#Jay and tma

[voids-ideas]

I dreamed I was a fucking archivist asking people questions because I was hungry

[iseeyoujon]

Being in a household where multiple people listen to TMA means occasionally hearing muffled Jon screams from somebody's headphones. This is a normal part of my life.

[pelinthehay]

i am not immune to mean lesbian gwendolyn bouchard (+ saw people joking about how she’s gonna brutal pipe murder lena and honestly she deserves to have her moment!)

[thewhoreinthian]

“It is remarkably easy to buy an axe in Central London”

Sketch of the incredibly paranoid and adorable Jonathan Sims lol

[st4r-t3ars]

The “How to kill your boss” bookclub

[gbirrd]

6/9 - Jason Todd tarot card designs for Complete Candor by @vexfulfolly as part of the @batfam-big-bang

Read the fic here!

Other cards:

1-Babs 2-Cass 3-Bruce 4-Tim 5-Damian 6-Jason 7-Duke 8-Steph 9-Dick

Image IDs

Image 1:

A design of "The Devil" tarot card. It has the texture of recycled paper and reads "THE DEVIL". A symbol of a gravestone is visible behind the numeral "XV".

A young Jason Todd in his Robin uniform tugs at a thick chain around his neck that comes down from the top of the frame. Matching shackles are around his wrists and he is buried up to his waist in dirt. His head is tilted up towards the chain. There is blood on his hands, arms, chest, and dripping down the right side of his face as well as from his nose.

Image 2:

A design of "The Devil" tarot card. It has the texture of recycled paper and reads "THE DEVIL" upside-down. A symbol of a flame is visible behind the numeral "XV".

Jason Todd faces forward, filling most of the frame. He is in his Red Hood uniform and has narrowed pupil-less white eyes. He is holding the end of a thick chain in his right fist. Flames fill the background and bathe him in an orange light. The entire card is upside-down.

[citruslllad]

friends who beat the shit out of cops together

[v1ct0r1an]

Marble Hornets Tma au where all the horrors are real and there are still no happy endings. YAY.

Jay becomes an eye avatar, always watching, always recording. He dies not fully understanding any of the things he observes. He starts off normal enough, until he gets the tapes from Alex and starts going through them. Exposure to the Operator is what spreads its influence and it's eyeless stare never leaves after. His constant drive to discover more, to poke his nose in places it doesn't belong, is what inevitably turns him into an avatar.

Tim's the one that brings the Operator to the group. He's tormented by both the spiral and the eye, the Operator lies between the two entities. He has a brief stint with the Stranger when he's working with Brian to try and kill Alex but he's able to reject it the same way Daisy tries to reject the hunt in the podcast. He's deeply marked by several of the fears but he's especially marked by the Eye.

Brian succumbs to the Lonely. He's no longer the man he used to be after joining Alex's student film production with Tim. His main goal is still to kill Alex, who's going around and killing all his friends. He still cares for them, even if the feeling is dull. The main thing that drives him is his anger towards Alex.

Alex becomes something of the Hunt. He believes wholeheartedly that he's doing good when he hunts down and kills his friends. He fully believes he's helping stop the spread of the knowledge of these monsters. He fully believes that everything will be better for everyone if all of the people becoming avatars die, including himself. He especially wants to kill Tim, knowing he was the one that brought this world of fears to them.

[bluejayblueskies]

Breakaway | Glacy

(ID in alt text.)

I had a blast participating once again in @pilesofnonsense's Rusty Quill Big Bang event as a bookbinder/artist! This year, I collaborated with Glacy on AO3 and bound their TMA fic Breakaway. It's an ice hockey AU with underlying spooks and horrors, and I had a lot of fun reading it and working with it! Definitely go check out their fic!!

An additional shout-out to @shadow0haven who designed my new bindery logo! You can see it on the back of the title page in the fifth picture, and I love how it looks in my books <3

More information about the bind and my process can be found beneath the cut:

For this bind, I decided to go hard on the hockey theme. The team mascot is a revenant, so I went with a title page and cover design styled after a hockey jersey. The cover is made entirely of bookcloth, with the different colors and details cut out of different colors of bookcloth that are then pieced together like a puzzle. I was pleasantly surprised with how well it turned out! It took a little bit of fiddling to figure out the correct cut settings on my Silhouette, as well as the level of detail I could achieve, but I love how the whole cover has a cloth texture like a jersey would.

The construction of this book was a bit of a challenge. Because I wanted to put grommets in the edges of the cover and thread a shoelace through them, so the spine looked like a hockey skate, doing a regular coptic stitch bind--where the covers are sewn onto the text block via holes punched in the cover board--would have interfered with the ability to freely manipulate the laces.

I eventually settled on a hybrid coptic-sewn board binding style. There is an additional folio of cardstock sewn onto the ends of the text block that the boards are then glued into, thus directly attaching the boards to the textblock and providing more structural stability. Usually, with sewn boards, a spine piece is then glued around the spine to cover up the exposed sewing; instead, I glued the bookcloth to the cover and then carefully cut slits in the cloth on the spine side and fed it in between the lines of sewing. It worked out incredibly well, creating the illusion of an open-spine coptic-stitch book without actually stitching on the chipboard itself; I wish I'd had the foresigh to take process pictures.

After that, it was relatively simple to punch holes for the grommets, insert them, and then thread the laces through. Next time, I would use a thinner chipboard and punch the holes further from the spine to allow the cover boards to close more flatly, but overall, I'm very happy with how the various design elements came together! The shoelace is removable and/or adjustable if desired as well.

[cardentist]

there's something to be said about the way fandoms treat paranoia in horror protagonists.

if their paranoia leads them to do the Right thing in the right moment then it's all roses. but if they make any mistakes then suddenly that paranoia is being judged as if it were being done in the real world under normal circumstances.

oh you hurt someone's feelings? you were a stalker, you were mean, you were irrational? you should've just been better than that, I would've been better than that.

even if the paranoid person is Right, even if there Are monsters and murderers and things beyond anything the real world could hurt us with, even when the Audience knows it, they're still judged and hated as if being scared and wanting to survive a horror story is wrong.

[a-slashersfinalgirl]

Jon : CEASELESS WATCHER CREASE HIS JAYS

[voids-ideas]

The magnus protocol 23 - A new you

Comments

Is that my baby?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY BABIES DIED OUT OF NOWHERE?! WITHOUT KNOWING EACH OTHER!

I loved this episode too much, it was amazing. And I don't think I know what to do with my life, I need answers more than anything in the world

[iseeyoujon]

My husband is at a thrift store and

I love this man

Edit: I added alt text, and I'm going to add the bonus from my own reblog into the original post:

Update: He bought the second one and wants me to name it. Current top vote is for the full name "Jonathan Sims, not to be confused with Jonathan Sims or Jonathan Sims"

[pelinthehay]

they’re having a diva off

[thewhoreinthian]

Annabelle Cane 🖤🕸️

[inkbagel]

I think the administration in ninjago is a manifestation of the vast. Giant office building with millions of workers who do basically nothing and drive themselves insane working there. Seems pretty vast coded to me.

On top of that, I think Jay lost his memory by being forced to work there and slowly losing himself in the boring corporate office job. I think that’s funnier and angstier than just oops he hit his head and works here now bc he doesn’t remember anything about his previous life.

Imagine him falling there and being forced to work for the administration “bc he trespassed” or something, and he tries to find a way to escape, or at the very least remember his friends, but just slowly loses his mind in the insignificance of his boring office job. That’d be pretty crazy.