This is it - the design for Madimi’s memorial tattoo. It’s a tortie-colored pawprint (which will be scaled to lifesize) in the solar circle of John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica.
Madimi, of course, was named after a mischievous spirit channelled by Dee and his medium Edward Kelley. This tattoo was designed by @quantum-witch, and I wouldn’t have it by anyone else, for important reasons. I went out to Rockford for Memorial Day weekend and we worked on it in person, and I am so, so grateful for the comfort and inspiration. QW and I met on Livejournal in the early-mid 00s when we were both very active in Good Omens fandom, and we collaborated on lots and lots of stories. Gradually we’re in the process of restoring all the artwork to the AO3 posts, and also adding some works that were written for our private friendslocked NC-17 group, Switchythings.
We were probably best known for historical Aziraphale/Crowley erotic romance, and our longest story was The Phoenix and the Turtle (A Metaphysical Romance). John Dee and Madimi both play significant roles as characters in that story (as do Giordano Bruno and William Shakespeare), and the research we did for it wound up having a lasting inspiration effect on our personal cosmologies. Certainly a very strong one in mine. (It was also the inspiration for Evadare’s story “Tempestuous,” which appeared in the New Smut Project’s Heart Body Soul anthology in 2015, which is itself taken from an unfinished novella “Violent Remedies” - the magickal lesbian pirate lovers Ginny and Maddy are revealed to be Virginia Dare of Lost Colony fame, and Madimia Dee, daughter of... [yes, he really did name a daughter that]).
Anyway, so TP & TT was written mostly in 2006. I feel like I already had the name, and was searching for the clever, mischievous, weirdly wise cat it belonged to. I found her in the spring of 2008 and brought her home.
