squippling depression

Grace, haltingly on the keyboard Rocky built for him: Wassup bitches. Fucking jazzed to—

Stratt: "hmm what do you think dr grace?"

Grace: wow what a crazy plan that would take an absurd amount of power to accomplish and have far-reaching impacts "yeah it's feasible, i'd go with it"

Stratt: "alright, you heard him, do it"

This Tornado Loves You, a frerard fic by the amazing @theopteryx, and one of my favourites. It's been a fun ride doing this fic, as I ended up designing and hand painting the cover paper in gouache before subsequently affixing the painted paper to the cover (prev post of the cover design). As a result it is one of the most involved covers I've done; sometimes you have a design in your brain and you gotta see her through, and I really enjoyed being able to incorporate aspects of the story by doing so into the cover. Technique wise in retrospect, thick layers of gouache are not the most ideal to use for cover designs for bookbinding as they can flake, unlike acrylic, but that's food for thought later. This book was also my first attempt at double core endband (the other books I've posted I did after the endbands for this book), but the originals (although pretty and decently done) I actually scrapped as I came up with a design that more represents the maze, compared to the previous design; it's also not the only part I've re-done, as the grave corner design I actually re-painted to better fit the other corner art pieces.

Fic details and link below the readmore:

“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”

“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”

Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”

“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”

“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”

“Grace want this liquid for celebration.”

“Of course.” They scan it. “You have wrong liquid. This contain compounds which are poisonous for humans.”

“Yes yes yes. Grace say humans like feeling of being slightly poisoned.”