Fantasy with Friends: Merch

Another new week, and thus a new Fantasy with Friends post: the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about the merch you’d like to see: If you could design merch based on any fantasy books, what items would you want? I don’t buy a lot of merch because I don’t have a lot of room for it — or rather, there’s room, but I tend to find it feels cluttery and I don’t know of many items that have uses that I’d want to be fantasy-themed. Except the biggie: bookmarks. I collect free bookmarks, of all stripes: my favourites are ones that advertise bookshops, especially indies, but I have a soft spot for ones that display books I’ve actually read, too. I got into the habit because of the free bookmarks the Book Depository used to do, and now… well, I have far more than I can use, even though I tend to use multiple bookmarks at a time (marking out stuff like where the chapter ends or other convenient stopping-points). And even though I have more than…