Physically I’m in the bathtub, carefully eating a left over enchilada.

Mentally I’m in Ketterdam, scheming and building my own gang and causing mischief just to get Kaz Brekker’s attention so I can be his next investment.

i have learned so much about cecil gershwin palmer as a result of the tumblr sexypoll rematch and yet i still feel as if i know nothing about him. hes canonically gay married and has been for seven years. hes jewish. he has an adopted son with his gay husband. he canonically wears fake cat ears. everyone draws him wearing crocs and at this point im assuming thats also canon. he doesnt know what he looks like because hes afraid of mirrors because his mom told him hed be killed by one someday. he was at dashcon. as im typing this the cecil/sans poll is at 65/35 and cecil is winning. he didnt even get past the first round of the first poll and suddenly hes in the finals of this one. the person whos running the polls barely even knows who he is. who is this man. does this entire website have some inherent fondness towards this man no matter how much youve been exposed to night vale. at this point i think hes a cognitohazard and needs to be contained lest he upset the larger sexyman ecosystem like an extinct species being revived and unleashed upon a world too weak to handle his presence. i voted for him by the way

absolutely obsessed with the interviews of dennis o'neil, marv wolfman, & chuck dixon in the book 'dick grayson, boy wonder: scholars and creators on 75 years of robin, nightwing, and batman' by kristen geaman

dennis o'neil:

marv wolfman:

chuck dixon:

chuck dixon is the epitome of even a broken clock is right twice a day (as in, there's about two answers i'd totally agree with his reasoning)

Happy Halloween! Have a book:

This is Siren's Song by @kedreeva (Hi! I asked to bind your fic months ago, sorry it took so long XD). It's an incredible Good Omens siren AU, which needs no introduction from me but it gets one anyway. It's one of the most in-character fics I've ever read, tackles a lot of the most resonant themes of the original (love in the context of aromanticism and asexuality, human labels in the context of non-human perspective), and has incredible world-building. Later parts of the fic always make me cry but they're good tears. You'll see. When I first learned that fanbinding was a thing and started looking into how to do it, this was one of the first fics I thought of. It just took me a while to learn the skills I needed before I could do it.

More pics and process talk under the cut!

So the cover up there is black faux leather and momi paper that I bought...about two years ago? And just kept on hand till I was ready to do this project. This is the first time I've worked with it and it was fairly nice, though harder to get a nice crease into than lokta or chiyogami. It felt very fragile when I was handling it but I didn't have any issues with tearing or glue bleed-through like I thought I might. It did bleed some color when I got it damp with the glue, and it took way longer to dry than normal, but once that was done it's been fine. Which is nice because I have a lot left over, so it'll probably be making many future appearances in my binds.

Look! It's rounded! I got a backing setup recently and this is my first time using it. It was Very Hard and I am not very good at it yet. But I think it looks pretty good for a first attempt, and there was really no other way to mitigate the spine swell on this one. I used a thick paper so I've got a thick book. I also tried something new with the case, though it isn't visible. Usually I make the text block and the case separately and then attach them as the last step, but for this one I actually built the case around the text. Like, boards attached to mull/tapes (sandwiched between thinner boards, with grooves cut for them so there are no bulges), then covered with momi, then leather corners and spine, then paste down the endpaper. It's got an oxford hollow, too! The tapes and mull actually wrap around the outside of the boards instead of the inside like I've done before. Endpapers are my favorite feather chiyogami. Combined with the marbled momi they make for a very opulent look, and I had just barely enough to do this. Like, down to the millimeter. I had to trim the edges and then glue the endpapers after to be sure they were right. I'm glad they were, because I didn't have a backup plan. Handmade endbands, colors picked to match the cover. Also, last note, I got the corner bits right for the first time. Measured properly, with no weird pointy bits that come out at funny angles. Very proud.

Title page and bookmark/interior shot. Did you know that some basic fonts in MS Word look different when you use a huge font size? Because I didn't until I made this title page. That's Parchment for the title, and it only gets those swirly bits around the capital letters if you take it to 26pt or higher (I used 72 here). Now I wonder if any of the other fonts have easter eggs in them like that. The ribbon is very fancy, to go along with the rich endpaper/cover combo. I think it's pretty appropriate for a mythological golden age of piracy story, as are the text ornaments:

Chapter header image, chapter end image, and section break image. It was a very image-heavy typeset. I was originally planning to only have a header and a section break, but I couldn't decide whether I liked the ships or the book/shell/feather better, and they both suited the story so well that I just went with both. Again, opulent, but I think it fits. All the images came from rawpixel, all I did was resize them.

