Interim by starkraving (@punishandenslavesuckers)
Interim is an amazing post BotW fanfic where the cycle starts immediately over but Link and Zelda don't realised it and it is racist to accuse the hot Gerudo man they are both nursing a crush on of being the next evil king. I love this story it is so so good. This is one of the few loz fics I adore that is not purely zelink. The writing! The story!! They are all so doomed by the narrative and they are all so so hot.
The aim was to get this finished in Binderary 2026 but I ended up too busy to finish anything but a pamphlet in the end.
The typeset is spectacular and was created by @besidekick for the 2024 Renegade Exchange. I really adored design choices of the interior illustrations from c. 1640 by Bartholomeus Breenbergh, they fit the post-apocalypse theme so well. And the blue drop caps!
I love the cover I came up with in homage to the gorgeous typeset and the illustrations scattered throughout the typeset. The cover illustration is an etching entitled Classical Ruins created in 1673 by the Bohemian artist Wenceslaus Hollar in 1673. The cover was designed in Canva, printed on matte photo paper, then covered in soft touch laminate before being adhered to the book board. If I was to redo it I would forgo the blurb on the back, as I added it last minute, and I feel like it could have looked better without upon reflection.
This book went so so wrong at the end (issues with the front endpapers I’m pretending are not real until I can face trying to fix my mistake), but I’m so happy to have this story on my physical shelf.
