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Oh yeah, almost forgot! While making refs for Art Fight this year, I made a proper reference for Jacob for SRU! Behold, my handsome spider tailor son! It is so nice to finally have this together, I feel good.

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Oh yeah, I haven't posted this yet, have I? So you know how I wrote that fic, Trapped in his Web? Well I doodled this around the same time I made it. Meet Jacob, the spider tailor that accidentally turned out a little too handsome! X''''D I really like how he turned out, he's gorgeous. This man is here to be fabulous and spite Bertrum by dressing even better and being a spectacle. And I'm here for it, he's fun to play with.

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You know who else I love in BATIM? Jacob from Dreams Come to Life. I know, odd choice to fixate on, but I can't help it, he's charming. So it should come as no surprise that I have a hand in bringing him and the rest of the DCTL art department to the Step Right Up AU.

This is one of my favorite drawings from 2021. He needs some design tweaks, but this is Jacob in monster form! So because the art department has three primary gents, I've sort of forged a connection between them and the butcher gang. Because they have no last names canonically, I've gone with Dave Charley, Richie Barley, and Jacob Edgars. Yes I put my two faves together, and I have no shame.

Jacob ends up as a spider creature for fairly functional purposes. Bertrum tends to to throw his circus staff to the machine to "improve" them. The costume and make-up department was struggling and falling behind thanks to his exceedingly difficult demands, meaning long nights with too much to do. Jacob is primarily a tailor within this setup, so his spider design complements it. Multiple arms to finish tasks quicker, ability to spin inky webbing should he run out of fabric or thread, it's quite thoughtful. He made the addition of pincushion pauldrons, and he's also discovered he can attach himself to walls and the ceiling in order to get away from people (and drop down to scare the daylights out of them). He's a lot more mischievous, vengeful, and protective compared to his human form, but when you put a guy and his found family through cursed magical ink, can you really blame him?

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[Bertrum Piedmont is a man of pride, running a traveling circus filled with colossal wonders. But as time goes on, things start to unravel, from a change in management to sacrificing his performers to Joey Drew's magnificent ink machine, for a whole new brand of horror.

Tonight, we get a peek into the Make-up and Wardrobe department, where tailor Jacob Edgars is cleaning up for the night. Little does he know that this will be the last night the room will be this calm, as everything is about to change. But is it a change for the better, or the worse? Who's to say?

Part of the Step Right Up (SRU) AU run by @bertrumstrousers. Read with caution, please be mindful of the content warnings at the top of the fic, they’re there for a reason.]

And THIS is exactly why you should be concerned when I get hooked on an idea, I go WILD with it and stuff like this happens. XD Hope you enjoy the story! Let me know what you think!

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I think I’ve created a monster. Help. 

Okay okay, in all seriousness, some friends and I were working on AU stuff, and I drew for the first time in a long time, then it got me on a kick and I WROTE like twelve pages of a sequence involving surreal transformations and screaming, and it all just felt so damn good. Gosh did I need that. And I can’t WAIT to share it with all of you!