Is This Thing On?

@nogling / nogling.tumblr.com

Part-time drag nun, Certified Adult, and solitary witch. Fan of Too Many Things. Currently trapped in the buckle of the Bible Belt. LadyNogs on AO3.

So the work trip was fun, but I am very glad to be home where I can keep working on my fanbind.

Adventures continue: while I was out of town, my sacrificial video greeting card came in, as well as the Good Paper and my million scraps of leather that will eventually get turned into a cover, and after spending most of the day as a complete slug on the couch, I finally starting disassembling the greeting card.

Before it ran into my knife:

And after it ran into my knife:

Now that it’s disassembled, I can start working out how much space I’ll need to have in order to have it properly inset in the signature. It’s going to be fiddly, regardless, but also: who needs solder when you have hot glue?

Tomorrow is going to be creating a new, more compact enclosure for the electronics, and then I’ll decide if I want to try removing all of the hot glue and soldering the connections - I likely won’t for my test construction, just in the interest of maintaining my sanity, but for the final construction I just might.

Then I’ll adjust my typeset so that the video falls on the last page of a signature so that the inset can actually be in the signatures after - hopefully that will prevent the weight of it from tearing it out of the spine. We’ll see how it comes together, but I have a feeling that even though it isn’t a particularly thick book, I may need to do some strategic spine reinforcement just to accommodate the video inset.

The player is triggered with a magnetic switch, which I’ll also need to figure out how to accommodate in the structure, but I have some ideas for that and we’ll see how it goes.

#fanbind #sometimes you just gotta break stuff to make stuff

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Grocery store eggs, yes. Eggs from the people who snagged ‘em out of the nest that morning and didn’t scrub the bloom off, no.

They stay fresh about the same length of time, and it’s fairly easy to wash before you crack ‘em.

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wheeloffortune-design

you know you're good at your job when every single person tells you "thank god you're back"

Boss makes a dollar You make a dime You read unsanitary pirate slash On company time

Look if you read fanfic on the clock and everyone is still relieved that you're back you must just be that got-dang good at your job

Fam, some jobs are like being a firefighter. 90% of the time you're not doing anything that important, but by golly, when they need you, they need you.

Some jobs, you can fuck around for six hours a day, but you know what you're doing so well that the work you do in two hours would take somebody else ten.

Some jobs, you spend those two hours preventing other people from making mistakes that would take 100 hours to fix if you weren't there to steer them right.

So don't buy into the idea that if you're not working 480 minutes a day, you're not doing enough to get paid a day's wages. That's the capitalism talking.

You're a better employee when you keep your morale up, and sometimes you do that by reading fanfiction on the clock in between putting out your little fires.

When I first ended up in a “consultant” role, it took me a while to get past the sheer overwhelming guilt I experienced over not “really working” during my 8 hour shift.

I went from having 4-6 open projects to just one, and it fucked with my head. What do you mean I only have two meetings this week? What do you mean the client wants a project plan in 90 days? I went from having to block off time in my calendar to eat to spending my workday leveling my crafting classes in FFXIV. My deadlines were suddenly flexible, and people pinged me with phrases like “Sorry to bother you, I know you’re really busy, but do you think you could get me X minor line item at some point in the next six weeks? No rush!” It was a mindfuck.

And then we had a platform issue.

And I hopped on a call with the vendor, spent about ten minutes putting in a workaround, and suddenly everything was fine again and I got an email from the CFO thanking me for my expertise and swift handling of such a major issue, and they copied the entire C-suite and two other vendors we worked with, and it clicked in my head that the reason they were paying me to fuck around on the clock was that NO ONE ELSE was able to think around those kinds of corners. When I presented all of the relevant parties with a breakdown of a) what happened, b) why it happened, and c) how to make it less painful if it happened in the future, it was like I had revealed the Ark of the Covenant and they extended my contract for another year and a half in order to keep me on deck. I spent that year showing people how to do some of what I did, and they essentially told me they wanted me around forever, and would I potentially be interested in learning a new thing they were thinking of adding?

Some jobs really are about just…..being available when fires need to be put out. The time you spend not putting out fires isn’t “productive”, but it is inconceivably valuable, because you’re there to have the skillset they need three times a year.

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Test print sewn. I’m gonna have to play around with glue amounts, because I’m not happy with how the glue portion turned out, and I need a punching cradle, but for a first attempt at a bind? I’m happy with it. I used a modified kettle stitch to sew the signatures, and I need to tweak it a bit (and also use better thread, rather than the super cheap stuff I used just to get a feel for how the sewing would go), but thankfully years of quilting mean I am decent at keeping even tension despite the unfamiliar materials.

I’m traveling for work this week, so fiddling will have to wait, but when I get home I’m going to do some calculations on how many blank signatures I’ll need to add to allow for the video screen inset, since the video greeting card I’m cannibalizing will arrive while I’m out of town - I’ll do another test print on the cheap paper with some modifications to adjust things like the page numbering location and give myself a blank page to attach a decorative end paper, and do a dry fit of the inset, and I’ll also practice finishing the case with book cloth, even though the final version will be leather bound, just so I get a feel for the measurements I’ll need to use.

#fan binding #I wasn’t expecting this to go so well for a first attempt at a new skill #but I am pretty pleased at how it’s going so far

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Test print of @teddywesworl’s Who Shall Sing Me Into Deathsleep, minus the video inset, because that is going to be a whole ‘nother layer to this project, and I have Damage.

If I can wrangle this into something I like the looks of, I’ll splurge for better paper and the stuff I need to make the video player inset.

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chroniclesofchronicillness

This makes so much sense

May I add:

Too many I know, give more than asked and run themselves ragged.

I know you want to be good and kind to others and show your skills. But please don't. It just leads to more work because people think you can handle it, or uses you. If you can perform 100% of what is asked with 70% of your energy, do that and save the 30% for yourself.

I would also add - if you give 100% of your energy, you will have nothing left for yourself.

It has been 9 years since I burned out so hard I had a nervous breakdown and spent eight weeks mostly sleeping and waiting for my meds to start working so I could bathe myself regularly again.

I am still not back to what my 100% looked like in 2016.

I may never get back to that 100%.

Do not give more of yourself than you have. Do not give all of yourself to anything, especially not a fucking job. It can kill you. And if you survive it, it will take something from you that you may never get back.

You must learn how to say no. You must. It is necessary to your survival. You must keep energy for yourself - you must keep energy back for joy, for pleasure, for survival, for growth. Burnout is Not Fucking Around. It will force you to stop overextending yourself, whether you like it or not, and it won’t necessarily stop there.

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people will design soap dispensers and dish racks and go like it's okay if this is capable of getting rusty, right. that's an acceptable weak point for an item whose sole immutable destiny is to get wet every time it's used, right

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