Bound: Heaven is a bedroom by Charlotte_Stant (Hollanov, rated E)
I adore this fic. I devoured it while travelling, and then promptly reread it two more times so I could savour it properly. It's a brilliant mix of comedy and angst, and it serves Mormon missionary Elder Hollander as well as fuckboy Ilya "MIT Grad" Rozanov in a delightful AU.
Did I fuck up the author's pseud punctuation? Yes, I did! Did I realize this at any time until JUST NOW? No, I did not!
However, bless the author for having blanket permission. Sorry for fucking up your pseud.
(Aside: Authors! Have blanket permission! It's so easy and it keeps us from nagging you, AND you get surprise binds popping up like this! I say all this as an author myself, with blanket permission!)
For this bind, I located the official LDS font (Baker Signet, if you care) so I could commit a higher level of sacrilege, using it for all the scriptural quotes and drop caps and such. I had to do a couple of pull quotes because there are just so many good ones, and of course I needed to feature the author's amazing use of *** swear censorship because it somehow stayed funny all the way through the whole fic.
I also created the faux missionary name tag art, as well as the cover design.
I used my own marbled papers for the end papers and end bands. For a minute I thought I'd flown too close to the sun with the narrow little 2mm squares I used, but look! My squares came out so well!
I also had to create a tiny faux-Mormon dust jacket just so I could shamelessly abuse Canva Christian stock art. This one features a very Mormon Jesus, as he's standing in the mountains; he also somehow looks like his parents forgot to pick him up after baseball practice.
The dusty, like Shane, is doing a poor job of pretending to be holy and righteous while actually wanting to get down with Ilya, who is DTF.
Also, yes, I did custom-draw a cross made of out dicks. I'm not even sorry about it. The SVG is available to any other binders with blasphemous intentions, just hmu.
letter quarto bind (so smol!)
short-grain 24# cream paper
2 mm board covered with Verona book cloth in sapphire, decorated using lime green HTV
end papers and end bands are marbled paper by me
spine is rounded but not backed
dust jacket title and the text on the one flap are from an LDS site, which is linked to by the author in the author's notes
dust jacket is printed on photo paper and laminated with soft-touch
with thanks to @phoenixortheflame and @citrusses for lots and lots of feedback and encouragement on the design of the cover and dust jacket
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