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John
@johnmustache.bsky.social
Artist, writer, bladesmith, bartender.
Whipped up this dude last night
December 17, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Got these two knives ready for handles
November 19, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Due to the ongoing NYT Tech Guild strike my wife and I played analog Wordle this morning
November 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
#inktober2024
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LANDMARK
Once you spot the big obelisk, you’re only about a days out from Mercy.
You sure about that, old man? That crossbow bolt ain’t scrambling your memory?
Bolt didn’t hit me in the head, did it? I done this trip more’n dozen times!
November 1, 2024 at 10:54 PM
#inktober2024
30
VIOLIN
What’s that sound?
I think it’s a violin, dad told me about them. Someone on a caravan must have found it somewhere.
October 31, 2024 at 4:45 AM
#inktober2024
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NAVIGATOR
Hell, I’d trade three or four guys with crossbows for a good navigator: he does his job right and you don’t need the crossbows.
October 30, 2024 at 5:05 AM
#inktober2024
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JUMBO
What were you and Jumbo talking about?
Don’t let him hear you calling him that.
Why? That’s what the other Sheepdogs call him.
You’re not a Sheepdog. That’s Alphas right hand man, his enforcer. Only other guy in Salvation with a Relic rifle.
October 29, 2024 at 6:22 AM
#inktober2024
27
ROAD
We’re lucky this whole road isn’t completely washed out; another five, ten years and it probably will be.
October 28, 2024 at 3:33 AM
#inktober2024
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CAMERA
What’s that?
My mother’s old camera.
Does it still work?
That’s a complicated answer: it doesn’t need a battery, and if there was film in it, then yes, it would take a photo. But film is long gone, same as the chemicals to develop the pictures.
October 26, 2024 at 9:19 PM
#inktober2024
25
SCARECROW
You ever feel any guilt?
What do you mean?
Forging the nails that Alpha and the Pack use to make their scarecrows?
When it’s someone in the village, sure, but did Dad always say?
…Do whatever it takes to keep the Pack happy.
October 26, 2024 at 3:19 AM
#inktober2024
24
EXPEDITION
It was hard for them to tell how many of the Prophet’s zealots were on the march; it was the biggest military expedition they’d ever seen.
October 25, 2024 at 11:20 PM
#inktober2024
23
RUST
He saw the zealot pull out a weapon-an old pair of gardening shears, broken and rusty, the handles wrapped with twine for better purchase.
October 24, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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22
CAMP
Thy didn’t know it at the time, but those first few days just riding through empty wilderness and sleeping under the stars were some of the best times of their lives, despite the danger and the uncertainty.
October 22, 2024 at 5:07 PM
#inktober2024
21
RHINOCEROS
“What the fuck is that?!”
“It’s a goddamn… rhino. A living Relic. Used to see them in the zoo, someone must’ve let it out before the End…”
October 21, 2024 at 5:14 PM
#inktober2024
20
UNCHARTED
Gotta stay on our toes, we’re in uncharted territory here.
October 21, 2024 at 12:33 AM
#inktober2024
19
RIDGE
Wait! If I know the Sheepdogs, there’s a squad waiting up on that ridge; the three on the path are to draw out the zealots, then the spearmen rush down and join the fight.
October 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
#inktober2024
18
DRIVE
We need to get off this road, the Prophets’ men have been here.
October 18, 2024 at 11:44 PM
#inktober2024
17
JOURNALS
“Your dad left me his journals, think he knew that he didn’t have much time. I haven’t read them, he told me that what was inside had something to do with the whole of Salvation; there’s a reason I don’t live here.
October 17, 2024 at 8:41 PM
#inktober2024
16
GRUNGY
Your average Sheepdog is pretty grungy most of the time, but those Relic pistols they carry are taken apart, cleaned and oiled every night over prayers. The bullets too.
October 17, 2024 at 8:35 PM
#inktober2024
15
GUIDEBOOK
-So, is this plant edible or not?
-I don’t know! There’s like four plants in here that look like it!
October 15, 2024 at 10:50 PM
#inktober2024
14
ROAM
Loaded down with food and survival supplies, you can roam far; around twenty miles a day is doable, way more if you find some flat stretches of good road.
October 15, 2024 at 10:44 PM
#inktober2024
13
HORIZON
-What’s he doing?
-Says he’s using his fingers to tell the direction from the North Star, says we gotta head northwest.
-You see earlier when he told the time using his fingers over the horizon?
October 13, 2024 at 4:24 PM
#inktober2024
12
REMOTE
The Sheepdogs hate the watchtower assignment; one week at a time, out there with dried meat and beans, climbing down the rope ladder to take a shit. No one comes this way, and if they did two guys aren’t gonna stop ‘em.
October 13, 2024 at 4:17 PM
#inktober2024
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SNACKS
Funny thing is, this place was abandoned long before the End. They built a new highway, no one drove down this road anymore, no one stopped here to gas up and buy snacks.
October 11, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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10
NOMADIC
Merchant caravans wind their way around to various villages. They might stay here in Salvation for a week or so, but they always form up and head out eventually, searching for Relics and useful material.
October 10, 2024 at 8:59 PM