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dargeereads · 21 days

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By Frenzy I Ruin by Cora Reilly

4 stars

Overall, I really like this story, and I completely got tied up in the story, wondering what was going to happen next! There were a few twists, but the core of the relationship between Nevio and Aurora played out, for most of the book, in a pretty predictable manner, based on who they are and their families. How was it going to change? That was the part that kept turning page after page, and when it all finally fell into place, it was just so right <3

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booksbydlwhite · 20 days

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Look for me on THE BOOK BUZZ show Monday, April 1, 7PM EST

Hello out there to my Bookish Boos and Bros.

I’m shouting out a heads up that I will be LIVE with the Book Buzz Show on Monday, April 1 at 7PM! Y’all know I love nothing more than to talk about books— reading them and writing them so I am already excited to chat with Cheryl and The Book Buzz fam about my books, especially HEY LOVER.

Tune in on Youtube or Facebook for a great conversation and I’ll be giving away a few of my books!

The Book Buzz Show on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BookBuzzinc

The Book Buzz on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091506161017&mibextid=LQQJ4d

#book buzz #interviews #live #youtube #facebook #appearances

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mydairpercabeth · 2 months

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Things I need in season 2 of Percy Jackson

Percabeth siren scene

My baby boy Tyson

Focusing on the picture of Annabeth Percy keeps with him

Grover in a wedding dress

Percabeth cheek kiss

The introduction of skaterboy Percy

Blackjack

Percy becoming more protective of Tyson

Percy finding out Thalia is alive

Clarisse storyline

More of Annabeths backstory

Seeing the Princess Andromeda cruise

12 episodes instead of 8

What do you want in season 2?

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bubblesandpages · 6 months

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I greatly admire Suzanne Collins goal to never explain any of her stories. She just drops them and goes.

#she leaves the rest of us to make an absolute circus out of it #Suzanne Collins #there was so much negative buzz when Ballad was announced and her response was 'no the ones who get it will get it #those who don't don't none of my business'#The Hunger Games #thg #Catching Fire #Mockingjay #The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes #The Underland Chronicles #tuc #Gregor the Overlander #Fizzy talks #books

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hawnks · 10 days

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Not to be a hater but the romance book culture is in peril

#I hate u booktok #now say something true and beautiful #the most least sexy high heat novels imagines me coming out lately #wow that sentence is INCOMPREHENSIBLE <3 #I feel like a broken record but like #anyway #these books are being chosen becuase the author has a following and she chose the right combination of buzz words to be mass marketable #it’s soulless #squawk tag

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drangercore · 2 years

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Love and Other Historical Accidents by @pacific-rimbaud

Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy never intended to blow up their life's work, but that's rather what they've gone and done. Now they're trapped 200 years in the past, with a broken Time Turner, a missing snuff box, a handful of overly-eligible daughters, and a House-elf in a cable knit cardigan. It will require the combined power of their keen intellects to get them home, if they'd stop arguing long enough to use them. As it turns out, history is just one damned accident after another.

Fandom: Harry Potter

Relationship: Hermione Granger x Draco Malfoy

Art by @gingerhuneybee, @jjuuppiter, @jaxxartbox, & yours truly

My first fanbind!

L&OHA is an impeccable story and is so very dear to me. This was the fic that made me go “I want that on my shelf!”, so here we are.

keep reading for more binding info and to see my gushing on the fic.

QUICK SPECS

153,854 words | 571 pages | 5″ x 8.5″

Binding Method: 3 Piece In Boards Bradel Body Font: Adobe Caslon Pro Decorative Font: IM Fell English

I am very proud of this book, having accomplished many firsts with it. My first book that I rounded and backed, sewed double-core endbands on, painted the edges, and used toner reactive foil and HTV on!

ON THE STORY

Sighs. What more can I say? It’s simply brilliant. A unique multifaceted story with incredible dynamics, clever foreshadowing, great character studies of Draco and Hermione, and such beloved original characters. It’s comedic and refreshing but it also takes on grief and goodbyes, and heartbreak. It’s fucking romantic and also So nuanced. I dislike stories that spoon-feed every little thing about the character, so the parlor tricks on this one? Ate every crumb of it. It was filled with implications and was misleading in the best sense. You’ve got to be an astute reader to catch some things the first round (which I definitely wasn’t).

While it doesn’t entirely shy away from typical lovey-dovies, the regard for mundanity and the inconsequential, I just find more inherently romantic. The exploration on time travel and the vivid prose further underscores the depth of PR’s talent. She captures so eloquently, the mind of an extremely logical person in a very illogical experience. I saw myself in Hermione so many times. The story demands to be read again and revels upon doing so. Pacific Rimbaud is such an incredible writer *sobs* all her works are simply a masterpiece.

