#mysterium 2023

[shoomlah]

sometimes the spirit compels you to make a 90's vaporwave fever dream tribute to Myst, and you must listen 📕📘

[meowthiroth]

Just wanted to share a batch of costume photos from Mysterium last weekend! I'm super happy that my mangree fursuit was such a hit! Still can't believe I was so comfortable wearing it at Cyan's HQ on Saturday considering the heat, but I guess dry heat really does hit different! if I tried suiting like that at home this time of year I would FRY.

The whole weekend was so much fun!! I'm so happy I got to see all my friends from last Mysterium again, and make a whole bunch of new ones! And getting to meet & chat with Cyan in person was awesome too!!

I hope I'll get to see as many of you again as possible in Montreal next year!! 🩵

[magpies-gold]

Back From Mysterium

I did a very small couple of posts before this, but Saturday at Mysterium blew my expectations out of the water, and so I decided I needed to circle back around and try again as a much bigger post.

First, foremost, and coolest - yes! I got to meet Rand Miller (bonus infamous RAWA just to the left as well)! Even better, for once in my life my social anxiety didn't turn me into a non-verbal lump and I was able to say a grand total of two full sentences and a greeting. If you know me at all, then you know that that's quite the accomplishment. Usually @timmcosplay has to do the talking for me when I inevitably choke on my own tongue, but by a quirk of fate we got separated (he wanted to get our Book of Ti'ana signed and got yoinked into a different line up from me, who wanted photo evidence) and I had no choice but to attempt to be a functional human. My theory is that I've talked to Rand's face so many times during the intro to Riven (I always talk back) that it was just second nature to say hello the second he looked at me. Genuinely, though, he's so kind and so patient and I'm stoked that he made time to meet all of us and then spend a couple hours even after that being a presenter and answering heaps of questions.

Tim may have not been with me directly, but he was still creeping in the sidelines getting photos of me getting photo'd and briefly chatting. ;)

Ultimately, we were split into three groups and everyone ran through the events of the day in a different order.

Tim and I were on Team Ytram (or Team Forg as I insisted on calling it) and had little Rivenese froggos on our badges.

After the meet and greet, we got lunch. It was simplistic fare, but the fact that we got hot dogs and Cool Ranch Doritos out back of the Cyan HQ means that they were very special hot dogs and Cool Ranch Doritos. Legendary!

And then... they actually allowed my wee goblin self and Tim to go through the iconic archway entrance and to scramble around their actual studio. I've seen pictures of the place on the internet before and knew how neat it would be to some degree, but now I know where everything is!

In no particular order....

Iconic signage and that giant honkin' Moiety dagger that Adam Savage apparently worked on?? It is truly large in person!

Costumes from Riven! Including Catherine's dress, which I remember my mom was always cooing over when I was playing the game on my clonky PC in the late 90's, and Gehn's costume, with Tim posing (and having not totally slightly held up the rest of the group by getting detail shots for cosplay purposes, no, no, he wouldn't do that....)

Art! Design sketches and THE MAP.

The infamous elevator wherein you'd better know your D'ni numbers if you want to get anywhere (I would get stuck).

And then... artifacts!

They had THE LEVER from the beginning of Riven. Did it never occur to me that the lever was a real lever? THE LEVER IS A REAL LEVER.

Plus there were goggles and books and Gehn's gun (AKA the only Game Over inducing object in Riven) and more character design sketches with actual costume fabric swatches! That last bit made Tim make high pitched glee noises, as someone who both designs and makes costumes himself.

There were presentations after all of that. Trailers, talks, a non-profit project to digitize over a hundred hours of behind the scenes footage from the making of Uru and Riven and other things, which we got a sneak peek of. They showed off a snippet of the remake of Riven. There was just so much. It was hours and hours and I was practically vi-bra-ting by the time we finally were ushered back to the bus and back to Spokane.

I will never entirely get over the fact that I was able to go see all that with my own two eyeballs. As someone who's been enamoured with the universe surrounding Myst island for the full 30 years of its existence, ever since I was 8 years old, who used to make big calligraphy posters of passages from The Book of Atrus and The Book of Ti'ana and tape them up all over Thorhild Central School whether my fellow students and teachers wanted me to or not, and who was so solidly influenced by the idea of books as literal doors to other worlds that it became a foundation for how I view my own characters and stories (namely that I'm no god, and they do have a life all their own), this is a treasured memory.

