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making ebook covers for fun
Aug. 31st, 2025 21:51
I was at a social event last the weekend (everybody please clap) and caught a cold I’m still recovering from, so this’ll be short.
I really love Project Gutenberg and will occasionally browse one if its categories and download whatever seems interesting (ebook of the Epic of Gilgamesh in the original cuneiform, anyone?). Quite a few Gutenberg ebooks come with default covers that can only be described as… visually confounding.
The clashing color combinations and oddly squished-looking font are particularly fascinating to me. But I like that they have covers at all. Anyways, being the visual creature that I am, I like to make time to create my own covers for these books. Here are a few of them:
A bit of wolfposting again
Oct. 1st, 2024 20:43
It’s been a year since my last Wolf post on here. Work has kept me very busy and stressed, but I’ve been on sick leave for a while with instructions to relax, and so fandom talk it is.
I’m still really into Honey/Molina and it’s given me a big creative boost and motivation to post stuff. I made myself a little icon to go along with the theme on here, too:
The fandom is still pretty small, but I get huge kick out of every time someone interacts with my Wolf content, because it means there’s still other people who care about the show and that makes me super happy to know. Things move so quickly these days.
Speaking of active fandom, there’s a new fanfic on AO3 too, Back Into The Fold by Bellatrix_Wannabe_89. It’s only one chapter so far but I’m already obsessed any hyped to see where it’ll go.
I actually recently published my first 10k word long fanfiction and while it was a struggle to get that far and I’m not super fond of the end result, I’m still proud I finished it at all. The scenes and pacing I had planned would have probably needed 30k to flow properly, but I gave up on that when writing started to feel too much like homework and cut the fat where I could. I think I’m just not built for long form writing like this, haha.
I also wrote two other short Honey/Molina things, one last year and one right after publishing Rubber Band. They’re on AO3, too:
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Method Acting (962 words) by escherfall
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And then today I posted my first fanmix. I’d never made one before and it’s quite the fun project. I deliberately didn’t seek out new music and chose songs from my personal library. I’ve posted it on AO3 and here on DW as well.
I’ve had Honey/Molina on the brain recently, so I thought I’d try my hand at a fanmix. I’ve never done this before, but I hope you enjoy, haha. This isn’t so much a coherent narrative taking place in one universe, but a series of relationship snapshots arranged in somewhat chronological order.
Sorry for the basic-ass song choices, but I decided to stick to my own library and most of that didn’t really fit the ~vibe~ lol.
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Hiya 👋🏽 I finished customizing my first figure a couple of weeks ago and wanted to document a few of my thoughts here.
( Read more... )AO3 reskin from hell
Oct. 8th, 2023 19:16That voice inside your head that says, “Hey, you should write an AO3 skin that fully replaces the default. It will be fun :D”?
Yeah, that’s the devil talking.
I don’t want to know how long I spent on this, even excluding the year-long break where I gave up after realizing I couldn’t use flexbox, grid, or calc. The only reason why I decided to finish it this week was because I forgot that was the case and then I was too stubborn to stop.
( Screenshots )Oh, and you bet it’s responsive. Well, responsive in the way that AO3 allows you two breakpoints and no custom media-queries.
It needs a bit more tweaking in some places, but for the sake of my own sanity I want to say that version 1.0 of this skin is finished now.
