Are You OK?


The fan translation of Are You OK? by Qi Ying Jun / Qi Shi You Xing. The translation I used for this binding is no longer online, but there's a different translation here.

Without getting too spoilery, this novel features a great number of transmigrators who have irreparably altered the historical fantasy setting they landed in. I wanted to play with anachronism in my binding but I thought “if I do some sort of mock stab binding that’s not going to read as anachronism, that’s just going to read as low effort.” With a proper stab binding, I couldn’t put the whole thing in a single volume, but fortunately the novel is comprised of interconnected short stories so it was easy to split up.

Each volume contains two stories (the sixth volume is the extras) and they’re bound tête-bêche style, meaning that they start at opposite ends meet in the middle, flip it over to read. I lined the inside of the covers with rainbow marbled paper and bound each volume with matching colors of thread. The slipcase (my first, and easier than expected) is edged with the same marbled paper and lined with a promo image from the donghua. So, this is kind of all over the place, design wise, but I hope like… coherently so.

Here is the tutorial I followed for stab bindings, by the way!

Please note that this is a personal binding made for my own use and enjoyment and no money has been made from this project.


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