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perfectlynormalbooks · 2 months

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Binding of the technically-unpublished technically-unfinished Doctor Who novel, Time's Champion by Craig Hinton! This was a commission for a friend, and they've officially recieved it now so I can ramble about design choices. The book is a folio binding with rounded spine, which is something I've been working on learning for a bit now.

The book cover - obviously designed to look like Six's coat! I used this excellent blog post as a reference while tracking down all of the bits of colorful fabric I'd need, it was a lifesaver. There's a little cat charm on the ribbon, because of course there is, and (it's not really visible in any of the photos) hand-sewn headbands in black-and-yellow, to resemble the sleeves of that coat.

If the book itself is Six, then the case is the Valeyard! Because obviously, this book is all about the conflict between those two. The clamshell case was a last-minute addition, because I hadn't ever done one before and wasn't sure if I'd be able to pull it off. But I did, and it looks great - that's metallic silver HTV on the outside. 'Time's Champion' is on the spine using the WS Simple Gallifreyan font - I thought about using Sherman's, but it's a bit too circular. The writing around the front and back frame is in Assassin's Gallifreyan, aka the writing the Doctor uses in the serial The Deadly Assassin. It's the names of all of the gods of Gallifrey, who show up in the book itself - Time, Fate, Life, Pain, Hope, and Death - repeated over and over. The book fits snugly into the case, and I've got my fingers crossed that it managed to protect the book on the way over.

I kept the internal typeset simple - Alegreya typeface with Bernard MT Condensed chapter headings and highlights. These are the straightest margins I've ever cut in my life. I impressed myself.

And here's a few pages from my design notebook from when I was pulling it together:

There's a LOT more progress pics lying around, but Tumblr only allows 10 images per post - I'll have to add more later!

#bookbinding #fanbinding #my books #perfectly normal books #doctor who #doctor who eu #time's champion #sixth doctor

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xekstrin · 25 days

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One of the most memorable interactions was Saturday. Into our booth strolls a small family, tempted by free samples of freshly brewed tea. We chatter and give them the spiel, that the tea is character merch and we’re a cozy health-based app called Forage Friends.

The young girl zeroes in on our pride pins.

“They have my pin!” She says excitedly. “They have my flag!”

The dad blinks. He is surprised, but also calm and positive when he sees it’s the lesbian flag. “Oh. That’s… different from what you told me.”

“That was months ago, dad.” And she rolls her eyes. Definitely a teenager.

I turn to him and say, “Yeah, dad.” And we share a little laugh about it.

He says, “No, it’s great. That’s amazing, honey. It was just news to me.”

“Well, I guess I just decided to stop lying to myself. About liking guys. Like right now.”

A little lesbian just came out to her dad and he was super cool about it.

I’m standing there in my tie-dye mask and my cheery blue apron pouring tea and making small talk and I’m trying really hard not to cry or compare it to my experience, the fire & brimstone, the disgust, the conditional acceptance as long as I never bring it up.

So as this beautiful bonding is going on, the girl’s even younger brother turns his gaze around. He’s in a snorlax hoodie and bored and wants to go look at the swords across the hall. But on the other side of our booth….

“WHY DO PEOPLE DRAW THAT?” He asks loudly, and we all turn to our neighboring booth.

Our neighbors were extremely lovely people. Every time we had a break we would talk, and we became good friends over the weekend. They kept apologizing that their booth was next to ours and we kept repeating that it was totally fine. Their booth was great. I even bought their merchandise.

The thing that was so contentious, that they felt the need to apologize for, was that they were selling explicit titty hentai stickers of popular characters. They were censored with little yellow R18 labels but the content was very clear.

So back to the family: I freeze and immediately go somewhere else to let dad handle this question. With adult customers I’ve been loud and positive about our neighbors. (“Man, how has it been boothing next to them?” It’s been great! They bring a lot of foot traffic and they’re kind and wonderful professional neighbors. If anything it’s a fun juxtaposition. We believe in artistic freedom. I bought a sticker too!)

But this is a kid, it’s not my place to explain anything…. But I was extremely curious about what this chill dad would say.

“Well,” dad says with a long measured silence between each word. “Sometimes people are horny.”

#IT WAS SO FUNNY #the kid was like GROSS #and dad was like its art :)#maybe one day you will feel that way too son #and he was like NO NEVER GROSS #and the dad was like you know what thats true :) not everyone feels that way #but maybe some day you will and you’ll see it’s totally fine and normal #A+ dad #dad of all time #dad champion #forage friends

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wyvernity · 19 days

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been thinking about the sinnohtrio lately......plus misc other stuff

also, casual ko-fi drop!! get something in this sketchy style starting at $10 woop woop

