So Normal About Death Wish, So I Made A Oneshot :D

so normal about Death Wish, so I made a oneshot :D

It was fine, it was fine.  It could be a hug and a rescue. Just this once, he’d let it slide.

A very special thank you to @happyfoxx-art for creating this piece. I commissioned her to draw this scene from @plothooksinc's fantastic No Rest For The Weary, an action/adventure fic set post-movie that really lives up its name!

Check it out if you want a good read. The final chapter just recently went live, too!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Leonardo (TMNT)/Yuichi Usagi, Leonardo (TMNT) & Original Female Character(s), Donatello (TMNT)/Original Female Character(s) Characters: Leonardo (TMNT), Yuichi Usagi, Original Yokai Character(s) (TMNT), Original Female Character(s), Señor Hueso (TMNT), Donatello (TMNT) Additional Tags: Run of the mill, Leo loves his bros but sometimes he needs outside help, Aged-Up Character(s), like to the age where they can legally drink, LEGALLY I SAID, Miscommunication, trope, No beta we die like Leo’s brothers, fictober23 Series: Part 10 of Picki’s Fictober23 Summary:

Leo knew he could go to his siblings about this–well, he could go to April or Mikey. Donnie would hiss and Raph would probably go ‘protective’ mode. So he had to go somewhere else. To someone else.

so my project over the summer was making a hard copy of my rottmnt april-centric fic, how to get very good at juggling! shameless plug, it occupies a very special place in my heart.

and a video flip through <3 yes it's a bad video but this has been rotting in my drafts I need it out

step by step-ish process pics under the cut! + a link to the tutorial i used.

I largely used this tutorial by Sea Lemon for the actual construction of the book. For the text block, I just copied it into a word document, formatted it to my liking, and printed it out in 24 page signatures. (This makes it sound easier than it was. I trial and error-ed this step so hard, since all the tutorials I saw were for blank notebooks, and not text. If there's demand for a step-by-step on how to do this process with god's jankiest printer, lmk and i'll write it out)

In the end, I had a bunch of signatures that looked similar to this image below. i actually reprinted them (for the third time) after i took this picture bc some pages disappeared and i took the opportunity to center the page numbers. someday i'll learn how to get them on alternating corners.

...that i then sewed and glued into a text block! (ft. my cat)

because i was using a public printer, and also because i couldn't figure out how to adjust the margins, i had to do some trimming to make the margins more normal. you can kinda see in the image above that the top margin is like. two inches. (i'm currently in the process on typesetting another fic, i'm gonna figure out the margins this time i swear)

once i trimmed it (very slowly, with an exacto blade) (god i wish i had a paper guillotine), i sewed on some paper headbands and an extra piece of support cardstock (not pictured, whoops), and then it was finally time to start the cover!

okay, admission. when i started this project, my intention was to do a vinyl cover, do the title in stickers, and be done with it. unfortunately the sticky backing of vinyl? very sticky. not easy to adjust things when you have shaky hands and can't get the cover pieces immediately lined up. so i quickly burned through the whole roll of vinyl i had, which meant it was time for plan B, fabric.

also unfortunately, my local chain craft store never fails to let me down, and the only green fabric they had was god's brightest shade of green. regardless, we persevere.

because of who i am as a person, i know how to embroider! more or less! so that meant instead of futzing around with fabric markers and attempting to make a passable cover that way, i just decided to embroider a cover.

first came the mock up

and then i got started with the embroidery! i measured out the dimensions of the cover on the back of the fabric, and made a grid for where i wanted all my pieces to go

once the cover was finally done, i glued and assembled it a la Sea Lemon's tutorial. and!! now i have a book!!

They were so close.

I was bored so I doodled your sona

👉👈

Percy can technically be big sister if you want her to be or just program her to be like that:3