#rqbb21

[iiiumihottie]

[ID: Three digital drawings for the TMA fic Teeth on a String. The first drawing has two panels. In the first panel, Gerry examines a sparse bookshelf with a neutral expression and a magazine in his hand. In the second panel, Jon is staring at him while sitting down and leaning on the shoulder of Elias, who is mostly out of frame.  The second drawing has two panels. In the first panel, Jon sits on the floor of a hospital room, playing with a curtain hanging from the window. He is wearing all white hospital clothes. In the second panel, Gerry stands in the doorway of the room, watching him with a frown on his face. 

The third drawing is of Tim and Sasha in a crowded fantasy marketplace. Sasha looks around with an amazed expression, adjusting her glasses. Tim looks around with a wary expression and holds onto Sasha’s arm. In the background are various colorful stalls and fantasy creatures walking through and manning the stalls. In the sky there are hanging lanterns and various ribbons, bells, and chimes.

Gerry is white with pale skin and black hair in a ponytail. Blond roots are starting to show. He has various piercings and is shown in both images wearing all black and dark grey. Jon is South Asian and dark-skinned with black and gray wavy hair, wearing a collared shirt and green sweater in the first picture. Elias is white with pale skin and blond hair, and he wears a grey suit. Sasha is black with dark skin and coily brown hair pushed back with a headband. She wears big circle lens glasses, a white collared shirt, and purple mini skirt. Tim is East Asian and pale, with cropped black hair. He wears a yellow collared shirt with a palm tree pattern, and grey shorts. End ID.]

Excited to share my first pieces for the fic Teeth on a String by @suttttton! It’s pretty heavy, so make sure to read all of the content warnings, but if you’re craving a good amount of whump go check it out if you haven’t already! More art is to come when the rest of the fic is posted :D Many thanks to @pilesofnonsense for hosting this Big Bang!

(other pieces: 1 2)

[queercore-curriculum]

The Silver Gleam of Trees by NotusLethe, illustrated by Stan Stanley/ @snakewife

My contribution to the 2021 Rusty Quill Big Bang! Binding, graphic design, and layout by me. Linocut for the cover designed by Stan Stanley, carved and printed by me. Bound in custom silk dupioni and linen bookcloth, moiré endpapers, and hand-dyed linen thread using a blackstitch binding technique I developed for this project. 

Getting to work with these two unimaginably talented artists has been an absolute privilege. The Silver Gleam of Trees is an epic, utterly brilliant daemon AU that takes the RQG characters to places I could never even imagine. Beautifully written and wildly creative—it’s truly an extraordinary accomplishment, and I can’t recommend it enough! And Stan, I’m such a huge fan of yours, and getting to print your work in one of my bindings is a total dream come true. 

Thanks so much to @pilesofnonsense​ for all your work on this incredible event. It’s been a blast, and I couldn’t be prouder of what we created together. 

More pics below the cut!

My favorite section breaks I’ve ever made!

Perfectly fills out my Rusty Quill ficbinding shelf <3

[annabelle--cane]

the best policy - the magnus archives - 20,094 words

relationships: martin blackwood/jonathan sims; basira hussain & melanie king & alice "daisy" tonner & jonathan sims

tags: truth spells, alternate universe - canon divergence, pining, angst with a happy ending

more tags and full content warnings can be found on ao3

summary:

Not too long after Jon and Basira return from Ny-Ålesund, a Leitner that forces its reader to always tell the truth works its way into the Institute, and it's only a matter of time before our dear Archivist accidentally (well. Sort of.) finds himself cursed by it. Any question asked of him produces a fully truthful answer, and the more he tries to resist, the more honest and personal the confessions become. Can he and the Archives staff fix this while he still has some secrets left to himself? Or will they succumb completely to their oldest and toughest enemy: direct communication.

this was written as part of the 2021 rusty quill big bang, with accompanying art pieces by @teamellow/@koalakat0 and @miskapestek!

link in reblog!

[disclaimer-performatico]

I am really excited to finally be sharing the art I did for @yszarin 's RQBB fic (thank you, @pilesofnonsense ) .

