#marco alisdair
Not necessarily a backlog papercraft, but still on the backlog!
Dropping this super fun illustration made for the book tin in Illumicrate’s The Night Circus 10th Anniversary collection box in collaboration with @erinmorgenstern , featuring Marco, Celia, Poppet and Widget!
I’m already a super fan of doing artwork for these tins, because the interactivity of there being an outside/inside or before/after with the lid offers so much opportunity for storytelling. With the previous DOSAB tin, we were able to mimic the setting of Brimstone’s shop literally acting as the door between worlds. Here, we have Marco welcoming guests into Celia’s tent, sneaking her a rose while she waits on the inside.
On the back, Poppet and Widget are seated on the main circus clock, one looking forwards, the other backwards. The spine shows a transition from the Bonfire to the Wishing Tree.I seriously can’t get enough of these tins, I use them for everything! ✨
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“You could have been a ballerina,” Mme. Padva remarks to Celia. “You are quite good on your feet.”
“I am good off my feet as well,” Celia says.
DID SHE JUST?????MISS MA'AM
“Did your wish come true?” //“I am not entirely certain yet.”//“You shall have to let me know,” Celia says. “I hope it does. I suppose in a way, I made the Wishing Tree for you.”
“I made a wish on this tree years ago,” Marco says // “What did you wish for?” Bailey asks, hoping it is not too forward a question // “I wished for her,” he says.
WILL I EVER RECOVER FROM THIS *SCREAMS*
Remember when Bailey’s sister told him to grow up and he replied with
“That is precisely what I’m doing,” Bailey says. “I don’t care if you don’t understand that. Staying here won’t make me happy. It will make you happy because you are insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It’s not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I’m leaving.”
Hey gurl you dropped something MY JAW
If I had a penny for every time a complex female character stabbed her own hand just to prove a point, I’d have two pennies which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
no but remember when Marco Alisdair asked Celia Bowen if she remembers all her audiences and she said she only remembers the ones who look at her the way he does and then he asked her what way might that be AND THEN CELIA SAID THE ICONIC “LIKE THEY CAN’T DECIDE IF THEY ARE AFRAID OF ME OR IT THEY WANT TO KISS ME” AND MARCO HAD THE ABSOLUTE AUDACITY TO ANSWER WITH “I’M NOT AFRAID OF YOU”-
MAKE ME CHOOSE —@shehrazadesaskedthe night circusor
the starless sealike stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
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so I’m reading the night circus……
