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Opening comms again because I need the money and I'm finally on break from school🫡

COMMISSION CARRD - for my terms of service, commission details, and other sample works.

FORM - to fill out if you're interested in a commission!

TRACKER - you may keep track of the commission progress here.

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COMMISSION POP OR ELSE

:D commissions are open! I take Kofi or PayPal

#no but seriously #everything i make is thanks to her #so please support her!!! #pixel art #commission #commission sheet #comm sheet #pixel sprite #podalie's doodles! #podalie's pixel art!

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BOYCOTT EUROVISION FOR ISRAEL PARTICIPATION.

I am the Eurovision gay this time of year, I love this show. Not only is my country hosting 2024 but it's also in a city I love, but I can't watch as people sing about peace and love while Palestinians are getting killed by one of the participants.

I've complied a couple of petitions, open letters and information regarding Eurovision: Eurovision isn't the highest priority regarding Gaza, but this show is marketing & tourism for countries, Israel is using it to pink wash their politics

According to SVT, Swedish television network in charge of Eurovision 2024 in Sweden Malmö, Eurovision is apolitical, and therefore Israel qualify. They refer to any calls for boycott meaningless ( via )

SVT statement:

Eurovision has always been political, and was created as a celebration of peace after WW2. Songs are statements, and EBU took action by banning Russia and Belarus for the invasion of Ukraine. It's a way to show sympathy and solidarity, which Gaza is in need of now.

Why Eurovision is so important to Israel is the opportunity of pink washing, and appearing liberal and LGBTQ-friendly, that the show encourages. This leads to great marketing and tourism for the country, alqueerian on twt did a great thread about it:

Full thread

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Here are a couple of petitions, open letters and links to encourage the ban of Israel in Eurovision

And if all fail: we boycott

Here are two petitions for the ban of Israel: Petition 1

Petition 2

A list of emails and contact information for broadcasters regarding Israel participation: copy, paste and send. Document

It's created by verilybitchie on YouTube who also made a great call to action video I can recommend

And for Swedes, I think it's extra important for us to speak up; here's what we can do:

Open letter via Björk & Frihet, a charity in Skåne offer letters to sign but also have pdf version to print at home!

This is also a letter regarding the contest being held in Malmö, a city with a long history fighting for Palestine! Sign here

Meanwhile, don't forget your daily clicks to help Palestine while we wait for EBU to stand by their words and prove we are united by music!

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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as it is my birthday, I can now proudly say:

I don't kin anything, I'm 32

#nulla texts

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Do you think there shouldn’t be a Jewish state at all? Not even in a different continent?

You might need to sit down for this one but ethnostates shoud not exist, regardless of what continent they might be on lmao

The existence of an ethnostate by default means the subjugation and violence committed against other groups of people and you cannot name anywhere, definitely not a continent, where a homogenous ethostate can be established without displacing the people already living there who are not part of the ethnic group.

The only way this can ever be achieved is through ethnic cleansing and you're literally asking me if I'm in favour of that and the answer is fuck no

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VOTE DESOLATION LET'S GOOO

Happy 2024! Let's make another tma Avatar with me, part 7!

Already done Eye, Vast, Spiral, Buried, Dark and Stranger

Vote for the next entity!

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More updates I guess?

He has eyes. I've never put eyes on one of these before so it scared me a bit to do it but I mean, I had to. He started out very uwu but then I gave him eyelids. Also made shiny gold bangles for his wrists and ankles. I'm kind of designing him as I go, so I don't have a clear vision, just some various ideas and I'm seeing what works. Probably will come back to working on him in January after I'm done with all my Christmas projects. I'm going to knit him a yellow cloak but I'm not looking forward to doing that lol I think that's why I've been putting off fully assembling him...

Have a quick "I'm making a John Doe from malevolent plushie" post

I'm not alt texting these, it's just a bunch of yarn. Anyways...

The plushie base is going to be... Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet! Because bless them for having released an official pattern for free, I have made so many of these things.

I still have materials I need to source, but I can at least start now that I have the yarn!! 🧶🧶🧶💛💛💛

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took a break from commissions/Christmas gifts to make some flags to pin to my purse

#nulla makes things #asexual #asexual flag #palestine #palestine flag #ukraine #Ukraine flag #plastic canvas #plastic mesh #yarn crafts #pins

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Not a artist in the least. Not i do love to follow patterns. Do you sell the patterns for TMA and the others.

So! I use pixel art for patterns, and count one pixel as one stitch. I get the art that I use from @podaliedja mostly, and use it with her permission or request it from her. Her and I would have to discuss selling it as actual patterns, and I'm not really sure what format to make it in. Plus some pixel art I just get off the internet, like the cassette tapes, so I don't think I could like, legally sell that lol. So I'll have to get back to you, or maybe if you let me know something specific you'd like a pattern for, Pop and I can whip something up for you. :)

#nulla answers things

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oh, have some other nuggets I've been working on

I'm not just a magnus/malevolent crafter lol

Pixel art aside from Kirby and Yoshi by the fabulous @podaliedja as always. She even put the Santa hat on Kirby for me, bless her.

