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TeePublic Designs - The Fears (Patreon)

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2020-10-31 11:42:51
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Happy Hallowe'en folks!

'Tis the culmination of the most horror-some month, a month of some tricks but mostly treats from Rusty Towers. And we've got one final bucket of treats to offer you this day, as we present the full collection of designs for The Magnus Archives that will be live on Teepublic.com later today!

If you want to be there at launch, tune in to www.twitch.tv/rusty_quill around 1pm GMT, as Anil showcases the designs and sets them live on store!

EDIT: Store link is: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill/posters-and-art

This set of 15 designs comes from the imagination of artist Mark Anzalone, co-founder of dark fiction production company Maeltopia, and looks at his interpretations of "Smirke's Fourteen (plus one)".

We're attaching the designs individually as 1500x2000 images or there is a zip archive to download the lot together. Please note this is horror art and there may be disturbing imagery in some cases, including depictions of gore, flesh/bone, spiders, supernatural creatures, claustrophobia, isolation, trypophobia, eyes and tendrils.

All art is copyright of Rusty Quill Ltd.

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Anonymous

I've spent all day trying not to be offended, but to be honest I kind of am. I've been listening to TMA since 2017 and I got into it because of the spooky M.R. James ghost story vibe that I love so much and is so hard to find in modern horror. It's changed a lot since then, but it's still closer to that than it is to grotesque monster designs. (No insult meant to the designs! They're pretty cool, if not really my cup of tea. But they have nothing to do with The Magnus Archives.) This feels like the kind of merch release you get when a major media company has a surprise hit and has absolutely no idea what the appeal of their show actually is. If this were Disney trying to market TMA it would be hilarious, but I do kind of expect more out of a small media company that started out as a labor of love. (And this is the kind of thing that makes me wonder, is it worth continuing to follow RQ for whatever they do next, because they seem to have no idea what was appealing about the last project?...I know the merch team and the creative team aren't necessarily the same but that is the thought that crossed my mind.) I know it's a small company, I know the capital for commissioning designs might be tight, I know there are a million decisions that go into stuff like this. But the fact that these are very traditional grotesque horror images, when you've got a fandom that's grown in large part because of the non-traditional horror (I've met so many people in this fandom who thought they didn't like horror because they thought this kind of grotesquerie and gore was all it could be!) and especially the queer content...this feels like saying "if you're not A Horror Fan (of the stereotypical, ie cis white dude kind) then this is not for you." And I don't think that's what you meant to say, but it's how it's landing, at least for me.

Anonymous

Don’t know if it’s already been suggested but it would be great if y’all could do a fanart contest where the winner(s)? get to have their designs as future merch! You can even have fans themselves vote on the final picks. I obviously don’t know the technicalities of it all but I think it would be a great way to garner fan engagement and see how fans interpret your shows through their work. ❤️

Anonymous

I'm not a big fan of how essentially all of these designs feature masculine-coded characters. It feels very influenced by a "male is the default" mindset and I would have expected there to have been more thought put into designs than that.

Lottie Lynn

Can't help but feel the artist's talents were misused here. I get the feeling they would have been able to do a job that would have been far better appreciated by the fans if they'd actually not been given free reign to create merchandise off vague prompts and entity names. This is the most baffling decision for me, because as it stands this really is just one of those "I never listened to this podcast and here are my impressions of the characters" memes you'd make your friends do for fun, but even worse because this is supposed to be sold to fans of the podcast for money. I've also heard complaints that taking the art in such an openly grotesque direction has put off a lot of fans for whom the chief draw of TMA was the fact that it's an audio medium--ie. no visual gore or horror elements. I'm very glad to hear this won't be the last we hear from the merch department, and I will be looking forward to future releases.

Bruna G
>>46866930

"...very traditional grotesque horror images [...] (of the stereotypical, ie cis white dude kind)" Oh! Thank you for putting into words what was bothering me about this interpretation of The Fears/TMA. (Well, other the transparent lack of research of the source material).

