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Group Topic: Flying

Oracle of the Closet — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:41:14 +0000

Boeing 747: sandworm of the skies.

And Some More

Oracle of the Closet — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:21:22 +0000

I thought I might as well post the rest of it -you know, to tide you all over until I get back.

(Here pretending that I actually have some semblance of a posting schedule prolific to the extent of being interrupted by a few days off-line.)

Tech Study

Oracle of the Closet — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:08:40 +0000

Well, you all knew this was inevitable, and by “you” I probably just mean Nathan, but oh well.

This is actually real concept art for once, as opposed to crummy art pretending to be concept art so as to excuse its crumminess. Not that it matters, I’m pretty much just posting this for the heck of it.

Group Topic: Messianic Prophecy

Oracle of the Closet — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:20:34 +0000

And when the lint of man’s hate meets the strewn crumbs of his fear,

and when it rises upon man in retribution for his shortsightedness,

they who see the future will send one of their own

to save man from his folly and beat the future into his thick, collective skull.

-The Lady in the Closet

For the rest…

Clarinda Hemp

Oracle of the Closet — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:50:27 +0000

Generally considered a sort of mild, public menace by the various underworlds of London, the so called Lady of the Lamps made it her mission in life to study the secret lives of those people, who for one reason or another, preferred to keep their lives secret.

Emsworth Analog

Oracle of the Closet — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:15:38 +0000

The next printmaking project, then. Photo process is awfully fun if you do everything in Illustrator anyway.

Really Bad Omen

Oracle of the Closet — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:45:42 +0000

My first printmaking project that looked any good, based on an image I have not been able to get out of my head since reading Homer.

Group Topic: Dickens Coat of Arms

Oracle of the Closet — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:23:46 +0000

This is a classic example of calligramancer heraldry. Though as such, there is not a great deal one can learn from it just at present, but I shall attempt. The calligramancers devised their own form of heraldry centuries ago, and while there are perhaps more written records pertaining to this particular sect’s history than any other, all these records were taken down by members thereof. So it is hardly surprising that perusal of said histories is one of the more dangerous home occupations.

According to Clarinda Hemp’s notes on the subject, the central figure often denotes something “roughly equivalent to a personal familiar, though not exactly, actually not very like at all.” The figure positioned directly above it seems to act as a modifier of some sort to the central figure; I believe it serves as a technical notation regarding the thing’s exact nature to other calligramancers, but I am uncertain to the symbol’s exact meaning.

The outer symbols are less mysterious, if they are indeed examples of Baldwin’s Stars, the “nasty, pointy ink blots of death” Clarinda wrote about. These exist as a sort of numerical code; a trio in a coat of arms signifies that the bearer used his arts to rendered military service to crown.

-Ophelia Himmle, The Search for Guppy

Heraldry of the Closet

Oracle of the Closet — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:38:15 +0000

The concept has been sitting about for a while now. Back to Dickens.

Group Topic: Summer Movie

Oracle of the Closet — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:15:43 +0000

It all began when an employee of Nine Palms Retirement Community became exposed to the contents of a mysterious thermos confiscated by internal security forces. It ended when a number of Nine Palms residents escaped the community in a garden shed secretly modified with a few thousand helium party balloons. The aforementioned security forces were unable to prevent this as they were, at that time, pinned down by the aforementioned employee, encased in a flock of inexplicably vicious pigeons.