That said, this beautiful story deserves to be turned into a physical book.

DESIGN PLAN (or lack thereof)

This is my first fanfic project and my third book overall which I must say was quite a leap considering my very little binding experience. I think the demon small niggling part at the back of my head got the best of me and positively thought she could make a relatively fastidious book despite the lack of skill. BUT nothing can stop me when I am overly enthusiastic about something, thus began my 2 month research, soaking up every gobbet of binding info in reach. As far as my book binding journey goes, gathering supplies was the hardest part lol. Bookbinding is not a common hobby in the Philippines so it was tedious to to look for materials and/or to settle on alternatives.

I credit 70% of the 4 month stretch of this project to my indecision. The novelty and sheer excitement with a new hobby, I think, divested me to properly conceptualize heh. I redid my typeset 1 billion times because I kept switching softwares: Word→ Pages→ InDesign. I probably have 8 versions of the typeset that will never see the light of day. Anyway, I did finally get the stuff done. Here’s my little design dump:

Nothing symbolic about the design really. I just worked around elements I thought were appropriate with the regency era and time traveling aspect: vines/ flowers and the time turner. I tried to reflect PR’s elegant writing in the book so hopefully I did it some justice. I added my fave works for this fic too and even drew fanart myself, here are some of them:

BINDING

I watched DAS bookbinding religiously during my research phase and I knew then that I wanted to someday follow his in-boards 3-piece bradel tutorial, but it wasn’t supposed to be so early on in my binding journey. One look at this book however threw me off course. It was incredibly ambitious of me, so I guess I deserved all the stress I endured in the process. I was supposed to trim the edges in between glueing the spine and rounding/backing, but I only had my poorly sharpened Php145 wood chisel to finish the task. That and nursing the finger my chisel wounded took enough time for the glue to dry, so I was fiddling with a stiff textblock the entire time after. I learnt along the way that a blow dryer and bone folder will be your best friends (and plenty of patience). I’d also like to apologize to my neighbors if you heard any hammering at 1am 😳

The covers were... finicky. For some reason, midway, I decided to make either covers differently, and all to the good because the one made following DAS’ tutorial ended up slightly warping. DAS’ was with two 1.25mm boards glued together, while my experimental one was with a single 2.5mm board of which I peeled layers off of to reduce its thickness in half as needed. (see pictures below for reference)

A lot of how the book looks like now is either born out of impulse or a desperate remedy. The book in turn is very gold. Chapter headers were impulsively foiled with gold laser reactive foil (so much for illustrating the headers only to cover them up haha *eye twitches*).

I accidentally stained the edges while smoothing with black sandpaper so I covered the mess with an admix of Sakura acrylic paint in black and Liquitex acrylic ink in iridescent gold (Paint order: 1 layer gold- 2 thin layers black- 3 layers gold).

I am very proud of my sewn endbands as this was my very first attempt at doing a double-core. I used DMC cotton threads in cream (712) and gold (E3821). Below is a close-up because why not. (as you can see, I had some flaking on the paint, luckily this was on the bottom edge so I fixed the issue on the more visible sides.)

I don’t like the bookcloth selection where I’m from (if there’s anything at all) so I made my own with pastel blue eco-ramie cloth, flour paste, and 80gsm paper. I ordered my fabric online and the shade was too icing-like. It looked tacky so I bleached to lighten. The white cloth also came from the same fabric which I bleached till it paled to white.

Titling was one of my biggest worries because majority of binders I saw were using a cricut to cut HTV. I almost entertained the idea of cutting it manually or even painting or embroidery, but to my luck, I found a local shop that offers vinyl ! cutting !! service !!! I sent them my design and they cut and weeded the vinyl for me. I chose white for the title and metallic gold for the vine detail. I messed up applying the word “historical” though, but let’s pretend i did it on purpose for the vintage feel.

Four months of faffing later, I have this story in corporeal form! Overall, I’m overjoyed with the outcome and I’d like to thank PR for the opportunity to have such a wonderful story on my shelf (and free to be read by anyone!)

If you made it this far, thanks for reading!

