#sunderedstar

Time to revisit an old classic! The Triumph of Time series by @sunderedstar (my favorite transformers fic of all time? signs point to yes), but with eight or nine months more of experience and in pursuit of the deep leather secrets! Naturally, I tried to shop outside of bookbinding-specific retailers and immediately bought the wrong kind of 2oz veg tanned leather (I bought buttero leather, after fighting the skiving and my turn-ins the whole way, I learned that it is prized for its stiffness, ofc. my lesson has been thoroughly learned XD). But still! I also tried silk moire endpapers for the first time, and backed the exposed surface with gold tissue

Then it got back burnered for a little while as I tried to figure out what to do with the tooling. I had a concept, but wasn’t sure about the details. I tried to do a completely different craft activity last week, so naturally this shook loose! For the three long fics, as word count increases and stakes escalate, I went for the feeling of a gradually rising sun. And then for the collection of short fics that fall before and after the main verse, I avoided an actual sun while keeping similar radiant vibes. The back covers got simple tooling with the pallet, plus my one (1) pretty tool in the corners, and the spines got the (faux) cords outlined, then extra embellishment with the pretty tool. I’m very stoked!!! I didn’t want to just repeat the same parametric designs I did before, even though it wouldn’t have been bad for the space-time shenanigans here. I wanted something new, and I’m pretty excited about how it turned out!