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And a fox somewhere is hiding (The Calling)
Here's my entry for the Ruin anniversary Day 1: Secret Worlds or The Calling
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#ruinanniversary2022#The calling#Ruin#I didn't know how to embroider a river/water/rain so I just took the picture at a lake#Close enough#Fox#Embroidery#Crafts#I try things#hand stitching#Fiber arts#Needlework#Autumn#My art#Cottagecore#The amazing devil#TAD
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Well, hello.
A couple months ago one silly woman (me) decided that it’s time for creativity to take a hold of her and let something cool into this world.
And that’s how I decided to give birth to…a The Amazing Devil blanket.
Or I might have dreamed it whilst being feverish. Who knows.
It’s been three months of stitching, embroidering, sewing, unmaking the mistakes, cursing, saying ‘waahheeey’ at the end of the complete step, cursing again and enjoying the hell out of the process of something being made into the realness.
It is literally the embodiment of me. I love it and hate it equally. It has got my favourite quotes from the songs. Yes, that’s me — your favourite girl with maelstrom of lyrics instead of a brain. It also has got some of my blood somewhere along the stitches (did i do it on purpose to please the fae gods aka Joey and Madeleine? you’ll never know. hashtag blood magic.)
I wanted to get it done for the Ruin Appreciation Week (though it contains lyrics from all albums) so that was me last week because it was very FAR from being done:
I’m posting the bigger picture + close ups of smaller details and songs’ lyrics. Please feel free to reach out if you want to see a better close up or just to pat me on the head.
I’m posting a video too. It’s silly so enjoey. (ha! see what I did here. that was a typing accident. it’s 1am now. forgive me my jokes.)
warning: the video include some probably offensive actions to the professional seamstresses. i’m only a humble ignorant person who decided to sew for the first time in her life. i do hope you’ll like it.
references used:
the central embroidery: TAD’s old picture from some posters back in the love run era + some sage and forget-me-nots
top right and left bottom corners: pictures of joey and madeleine
songs: secret worlds, the calling, inkpot gods, drinking song for the socially anxious, chords, farewell wanderlust, not yet/love run (reprise), that unwanted animal, battle cries, elsa’s song, wild blue yonder
UPD: A few of you have been asking about the quotes I used on my blanket/quilt and why I chose them so here I am:
If you ask me for my fire, just watch me burn — you know what, I recently started to interpret this line in a positive way? It was a recent thing I understood about myself. I always thought I was good at working/doing things well in the long run, when you have to do it patiently and for years but in my journey of self-discovery I realized that in reality I’m much better as a sprinter — someone who does an incredible job while being under the vast amount of pressure and when you need to do it in a restricted period of time; I will give all of myself to this project/work, every bit of passion I have, every bit of patience. So yeah. If you ask me for my fire — just watch me burn. But then I’ll hibernate for a month.
Can’t you hear it howling? — OKAY HANDS DOWN PROBABLY MY FAVOURITE LYRICS/MELODY SECTION FROM THE WHOLE RUIN ALBUM. Even not the part that is sung by Madeleine, but the back voices Joey’s harmonies sing in the final chorus at 4:28 and till the end. OOOOH WHY SO GOOD.
If I don’t make it back from where i’ve gone just know I loved you all along — this is such a beautiful closing of the song. also such a tormenting thought. i love it.
Such endless blue — I’ve always been drawn to the dark blue colours, especially when I paint. I always run out of the blue watercolour because contrary to this song, it’s not endless :D I’m manifesting an abyss of blue watercolour for myself here lol
You say the words so often but I barely know the meaning — okay so Elsa’ Song is primarily pretty heartbreaking right? The more heartbreaking part being that it is sung as a lullaby. Who didn’t have that moment when the meaning of the words you’re saying slips through your fingers just because you said them too often? Who didn’t have that sad awakening moment of losing trust in a person just because they always promised something and never did it?
After summers of fasting I feel hunger at last — I’ve been thinking about tattooing this quote for quite a while now. It reminds me of my depressive state which very often returned to me in summer and every time it slowly creeped away, I felt the hunger for life in the early autumn. Every time felt like an eternity.
Is nought but fumble-falls and guns and tumbleweeds, love, run — my favourite quote from the superior use of the English language that is that section in Love Run. I am in love with it. All the phonetic twirls makes me shiver sometimes.
