2024-08-21 17:01:03 ¶ ●

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# Eat My Words and Then Swallow your Pride by silverapples (18+)

+ its sequel fic, Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt (18+)

> Gideon prides herself on being able to get anyone she wants in bed. But when it comes to Harrow, she’ll have to do some giving first.

I’m SO excited to have bound this series as part of @renegadeguild’s Fanfic Writer’s Appreciation Day (August 21) event, it is one of my absolute favorite fics and such a love letter to butch subs/bottoms everywhere.

- Fandom: The Locked Tomb
- Pairing: Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus
- Title font: Engravers MT
- Body font: Garamond
- Pages: 128
- Size: Octavo letter
- Case: Arrestox Bookcloth Black with hand-embossed silver foil, featuring cover art by me!

some rambling under the cut

i forgot to take good progress pics here because besides cutting the pages/the octavo size, this bind felt very standard/nothing much new was tried, construction wise – but I DID draw the cover art with my mouse in photoshop because i couldn’t find good royalty free art that fit the Vibe and this fic deserves a bangin cover.

I went with Gideon being collared by Harrow for the design because like, yeah. Of course I did. She deserves this.

I think one of the main artistic things I would change in the future (besides photographing it against a more contrasting background OOPS) is I think I’d want a thinner tip for the foiling, I think the summary on the back turned out okay but the spine text was a bit small for the tip I had, so it is a bit hard to read.

I really like the octavo size for shorter fics, especially for fics in the 5k-15k range depending on font size/art/etc. I wouldn’t want to do a standard folio or even quarto with something this short just due to like… it would turn out magazine thin, but it looks cute as hell when turned pocket sized so I’m excited to have opened up a new realm of fics to bind!