit normally it's 90% stylistic drop capital work and borders with teeny tiny illustrations of people

violetmoonrising_ on ig

Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers

this is my aesthetic:

Tips if u wanna start a tumblr blog:

Have a transparent bubble bath-less Treize Khushrenada, for all your edit needs.

this is without a doubt the first thing I thought of doing.

say it ain’t sooo

your snout is a wood-borer