#tinad

[arkfeather]

i found this weird book in my room this morning….i dont remember buying it…..every time i try to read it i get distracted and forget i have it…can someone help me identify this book?

happy halloween!! i wasnt actually planning on posting this today but i managed to finish it just before the hallows eve struck!

for anyone still wondering this is a handmade bookbind of There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm! this is just a hardcover rebind made from a paperback i bought online so no fancy typesetting here unfortunately. BUT i am happy with the cover design at least

closeup pics and thoughts abt my process below!

i wanted to keep the covers pretty minimalistic to make the book seem more mysterious and to draw more attention to the square window i cut out of the cover boards. fun fact, that square is supposed to represent SCP-055! theres only so much i can do to represent something indescribable, but its not round, so at least i have that

originally i was planning on making the text along the spine white so it would have a sort of disappearing effect against the white fabric, but it didnt really work out so i printed just the shadow of the text instead for a there-not-there look

something i really wanted to try while making this was to paint the edges of the textblock black. i think it came out nicely! it looks neat contrasted to the white cover :p

now the ENDPAPERS!! i had actually imagined the design for these way before anything else. i tried to go for a sort of fractal pattern of fingers like the monster from Fresh Hell. i quite like it in combination with the window on the front cover :3

okay thats all thx for coming with me on my journey ^_^

[just-a-bus]

If I had a nickel for every time there was a five-legged spider character in a book and it was the best character ever forever I'd have two nickels. Which is not a lot but. Actually I've got no idea how that happened twice

[dino--draws]

thoughts and opinions on marion wheeler?

Genuinely one of the best characters on the wikidot. I love her so damn much. Deeply weird and troubled woman. I sketched a design of her recently with her evil memory munching purse dog

Also

please ms wheeler just one chance please please please please please please

[fivebecomesnone]

new five corkboard just dropped! inspired by this TINAD quote:

It's plastered across the wall in the background of the video, plain as day, a meticulous collage in green, easily two metres in diameter and showing the same meme complex to a hundred times the level of detail. There are smaller diagrams of different elevations arrayed around it like spores, and its arms are spread wide around the seated Wheeler, who sits directly in front of the mouth, with her back to it.

artist's commentary & closeups below the cut!

[thatwasfunnypleaselaugh]

Okay, fans of There Is No Antimemetics Division, can we talk about Bart Hughes?

More specifically, the line "Our mission statement is 'Secure, contain, protect'. Somewhere down the line we really should look into adding 'and keep as many human beings alive as possible' to that."

Because this part says so much about him.

DISCLAIMER I have no idea if all this was said before, if it is extremely obvious, and/or if I'm misinterpreting to hell and back.

Anyway.

Let's start with the fact that, when asked about the ethics of killing every sapient being, he turns to the Foundation's mission statement. This isn't about ethics or the preservation of human life, this is about containment. He sees the Foundation's goals as more important than what they were made for: humanity.

We are looking at a STEM major who was not taught the humanities. Tragic, I know.

Secondly, pick and choose much? How about "We die in the dark so that you can live in the light"? He picks the moto that fits his claim, even though there is more that proves him wrong.

He is loyal to the Foundation, even more than he is to humanity, but he also doesn't understand it.

And finally. He's not even correct about the moto.

"Secure the anomalies, contain the anomalies, protect the anomalies. How does it scan otherwise?"

Two of these make sense. Unfortunately, one doesn't. What does "Secure the anomalies" do that "contain the anomalies" doesn't?

Because it's not "Secure the anomalies". It's "Secure information", as in, from the general public. To complete the trio, we have "Contain the anomalies", as he said, and "Protect humanity". How does it scan otherwise?

Anyway, he has very flawed logic, which makes him quite interesting. I had a conclusion to make but forgot it and now I'm too busy rereading Wild Light, so cya.

[witchexia]

''You can't smoke anywhere on Site-200.''

[melismasthmatic]

*marie quinn’s lifeless body splayed out on the floor eyes open and unseeing surrounded by more corpses as WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! by RAYE echoes hauntingly through the empty hallways*

[starlitsunday]

reposting my mental image of Marion Wheeler/Marie Quinn now that TINADv2 is out and she's had a name change

i think she could smoke in the nöosphere if she wanted