side note! Noriko is deaf, she has a cochlear implant but doesn’t wear it often because she’s always in the water or in a boat, she has just finished signing “courage” to Elina here
partying in the lake with Merlin's exes must be awkward. Freya Merlin's first love who tried to kill Arthur and Arthur ended up killing her, Lancelot with whom Arthur's wife cheated on him and well Arthur. This soup is very interesting
Every Calendar pre-order gets the HEX sticker as well, so I'm posting it along with the introduction to the Universe to preface it. I've decided to put writing HEX as my priority for September/October, with the goal to publish the first chapter on AO3 exactly on Halloween - so here it is! Whatever happens it's gonna be there.
It has been stuck in my head like an earworm, so I can't wait.
Happy Valentine's day with the.... Choir? Damn, is Choir even a thing anymore? Everyone seems to be pursuing their own thing by now..
I think it is safe to take Forgotten Madman as his own character rather than some echo of the past of Ludwig 🤔 Dungeons already work well as catacombs without the timey-wimey stuff, and although there are some now-dead hunters that raise to the ring of the bell, soul of Ludwig is in the Nightmare, and did not die a human! Forgotten Madman also uses A Call Beyond, "secret weapon of the Choir", and Edgar likely had his taken by Micolash so it is still consistent
After getting back into BBC's Merlin recently (read: a couple months ago) I realized I no longer trusted streaming services to still have it available long term and managed to buy a complete DVD box set.
But because the slip case had quite a bit of wear to it (and due to some minor scopophobia) I made it a box that looks like a book!
(More rambling info & video under cut)
Materials:
The base construction is cardboard and paper (used to cover the exposed cut edges and strengthen corners). The box's faux paper edge is a printed texture on cardstock that was then waxed. The interior is black cardstock with silver vinyl. The 'book case' is that same cardboard construction with faux raised bands (made with some scrap foam I had) wrapped in Cialux's night blue bookcloth (hence the minor wrinkles) with Cricut HTV in metallic gold and 'reflective rainbow'.
Design:
Cover: Obviously Pendragon logo had to go front and center, no argument on that one. (Also partially cause Merlin doesn't really have his own symbol to him? The triskelion just doesn't make sense to me because although Emyrs is a symbol for the druids, Merlin himself isn't a druid and I'd imagine would instead choose icons of Camelot and Arthur to represent himself besides.) ANYWAY-
Behind the crest, filligree containing a blade and the sidhe staff in that subtle reflective HTV that blends into the bookcloth exactly how I wanted until it catches the light (something something, hidden magic in the background something something).
(Appologies for the unsteady hands)
Spine: Mortaeus flower! Because it really felt like a turning point for the two (you've known each other... what a week? and you're going against your father to travel to some far off cave to get a flower?? that's some good as dnd-adventuring-party type shit I love it). Minor detail are the top and bottom shapes: pulled from some cool windows we see a lot in season one (I just think there' neat, okay?)
Back Cover: Excalibur with two butterflies cut from the blue-toned area of the rainbow HTV :)
And finally the Inside!: The cup of life! Because it felt just a little empty. I'm still tempted to put something small on the bottom left corner of the inside cover... maybe a crown? not sure yet
And that's everything! Thanks for reading! If anyone wants to make something similar for their own dvd set I'd be happy to share the .svg or .png file of the cut outs, just shoot me a message 👍
Before you go, wanna know the worst part about this project???
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It doesn't even fit on my DVDs shelf :)))) It sticks out by about an inch and a half 😭So we maaay have to be relegated to the 'actual books' bookshelf...