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Bind #23

Atlas by distractedKat

Date Completed: 4/10/2025

Size: Folio, 135,529 words, 432 pages

Copies: 1

This is a pretty classic Star Trek AOS series about the final semesters of the Academy after the Narada incident and the maiden voyages of the Enterprise.  Starts out light and then gets pretty dark.  

I had a lot of fun with the typeset on this one.  It was originally a series of four stories so I found a vaguely planetary dingbat font (52 Spheroids) and gave each section its own unique icon to go behind the title divider & chapter numbers.  Century for the body font at 10.2 size - as bad as the orphan words are at this random size they were worse when the font was smaller or larger.  Viner Hand for the titles picked solely on the “looks cool and already loaded on my computer” basis.

This fic has always been red in my brain (probably because it starts at the Academy), so that was the spine settled and I had the perfect scrapbook paper in stash.  Casing this in was a struggle - I had to trim it several times to get a square cut so my margins are smaller than I planned, and then I somehow twisted the whole thing into a vaguely spiral shape when I rounded the spine.  Best not to look too closely at the coverboards in relation to the textblock!

So I've used the warp design before for my design for @pleasantboatpress's copy of For Gladness of You, and I wanted to see if i could replicate it again. I do think if I ever re-attempt this design i'd like to use a little purple in there.

Well, well, well. The answer to that question is. Complicated.

But uh. When I was watching the new season of She-Ra I busted out my drawing tablet and made a piece of art for an idea of mine. And. Well. I took out a section of the drawing and the background to hopefully keep some secrecy, but here you go.

/HOLDS YOUR FIC GENTLY IN MY HANDS!!!!!!!!!!

it most likely won’t happen but GOD............ COULD YOU IMAGINE........ YELLS ABOUT THE JUICY DRAMA!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAA

So many assholes! Because that's REALISTIC and DEEP and have you seen the Male Novelist Jokes poem on youtube because if not, get thee to a youtube and spend a few minutes laughing and nodding and going YES

can I steal your mochi recipe?? I have mochi flour but the recipe on the box isn't actually for just regular mochi. so can I have yours??

Lucretia’s plan was to scatter her family into new lives, where they could find happiness and thrive. 

They’re scattered already, by a force she doesn’t understand but can’t help but characterize as malicious. Barry’s dead for sure. On this plane, necromancy carries heavy penalties; their greatest fear until today was that Lup was incarcerated beyond their reach, by the goddess who polices such matters. That fate could befall him too. Taako and Davenport may be dead. She, the ornery dwarf staring her down, and Magnus’s somnolent sack of flesh might be all that’s left. 

She spent months preparing to cast them aside. Now, her resolve crumbles like Taako’s flaky baklava. 

“Why am I tied. Up.” Merle repeats. “Ropes, knots, the whole shebang, and let me tell you, sis—this isn’t the right ohm-bee-yoncé to make that fun.”

Lucretia refuses to unpack that. She checks the wheel and, haltingly, goes to untie him. She furrows her brow and glares when she realizes her knots are barely secure. “You couldn’t have gotten out of this?”

“Nah,” he says, leaning heavily on the mast to stand. “Not until I knew the weird lady was okay with havin’ me up and about, and that you weren’t gonna blast my ass. Who are you, again?”

WAIT. You use YNAB?? I just discovered it and I am both intrigued and deeply confused