#the star splitter

[littlewinnow]

Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past little while!!

Illustrations for @oflights brilliant time-travelling fic The Star Splitter, Please check it out on AO3! (As well as their other amazing fics!!)

It was a joy to work on this for you Allie, congrats on finishing your fic!

Close ups below ⬇️

[oflights]

The Star Splitter, a Harry/Draco fic by oflights, NOW COMPLETE.

Summary: On a routine time travel assignment to the past, Draco stumbles upon 7-year-old Harry Potter and witnesses his neglect and mistreatment by the Dursleys. In the moment, there is only one solution, even if it goes against all his training as a Time Agent: he has to bring Harry back to the future with him.

In which Draco burns his life down for the sake of his former school rival.

Notes: The Star Splitter is now complete! It has 32 chapters and clocks in at 219k words.

thank you so so so so much to everyone who read along, commented, left kudos, bookmarked, recced, sent asks: you have made this a phenomenal posting experience unlike anything else i've ever done, and i am so incredibly grateful to you! i'm also grateful to the folks who may start reading this today or over the weekend. i hope you all enjoy this fic; it was so lovely and fun to plot out and write, and i'm so excited to share it with you.

also check out both playlists, if you'd like: regular playlist | orchestral playlist

thank you to everyone who was excited about the snippets and voted in the poll!! i hope you like this, and let me know what you think!

read from the beginning.

[cheriecherishchen]

Cover art for The Star Splitter for @oflights

[oflights]

oh my GOODNESS!! i am speechless. this is so incredible and i am so so so grateful. and completely in awe of your talent!! it looks amazing and just perfectly captures the aesthetic.

all of the joy and love put into this is so clear and beautiful and it’s making me emotional. thank you!! it’s an honor to get to see this.

Bound: The Star Splitter by @oflights

If there is one thing I am not, it is patient. The minute I finished this fic, I ran off to ask the author for permission to bind it. I'm so happy I'll get to have this one on my shelf!

I spent a lot of time (for me, anyway) on the typeset. I wanted the chapter pages to be special but also was afraid that if I printed them in color, they'd bleed through (like what happened with The Man Who Lived.) But I didn't think I'd be able to fit the text block in my guillotine if I used a heavier weight paper.

Happily, I was able to use the heavier paper and the chapter pages and illustrations (by the absolutely incredible @littlewinnow) without any bleedthrough on the back.

I made the end papers with illustrations off pixabay and foil toner. Do I love them? Not as much as I wish I did. I may do something slightly different for the author copy. We'll see. (Mostly I don't love the color of the cardstock I printed on.)

So once I was happy with the text block, I had to think about the cover. I didn't want to do yet another navy book, so I almost went with black, but I decided to peruse the fabric store for starry printed fabric, and brought home a couple of options. I decided I liked this one the best.

I was also nervous about this because I've never used printed fabric on a cover, and I was worried how the title would look. So I reconfigured my original design to make it legible. Oh, and thanks Joann's for having this holographic HTV on clearance! I love how it looks a million different colors, depending on the light and the angle and what it's reflecting.

Now. Go read this lovely fic if you haven't already!

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OC Dump!

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Title: Star Splitter | Author: Matthew J. Kirby | Publisher: Dutton Books (2023)

[jonathanpongratz]

New Book Release: Star Splitter by Matthew J. Kirby

    Blurb: Crash-landed on a desolate planet lightyears from Earth, sixteen-year-old Jessica Mathers must unravel the mystery of the destruction all around her–and the questionable intentions of a familiar stranger. Pulse-pounding YA science fiction from award-winning author Matthew J. Kirby. For Jessica Mathers, teleportation and planetary colonization in deep space aren’t just…

[ajsbookreviews]

Star Splitter Book Review

Star Splitter

Author: Matthew J. Kirby

Description: Crash-landed on a desolate planet lightyears from Earth, sixteen-year-old Jessica Mathers must unravel the mystery of the destruction all around her--and the questionable intentions of a familiar stranger.

For Jessica Mathers, teleportation and planetary colonization in deep space aren't just hypotheticals--they're real. They're also the very real reason her scientist parents left her behind six years ago. Now she is about to be reunited with them, forced to leave behind everyone she knows and loves, to join their research assignment on Carver 1061c, a desolate, post-extinction planet almost 14 lightyears from Earth.

Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆

Review: Star Splitter is the book to read if you’re easing your way into the sci-fi genre.

