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This is probably a bad idea, Bobby Boy thinks wildly. Jimothy isn’t sure that he’s going to be able to stop himself from kissing Bobby Boy anymore, now that he knows what it feels like—he’s doomed himself, really, because he’s probably not even going to be able to look Bobby Boy in the eye at the club anymore.

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Written another iteration of child vs foster mother, and this one’s quite cute. I don’t plan on doing it for each one of nine, gods, the tedium, anyone reading would be just “here it goes again” but it might work for a few. They do all go differently, but there are similarities and it’s obvs not meant to be a snoozefest or this woman just being a constant irritant. I hope to get more action and also more conversations between the kids.

Meanwhile, I’m getting emotions with the middle-sized kid not loving school (he’s actually not in the middle cos six are older than him, dammit he’s 7 of 9), and I’m already tired. This is taking all day with rest breaks. Which is still better than just all day needing to lie down or fully sleep, but it would still be nice to feel better. I had a 1-1 session of frequency healing yesterday which needs time to settle and my back is also stiff, so 😴

I had to cut the pages at a printing shop because without a hydraulic guillotine, neatly cutting so much paper is just not possible. I've tried many methods but ended up with just uneven and ragged pages.

For binding, i chose the "perfect binding" technique with a softcover. It seems to be the easiest and least labour intensive. Binding the pages was actually easier than i thought.

I've designed the cover around a stunning artwork by Suzuka Youraku. Here is her pixiv page: pixiv.net/en/users/53055517
Full cover can be accessed here: drive.proton.me/urls/4ZWBW7ZHH

In the end, I'm happy with the result. It cost me very little. In total the 400 pages book came at around maybe 5€ to make :blob_rave:

(part 4 of my bookbinding project)

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Before printing the book, I had to learn how to format text and design the pages. I opted for printing four pages per A4 sheet, which was not all that easy when printing about 400 pages which then need to be flipped and printed over again.

I'm using Scribus for the layouts. It's clunky and annoying but it's opensource and free. I've included the source file here: drive.proton.me/urls/4DQVGYRVY if anyone wants to try and print this book by themselves :blob_nom_cookie:

(part 3 of my bookbinding project)

I made this drawing and wrote a little story for Kahhori as a little epilogue for S3 of What If... (I believe the short is still understandable if you haven't watched the series, in case anyone wants to try!) 😄

archiveofourown.org/works/64202158

If I wrote a fix-it (1) #fanfiction for every dramatic, jealousy-ridden story about an unhappy love triangle which isn't working because of mononormativity (2) ... I would need another lifetime, because there would be too many. 🤔

Footnotes:
(1) fix-it fanfiction: A fanfiction in which a problem gets addressed and fixed which isn't resolved in the original story.

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I have ideas again for a #fanfiction, for #Dracula by Bram Stoker, but make it queer and with #polyamory. 😊 As you can imagine, I am not the first who came up with that idea. There are over 200 fanfics about Dracula with more or less polyamory, on AO3, some including his brides, others pairing up most of the male characters, including Arthur Holmwood and Dr. Seward.
Writing such a fanfic would give me an excuse to return to one of my favourite historical eras, the late Victorian.
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