#American Old West

[misterivy]

[catluniscia]

Jonah Hex

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Jonah Hex a violent bounty hunter with a facial scar...with connections to the Wayne family from my research, I wanted to try drawing scared older skin and stuff...He looked cool and I wanted to draw him. And look I did and made it all rainy and dramatic and just look at the fancy lighting skills I have! Sorry just happy when the lighting hits just right!  Art for sale thradless and Inprint

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[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Sunset Riders (1991) developed and released by Konami as an arcade video game

[yr-martyr]

Ok I’m doing this to get it out of my system-

…the Wild West as things my friends have said-(mostly the fucking Alamo bc I have the displeasure of remembering it):(

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Santa Anna: COME DOWN HERE!!

Bowie: I’M SICK

Santa Anna: NOT YOU!! YOUR FRIEND!

Crockett: I’D RATHER DIE!! SORRY!!

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Billy the Kid: no, so I reach into the fridge, it’s just Gatorade mixed with wasabi.

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Santa Anna, about Davy: he’s like a… freaky woodsman.

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Teddy Roosevelt, to his rough riders: nanananana were completely fucked!

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Bowie: thanks, David Crocodile

Bowie: *crock pot

Bowie: *crockery

Bowie: *crochet

Bowie: *crickets

Bowie: I give up

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Clyde: I’m bored, let’s kill somebody

Bonnie: you’re so romantic <3

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The defenders of the mission:

Joe: I’d better skedaddle-

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Bonnie: want to go somewhere exotic? *gasp* want to go to Ohio?

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Bowie: what even happens in Tennessee?

Crockett: lots of stuff! like… Dolly and… uh… uhhhhhh…

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That one guy who’s name I forget that robbed a bank dressed as Santa Claus: fRee MonEy fReE moNeY frEe moNey!!

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Billy the kid: everywhere I look it’s just BOOM! Nightmare! Just BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare!

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Travis: well I think your hat looks dumb!

Crockett: well I think you look like a hag.

Travis: *offended gasp* YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!

Crockett: hag

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Crockett, drawing the line in the sand: this is the fuck around and find out line, you cross the line, YOU FIND OUT

[historydailyfrancischappellblack]

On This Day in History, the Notorious Hired Killer Tom Horn is Executed for Murdering Willie Nickell, the 14-year-Old Son of a Wyoming Sheep Rancher. November 20, 1903.

Image: Tom Horn braiding a rope in the Laramie County jail office in Cheyenne, 1902. (Public Domain) Several historians have subsequently doubted whether Horn murdered the boy, indicating that the jury condemned him merely because of an intoxicated admission of guilt that Horn purportedly made to a deputy sheriff. Also, the jury did not give sufficient credence to the evidence presented by…

[rabbitcruiser]

American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrived in Santa Fe on November 16, 1822, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

[haleviyah]

Ghost Town

Commission for "UrBoi" on Amino!

[modernsleepingbeauty]

the black cowboys of the american old west are genuinely so fucking cool why don’t we talk ab them more

[cowboycactus]

[velvet4510]

Note: this list references the 1961 version of West Side Story and the 1954 version of A Star Is Born.

[keystonepublishing]

Dirges in The Dark by WixWrites

Before I start, let me just say: Ranchers! Scarian! Hermits and Life Series and Empires characters! Sheriff Jimmy! Sheriff Scar! Criminal Tango! the Wild West! Treebark and Ethubs!

RANCHERS. THE WILD WEST. CREEPING ELDRITCH HORROR.

Whoo, that was a rush.

I'll be honest; I think this book would have come out much sooner if not for my decision to add-in a whole lot of stuff into the text and pages. It got to the point that the original cover would have been a wanted poster at the front and a sheriff's report at the back!

I had to restrain myself, lest this book would never get finished at all. It's already been 59 days since my last post, and doing the original cover would have stretched the days even further. So I had to follow the mantra: Finished, not perfect. Besides, nothing says I can't make another version in the future...

From the moment I finished this fic, I knew it would become a book. But at 143,412 words, Dirges in The Dark by @twodiamondhoes would stretch my ficbinding skills to the limit and would be the second-ever bind that would reach past 250 pages (the first was an MCYT Sleepy Bois fic that predates this blog that I want to redo).

Eventually, the full typeset took up 520 pages! And as such, I finally decided to use extra support for the entire textblock. From an old pair of pajamas, I backed strips of fabric with glue and paper before cutting it into tapes, forming a crucial support for the various weaves along the spine. I then covered the entire spine in brown wrapping paper for even more strength.