Matthew J. Kirby’s writing is fantastic, bringing forth a level of vividness that reads like a movie — words blossoming into images on their own. It’s not convoluted scientific jargon, and neither is it dumbed-down explanations. It’s the sweet spot right between the two. Especially taken into account the visionary storyline and its genre, it’s utterly gratifying to read. The mere interpolation of the second point of view into the story, and how well executed the idea was, brings me awe and admiration for Kirby’s ingeniousness. 

However, though the book was filled with intriguing secondary plot-lines and strange incidents, not enough of them were expanded on. It’s a dreadful miss to leave so many hanging threads laying around, with no explanation nor pay-off. 

Additionally, though this is more of a personal preference, another downside was the small amount of spotlight given to Duncan. The character brought forth so much charm and dimension to contrast with Jessica. It made the dialogue entertaining, and it gave a different perspective to the events that neither Jessica could provide. It’s a shame the character was under-utilised. 

For all it’s worth, Star Splitter reads as a stand-alone, but I would be lying if I wasn’t desperate for a sequel. 

[tealbeats-archived]

@seekslight sent: [ 𝐑𝐄𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄 ] ― sender and receiver see each other again after a period of being apart. and. y'know. celebrate. ANY VERSE OF YOUR CHOOSING

To say that he was worried was an understatement—the rest of his team was probably annoyed by his consistent whining and cern about the girl from another group of Star Guardians, but they didn’t understand! How many times had he snuck off to go see her? More then he could count on both his hands, if he was being honest. But lately—lately things had been…different.

Days had become weeks, weeks hd becomes months, and it seemed as though paths that normally crossed had..stopped crossing. Like he had just missed her; or she was too busy, or…something! There was no way she was avoiding him, right? There couldn’t be! …Right?

If so, what did he do?

Blue eyes fixate on familiar pink hair and he nearly jumps when he notices her; making a quick sprint; dodging people before he makes his way in front of her and cuts off her path; panting softly from the sudden burst of energy.

He wasn’t going to let her out of his sight this time.

“Lux! It’s—man, I ran way too fast—good to see you! Where’ve you been!? I’ve been really worried about you, y’know!”

[libertyreads]

Book Review #108 of 2023--

Star Splitter by Matthew J. Kirby. Rating: 2.75 stars.

Read from August 24th to 26th.

I'm going to keep this review short if I can because this book didn't do a lot for me. (Also, I finished the book this morning and forgot to write a review when I got home from work so we're getting the tired and ready for bed me. YAY.) I had heard of this book from BookTube. I can't remember whose video I saw it on, but it seemed like everything I love. It was a SciFi/Horror genre mashup novel which is my jam. I love SciFi and James S.A. Corey's Expanse novels will live in my heart forever. But I can't even begin to explain my love for SciFi when it comes with a darkness, with a twist that kicks you in the teeth, when all you have to protect yourself are your own wits. This was pitched as a girl having to work on research of a new planet with her parents when all she really wants is to stay at home with her grandparents and the girl she might eventually have a romantic thing with. And when they get to the planet, not everything is as advertised. There are underground cities that definitely shouldn't exist. There are creatures that shouldn't exist. But maybe worst of all is someone who definitely shouldn't exist.

Let's start with the main problem: it doesn't go there, it doesn't get dark enough, creepy enough, scary enough. For some reason this author decided to pull his punches with the twist and it actually made me mad. We spent the whole time foreshadowing something that would be absolutely gut wrenching and something that would have been awful...but, as a reader, I would have loved it. And then at the last second it seems like the author changed his mind. Or maybe he was never intending to go where he was foreshadowing and it was just something that he needed to put in in order to make it feel more ominous. But it made me mad at the end. For the last 50 pages, I felt like I was lied to and everything that happened after felt hollow. We also have this issue where there are too many unanswered questions. That underground city I mentioned? We see a character go through some stuff in that city and then it's never used as a plot point again. It's mentioned in passing from one character to another, but that's it. Which is a shame because it was one of the most interesting parts of the story. We have some issues at the end that could have been resolved in a few ways and by the end we don't really know which avenue was taken. I don't like open endings. I think they're sloppy and that they're a sign that the author cannot commit to the story. Maybe it could be argued that it can be used in Mystery/Thriller/Horror novels as a device to keep a reader engaged even after the story is over. Maybe thinking of all the things that could have happened will prolong the sense of dread. But that doesn't make sense for this story because it doesn't go to a dark enough space to give me that sense of dread in the first place.