#love and other historical accidents #laoha #l&oha #pacificrimbaud #dhr #dhr fanfiction #fanbinding #bookbinding #dramione #my books #dramione fanart #fanfiction #fanfictionbookbinding #fanficbookbinding #fanficbinding #bookbinder #harry potter fanfiction #sting and snout bindery #buzzing books

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habunshu · 2 days

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Young Clive playing a small music box for baby Joshua | “The Art of FINAL FANTASY XVI” (art by Kazuya Takahashi)

#the soft colours the texture the composition of this means everything to me #i’m going so crazy over my ffxvi art book finally being here my phone camera roll is full of images from it #final fantasy #final fantasy xvi #ffxvi #final fantasy 16 #clive rosfield #joshua rosfield #concept art #kazuya takahashi #my poster book from SE for this game also came and i’m buzzing to put them all up there’s like 40 posters

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sav3yee · 9 months

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I need to be put in a padded cell for the person I am about to become within the next few weeks

#bsd #bsd s5 #good omens #go2 #heartstopper #red white and royal blue #the rwrb movie adaptation better be good or else I will explode #I'd explode either way actually #I apologize in advance to my friends who will have to deal with me randomly texting them at 3 am about my hyperfixations #there are a bunch of tiny little bees buzzing in my brain and they all want different things #gvdgvhh there's also a huge pile of books in my room that I haven't started reading yet #anyways #I am going to explode

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forlovewithyou · 5 months

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No matter how he said it, I believe he actually meant "boyfriend"

“HE'S THE ONLY ONE I'VE GOT.”

In addition to expressing that Buzz is the only person who believes in him, he should also regard Buzz as the most important person...

#prideyear #toy story #buzz x woody #TS #comic books #woody pride #woody

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triple1st · 4 months

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forever thinking about how this is romana's last conversation with the doctor

#* ◦ ❝ « 𝘰𝘰𝘤 . the poster's crusade .#of course in the latter years of her presidency she stumbles upon prior incarnations & alternate doctors from other gallifreys #(though for some reason in dark eyes 1 the lord president is some random time lord & romana isn't mentioned)#it's a premonition of things to come & a testament to romana's will & the values the doctor taught her #that she would never allow herself to be corrupted - not even by pandora nor the power of gallifrey's highest office #she only tires of the possibility #of gallifrey itself #& grows as weary of the time lords as the doctor was & had every right to be #could've been some neat foreshadowing towards romana's darker nature manifesting in an incarnation born for war #but that never came to pass in the audios & very briefly in the EDAs (romana iii is in a total of 3 books)#romana ii harbors enough darkness herself i get chills thinking about her enacting vengeance on the daleks in gallifrey (audio drama) 6 #lalla ward is great in the role truly i understand keeping her for the time war audios it's amazing how her performance evolves #even in neverland/zagreus she is hardly a starry eyed pupil anymore she's grown into a fierce leader #with the weight of the universe on her shoulders #telling rassilon to buzz off as he asks her to abdicate so that he may take over what a queen #what isn't featured here is her complementing leela & telling this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship (gay)

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bees-tes-blog · 2 months

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idk I think I would be more interested in tes lore if any of the unique stuff was actually incorporated in the games in any way

#buzz #i know some people like reading the books #and i think they CAN be a very useful worldbuilding tool for expanding upon things that are presented in the story or displaying the #...world views of people within it #like in real life #but if you wanna talk about how interesting and weird the elder scrolls is and your only source is a series of obscure books that are not #...reflected by in-game content in any way its not real to me sorry #bc like they do this exclusively and for EVERYTHING #yeah the nature of ‘deep lore’ is that it’s not immediately visible but if all of the interesting things are ‘deep lore’ then it’s just #…a pussy move i think #they get credit for writing this cool and subversive lore that is then either ignored or directly in conflict with the game design #and often someone will bring up ‘deep lore’ that’s really either just some developer’s headcanon or a probable metaphor #and take it as gospel #tldr there’s such a huge disconnect between tes lore and the actual games that it holds no weight for me personally

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dargeereads · 7 months

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The Penitent by Natasha Knight and A Zavarelli

4 1/2 stars

That was a doozy of a wrap up! While everything happened on a linear timeline, it was up, it was down, and it raced towards the ending at breakneck speed. So many good things happened, so many feelings revealed, and while love shines, evil lurks. Darkness is exposed, and it takes more than once or twice, to beat it back and vanquish it. Great ending to this ancient curse and for our characters HEA <3

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stingandsnoutbindery · 9 months

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A Year of Books

This isn’t a complete family photo, but it’s the closest to complete, as I’ve gifted majority of them, and I’m left with three of the nine.

Last year on the 21st of July, I finished my first ever book. It’s strange how long I’ve kept this hobby for, and it is actually my longest running hobby. All my past ones have merely lasted a few months, then I ditch and never revisit them. Someone did mention that bookbinding is 30 different hobbies in one, so I suppose that explains why this has stuck with me for this long. I planned several projects during the summer of last year, and I am still surprisingly enthusiastic about completing them over a year later.

