One-volume binding of Shimeji Simulation, one of my favorite mangas of all time. Folio size, Polar Duo, metallic silver HTV + case (with a little hole so you can see the girls being tender together 💙)

I made this one for a friend who mentioned that he'd be interested in reading the manga, but preferred to read manga in physical form. There's no licensed English translation OR print run of this, so I decided to make my own - I downloaded the Orchesc/a/ns translation/scan on MangaDex, compiled it all into a single volume, and reversed the PDF page order before imposing it into signature-form, so it can be read right-to-left, as intended! The edge art is hand-drawn by me, meant to mimic those geometric doodles that show up throughout the story. Hand-sewn headbands, to pull it together! And a little mushroom + fish charm bookmark, because OBVIOUSLY!

Fun fact: this is the first book I've ever bound that's been too chunky to fit in my home guillotine. It was nearly too big for my bookpress, too - but only nearly.

"It's normal for siblings to fight" Okay well it's not normal to be extremely classist and look down on your sister for being non-conforming. Or to go to the woman who ordered the death of your pet to tell her about your father's plans, when he specifically warned you against doing so, because you want to marry the boy you saw attack your sister and her friend (contributing partially to said father's death and your sister being unable to escape on the ship he chartered). Or to think of your sibling as unsatisfactory in comparison to another when you believe her to be dead. I notice that none of the "Sansa and Arya are going to reunite and instantly have no issues" crowd ever acknowledge any of this, which makes it seem like they don't actually believe what they say about their relationship being normal and easily reconciled. People wanting them to have no issues simply because they're siblings is another example of how fandom likes to flatten complex characters and relationships. They get reduced to being bickering siblings when their conflict runs deeper than that. If the author is telling you that they have "deep issues" to work out [X], I don't understand being so adamant about ignoring said issues. I also get the sense it's about ignoring the capacity for a certain character to be flawed, but that isn't going to change the fact that her "slip of the tongue" is very likely to be revealed and a source of further conflict 🤷🏾‍♀️

harry gets stuff thrown at him all the time and never gets rude i think louis couldve handled that better tbh

i think artists should throw the thing they were hit with back at the person with 3x the force they threw it at the artist, actually. maybe then it’ll stop fans throwing solid objects and bracelets and phones at people. hope this helps <3

so obsessed with this line in french phoenix wright

“this all doesn’t seem very catholic to me...”

book runs based on tv shows are usually mediocre at best, like star trek, torchwood, doctor who, etc etc, but i would give anything to get a book run of the BBC Ghosts hotel i need to know what shenanigans those guys get up to in there

Listen guys, my bf JUST mentioned The Golden Compass because he dreamed about it last night, I am CONTAINING MYSELF from making an hour-long video essay on the entire trilogy but I also wanna tell him about it because this is the only time I've ever gotten the chance to talk about it please save me

the thing about reading wlw historical romance is the men in it are always so over the top evil but also they were just kinda like that weren’t they

Currently reading A Guide to Midwestern Conversation and feeling very called out lol. Yes those *are* actual cornfields in the background.

and thank you to my photography assistant:

Hardcover rebind of Holes by Louis Sachar! My paperback cover was starting to flake away, so I did my best to rescue it. The bookcloth is Eister Duo, and all of the decals are HTV. I only had enough confidence to put a single actual hole into the cover (right through the O!) although I briefly considered riddling the whole cover case with them - the idea was dismissed because of Structural Concerns. Maybe next time.

A brief attempt at speckling the edges was made (yellow, for yellow spotted lizards). It doesn't look very good - I blame my no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather for this, and all other imperfections.

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frankie meationed in “food fight” that mh has a lot of hidden doors/rooms so what if the evil queen’s mirror is in one of them? keeping the evil queen in eah probably isn’t the smartest idea after the events of dragon games so what if they moved it to mh? I can’t imagine anyone in mh knowing about the evil queen (other then cupid if they bring her back) so nobody would know that it’s her mirror prison. there’s probably rumors about the mirror but nobody thinks they’re true. to them it’s just a creepy mirror that nobody knows where it is. except frankie

Hunt Athlar not realizing Bryce is the Autumn Kings daughter is so funny to me. He’s just sitting there no thoughts, just vibes.

"Reverse misogyny" stories are not the progressive, feminist power move you think they are, especially not when you expect your readers to be happy and content with the status quo presented by your story. Biological essentialism and sexism are never going to be progressive even if you try to dress them up like they're feminist. They're just not.

MIGHTY NEIN EPILOGUE PART 2 LET'S GOOOOOOOO

I'm selfish and want more Molly give me that bastard being so confused by everything it'll be so funny

THAT ALSO MEANS WE GET MORE BEAUYASHA AND PERHAPS MORE SHADOWGAST I AM FROTHING

saw the "who's your most underrated Kleypas hero" question getting bandied about (again) today, and I must say, the only answers I'll accept are:

--John McKenna/Again the Magic (I'd argue that AtM is not the DEEP CUT newer Kleypas readers think it is; before I read it, it was definitely upheld as a classic of hers, but people who want the softer boys she writes in the Ravenels... may not like this one; however, McKenna fucks RIDICULOUS lbr)

--Alex, Lord Raiford/Then Came You (yes... he calls her a bitch.... and I'll be real this made me love him more... he carried her over his shoulder outta Craven's and bought her a bear I'm VERY confident in this choice)

--Kev Merripen/Seduce Me at Sunrise (thought he'd kill Win with his massive dick, tied her up and took her to his fuck cottage, is Heathcliff if Heathcliff wasn't horrible basically)

--Leo Hathaway/Married by Morning (fun bout wounded king, "haha" in the streets and "oh shit" in the sheets, notable for making Catherine ask him to touch her pussy in explicit and specific language)