her name is maple cheesecake

nik. wholeass adult. queer. aroace. they/them. follows from: i-am-slippery-minghus ao3: sad_ghost_kid

[slippery-minghus]

deep sea creature

[slippery-minghus]

coming back to tumblr for a hot minute because these beauties are finally done!!

back in 2023, i stumbled across this Mandalorian fic series, Lift A Sail written (and illustrated!!) by the amazing @autumnwoodsdreamer. it starts out as a heartwarming retelling of the choice Din and Grogu make when meeting Ahsoka, then blossoms into a saga of crossed paths, revelations, and growth.

i wanted to devour this series, but reading longfic on my phone isn't ideal, so i went out, thrifted a printer, and taught myself japanese bookbinding! i got as far as book 3 before life happened lol

two years later, i'm revisiting the series again. i only had the first few books on paper though, so i figured i'd build myself a full set!! i was literally reading them faster than i could print them 😆

i'm so happy with how these came out!!! and honestly, the pictures do not do them justice!

[autumnwoodsdreamer]

THIS. IS. AMAZING!!!

The covers! Oh I love the holographic cover paper! And the colours are all so perfect!!! The fonts!!! Reminds me of the books I read at the library!

The way Unsinkable is in two parts is sending me 😆 at first I didn’t pick up on that and thought, wow, you managed to print Unsinkable to be the same size as Anchors. Well, I guess if you play with the font—IT’S IN TWO PARTS!?!! And the different covers with the same picture but one’s got the sketch and the other has the painted!

I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed this series this much to actually go to all this effort and print them out! They’re beautiful! Thank you for showing me!

[slippery-minghus]

ehehehe i finally remembered tumblr exists!

yaaaAAAY i'm so glad you think they're cool!!! 🤩🤩🤩

The holographic covers are my favorite!!! they give such a professional finish, but more importantly: the vinyl sheets give an element of protection to the colored paper underneath! kinda like those big dust covers on library books—they do kinda have that cozy crinkly feel 😆🤩

i was also so pleased with the little flower print for Anchors, as a nod to the Spire Roses ☺️

ahahaha yes Unsinkable is freaking MASSIVE 😆 needing to split it into two was actually what gave me the idea for adding your illustrations to the covers, to better differentiate volumes one and two 😆 there was definitely some un- and re-binding when i added that to the plan lol

thank YOU for writing and sharing this amazing series! it's brought me so much joy!!! 💖⭐️💖⭐️

[slippery-minghus]

coming back to tumblr for a hot minute because these beauties are finally done!!

back in 2023, i stumbled across this Mandalorian fic series, Lift A Sail written (and illustrated!!) by the amazing @autumnwoodsdreamer. it starts out as a heartwarming retelling of the choice Din and Grogu make when meeting Ahsoka, then blossoms into a saga of crossed paths, revelations, and growth.

i wanted to devour this series, but reading longfic on my phone isn't ideal, so i went out, thrifted a printer, and taught myself japanese bookbinding! i got as far as book 3 before life happened lol

two years later, i'm revisiting the series again. i only had the first few books on paper though, so i figured i'd build myself a full set!! i was literally reading them faster than i could print them 😆

i'm so happy with how these came out!!! and honestly, the pictures do not do them justice!

bonus pic under the cut 😆

[escuerzoresucitado]

[findingfeather]

I absolutely fucking hate this. Gold star, no notes.

[goodstuffhappenedtoday]

[incidentally-its-nonsense]

Everytime someone says that being trans is just a phase because there are no old trans people, I think of situations like this. So many people hid who they were because the world wasn’t as accepting.

[crispinkiss]

it wasn't so awful, was it?

stills below ->

[thornysort]

The Murderbot Diaries (2024) Season 2 Episode 1

[barghest-arts]

murderbot.

[moggettt]

@whirlpoolleaf asked: Can I request Murderbot for the sketch request thing? Thanks so much :)

-performance reliability at 60% and dropping-

(I'm a big fan of the idea that mb tends to be very expressive during fights, considering how accustomed it is to the privacy of the helmet)

[maomonium]

[glumbucket]

[proximally]

my gift for the MBD new year gift exchange! also here on AO3 with (soon) more notes on the before-and-after for this - though here's a few brief points of context:

MB was assisting with a legal colony rescue that very suddenly and unexpectedly became a physical colony rescue during [an unspecified natural disaster]; it got separated from the rest of its crew in the ensuing chaos, and clonked on the head hard enough to not only knock out its internal comms/feed connectivity but also dislodge basically all its memories since it went rogue (maybe something to do with differing file architecture interacting with reboot systems, idk, im an ecologist)

(meanwhile, ART and the rest of the team are in contact with one another and are super panicking - no contact, no GPS, no idea if it’s alive or dead, and half the colony’s in the same position. not a good time for team Perihelion. oops!)

CU/Dr Perseverance Helin escaped the CR partly with ART’s help (it was literally like “hey just hide round the corner til secunit is gone then get back in here, i’ll give you whatever surgery you like :)”; the name CU’s currently using was indeed also inspired by “Perihelion”) but mainly because nobody in the CR turns their nose up at a medic you can pay with your silence. once out, it got a real accreditation, and joined the local chapter of doctors without borders with a specialisation in augments and prostheses - it’s the part of its function that it liked. 

it takes. a while. for MB to realise Dr Helin is also a construct. CU is not about to say Anything direct, just in case, + no feed connection so no noticing a bot feed address, and CU mainly uses an interface anyway. finding out is simultaneously a huge improvement and huge detriment - on one hand, phew, no humans know it’s rogue and no humans did surgery on it, but on the other, there’s a fucking rogue construct here

[crispinkiss]

this network sure can effect!

[monstyra]

how tf did they even get that pic wow

[lhoandbehold]

Murderbot bookmarks collection so far!

[lotuspositivity]

You don't have to force yourself to bounce back so quickly. I read something recently that said "when you come in from a rainstorm, you don't expect yourself to be dry and warm right away", and it really resonated with me. It's okay to take time to dry off and warm up. Take the time you need to process what happened to you.

[that-wildwolf]

I know I've said it a million times but the absolute BEST possible take on the Garrus x Spacer Shep whose father died in the First Contact War is and always will be Shepard not giving a flying fuck about something that happened decades ago to other people, and Garrus being completely mortified and scared of the Implications for their relationship. When there are none.

[that-wildwolf]

Please it's so fucking funny him being like oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap while she has no clue he's panicking

My beloved scenario of Garrus nervously breaching a subject he's always wondered about, now that they're so close maybe he can actually ask her about it like

Garrus: Hey Shepard I never asked, you never mention your father. Is he just not in the picture or did anything happen?

Shepard, utterly disinterested: Yeah a turian sniper shot him

Garrus: a turian what