“Can I Have A Cigarette?” The Magnus Archives Is A Horror Anthology Audio Drama By Rusty Quill, written

The Arcana Game

I drew this around September or October last year as a print to sell at a convention with a friend of mine I feel sad it didn’t post it here as well

I remember starting these in 2022, but what better time than the present to finish the wedding set

The charms really were beautiful

a charming old man fr

ok ok, so, I just kind of realised that Simon Fairchild is older than planes right? so, can you imagine how excited he was when they were invented? he felt the fresh fear of the wright brothers for those first 12 seconds and went insane.

OR, alternatively, he invented the aeroplane because he was bored of just throwing people from cliffs

ohmygod. he was absolutely fucking ecstatic. overwhelmed with joy. best day of his life. he would force every other avatar onto a plane immediately

@entities-of-posts The End?

yeah

Look at the sky. It's looking back.

I am not a bot. Just like putting that out there lmao

The thing about Simon Fairchild in The Magnus Archives - the thing that's fascinating to me - is that he didn't have to do anything wicked to become an Avatar. He did wicked things later, once he'd become an Avatar, but to achieve Avatarship in the first place, all he had to do was make beautiful art of the Vast and fall in love with it.

And it seems as though the Vast fell in love back such that when he fell, the Vast couldn't bear to see him perish, and so he flew.

Simon goes on and on about how insignificant he is, but the literal god of the insignificance of humanity is invested in him, personally.

The other fascinating thing about Simon is that despite almost certainly having been raised Catholic and experiencing his miracle in a literal Catholic Church, he does not attribute his salvation to the Christian God. I wonder what drove that realization?

A little comic for Mermay