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Was deeply excited about having an infrastructure god but then [redacted bc spoilers]

Actually, since Earth Master placed 9th in the lantern competition, which implies job competence, did like... He Xuan have to spend a weird amount of his revenge time having to heavenly-ly reinforce people's building foundations?

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Black-crowned Night Heron

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Black-crowned Night Heron

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#hua cheng #just got to the part where he is a tiny little ghost fire who is like I WILL PROTECT MY BELOVED

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Fanbinding: The Truth Remains by WanderingAlice for @nrandom2215

BEHOLD: the shiniest group project I have ever completed. Typeset by @gempothospress and @epsilon500, and then bound by me, @epsilon500 and a friend who won't get a tumblr account but will read this post anyway even if I don't send it to her. (<3)

The cover is based on a rosette stained glass window, because we started with "what if we did it as all stained glass" and then had to massively scale back. It's a layer of book board with a reflective piece of silver paper on it, and then clear colored plastic layered on top, cut in such a way that they covered the whole board (credit: epsilon, our resident math major.)

This turned out to bite us in the ass a bit because while it initially looked perfect, we then got glue leaks underneath the plastic when we put it back in the press, even though we tried to use very small amounts of glue. Next time we can try either dabs of superglue (because let's face it, the plastic won't last forever so we don't need to be wildly precious about materials) or potentially leaving deeper grooves in the plastic to collect glue, though we did sand the plastic before gluing it down.

There's another layer of board on top of the plastic, with the window shapes cut out on a cricut, and then a layer of fabric (also cut by a cricut) on top of that. We had some issues with the rotations, which is why instead of having a fully black cover, there's a blue spine, because it came out angled wrong. Twice.

We fixed the glue leaks by cutting out the window shape in silver and in plastic using the cricut and then wedging them in with a micro spatula. So the windows are at different depths, but, as we kept telling each other, the truth remains.

Other important lessons learned: it's much easier to sew an endband when you have two people, one to do the endband and one to hold the thread. (Which is good because our tumblrless friend was the only one of us who had successfully done a faux double-core endband before, and she wasn't there.) It's also much faster to sew if you've got one person folding, one person punching, and one person sewing. Who knew. Power of friendship. Also, power of deadlines.

I didn't take a picture of @gempothospress's beautiful wrapping job but trust me it was beautiful.

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Hehehe

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Pierre update: I FINALLY got him to the vet for a clean bill of health so he can have the run of the apartment. Frequently running from Cosette bc she loves to play chase. But, y'know, they both seem to be having fun.