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"The Only Two Fish in the Sea" by tchotcho

typeset, bound and designed by masqueraves (that's me!)

“What if we kissed?” Hongjoong chokes on the bite of sandwich he just took. “To break the curse,” Yunho clarifies. It takes two hacking coughs to clear his throat before Hongjoong can reply, “That’s not how it works.” -------- Hongjoong starts reliving the same workday. (Un)fortunately, someone else is stuck in time with him.

My first fully case-bound fan bind! This is one of my favorite Ateez fics, and it was so fun to make it! I have reread this fic many times while binding, I was starting to wonder if I was stuck in the time loop as well lol. I pretty much took the fish metaphor and ran with it for the whole design, with little chapter icon-thingys and goldfish origami paper I found in my paper stash. I'm really proud to display it on my shelf with my albums and photobooks :)

Anyways!! Had a great time making this, another thanks to tchotcho for their lovely writing and for letting me bind this :D Progress pics and more details under the cut !!

Progress pics, featuring my messy, scuffed setup!

Materials used were mostly things I had already lying around in my house, save for the blue bookcloth, which I bought off amazon. The textblock is printed on plain letter sized paper, the bookboard is the cardboard back of a watercolor pad, and I didn't have mull, so I used a piece of cardstock in place of it.

The typeset was done in LibreWriter- never used it before and knew even less about formatting, but I'm very happy with how it looks! Sewing the endbands was also a new experience! Made the mistake of using a thicker, not very flexible cord (I had ideas of including shiny HTV for the cover as well but realized that I'd need a cricut to be able to cut complex designs like text), but I'd say it's pretty good for a first try. I'd love to try a method to smooth the jagged fore edge of the textblock but. That's for another day and another bind ;)