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so what will it be?
I used to be extremely, extremely into Thomas Barrow Downton Abbey to the point that I learned how to fix a 120 year old antique clock I had in my house when I was like thirteen. Mind you, I am not mechanically inclined. His spirit possessed me.
I just finished my 4th fic bind and I'm finally feeling proud enough of a bind to post it!
It's for the fic 'the years go by like days' by georgiestauffenberg. It's for the ship reddie (Richie Tozier/Eddie Kaspbrak) from It! This fic is my reddie canon and if you haven't read it but ship those two I HIGHLY recommend checking it out.
Anyway, into the bind.
I learned a lot with my first three binds and I applied those months of trial and error to this one. The parts I'm proud of are:
A paper cover! For the other 3 I did pretty simple cardstock covers but I wanted to try out making a paper cover for the fic this time, that way I could go a little more crazy with the design. I think it turned out super well! I'm definitely going to be doing this again for some of my fics in the future!!
The 3 sections the fic is split into (Derry, Los Angeles, and New York) all have their own full page illustrations to separate the sections
A fake price tag that is actually a QR code to the fic on Ao3
FINALLY FIGURED OUT MY PREFERRED TEXT SIZE! I've always liked fics with slightly larger text and this time I think I got it perfectly and my margins are good (I really struggled with margins for my first ones)
The things I didn't like slash messed up on and will remember to do differently next time are:
The cover is a few millimeters too small (which you can clearly see in the pictures). Next time I'm going to make the design bleed out quite a bit so I can cut it to the exact right dimensions once it's printed.
The text on the spine of the cover is a little too close to the top and needed a bit more space, it looks a bit crowded how it is.
((thankfully these are both things I could easily fix by just editing the sleeve and printing it again))
So all in all I'm sooooo proud of this bind and really amazed at the improvement between this one and my first fic bind, especially because I've only been binding fics for a few months. I have one other fic I'm already in the middle of binding and I'm trying another technique (going super traditional with this one), so I can't wait to see how it turns out!
So, it begins.
The Old Gods - Yemoja
“Ah, the ocean...like a woman, she can be gentle - caressing you with her soft waves, coaxing you to be vulnerable so as to really feel; she can engulf you whole within her very depths - submerge you deep within to see...but, ah, the ocean...like a woman, when tempered - when wronged, she is a force to be reckoned with! She will unleash her waves of anger - drowning you; leaving you choking on the very water that once brushed away your tears.”
Pantheon: Yoruba
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Tiger doodles for the Year of the Tiger 🐯