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Preorders are still open for @normal-horoscopes’ gold and silver decks (and books, pins, postcards and stickers)! Art is by me and @charminglyantiquated. Check out the link below, and if you have any questions please contact the @publishinggoblin

https://normal-tarot-2.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

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Strange and Yet Familiar

Elsewhere University by Sam - Charmingly Antiquated. North of Reality by Uel Aramchek; Jenna Barton - Dappermouth art; The How How Much Much and I by Cosmo Sheldrake.

There might be an eldritch horror in the lake, so try out for the sailing team at your own risk. There are steam tunnels under the observatory covered in the graffiti of lost civilizations. It’s okay to accept the offer of a study guide from the person who sits next to you in Intro to Econometrics, but under no circumstances meet them for a cram session at the library past midnight. 

Elsewhere University is a comic series (part one, part two) by Sam, also known as @charminglyantiquated​. Her art style—almost angular and sharp in places with amazing textural patterns—lends itself so well to the story of this school where you’d better have a safename and be wary of gifts from strangers. It’s inspired a blog with an entire community’s worth of short story submissions, more art of the students and residents of EU, and requests for fortunes. 

It’s weird and it’s wonderful, it’s strange and yet familiar. It’s the superstitions of your college gone sidewise—not quite “if you step on the university seal you’ll fail your next midterm” but “if you walk though this fairy ring you’ll fail your next midterm and owe a debt to the Seelie Queen.”

Charmingly Antiquated has published other comics about seafaring and wishes and many other things, in her Cornerwitches series. 

North of Reality is a micro-fiction series by Uel Aramchek detailing strange and beautiful worlds. If you loved how the ordinary and magical interact at Elsewhere University, you might like reading about what happens when you take a wrong turn at Albuquerque or go on a date with an antichimera. I particularly like the Deep Kitchen posts—menus featuring jellied piano keys with raspberry jam and $9.99 hummingbird skewers with peach slices and local petroleum glaze. North of Reality isn’t being updated anymore, but Uel is still tweeting microfiction @ThePatanoiac. 

I absolutely adore Jenna Barton’s art. Also known as @dappermouth, her work has a lovely, almost surrealist quality, animals and liminal spaces like something from a dream, and each piece is accompanied by a sentence of gorgeous prose. My favorite is Concrete Dark—I loved it from the second I saw it, I felt like I recognized it the first time I saw it, I swear I think I’ve had a nightmare about wandering concrete halls that looked just like those. 

If I, walking near the edge of the forest at Elsewhere University, heard the song “Come Along” by Cosmo Sheldrake coming from deep among the trees, the Fair Folk would have no trouble kidnapping me because I would absolutely follow that music straight to the Summer Court. Cosmo Sheldrake’s album The How How Much Much and I is like nothing else I’ve ever heard—beautiful and delicate and feral and covered in moss.

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Interview With Charmingly Antiquated

Interview With Charmingly Antiquated

One of the many things I love about the intarwebz is the plethora of amazing webcomics I encounter. Having awesome art and stories in an always-available, digital format is a good and right thing. In my travels in Tumblr Land, I stumbled upon the one-of-a-kind artwork, humor, and edgy sweetness of Charmingly Antiquated. Sam, the mastermind behind this delightful Tumblr, is the creator of a…

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The #Influence of illustration ~>

“A Little Love Story About Mermaids And Tattoos”

Via Charmingly Antiquated