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robins-egg-bindery · 8 months
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Windows by @drgrlfriend
Derek has a new neighbor who won't stop looking.
fic by @drgrlfriend
art by @maichan808 & @andavs-main
368 pages / 83,266 words
Title Font: PP Hatton
Body Fonts: Cardo, Geo
HAPPY FFWAD!!! Thank you @renegadepublishing for putting on this event in celebration!
More on the process below the cut!
I'm so excited to be posting this book! Super grateful @drgrlfriend was so down to let me bind Windows for Fan Fiction Writer Appreciation Day. This is one of my all-time favs, and I was thrilled to give it the treatment it deserves! @maichan808 & @andavs-main were also incredibly kind to allow me to include their stunning art pieces in the book <3 And thank you @renegadepublishing for putting this event together!
I wanted the typeset to be visually interesting and move around the page, without making it difficult to read. I created unique headers for each of the 28 chapters with royalty free art, and varied placement on the page in six different configurations. I also played with the text warp to make the text work as part of the image - one of my favorites is chapter 26, "Banshee", pictured above!
I used Brick duo for this bind, as part of the vision for the front cover, which was done in silver permanent vinyl. I think the rich rust color is perfect for how I would imagine Stiles & Derek's apartment building, and the silver is incredibly reflective - my favorite part is how the vinyl catches the light on the spine, and can reflect "Windows" on whatever surface it's on (pictured above). That's not an added effect, it's just doing that!
I did @tankbredgrunt's faux double-core headband with some Sulky Gutermann I bought at a secondhand store for $0.25, and it's so pretty! A bit thin to work with, but totally worth it for the multi-color effect it gives off.
And I finally got a proper crisp hinge! I think it really brings the whole book together, thank you knitting needles (even though you were a pain in the ass).
This project also marks my 100th book! I'm rapidly approaching the two year mark of my fanbinding career with no sign of stopping; thank you to this entire community, and all of the fandoms I've been able to bring this hobby to. I love how cross-fandom it is; and for an old floater like me, it's wonderful to bring all of my interests together and have something that transcends those lines.
HAPPY FAN FICTION WRITER APPRECIATION DAY!
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firebound-press · 8 months
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And here it is!! My book for FFWAD this year! This year, I was very lucky to have the opportunity to make a copy of Passerine for @thcscus herself!!!
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This was actually a redo of my second ever binding, which you can find here, and it’s so cool to see how far I’ve come in my binding!!
I also tried something new with this one with the edge coloring, and I’m very proud of how it turned out! I used watercolor for it.
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I also redid the typesetting while I was at it. The title page was drawn by @coffit0, because one of the copies was actually a gift for him!
You can read the original work here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28755084
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Fanfiction Writer's Appreciation Day #2:
The Sun Swings East by @feybarn
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Over and over, Obi-Wan woke up and wished he hadn't. Palpatine wouldn't stop until Obi-Wan had Fallen, wouldn't stop until Obi-Wan gave Palpatine a shattered galaxy in payment for his release.
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I was consumed by the theme for this book - I wanted so bad to bring the sunrise motif into it, and I also wanted to bring back the inset mirror design. I leaned a lot harder into the hexagon shapes on this one too, and I stole the work printer for color printing for a steadily progressing sunrise.
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I got super lucky that I had 4 colors of Colibri bookcloth I was able to layer to create the effect on the cover, with the sun coming over the eastern horizon. And then of course I had to give it some gradient endbands and marbled endpapers to match!
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I was also very lucky to be allowed to include art by @wrennette and @lucife56 in this copy, as well as a bonus "All Those Little Things" codexwan chaser. Thank you to all of you - KJ_Feybarn, wrennette, lucife56 - all of your beautiful creations and how they interact is what makes fandom such a fantastic place. But since it is FFWAD - thank you KJ_Feybarn, for your striking and inspiring writing!
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Photos of the interior typeset and how I've incorporated the fan art can be found here.
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fanboundbooks · 8 months
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It's FanFiction Writer's Appreciation Day!
In order to show our appreciation @renegadepublishing fanbinding guild runs Renegade Loves Fic(Writers), an event where members choose a fic they love and make it into a book to send to the story's author!
This year I chose to bind:
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Aletheia
by imochan, & reserve on A03, @badspacebabies & @reserve here on the tumblr space Fandom: Star Wars Ship: Kylux Word Count: 40,150 Rating: E (this story is spicy and has some dark elements, please read the tag and notes)
I made three copies of this book, one for each of the authors and one for me. I had a lot of fun making this book and my favorite part was the cover. Typically when you add elements to the cover they go on top of the bookcloth. But I really wanted the white for the imperial lighting to be recessed below the black of the cover. So it was more like lights behind metal girders. So in this case I put the white vinyl on the board for the case then cut the holes for the lights in the bookcloth and built the case. It was my first time trying something like this and I love how it turned out!!!
