Jon's Moving Castle by @iceeckos12

Martin Blackwood may not have a perfect life, but he does have a good one. That is, until a series of magical encounters leave him with an unfortunate curse. Out of other options, he goes to the wizard who lives in the moving castle for aid.

Life never goes how he intends it to, though.

title/chapter headings/headers/page numbers: Old Cupboard body text: EB Garamond

Ohhhh I had a lot of fun binding this one! this was the fic requested by Jay, @blueskiesbooks, for the renegade bindery bound fic exchange, and I had a lot of fun binding it as a gift both them and the author. Jay's books have been incredibly inspiring to see, as they always have such great designs and it's so interesting seeing the though put into their books. Also: I haven't bound nearly enough TMA fic and I think I need to rectify that.

this is one of my favorite wips currently and also one of the fandom trumps hate fics i've been working on! the fic takes place in a low fantasy world where each city/settlement has a god/gods that serve and help the community, and jon is a professor of theology at oxford who studies the gods. when his grandmother dies unexpectedly, he decides to take a sabbatical to northern scotland. he meets martin there, who's the god of the village, but jon doesn't realize that he is and martin doesn't know that jon doesn't know that he's a god, and that's where the comedy of errors comes in lol. it's shaping up to be a very fun fic, and i'm excited to write the ending (which is still,,, a ways away lol)

here's a (long-ish) excerpt:

Jon has come to the unfortunate conclusion that he has a neighbor. It would, perhaps, be more fortunate if it were somebody Jon only ever saw from a distance, or maybe somebody he encountered once or twice and exchanged brief pleasantries with before moving on with his day.

Instead, Jon sees the man who pets the cows every. Single. Time he leaves the cabin. If Jon didn’t know any better, he’d think the man specifically structures his day around when Jon plans to visit the village or go for a walk or venture beyond the four walls of the little wooden cottage for longer than a few minutes.

(That would be … it would be absurd, right? Yes, that would be ridiculous. It must be Jon’s terrible, horrible, rotten luck.)

In truth, the man isn’t … that bad. He’s nice, giving Jon a friendly greeting every time they see one another. He still hasn’t introduced himself, which is unfortunate, because ‘the man who pets the cows’ is altogether too long a name to keep calling him in the privacy of Jon’s own thoughts and too embarrassing a name to ever say aloud, especially to the man in question. He asks Jon about his day, whether he’s enjoying the weather and ‘if he has any requests.’ (Lord, and people say Jon’s sense of humor is bad.) In theory, it should be nice.

I’ve been reading @iceeckos12‘s Jon’s Moving Castle and was itching to draw something with it. It took a little longer than I expected (curse you, humans! Curse you, books!) but I’m pretty happy with how it came together :’D 

So I’m absolutely enamoured with Jon’s Moving Castle, an incredible (in progress) fic by @iceeckos12 and the minute I read that Gerry was Calcifer, I went completely feral and had to draw it. I did this partially on a car drive with no wifi so I didn’t check if was completely accurate, but this was what he looks like in my head and I hope you like it! 

Summary:

Martin Blackwood may not have a perfect life, but he does have a good one. That is, until a series of magical encounters leave him with an unfortunate curse. Out of other options, he goes to the wizard who lives in the moving castle for aid.

That’s completely fine so long as the part you’re writing can stand on its own. IE, you don’t need to have read the previous parts for it to make sense.