#finally decided to do a commission test run u_u #pokemon #trainer lyra #trainer kris #trainer dawn #trainer lucas #rival barry #rival silver #ayalumi #hisuian zorua #luxio #timeskip tag #rkgk #anyway it's sinnoh time !!!#still figuring out their designs and lore but this works for now #god's specialest little guys & their very normal bestfriend who they would kill/die for. up to interpretation who is killing/dying #dawn is the platinum protag who meets giratina and becomes champion #distortion world affected her way more than compared to cynthia and cyrus since she's still a developing kid. but hey cool ghost hair!#4-5 yrs later lucas gets blasted to hisui..lost his memory for the three years he's there and when arceus sends him back he's just like Man #the entire time barry is CHILLING PLAYING HAVING FUN #and forever worried abt his friends ): dawn & lucas are soo nonchalant about what happened to them it's a bit concerning to everyone else #design comments umm the only thing that matters is that they still have their og scarves 👍#and i guesss these are spring/summer outfits. winter dawn gets leggings and big coat ok. she already has too much yin energy #btw i use the cleanse tag as the direct opposition to the spell tag even tho that's probably not a real thing LOL)#oh yea barry wears the tower master ribbon 24/7. tower tycoon in training and won't shut up about it (i love him)#character dynamics i will talk abt that in another post if i feel like it... these days i just want to go replay pla aughh

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mon-petit-coeur-noir · 4 months

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saulguzman · 3 months

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#la times better post the full interview sans watermark #rhea seehorn #mcwexler #she is literally the mcwexler champion #better call saul #mine

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eiochevart · 8 months

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Finally “completed” one of the Link designs! I say “completed” because, you know me… I’ll most likely keep making changes. Especially those pants, my creativity flopped on that front.

Anyways here’s Champion, or BotW/TotK Link! There was a 3/4-year time gap from the events of the first game to its sequel, and I am fully convinced that Link is supposed to look at least slightly older in TotK, even though the game doesn’t really represent that? I tried to keep his design relatively simple and consistent between the two designs, where TotK is more of an “upgraded” version of BotW, rather than a redesign. He wears more or less the same basics but with upgraded gear!

#with the time gam I’m referring to my own headcanons lol #didn’t check with the canon to see it it’s actually right #also ignore the unfinished sheikah slate I kinda just gave up #link redesign #character design #eiochevart au #eiochevart champion #totk #botw #totk link #botw link #loz #tears of the kingdom #breath of the wild #the legend of Zelda #zelda #loz art #loz au

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emerald-skies-art · 4 months

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Reguri Week 2023 - Poinsettia 🌹

#namelessshipping #reguri #trainer red #pokemon #trainer green #レグリ #グリレ #reguriweek #reguriweek2023 #pov you just interrupted the date of the region champions. and eye contact means it's time to fight

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parksrway · 3 months

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"celebrating fictional characters' birthdays is stupid" WRONG. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHEIK <3

#HES THREE NOW #this year's is a bit different since i decided to make it more like where he is in the comic rn #this would most likely be the birthday before the Events take place though hehe #i actually got it done on time this year #three years and link still hasnt gotten his ass out of bed (its my fault bc im slow)#no one cares but. i do :) happy birthday sheik !!!!!!!!#(and champions shadow au as a whole ofc)#champion's shadow #champion's shadow au #the legend of zelda #botw #tloz #alternate universe #au #botw sheik #botw sheik au #parksrscribbles #breath of the wild

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b4kuch1n · 6 months

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red lion wizard !

#pokemon #swsh #champion leon #wizard leon! one of em!#chose to color this one foolhardy style lmao. well it is done. I did Minimum cleaning up #this set is. well Im gonna draw the design sketch like with the toy doctor #but yeah the Other name for this one is 'wizard of performance'#which. uh. yeah there u go #Im actually flipfloppin between thinking this looks fine and feeling like I fucked up big time.... idk why. probably bc I put a h #uge splash of almond flavoring into this tea instead of like. two drops. like I wanted to #its literally like drinking perfume. why is vanilla fine when you add more than a few drops in but almond extract poisons you in real time #like why does a food flavoring smell exactly like something you Shouldn't eat. why is it made like that #well. I will sleep now. and maybe I'll dream. and then I'll know #have a good night lads! we are not immune to propaganda.

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rodentjazz · 7 months

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Tarot cards based my Lunadeyis and Aster designs

#I may be the only person in the world who cares about the goddesses #but I love gillions fictional divorced mums #this was also my first time using csp so these feel a bit messy but at least I’m ending my Stockholm syndrome with ps #I also fucking love the theory that Ava was asters champion so that’s in here too #jrwi riptide #jrwi fanart

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demonic-dorito · 11 months

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One of the most underrated aspects of the Kirkwall crew dynamics is the fact that Hawke is likely the youngest person in the group canonically

Isabela and Varric are about 30. Anders is in his late 20s or early 30s. Merrill is in her late 20s. Hawke is 24 or 25. The only thing saving Hawke from being the youngest is the fact we don’t know Fenris’ canonical age.

Hawke really went from being the Grown Up in their family to being the youngest in their friend group. Isabela has definitely told Hawke “I’ll explain it when you’re older.” Hawke comments on Fenris being a little slow in battle and he quips back “my knees aren’t what they used to be.” If Hawke gets more kills than Varric, he hits him with “back when I was your age-”

This is canonical untapped comedy gold. Why aren’t we talking about this

#like how Varric likes giving hawke a hard time already?? this adds to that #remember they stick together for a better part of a decade. they are definitely friends #and if one of your friends has a lofty title (champion) you gotta make fun of them every way you can #kirkwall crew #dragon age 2 #dragon age #da2 #hawke

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teehee-vibes · 21 days

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Thinking of Gillion and Finn today…