#tma 169

[susie-dreemurr]

It’s so conflicting watching this version of John and Martin in season 5, that are slowly running out of the morality that characterized them throughout all the seasons, and it hurts to watch them lose their way. Hurts to see them change so much.

…On the other hand, lmao murder boyfriends

[kat-and-their-cats]

Favourite TMA Episode 161-170

MAG 161: Dwelling

MAG 162: A Cosy Cabin

MAG 163: In the Trenches

MAG 164: The Sick Village

MAG 165: Revolutions

MAG 166: The Worms

MAG 167: Curiosity

MAG 168: Roots

MAG 169: Fire Escape

MAG 170: Recollection

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Voting ended onApr 25, 2024

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[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 169 - Fire Escape

doodle 169/200; days left - 14/110 4/128

bye bye jude :]

!! also!! look at that texture >:00 why did noone tell me that Krita is such a great program T0T *cut to @roxiusagi whos been talking abt krita for the past year and a half* my poor medibang paint is so laggy after all of these doodles so it's a nice change. now to just....learn how to use it..... : )

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

this might have been funnier in my head

for reference:

[smallmediumproblems]

What's especially funny is that Jude legitimately has no idea who Martin is, and definitely doesn’t care. Imagine seeing the Archivist, the most powerful avatar of the most powerful fear - who, reminder, is just some nerd you bullied like over a year ago, and have not given one iota of thought to since - waltz into your living room, and there's just? This Guy?? With him? This Absolutely Normal Guy squeaking almost-swears at you. He doesn't seem super stoked to be there like at all, is he also there to try and kill you? Who is he? Why is he there??

[cyclesprefectpress]

[image ID: 10 photos of a letterpress printed broadside and the handset   formes used to print it. The broadside is an excerpt from The Magnus   Archives, episode 169, Fire Escape. Individual photo IDs under the cut. End ID.]

hmm tough to describe how i feel about this one! i like it, i think it turned out well, but i don’t feel like i had as much control over it as usual. it may be obvious because of my, everything, but i have a Thing about control.

definitely enjoying the long s but i still do not know why, which unnerves me. the variable inking does what i want with color and i did my best, but it’s still not up to my usual standard for clean printing. i always feel a little weird about editing someone else’s text as much as i have to, and this one felt pretty resistant to cutting it apart and working with it out of context. idk!! i do like it. i have reservations i can’t put my finger on that probably have more to do with process than the final object.

Caslon 471, 10 pt. and a sneaky little bit of 12 pt. I would not recommend mixing sizes so close together in pretty much any other circumstance but! I was looking for little weirdnesses, and all i had to do to get it was break all the 12 pt. words a teeny little half point into the leading for a matching baseline to the 10 hahaaa. LOVE Caslon deeply though and haven’t had cause to use it recently so this was very nice typesetting to do all around.

more smirke’s 14 broadsides

the Buried : the Corruption : the Dark : the Desolation : the End : the Flesh : the Hunt : the Lonely : the Slaughter : the Spiral : the Stranger : the Vast : the Web : the Extinction

wip 1 : wip 2 : wip 3 : wip 4 : wip 5

image ids: photos 1-5 show the basic shape of the broadside. It’s printed on a long strip of medium-grey paper, about 14.5 inches long and 4 tall, with a rough deckle at the top edge. The paper folds closed on itself with two unevenly sized wings, like an asymmetrical triptych. The first panel of the open broadside is the shortest, the center the longest. The excerpt starts with “Home— not house, not dwelling, not residence or address,” and ends with “…chaining you to the front of a truck whose motion you do not control. Do you smell smoke?”

the broadside is handset in Caslon and printed in black ink, except that starting at the very right edge of the second panel and continuing onto the third, the type becomes patchily inked in lighter grey, approaching the same shade of the paper and becoming harder to read. Some select words, like “such are the dangers of a rotten home,” and “squirming,” are set in a slightly larger size than the rest.

photos 6-9 are close-ups of the broadside and the type formes used to print it. the broadside shows the impression of the relief type in the paper, the changing size of particular words, the old-style long s in use, the patchy grey color on type, etc. The formes of type are assembled letter by letter, piece by piece including spaces, and locked up with gentle pressure so the whole block of type can be picked up without any pieces falling out.

photo 10 shows how in the forme, each word set in the slightly larger 12 pt. size has to be adjusted by a matter of 1/2 pt. for its baseline to align with the rest of the 10 pt. type, breaking into the standard leading between each line of type. These pieces made for adjustments as small as 1 or 1/2 pt are copper or brass rather than lead.

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[phantom-pizza]

[solely-ashes]

The parallels just keep coming