foundinthegrass
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"I was gonna kill a couple rappers, but they did it to themselves Everybody's suicidal, they ain't even need my help" - Kendrick Lamar
"If you refuse to shoot the gun, don't mean the gun ain't deadly,"
J Cole re-entering the rap beef
I want to take a minute to rant about my favourite Firefox add-on
(Well. Second favourite. Shinigami Eyes is my favourite.)
Welcome to SponsorBlock.
SponsorBlock is a particularly sophisticated ad blocker for youtube that skips over promotional spots within youtube videos. You can customise it to allow, autoskip, or ask to skip various types of in-video promotion.
For example, I’m watching this video:
If you look down in the progress bar, you’ll see yellow segments highlighted for unpaid/self promotion (this is people telling you about their patreons, or new merch they have for sale, or new youtube series they’re making, stuff like that), and a green segment for paid promotion (for if they start ranting about skillshare or hellofresh or squarespace, you know the kind). I’ve got it set up so that SponsorBlock will automatically skip the paid promotion – I don’t even know who this guy’s sponsor is. But he’ll keep telling me about his new PO box unless I choose to skip it with a single button press. (You can set it up to autoskip this stuff to, if you prefer). Segments are user-submitted, so there’s no weird errors made by bots or anything. This is the cleanest, most ad-free youtube experience I’ve ever had; often I’ll forget I have this installed and be like ‘wow youtube’s been surprisingly good lately’.
one day I’ll have enough money to buy les nereides jewellery 🥲 one day…
Finished binding another one! This is Desiderium, a fantastic re-imagining of AOT canon if Eren and Levi had joined the Survey Corps at the same time. Written by the wonderful @omnidirectionalmanoeuvregay! Gripping plot, the slooowest burn, hilarious voicing--everything about this fic is just! *chef's kiss*
Green and white for the Survey Corps colors, and gold keys for...well, you know ;D
This fic was so much fun to bind for so many reasons! Lots of firsts: first time splitting a single fic into two volumes (390k words will do that to ya!), first time doing a full-cloth case, first time hand-sewing headbands, first time I get to use my new imprint logo! I'm super pleased with the results.
Thank you so much for letting me bind your work, Wilde! I adore this fic and am soso happy to finally have it on my shelf <3
Spitfire by @mayakern
What do you do when you're a dragon and the prince you're in love with is getting married? Fuck his wife.
titles/chapter headings: Cinzel Decorative headers/page numbers: Organik body text: Cardo
What can I say about Spitfire? It’s truly an amazing piece of work that is a brilliant high fantasy, queer af and completely engrossing. It gave me everything I ever wanted out of a novel; plot, genderfluid characters, PINING like you wouldn’t believe, great sex scenes, DRAGONS, and just. Women. What more do you need out of a fantasy book?
The design on the covers and the spines are heat transfer foil, the bookcloth is duo, there is variegated thread that I used to sew the signatures together, 3 colour endbands and handmade marbled papers. Spitfire deserves nothing less.
If you’d like to read it, the first 30% is available on AO3, and you can purchase it on Amazon. Go get it!!
I can’t wait to see what happens in Firebrand ✨
Books!!!! I am all out of time order lately, haha. One of these, the one with white-and-gold endpapers, was mostly done before when l posted about After The Storm, but my cricut software had been giving me trouble. Well, I sorted that out, and also sorted out copies for the other coauthors as well!! I've been adjacent to these creators for... wow, many years at this point, and it's so rewarding to be able to put hard copies of their work into their hands :D
[Image ID: A half bound copy of Leave the Children Behind by montparnasse. The book is bound in dark blue bookcloth and paper patterned with silver birch trees drawn in a watercolour style, the background a lighter navy colour scattered with small bronze stars.
