her name is maple cheesecake

coming back to tumblr for a hot minute because these beauties are finally done!!

back in 2023, i stumbled across this Mandalorian fic series, Lift A Sail written (and illustrated!!) by the amazing @autumnwoodsdreamer. it starts out as a heartwarming retelling of the choice Din and Grogu make when meeting Ahsoka, then blossoms into a saga of crossed paths, revelations, and growth.

i wanted to devour this series, but reading longfic on my phone isn't ideal, so i went out, thrifted a printer, and taught myself japanese bookbinding! i got as far as book 3 before life happened lol

two years later, i'm revisiting the series again. i only had the first few books on paper though, so i figured i'd build myself a full set!! i was literally reading them faster than i could print them 😆

THIS. IS. AMAZING!!!

The covers! Oh I love the holographic cover paper! And the colours are all so perfect!!! The fonts!!! Reminds me of the books I read at the library!

The way Unsinkable is in two parts is sending me 😆 at first I didn’t pick up on that and thought, wow, you managed to print Unsinkable to be the same size as Anchors. Well, I guess if you play with the font—IT’S IN TWO PARTS!?!! And the different covers with the same picture but one’s got the sketch and the other has the painted!

yaaaAAAY i'm so glad you think they're cool!!! 🤩🤩🤩

The holographic covers are my favorite!!! they give such a professional finish, but more importantly: the vinyl sheets give an element of protection to the colored paper underneath! kinda like those big dust covers on library books—they do kinda have that cozy crinkly feel 😆🤩

i was also so pleased with the little flower print for Anchors, as a nod to the Spire Roses ☺️

ahahaha yes Unsinkable is freaking MASSIVE 😆 needing to split it into two was actually what gave me the idea for adding your illustrations to the covers, to better differentiate volumes one and two 😆 there was definitely some un- and re-binding when i added that to the plan lol

it wasn't so awful, was it?

stills below ->

@whirlpoolleaf asked: Can I request Murderbot for the sketch request thing? Thanks so much :)

-performance reliability at 60% and dropping-

my gift for the MBD new year gift exchange! also here on AO3 with (soon) more notes on the before-and-after for this - though here's a few brief points of context:

My beloved scenario of Garrus nervously breaching a subject he's always wondered about, now that they're so close maybe he can actually ask her about it like

Garrus: Hey Shepard I never asked, you never mention your father. Is he just not in the picture or did anything happen?

Shepard, utterly disinterested: Yeah a turian sniper shot him