#xena lb

[livvyofthelake]

gabrielle cluelessly walking through this like. tavern while xena subtly fights off all these random men that come near them… and gabrielle is literally just yapping away… oh this is classic gabrielle….

[freshcut-chetney]

I just love that I went into this thinking this was gonna be a very straight show that Tumblr kept finding subtext for but nope. They really were being this gay on TV in the 90s. What happened to us

[lonesomedotmp3]

unmoisturised. bothered. out of my lane. unfocused. decaying.

[mejomonster]

Every time Never Let Me Go references that myth about the origin of lovers i get even more fond of the show, not fair

[moonfeatherquill]

In April-May, I made a bunch of journals/sketchbooks to sell at Xenite Retreat.

Most of the books are covered in my original Xena fabric pattern, which you can buy on Spoonflower if you happen to like it! It comes in two sizes.

For the last three books, I used heat-transfer vinyl and a graphic I designed last year. I should have made more of these. 😅

Construction notes under the cut.

All of them are soft-spine books filled with Finch Fine Opaque Bright White Paper 80 lb Text, which I paid The Papermill Store to cut from 11"x17" long grain into 8.5"x11" short grain. I'm very pleased with this paper choice; it takes my fountain pen beautifully.

End papers are hand-stamped with Sniggle Sloth stamps I purchased last year.

It was probably not necessary for me to do an Oxford hollow on these, but I wanted to practice it, and I can now tell you these books are STURDY. Below are the completed text blocks before casing-in. Don't mind the wax paper guarding the inside of the hollows while they dry. I also finally purchased real mull instead of fighting with starched cheesecloth or other substitutes.

They are not perfect, but I hope the people who bought them are enjoying them. (I did have some left over, oops)

[hawkguard]

all in all i do like ares

[julymp4]

i have never hated a character more in my life on G O D

[kdramamilfs]

I’m -

[keykidpilipili]

Getting inspiration for Fate ocs from my brain feels like shaking an 8-ball: one day you’re howling about Mermaid Merlin desperate to prove he is still the sexiest over Kiara and not an emotionally compromised dilf, the next you’re crying about Type Eris and her doomed civilization soon to be wiped out by Velber.

[lena-damnvers]

Xena and Gabrielle are so gay, just saying

[livvyofthelake]

ok. did merlin bbc merlin invent cpr because he was so in love he couldn't possibly imagine a world where his companion's heart could ever stop beating? oh no that was just xena? yeah. checkmate losers. i hope all british men kill themselves tomorrow.

[freshcut-chetney]

oh these ladies are always in situations aren't they

[lonesomedotmp3]

they were like we don't need other actors ok we have lucy lawless. she will play everyone. and then it was the best shit you've ever seen in your life

[mejomonster]

Thank you priest for writing lots of epic length slow burns

Thank u Silent Reading for a slow burn that takes like a third a novel to flirt, half a novel to date, three fourths to hook up, four fifths to actually be (relatively) honest and confess some bigger heavy stuff (and for fei du to propose with a quickly made ring) and im on the last fifth now but I expect more reveals to come. Thanks for a slow burn that was half during their actual romance so the buildup of trust and development didn't stall once "together." Thanks for making them "love rivals" at the start so they're not flirting exactly, but they're competitively flirting and will go onto continue doing fighting/competitive flirting for the rest of their lives so its a fun transition from their mutual crush to each other (and also gives a fun opponent/enemies vibe that never totally goes away and even 4/5 in when fei du admits most things, there's the undercurrent feeling they'll never truly be able to see eye to eye in the same world as each other and just have to adjust to learning what the others perception is when they can)

[jewishsuperfam]

THERE IT IS

MY FAVORITE LINE IN THE WHOLE SERIES

aphrodite: *in a valley girl voice* “although bombastic forms of circumlocution should be generally avoided, one mustn’t shy away from big words in the right context.”

[hawkguard]