The second photo shows the silver endpapers, and the third and fourth photos particular details of the book: the first page, which is headed by a vintage sketch of phases of the moon and a drop cap in the shape of a crescent moon, and a close up of one of the scene breaks further on in the book, which is divided up a tiny first quarter moon. End ID.]
Sometimes projects don’t work out the way you want them to! And that’s fine, totally okay. I didn’t shed a tear when the first set of endpapers ripped in the middle of gluing, but it was a close run thing. No title page photo for that reason cause gluing it twice made the page all wrinkly, god bless.
This fic has been living on my computer as a pdf for many years now, so despite some setbacks with the casing, I’m glad to be able to hold it in my hands. It’s a very beautiful story - I always think of r/s in terms of silver and blue and wanted that to carry over into the typesetting with all the stars and moons. The moon dividers actually go through two whole cycles over the course of the story, changing incrementally with every scene break, which is probably my favourite thing about this round of typesetting.
265 pages and typeset in Traditional Arabic
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!)
classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here's a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it's unreal
Do you…. Have any trashy romance novel suggestions 👀
Absolutely. I can give you some author recs, if you're down for it? They're really prolific authors and have a range of stuff, so you'll probably find something to your tastes.
Cat Sebastian mostly writes Victorian/Regency romances with queer characters (I particularly rec A Little Light Mischief which is unbearably cute).
Alyssa Cole has a lot of great, diverse romances with POC and queer as the MCs (particular rec for How to Find a Princess, which is about security officer and the princess she's trying to get to claim her title).
Rebekah Weatherspoon is really funny and writes really great characters, and her fairytale retelling series (esp. If the Boot Fits) is one of my favorites.
Yvette Hines is one of the funniest writers I've read, and she has a bear shifter romance series that is so full of bear puns it's amazing.
Sam Burns is also really fun, and mostly writes queer paranormal romances that are really fun and full of relatable characters (I'd rec the Fantastic Fluke series because who doesn't love ghost romance and mysterious plots?)
Alexis Hall is maybe my favorite on this list? They write really, really entertaining "traditional" sorts of Victorian romances (among others) but with queer protagonists. My personal go-to when I'm feeling down is A Lady for a Duke, with a trans woman MC and a childhood friend romance. It's lovely.
Decorative front cover of ‘Flowers of Mountains and Plains’ by Edith S. Clements.
Published 1920 by H.W. Wilson Co.
New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
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Golden cicada on a jade leaf, Ming dynasty (1368-1644). This sculpture was discovered in a tomb in 1954: it is the top of a hairpin, belonging to a woman of high rank. The imagery of a cicada on a leaf had a double meaning and was a high compliment paid to beautiful women. .
Broche “Pensées” de René Lalique en or, émail et diamants (circa 1903-04) à l'exposition “Végétal” orchestrée par Chaumet à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, juin 2022.
Diamond, nephrite, and rock crystal lily of the valley brooch (at 1stdibs)
Ten Songs Meme
Tagged: @jellydishes ⁌ ⁍ (Thank you~ 🎧🤍📻)
put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people
1: Outta My Mind - Monsune
2: Love Lockdown - Trevor Something
3: Sorry - Meg Myers (Ethnikids Remix)
4: Tayf (Ghost) - Mashrou’ Leila
5: I Can’t Let You Go - 52nd Street
6: Dorian Electra - Career Boy
7: Lover Chanting - Little Dragon
8: DNA - Kendrick Lamar (Yung Bae Remix)
9: Lucifer - Sadluci
10: She Has a Lover - Turquoise Jeep ft. Pierre Cashmere & Slick Mahoney
Tagging: @5lazarus @calenhads @noswordstyle @bengalaas @heartsyhawk (But only if you’d like~ 🎶👏😌🎵) and all other interested parties. @ me in your posts if you try it out!
Selfie Tag
Tagged: @jellydishes ⁌ ⁍ (Thank you~ 🤗 🖤)
Tagging: All other interested parties. @ me in your posts if you try it out! 💄✨ 📸