both fanfiction and podcasts give me a lot of feelings about the potential ephemerality of online media. obviously, no one plans for these things to vanish, but they do, and that lack of permanence gives me feelings. anyway, the silt verses was my first candidate for binding podcast transcripts, because even when you don’t have the audio, the prose is just fantastic.
i half-chose the cover paper because i wanted to nod to the birdwatcher’s book that carpenter disguises her copy as, and half because it’s just really nice paper and feels appropriate even though i’m pretty sure those are seaside birds
formatted in two columns and smaller font both as a space-saving measure (this came out to about 300 pages) and to evoke a biblical style.
(my ideal vision for a bookbound silt verses was: softcover in faux-leather with gilded text, transcripts printed on thin bible paper, and a dustcover designed to look like a birdwatcher’s book, with a publishing emblem inspired by the waxen scrivener. but there are many aspects of that i have neither the skills nor resources for, and i’m very happy with how this turned out!)
sometimes you read a fic and then you just uhh, make art for it and get carried away.
anyways read The Crest Scholars Dilemma by Garbage_Dono on ao3. i got busy with work and didn’t get to do art for every chapter, but im glad i was able to do as much as I did. woo hoo!