Well, hello my hollow Holofernes — ALLITERATION SUPREMACY!!
I’ll sing silence and ask my glass of wine for guidance — i love to sit at home alone and stare into my glass. it doesn’t answer though. what about it. and again — to sing silence? OXYMORONS GIVE ME THEM
Go tell me how we fucked you up and oh my god, it’s so unfair — ah. the hardship of parenting/teaching. I was there, I remember it all too well.
Let’s us waltz for the dead — the oxymoronic style of this line IS JUST A CHEF’S KISS. WALTZ? VERY SOPHISTICATED THING? FOR THE DEAD? NOT THAT PLEASANT TYPE OF A THING? mister batey let me boop you affectionately on the nose you are so clever.
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'Cause we'll dance together so close we're sharing breath
But now I'm leading, doesn't that just scare you to death?
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If we take into account Joey's comment that all three albums form a trilogy, and ruin is "the thing that ties everything together," then we have a story that begins with
Run to show that love's worth running to
and ends with
If I don't make it back from where I've gone
Just know I loved you all along
Excuse me while I slowly but surely descend into madness about that.
#*wordless cry of agony*#ruinanniversary2022#Love Run (Intro)#Inkpot Gods#The Amazing Devil#ruin#Love Run#The Horror and the Wild#Joey Batey#Madeleine Hyland#music#my faves#my TAD obsession#ruin2022
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Ruin Album Anniversary Week: October 25 - 31
The 1-year anniversary of Ruin is coming up on October 31, and Amazing Devil Fanpage is celebrating it with a week-long fanworks event!
Here’s how it’ll work:
Ruin Anniversary Week will be from October 25 - October 31, 2022
Each day of that week will be assigned a topic/theme (see below)
Participate by making art, edits, or any other type of fanwork related to the album. Post them on the relevant day with the tag #ruinanniversary2022 to share them!
The themes are:
October 25: Secret Worlds or The Calling
October 26: Drinking Song for the Socially Anxious or Blossoms
October 27: Chords or The Old Witch Sleep and the Good Man Grace
October 28: Ruin or Inkpot Gods
October 29: Madeleine and Joey appreciation day
October 30: Promotional photoshoot appreciation day
October 31: Whole album appreciation day
#the amazing devil#ruin album#ruinanniversary2022#i've been thinking of doing themed weeks like this for a while#if it goes well we'll do more of them!#so please reblog to spread the word
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One of the many things that destroys me about the song Ruin is the way it parallels so many other songs from all the various albums.
We have bricks and stones echoing the bricks and stones in Wild Blue Yonder. We have the wallpaper like in Two Minutes. We have “I wish that I’d been brave” like the “people just pretending to be brave” in Little Miss Why So. We have “I’ll sing silence” like in Drinking Song. There are metaphors of fire throughout The Amazing Devil’s songs in everything from Secret Worlds to New York Torch Song to Wild Blue Yonder, making the “wreck of all we’ve burnt” even more poigniant. The piano itself echoes that in Two Minutes and Farewell Wanderlust.
Perhaps there is no particular significance to this. Perhaps it says something about the nature of relationships and of life that so many different stories could be seen as prologues to Ruin, to this story of hearbreak and heart-building. Regardless, it makes me emotional every time.
#ruin#the amazing devil#ruinanniversary2022#ruin2022#joey batey#madeleine hyland#wren talks#i was gone for a lot of today so you get rambling instead of tengwar <3
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Give it up for day two of the @amazingdevilfanpage Ruin Anniversary Week!! To keep the fun moving right along, today I have this piece inspired by Drinking Song for the Socially Anxious!! I still have no idea how Joey Batey managed to come up with this little rhyme, but it’s such a delight and honestly one of my favorite lines in the whole album just for the sheer ingenuity of it.
Come back again tomorrow, dear hearts, for more of my silly little designs and more love for Ruin!
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The Amazing Devil Ruin Anniversary Event 2022: Day 1
Secret Worlds/The Calling
Inspired by the line in the chorus of Secret Worlds 'Leaves like broken shards of stained glass' and the recurring mention of a fox in The Calling
Included lineart and partially complete as I also liked those versions.
Made using watercolours and ink on watercolour paper, took me... maybe 15 hours including the drafts (total not all at once).
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Ruin anniversary week - Blossom
I'm not so sure of this one... but here is my blossom representation.