Given my tight schedule, I managed to bind 9 books: 2 fanbinds and 7 notebooks. How ever underwhelming, I am very satisfied with my progress and learnings from my few creations. Most importantly, I am incredibly thankful for all the lovely friends and folks I’ve made and met through this hobby. If I'm being honest, it can be quite alienating in real life to have such niche interests, so to find folks who share the same enthusiasm and are happy to geek over unorthodox things with me brings an indescribable feeling and I treasure every single one of you!

Now, I make it a point that I try something new with every bind I make, and as this is my little binding archive, allow me to quickly share everything that I made in the past year.

Bind 1: An architecture sketch notebook for my brother

Bradel binding covered in homemade bookcloth

Trimmed with an unsharpened chisel (I wanted to test its performance pre and post sharpening)

Bind 2: Birthday notebook for my mom

Three-piece flatback Bradel

Flower embroidery on the spine (My first foray into embroidery and I did it without the hoop so do excuse the quality)

Bind 3: My first fanbind! Love and Other Historical Accidents

Three-piece InBoards Bradel

The book I am most proud of

Bind 4 & 5: More notebooks (for dad and uncle)

A three-piece bradel and a regular bradel

Used this lovely Chiyogami paper from Itoya

Bind 6 & 7: First quarto and coptic stitch (more gifts)

Learned that trimming quartos with a blunt knife is (obviously) not good

More beautiful chiyogami paper

Bind 8: 2nd Fanbind! and more Pacific Rimbaud

20 minutes of figuring out how to arrange quarto pages

The most setbacks I've ever experienced. Something went wrong every step of the way

Bind 9: A Planner

This bind made me realize how much I love rounded spines

#buzzing books #1 year bindeversary #sting and snout bindery #booksbooksandmorebooks #fanbinding #bookbinding #how has it been a year #fanfic binding #fanficbookbinding #z’s biblioteca

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caseofvatsixtynine · 4 months

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i’ve only really started learning more about the paratroopers/us army side of ww2 since i watched bob but i’ve always been a HUGE aviation nerd especially aviation/the raf in ww2 (i’m gonna lose my mind when masters of the air comes out just warning y’all), mostly bc i’m from southampton which is where supermarine manufactured the spitfire and i’ve always thought that was the coolest thing, but dude i have spitfire shirts, a spitfire tote bag, spitfire socks, i wear a little spitfire chain necklace pretty much every day, plus all the books on them and just warplanes in general. i used to have sailor malan’s 10 rules for air fighting stuck up on my bedroom wall like i am OBSESSED with this shit and y’all…

Y’ALL.

for christmas my mum got me tickets to go to the raf museum in london and do the spitfire experience they offer there which means I GET TO SIT IN THE COCKPIT OF A REAL, ACTUAL SPITFIRE !!!!!!!!! A FUCKING SPITFIRE !!!!! BROOOOOOOO !!!!!!!! I’M LOSING MY MIIIIIIIIIIIIND

#seriously have been absolutely losing my shit since this morning #i’m a warplane FREAK i own so many books/biographies of raf pilots where they talk about spitfires #and now i actually get to BE INSIDE OF ONE ?????#do y’all mind if i start posting more about ww2 aviation/the raf bc i’m not gonna be able to shut up about this i’m literally buzzing bro

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ryehickman · 1 year

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heyyyy Barnes & Noble is doing a sale- 25% off pre-orders- from April 26-28th!

I have a book coming out in July that you could nab as part of the sale! Pre-orders make a big difference to a book's success and mean a lot to creators, so I'd love it if you checked it out!

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/buzzing-samuel-sattin/1142631928

#buzzing #it's a very sweet book #if you have nerdy and/or #neurodivergent kids in your life #this would make a good gift

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steamworksfairy · 4 months

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Me while I'm trying to sleep: They're going to have to break into Alicante at some point.....OH MY GOD! They're going to do a heist! Or maybe they try to, but when they break in, there is only one LAST SHADOWHUNTER alive in Alicante!!!

#ahh yes the late night theory buzz #my brain won't stop #lmao i can't stop thinking of all the possible things that could happen in twp #i need to stop tho so this is like my last hurrah #after this i'm focusing on fic stuff #the wicked powers #twp #the dark artifices #tda #the shadowhunter chronicles #the last king of faerie #the last prince of hell #the last shadowhunter #seriously i'm way too excited for these books #i already have more theories after writing this too 😭

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