#and the pjõl book :)

[citizenabovesuspicion]

hey pjõl fandom (all five of you) this is my very important contribution

[hopelessandcalmless]

[koks-kino]

Yesterday I read a post about a hope in DE world: Harry recieved a message from Shivers that there will never be a club in a church - however, the fact that there was one dicoteque somehow makes Shivers wrong, even if the club is undoubtfully going to flop. So, they said, it's a very hopeful message. I have already said that there's nothing hopeful about this, as an overall philosofy of life or as an interpretation of the game plot. And today I had a realisation about another character of the Elysium universe. Ambrosius.

Ravers soon will accept their failure, but Ambrosius will not. He didn't feed himself an idea that "If I wrote a book, then my teachings was manifested for at least a moment". He cared about the winning, what the irony. He didn't ate his own poison. He was rejected many times, and he worked to make his desirable word a reality - not for a moment, for an actual history. It's no surprise that he became an Innocence and won. So, that feeling of those post' author, I wouldn't call it hope, it is rather humility.

[ontologicalsynaesthesia]

I stumbled upon Robert Kurvitz's list of the intended titles of the rest of the Elysium book series on the old dragon.ee forums in a thread about Püha ja õudne lõhn :')

PJÕL was intended to be a prologue. I don't know if we have any information about the plans for the rest of these, but I'm guessing No Truce With the Furies was reworked into Disco Elysium? Unless he just reused the title and quote.

I can't say I regret that we got DE instead, but man, what Could Have Been...

[tereesz-machejek]

I had other plans for Hot Entropolic Summer that ended up not getting realized (yet), but I still want to celebrate, so here are some pjõl Discord emojis I've made in the past but haven't posted! Happy Sacred and Terrible (10th) Airnniversary!

[crustaceousfaggot]

Is anyone else thinking about Tereesz Machajek this fine evening

[revacholianpizzaagenda]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[yokofukunaga]

fine, im gonna bite the bullet. is there a discord server for sacred and terrible air...

[unkandboazinthecavesofmercury]

khan and jesper

[smellslikegeraniums]

I'm sorry sorry sorry sorry

[hopelessandcalmless]

[mihotose]

i have to think about disco elysium for hours to prepare to continue reading pjõl its like the volta do mar

[the-uncanny-dag]

I have Sacred And Terrible Air on my list of things to read in the nearest future, and so far I'm absolutely sure that knowing the writers of Disco Elysium are Evangelion fans will add so much to the perception of it

[some-pers0n]

did you ever end up reading more of pjõl?

Unfortunately not. I've been meaning to get back to it. ...along with the entire Mistborn series, The Stormlight Archives, Gideon the Ninth, The Yellow King, The Only Good Indians, Crime and Punishment–

[revacholianpizzaagenda]

ALL I HAVE IS THIS HUMBLE CRITIQUE I'VE WRITTEN ABOUT MYSELF. from the guy better known for

? 

That’s so on brand I don’t even know. Begging for his life via academic writings. Of course he did. Ignus please.

[sillywizardman]

HI!!! After finishing Disco Elysium I wanted to read Sacred and Terrible Air, but there were two issues:

1. It’s not officially released in English

2. I don’t like staring at pdfs!

So I did what any sane person would do. That is take three days of my life printing and binding it.

TRANSLATION (“thank you Group Ibex” we all say in unison!):

PROCESS PICS:

I apologize in advance for anyone who has experience in this sort of thing this is so botched.

I have NEVER done anything like this before, I don’t even read books on my own volition, but if the Disco fixation wants me to learn how to sew and bookbind I’ll do that.

Four of the signatures above. There were nine total, eight of them with 8 sheets/32 pages and the last was five sheets I think. Threw the pdf into adobe acrobat and went straight to printing with those settings and the “booklet” option enabled.

Pricked holes through each signature! Used thumbtacks and a piece of foam I scavenged from my room, worked out great. It’s probably also worth mentioning I do not have a bone folder, book press, or any of the other fancy schmancy bookbinding tools. Flattened the pages with a pencil and pressed with D&D books…

SEWING TIME. I have never sewn in my life. My success in this regard can be majorly attributed to Sea Lemon on youtube, particularly this tutorial:

The process from printing to finishing sewing the signatures took ~8 hours. Now we hit our first roadblock, I had no glue for the spine! After going to sleep and waiting what felt like ages (literally 10 hours or so) before I was free to visit a craft store, I tried to find PVA glue because that’s what you’re supposed to use I think?? Yeah. They were out of PVA glue and my impatient ass got mod podge.

‘Tis glued! As you can see I added cardstock to the ends. Joyous day.

Also, you see that sketchbook in the pic? Yeah? You see that lovely cardboard?

It is now the cover. Rest in piss bristol sketchpad backing.

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EDIT: I see a bunch of people want to attempt this so here’s a video on how to make the hardcover: https://youtu.be/Av_rU-yOPd4?si=7T5zgVJGAfPFBxn-

I didn’t use any measurements or advice from it but it’s a good reference for when it comes to assembling the cover from ~3:50 onwards. The boards are same size as your text block pages and spine, I think I made the cover width a bit longer just in case it doesn’t cover the text block though. Do not do this with the spine, I regret it.

And note, this is NOT a tutorial, it is the process of someone who got a bit too silly and decided to bind a book, obviously do your own research lol. Don’t be afraid to try it though, it’s surprisingly simple!

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… So, now that’s done! I swore to myself I wouldn’t start reading SATA/PJÕL until I finished this project completely, meaning I’ll be doing that now yippee :]