Anonymous

Wow, this is certainly a direction. I've always thought Magnus is "a terrible unstoppable scalpel delicately peels away your skin to expose the darkness hidden in your inner soul" whereas these are rather more "Death! A knife in your face! This one's a spider! Gore death splatter!"

Anonymous

Just wanted to add my voice to say that while these designs are cool, it seems like there was a missed opportunity here for RQ/TMA branding on the actual designs, themselves. Would have loved to have seen the names of the Entities incorporated into the designs. Given the art style, it's not immediately clear which Fears some of these are each associated with, without the title descriptions. For future merch, I'd love to see more simplified designs for the Fears! Something that's more symbolic/tied into the episodes like a coffin with chains for the Buried, a stylized eye for the Beholding, a bloody knife for the Slaughter, and so on.

Anonymous

those art pieces alone are STUNNING

Anonymous

While those pictures are definitely interesting on a strictly artistic basis, I don't think they would work as merch in general, and for The Magnus Archives specifically. I think there is a real potential for merch-selling in the TMA fanbase, but the offer just doesn't correspond to the demand. Maybe a good idea would be to ask fans what they would see themselves buying, and then work from that. Here's what I know I would buy in a second: - stylized, minimalist symbols for each entity. - Famous quotes that are fan-favorites - In-universe objects : Web lighter, A Guest for Mr. Spider (I would buy the whole illustrated book for a ridiculous price, really), "From the Library of Jurgen Leitner" stickers to put on your books, etc. Anyway, I want you to know, even if you don't do merch, you're still awesome. This was just, like, suggestions. :)

Anonymous

As art pieces, these are great but as TMA merch, I can't quite connect with them. I feel like they lack the very creeping, choking subtlety of the fears themselves and ended up being a bit generic. In the sense that while they are amazingly creepy pieces of art, if I saw any one of them in the wild I wouldn't guess that they were connected to TMA or Rusty Quill at all. There are already so many symbols and "tangible" markers of the Fears in the show (like a door for The Spiral or a coffin for The Buried) that I feel like those could be used in the future for merch that has more of a connection to the series that we love.

Anonymous
>>46878027

Why do i read the last quote like Trexel Geistman is saying it?

Anonymous
>>46878027

Trexels Ten Steps to World Dominiation! ...No, I meant sales, I MEANT SALES!

Anonymous

I see a lot of argument about if these are appropriate to wear in public, or if they properly embody the fears, but for me, it's less about that and more about.... they are so ugly and gross I don't even want to look at them, never mind wear them or have them around. I feel like I must not be alone. This isn't a knock against the artist, but this is such a specific style that I personally don't like in the least. People love The Shining, and many cite the woman in the bathtub as one of the scariest and most beloved parts - but how many of those people actually want a mug or sticker of a hyperrealistic water-bloated decomposing elderly corpse? Verses how many want a more palatable "redrum" or a hotel key fob or something? For the vast majority of your fans, I think this merch DRASTICALLY missed the mark.

stardustphilosophy

These are stunning and I actually love that they look like propper horror and not the usual clean fluff that is the rest of the merch. Also for the people complaining: you don't have to buy these? Isn't it nice to have a diverse set of merch so different fans get different things? Like personally I really dislike merch with logos of the thing and go for more subtle merch whenever possible because i don't want to look like my clothes were sponsored by a company.

Anonymous
>>47161802

This is exactly the sentiment that I feel when it comes to this art some of this feels right in the depiction of the fears but it's not something I really want to wear or anything like that and I really hope RustyQuill apologize to this artist. So far most of the fans on here have not said anything mean about the art or the artist but it could have gone terribly I've seen fandoms eat people alive but this art style is just not made for wearable merch and this is probably bummed them out. Hope the artist knows that it is very obvious in this art that they are talented.