Hello to my beautiful Agharta's title page!

She's the younger sibling of Constantine and is prepped to be filled with spooky content, hence all of the cutouts you see. I have a lot of backfilling to do with her, because I've snipped the esoteric research I've done into index cards, and smaller pocket notebooks as well as typed essays on my computer. Can't wait to fill her up!

I've been so busy of late I've not had time to commonplace or even write on a lot of my index cards, but the weekend is nearly here so I should be able to allot some time for both.

Anyhow, hello Aga, my creepy little cryptid- may you help me grow, learn, and understand from here to the beyond.

Hello again, decided to take a little time to add more tasty information to Constantine as the weather, silence and mood finally struck me!

I really enjoyed the gothic horror perspective I found, I still have a few things I'd like to digest on the general idea of it, but for now this is my complete spread. Featuring Constantine, the star, Maximus on the side, and Algernon in the corner keeping me company while I tune into some fun topics.

Truly happy I found the right layout and pen for my hobonichi (and all of my books, actually) because the words just flow like water with the right tools at your disposal.

Well met, stranger!

Copying some cards into Constantine, with Algernon keeping me company. Some of it is a partial continuation of a fascinating article on how perfume is made, and has been made throughout history- I decided to put in an answer I was given by @literatureinfurs after I had asked her for a few recommendations regarding scent and aroma. Her answer was so in depth and carefully written, I'm grateful to have new things to research and experiment with in regards to personal scent! As it is very much magic, I'll have to cross reference at least snippets into Agharta later.

More cards being filled, more being copied and archived, Constantine I think already has material to be at least halfway filled- now I just need the time to actually fill him up. Perhaps I'll feature Agharta on another post- but as I'm fixated on my cards for now that may be a while.

No Algernon today.

However! A snippet of Constantine, my a5 plain hobo commonplace book. Due to my obsession with index cards, I've not brought over all of the tidbits to weave into him but they're coming slowly. As my larger books are for archival purposes, I want them to be at least a little more neat than my average chicken scratch (´∀｀) and what is currently in him is a mix of older books I tried to start but had a lot of issues getting the format that I wanted? I also had issues with the books themselves being printed incorrectly, which drove me insane not being able to get a single straight line no matter how hard I tried- and now I'll never use dot grid again. Graph or regular lines for me.

Again, thank you @petite-gloom! The marginated aspect is genius, as some of my previous entries only had tiny margines for sourcing and the coded dots. Or maybe a single tiny thought. Now I can place smaller entries (or in depth thoughts) while making the page come together more nicely. It reminds me of composition books I used in middle and high school, to use it in regular journaling is brilliant. It isn't my intention to copy anyone else, but I won't deny the inspiration/structure I've taken from Megan! She's a very creative soul and I'm happy to have found her work as it is both comforting and interesting. I hope as time goes on my own creativity will shine through the inspiration I've taken.

That said, Constantine is my more plain book (exo), since the subjects I insert into him are more "huh, I'm happy to know this" kind of topics, whereas Agharta is much more..."spooky" in subject matter (eso), so the decorating is more "me" in that it's themed like a creative journal that just so happens to be filled with archival information. I do also have creative journals but as they are deeply personal, I may not share much of them here. I am very particular about the books having themes and subjects that do not often overlap, the only exceptions being Constantine and Agharta (as sometimes you can have an interesting surface level tidbit that has much deeper interconnectedness that should be researched).

I'm still sticking to my index cards as they're so simple to get the information onto and put away quickly, but when I have time to be slow and methodical- I work in my books themselves and try to present them in a way that future me will look back on and think, "Nice."

Still working out the kinks in photo editing, these looked a lot nicer on my phone and a bit washed out on the computer but I'm sure I'll get better over time. Thank you for reading, whoever you are- and may you have a blessed day. (I tried updating the photos, I hope they look less washed out now)