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Fanart for you the garden and the grave by @blackkatmagic

Summary:

Back with more low-effort fanart doodling, this time for @blackkatmagic's ghost forests in amongst dust breathing souls

Because the words brain was like "That sounds awesome and pretty!" but the aphantasia was like "But I don't get it, need picture."

I was testing to see what the limit was for "how big can I make a paperback!" Turns out anything over 125k in this method (legal size quarto) won't fit under my guillotine! Lots of sanding occurred because Backslide (by @blackkatmagick ) was a perfect (for testing) 128k and it did NOT fit under my guillotine. Very educational!

It's a gorgeous and chonky boy. A whopping 776 pages!!! I used my thermal binding machine and it did not flinch.

The cover is designed in canva and printed on cheap cardstock. Then I half laminated it (only laminated the cover side, the back side is plain cardstock so it can be glued).

I also learned why we don't use scrap paper to protect the book in the thermal binding machine-- some of the text from my scrap paper rubbed off onto the spine and won't come off! Fortunately this book is for my own shelf and I'm not bothered by mistakes at all :)

I did spend about an hour fighting the guillotine, sanding, and even got out a chisel to whack at it.

I made many, many mistakes but thankfully few are evident in the final form of the book!

Hope you enjoy :)

The fic can be found here on ao3!

Longtext:

“He’d take Feemor's hand, if he could do it over. He’d reach across the table, wrap his fingers around Feemor's big, warm hand, the hands that cleaned Fox’s armor and carried him back to the Temple and protected him even with Ventress and Cad Bane bearing down on him. He’d just…do that one little thing. And maybe it wouldn’t matter, but—

What if it did?”

— from I Have Lived with Shades So Long by @blackkatmagic

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“I don’t want to give this one up. It’s been mine for years.”

I own myself, he means. I own myself and no one can take that away. Fox had thought that too, once.

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All of the credit for the inspiration, quotes, and references in this piece goes to the wonderful @blackkatmagic !

If you haven’t already read their incredible fic Cor Cordium I can’t stress how much you are missing out. This story struck such a powerful chord in me, especially as a queer person who had a long journey to find their own name. Reading a story filled with such vivid descriptions of nature, fascinating mystery, sharp humor, and soft moments, was such a genuine pleasure.

I wish I had enough hours in the day to draw all the inspiration I get from reading their works, but for now I will do my best to fulfill it one page at a time.

IIIIIII have been sitting in this little comic scene for quite a few months trying to get it just right but I am p much as happy as I think I can be with it at this point esp with the clone troopers in the bg bit that is killing me SO here is uh...this.

a scene from @blackkatmagic 's fic when the dead tree flowers (this comic has spoilers)

Transcript:

[Podfic Link] | Length: 1 minute, 34 seconds

Original Work: take it easy, just one step at a time by @blackkatmagic [ao3: blackkat]

SW: Jaster Mereel/Quinlan Vos/Tarre Vizsla | Rating: Teen and Up

Summary: 

Quinlan can’t take it anymore, and if he sticks around for one more minute, he’s going to have a reaction that’s entirely inappropriate given the discussion that’s happening above his head.