Say It's Here Where Our Pieces Fall Into Place by Lirelyn @ginnymoonbeam
The fic is a MZS modern AU where Lan Wangji adopts A-Yuan, and no-one knows the Xian-gege A-Yuan is desperately missing is Wei Ying, the cute barista at the cafe Lan Wangji visits every weekend.
I finished this one up last-last Binderary in 2024 and it's been languishing in my queue ever since. No more!
The spine is Duo skarabäus bookcloth (one of the most dramatic color shifts, but also hard to photograph), and the lettering is stencilled gold acrylic paint. The cover paper is more printed lokta, and I ran the title down the spine-cloth on the front cover rather than trying to compete with the pattern. (Waves that could be clouds if you squint for the Lan clan reference, purple tones to go with the cloth.) The endbands are just plain sewing thread, and only the second time I attempted double core. A few wraps aren't quite where they should be there, but I do like the colour combo.
The typeset was made for me by @admiraltypress for the 2023 exchange, and look at that title font! And the formatting for texts, which is often tricky!
I did attempt to round the spine on this one, and it went... ok, but now I know that the cardstock I was using for the spine board was too thick, which was the cause of most of my woes getting it to fit into the case.
This was one of the fic I read around 2021 after finishing the series for the first time, and realized that despite what I thought I wanted to read (plotty post-series, casefic, etc), what I really needed was to also binge a significant amount of modern AUs where (almost) everyone lives. And this was a lovely one, full of so many feelings! I've enjoyed the chance to re-experience it as I bound it.