Their fic is amazing and so is she. She has been a delight to work with and her fic is a joy to read (well, and other emotions because it has some really touching scenes.)

You can find it here:

:D

[bobliophage413]

there's a fire in my brain and I'm burning up / oh my, oh my

made this fanart for my lovely partner @northofdelphi and her Archivist!Sasha x Alive!Gerry Keay AU every word i say is kindling !!! pls give it a read she worked very hard on it and it’s very good!!!

[pimvipart]

Once upon a december 💖

My piece for the RQBB21 🌟 I got paired up with the lovely @j-whirl44 and her RQG Anastasia!au, so i did a piece based on the movie poster!

@ceaselessrainfall also made 2 GORGEOUS pieces for this fic here

This was a very lovely piece to work on and i'm really happy with the result 💖 Check out the fic!

[banashee]

Somewhere Else (or: 5 Times Jon and Martin almost meet again + 1 Time they finally do)    

Folks, this is it! My entry for the Rusty Quill Big Bang 2021 is complete and online ♥

This was hosted by @pilesofnonsense​

Also, please show some love and appreciation for this absolutely gorgeous artwork from @captaincravatthecapricious​

They did an outstanding job and I am absolutely in love with the art they drew for this story! ♥

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Look at them! So soft ♥

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After everything ends, Jon and Martin wake up Somewhere Else, and they're alone. After the first initial shock, they begin to lose all memories of their life before and of each other. The only reminder are recurring nightmares, and they get more and more intense and distressing as time goes on. 5 Times, Martin and Jon almost meet again. 1 Time, they finally do...

[bittercape]

My second art for the rqbb this year - illusemywords and Jordy have written an amazing fic featuring Zolf/Wilde and I couldn’t resist playing to the genre. Go check it out, it’s lovely: Together at Sunset

Image description: a watercolour painting in shades of red in the style of a movie poster, with Zolf Smith and Oscar Wilde standing together in the front of the image, facing away from each other. Zolf is facing left, looking down, while Oscar is facing right, and looking up. There are sunbeams shining in from the right side of the image. A large looming figure stands behind them, and on either side of the large figure’s head, the names ‘Zolf Smith’ and ‘Oscar Wilde’ are written. At the bottom of the image, the words ‘in Together at Sunset’ is written, like a movie title.

[wordsandstrangeways]

I was delighted this year to be able to participate in the Rusty Quill Big Bang creating art for @makesometime​ (Ao3) & Jomipay (@halfofmysoulistrees​, Ao3) with my co-artist @holoxam​ (Ao3). The absolutely brilliant fic can be found here: A Safe Place to Land

It’s been so much fun and here's a SFW preview of my work, the rest (which includes NSFW work) can be found (along with Holo’s) here: [Art] A Safe Place to Land

With thanks to @pilesofnonsense​ for making it all happen!

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Image 1: [Acrylic painting of Oscar and Zolf sat opposite each other on a red and white checkered picnic blanket. Oscar sits with one leg up, bracing his hand on the floor to lean in to bite a strawberry held in Zolf's outstretched hand. Zolf braces on Oscar's lower leg, his own legs tucked up underneath him. Oscar is wearing a hot pink shirt with tiny pineapples, a straw boater and cream linen trousers. Zolf wears blue shorts and a black t-shirt, he has extensive tattoos on his arms. In the background is a red brick building with a colonade running along the left hand side. There is grass between the blanket and the building. In the foreground sits a small punnet of strawberries and a plate]

Image 2: [A pencil sketch of Zolf Smith lying on his side asleep. One hand is tucked under his head, the other grips his pillow loosely. His arms are heavily tattoed.]

[artsying-ifer]

[Image ID: A series of three digital illustrations depicting characters from The Magnus Archives. They are bordered by a pale brown colour.

The first is of Sasha and Elias. Sasha is standing in front of Elias holding a tape recorder, and Elias stands behind and to the right of her, facing to the right, with his hands behind his back. They are each looking at the other out of the corner of their eye. Sasha is a woman with dark skin and curly black hair, dressed in a red cardigan and white shirt. The right side of her face is completely obscured in shadow. Elias is a man with light skin, greying hair, and a small moustache, dressed in a dark green suit. Both of them have glowing green eyes that illuminate the rest of their faces and they are surrounded by a green halo against a black background.

