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The Palimpsest: Labors of November zine is available and free to download now!

Explore the labors, harvests, and celebrations of Tassing through our digital fanzine full of art and writing by Pentiment fans. Download on >> itch.io here << ___ A massive thank you to Obsidian Entertainment's Pentiment team for creating a game that continues to inspire us <3 ___

necro elysium (yuck!!) by @mercyisms

A confession: I LOVE fics that use the Disco Elysium format, and The Locked Tomb is just the perfect fit for this type of AUs (and going over the top with book design). And this one is so so so good!

🫀 I knew I wanted to mimic the layout of the text in DE basically as soon as I finished reading and saw the gorgeous illustration by @smapis.

🫀 The cover is inspired by the description of the card, but instead of trying to recreate it exactly (and messing with glitter) I went for the same theme and the kind of DIY arts and crafts style project vibe. Hence my first buttonhole stitch binding, with the heart painted with chromatographic ink (the color is called Unicorn’s Tears) and inked it over in hot pink with a glass dip pen. I also painted the folds of the pages and filled in some of the frames (where the narrator is YOU).

🫀 The rest of the portraits are cropped out of the aforementioned gorgeous illustration, except for Jod’s, which is a photo of a black hole (presented without comment).

🫀 I always want to play with textures for TLT fics, so this time the cover is black felt over a pink gift bag with nice leather-textured pink endpapers, and the textblock paper is a gorgeous 125gsm half-cotton that bravely took everything I threw at it.

I'm posting all of my 2024 Art Fight Attacks! Post 1/4

OC Credits:

Eqiz -- Lososik (AF) | slmo1ku (Twitter)

Liel -- @kristintree | KristinTree (AF)

Europa -- @smapis | eterna (AF)

Sandy Dunes -- chum6y (AF/Twitter)

Roy -- TheDandyRay (AF/Twitter)