#this is one of my favorite books guys

[firebound-press]

Todays bind! Fools Gold, by @tigers1o1 !!

Personally, I absolutely adore the paper and bookcloth combination on this bind. I got the cloth a while back for free and I’ve been waiting for a chance to use it, and then my friend Cam got me this paper as a gift! It seemed way too perfect to not use!

This was a very exciting bind, because it gave me the opportunity to try something completely new, gilded edges!!

Although it didn’t turn out perfect, I’m still super proud of how clean it ended up. Plus, I personally think the flaws make it better :D

The typesetting here was very exciting for me. A few months ago Ty held a tattoo contest for the fic, and I couldn’t not use them when I saw the two finalist designs. So I went ahead and contacted the artists, and they both said I could use them!!

Title page design: @eldrigeonsss

Chapter header design: @sheeeeeeeepherd

Thank you both again for letting me use your beautiful work!

You can read the fic here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42798252/chapters/107512251

#guys I’m so proud of this book you have no idea #I think it’s one of my favorite books I’ve ever made #I love how the gold looks together and how it shimers #the bookcloth and the paper both shimmer and it’s SO pretty #plus on top of that this binding let me meet some really really cool people #and helped me unlock some super cool opportunities #so it’s definetly going to be one I hold close to my heart for a long time #also major shoutout to Indy and Ty for letting me borrow the red leather and the shells for the pictures #it worked out so much better than I ever could have hoped #fish n chips #jrwi show #just roll with it #chip jrwi #fish and chips #jrwi fnc #gillion tidestrider #ficbinding #firebound press #renegade bindery #fanbinding #bookbinding

[dailykafka]

#my two favorite topics in one video! kafka and translations! #also if you are nerd like me about old and rare books you should follow this guy i love his videos #franz kafka #daily kafka #metamorphosis

[iambrainrot]

Very quick sketch of the postmaster himself i did last night. The day I learn how colors work will be the day that I die

#in honor of me finally finishing going postal the other day #great book would recommend my favorite part was when groat said anything about medicine #and also that part when adora belle dearheart stabbed a guy with her shoe #im not really happy with this drawing but oh well #i had fun making it #its cool #i was going for the averagest guy ever #but i think ill rework this design one day #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #going postal #moist von lipwig

[putting-kinger-in-places]

Put him in a book like a little bookmark

The Stranger, Albert Camus

#put him in one of if not my favorite book of all time #go give it a read guys i promise youll come out of it sad and wistful #only liek 120 pages too #PLEEEASE #the amazing digital circus #tadc kinger #kinger

[sassygaykuja]

best part of mdzs is meeting lan zhan for the first time and he's strange and cool and doesn't talk much and i initially chalked his weird ethereal vibes up to being something innate to the lan clan and the juniors just weren't there yet, and then you meet his brother and he's just a completely normal guy

#ginn speaks #mdzs #the more the book goes on the more it becomes clear that he's just kind of weird and that's okay #it is absolutely hilarious to me how normal lan xichen is #he's surrounded by a bunch of absolutely buckwild people and he's literally just some guy #i say this with only love in my heart he's one of my favorite characters

[carrotluvr]

I hate the Lapvona tag on tumblr cause like why is it all coquette girls where on Earth is the sexy fanart of Father Barnabas

#dmitrigirl speaks #Lapvona #guys it’s like one of my favorite books did we read the same novel ??

[fightingwithallreality]

Benjamin West and his cat Grimalkin (1947) written by Marguerite Henry, illustrated by Wesley Dennis

Original title page by me! See this post for the first edition title page

@antiqueanimals

#benjamin west and his cat grimalkin #marguerite henry #wesley dennis #photopia #this book had the most illustrations of any henry book I've seen #there were 42 illustrations in total! #I picked my favorites! #because there were so many i used photopia to combine images #and clean up some of the linework #just so many cats #almost too many cats #but it could never be that #i think the one with the ship is my favorite #but really hes just a little guy #horse art #illustration #ink #quaker #cats #mr crisp

[octahyde]

One thing I REALLY love about Ortho and his gears is that everyone who makes them has a very unique style to how they approach them.

Idia takes a very practical route: sturdy and realistic proportions, with aesthetics that stay grounded and true to whatever they’re based on but with Ortho’s body type in mind.

Ortho himself gets more creative; his designs focus much more on the aesthetic of the setting he is using it for than practicality, and he heavily prioritizes realism in how it behaves (as seen in his bunny vignette).

Mama Shroud goes absolutely all in on her own personal aesthetic, making him very sleek and cool with unique joints while also showing signs of being optimized for the situation if you look closely.

Playful Land’s magic pushes his body much more than it can with the others’ clothing: his body has much more realism in his clothing to the others (his groovy shows he even has trouser seams, something no other design of his has), while also giving thin joints in the arms and very sturdy legs to push the toy soldier look of how his body isn’t organic. Additionally, being magic and aesthetic only, he is still allowed the practicality present in his college gear.

Idk. I just think it’s a REALLY cool detail that reveals a lot about Ortho, his familial relationships, and the types of setting he’s in.