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I knew was gonna do this story for my FFWAD book a while back, so when I was at the Renegade Retreat back in April I made a point to marble some papers just for them!
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I also sewed some endbands for these, in a false double core style.
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Inside! Fonts used: Body Text font: Galliard Title & Drop Cap font: Star Jedi Quotes: ITC Serif Gothic Extra Headers: AV05 Logotype & Aurebesh Authors, Datapad & Messaging: AV05 Logotype
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Thank you again to the authors for making this story!!
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bluejayblueskies · 8 months
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formaldehyde | SupposedToBeWriting
Happy Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day! On August 21, the fan community comes together to celebrate fanfiction writers. I took part in the @renegadepublishing Discord server’s FFWAD event, where we bound one (or more!) books for writers and sent it to them by the 21st. This year, I decided to bind @organchordsandlightning‘s fic formaldehyde!
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This bind is especially unique for me because it contains over a hundred combined pieces of artwork from two artists--@genderfluid-druid and @captaincravatthecapricious​. I’m still in the process of making copies for them, but they made some absolutely fantastic art that’s spread throughout the book as well as included in a glossy center spread and featured on the cover!
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More pictures and information below the cut!
The biggest challenge with this bind was making sure that all the artwork printed correctly. I ended up having to fiddle a lot with what I printed in black and white and what I printed in color, as well as the brightness and contrast settings for some of the artwork. I also got to do some fun stuff with chapter 10, which is a series of journal entries, notes, memos, and other epistolary-esque additions to the fic.
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I also started experimenting with refilling my own ink cartridges while printing this, and I think I'm really happy with it! Ink is so incredibly expensive, and though it's a bit of a messy process that might have some hiccups along the way, getting an $11 pack of ink is dramatically cheaper than buying new cartridges and it will allow me to print more ink-heavy stuff like this in the future without worrying about my budget!
I leaned heavily into the Prohibition themes in this fic and went with a whiskey tumbler table of contents and alcohol barrel title page. I also included the ritual sacrifice elements in the chapter headers, which have the knife that John carries around for a good portion of the fic.
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I had a lot of fun with this bind, and I'm hoping to finish up the last three copies of it within the next month or so!
(As a bonus, here's the book on the author's shelf!!!)
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A Case of You by @epitomereally
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Happy (belated) Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day! For FFWAD, Renegade Bindery runs an event where we bind copies of fics for their authors and I was super excited to be able to bind this for a fellow bookbinder!
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I'm rather new to the Drarry fandom but @epitomereally has been absolutely wonderful in providing fic recs and bookbinding advice. She is so so kind and I have enjoyed seeing the lovely books she has created for fellow authors, and somewhere along the way I hatched a sekret plan to bind a copy of her fic for her.
Some stats as usual:
97,262 words || 354 pages
body text: EB Garamond 11 point
accents: Bestaline Sans, Bell MT and Bembo Std
I had really wanted to do a design on the spine (both of us like doing some spine stitching as a design feature), so i really wanted to be able to put it in a bind for her. also my near obsessive fixation with spine stitching worked out in my favour because i settled on a constellation design and ran with it. the design on the spine is stitched with gold linen thread, and accented by some designs done in heat reactive foil.
for bookcloth, I settled fairly quickly on night sky blue so colibri elder made an appearance. I had a little trouble with colour matching for the endpapers with the endbands (i should have probably done pink instead of purple), but I still like the relative cohesiveness of the look of this book. Endpapers are Crepaldi, i am absolutely shameless about my stash.
I also was very excited because I learnt Affinity Publisher for this book!!! Zero regrets, it looks amazing, i am a convert I will never go back to Microsoft Word goddamn. and ME AND SIDE HEADERS - i love them though the book might have benefited from larger margins. THEY'RE SO SEXY MY GOD.
hehe, i may have also sustained a flesh wound while cutting the board for this book but HEY WE ALL EVENTUALLY HAVE ONE OF THESE THINGS (WHERE WE GOTTA GO TO THE A&E BECAUSE OF A BOOKBINDING MISHAP) BEAUTY IS PAIN Y'ALL.