For the title and headings, I scoured for and found several typefaces, dingbats, and vector graphics which really evoked the fic's Western and Gothic vibes. I also took some inspiration from fellow ficbinders in the Renegade Publishing group for the style of layout and formatting throughout the book, such as using faded images in the background of these pre-story pages.

I wanted the reader to be immersed in the Wild West from the get-go, so having such images from the start — before the story even begins — felt very appropriate. I tried to make them thematic to the information presented, like a singing cowboy for the music playlist pages, but I think I made the image too faint to be seen!

As for the chapter openers, I experimented with some layouts before finalizing on what you see: photos taking up one entire page on the left with the chapter titles and opening paragraphs on the right.

Just like my last bind, I want to make the reader feel immersed in the story and also bring out the mood of that particular chapter. This, however, led me to entire days of scouting and scouring stock photo sites just to find the right pictures for 11 different chapters. 4/10 would not recommend for sanity.

Given that the story uses a number of foreign words, old slang, and specific Wild West-era terms, I added a plethora of footnotes at the bottom of some pages for extra context and meaning.

I also wanted to be playful and make certain story parts, such as characters receiving letters and notes, really look like they're a part of the story. So I cropped old paper textures and fished out old fonts from the past to make them look as if they're actually there, pasted against the paragraphs!

More importantly, there were some specific parts of the fic that felt super important and I wanted to highlight these passages, especially the Deals made by the characters throughout their arcs. Given DiTD has a certain affinity with eldritch darkness, I decided to highlight such paragraphs by backlighting them against a band of pure black. Besides being thematic as hell, I made the bands have curved edges and decorative lines to add a certain western-gothic touch!

It was from this that I begin to think "what if I can color entire pages to convey the mood and setting?"

...Which led to the madness in these pages. I can't reveal too much because of spoilers, but there are certain times when the characters end up in situations where the very light turns to dark. Or they end up in hellish situations. Or the eldritch creatures began to speak.

It took some creative brainstorming to figure out how to show the mood of such scenes in printed pages, but I eventually figured out that I need find the right fonts, change their colors from black to white, and then change their backgrounds from white to dark to highlight them all! The power of formatting!

There's a lot more pages where I went wild with such shades and fonts, but I ain't revealing in public because spoilers!

But undoubtedly, this is the biggest experiment I have made with this bind. There is a certain part where Grian and Pearl spoke in eldritch R'lyehian / Cthuvian, and I want to convey the sheer strangeness of the speech and it's meaning. Something outside the box.

Luckily, I have an inspiration in fellow fanbinder @mythrilthread, who made an amazing fanbind that used vellum overlays to showcase the speaking of alien languages and what they mean in English. AND IT LOOKS SICK AS FUCK. When I finished reading Dirges, I knew I had to emulate this form of language translation, so I printed the eldritch speech, cut it, and pasted it onto the spine to give a similar effect of strangeness, and IT LOOKS SO COOL!!!

And lastly, I just had to include some of the amazing fanart made by readers into the book! All of these are placed by their corresponding text and chapters, and they all look so cool!

So I want to give a special thanks to @azzayofchaos, @leafdoodles, @hybbart, and @foxyola for granting their permission for me to include their incredible works into this bind! The dark shades and page formatting is one thing, but these works truly make this book feel so much more alive!

All in all, this bind was an odyssey in the making. I experimented with page formatting, layout wizardry, and bookmaking methods that I haven't tried before. While I know I could do better, I am beyond happy to see this work finished!

And once again, a thousand thanks to @twodiamondhoes / WixWrites for crafting an amazing story!

[dclanisms]

arizona you beautiful lonesome desert

[descendinight]

西海岸West coast

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

Anthems for a Seventeen Year‐Old Girl

[historydailyfrancischappellblack]

Wild West Wednesday - Laura Bullion: The Thorny Rose of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch Gang

Image: Laura Bullion was one of five women who spent time with Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch outside of Fannie Porter’s brothel. (Public Domain) Laura Bullion was an outlaw in the American Old West. In the 1890s, she was a member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang; her associates were fellow outlaws, including the Sundance Kid, Kid Curry, and “Black Jack” Ketchum. During the 1890s, she was…

[rabbitcruiser]

American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrived in Santa Fe on November 16, 1822, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.