#notbecauseofvictories

[panthermouthh]

A Cornstalk Fiddle

(Part 1/?)

And here they are! The first three pages of a fan comic, based on @notbecauseofvictories brain altering fic 'A Cornstalk Fiddle'. Read more below if you're interested in where this comic came from and where it’s going :))

I've continuously returned to notbecauseofvictories’s writing over the years— if I ever feel lost in my own story telling when it comes to comics, poems or prose, notbecauseofvictories is one of those authour's whose work always reignites a creative spark in me, and I just wanted to make my own tribute to one of my favourite stories <33

I've had this all visually planned out in the back of my mind for a year now, and finally drafted the storyboards this summer. I can’t promise a timeline of when the next pages will be posted, hopefully over the next few months, but I’m planning on doing this whole scene and it should come to about ten. I hope you guys enjoy them and tell me what you think!

[artsyarrowl]

Fanart of @notbecauseofvictories’s fic A Cornstalk Fiddle which you can read here!

[booksandsometea]

"Under the bloated sun, you tear down the last gods. It is not enough, this slow monstering"

quote is taken from notbecauseofvictories' wonderful poem "chrysopoetics". 

colored pencil & ink on paper

[kingsofsaigon]

Archetypes | The Wild Ingenue

When she wakes: she wakes heavy with renewed purpose, the world is not ready for the alley cat's soft feet, or the pinched, Rorschach marks her nails bite into her supple bruised thighs. 

She's fooled them all with her Versace mother of pearls, she had herself fooled too--but now the gauntlet's run, the clock strikes twelve and she finally knows the answer, she knows which way the wretched garden lawn of her wayward heart lies.

The cast of her skin clatters to the floor like spilled, pearlescent pennies, her nails run rivers through the fine vestal gossamer worn for her husband and out flies the heavy gilded collar.

She unwinds the Good Housewife teachings from her bones and lays bare her truth:

I am my mother's daughter and no cage can hold me. I was born of a wild thing and there I will return.

[anghraine]

notbecauseofvictories replied to your post: Fandom has soured me on a lot of things, but tbh I...

IT’S THE WORST ADJECTIVE

it really, really is

[pearwaldorf]

@notbecauseofvictories replied to your post “Ineffable Fictober 2019 #22 - Golgotha”

this is completely beside the point, but I burst out laughing at "there are a surprising number of replicas of golgotha." mostly because every christian cross is technically a representation of golgotha.

.........also further beside the point, but pilgrims in the middle ages used to travel to jerusalem (a hugely dangerous undertaking) solely to walk the Via Dolorosa, Christ's path the cross, so christianity has ALWAYS been this weird

If it wasn’t obvious, I don’t know shit about Christianity beyond the usual cultural osmosis. I mean on some level I knew every Christian cross is a reminder of the crucifixion, but I always thought Golgotha/Calvary was the geographical... thing.

I did a lot of Wiki reading on the Passion and all the stuff related to that and yeah. Jesus fandom, specifically the Catholic and Orthodox parts of it, are frigging wild.

[kaphkas]

“It isn’t fair —”

“That’s a lie,” the Devil says, so sharply and suddenly that Johnny jerks back again, almost biting his tongue in the process. “This is fair. I am fair. It is exactingly, absolutely fair in the way such things must be. And they must be, Johnny.” 

The Devil falters suddenly, looks away. “The word you’re thinking of,” he adds, his voice soft, “is ‘cruel’. And it is that.” 

Written by the amazing @notbecauseofvictories

[wizzard890]

notbecauseofvictories replied to your post “yeah I’m calling it now, the rey/kylo ship is going to be basically...”

it's gonna be hereto unseen level of Discourse hell and I am already so tired

I thought this said “hetero unseen level of Discourse hell” and like. 

that too.