There was a small error in the trimming process. Comes of having to calculate so closely the exact amount you can trim off, that you have to trim off so your slightly-too-small endpapers fit. I think something got misaligned when I poked the sewing holes because only the first signature is like this. The rest of the book has a more appropriately-sized margin between the page number and the edge. I got very lucky here, and I know it, and I'm never cutting it this close (lol) again. Next time we just order another sheet of chiyogami.

And that's it! I have one author's copy and one new bind in progress right now (that's taking a while because I'm learning more new stuff for it), and then I have two Christmas gift books to do, so it might be a bit before I have another book to share.

waking up at 5 am to see that yep, Sifo-Dyas is mentioned on the character list in the Living Force, but all I can think about is that his last transmission to the Temple (his confession about the clones, his last words) has been hanging out in canon from a YA novel that came out in 2019 and I didn't know until last night (Thank you @dapurinthos for letting me know about this and for my resulting emotional breakdown)

"Come find me!" 😭😭😭😭😭

did anyone else read flowers for algernon.... i read it earlier this year for school and i just remembered about it and how much i loved it. i remember looking for a fandom but got almost nothing other than it being just another book in those "books that made me cry" videos </3

trying to get my excitement for reading back, so I put some of my TBR books I'm excited for on the hanging bookshelf.

I think Chlorine by Jade Song might be my first book of 2024, the cover is gorgeous and I'm intrigued 👀

i hope you all spend a very good lesbian summer !! nina and lotte are !!

i draw "with two left hands" so i'm very self-conscious about my drawings, i know i'm not very good, especially compared to other much more skilled people on here but i ended up liking it quite a bit, it was really like in my imagination.

also notice the little lesbian flags : on the trousers' pattern, the socks and the granita and straws they share 🧡. also i love slowly butchifying nina (lotte's turn will come), it makes me very happy and her south of france fit is one of my favorite of hers as a butch myself and someone living in france. idk why tumblr gives the picture a worse definition.

below the cut is the scanned version + fuller pictures and what i used as well as what i liked doing the most.

so the paper is a bristol paper which means the drawing is rather small. i used different marker pens i gathered around the years as well as different types of regular pens to colorise it.

for nina's hair, at first i ranked the yellows i wanted to use from lighter to more orange. i colorised first with a pale yellow crayon base and then used my pens to get her haïr more and more darker.

also i wish i did better for lotte's face in terms of skin color but the final result is better than some versions that i came up with before.

what i like the most are : nina's skin and its shadows as well as her short, her t-shirt, the shadows in général, the granitas, the flowers and lotte's trousers blue color (i did it with a dark purple, then dark prussian blue markers and added a lighter dark blue since it was still a bit too purple).

the fuller picture + one with a slightly different lightning.

the scanned version i just did :

Listening and learning

not to try and pull a bigolas dickolas wolfwood on here but if you are looking for something to soothe your rogue heroes brain worms you SHOULD go read this right now I AM very serious

it's beautiful it's heartbreaking it will make you want to chew glass. it's about love and hope and the horrors of war and let me tell you very few things will make you as insane as reading this when you are super sleep deprived on a train and you are listening to The Green Fields of France

I consistently say that I'm not sure whether I like medieval studies, and yet when I'm doing an assignment I often end up focussing on something medieval. I just took ELEVEN BOOKS from the shelf on the Gawain poet because apparently I'm a nerd

reading the name of this book is secret and I love how cass and max-ernest interacting is just Oh That's Clashing Autism

I hate decluttering but I have so much stuff and there's no room for me anymore

2023 reads // twitter thread

The Sun and The Void

Venezuelan inspired high fantasy

follows a young outcast swordswoman taken in by her grandmother, the dark sorceress for a noble family, who relies on the magic to keep her alive after being attacked by monstrous creatures

and a young noblewoman who’s the shame of her family because of her mixed heritage and desire to use magic

both are manipulated by those with more power than them into a plot to free an ancient evil god

mineral based magic, politics, nonhuman MCs

Was this written by future President of the United States Chester Arthur or Anne of Green Gables?

was definitely the most fuckable guy in the supermarket just now. good job everyone