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Hello, I started reading about anchorites because of playing Pentiment, but it sounds like the whole "receiving visions from God" part isn't really a central part of anchorites? Is that correct?

Either way, is there a different term used within (medieval/renaissance) Christianity to refer to people who regularly received visions, like the character in Pentiment?

And do you have any recommendations for where I could read more about the prophecy aspect specifically?

Thank you ^•^

That's correct; visions were not assumed to be part of living as an anchorite. However, in addition to being an anchorite, Sister Amalie is also a mystic. The closest historical analogue would probably be Julian of Norwich, who was an English anchorite and mystic in the 14th/15th centuries.

One of the saints mentioned frequently in Pentiment, Hildegard of Bingen, was also a mystic.

Christian mysticism is a really fascinating topic. Prophecy is only a small part of it and many mystics did not have prophetic visions. Anyway, great thing to dive into IMO.

rugessnome

i was looking for the one Klaus Drucker quote and found someone pointing out that St. Grobian says "A whole lot of inconceivable shit happens on this hell of an earth, Andreas"

which uh. reminiscent of "this bitch of an earth"—> WAS this line potentially influenced by tumblr (...or similar)?!

anyway I think possibly St. Grobian would do well on tumblr...

jesawyer

"That's how it is on this bitch of an Earth," is from Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett but yes.

jesawyer

Hello, this might be a long shot but it’s always worth a try.

After playing Pentiment I fell in love with the purple ink script from the Thread-Puller. Is there any way to get a hold of the lettering, I’d like to get that style of text as tattoos but I can’t seem to find anything that resembles it directly anywhere.

If you answer, thank you, and also thank you for being involved in several games I love, as well as being an intelligent & considerate person socially and politically :)

Thank you! All of the fonts can be downloaded with the Pentiment Fan Kit on the official website. Scroll down to DOWNLOAD FANKIT.

corvosdaughter

"I'm sorry to see you go, Magdalene."

jesawyer

The quoted post has Pentiment spoilers btw.

This exchange was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend when we were much younger. I was being a dramatic crybaby about something and she said I should have been a poet. I thought it was a compliment but she said, "No I'm not talking about your writing ability just your temperament."

homonkoloss

Miteinander….

pseudepigraphon

name of the rose november days 4 & 5 - clue & poison

ladyofmelk

wake up adso! deodamnatus, you went too hard with that communion wine yesterday. what? homosexual encounters in the abbey? secrets in the library? boy you still reek of your mother's milk and can barely read greek, everything is a secret to you! now make haste, we must reach padua as soon as we can

l9mb

my interpretation of franz kafka's metamorphosis :3 😋😍

humblegrub

are you craving bug science related zines? I always am. here's a whole swarm of FREE mini zines!!!

see them here!!

szollibisz

finally made a little zine from all the photos i took of various wires and machines and pylons and etc

this was sooo fun i need to get it printed

mortalityplays

the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.

mortalityplays

this isn't snobby gatekeeping or imaginary semantic problems or whatever, this is an issue that has come up irl at cons and zine fairs local to me and which keeps coming up online. people who show up to trade fairs selling professionally printed $15 anthologies as 'zines' have a direct impact on the people trying to sell their $3 chapbooks at the next table over. submission based kickstarter projects that bill themselves as 'zines' exploit the connotations of amateur, punk production values to induce creators to work for less and eschew formal guarantees and protections they are entitled to.

leog4u

my favorite zines have all been $1 or free and printed on highlighter paper. i used to pick em up from a book store in chelsea that sold predominantly self published work, and had sections for zines. Some were about how to eat cheap in the city when most of your paycheck went to rent, others were talking about the best drag performances in town, and plenty of DIY stuff. all of them had the same unique quality: nobody but the author and their collaborators could've made this, and they wanted to make it easily accessible to the community

i kinda hate that the word that was used for extremely personal and cheap works is applied to essentially art books of your favorite anime OTP

mortalityplays

hi! sorry, real quick:

grab a piece of paper and fold it in half like a book

write "im indifferent to zines" on the cover

write "i've never been able to buy one" on the first page

write "and i'll never be in one" on the second page

write "just want to be a hater today" on the back

congrats you're in a zine! if you like you can photocopy it and sell it to art students, fellow haters, or anyone with a sense of humour. I'll buy one.