ULTIMATELY I'M SO GLAD THE BOOK ARRIVED SAFELY TODAY AND I'M SO HAPPY SHE LOVED THE BOOK. when you bind for another bookbinder, it's both stressful and extremely endorphin-releasing because the other bookbinder both appreciates all the design choices you make as well as knows exactly where you might have fucked up.
ultimately, making a book is a small small gift for someone who so generously wrote a novel-length epic for free and shared it with the masses for a love of fandom.
anyway, go read this fic, guys, it's so so good, and SHE JUST WROTE A NEW ONE (IT IS ALSO EXCELLENT and i am savouring it WHILE PONDERING DESIGN CHOICES HEHEHEHEH)
Please check out her AO3 page here.
Other things I've been working on:
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FOILED EDGES HAVE BECOME MY PASSION I HAVE NO REGRETS. @duran-binding and I have been excitedly getting everyone into sanding and THE LOVE FOR POWER SANDING AND DOING FOILED EDGES. Marissa has even succeeded with hidden fore-edge painting - ALL HAIL OUR EDGELORD who does marbled edges and hidden fore-edge painting and has so kindly shared all her information with others for absolutely free. ❤️‍🔥
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three--rings · 8 months
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Happy Fanfic Writer Appreciation Day!
So back in May/June I finished my first playthrough of Persona 5 and fell HARD into the shuake/akeshu ship. This fic was one that I read and immediately messaged the author about doing for this event.
And it turned into probably my favorite book I've made yet. The one I am happiest with overall.
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The series (both fics are in the book) is First Step. The main fic is "the first step to find your way is to mark where you have been" by @futuresoon
It's a fantastic post-Royal fic that explores the idea that Akechi's spirit is trapped in a Palace, and Akira has to work through the Palace of Akechi's trauma in order to save him.
Also thank you to @munidraws for letting me use their fanart for the fic.
Process details under here
The typesetting was designed based on both canon elements from the game and motifs from the fic. The fic is set mostly in a labyrinth of black stone walls, so I used that for the chapter openers. And the Chapter titles and text messages in the book use the actual fonts from the game (or ones recreated to be very close by fans).
Text messages are shown in very stylized black and white boxes in the game. I decided I couldn't recreate the shape of the boxes without both a lot of work and taking up a lot of page real estate. So I settled for plain black and white boxes. Shoutout to Manda and Des from Renegade for teaching me how to do these easily in Affinity.
The title page took me....more time than I'm willing to admit. Because of the labyrinth theme and long title I wanted a winding brick path for illustration but it proved really difficult to find anything like what I wanted. So I went through a lot of image manipulation to get something like what I wanted. (Shh, it's not a snake.)
I did my first solid painted edges, with a couple fails until I went and bought some black acrylic ink, which worked like a dream. The endpages are linen textured cardstock.
The case is bound in black bookcloth and marbled fabric made into bookcloth. I used purchased black bookcloth for the author copy and made my own paperless bookcloth with acrylic medium and paste from some thrifted fabric. You can tell the difference in person, but it's subtle. The marble is quilting fabric from Joann's which I also turned into paperless bookcloth and then folded and glued down as a strip.
The spine is titled with heat foil quill in red foil. It's not perfect, but came pretty close for using foil that is not fantastic in quality.
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hydrofelicity · 8 months
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when the sun goes out
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It's fanfiction writer appreciation day! This year I made a copy of when the sun goes out for @travelingneuritis. It's a modern-with-magic MDZS AU where Wei Wuxian uses technology to work with resentful energy. You should all go out and read it immediately. I really love how it hits all the important character beats, but doesn't rehash the plot. Plus, there's day-to-day cultivator work that we don't get very much of in canon, and wwx's affinity for the dead, in both the "help them move on" sense and the "go fuck them up for me" sense. (Both of these are heartbreaking, of course)
And the art! I've been wanting to bind this for ages, but I had to wait until I got a color printer to do this justice.
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Lots of rambling under the cut!
It is somewhere around 550 pages long, which is apparently the exact max that my guillotine will take, so that was lucky. I tried an oxford hollow for the first time, and I love it! The text block feels so secure in the case.
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The red on yellow design for the cover is supposed to look like the donghua talisman design - I'd hoped to make something that looked more like a talisman with circuit board imagery, but graphic design is not in fact my passion, so I just went with clipart.
I even learned how to turn a image into a font for the scene dividers! This is the circuit diagram symbol for a battery, because batteries are an important plot point and I'm a nerd.
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And there are juniors! I love them so much.
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Anyway, thank you @travelingneuritis ! I appreciate your contributions to fandom and had a lot of fun making this!
