IN THE HEARTS OF MEN by NymeriaKing

IN THE HEARTS OF MEN by @nymeriaking​

Story Summary:

Ben, a young and passionate prodigy from the Core, is up for his Jedi Trials. Armitage, a cold and careful nobody from the Outer Rim, is up for anything. The New Republic and the fledgling First Order don’t care for their plans one bit.

More Info

This is a wonderful slow burn Kylux, melancholy and luxurious, set among interplanetary political tensions and intrigue. It’s also full of worldbuilding (mostly set on the watery planet of Arkanis, Hux’s native world), which Nymeria has imagined in great detail the culture of the native people, and even invented a language Marlanysil. I think this is a brilliant work.

You can read some behind the scenes Q&A about the planet and culture, and the author’s artworks for the story here

Binding

The paper on the case, of course, symbolizes the waters of Arkanis.

Typesetting

This was quite an undertaking. Each word in Marlanysil was defined using a footnote on first usage. I think there were 87 footnotes total. The text is set in Baskerville simply because the title page image used Baskerville.

In addition to the footnotes, Nymeria also wrote a complete appendix outlining the grammar of the language Marlanysil which she created especially for this story because she’s fucking brilliant. There is a complete glossary included in the appendix.

Process Photos

Nymeria asked for lots of process photos of this book being born, so here you go!

AND THEN THERE WERE TWO by NymeriaKing

AND THEN THERE WERE TWO by @nymeriaking

Summary

A fill for the prompt: “And then there were two.”

I: After hours of weather delays, Hux’s flight gets pushed to the next morning. He gets a room for the night, and the stranger with the good hair is all too happy to join him.

II: Hux and Kylo come to an arrangement.

III: Hux is a robot; Kylo is anything but.

IV: As it turns out, Hux is not a robot.

V: Hux is a devil.

This story is an affecting mix of scorching hot humiliation and kinky sex, with issues of depression, isolation, alcoholism. 

Binding

I grabbed the paper that most reminded me of the aerial view of landscape from the window of an airplane.

The title page, left side I took from a 1948 American Airlines advertisement for flights to San Francisco, by Edward McKnight Kauffer. But the image had to be two pages wide - so I did my best to expand it across to the other page! 

Title typeface: Early Man

Inside: 

Early Man chapter headings. Garamond body text. A little airplane for a page divider to continue the flight theme.

Author created charming illustrations which are all included.

hello naughty children it’s the music of the ainur time

My Chemical Romance in the studio from October 2003 to January 2004

Gil-Galad, so done with Sauron’s shit

I want a story about an Italian vampire.

No romance, no action.

Just 200 pages of “What do you mean, I can’t have garlic? Do you know where I’m from?”

TBH I think the main issue would be the mirror thing

have you ever met an Italian man

the amount of time they spend looking in the mirror jfc

#the more you think about it the more all vampire rules are just anti-italian rules#can’t go out in sunlight?? IN ITALY???#Can’t go near crucifixes? IN ITALY???

a bunch of pissed off vampires stuck in Venice because they can’t go over moving water

Not to victim blame, but you’d have to be a pretty bad Italian to even get turned into a vampire in the first place.

the only two places practically immune to vampires are texas and italy

Let me tell you of A Thing.

Lithuania has no vampires, I guarantee it.

Lithuania has one vampire, and let me tell you, she’s gonna be FURY UNLEASHED once someone gets her out of the centre of that crossterfuck of a burial point.

#never seen texas and italy in the same sentence before

(via @tchallabread)

And what would a ranger know of this matter?

i have greensleeves stuck in my head but, like, the horrible otamatone version

just in case anyones forgotten this absolute masterpiece

What I love most about this is that you start it and you go “eh, it’s not THAT funny, they just sound like crumhorns really.”

AND THEN THE THIRD ONE COMES IN.

I was listening to this and it got interrupted by a text from my sister in the other room like “what the actual fuck are you listening to”

look at this extremely chaotic video my fiancé took of our cat

Chaotic Evil

*smoke emiting from clenched fist*

woman: OOOOoOOH NoO!!!! It’s meelltIINNGG!!

*ring melts off woman’s hand*

woman: MY PRECIOUS POWERRrRR RING! GONE FOORRVVERrrr..

woman: *screams like a pterodactyl* 

I read the description and though “surely it’s not actually like that”

The contrast between the unbelievably extra voice acting and the extremely stiff and emotionless animation is what really makes this a masterpiece. 

the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:

Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how “smooth” sharks really are.

Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because it’s so smooth.

But buddy.

Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the shark swims. … In the opposite direction, it feels very rough like sandpaper.

((Here m8 https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basics ))

Buddy. It’s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you don’t know how to read?

this post is transcendent

You’re thinking of dolphins. Dolphins are the ones with smooth skin that feels like a rubber beach ball.

Source: I’M A MARINE BIOLOGIST

No, I’m thinking of sharks.

Source: I’m a superior marine biologist

i only relate to women who scream in their car

me when i go to the bakery but i didn’t speak clearly enough for the staff to understand what i was trying to order

this is the kind of specific content i need 

send this to your ex with no context

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Can’t believe Bram Stoker once sent a 2000-word fan letter to Walt Whitman which included his exact height, weight and how much he loved his poems and wanted to be friends with him, and that Whitman wrote back saying he liked his letter and hoped they could meet some day, how cute is that

And then he finally got to meet him and Stoker said “I found him all that I had ever dreamed of, or wished for in him” HOW CUTE IS THAT

bram stroker just mailed walt whitman his grindr profile just like that huh

Ok, I went to look this up, and it is amazing. Bram Stoker actually wrote this long-ass stream of consciousness letter that spanned about 2000 words and which–judging by most sites–had 0 paragraph breaks and just went on and on about his Feelings. He then proceeded to keep that letter in his desk for four years because he was too shy to send it. He finally sent it, along with a slightly less rambly letter, on fuckin Valentine’s day in 1876. In it are such wonders as:

Three weeks later–which, considering the speed of transatlantic mail at the time, pretty much means immediately–Walt Whitman wrote back. He had, at the time, been recovering from a paralytic stroke three years earlier that had left him, in his own words, “entirely shattered—doubtless permanently, from paralysis and other ailments,” but he still found the time to respond with a much briefer but still very affectionate letter, the opening paragraph of which read as follows:

[letter source]

Despite Whitman’s parenthetical remark about the improbability of meeting, Stoker did eventually manage to call on Whitman a couple of times some years later, and expressed that 

Whitman, meanwhile, found Stoker “an adroit lad,” and “like a breath of good, healthy, breezy sea air.” Adorable.

#did walt whitman fuck BOTH bram stoker and oscar wilde?????#i’m so enchanted by this (via wildehacked)

Yes.