#I’d make a ‘guess which one’s my favorite’ based on how much detail I go in but like it’s literally in my twst intro on my pinned #SHOCKING: guy with special interests in dolls and plushmaking likes toycore one the best #Anyways. #twisted wonderland #twst #ortho shroud #idia shroud #mama shroud #playful land event #book 7 spoilers #m

[bonefall]

And not all DC fans are mad! I was happy when Leafpool beat Starfire, and I was pleased with Bumble winning too. (Epilepsy dad here, who is a comics fan, and has 4 kids who love reading the warrior cat books and have the Minifig warriors become superheroes In the Gotham city I hot as a kid) im digressing here: What keeps the warrior cats fandom strong is how you all form up around the cats that were mistreated by the writers, how you bring them into your homes and hearts and make better features for them. My Amuma always used to say if enough people believed in something, then maybe their will can change the world.

Always good to see you around!

This vitriol has been super disappointing, y'know? I feel like I have to keep stressing that DC fans are valid, their frustrations with the comics are well-founded, and Bumble's opponents should also be acknowledged as victims of misogyny

And then we don't get that grace back! Doesn't matter that Warriors is a best-selling kids' series with REALLY harmful messages in it read by millions across the globe. Bumble's "just a cat" and we're "reading too much into it." As if that's not the same shit that gets said about misogyny in media broadly; "They're not real, comics are just for fun, you're reading too much into it"

Now people are like "Oh it was a mistake for WARRIOR CATS to be in this poll" because they're mad our "just a cat" is winning. Like it's not a tournament and that's the whole point. We've got people trying to say that Bumble can't even have misogyny happen to her because the human writers superficially made her a cat, as if she's not a fantasy character like every other fantasy character she's been up against.

But, ugh. I won't let it stop me, y'know? StarClan gives its hardest battles to its strongest warriors ✨✨I will never shut up about the "justa cats," this fandom rocks exactly because of the fact we're so passionate about these issues and how to address and fix them, Bumblesweep FOREVER!

#I'm not a DC fan but one of my best friends in the whole world is #And he's always telling me about what's going on in them #His favorite guy is The Flash! #And me and my friend group have been watching the new superman show together #So like. I don't hate DC and I never have! #And it's not all DC fans obviously. There's just some really loud and nasty ones #But man I can't help feeling like WC fans are getting shit just because there's some sore losers #who are super mad their very prestigious and well-known comic book characters are being beaten by a character they do not respect #Bumblesweep #Vote Bumble #I don't know if I can change the world through my babbles and my passion #But I DO know that I can make some people feel a little better and less alone. #And I can back my girl Bumble and make everyone in this fandom and our surroundings see and acknowledge what they DID TO HER #JUSTICE FOR BUMBLE #bone babble

[lucky-numberme]

"I see you're trapped in my gay and stupid maze again" — Flora Sutton, probably

3/20 Queer Book Draw Challenge: A Marvellous Light by @fahye

[ID: an illustration of Edwin and Robin in the hedge maze scene. They are surrounded by a holly hedge, which reaches out to them with thorny vines. Robin is in the background, pinned against a neoclassical statue. In the foreground, Edwin kneels, face racked and hair askew. The vines are wrapped around his arms, leaving cuts and scratches. All of his focus is on a palmful of dirt in his hand. Behind them, the sky has darkened to the point of storm. End ID]

#THIS BOOK SLAPS Y'ALL #it's beautifully constructed easily one of my favorites #also i know robin is supposed to be in mourning clothes (bc edwardian) but he seems like the kind of guy who'd add a little pop of colour #like a half mourning treat #queer book draw challenge #queer books #a marvellous light #freya marske #the last binding #robin blyth #edwin courcey #lgbt books #queer lit #book illustration #also i just found the author's tumblr! hence the reblog lol #little museum

[selkiecoded]

i know hes going through it or whatever but i honestly cant focus whenever kazakami shows up. he looks so much like what i imagine kim dokja to look like its distracting.

#even his imitating his favorite fictional characters in the beginning. thats so kim dokja. and his vaguely empty smiles. my god. #'in the end good and evil dont matter. the ones with the strongest wills win.' whatever kim dokja go read your stupid book #also its kind of hilarious that some of the initial tension in this chapter stems from a teacher having (gasp) premarital sex??? guys

[micamicster]

They'll turn me in your arms, lady, into an esk and adder, But hold me fast, and fear me not, I am your husband dear. They'll turn me to a bear sae grim, and then a lion bold, But hold me fast, and fear me not, I am your own true love.

The Perilous Gard (1974) by Elizabeth Marie Pope

#the perilous gard #ballad of tam lin #made an edit for my favorite tam lin retelling! #i was obsessed with this book as a kid <3 #fun fact this also is one of the books that cc plagarized back in the day lmao #not that that really matters what matters is ive made a little image and now you all have to look at it <3 #but speaking of plagiarism #credit to the artists who made these illustrations are given in the alt text #the ink drawings are illustrations from my childhood copy of the book #anyway if you guys enjoy tam lin and somehow haven't read this yet you should check it out!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

fuckfuck fuck i need to make more physical crafts i need to create tangible things that i can hold with my two hands and put it somewhere i can See It and think Wow. I Made That.

