#10Oz

[scr4n]

10oz Ribeye w/ Chips, Mushroom, Tomato & Peppercorn Sauce 🥩

[fungardpapercups]

paper coffee milk tea coffee cups producing #bobatea #plasticcup #coffee #coffe...

[qthetailor]

Details #super 140 #10oz #custommade #fitfirst #yourstyle #indivuality #functionalbuttonholes #fullcavas #halfcanvas #yourpersonaltailor #blazer #suits #trousers #waistcoats #topcoats #qthetailor #bespoke https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpHNsvrxfs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[demodoggonetired]

After a few months of off and on again work, @cuips-not-cute 's Cyclical is now bound!!! 489 pages, 21 signatures, and about 1.25 inches thick!

And you should read their fic here!!

{Breakdown under cut!} - Contains Spoilers!

Uhh where to start with this. My first attempt at: a more standard book size (fun), a full cloth book (no problem here), full page illustrations (okay results), and chisel trimming (uh oh!).

(Suffice to say I need more practice with that last one, the foredge could have been worse, but it coulda been better - a little wonky but we'll just say it's got character).

I think what I'm most proud of is the color cordination of it all (and the end papers, oh my what a fitting find).

Materials: Made with Cialux bookcloth in night blue and Spanish MM marbled paper for the endpapers. The cover graphics are yellow Siser HTV, a black HTV, and Cricut metallic gold HTV (not near as shiny as one might like). Bound using linen thread and archival pva glue, endbands sewn using single strand embroidery thread in a double core style. Printed on Hammermill 20lb cream paper.

Cover: Cuips mentions Slaughterhouse Five at the start of the fic with a quote, so I used that as a bit of a jumping point for the cover design. Specifically this edition. Only instead changing the red for the blues of the upside down and a somewhat orange-ish yellow (both colors of which we see a lot in the fic). The skull and crossbones is similarly swapped with the hourglass on its pedstal in the UD woods with a flower and petals around it. The back cover showcases a sheep dog's wolf collar hehe. My biggest grief with this cover is that for some reason, one of the HTVs leaked glue when pressed. It doesn't look bad, just adds an odd shinyness but thankfully isn't sticky. Weird!

Title Page: A negative space hourglass with UD vines outlining the shape (perhaps a XII hidden in there too...). In the middle is a repeatedly circled sphere with sand pouring out and the title flipped to be reflected below.

Other tidbits that I think are neat:

All timeloops in the fic end with things dissolving into sand, so I tried to add a little falling sand graphic at those sentences.

The chapter end notes are titled "notes for past self" and the next chapters summary and beginning notes are "notes for future self" because it felt like it fit the timeloop theme

"say it out loud, it'll be okay" (with the Steve and Robin sheepdog and cat) and "enter sandman" have my favorite chapter title illustrations (oh man the feelings I have for the cassette tape..)

the book notes page has the same vine graphic as the title page but this time with flowers on it!

Overall I'm really pleased with how this bind turned out! It was a lot of fun and a bit of a journey to make!

+Bonus timelapse of sewing some of the signatures 'cause I find it fun to watch:

[kittlyns]

Bring your daughter to work day 💕

[tedlebred]

chat when a recipe says "one piece of banana" does that mean an entire banana. chat what are we thinking

[onlyblackcoffeez]

had coffee before weigh-in,, now it feels like I can't ://

[quietblissxx]

[scr4n]

10z fillet steak with chips and peppercorn sauce 🥩

[mademoisellesarcasme]

whoever convinced most of america that dark roasted coffee is what coffee should taste like was a con man trying to cover up his shitty roasting job

AND YET IT PERSISTS

[cai-tan]

aw hell yeah sulawesi is available on happymug and i have money in my bank again. we're so back.

[okarasusama]

Did you get any sleep at all after all that tea? It sounds so nice but at what cost

since the caffinated cups were all a) small b) usually consumed with food and c) early in the day, i didn't feel any ill effects!

since the last two were chamomile it was actually pretty relaxing overall

[brunetterightsactivist]

Let’s discuss how I just paid $3.50 for a little single serving of honeydew melon

[hasufin]

Shrinkflation

So, I found out a fun fact this last weekend!

Every state has a Department of Weights and Measures. One of their jobs is to make sure that companies are actually selling you the quantities they claim they're selling. For example, this is the department which tests gas pumps and makes sure they're really pumping out a gallon of gas when they charge you for a gallon of gas.

So....

If you happen to, just as an example, notice that your 1lb (16 ounce) box of San Giorgio spaghetti actually only has 10oz of noodles, and you weigh your other boxes of spaghetti to discover they run from 10 to 14 ounces but never the full pound they're supposed to have, and that's why you never seem to have enough pasta for leftovers the next day, then you can report that to the Department of Weights and Measures.

They will want to know where you bought the item, and then will investigate whether the store or the manufacturer is routinely shorting customers. If they do, they will issue a fine to the offending party, you will be eligible for a refund, and under some circumstances lawsuits may follow.

Now, I don't know the outcome of the complaint I just initiated, but they did not want to know specific receipts or times of purchase. Which is good for me as I didn't keep any of those things, at the time I just said "Wow, fuck San Giorgio" and switched brands. But this is still enough to get an inspector out.