theliltchirurgeon

ive been saying this since 2015! all my illustrator friends kept submitting to them (and gettin in which i was proud of) but they... werent zines. they were like massive books with grandiose color schemes and gilded bossing. i couldnt afford them even. zines are oft free or traded and they arent about how pretty a picture you can make.

the first zine idea i found was in a book i checked out from the library (id never remember what it was. it was about cartooning i think and had a section about chibi style lol) that had a little section on taking one sheet of paper, marking it into eighths, cutting a line in the center of the page and folding it over for a quick eight pages. like this

this makes printing soooo easy too. id love to see these floating around places

iwanttodance

So I scrolled past this post and was thinking the same thought I always do when I see people talking about zines, which is basically ‘zines are so cool, I’ve never made one because I don’t think I have anything interesting to say in one, but I should make a zine someday if I ever have creative energy again’ and then it gets added to my ever growing mental list of things I want to do but don’t end up doing (I have spent the last several years struggling so hard with my depression that I can’t seam to create anything at all)

And then I thought, hey I have a piece of paper by my desk I should at least follow that diagram and fold it, that way I’m halfway there even if it’s blank and sits on my desk for months, and then 5 minutes later I had this:

Now I’m just holding this little thing I’ve made in my hands and I love it so much

So thank you to this post for inspiring me to make something today! Even if it’s just a simple silly little thing I’m going to treasure it

out-of-jams

REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS

Too many beds

Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss

Really nice guy who hates only you

Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class

Divorce of convenience

Too much communication

True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)

Dating your enemy’s sibling

Lovers to enemies

Hate at first sight

Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead

Fake amnesia

Soulmates who are fated to kill each other

Strangers to enemies

Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating

Too hot to cuddle

Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground

Nursing home au

leavingautumn13

a tutorial-adjacent thing about how i make comics

this is just a general guide on how i personally do things, and i'm gonna keep it pretty simple. let's get into it!

for this tutorial i'm gonna be drawing some trainers trying to find a particular pokémon.

i'm gonna jump ahead a little here and show my finished sketch for the full page, so we can see the end goal.

the best advice i have is to treat panels as part of the composition. make them work for you. reading a bunch of comics will help inspire you--there are so many creative things you can do with panels.

next, placing dialogue bubbles! these are a bit more complex than they seem at first glance.

once you've got all that sorted, you can move onto the fun stuff, like lining and coloring. keep in mind that you can partially cover dialogue bubbles, break panel lines, etc. do whatever gets your message across. like so:

you can also apply these guidelines to much simpler comics, too. really, flow is the most important thing, in my opinion. it's like a line of action when you're drawing poses. here's a comic i did that's basically just talking heads, but the bubbles and art still flow together to draw the reader's eye along a path. here's a jokey little scribble comic that does something similar. making a good comic is not about polish at all. it's more about readability, composition, and making your dialogue and art work together.

scott mccloud's book making comics has a lot more useful information than what i can fit on one post. it's been a hot minute since i read it (and by that i mean like. twelve years) but it's a solid resource. you can also just read comics or webcomics that you like and see how those illustrators do it. one of my personal favorites is cucumber quest. it starts off very simple, but by chapter 3 (especially near the end) the artwork, panel choices, effects, etc all work together to make every page a stunning work of art.

anyway, as always please feel free to reach out if there's any part of this that you'd like elaborated on, clarified, if you just have questions, etc. i'm not a teacher by any stretch of the imagination but i love helping people with this sort of thing, so please don't hesitate!

[this post is for @tanlotts <3]