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Gideon The Ninth- mock dustcover
I draw book covers for freelance all the time. I feel pretty lucky to do so, and wanted to create one with all my free will and spare time, to make just for me. Well, and for you lot as well. But mainly, for me.
I will be drawing book 2 and book 3 as well. And potentalially have prints of them later this year.
(For cover commissions email me at [email protected])
Harrow The Ninth -mock dust cover
With the river in blue and with blood variations. I wanted to have some crossover from my gtn cover, making things partially destroyed , like the side flaps. As well as having the sword in the same position, Gideons presence is still there! Even if she, herself, is not 🥲
Next up will be Nona's cover!
And more closeups under the cut
every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...
i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post
ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves
back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore
if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??
don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM
so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!
this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together
and then in the end you put it together like this!!
and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy
EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!
Every time I see some joke about Star Trek-style teleporter technology I'm like "I should write a story about the potential of this technology re: the whole 'killing and copying people' thing and the ramifications of being able to essentially print people" and then I remember I already wrote it. Every single time.
#*two hours later* hey derin? what the fuck was that
Expected result of teleportation technology I think
#I WAS TRYING TO GO TO BED 😭😭😭#just reached the end of part 1 i can't stop send help#fiction
Read the rest in bed! Problem solved!
#Holy fuck, this story changed me.
Good, that's what stories are supposed to do!
Oh wow. Wow wow wow wow geez. Go read this
I say this with all the love in the world. What the fuck.
(Also, hey, go read this. You'll think you know what you're getting. You won't.)
No, that's about what I expected from a Derin short story. Those things stick with you forever!
If I'm going to go to the effort of typing it up it had better fuck people up or I might as well go play computer games instead
Whelp, that just entered my category of “stories that aren’t technically horror, but really feel like it.”
That’s a good thing of course, the story was brilliantly written, and I’ll be thinking about it for a long time.
That category is most scifi
Just read this. What the fuck Derin
Derin, what the fuck was that???? Cursed implications
Derin, what the fuck.
I keep telling you guys! Stori!
#my grandpa liked your story#he says you have a marvelous imagination and developed a very unique story#and said the ending was poignant#I agree with him#great story
You guys heard it here first, mysterious-corpse's grandpa liked my story.
I thought I had thought of all the fucked up implications. I had not. Not even close.
Derin, what the fuck?
There are way more fucked up implications that didn't fit this story, I'm considering returning to the topic with a new one at some point.
Derin, what the FUCK?
WHAT THE FUCK IM CRYING YOU NEED TO MAKE THIS INTO A MOVIE
I don't know how to make movies. Best I can do is more short stories.
evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting
idk what to tell you except go look at the fishwives
can i be honest tho i kinda hate makeup bc i love licking my lips and rubbing my hands on my face like a cat or a fly annd i also love wiping my eyes like a sleepy infant all the time so basically i cant do it
You know you've fucked up when you go to a doctor and the thing you have wrong with you has been named after an occupation that isn't a thing anymore. Like imagine a doctor looking at you and going "yeah you've got ox-drawn ploughman's disease. We don't even test for that anymore. Yeah the reason you've never heard of it is because the last known case was in 1927 and happened to some guy who was like 98 years old and didn't believe in modern medicine of the time. What the fuck have you been up to."
Here in Sweden we have a pretty active larping community and many of them have a historical setting. I remember a story of a really awesome WW2 larp where, unfortunately, one of the participants hadn't removed his boots for three days straight and it rained the whole time. His feet suffered so much that he had to be taken to the hospital, which was a sight to behold. See, this guy covered in mud and wearing authentic WW2 gear had managed to get an incredibly historically correct case of trench foot. From a trench.
Peer reviewed! Too good to leave!
When I got Gout and the doctor told me the diagnosis I laughed so hard the doctor then asked me if I was on any psych meds. I was just like “wait so I got Old Timey Rich Person Disease?”
Roughly paraphrasing his response: “well by your own admission you live on a diet of shellfish and wine, and you came into my office dressed like a vampire. Like. Yea man you gave yourself Gout. You want me to check you for Consumption while I’m at it? Go eat some vegetables, please.”
The most modern of medicine is no match for a Human who insists upon recreating the behaviors of their ancestors, it would seem.
Oh, I have one to add to the pile!
Be me in my early youth years. End up doing a research project at a prestigious (but fairly scrounged together) research lab for coastal and marine studies in the Caribbeans. Island so small it's barely inhabited, with around 500 human souls (a good portion being tourists).
Lab located in the mangroves ran on donations, fees paid by the interns, and the combined good will of Poseidon and the Saints Above. Most money goes in keeping the actual laboratory and gear in good condition. Interns and volunteers are cheaper to replace.
Food comes by boat/small plane every few weeks, so fresh food was scarce but they made sure we had plenty oranges and apples to last us between runs.
Group of 12 people altogether in the research station, with myself and other 8 international interns/researchers working on cool projects.
