#psyche speaks

[psycheadelic]

Chibi practice with vashwood

Finally learned what alpha locking does 🎉

[psychedaleka]

Throwback to Yesterday

I was tagged by the wonderful @prackspoor to hit the rewind button and share something from the past. Rather than subject you all to angsty pre-teen Percy Jackson fanfiction, I figured I'd share a blast from the past for Sauron as well.

Rewind - by psychedaleka

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Mairon holds the mote in his hand, in its self consuming turmoil of anger and hate and fear and malice.

“This is what we become.”

Dead silence.

“Was it worth it?” Mairon asks. “Yes, we’ve achieved so much, we’ve reached heights never before imaginable but we’ve fallen, harder and faster and further than any before us.

“This is what we’ve become.

“Was it worth it?

"Was this what you wanted?

“Are you happy?”

"I had no choice—" Sauron, this time.

"No," Gorthaur says. "We chose. Don't you dare diminish that."

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Tagging (only if you want to do it!) @lemurious @crackinthecup @eveningalchemist and anyone else who wants to participate!

[danceofthedragon]

color palette from Plum the Conqueror, the background for the map Sail in Just Dance 2024

[psyche-offical]

It has came upon me that there is no community for us officials so I have tried to fix such an issue, if there was one and I was unable to find it I will link it and pin that in the community so it is easily found for others who could not find it. Now here is the.... link?

Official verse • Community on Tumblr

This is a community for everyone in the official/offcial verse to chat nn chill in or out of roleplay

[indecisivepsyche]

Dracula: The Evidence

Well, now that we've finished reading Dracula, I'd like to highlight yet another upcoming way to read Dracula! This one is Dracula: The Evidence by Beehive Books, a small press imprint in Philadelphia currently available to preorder. Let me preface this by saying that I'm not affiliated with the creators of this project. I'm just discussing it because I think it's cool. I'll also warn that the two cheapest options for purchasing these items are $400 (for the complete artifactual experience) or $100 (for a hardcover version). If that's too much for you, I'd still recommend taking a look at the neat prototype images and information about the creation process found on their product pages and project updates.

Dracula: The Evidence is a project recreating the primary sources that make up Dracula. As they describe it, "In our edition, you are not merely a reader – you are an explorer making your way through this archive of first-hand evidence, retracing this nightmarish story through the remnants it left behind: correspondence, charts and diagrams, memoranda, artifacts, photographs, and much more."

That means you'll be receiving items like Jonathan's journal and letters from Lucy to Mina in their complete (and unburnt) form.

For people willing and able to shell out the $400, these items will come in a suitcase. For those who can commit $100, you can purchase a hardcover art book with pictures of the artifacts and transcripts of their contents.

There's also the option to purchase a vinyl record of Seward's phonograph recordings (also for $100).

I'm going to ramble a bit more about the project under the cut, but before that here's a link to a post I've made with links to the project. One of them is a promotional Twitter thread written by a fictional archival intern hired to process the Stoker Papers. It's pretty fun.

Edit: It slipped my mind that there was a PDF preorder on offer on Kickstarter for $25. It's not currently on the Beehive Books storefront, but it might be sold once the preorder period is over.

Beehive Books has been transparent about supply chain issues and events like the calligrapher they cast to write for Jonathan Harker being conscripted in the army causing delays. However, it is currently projected that the products will ship in early 2023.

Speaking of calligraphers, they've hired over a dozen of them to write for the different characters. It's neat to hear that they've put a lot of consideration into how the personalities of the characters should be reflected in their handwriting.

If you want to hear a sample of their recordings for Dr. Seward's diary, check out the September 12th Kickstarter Update on either edition. The updates are open to the public, and they've posting a link to a Dropbox with a two-minute sample from Jack's May 25th entry.

Check out the update from January 10th, 2022 to hear how they're tackling the fact that most of the documents that make up Dracula are originally not written in standard English. Here's an excerpt from it:

"For Mina, we've had her switch back and forth between shorthand and longhand throughout her diary. We've used it to enhance character building and storytelling. She's using the journal as an opportunity to learn and practice shorthand -- so which sections does she feel most urgent about, and might she scrawl down in her natural hand without translating into her shaky shorthand? Which sections might she feel private about, and want written in an alphabet that someone who comes upon her diary might not understand?

And then we have Mina's typescript, which transcribes every word of every document contained therein, and more. This allows readers to work with the two documents side-by-side, decoding shorthand or Russian with the help of the typescript."

On the update from October 29th, 2021, they discuss how the Captain of the Demeter wrote his log before the modernization of the Cyrillic alphabet and how they had to find a linguist to rewrite their Russian translation.

Seriously, even if you can't afford to buy this, there's a lot of fun to be had in poking around the project updates and looking at the prototype images they've shared.

That's all from me! It's time to see some of the adaptations for myself, starting with Dracula (1931).

[dioreluhil]

hello just wanted to say that i adore your fic admirable :]

it inspired me to write a second person pov fic on the seduction of ossë (we get so little knowledge of how that happened and i wanted to explore it) and i just wanted to say that i think it's really cool and well-written.

the part about chlorine gas always makes me laugh because sauron is like. oooh no poor me im so sad everyone hates me because they don't like my invention. meanwhile his invention is a literal war crime. A+ unreliable narrator.

hey!! thanks for dropping by to say hi :)

i'm glad you liked the second person pov - tbh it's my favourite point of view and soooo underused in fic. it just gives off Vibes, you know?

man's just over here being like "let me murder people in horrific ways" and getting mad when people say no LMAO. on a more serious note, he spends so much time in his own head that sometimes he doesn't realize that other people don't think like him! and what people think of him and what he thinks they think of him can just. Not Line Up.

[josephine-apfelsine]

Psyche

[thishazeleyeddemon]

Us: Hah, J.R.R. Tolkien uses too many different names for his characters.

Also us: Have two personalities, one who's named Psyche and the other who's named Maro, and another name for the sum of us that is Loren.