Today is my second last day of work. It’s crazy to think of how fast the summer has gone. Time is strange like that. I have one more project to complete before the end of day tomorrow. Then I’m officially done. I feel like I’m in a good spot and that I’ll get it finished.
I had a rough morning, so I got myself a venti pumpkin spice latte as a treat to have while working this afternoon. Today is the first day they’re back here and to say I am excited is an understatement.
I’m working from the reference library this afternoon which has quite the look, architecturally speaking. Despite its abundance of concrete, this place has felt magical to me since I first came here. It even has a Sherlock Holmes reading room done up like a Victorian study, which is right up my street.
phoenix, 2024
post-s2. the Bentley has been left untouched for so long that a nightingale family has made a nest under her grille. nothing will ever be as it was, but something new will be reborn.
imagine ur garthy o’brien, just trying to fuck this hot ranger you met at your brothel that you own, except her teenage kids/wards/bosses keep knocking on the door to your bedroom and interrupting you guys and THEN you learn that she’s actually in a committed relationship but didn’t tell you, so THAT sucks but THEN one of the teens comes and finds you in the middle of the night yelling about how his friend is gone and they can’t find him and he might be in danger, so you help him teleport to his friend, and then when they all get back, looking extremely upset and dejected, you apologize to the ranger’s daughter for making her feel uncomfortable by fucking her mother and in the process SHE reveals to you that her mom’s boyfriend is actually this really cool werewolf guy that you KNOW and have fucked on multiple occasions
You may know that sometimes it can be a real pain to search for a specific reference from Good Omens, like a detail from Aziraphale's costume, Crowley's expression in one particular episode, a piece of furniture in the bookshop...
So for that, I decides to create a library with everything Good Omens artists may need in different folders.
That may be :
>> Their face profile, their body types, Crowley as an angel, every time period costumes, Soho street and floor map, the bookshop outside and inside, the bentley in different angles, their different hair style, hands details, alpha century nasa pics, Aziraphale's ring or Crowley's tattoo, Beelzebub from s1 or s2 ECT......
But also :
>> Face features and body studies with notes made by me
+ a free morpho and anatomy book in pdf from this Tumblr post :
So obviously this is going to be a big work and I need your help to build this library !
How ? You can join this discord server I've made.
Everything will be separated in different # channels
If you have a great screenshot of Aziraphale's hands for instance, you can send it in the appropriate channel.
I will be sorting them and put them all in the Google Drive I'm working on with different folders.
In time, when enough material will be gathered, I hope this could become a Website on which everyone can have access ! (I'm looking for someone that knows how to do that btw)
So if you have a lot of stuffs in your gallery and are willing to help, but also if you're an artist and looking for specific references right now, you may join the discord !
Please be sure to check the # informations and # rules when you arrive !
Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!
Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*
Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!
Happy Last Scarland day! Here's my Rolling Down Mainstreet and Hotel Architecture work for @scarland-artbook🎈🎈
process vid:
The entire scene uncropped:
Hotel Drafts:
For the hotel, I thought about the hallways and the general opulence and ambiance when you walk in (chandeliers, check-in counter, tiling on the floors). I mapped out all of the rooms (e.g. the outdoor patio, the lounge, the café/deli, & Scott and Fwhip's decorated rooms).
A few inspirations I took were the following:
Sun & Thirteen Cantons in Soho
Great Central Pub at The Landmark London
Prince of Wales Hotel at Niagara-on-the-Lake
I also wanted to consider an elevator for access... And if I had more ideas outside of the hotel layoutway honestly I'd keep designing with laundry chutes and more hallways and a pool. I love hotels
Horse book recs? Other than The Key to You and Me, I haven’t read a lot of queer horse books 👀
thank you so much for sending the first ask that made me choke on my coffee because at first I misread it as ‘the horses must be queer'
I have to admit this is not an area of expertise for any of us on the QLL team, but here are a few ideas:
Horse Girls, edited by Halimah Marcus: okay so not entirely sure how queer this one is, but one of the contributing authors is Carmen Maria Machado
The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories by Alisa Surkis & Monica Nolan: cannot speak to quality as I’ve only just learned this exists but it’s meant to be in the flavor of mid-century pulp novels! just might buy this for QLL in the future...
this is not exclusively horses, but this goodreads list might have a few more ideas too!