The second illustration shows a frosted glass door with a gold handle and with “Sasha James, Head Archivist” written on the glass in gold lettering. Through the door a silhouette of Sasha can be seen, sitting at her desk speaking into a tape recorder. There are also silhouettes of two plants slightly in front of her. A faint green glow is emanating from the door.

The third illustration shows Jon, Tim, and Martin, lit by the orange glow of a fire and with the shadow of Jane Prentiss cast across them. Jon is on the left – he is a man with medium brown skin, shoulder length dark brown hair, and stubble. He is wearing glasses, a shirt and jumper, and black trousers. In the middle is Tim, a man with short spiky dark hair and medium brown skin wearing a polo shirt and jeans. He is holding his right arm behind him, which Jon is holding, and his left arm is down as if he has just thrown an object. On the right and behind the other two is Martin, a man with dark brown skin and curly dark brown hair shaved at the sides. He is wearing glasses, a short-sleeved shirt, and jeans, and is holding a fire extinguisher to his chest. We can see from Jane Prentiss’ silhouette that she has long hair, is wearing a long dress, and that her skin is filled with holes that let light through. The wall behind the characters has a large hole broken into it, with rubble collected at the base of the wall. /end Image ID]

Here’s my piece for the Rusty Quill Big Bang 2021, hosted by @pilesofnonsense ! I was paired up with @storm-does-stuff who wrote a really amazing archivist Sasha AU that you can read here !

I had so much fun trying my hand at making this triptych for it, especially trying out some far more dramatic lighting than I’d normally use! Click to see in full quality!

[makesometime]

Chapters: 12/12 Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Zolf Smith/Oscar Wilde, Azu/Kiko (Rusty Quill Gaming) Characters: Zolf Smith, Oscar Wilde (Rusty Quill Gaming), Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Kiko (Rusty Quill Gaming), Sasha Racket, Albert Einstein (Rusty Quill Gaming), Amelia Earhart (Rusty Quill Gaming), Background & Cameo Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Assassins & Hitmen, Alternate Universe - Professors, (specific tags at ao3) Summary:

Oscar Wilde is a club singer. Zolf Smith is an English professor. But neither of them are precisely who they appear to be.

As Oscar realises he is increasingly in over his head on his current mission, he finds unexpected and at times unwilling support in Zolf, who has put this kind of life well in his past. Along the way, Oscar finds previously unknown fulfilment under Zolf's steady hand. The story follows the pair as they fall for one another and work together to extricate Oscar from the web of lies he finds himself in, with the promise of a new life on the horizon if they can find their way there.

And here we go - @halfofmysoulistrees and I did the Rusty Quill Big Bang run flawlessly by @pilesofnonsense this year and this is our offering - enjoy!!

Our artists for this collaboration were @wordsandstrangeways (ao3) and @holoxam (ao3) who were close friends beforehand but have only become closer as this process went on, thank you both so very very much.

Our beta was the wonderful @eleanor-is-fine (ao3), who was a delight at every turn and we cannot thank enough for catching all of our mistakes.

(creator’s note/warning: this fic is explicit, with explicit art in some chapters - this is warned for)

[steamingcupoftea]

Chapters: 28/28 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sasha James/Tim Stoker, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Georgie Barker/Melanie King Characters: Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives), Sasha James, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood, Georgie Barker, Melanie King, Original Female Character(s), Danny Stoker Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Royalty, Modern Royalty, Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, No Fear Entities (The Magnus Archives), Romance, Genovia (The Princess Diaries), Alternate Universe - Princess Diaries Fusion, Healthy Relationships, Fluff Summary:

It's been years since Tim, the Crown Prince of Genovia, has felt confident enough to go out of the palace on unofficial business, but after days of pouring over meeting agendas and state dinner planning, he knows he needs a break. So his faithful advisor, Jon, suggests a little coffee shop in the city. Somewhere he shouldn't be recognized.

