#dry heat

[somepeople13]

In Phoenix, Arizona, on the third Wednesday in May at 3 p.m., the GroundCat awakens from under the furniture. If the belly is hidden, it means a short summer with “moderate” dry heat. If the belly is showing, it’s going to be an unbearably hot summer with monsoon humidity. I’m not sure what spread eagle means...

[many-sparrows]

I see God in everything, in trees and the pain and nights in the spring

[zhalfirin]

Dry Heat/ Cold Rain/ Green Blade - altersuperego

More detail and what inspired the design here

Format: approx. Din A5 Materials used cover: cardboard (two layers) bookcloth goat parchment

bookbody paper munken polar 100g/m² endpapers: chiyogami endbands: buttonhole silk transparent paper  story dividers: satogami

fonts used title: Felix titling (15) text: Garamond (10)

clamshell box cardboard (1mm and 1,5mm) elephanthide paper Efalin

[zhalfirin-binds]

Dry Heat/ Cold Rain/ Green Blade - altersuperego

See the finished project here and here

The book is done, the gift made, so now I can share a bit more detail about the inspiration. I think the design was subtle enough to not give away too much (although I felt like I wrote a lot about Hollows and that just had to be a dead give away.) The cover was inspired by the captains haori. I went for an inverted version of it for completely practical reaons though. A white cover would look dirty and grey in no time, that’s also why I went for paper backed parchment instead of simple white paper. The parchment is much more dirt resistant. The black looks just as dusty though, so that was that plan... now I built a clamshellbox to keep it clean The chapter numbers had first been regular roman numbers until I realised there was no chapter higher than 10! I could go for the a division style there! The unfinished last fanfiction, Green Blade ís just 3 chapters in...  and there was my Gotei 13, Since all three fics together are not excessively long I had some blank pages to spare and went for a lot of space in between, So every chapter comes with it’s respective division’s insignia.

Each of the stories has different chapter dividers featuring the jigokuchō, the hellbutterfly, a messenger of the shinigami (deathgods) in form of a black butterfly.

[plakatierenverboten]

Desert Mambas: Dry Heat (Official Music Video)

[vsquinnell]

Weather report for AZ...HOT 🔥

#weather #hot #arizona #dryheat #sunnydays

[themiddlechildsworld]

Swimming

it looks like we will be able to swim today 🏊‍♂️

[patbertram]

Treating Myself

Major doings today! A friend and I treated ourselves to a trip to the big city for a shopping spree, though to be honest, it’s only a big city in comparison to this tiny burg, and the shopping spree was merely to stock up on groceries. Well, groceries and chrysanthemums in my case. The flowers weren’t a spur of the moment thing — I’d actually planned to buy a mum or two for my garden. They are…

[perfectlymassivetimetravel--blog]

Guys wanna know how hot my state is...

Well I tell you...

My state is so hot that I walked outside with wet hair and it dried in five minutes...it takes two hours for my hair to normally dry...

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

yeah sex is great but have you ever found a shady parking spot in 100+ degree weather

[girlboyburger]

what do you guys think going through a nether portal feels like?

[stuckinapril]

One thing I’m realizing is if you don’t already have healthy hair, it’s hard to pull curls off regardless of your routine. Like I just did my usual lengthy curly hair steps (detangle while soaking wet, leave-in, curl cream, mousse, and gel—all w products I’ve either been using for a minute or products I researched at length) but my curls still didn’t come out as curly as they usually do. And a big part of that is I haven’t done any hours long hair masks w shower caps on for a minute, I haven’t been doing deep clarifying sessions like I usually did, and bc I already started w a base of curls that was frizzy the end result wasn’t as bouncy and defined as it usually is when I do go the whole nine yards. So like literally the first step to defined curls (or hair in general tbh) w volume is having good hair care. The rest follows but I don’t think a solid routine will save u if u don’t already start w something healthy.

