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Photo showing hand bound quarto sized book. The cover is a brown fake leather with gold lettering saying believing in everything(and knowing nothing at all). The cover has a sword shaped cutout, through which you can seea copper skull on black paper. Another copy of the same book is open, showig the skull pattered end paperALT
Photo of same books as before, now on their sides showing the title is on the spine as wellALT
Photo showing the title page, which features a swordALT
Photo showing the table of contents pageALT

believing in everything (and knowing nothing at all) by @lesbianjesuslovesyou

A series of childhood memories from the Ninth.

I love this fic, it makes me ACHE for baby Gideon, and I love its exploration of Gideon’s dynamics with the other characters on the Ninth as she was growing up :’) this is the second fic I bound for @renegadeguild’s Fanfic Writers Appreciation Day event!

progress pics and ramblings below the cut!

I was SO excited to try a cutout cover for this, and think the endpapers I picked were perfect for it. The Pleather “bookcloth” I used was a bit thick, and that in combination with the shape of the cut out made for some very goofy progress pics. I ended up gluing scrap paper to the tiny flaps, because they were SO at parts.

Progress photo showing the glueing process of the cut outALT
Progress photo showing a pen used to hold the tabs down for the cut outALT

Also, there were definitely several places that were like… exposed chipboard/paper, so I used a marker to color it in to hide those issues and it worked great

photo showing a marker coloring in exposed cornersALT

I initially formatted the cover incorrectly and my printer was out of commission at the time so I couldn’t re-print it, so I just cut it up to frankenstien it into what I needed! I’m REALLY happy with how the sword cutout ended up lining up with the skull – you can see in the above photos that they aren’t identical, and this is because I did not think about this at all when cutting and gluing the endpaper in. OOPS!! anyway HOORAY luck was looking out for me bc it ended up looking great anyway!

photo showing the frakenstiened cover patter on the coverALT
photo showing the cover before the end paper was cut out of the frontALT

The color of the cover was honestly hard to photograph but I love how it turned out and how it looked IRL. YAYY