#Fraktur

[wanderingmakers]

In the depths of the Ice Palace, beneath the ground, there is a trick you can do. It requires luck, skill, and a healthy fear of the unknown.

You'll find yourself staring at a deep darkness, an endless abyss just beyond a doorframe. But sometimes... the Abyss stares back.

A truly colossal being of ungraspable size. Just beyond the usual darkner, far darker, and much further from reality. And it wants to exist, by whatever means possible.

Fraktur is our shadowboss for WM's Chapter 5, in the snow fortress. They are special among shadowbosses by virtue of being a Goner, a native resident to the Abyss.

The battle will partly take place on top of them. The player will hop across flying bones with the Blue SOUL mode.

Insofar, we don't have a lot prepared for Fraktur (as opposed to the Blossoms or Lillian), but you will still see them as a future battle in Pantheon of the Discarded. Please pay witness to the concept art we have to show.

Some previous names we thought for Fraktur:

Silverdrake

Titandrake

Bonedrake

Gonerdrake

(We were really adamant on the Drake part, or at least until we came up with Fraktur)

This marks the end of what we have to show for Fraktur, and thus the end of our shadowboss showcases. Thank you for reading and accompanying thus far! We hope you will like confronting these characters in our fangame Pantheon of the Discarded.

And... Stay tuned for some big news very shortly...

[smokbeast]

When your failboss boyfriend strains your last patience

Roman belongs to @crazybookcat my beloved beft goober of a fren

[theimperials1]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔩𝔡'𝔰 𝔠𝔯𝔲𝔢𝔩𝔱𝔶 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔡𝔯𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔦𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔣𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔦𝔫 𝔞𝔫 𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔩𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔪𝔞𝔷𝔢.

[banji-effect]

Fraktur design fragment, anonymous

[usnatarchives]

Happy Preservation Month!

Paper conservator Annie Wilker repairs an 18th-century fraktur and demonstrates techniques used to preserve damaged documents.

[ntls-24722]

ok. draw george Washington papyrus fanchild

Fuck you. I actually hate you. I want to crush your skull like a soda can being brought to the sea floor. Because I fucking drew a declarationpaper fanchild and I unironically love him.

His name is Fraktur after the "old english" font, and he is not a human, not a skeleton, but a revenant, the skeletal yet skin-bearing undead creature that Matpat theorized Sans to be in the Sans is Ness video. He's a monster, but he's an unnaturally physical one, to the point that his magic actually can't escape his body so he can only affect himself with his own magic. He only really has gravity manipulation and mostly uses it to be reaaaallly heavy, inspired by the account made by William of Newburgh in Historia Rerum Anglicarum where the revenant of a widow's husband kept visiting her bedchambers at night and crushing her with his body.

He's already unnaturally heavy though so now I'm imagining a recreation of the aforementioned where Fraktur climbs into Washington's bed at night because he had a nightmare, and proceeds to crush all of the president's bones.

Is any of his shit historically accurate? No, his getup is medieval England instead of colonial America. But maybe that kind of works, since Papyrus is an ancient-egyptian styled pseudoarchaic font and Washington is, yknow, English. Maybe that's how Font Genes work.

@truech4ra (a little bird told me you wanted declarationpaper)

[poisonappleprintshop]

‘Death Dawns Not on Hearts Aflame’ screen print by Adrienne Rozzi // Poison Apple Printshop

3rd printing. Limited edition of 50, hand signed and numbered by the artist.

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[victorian-wizard]

I started learning Fraktur and my brain won’t accept it. I keep writing Textura letters in the middle of words.

It’s like 2am now and I’m still doing it I don’t know what’s wrong with me

It’s wonky but that’s probably because I’ve been doing this since like 9:30 yesterday

Plus a little video because I was feeling like the main character

[arthistoryanimalia]

Johann Heinrich Otto (American, Pennsylvania Dutch, c.1733-c.1800) Fraktur of a Parrot, c. 1785 Ink & watercolor, 208 × 165 mm (8 3/16 × 6 1/2 in.) Baltimore Museum of Art 1967.76.3

[lexiklecksi]

There ain’t no fish in this lake. (From my upcoming book I Drowned In The Summer of 85?)

I am intrigued: Why aren’t there fish in the lake? Very mysterious… I hope you like this piece of calligraphy!

[tatulio]

[angel-void]

[bychertryntheatyr]

Macbeth, aber in Fraktur.

Erfter Uufzug, Erfte Gzene 1. Gere: LBann trifft unfer Drei zufammen? In Regen, Donner oder Flammen? 2. Gere: LBann dor Uufruhr rungs zerronnen, Gchlacht verloren und gewonnen! 3. Gere: Roch oor Untergang der Gonnen!

Erfter Uufzug. Dritte Gzene 1. Gere Wo warft du, Gchwefter? 2. Gere Gchweineheerden nvürgt' ich! Macb. Kie fah ich einen Lag fo graus, und fchön. Banq. Jhr folltet LBeiber fenn, doch euer Bart Berbietet mir, dafür euch zu erflären.

[feminineabyss]

[thegoldenshi-shi]

Around 14 hours of work, and I finished the full piece I've been working on ^_^ (sorry for bad pic quality)

I haven't done full-on calligraphy in so long, much less with this amount of water-colored parts, so this was a fun (?) project.

I'm proud of it.

[banji-effect]

A true lovers knot to you my dear I send an emblem of my love without an end

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