2024-08-22 3:03:41 ¶ ●

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# Black Irises in the Sunshine by imalwaysstraight/@nooomagnus

art by @rhywhitefang, @nakji, cosplay by @aborsenkatiel, cover art by @nakji

> Nova & Co Private Investigations is the best damn detective agency this side of the River—and strictly a one-woman operation. But when Harrow gets shot (again) while working to expose corruption at City Hall, her so-called friend Palamedes goes behind her back to hire her some muscle. The good news: Harrow only has to work with Gideon until she’s cracked the case. Once she’s busted this thing wide open, they never have to see each other again….right?

- Fandom: The Locked Tomb
- Pairing: Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus
- Title font: Betty Noir
- Body font: Garamond
- Pages: 256
- Size: Quarto letter
- Case: Cover art by Nakji (computer paper + Krylon crystal clear), back is Arrestox Bookcloth Black, spine is Skivertex Imitation Leather (with hand embossed gold foil + red copic marker)

This fantastic fic has been on my to-bind list since before it was even posted on AO3, and I’m so excited to finally share it! I tried a lot of new things with this, especially the cover. This is the third and final bind I finished for @renegadeguild’s Fanfic Writer’s Appreciation Day event!

Progress pics/process rambling under the cut!

MASSIVE massive thank you to @nakji for the INCREDIBLE cover art, and for so graciously allowing me to slap text over it. I was really going for the aesthetic of those pulpy noir detective novels, and I think it turned out really good! This is the first time I ever tried an art cover. I basically formatted it in photoshop, then printed it in black and white a couple times to make sure I had sized the image right for what I wanted before taking it to fedex to print in color.

It is printed in color on normal paper, and then I sprayed the shit out of it with Krylon Crystal Clear. I also bumped the saturation a bit before printing, which I think worked well because in my experience coor printers often desaturate/fade out color prints

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I then put the case together as normal. I used gold foil for the spine, and then used a marker to color it red because I didn’t want to buy red foil just for this, and honestly it worked out great, 10/10 money saving method!

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I really adore how this came out and I’m excited at my new art cover powers… I will be using this in the future!!