It's just a typical day at Sasha's coffee shop, The Institute - at least until one of her regulars, Jon, comes in on a weekday. She'd never seen Jon bring a friend with him. Maybe it's a little reckless, but she doesn't think much of it when she slips the attractive stranger her number and offers to show him around the city sometime. How was she supposed to know that attractive stranger was the soon-to-be king?

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The second half of my big bang fic is posted!! Chapter 8 has some INCREDIBLE art by @streckenweise-okay and Chapter 26 has FANTASTIC art of my girl Sasha by @many-eyed-seraph !!

Thank you again to the mods of the Big Bang for putting this together @pilesofnonsense !!

[northofdelphi]

Rating: M Chapters: 17/17 Words: 101,056 Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Mild Body Horror, Canon-Typical Worms, Canon-Typical Murder, Mild Violence, Mild Transphobia, Mild Depictions of Emotional Abuse Characters: Sasha James, Gerard Keay, Jonathan "Jon" Sims, Martin Blackwood, Tim Stoker, Elias Bouchard, Michael (The Distortion), Jane Prentiss Relationships: Sasha James/Gerard Keay, Past Tim Stoker/Sasha James, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims Additional Tags: AU - Archivist Sasha James, AU - Gerard Keay Lives, AU - S1 Canon Divergence, Albino Martin Blackwood, Trans Martin Blackwood, Genderqueer Gerard Keay, Nonbinary Jonathan "Jon" Sims Summary: After years in academia, Sasha James has finally gotten the promotion she's been working for. Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute: Finally, she's in charge of something. But when it becomes clear that Institute employees are disappearing under mysterious circumstances, the former Head Archivist included, Sasha is determined to solve the mystery herself, with the help of her assistants, including new hire Gerard Keay. But as the pieces start to come together, revealing a tangled web of fear and dread, Sasha finds that she may very well be the next target. Written for the Rusty Quill Big Bang 2021! Check out the other entries @pilesofnonsense :)

[nyctolovian]

Chapters: 10/10 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Additional Tags: Pre-Canon The Magnus Archives (Podcast) | Research Era, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Light Angst, Acephobia, Internalized Acephobia, Kink Exploration (more specific tags on AO3) Summary: Romance and sex has always been complicated for Jon so it's little surprise to him that he's still incredibly sexually inexperienced in his late twenties. One night, however, he makes the somewhat impulsive decision to lose his virginity in a one-night-stand just to see what all the fuss is about. Except he runs into a coworker, one Martin Blackwood.

Big thanks to @pilesofnonsense for organising RQBB and @morning-softness for beta-reading this fic!! And ofc, much love to @cucumberkale for the lovely lovely art :”

[hesalleyes]

title: The Silver Gleam of Trees fandom: rusty quill gaming pairing: zoscar, plenty of zolf & sasha, wilde & sasha, azu & everyone

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33622930

summary: His Dark Materials AU. After the whole gang encounters blue veins, they go on an adventure to figure out what’s causing it, running into armoured bears, witches, crime bosses, and dragons along the way.

part of the rusty quill big bang 2021, so it includes art by Stanley (snakewife on tumblr) and bookbinding by queercore_curriculum

[yszarin]

Chapters: 8/31 Fandom: The Magnus Archives Rating: Teen & Up Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Tim Stoker, Martin Blackwood & Jonathan Sims & Tim Stoker       Characters: Tim Stoker, Martin Blackwood, Jonathan Sims  Additional  Tags:  Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Urban Fantasy, werewolf!Tim, Youtuber!Jon, Librarian!Martin, Abduction, Torture, Supernatural Dream States, Monsters, Threat, Captivity     Summary: Tim Stoker, unknown & uncredited star of the latest episode of Ghost Hunt UK, has eschewed the inevitable fame of coming forward as a werewolf in favour of continuing to tangle with the eternal puzzle of working out how to tell that guy how he really feels. Unfortunately, that one blurry photo has attracted the wrong kind of attention, and it draws Tim, Martin, and reluctant YouTuber Jon deep into danger.

Written for the @pilesofnonsense RQ Big Bang 2021, and featuring art from the lovely @disclaimer-performatico!