I DO, however, feel like the author does a good job with the SciFi aspect of the story. They even do a good job presenting a philosophical argument about this new technology and how it's used later in the novel which was fun to see debated. I just think the author spent too much time trying to understand and show these SciFi aspects of the story and too little time on the plot and the resolution of the story. I think in the proper hands this could have easily been a five star read for me. But in the hands of this author? Not so much.

[malerek]

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[oflights]

The Star Splitter passed 100k hits and I truly have no idea how to comprehend that. That's absolutely wild to me. I've never had a fic pass that benchmark before and it's been completed for less than a year?? Just totally wild. Grateful to every single person who opened that fic and engaged with it in some way, you're all amazing 💕

[oflights]

not to reblog this twice omg but @bicholsdrarrysideblog these are so: #DADDY ISSUES DRACO IS EVERYTHING TO ME#like HOW do you cope with loving someone so much but his beliefs being so far from yours#the ENTIRE population HATES him yet you remember how he gave you EVERYTHING as a child#OF COURSE YOUD BE DROWNING IN DADDY ISSUES

like!! exactly!!! when it's probably a good thing your dad doesn't approve of you but also he's your dad!! when he probably loves you but you want him to like you :/ when you can't be what he wants you to be so you do whatever you can to be what the emotionally unavailable men you keep dating want you to be to make up for it.

living, laughing and loving that fanon Draco now comes packaged drowning in Daddy Issues. give me Draco wearing his dead father’s pyjamas. give me staring at a manor during sex because of Lucius-shaped Reasons.

[huariqueje]

The Star Splitter - Emma Haworth ,2024,

British , b. 1970s

Oil on canvas, 150 x 130 cm.

[kissmypoets-hp]

Fanfic Classics Series ⏳🪐🌌 This batch of fanfiction deals with the multiverse!!! Time travel!!! Imminent thoughts about life and death!! Past lives and dreams of a future together — get ready to witness a love for the ages.

the earth from a distance by spqr

A Beginner’s Guide to the Afterlife by mcsyndrome

Us, infinite (unfortunately) by @thecouchsofa

"An Emerald In The Sky" by @corvuscrowned

In Every Universe by @skeptiquewrites

Our Little Life by @tackytigerfic

Dwelling by aideomai

there will be time, there will be time by @amywaterwings

Harry Potter and the Future He Doesn't Really Want, Thanks. by orphan_account

Everything is Relative to You by @thehoneybeet

The Star Splitter by @oflights

art credits + some cover commentary under the cut :)

I had a lot of fun finding/using artworks with circles, lines, and shapes to symbolize different worlds/universes and/or the passage of time...

Artworks used, in order:

"Several Circles" by Wassily Kandinsky (1926)

"To all appearances, it was a hand of flesh and blood just like my own" by Odilon Redon (1896) — A ghostly hand that fits the plot. The artwork's title goes with the fic so well too...

"(#2) (from series, Quantum)" by Garo Antreasian (1966)

"The story of the sun, moon, and stars (1898)" by Agnes Giberne — inspired by the summary "Somewhere along the way, Draco realizes he's been thinking in lines, when he should have been thinking in circles." The original artwork comes with a caption 'Stars whose distances are well-known'... I really feel that it fits since Draco was named after a constellation... Also, the star-circles have numbers on them, which could be interpreted as H/D through different ages...

Max Brückner’s Collection of Polyhedral Models (1900) — Exploring different parallel universe versions of yourself... the more things change, the more they stay the same.

"Construction (SM lg71)" by László Moholy-Nagy (1924) — some mild spoilers for the fic! inspired by the phrases "...plot a path through the many universes such that he would never die." / "flickering through timelines? Just getting glimpses, really" .

"Fish Magic" by Paul Klee (1925)

"The Terrace at Saint-Germain, Spring" by Alfred Sisley (1875)

"Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare" by Claude Monet (1877)

"Charing Cross Bridge: Fog on the Thames" by Claude Monet (1903) — referenced in the fic. i try to pay attention!

"Boy with Kite" by Candido Portinari (1947) — Harry is a precious little lamb. more elaboration here

i’ve been making penguin classics-style covers for fics i have saved on my kindle, as inspired by zeziliazink and bubu0h’s works!