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ehyde❧ Black Friday deals -- Cricut vs Silhouette -- I've been intending all year to get a cutting machine this holiday season, and now's the time to do it, but I'm still undecided between a Cricut or a Silhouette. Cricut has slightly more functions (although possibly with not quite as much customization?) -- mainly it does embossing/debossing, which I would like to explore for book design. Its downside is needing an internet connection to cut--iffy in my craft room--and potential software shadiness from the company (they planned to go to a paid subscription model, backed off when literally no one supported this, but the threat is there). I think I'm still leaning towards the Cricut? But I'd like to hear what other people think, if you've used either one.
❧ WIP Wednesday -- I've been working on another typeset for @renegadepublishing's exchange, so I can't share details, but I can share fonts! I'm using Newt Serif for the body text (a serif font with a bit of a whimsical, fantastical vibe). I loved this font when I first saw it but it wasn't suitable for the book I was working on then, and I kept it in the back of my mind till now. And I'm using Son of Time by Pia Frauss for the titles--no special reasoning here, but I knew I wanted something handwritten, old-fashioned vibes, but upright, and I recalled this site had some possibilities. I've used the same designer's Tycho's Elegy (based on the handwriting of Tycho Brahe) in a different typeset before.
❧ I've been reading Priest's Lie Huo Jiao Chou (danmei, urban fantasy) and in theory I like it a lot, but I've been kind of bouncing off it, and I can't point to any particular reason why (as opposed to Mr Melancholy Wants To Live A Peaceful Life, which I didn't finish, where I could point out exactly why it wasn't clicking for me). I might just not be in a reading mood; I haven't been reading any fic lately either. I don't think the fact that it's an unfinished translation is helping, either, knowing that I'm going to have to stop somewhere and not binge the whole thing whether I "get into it" or not.
❧ WIP Wednesday -- I've been working on another typeset for @renegadepublishing's exchange, so I can't share details, but I can share fonts! I'm using Newt Serif for the body text (a serif font with a bit of a whimsical, fantastical vibe). I loved this font when I first saw it but it wasn't suitable for the book I was working on then, and I kept it in the back of my mind till now. And I'm using Son of Time by Pia Frauss for the titles--no special reasoning here, but I knew I wanted something handwritten, old-fashioned vibes, but upright, and I recalled this site had some possibilities. I've used the same designer's Tycho's Elegy (based on the handwriting of Tycho Brahe) in a different typeset before.
❧ I've been reading Priest's Lie Huo Jiao Chou (danmei, urban fantasy) and in theory I like it a lot, but I've been kind of bouncing off it, and I can't point to any particular reason why (as opposed to Mr Melancholy Wants To Live A Peaceful Life, which I didn't finish, where I could point out exactly why it wasn't clicking for me). I might just not be in a reading mood; I haven't been reading any fic lately either. I don't think the fact that it's an unfinished translation is helping, either, knowing that I'm going to have to stop somewhere and not binge the whole thing whether I "get into it" or not.
