Videogames, sketches, and whatever my brain is obsessing over rn

Look, I'm a sucker for a Jane Austen AU, and in the Heated Rivalry fandom, I really love non-Hockey AUs, so this Pride & Prejudice/authors AU was right up my alley. And oh my, it's so wonderful. I knew as I was reading it that I was going to want to bind it.

(in case you were wondering, I'm team 1995)

The series of these two fics is "the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid", which comes from an e.e. cummings poem. Which is why there's an entire poem on the title page.

Okay, so. I had this gorgeous red paper I bought in Washington last month, and it paired gorgeously with this red bookcloth I recently bought. So I was going to use the foil quill to put the title on, but the text just came out blobby, so I had to think of something else. Skivertex to the rescue! I swear that stuff is magic when it comes to foil quill.

I also was inspired by @maleekamolscreates's use of labels on a recent bind for the titles, and I kind of took that further by extending the "label" across the entire cover. I really love how it came out! I had this vision of an apple on the cover, but it wasn't working for me, so I decided to keep it simple and nixed the apple.

I kept the typeset fairly simple, but it was fun adding in some photographs that were in the text of the fic. I did at least get to use the apple motif in the section dividers.

When it came time (like, the next day) to make my own copy, I went with a different color scheme because I didn't have enough of the red paper. So I used this gorgeous marbled paper that Mally made and went with blue instead of red on the cover. The colors of the endbands and edge speckles come from the endpapers, but I think it's kind of hard to tell. (Also I'm mad at myself for forgetting to speckle the edges of the author copy.)

How to traumatize your alien crab friend in his first visit to your home planet (yes they're on earth)

let's be pebbles and misbehave on our field trip to mr. grace's habitat :D

the upgraded xenonite suit was invented shortly after