Drawn by hand. Designed with intent.


Every design in the shop begins as an original illustration — no templates, no mass-produced anything. Just one reader who was born to be a '90s witch, fell hard for dark romance, and never met a badass FMC she wouldn't follow into a cursed forest. What you see here was made to be held, gifted, and hoarded.

The Origin Hex

Welcome, kindred spirit. 🖤

I'm Kaitlin, maker, reader, and the woman behind Margins & Malice. This shop started with a simple obsession: books, the tropes that ruin us, and the tiny objects that make reading feel like a ritual. Every bookmark, sticker, and stationery item here is designed dark, whimsical, and a little unhinged, because that's how the best stories read.

Each piece is designed in-house and made to order, inspired by the romantasy, dark academia, and dark romance worlds we can't stop rereading. If you've ever dog-eared a page out of spite or fallen a little too hard for a morally gray love interest, you're exactly who I made this for.

Find more mischief on Instagram @marginsandmalice — and thank you for letting a small, dark-hearted shop keep your place. ✨