Spend nearly all days for 8-14h on small boats (the size of a Quintrex Tinnie) for a minimum of 4 months up to a year. People become feral mangrove creatures within a couple of weeks of routine.
Now, one of the interns, let's call him Willie, fully embraces the lifestyle. Him being from the U.S of A., therefore very enthusiastic and going for the 'bigger, better, larger' mantra of his people, decides to take the sea lifestyle up a notch and start talking and behaving as a salty sailor within a week. Him being from a landlocked state makes this ~A Performance~
By month 2, he had evolved into Cpt. Ahab (we were tracking sharks, among other projects, and often would shout "there she blows" when picking up frequencies from transmitting tags), inclusive of squinty left eye, walk, and radio calls approximating the 1800s talk.
At month 4, he had fully transformed into one of the extras from the Pirate of the Caribbeans Davy Jones crew from the movie, complete with consistent algae in his hair (not fully intentional, although he would wear some as a crown every other day), ratty clothes (mostly due to conditions and work), piraty talk and carrying a plastic flycatcher as a cutlass.
At month 5 he really outdoes himself by developing scurvy.
You see, we found out later that he didn't really like fruit and around month 3 Willie had started bartering his portions off, apparently on a daily basis, for other food (ham and cheese sandwiches). He was doing it on rotation with the rest of us so we wouldn't catch on and be 'overbearing parent-like'.
Imagine the surprise when we took him to the local small clinic to get checked since he was constantly fatigued, started having pains in his limbs and got to the point of bleeding gums, and the doctor cheerfully informed that he had scurvy. As well as a skin infection on his scalp due to the prolonged exposure to algae.
The doctor and nurses congratulated him for his historical and thematic accuracy, took photos (he was baffled but still did a mighty thumbs up with a literally bloody grin), gave him vitamin C, antibiotics and then a stern lecture on looking after one's health - tropical island edition.
Within 24h the whole island knew.
Every person on land he crossed paths with for the rest of his stay greeted him with a hearty "Arrrr!" followed by laughter.
Brownie points to him for taking it in stride like a champ and doubling down on his piraty behavior (minus us watching him like a hawk to ensure he ate all his darn fruit daily).
Now, the shouting over Skype from his mum when he broke the news at the next decent wifi window on the island, was priceless. We could hear this thickly accented Kansas woman from three walls down.
Still, Willy remains to this day a legend. A dumbass, scurvy ridden, algae infested one, but still a legend.
Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."
This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find
Some people get existential dread from this
Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating
@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally
Source (non Aboriginal)
And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history
Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)
This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.
My favorite fact about Aboriginal oral history is the fact that we pretty recently discovered that the Aboriginal myth of the 7 Sisters, an origin story for the Pleiades star cluster, accurately reflects a point TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO when two stars in the constellation got close enough together to no longer be distinguishable by the naked eye.
The story? 6 sisters running from something that took their 7th sister.
as a gilgar gunditj woman, i was not expecting to see my culture on my dash.
thank you for spreading our words and treating our culture with respect.
Boosting signal.
Echoes from the ancient human past, wonderful.
Their oral history also contains stories about hunting prehistoric megafauna too. Native Australians are the oldest existing culture on earth, which is even more amazing considering how hard the british tried to wipe it out.
Budji Bim volcano.
today i learned about the easter bilby.
Indeed!! Since rabbits, bunnies and hares are, sadly, invasive species in Australia, Bilbys are a much more appropriate Easter mascot for the land Down Under.
Plus they are cute as heck and are incredibly important from an ecological point of view as ecosystem engineers - their tunneling abilities and constructions of intricate underground burrow systems make them an essential element of their habitat. There's a few options around Easter for chocolate Bilbys, and you can see them quickly disappear from the supermarket shelves along with the other Aussie Easter Mascot - Puddles the Chocolate Platypus.
I would also encourage you all to check out DreamWorks 2018 animated short Bilby. The story is really cute and the style plus animation well done :)
When I say that Trump has no original play in his playbook this is what I fucking mean. This where America is back sliding into Nazi Germany.
With that said to the people who voted 3rd party fuck you, fuck maga, fuck republicans and fuck you to the people who didn’t vote.
Everyone who knows a tiny bit of history saw this coming.
no one cares that you shave your legs because of sensory issues shut the fuck up forever
Prev I love you and you are doing the correct thing. You're so cool and epic and sexy
love characters who are like "this is how the world works. this is how it has to be (because if i'm wrong i have to face what i've done // if i'm wrong i have to face whats been done to me) "
This trait is much more endearing in fiction than in my mother.
For a city to be walkable. It must also be sittable.
#every time I read this phrase the same thing happens#I read it as shittable and go wait that can't be right#oh right they were talking about public benches that makes more sense#but public bathrooms available without fees should also be a thing tho#cities should definitely be shittable#it happens EVERY SINGLE TIME
it must also be shittable
