#kryterius

[thatwildwolfwrites]

My first ficbind is complete!

This is Somewhere Far From Goodbye, and while it's also far from perfect, I feel incredible being able to hold this little novella I wrote about these fictional gay aliens. I will definitely be doing more ficbinding and bookbinding from now on. And @bonksoundeffect was lovely enough to let me use this tender kryterius drawing for my chapter headers!

It's printed on standard copy paper that I trimmed by hand with a hand trimmer at work, each signature separately. I'm sure there's a better way to do this without an industrial guillotine, but for now that's the best I could do. I needed to trim this because at less than 10K words, this one was barely big enough for me to be able to sew it together - I had to increase the page count somehow and I decided to do it by just making the pages very small. The end result is 11cm wide, smaller than most of my paperbacks 😅

The cover is also made from regular printer paper — I was afraid of splurging on professional bookcloth with my first project, in case I didn't like this hobby... Now I wish I had gone for something more durable! The black and white does fit the vision I had, though, so I'm mostly happy with it. The spine is lined with this cool space-pattern fabric I picked up at my favourite local crafts store. They already know me (💀) and know I like space themed things (💀) so I was immediately pointed to these when I went in asdkfjhdgkj....... But yeah I finally found a project I can use them on. It was a whole bundle, so I expect future mass effect fics to have these space fabric spines as well.

Now for my mistakes: paper was not the best choice for the cover. I fucked up. I followed a tutorial on YouTube where the woman showed how to do a hardcover using paper, and it looks clean, but I just know this is gonna fall apart soon. Especially at the back, you can already see spots where it scraped off a little bit when I was applying it onto the glue. Maybe I'll eventually rebind it when I get better at this 🤔 I also cut the endpapers a bit too short, but you can't really tell when it's closed. It opens surprisingly nice, almost 180 degrees! I'm happy with that, even though the glue really warped the endpapers. I know to use a thinner layer now!

All in all, I'm pleased. I did a new thing that is going to become a fun hobby (I already printed out and stitched two other fics, and I'm typesetting a few more! I hope to have enough to have something to do during Christmas break when I don't have access to the printer at work.

[thatwildwolfart]

drawing memes of my own fics again

this is their dynamic in reflections

[illusivesoul]

Got the random idea for this and I just had to make them

[katarrinskey]

Quiet night away from the city

Sketched this a few days ago, thought i might as well post it on N7 day, since it was coming up

Been a while, folks

[plum-fourthousand]

So i started actually playing mass effect by myself so i got traumatised by someone deciding he was to be alone.. Emo dead ass (but i love this game RAHH)

Anyway i drew this while listening to this song because it reminded me of them.

Also i still like Saren he's just a little bit stupid

So yee babes angsty art couse why not hehehaha

#poornihilus

Anygays XD Enjoy!

[sadlostwriter]

While we wait for Mass Effect 5,

it's good to remember some familiar Turian faces :)

The last Turian is my OC named Appolo, and why he's here with Arterius and Kryik is probably better left unknown.

And remember Aliens are not real

[lovelywingsart]

Sometimes when your past comes back to haunt you, it's best to just… follow it into the future…

Because sometimes that past can hand you a second chance.

You just need to know when to take it.

//Saren regretted what had happened. It's clear when you talk to him, all up until he shoots himself- and the one thing he hated himself the most for was Nihlus. He really did love the man after all, and he really did think he aimed for a more survivable shot to spare him. Unfortunately Sovereign had gotten to him at the last second, and... well.

And when he's given a second chance by Cam after his revival, someone he ALSO nearly killed, all he can see in them is that red hide and those emerald green eyes staring back at him-

And he knows he has to take it.//

[holdingtwopens]

Them,,, I drew them younger here, before all the reaper stuff Uncropped version on: Blusky cohost