[dragondroid]

"[Myst] was never just a game to me. It's always been a real place."

- Rand Miller, on worldbuilding

[t-squaredproductions]

Mysterium 2023 Photo Op with Rand Miller

I got the chance to take a picture with Rand Miller, one of the developers of Myst, last weekend!

Of course, I wore my Watcher's Pub Jacket, but also brought along the Locked Myst Book, and a little character, Little T-Squared, that I hope to get back to in future projects!

He liked everything, but he got a chuckle out of Little T-Squared, dressed as Atrus (along with Riven's prison book) the most!

Wouldn't you know it? I also had a chance to re-meet Richard A. Watson (the developer behind Myst's D'ni Lore and language; I met him in 2006) and show him the Myst book as well! (When I showed someone else, they were eager to show it to him, which is how it ended up in his hands!)

[tv-moments]

A Murder at the End of the World

“Chapter 5: Crypt”

Director: Brit Marling

DoP: Charlotte Bruus Christensen

[kidpix-album-covers]

Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium (2023)

[cosplayamaradolce]

Can someone wake Martin up and tell him that he can stop reading the Xarxes since he already has the Amulet of Kings for some reason?

(Aka the only picture I asked someone in my group to take of my Martin cosplay at Magfest. Tried to go for that bored Jarl look from Skyrim and failed. Whoops.)

[anonymous-ivplay]

Inktober Day 11: Wander

Let me tell you I am SO GODDAMN HAPPY with how this turned out!!! It's not perfect nor does it get all the canon details right, but it's still worth every second of the three hours I put into it. The scene it depicts is from the Selenitic Age in the game Myst, and the young woman is meant to be my own self-insert version of the Stranger. Fundamentally Myst is about taking your time and exploring every inch of the game as you look for puzzles to solve, which makes it the definition of "wander" to a T, and I could not pass up this beautiful image that came to my mind.

[hjbirthdaywishes]

February 25, 2023

Happy 52 Birthday to Sean Astin. 

[blurryumbrellas]

I promise I’m not dead! Writing an album and having art block will do that to you tho- anyway FOLLOW ME ON ART FIGHT ‼️

I’m looking forward to all the attacks and the like! (Hopefully I can keep my promise to myself ‘n actually do more this year 🫠)

[noits-katelynnsavage]

Thank you 2022, and to the lessons it taught me and the people it brought me - And had me leave behind. It’s been one hell of a ride, thank you. 💕 #author #writer #producer #founder #cosplay #roleplay #roleplayer #mysterium #makeup #warfare #series #bookstagram #seattle #2023 #2023goals #newyears #newyear #newyearseve https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm5DlH6vfg8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[why-i-love-comics]

Invincible Iron Man #13 - "The Mysterium Marauders" (2023)

written by Gerry Duggan art by Juan Frigeri & Bryan Valenza

[magpies-gold]

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered (AKA taking a ferry to Seattle, staying in the cheapest motel we could find, and then taking a Greyhound to Spokane)… we have arrived at Mysterium!

I am among my very specific nerd kind. :D

My hair doesn’t want to obey gravity in this city…

[talesfromthecrypts]

top 9 characters i loved in 2023

tagged by @hellboys (leo my dear friend leo)

Sent out invitations to the "I love sex and violence convention" and something crazy happened. One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just does not belong (her name is Doric and I love her).

Characters: Lestat de Lioncourt (Vampire Chronicles), Ellie (Evil Dead Rise), Gabriel May (Malignant), Julia Cotton (Hellraiser), Astarion Ancunin (Baldur's Gate), Eva (Fascination), Netvor (Beauty and the Beast 1978), Doric (DND: Honor Among Thieves), Louis de Pointe du Lac (Vampire Chronicles)

tagging @mysteriums, @andstarry, @thesoldiersminute, @scarychristmas

[anthonysperkins]

✨ 9 favorite films that i watched (for the first time) in 2023 ✨

i was tagged by: @acecroft @davidlynch @mysteriums @talesfromthecrypts @normasshearer @rasputinaillyanna thank you!!! 💜🥰

tagging: @albertserra @pierppasolini @wiha-jun @lindadarnell @shesnake @manganiello @damnwormholes @comicbookvillain @henricavyll @tennant @nerd4music @cinemaisgay @mikaeled @rogerdeakinsdp