dreams through the noise

The Crimson Lotus by @bonibaru

Pop quiz! You've got a fic that revolves around a secret identity. Do you create an inlay or a cutout on the cover?

Luckily, I had a ton of photomanips to pick from for the cutout portion -- nearly every chapter included a graphic or two. Which led to another design question: while typesetting the fic, did I want to sprinkle the graphics throughout like I've done with fanart in the past, or collect them all in one place?

The graphics were part of the summaries and/or author's notes, and they weren't always chapter-specific; plus, they occasionally had their own captions that worked great on AO3, but might've interrupted the flow of the story in a typical book. So I decided to go with the latter and create a "bonus materials" section that included the graphics, some info about outtakes/side chapters, and the chapter-by-chapter author's notes.

The Crimson Lotus by @bonibaru

Pop quiz! You've got a fic that revolves around a secret identity. Do you create an inlay or a cutout on the cover?

Luckily, I had a ton of photomanips to pick from for the cutout portion -- nearly every chapter included a graphic or two. Which led to another design question: while typesetting the fic, did I want to sprinkle the graphics throughout like I've done with fanart in the past, or collect them all in one place?

The graphics were part of the summaries and/or author's notes, and they weren't always chapter-specific; plus, they occasionally had their own captions that worked great on AO3, but might've interrupted the flow of the story in a typical book. So I decided to go with the latter and create a "bonus materials" section that included the graphics, some info about outtakes/side chapters, and the chapter-by-chapter author's notes.

© 狐狸大王a

Newsflash. No man needs a bitch telling him to eat rabbit food and nagging him constantly.

My dude, you got this backward; welcome to the modern era, we have careers, money, we buy our own houses and cars, and we have easy access to a selection of vibrators our ancestresses could only dream of.  Companionship is great and everything, but as many of us discovered, it comes in many forms.

audiobook narration is a performance and that, like one can appreciate the myriad of ways that actors have approached the “To Be Or Not To Be” soliloquy in Hamlet, one can equally look at the choices the narrator makes in their performance and see how they are in conversation with the text, often in ways that are a surprise to me, the author.

—John Scalzi

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characters who would crush it in a worldswap

Izzy - izzy wakes up every day and curses god that he doesn’t get to hang out with BS blackbeard, who would fucking hate Izzy. He’d call izzy a gross little pervert and izzy would have the best orgasm of his life about it

Ed - not saying he would crush it, but I think he would develop a big weird crush on flint and his clavichord and teakettles and it would be very funny for me personally

Silver - ya boy would CLEAN UP. whole new world of pirates here who don’t know his reputation for bullshit and genuinely believe in the power of friendship. scams for days

Anne Bonny - another clean sweep. no survivors. she and Jim exchange a stoic nod. would introduce much-needed lesbian biodiversity to the ofmd biome, like bringing wolves back to yellowstone

Flint - if i think about this too much i start crying 

Jack Rackham - would finally be appreciated as the fashion icon he is. also huge improvement over the will arnett version of jack. In general, would have a nice time and go home very refreshed

Characters who would not have a good time in a worldswap:

Charles “it’s gay to live in a house” Vane - sure he’s tough but can he survive getting dunked on constantly? Probably not.

Lucius - I think he’d get by alright actually but would HATE it and be very sulky

Our Flag Means Death: Odds Are (Ed and Stede will be alright! Probably.)