A.C. @ Mothmind Press
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London | TTRPGs at Mothmind Press | library cataloguer | bad bass-player | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💛🤍💜🖤 | 🪷☸️ Currently working on Witching Winds - a metamorphing fantasy TTRPG Carrd: My published TTRPG things:
I keep seeing lots of people talking about violent Odyssey discourse but I've only got people on my feed merely saying "it's good", or "I didn't like it", plus some memes, and sharing the emily wilson review. Anyway I watched this version like a million times as a kid, that's enough for me.
Drew a shitty little doodle while waiting my turn during a ttrpg combat earlier, but halfway through it started to look like a family guy character to me. Couldn't unsee, made me lose it tbh
I love colour matching tests, but I was surprised that the few (~3 if I remember correctly) I didn't get were red adjacent hues. For some reason I though it'd be the blues. Check yours at www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/
Ludicrous to me how close to the ttrpg 'core worlds' I look on here given the calibre of people around - if that were in any way related to being able to sell stuff I could probs quit my day job after I release Witching Winds.
Kind-hearted lets goooooooooo. Not many things I want to be more tbh.
All the best for your recovery! Have some cat for when you're back in action.
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.
I'd had the presence of mind to save away a few pounds every month in the runup to Dragonmeet to build a war chest, which is why my haul ended up feeling enormous this year. Also includes a kickstarter collection though.
Great stuff, I'm hopeful then. I'll probs arrive looking like this, hence my need for a cloakroom
I went to Japan and shot a few rolls of film on a cheapo toy camera, rolls of film which were x-rayed four times before they were developed - some with an iso of 800 - and among all the overexposed, blurry, and grainy shots there are some real gems every now and then.
I hadn't though about what colour they would be actually - presuming one might go for a green for evens, red for odds to show that one is good and one is bad, you'd probably need a base colour that doesn't swallow either of those colours. Maybe a neutral black or white, or a blue.
I've magicked up a map for Witching Winds inspired by marbled endpapers and thermal imaging. It's supposed to be an in-setting artwork created by a psychic wanderer, who received a vision of the islands of the archipelago and their broad spatial relationship at that point in time... (1/x)
Doodle (after Seignac) of a noblewoman and a handsy mummer
What is your favourite and least favourite film by one of your favourite film makers? 📽️ #Filmsky One is the best remake I know, both bringing the story back closer to the source while honing in on the anxieties of late-stage cold war and AIDS crisis America - the other has shit wigs.
Quite shit to hear about the verification nonsense, but in unrelated good news for Nobby but myself: got my logo on a t shirt
A robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”
First concept for a back cover for Witched Winds. The overall vibe is what I'd like it to be, but it's not so great in all the details yet.
The longer I looked at last nights cover mock-up the less I liked the colours and lack of depth of it all, so when I got home today I had to rework it a little more. I think it looks a lot better like this, almost passable for a one-person project.
I was tired of writing more rules so I started noodling a cover design for Witching Winds - one I'd use as a placeholder while I itch-fund for artists. I was looking at a lot of art nouveau book covers recently so I got into an angular, graphic mood. I don't hate the direction of this tbh.
What's the cover art that got you started in the TTRPG hobby? Here's mine:
Picturetime again, I've started on my "Faeries", which in W.W. is what humans often end up calling any weird sapient being that has a lot of insect characteristics. Like this one.
Ok Mothheads, I had a training montage just now that was just me shouting at myself going "Edit! Simpler! This has to go on a book's spine!" while staring at my latest logo idea. Took a lot of stuff out and thought more in fields than lines, this is what it looks like now. Tell me you love it.
With the name/logo excitement I forgot to post my latest illustration - truly a creature to strike terror in the hearts of seamen and casual beach-goers alike. I'll be moving on to what they call Fairies or Fey in my setting, beings with insect characteristics.
Still thinking about logos - the skeleton idea just came about because I wanted to lean into the Emperor moth having eyes on its wings, completing the illusion of a face. But a skeleton adds unwanted darkness where I'd prefer psychedelic weirdness, so I stripped it down to just an added mouth here:
Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... Willow-chain!
I've done some real quick logo ideas for Mothmind Press, so I might as well see what the public thinks. They are: Emperor Moth on a skull, making some eyes Moth eating a book Moth (now a guy?) looking into crystal ball Moth that vaguely looks like an M (based on the elephant hawk m.) Thoughts?