Since Mother Eve in the Garden long ago

It's been so hot and humid here. :( I had to go in to work yesterday which meant that I got to stay home today, which is mildly better as I have a ceiling fan here and nothing except open windows there.

Rec: 1980s OFMD au presented on Twitter with text snippets and, like, mocked-up images of faxes and notes and polaroids and things. I've been putting off reading it because the threaded format is admittedly annoying, but it's really the only place you could host something like that - you can put images in an AO3 work but they have to be hosted elsewhere so it's a pain in the butt. Anyway it is VERY cute. Just about any iteration of these characters makes my heart flutter, I don't think I've ever had a fandom experience like this. I think it's just that they love each other so much that it throws into clarity how SO many other things feature "romances" where the characters don't like each other that much until very close to the end.

(This is why I'm not posting here much - it would just be My Thoughts On Our Flag Means Death seven days a week. I just watched it for the eleventh time last week.)

I also finished and posted a fic, More Nicer, about Stede and Doug talking the morning after he and Mary talk it through. I quite like it! I think it's the first thing I've written for the fandom that's not some degree of Ed/Stede fluff.

*desperately floundering for something to say that's not related to OFMD* *oh no I already did the unbearable weather* I took my signatures for Female General and Eldest Princess vol. 1 with me to work to press in one of the library book presses and then punched holes in them that night, but I need to do a made endpaper for the front and sew it all together and I just can't force myself to. I think it's the heat.

Woke up this morning to find that Bonnie was still upset, had jumped on the counter and peed on it - out of spite? because she believed she was being attacked by Clyde? I don't know why, but it was very annoying. Most things were okay as they're glass canisters, but she ruined a bag of flour and the very end of my cutting board was sitting in it. I put some food and water on the basement steps but left the new kitty door locked so she couldn't get out during the day while I was at work. Interaction must clearly be supervised. She seems happy enough to play paws through the kitty door, but still the hissing and growling when they're actually in the same room.

It just makes no sense! Why should being upset about the vet and tech holding her too much lead to intense fear of her brother? But she's totally okay with me even though I took her there.

I watched bookbinding videos much of the day when I was at my desk while I worked, and I decided to make my second project DAS Bookbinding's single section pamphlet, which is still just one signature but looks more like a Real Book than the single-section pamphlet I made previously. I don't have proper materials yet, but I think I can manage it with the substitutes at my disposal, like two layers of heavy paper rather than davey board, wrapping paper for endpaper, etc.

I briefly tried using The Tudor Tailor as a straight edge and scored the spine with my exacto knife. That feels Significant. (The significance is my impatience and poor judgment.)

I took Bonnie and Clyde for their first vet visits today! Bonnie seemed okay at the time, but it clearly upset her because as soon as we got home she ran and hid - initially in my bedroom, where she hissed at Clyde when he poked his head in her direction and then ran away to the basement. She only came out about ten minutes ago, and when I went down there a couple of times to look for her she stayed well away. She just doesn't like to be touched by strange people ... anyone but me, really. Clyde handled it a lot better, even though he had to get a vaccine.

She's still hissing at him now. He is misreading it as an invitation to play, as usual. :/ Just chased her back down into the basement.

Today I came across a Tumblr post on fanbinding (that is, home bookbinding of fanfiction) that remarked on the fact that people typically/only bind copies of longfic, and showed the process for binding single-signature "books" of one-shots. And I was like, I could do that! I've been avoiding getting into bookbinding even though I want to because I don't need another hobby, especially one that requires specialized supplies and equipment, but that seems so much more low-key. Of course, after typesetting and printing one sample very short fic, I started prepping one of my favorite one-shots by After the Rain, and then I decided I've got to make a little collection of her one-shots instead/as well ... so I guess I'm going to get into the more serious binding processes after all. I already have a mental list going of what to do next, and plan to do doubles of everything so I can also send a copy to the writers.

It will be interesting to see if this is a fleeting ADHD impulse or something I could keep up with. The extensive, detailed instructions for hardcover books certainly set off my executive dysfunction, but maybe when actually doing it it all feels more natural? IDK, it seems like someone who struggles to make a whole garment/ensemble would probably struggle with this, but it just looks so cool, I've got to give it a shot.