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IT'S HERE!! In august a few friends of mine and I animated a small red valley trailer! Alan and the redval team were kind enough to send the new redval trailer to us in advance, so that we'd be able to work on it before it aired!

The whole project was a lot of fun, and I'm really happy we managed to finish it despite the relatively short time we'd given ourselves to finish it :)) hope you enjoy!! as usual, if you want to share any thoughts or support the vid on youtube.. always appreciated ;))

My friends and I animated a quick thing in 48h a few weeks ago!! :D it was honestly just for fun, but if you want to check it out on youtube aswell and not just tumblr it’d be cool eheh 🦐🦐🦐

I open the door!

Ask An Exec by @shinyopals takes on all five seasons of The Magnus Archives from the point of view of an innocent definitely-not-Ask-A-Manager career advice blogger, who starts getting some interesting queries from a certain archivist...

The entire story is told through blog posts, featuring Jon's terrible anonymized situations, Abigail's attempts at providing genuine advice while also going "WTF?", and many commenters who are also saying WTF while also encouraging Jon to unionize. Shinyopals is masterful at pulling out the true horror in TMA: poor corporate management. It's hilarious but also heart-twisting as the seasons progress, and somehow, somehow, you start caring about not only Jon's situation from a more personal point of view, but also various OC commenters and their attempts at trying to help Jon without having a clue about what's actually happening.

Because this fic is very heavily based on Ask A Manager, I leaned into a self-help tradpub design.

The interior design is not so tradpub-y, but leans into the sterile graphic design of many advice blogs. :D

As mentioned, the fic is formatted like a series of blog posts, which the author did an amazing job of emulating on AO3 (seriously, check it out! A true feat in wrangling code!). It was interesting seeing how much of the comment threads I could preserve while flipping pages, but hopefully it worked out! The fonts, colors, and general design were specifically chosen to mimic the current version of the Ask A Manager blog.

(TMA SPOILER) There's a certain shift change for the epilogue, so I took cues from the author's AO3 coding and changed the design accordingly!

some more doodles i did in between working on my bigger piece :’)

(luigi voice) i like porpol too

You know which scene I am basing this on. Also (kisses all the fanfic writers on the mouth) thank you for your service

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