Source material : Joey's and TAD's Instagram. Edited with Gimp
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happy ruin anniversary
#ruinanniversary2022#ruin2022#I don't know what this is but I wanted to do something since I still can't figure out how to play Ruin#anyway happy anniversary dear hearts!#the amazing devil#joey batey#madeleine hyland#amazing devil#piano cover#jaskier#ruin#crescendoofstars
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Ruin anniversary week: The Calling
But there's more than water in these autumn hands
#ruinanniversary2022#the amazing devil#joey batey#madeleine hyland#my art is not amazing but i want to join in#digital art#line art#artbyfae
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And in the wreck of all we burnt, stands our piano like a wound
I play our song to see if it's in tune (I'll sing silence)
And you, you sit next to me
And your finger brushes mine
And I promise to be patient
And you promise to be, promise to be kind
Day 4: Ruin or Inkpot Gods
(this piece is very flawed and rushed but I decided to not redo it or fix any of the mistakes like getting rid of the sketch lines because flaws and mistakes are such a big theme in The Amazing Devil's music, especially this song. I guess you could say I make myself acquainted with the Saint of Never Getting It Right)
#ruinanniversary2022#Tad#The amazing devil#Ruin#Embroidery#I try things#My art#Anatomy? I don't think so
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WIP
I walked into the river
To wring those embers from my broken heart and broken liver
We're both unwanted daughters
But there is more than water in these autumn hands
This piece will be mixed medium with some embroidery added later (which I'm just learning, totally not because of TAD...)
Day 1 of Ruin anniversary week 2022 - The Calling
(I wanted to cover the lower arm in embers that's why there are red spots. But have decided not to do so... Listen.. Painting embers is hard 😅. I haven't painted in ages and although it wasn't easy to figure out how to draw water, hands and ember this has brought me a lot of joy so far.)
(The Calling has not only inspired me to paint but also to write. I wrote one of my favorite poems last year when I couldn't stop listening to this wonderful album.)
(I'm also painting on the cheapest canvas with not so great paint so it's a struggle to smoothen out the colours.)
Image description after the cut
An unfinished painting in acrylic paints. A deep blue river flows lightly diagonal from the left with some small cascaded in the middle. A glowing burning hand is emerging from the water holding embers. Small flames flie from the fingers that merge with a falling leaf. There are more falling leaves all around. In the background there is a white stripe not painted. In the lower left corner there is a leaf lying on a rock not yet painted. In the lower right corner there are rocks that aren't painted yet.
#ruinanniversary2022#Ruin the album#the amazing devil#TAD#My art#Fanart#Joey Batey#madeline hyland#The Calling
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October 30: Ruin promotional photoshoot appreciation day #2
#ruinanniversary2022#the amazing devil#joey batey#madeleine hyland#tad#myedit#some more of tad goodness#cause i am in a mood
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The ruin album ask game
Reblog this if people can drop questions about The Amazing Devil's ruin in your inbox.
What song from ruin did you first fall in love with?
What song from ruin do you listen to the most?
What song from ruin hits too close for comfort?
What lyrics make you scream?
What lyrics make you cry?
What lyrics make you smile?
What lyrics make you yearn?
What lyrics are still unclear to you?
What is your favorite performance by Madeleine?
What is your favorite performance by Joey?
What’s your favorite instrumentation in the album?
What song do you always sing along with?
Do you have any weird or off-the-wall interpretations of a ruin song?
If you could talk to Joey and Madeleine about one (and only one!) ruin song, what would it be?
If you could recommend only one ruin song to your followers, what would it be?
Other TAD ask games can be found here. :)
#ruinanniversary2022#ruin2022#The Amazing Devil#Joey Batey#Madeleine Hyland#ruin#music#my faves#my TAD obsession#my TAD ask games
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Ruin Anniversary album giveaway!
In honor of the 1-year anniversary of Ruin, I’m giving away digital albums to two winners!
Here’s how it’ll work:
1 like = 1 entry
1 reblog = 2 entries
1 like and 1 reblog per person
The giveaway will be open until Wednesday, November 2 at 9pm EDT
Winners will be contacted via tumblr by @the-gods-upturning-inkpots
You’ll need to be willing to provide an email address to receive the album
Albums will be gifted on November 4th, bandcamp Friday
If you’re reblogging to boost but don’t need the album, please say so in the tags
Good luck!
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