Elsewhere On A Starless Sea

I enjoy making things but never do because of the mortifying possibility of them being seen. This is my attempt to deal with it.

[thestarlesselsewhere]

I pray the tomb is shut forever, I pray the rock is never rolled away…

Or the alternative title, “One flesh, one end, bitch!”

It is finally done! The ninth house prayer from Gideon the Ninth as an early 16th century manuscript, because it just made sense in my brain.

[girlfleeshouse]

The first mistake the girl makes is to hold her tongue. The second is to fall in love.

[thestarlesselsewhere]

I interrupt your irregularly scheduled Locked Tomb programming to bring you this brief interlude…

‘The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams as the Lindisfarne Gospels.

This was the first manuscript recreation I ever did and I had a lot of fun adding in all the little palaeographic details!

[suffusionofyellow]

Oh uh, hey I have something adjacent to this. In HS our final AP Art History project was to decorate a piece of furniture in a specific style. Naturally I chose (some era) of illuminated manuscript and the test was that section of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency where there's a horse in the bathroom... In French.

Specifically the part where it's something like:

"Yes it is," said the Professor. "Wait—" he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate— "let it be. It won’t be long."

Richard stared in disbelief. "You say there’s a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?"

Anyway - here's my side table y'all:

[thestarlesselsewhere]

I love that there’s another person out there who completely independently also thought ‘do you know what Douglas Adams work needs? Medieval manuscripts!’ Although this absolutely trumps mine seeing as it’s an actual tangible piece of furniture!

Maybe I should print my one on a towel…

[sigaloenta]

The AU where Ortus gets to do a new edition of that chronicle about Matthias Nonius, incorporating his suggestive emendation for the lacuna.

[sigaloenta]

Ok you Philistines. Ortus can have little a penguin, as a treat.

[rosenkranz-does-things]

more studies! woo

[maritimesnes]

You know what fuck this *puts on my seal skin and fucks off back to the ocean*

[aliengh0st]

My Gideon the Ninth print from @thestarlesselsewhere arrived and I’m absolutely obsessed 😍💀❤️

[addamii]

Sickly Sweet and Deathly Decay

[luminities]

Leonora Carrington headers

[aqua-regia009]

The Six Swans by P.J Lynch (Irish, b.1962) Illustration from “The Candlewick Book of Fairy Tales”, 1993.

https://www.instagram.com/pjlynchgallery/

[itscolossal]

Meander the Halls of Europe’s Grandest Homes in Gretchen Scherer’s Paradisiacal Paintings

[hatepotion]

you're a king and i'm a lionheart

[mostlyghostie]

I've finally finished this one! An untidy, yet cosy fantasy/sci-fi bookshop, with a stack of old paperbacks on the counter.

Prints available here

[enchantedbook]

Owl Man by James Todd

[enchantedbook]

By Italian Artist : Titina Rota (1889 - 1978)

[flowerytale]

The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

[clawmarks]

Playing card - De La Rue - 19th c. - via The British Museum