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purplephloxpress · 8 months
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It's August 21, which means: Happy Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day! If you are a writer of fanfic, please know just how appreciated you are!! Fandom would be such a different space without your creativity and labors of love. 💜
In celebration of this most glorious holiday, @renegadepublishing ran an event where we bind copies of fics to gift to their authors, and I had the joy of binding The Tranquility of Water for @noppoh! It's a truly fantastic post-canon story and I love the exploration into the effects of the main story on its characters after the fact. (This is a story I love so much that I wrote up a page and a half crash course on The Untamed so I can try to force my sibling into reading it as well. Take that as you will)
The walls of the Hanshi creep in on him and so Lan Xichen leaves. He leaves Cloud Recesses and his seclusion, stealing away in the night with no-one the wiser that he even left. His feet bring him to Lotus Pier where a surprisingly kind Jiang Cheng seems determined to help him heal.
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With a title like "Tranquility of Water" and the story largely taking place at Lotus Pier, I may have been a little heavy handed with the lotus imagery throughout the book, but it felt very fitting! The lotus on the cover was a last minute addition, but one that turned out so lovely. Just, you know, to tie everything together lotus-wise. (Another one of my favorite design details in the typeset is that both title fonts from the chapter headers and title page get repeated within the text of the story as the main characters handwriting fonts!)
I started the physical binding process of my copy while at the Renegade Retreat in April (and decided the week before that I wanted to change my body font... can you say formatting speedrun?) and up until that point I hadn't actually figured out what the cover and endpages were going to look like. Special thanks to everyone who contributed pieces to this binding (and who moral-supported me along the way -- my copy holds so many fun memories now) because it LITERALLY would not look like this without you all. I really love the way the color transitions worked out, with a predominantly blue/green case, fading into green, into pink, into the title page, and then transitioning back out at the end of the book.
And these endbands!! Friends, that is SILK embroidery floss that a friend brought to the retreat especially so I could experience the decadence of silk endbands. I will never be the same. (They're so smooth... so shiny... so slippery to work with, but SO WORTH IT)
(Binding details under the cut)
The pieces that went into this bind:
Fandom: The Untamed/Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairing: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin / Lan Huan | Lan Xichen
Bookcloth: Renegade Retreat Swap Table Special (I have no idea what it is, but it was just enough to make a copy for myself and the author and the color worked PERFECTLY!)
Cover paper: Opal Momi paper
Cover paper: Opal Momi paper
Endpapers: from the Craft Consortium Ink Drops - Dusk paper pack
Titling: foil quill
Endbands: leather cording core, silk embroidery floss for the bands
Body font: EB Garamond
Title fonts: Wintersoul and Bastian
Handwriting fonts: Bastian (Lan Xichen), Richardson Script (Lan Wangji), and Wintersoul (Jiang Cheng)
Tumblr insists on eating and doubling text in this section at its own whim, so if there's something missing that you're curious about, feel free to DM me an ask!
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mythrilthread · 8 months
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And this is my last project for Fanfiction Writer’s Appreciation Day!
It sure is an interesting one. This is a fictionalized record of a LARP game from the POV of one of the characters, written by dearest Goblin. The game was set in the world of Pathologic games, so I used relevant concept art for the covers, and a screenshot for the endpapers.
Kaleidoscopes were a major symbol in the narration, so I used that imagery for title spread and scene dividers. There’s also fun colored text for dream sequences.
Also I hand died embroidery floss for stitching bright blue, because that is the color associated with the featured character.
This is my second time trying a sewn-board binding with breakaway spine, which is very fun to do.
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duran-binding · 8 months
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I had a lot of fun participating in @renegadepublishing Fanfiction Writer Appreciation Day (FFWAD) this year!
The Witchhiker's Guide to Beltane by Teddy Radiator. This story has a lot of Spring (Beltane) vibes and I wanted to bring that to life in the binding of it.
This is an in-boards bradel bind. (My first) The paper is a lokta that's beautifully textured. The spine is made of green & purple color shifting duo "Skarabaus". The edges have been sprinkled with ink and the headbands are soie perlee thread. (That handles beautifully, I understand why it's a favorite now)
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reachthebluedot · 8 months
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2nd Book Bound - For Roses, Too - sindirimba - Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day
Happy Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day folks!
For FFWAD, Renegade Bindery runs an event where we bind copies of fics for their authors, and I thought "I'm new here, let's do it". So it is 21st August 2023 so it's time to post about my contribution to the @renegadepublishing FFWAD event. This is, full disclosure, the second binding project I have completed, though not the second one I started XD (WIPs? What are they?).
