A little project to tide me up while I wait to complete my binding of the movie screenplay. This is the second draft of the screenplay for the movie, so a couple quotes might not be found in the movie (like John's "mother me") but also might be missing. even though this draft has some amazing deleted lines.
the quotes are just in order of when I thought about them, since I was surprised by just how explicit some themes are. watching it with subtitles the amount of "dogs barking" around when Henry does anything is almost comical. But at the same time they're not simple callbacks, ya know? The motivs are just subtle enough to be motivs but you can still find them in writing.
Anyway. James Goldman has now become my ridicolous writing standard to aspire to that I'll never achieve. gooood for me.
"You could get up early and do it before work" I could also wait for a magic beanstalk to start growing in my living room LMAO. Let's focus on things that happen in the real world
I don't think there's any way to introduce this post rationally so. uh.
Ratterrock oc everybody!!! for a brief explanation:
last new year's eve a bunch of my friend got together at my house to play a frankly alarming amount of ttrpgs. We played a call of chthulu oneshot mastered by the one and only @/teachmehowtodokiaye where I played a journalist, Carey Wayne.
He's one entire bastard, and a manchild, and many other bad things the party hasn't yet discovered- aside from being a 30's paparazzi, basically, writing stories of dubious verity out of gossip he's heard from a variety of shady contacts.
Fun fact, we also did cosplay of our characters this oneshot so this drawing was based on one of the coolest photos of myself I have.
And then I discovered @welcome-to-ratterrock (which you all should read)... and this concept would not get out of my mind FOR THE LIFE OF ME. Carey just fits in so well with the grimy world of ratterock, I'm sure he's out there writing a trashy article about the mystery of the washed-up debutante right now...
Also, Carey is technically scottish. so you know what that means.
(edit: let's. ignore the fact I forgot to draw his second hand)
The Regal’s are rats. Sometimes, they gotta do rat things - being flat, boggling, and shedding up a storm. Their significant others simply have to accept this.
Credit to @bajingoarts for this masterpiece - join her patreon for more ratty shenanigans!
I've decided I want to share my critical role character playlists because they hit on a very specific vibe I think the world needs. They are absolutly musically incoherent and contain italian. you've been warned.
blumendrei playlist
pikelan playlist
(the cover art is from swearwolfcola)
widobrave playlist
they are all STRICTLY romantic they cannot be read as friendship, listener be warned
Fanbind of "Rebuild your Seawall (brick by brick)" by @deheerkonijn & @roselightfairy
I am so so happy to be able to share with you the complete project, and I really want to thank both Deheer and Roselightfairy for giving me permission to bind their work!
This fanfic has a special place in my heart and I'm happy to be able to give it a proper place on my bookshelf. I think it resonated with me a lot in ways that other depictions of depression never have- it really reflected my experience of depression as the gutting feeling of something that you've never experienced, yet you feel is the right way things should have been, and you never stop longing for it. If you're at all in the mood for some introspective fanfic, I highly reccomend it.
Much more unnecessary details under the cut and how the entire binding experience went, and as always thank you to the @/renegadebindery discord server without whose members I would be doing nothing at all!
Okay so! To say that this book is rounded and backed would be an insult to all bookbinders in the world but there was a sincere try at it, and it didn't really come out, but it did just enough that there's a real noticeable roundness at the spine which I am OBSESSED with. I WILL be trying to do this again with every single one of my future projects.
This project actually originally started as a way to use a ton of scrap materials I had that would have been more noticeable on a bigger project. The textblock was printed on alternating cardstocks because I didn't have enough of a single type left, and many of them are a bit faded because my printer was running out of ink. I actually kind of like the effect, but I wish the title illustration came out more defined and less foggy, since it was already pretty blurred as a file. This is also the first time I put in a bookmark! It looks different in the pictures but it is almost IDENTICAL to the colour of the endpapers, which was a wonderful gift my mum brought home from a trip. I love it in contrast to the more minimalistic cover pattern, even if those blues clearly do not match.
This is also the project with which I discovered the magic and miracles of using wheat paste to adhere the endpapers to your covers instead of glue and oh my god. I was blind this whole time. Wheat paste goes on so smooth and uniform and gives you SOO much wiggle room to adjust things. I am never going back go endpapers with pvc ever again. It does have the side effect of being very moist and it did warp the textblock inside a bit, but that's very much my fault since I keep using cardboard instead of actual press board for my books since press board is so uncommon here. And hey some might say using professional material instead of substituting medical gauze for fraynot might help your book be better but what do I know. I am just an idiot who made the mistake of letting glue dry WAYYYYY to much TWICE on the same project. (Once before rounding; once after making the cover and forgetting cardboard warps when glued. I am very bright).
Making the title graphics was also so rewarding yet so so so difficult. Mostly because I've been overwhelmed by my life so it took me ages to sketch out a design I did like. And when I finally had it, and I asked my aunt to borrow the machine she uses to print on fabric, we had to keep delaying for different reasons that kept coming up. But I'm SO glad to have a proper cover on there. It's difficult to keep being proud and happy of it since it's been so long since I was done with the actual object, but honestly it's really satisfying to have a book with your OWN, personalized cover on it. I'm also very proud of the nautical theme inside- in general I put a lot of care in making the textblock feel coherent.
After this experience I do think I'll order some proper board since I want my next project to come out as good as I possibly can. Though I am still on the ledge about what my next project will actually be. Maybe in the meantime I'll stick to figuring out a logo and name for myself.
And maybe next time I'll remember to take some decent process pics too!
i always think about that study where they had adults hold a baby, and when they were told the baby was a girl the adults said she was cute and small, and when they were told the baby was a boy they said he was big and strong. they rated the baby’s ability to do things and tendency towards certain toys differently. they even held the baby differently. (x) or when they rated the baby’s physical ability to do various tasks such as climbing up a slope differently, (x) & when they measured how much parents told their girl children vs. their boy children to be careful and stop being so rowdy (x), & when they measured how often girls and boys were told to be quiet. (x)
this was, obviously, all unconscious behavior in the adults. they’re not all like, raving sexists who outspokenly believe that women can’t do stuff or that girls really should just be quieter, be more still than boys. like its not even counting the direct, actual messages, its just literally how every single person in your entire life treats you, and if asked they would probably deny that its even because you’re a girl. how the fuck am i supposed to believe this doesn’t affect a child’s development when its literally constant throughout the entire process
This shit starts as soon as early as when someone’s still a fucking fetus. I’ve heard the saying “discrimination starts as soon as you leave the womb” but it actually starts earlier than that.
I've finally found the will to live and post my latest bind of which I'm actually very proud of!
I was inspired by this undescribeably beautiful bind from @/szynkaaa, and by inspired I mean "discovered what a swiss bind is and lost my mind". So I decided to bind a blank notebook for one of my friends who goes around his walks and draws in little notebooks.
I also decided to try a french stitch for the first time to allow him to completely open the notebook to draw, and it was so much fun, I was afraid it was gonna be much harder than it ended up being. In fact it was so much fun I kind of want to make one for myself...
Only thing I really don't like is the sppace I left between the spine and boards, I don't have much experience with eyeballing it and I trusted a tutorial which made it way too big and less compact but oh well. Things to improve in the future, at least
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