I Like Cryptograms, And I've Been Working On Decoding Some Of The Messages In The Book Of Bill. I Wrote

I like cryptograms, and I've been working on decoding some of the messages in The Book of Bill. I wrote down 4 of the substitution ciphers on an index card before I ran out of room. This doesn't cover all the codes, just the most common ones.

A friend dragged us into Pulp Musicals hell and I might or might not have listened to it all like perhaps 5 times today 😳😁 anyway here's a lil Samuel and Mags from the scene of "On The Roof" !!

I am obsessed with these guys fuuhfhhfgg

"We have the happiness of making known a recent breakthrough in the field of astronomy..."

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My myth art for @pulpmusicalsfortnight2024 !!! I had fun with this one, I wanted to try emulating ink drawings in old newspapers. I did all the hatching and stippling by hand because I am neurodivergent and also a masochist.

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"We could build a new kind of Polaris."

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I just had to draw Hershey and Nova (aka the Besties Ever) for @pulpmusicalsfortnight2024's science prompt, so here they are brainstorming the Satellite project.

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@pulpmusicalsfortnight2024 day two: horror + alternate: possession

if Kal had been slightly more sly with how he went about things earlier on, Gunpowder and Rum, Part 3 could have gone a little bit differently, I think

(an alternate version and my nonsensical explanations are under the cut, in case you're interested!)

alternate version, because I couldn't choose between the blue and the green and wanted to include both:

and here's my explanation for how Samuel was possessed here, although it's certainly not the only way this could have played out (I took some creative liberty with how Kal's fog works, too, so it doesn't entirely agree with canon):

in Gunpowder and Rum, Part 1, Kal doesn't do anything differently; he messes with Samuel's mind a little bit, but disappears once Rose arrives (same as canon)

Kal possesses AJ in Gunpowder and Rum, Part 2, however, at the end of the song, when Samuel comes in, he manages to trick Samuel into having a drink with AJ. the concoction he gives to Samuel is one he has engineered to be "dormant" until activated by some of his fog.

Samuel goes to Margaret, still suspicious about AJ (I would imagine Kal said something similar at the end of the encounter to what he said in canon), Something Familiar and Antikythera happen

at the beginning of Gunpowder and Rum, Part 3, Kal senses his chance and sends in The Fog™, taking Samuel's body and leaving AJ's body unconscious for him to return to as a back-up plan.

@pulpmusicalsfortnight2024 day one: science

it seemed fitting to focus on the Urania Propitia trio for this prompt, so here's Anna, Rose, and Margaret occupied by an issue of the American Journal of Science and Arts (as it was called at the time), which was founded in 1818 and is still running today! this piece was heavily inspired by this painting by George Harcourt.

(pictures of the full painting are under the cut)