I made @sindirimba a copy of their lovely fic, For Roses, Too. Working with her on this was just such a pleasure and I'm so glad she is enjoying having it in her hands <3
Some Info Words: 112,787 Pages: 515 (appendix included), 498 (fic only) Binding: folio, square backed Bradel, full cloth Book cloth: blue buckram Decoration: heat reactive foil, traced graphics (I cannot take credit for the design elements, or the fonts) Endbands: Single core, front bead endbands, red and yellow friendship bracelet floss around a twine core.
Notes: This is a significant improvement over the first binding I did (Pride and Prejudice). Both of the main issues were improved upon. The book can fully open and close, and the end papers are much less wrinkled :) (The copy I am making for my own shelf is still an unglued text block. If I don't get it finished before the fall semester starts, then it is likely to stay that way until I graduate in December. Unless of course, the university cancels one of my classes, because they still haven't assigned an instructor to it. We are two weeks out folks, and the instructor is still listed as "Staff".)
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FanFiction Writers' Appreciation Day Bind #1:
On the River Someday, by @redminibike1 !
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This fic is a lovely, angsty cowboy AU that I was very happy to be able to bind and send to red!
He moved to push himself up, panting with the effort, pushing past the scream of his shoulder and the exhausted shaking of his good arm. But a hand pressed flat against his chest, another on the back of his head, and pushed him gently to lay back down. “You need to move slow,” the voice said, “or your stitches will open.”
Or: While travelling with his brothers, Cody and his brothers run into trouble, and meet a sharp-eyed lawman. Plans go awry, a river diverges.
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I could not help but return to a variation of the layered river cover for this fic! I wanted a river winding it's way lazily through the frontier type of vibe. Also the title font is aptly called "Bleeding Cowboys" which I got a giggle from.
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For the typeset I went for a double page spread (dramatic fonts demand dramatic spreads), and chapter pages I included the byline at the top and aimed to keep it clean.
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I was lucky to be able to include this beautiful art piece for the fic done by @treescantjump. This was my first color print included in a fic!
Also this golden amber Colibri bookcloth strikes me as the same satiny sheen of a well groomed bucksin horse.
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I chose gold-speckled edges to finish, which I think matches these gold & white endpapers.
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ohmightydevviepuu · 8 months
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fanbinding: break me
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the story: break me by @thisonesatellite, published adjacent to the 2019 Captain Swan Supernatural Summer. warning: here there be monsters! originally found in a rec post by @wistfulcynic, this fic changed everything about how i approached fandom and the people in it.
i read it in a single sitting.
binding: sewn boards designed to match we kill the flame, originally bound for binderary 2023. black homemade bookcloth covers with painted title under the obi band. art by @mariakov81. (the cat hair adds to the je ne sais quois.)
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trippednfell · 8 months
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Today, Aug 21, is Fan Fiction Writers Appreciation Day!
In celebration, @renegadepublishing ran an event to bind and gift a fic to the author. I chose to bind @sweetlittlevampire's lovely fic Heart of Glass. I got confirmation that it arrived which was nervewracking because I had never shipped international before!
It was such fun and I'm so glad Rima let me bind her wonderful fic.
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Happy Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day!!!
For FFWAD, Renegade Bindery runs an event where we bind copies of fics for their authors, and I was super excited to participate and help mod for the event this year.
I had the great pleasure of binding A Great and Gruesome Height for @moku-youbi this year. I had initially bound a copy for myself sometime last year, but had done so in the early days of my fanbinding experience and oh boy, there were so so many flaws with the construction of that book.
I was so excited to be able to update it and make a nicer, fancier copy for the author.
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I decided to go with colibri graphite instead of white this time - i had a terrible experience with the white cloth and I was very excited to do this version entirely in black. For the usage of the thread design on the cover - i used a thinner, less waxed linen thread this time and kept up the tension of the thread as I was stitching the design on the cover, and it looks much better now.
I have also gotten significantly better at doing endbands - and the crowning glory of this bind are its venomous snake endbands (not entirely intentional, but I AM GOING WITH THE VIBES WITH THIS ONE). they look really fucking great with this bind, I love them so so much. I used Crepaldi endpapers from hollanders (with a design that felt very reminiscent of a blood film so i was very excited to use it) and I foiled some of the chapter headings for the additional added-on fics at the end.
All in all, I think the bind turned out well and i faffed about minimally with it, so I was proud to be able to give this copy to an author as an example of my work. I was definitely very thrilled that the author enjoyed the copy and as always, I am absolutely enthused to be able to preserve someone's beautifully written work in a physical form.
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