#finished my little rudimentary earring holder & one of two arm warmers #MORE!!!! MORE!!!!!! I NEED MORE #maybe... maybe ill go get myself a new little plant and a pot to decorate. a little guy for my windowsill #ohhh i could uh! i could make like a little scrapbook thing and put in there all of my favorite things that ive drawn.... #a little egotistical Perhaps but!! on days where i feel like shit and like my art sucks i could flip through that! #and say 'huh. not too bad actually' #plus it just sounds like a fun craft. i could get stickers and stuff. washi tape. glue flat objects on. add teeny doodles #i just. i need to create more i think thats whats wrong with me lately #i feel such Peace and Joy when i make physical things #i wonder if id like book binding... #no no thats for future me who has a job and an Income to get interested in #that would be fun tho! ive always wanted to try it. #and if i do i'd Really want to do that thing where people take a fanfic and make it into a physical book #that would be so fun... #i could have my favorites on a shelf! with permission of course! #absolutely unprompted #yk when i start to feel that Despair i really just gotta think about what physical things i could create #what art things i still have to discover and attempt and enjoy #today has sucked But! i will take the car tomorrow and by fuck i will do Something #a new plant friend. yeah. i need something alive in my room #and this weekend ill go to michaels and get myself washi tape so that i can secure my posters to the walls #bc my poster tack Is Not Working! #i wonder if our printer can work on cardstock... i wonder if its been Set Up yet i havent seen her #maybe ill make some more tiny vases today. i have clay still... #OH OH i could make small amigurumi keychain things... #*spoken with clenched fists and gritted teeth* there is still so much to discover and delight in in this life #the walls in this house are bare and cold but if my stepdad allows I Can Spruce It The Fuck Up #ohhhhh crochet tapestries... i could probably do that too... #i cant wait to pick up crafts get bored two days later and drop em and i say that sincerely!

[yayimallamaagain]

We are just hours away now from #cakegate from Cornettos from "Star Wars?" from "cornbread knows my sins" from "Christ, you are as thick as it gets" from gay panic from "shut up, shut all the way up, oh my god" from "fucking eyelashes" from "but this whole thing is ...really doing it for me" from long distance flirting and late night confessions from karaoke from "sexual experimentation with foreign monarchs: a gray area" from "history huh? I bet we could make some" from "your body comes back to me in dreams" from skinny dipping in Texas from "dear thisbe," from "tell me to leave" from slow dancing in a chapel from two homes side by side, from "an incomplete list: things I love about hrh prince Henry of Wales from "do you feel forever about him" from "I love him on purpose" from "history will remember us" from Alex Claremont-Diaz and Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor coming to life and I am screaming.

#red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #firstprince #listen i have no idea how many of these scenes will make the movie #but a girl can hope #oh my god i am so excited #i am screaming #i am not going to be normal about this #i still cant believe one of my favorite books is going to be a movie #counting down the hours #not sure if I'll live blog or not #oh my god guys its almost time

[p4nishers]

ok but the fact that "aziraphale is softening. they haven't spoken in a hundred years: he's realizing they're still friends" and "there's no need to thank me that's what...friends...are for" was in the same night is making me go INSANE

#we NEED to talk more abt the 1941 ep im so serious im not normal about it like i had such high expectations and it suppressed them all. #am i disappointed there wasn't a rejection scene like i predicted?? yes ofc but also aziraphale said he did the apology dance that year so #i wonder what else could've fucking happened #but anyway. let's focus on what DID happen: aziraphale literally GLOWING with love in the car. crowley telling him to shut up cause of a #compliment. aziraphale helping crowley out and crowley looking at him like 'you'd do that for me?'. crowley not only letting aziraphale #practice magic with him but ACTIVELY playing a character to help him and i mean that scene was literally just crowley flirting with him #crowley indulging aziraphale by going to the magic shop with him and agreeing to participate in his show despite the fact that he NEVER EVEN #SHOT A GUN BEFORE. him just leafing thru the guidebook till he realizes there's a miracle blocker than starting to frantically flip thru it #her hands SHAKING on the gun and them being so afraid of hurting az. 'no paperwork :))' sure my guy that's what u r so happy about ofc #'but do u really think it went well' 'absolutely' with such sincerity. the book description saying smth abt ifa demon were to happen across #aziraphale they should report it immediately to the demon crowley. 'you could've just walked away' 'well you said 'trust me'' 'and you did' #its just. its one of my favorite eps it's so nice #good omens #azicrow #good omens s2 #aziracrow #go s2 spoilers #go s2 #good omens script book #good omens s2 spoilers #aziraphale x crowley

[sourkitsch]

Dyke w a taste in books that makes middle aged men who own indie bookstores go omg I was just like you in the 90s

#this guy when I said this will be my 4th Chuck book #I got invisible monsters + jg Ballard crash #he said this one is his favorite so!! :) #who am I but a guy in the 90s but 30 years too late