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Was hanging out stoned on an art call with @festering-queen when I raised the question of "If you could have any book right now, what would it be?" Take this as a warning that no idle book comment goes un-noted...

When she eventually tossed out 'The Art of War' I was filled with exceptional glee for I knew it to be a slim volume and in the public domain. Bound three little versions of it (two for her, one for me) and this here is the best one of the lot, shipped off to her months ago. Printed on 'bible paper', it's noticeably thinner than the 20lb versions and suffers the skew and minor munges all my bible paper prints have... but worth it for those feathery light pages!

Came out to 188 pages, taking two sheets of paper. Legible, IMO, with a fun fore-edge effect of chapter markers. Dug into some of my best mini marbled strips and included the chain this time. While I lack the breathtaking design skills some folks over at @renegadepublishing have, it's one of my better layouts and would be happy to share PDF with anyone who might be interested.

#bookbinding #book arts

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Pages from Work Song, a fabric book about farming and falling in love 🌦🧵🌻 (1 / 2)

Instagram | Prints

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#hand embroidery #book arts #embroidery #textile art #farming

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Pokemon 1998 Stickers

Pikachu and Ditto, Vaporeon, Charmander, and Meowth

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🍃Makar says everything will be alright 🍃

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I find it absolutely hilarious that after playing the popularised sexy man “James Bond” for what feels like a millennium, Daniel Craig has only now reached tumblr sexy man status by playing a funky southern gay detective with a hubby that bakes sour bread. If this is not the most on brand tumblr thing I don’t know what is

#knives out #glass onion #benoit blanc #daniel craig

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so, old news obvious news blah blah, but i keep seeing people not getting this about my girl gideon nav so have to say: i think at first blush, people get the impression that Harrow’s got all the convolutions and layers and hidden vulnerability whereas gideon wears her heart on her sleeve and is just brazenly herself (a loveable rowdy himbo) & that’s the contrast. and yes, that’s there, but that’s not all. that dynamic itself is a part of their mutual (codependent) front, and like everything else in this book, it gets peeled back. 

i think the real contrast is that they’ve both got masks, and those masks are complimentary. they’re both kids who never got a childhood. they grew up tortured in the same place from very different angles with no one but each other to butt heads against. they both had to play-act grown up versions of themselves with few models for what a well-adjusted adult even looked like. so it’s cartoonish. gideon is the plucky hero of her own adventure story that will totally have a happy ending some day, far far away from her nemesis whom she’s totally not in love with. harrow meanwhile (to grossly oversimplify) has to imagine herself as someone cruel and cold enough to cope with being alive at the price of 200 other people. these two things fit very well together. gideon can play the hero to harrow’s villain, and harrow can enact cruelty toward gideon to make herself feel strong and mean (and generally just to vent anguish). the way they hate one another is a kind of mutual protection - it re-enforces the self-image that each of them needs to get through the day. but that’s the coping mechanism. harrow the ruthless bones overlord. gideon the hapless swords idiot, who thinks of nothing but tiddies & sweet sweet vengence (harrow’s corpse in various states of disgrace ) all day. and behind that they’re both tearing apart at the seems beneath caricatures of themselves that are deeply unsustainable and neither of them feels safe letting on the extent to which that’s the case. their hearts are a goddamned mess. neither of them is wearing that shit on their sleeve.   so yeah, there’s a lot more to gideon than being a swords himbo but that’s not the wild thing. the wild thing is she’s so convincing that she somehow manages to sell people on her no braincells act while being the pov character of entire first novel.

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#gideon nav #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb

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I had an epiphany

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Gideon the Ninth is trending? Here, have a compilation of art I have done

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there are a lot of things that make the locked tomb series so appealing, like yeah lesbians with swords, bones, deeply fucked up and compelling dynamics etc, but fundamentally possibly the most enticing aspect of it is the sheer amount of pathetic women in it. we are living in an age of DROUGHT of pathetic women in media; the Girlboss trope, in its most stereotypical and mind-numbingly basic interpretation, reigns supreme. the female silly little meow meow is ENDANGERED. but not in the locked tomb series! in fact there are several of them here and they’re all pathetic in different special ways, which doesn’t prevent them from also being badasses and strong, skilled fighters, but CRUCIALLY they are also losers!! and that’s what makes them so great!!!! like we have the self-sacrificing butch lesbian jesus-figure with a hole in her chest and the most pathetic case of Simping in history, canonically known as the ‘saddest girl in the universe’, the evil stick feral kitten lesbian nunlet with a bone fetish that everyone for some reason is obsessed with (no actually it’s understandable), the super tall ghost-looking ‘problematic’ lesbian with a bone arm who loves to cause problems on purpose, her even taller and more insane twin sister and her deeply repressed constantly half-dead crush who’s pretty much always having the worst time out of everyone in a series where everyone is always having the worst time. oh and of course the eldritch horror dressed up as a barbie doll

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #tlt #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #ntn spoilers #ianthe tridentarius

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I finally found the part of Nona that makes me believe the gang has actual names but because Nona knows all languages she calls them the translation of their names

#nona the ninth #the locked tomb

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omg perf

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/sees fossils of older dinosaur and baby dinosaurs intertwined in a way that implies the adult died crouching over the nest trying to protect them from a natural disaster/ oh my god it died crouching over the nest trying to protect them from a natural disaster 😭

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So cute, and so deadly.

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Everybody apologize to Sonic The Hedgehog right fucking now

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I think about eating a fidough a lot