I’m building a town that doesn’t exist—but its records do.
🕯️ Thistlegrave, est. 1812:
Business registries with revoked licenses.
Civil records are full of contradictions.
Clerk’s addenda that should’ve been redacted.
I’m turning it all into mail art: aged ledgers, town memos, fake ordinances, and suspicious correspondence. If you love fictional towns, bureaucratic oddities, and paper that feels like it’s been passed through too many hands… let’s swap.
I’m sending out fragments from Thistlegrave—want one?
DM me to trade.
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It's a fantastic idea! As a lifelong collector of ephemera, sometimes I'm also compelled to create my own fantasies after being inspired by some odd bit of paper, an old document, or orphan photographs that have come my way.
Come one, come all,
Let's make the spurious stand tall.
I also love this idea...fictional maps have been a thing for me for a bit, and I love old and mysterious documents. Let me ponder and see what I can come up with. I'd love to learn more about Thistlegrave!
I think this is a cool idea. I’m intrigued but wouldn’t know where to begin.
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