#pomni #tadc #tadc pomni #wally darling #welcome home #Pokemon #ultra ball #Kirby #Yoshi #wtnv #randon neuring #professor lando #vtubers #nulla makes things #Nulla Nocturnus #nocturnullart #welcome to night vale

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I am very bad at uploading my yarnwork... Let's do a Magnus Archives yarnwork masterpost #2, also featuring Malevolent

By the way I have commissions open now, check it out I guess.

All pixel art done by my bestie @podaliedja

#plastic canvas #nulla makes things #malevolent #pixel art #john doe malevolent #malevolent podcast #the magnus archives #magnus archives #mag pod #jonathan sims #timothy stoker #bonzo #malevolentpodcast #john malevolent #arthur lester malevolent #arthur malevolent #malevolent arthur #malevolent john #malevolent john doe #the magnus pod #magnuspod #the magnus protocol #sasha james #martin blackwood #daisy tonner #basira hussain #melanie king #cassette tape #the king in yellow #georgie barker

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We're doing a LIVE CAST LIVESTREAM of Slay the Princess!

We'll be turning the voice sliders down to zero and forcing our beloved voice actors, Jonathan Sims (of The Magnus Archives) and Nichole Goodnight (of the No Sleep Podcast) to voice their many characters in real time.

Join us on November 18th at 11am Eastern!

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there’s nobody better than u 🚬

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Hi Jonny, if you don't mind I have a question about the TMA TTRPG! So I noticed that on the player's guide there's this guy, who my friends and I assumed is probably Jon. If it is him, is this a canon design, or more like some of the non-canon stuff that's in the merch?

So, I hope you don't mind if i use this ask to go a bit off on one. I'm not specifically dragging you (I'm actualy glad you asked, as I've thinking about posting on the topic), but all the discussion around the RPG art and how "official" or "canon" it might be is, to my mind, slightly silly.

First up, is it "official" art? I mean, yeah, its art for the officially licenced Magnus Archives RPG. This means Monte Cook Games have commissioned someone to do a beatiful illustration broadly based on some aspect, episode or character from the podcast and it goes in the book. But that's kinda all it means. "Official" is a legal distinction, not an artistic one. The fact that it's in an official product doesn't make it any less one artist's cool interpretation of a character that has only been vaguely described in audio.

Second, is it Jonathan Sims the Archivist? I mean, it's probably based on the idea of him, but it's certainly not set in stone. When we were first discussing art with MCG, we advised that character pictures be more vibes-based and not explicitly tied to specific people (ie. a portrait inspired by Tim wouldn't be captioned "This is Tim" and wouldn't be placed opposite a profile for Tim Stoker, archival assistant.) This was mainly because we wanted the artists to have plenty of freedom to interpret and not feel too tied down by the need to know everything about the podcast. But, to be frank, it was also because we know that there are a few fans out there that are kinda Not Chill about what they've personally decided these characters look like and can get a bit defensive over depictions that differ.

It strikes me as particularly strange to be having this discussion about art that's for a roleplying game book. Something that's explicitly and solely designed to give you the ability to play in your version of the Magnus universe. The idea that this is the thing where we'd for some reason try to immutably establish unchangable appearances for these characters would be pretty funny if some folks weren't taking it so seriously. Similarly ridiculous is the idea we could reasonably have said to MCG "We'd love for you to make a huge beautiful RPG book of our setting... Just make sure you don't depict any of the iconic characters or events from it!"

But... is it "canon"? Now, to my mind, this highlights a real weakness in a lot of fandom thinking around "canon", which is that it generally has no idea what to do with adaptations. All adaptation is interpretation, and relies on taking a work and letting new creatives (and sometimes the same ones) have a different take on it. Are the appearances of the Fellowship of the Ring in the LOTR movies "canon"? How much, if at all, does that matter? Neil Gaiman's book Neverwhere was originaly a 90s BBC series made with a budget of 50 pence; is anyone who makes fanart of Mr Croup that doesn't look like the actor Hywel Bennet breaking canon? What about the novel that describes the character differently? Or the officially licenced Neverwhere comic where he looks like neither of them? Which is his "canon appearance"?

Canon is an inherently messy concept, and while it is useful for a creative team trying to keep continuity and consistency within a creative work, for thinking about anything beyond that it tends to be more hinderance than help.

Anyway, all this is to say that the above picture and all the others in the RPG are exactly as canon as every other picture you've ever seen of the Archivist.

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My personal take on this is that it starts as dark academia, Jon wanting to dress for the job, the others not knowing what they're about to get into, and then it's just a slope all the way down into those podcast hoodies and such

Stop trying to make the magnus archives dark academia media, that shit is chaotic academia all the way through. The magnus archives is the embodiment of chaos academia these guys are not wearing sweater vests they're wearing obscure ghost podcast hoodies and weird socks and grandma cardigans.

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This bitch took me two weeks. Made of yarn on plastic canvas mesh.

Also have a slideshow of some of the work in progress photos I took because I took a bunch

oh, the John Doe I made pops up in the slideshow so here's him

All of these works are based on pixels art by @podaliedja !! 💛💛💛 Used with permission.

Support her original post!

#plastic canvas #pixel art #nulla makes things #malevolent #malevolent podcast #king in yellow #the king in yellow #eldritch horror #john doe #john doe malevolent #john malevolent #kiy #horror podcast #now i can get back to work on the plushie since i finally have stuffing