[hedgehog-moss]

I’ve been spending some time every afternoon reading in Pirlouit’s Diet Pasture, to keep him company in his exile. Pandolf isn’t very good at sitting quietly with a book so it’s often one of the cats who stays with me, whichever one feels like it, and it got me thinking that donkeys are a lot like cats. They’re both very intelligent and independent-minded animals, and a lot of people dislike them for this reason.

I didn’t realise before I had Pirlouit how many people hate donkeys—I’ve had locals tell me bluntly (and unprompted) that they hate them, someone told me I should have bought a smaller donkey who would have the same negative traits (smart and willful) but be more easily handled (forced to do things)... that one time Pirlouit was injured I needed help to catch him and clean the wound, and some people told me it would be easier to find help if it was a valuable animal, like a horse. A farrier told me he needed to pare Pirlouit’s hooves under a tree so he could tie his halter to a branch above his head to prevent him from looking at what he (the farrier) was doing, “or they’re too difficult”. He doesn’t do this to horses, and wouldn’t even consider giving my donkey a chance before twisting his head uncomfortably like that, even though Pirou’s always been very cooperative with farriers.

In the book I was reading the other day I came across the phrase “the insolent dignity of misunderstood beings” and I thought it suited both of these animals very well.

[zhalfirin]

Dry Heat/ Cold Rain/ Green Blade - altersuperego

More detail and what inspired the design here

Format: approx. Din A5 

Materials 

cover: cardboard (two layers) bookcloth goat parchment

bookbody paper munken polar 100g/m² endpapers: chiyogami endbands: buttonhole silk transparent paper story dividers: satogami

fonts title: Felix titling (15) text: Garamond (10)

clamshell box cardboard (1mm and 1,5mm) elephanthide paper Tsumugi Chiyogami

[zhalfirin-binds]

WIP Dry Heat/ Cold Rain/ Green Blade - altersuperego

casing in

I had just rounded the spine and glued the tube on the book spine against the spine of the cover, when I noticed the front edge has gotten a bit short delicate (sometimes that happens), but it made me worry that with the stretching of the paper I’d end up with just a tiny strip of front edge. So I cut back the paste down about a mm to prevent that.

When applying glue (or any moisture for that matter), paper stretches which can be a hassle if unaccounted for. With Chiyogami the stretch is not as bad as I feared, but it still made up half of what I cut back. Being shorter than necessary is ok in this case though. When the book is closed no one will notice the paste down is actually a bit smaller than the innerbook and when it’s open, well, then it makes for a good looking front edge. The only must here is, USE SOME MACULATION WHEN APLLYING GLUE.  I forgot that once and it would have been fine had both my endpapers had the same size...  as it was I had a very neat strip of glue on the fly leaf...

I closed push down the hinge and close the cover only lightly just to lift it up a tiny bit again and check if the endpaper is straight or askew. Because the endpaper is only lightly attached to the cover it can be carefully corrected if necessary before I turn to the other endpaper.  When both are done I apply some short, but heavy pressure to get the paste down to stick firmly to the cover. Take it out of the press and check immediately for emerging glue on the paste down. This is a bit tricky, because the cover needs to be opened far enough to wipe away any excess glue, but the glue is still fresh enough that the paper can be pulled out of place if opened carelessly or too far, which would result in nasty wrinkles close to the inner hinge.  I prevent that by pushing down the cover so the inner hinge gets kind of clamped  and can’t move too much while opening the book a bit.  It looks somewhat like this:

When the book is clean I put thin cardboards between paste down and fly leaf and align them with the cover board without blocking the hinge. The cardboard is to prevent the glue-moisture from wandering into the inner book and make everything wavy. Instead it can wander into the cardboard without doing any harm. Then I settle the book between more clean cardboard (I use finnboard, but any cardboard will do, it only has to absorb the moisture and protect the cover from scratches), weigh it down and let it dry.

[lindagoesmushrooming]