#RustyQuill

[rqgender]

Today’s gender is a slightly awkward ex-antiques appraiser who moves a little too silently and stabs a little too hard for anyone to believe that's her whole past.

[ssafloofyfoxx]

the deep will care for his bones

[vivacious-vexation]

DAVID7 of Stellar Firma. I both love and hate that he is canonically gooey. He’s so silly and exasperated, and honestly I just hope he gets to ever meet Bathin.

credits to: @mellon-soup for the pose, Rusty Quill (but not any of the ones with tumblr accounts that I’m aware of) for the character, and @ colehairlesscat on insta for the procreate brushes used, which are also available on csp.

[cryptidcassienne]

'Jon. I don't know if you can hear me, but if you can... then I don't forgive you. But thank you for this.'

Timothy Stoker, The Magnus Archives - MAG 119 'Stranger and Stranger'

Character: Timothy Stoker (The Magnus Archives)

Photographer: @shootswithsteve on Instagram

Location: MCM London ComicCon May 2024

The Magnus Archives and all characters within belong to @jonnywaistcoat @alexandernewall and RustyQuill in general.

[lollyloopsart]

"you'll get used to it here, in the world that we have made."

[saint-calvin-stw]

Magnus Archives character design

(bonus spoilers for the whole podcast under the cut)

[faultyvessel]

How is this man real

[gilibird]

they done turned jon and martin into computers

[kazoohu]

I've made an entire doc about my tma x high school x Minecraft server au and I might actually fully make it a fanfic

[bluddyfingertips]

"short" haitus ;-; (its fine they need holidays too XD)

me for the next month waiting for new episodes of the horrors:

[rqgender]

Today's gender is inside your house… Hiding…

[exploresmallworlds]

Book review 2024 pt

I‘m working on writing and every piece of writing advice really boils down to

JUST READ MORE

And while I’ve always had ongoing goal to read three books a month, over the last three months I’ve been reading outside of my comfort zone and many more books with my exit from social media. So I’d love to chat a little bit about them.

There are those that remind me that there is capacity for creating wonderful characters and descriptions that hook you. And there are books that are a bit of a slog to get through but its good to see where you could be as a writer, and the bad ones to be a stick in the arm to keep you motivated and writing.

Magnus archives - not a book per se but a bunch of audio stories, that explore the mundane horror that appears just out of view of people’s peripheral view. This is me running through the back catalogue and having a fun time with it.

I like Rusty Quill’s production and am making my way through some of their other production like Old Gods of Appalachia and The Program.

Relisten? Yes. Its such good quality that the spookiness is something I would like to explore as a writer

Kafka on the Shore - I wanted to like this and the description were so dreamy and literary that it was put into stark contrast the way that women are only designed to be part of the strictly heterosexual male gaze, which made me really feel icky and reminded me of my first encounter with Murakami.

Reread? Yes but only in passages.

This inspires me to engage with more Female Japanese writers because there might be something new to the table.

Novelist as a Vocation - made me think about being a writer and the use of holding out to write things down until I am ready to set them into the story because there is a power unleashed in out creati*vity.

That’s more or less a really important thing and it was part of the reason that I ended up finishing Kafka on the Shore when I got discouraged about the way the dreamy nature of the book got in the way of plotting and characterisation.

Reread? Yes but for more reviewing thoughts about writing,

When McKinsey Came to Town - reads like a novel, describes the way that consultancy groups are pursuit of profit and helping dubious people to escape regulation and taxation and their strangehold over sometimes the market competition. E.g. Tobacco, Oil and Gas interests etc. Props up a bunch of different unscrupulous regimes across the world. Very disturbing books, once I see their fingers can’t unsee it

Reread? Probably no, not because it isn’t good but it doesn’t need to be reviewed.

DNF Asimov Foundation.

There is a reason that tech billionares love this book because there are no real characters, cut out is a generous term. The setting is more interesting until you realise the author thought that appearance of politics was shameful and therefore needed to be excised in favour of scientific determinism. This sucked to much to finish and I have no interest in reading stuff that was truly this dismal in its descriptions

[martyniiii]

solid Nico impression

[houndstar]

STELLAR FIRMA

started calling my executive dysfunction issues my board of dysfunctional executives and treating it like a room of frail old white men and it hasn't fixed everything but it sure is fucking funny

[jonarchive]

The Magnus Protocol is funnier when you're a civil servant like yeah let me clock out of my work and tune in to Civil Service Simulator (Horror Edition)

[venleaf]

OK hear me out, hear me out (especially rustyquill)

Imagine all the transcripts of the magnus archive in a book

All in one

Like do not get me wrong, I adore listening to the everything happening and escalating but my every being craves to read the words and annotate the whole thing, add sticky notes and make it a whole scheming place