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Twilight on Owl Creek Bridge by @yellowocaballero
SUBJECT: Regarding Senate Guard Objectives For Today
This is a polite reminder to all guardsmen that patrol schedules for the Senate vote ratifying dictatorships are posted in the breakroom. I am also issuing a warning to linear time that days should follow sequentially and are not intended to repeat. Please cease repeating. I am getting a headache.
Additionally, I'd like to remind all guardsmen that it is illegal to harbor invisible women in the Senate. If you see a ghost claiming to be Leia Organa, please remove her from the premises. She will be making a scene.
Thank you for your cooperation in preserving the peace of the Republic, and all hail the Empire.
Fox
It is finished. First (and second) binds are officially done, and as the author's copy is officially in the author's hands, I can finally post pictures.
About The Bind
This fic was typeset in Affinity Publisher in Crimson Text with titles in Neothic and League Gothic. It was printed on cream 20/50 lb short grain paper.
The cover was designed in Affinity Designer using the vector of the Imperial Cog off of Wookieepedia and some royalty free clip art. It came together in probably 45 minutes, and I am ridiculously proud of how it turned out.
Spine titling was done with metallic silver paint and a custom vinyl stencil. Headbands are decorative paper coiled around some yarn stiffened with PVA. Flyleafs are from a pack of scrapbook paper that was on sale at Michael's for $5 ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
Personal copy is rounded, author's copy is flat-back. Despite the author's copy being easier to make and superior in literally every way as both a functional and aesthetic object, I tragically do prefer the way the rounded copy looks. Guess I'll have to get better at rounding spines.
Digital covers and excerpts from the typeset below the cut.
#lovely!#and the cover design especially is great#the window peep through the empire symbol#not my bookbinding
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I had an absolutely lovely trip to visit @finalfrontierpublishing this weekend! we did a linocut session and a marbling session. silly me was horrendous at taking photos.
marbling remains rather inscrutable and tedious to me - I am in awe of people who manage to achieve stunning results, but I consistently have zero motivation to work to get there myself đ
on the other hand, I ADORED linocut. new hobby immediately??? I already have plans on how to incorporate into a bind I want to do this year.
we also did a non-book arts related class and made cha guo zi (a type of tea sweet). all parties involved sucked royally at this one XD look at this ugly smashed flower
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Free Great Gatsby Typeset
Hi again, here's a free pdf for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald! This text is typeset for half letter (letter folio), and if you click the link to the google drive folder, you'll see that there's two versions.
Version #1 is the one that I've posted pics of here đ¸. Version #2 is a simpler version that I call the non-alcoholic alternative đ.
Any errors in the typesets, feel free to let me know! The link is here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S2wl_PuxCupofnDpqGuk7VjMHYFMWC6g?usp=sharing.
Please leave credit if you use them, and consider liking/reblogging if you can! Thanks, and follow this blog for future free typesets/book pdfs.
Interior pics below the break:
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Due North | knifemartin
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I've been reading a lot of Rusty Quill Gaming fanfiction lately, and @knifemartin's series Due North is one of my favorites and immediately climbed to the top of my to-bind list. I love its explorations of grief, hurt, comfort, and hope, and it really made me love Carter as a character so it will always have a special place in my heart.
This was the first bind that I made after the Rengade server's February bookbinding event, Binderary. I'd attended a ton of workshops and subsequently bought a bunch of new tools and materials, and I got to use all of them and more on this book! Of particular note are the edges, which mark my first time chisel trimming a book and painting the trimmed edges; the endbands, which are my first go at double-core style sewn endbands; and the title page, which includes my first time using vellum in a bind as well as a sample of my first batch of hand-marbled papers. This book is also my first that uses short-grain paper, and I'm delighted at the feel of it and how well it drapes!
Overall, I'm absolutely thrilled with how this book turned out, and I can't wait to finish my own copy and add it to my shelf đ
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new paper haul arrived
I have not been as productive as I had wished the past months and didn't want to buy more paper... alas, those were too pretty to miss out. Renato Crepaldi's sky scapes do their names justice and will be beautiful on a multi volume book set that is yet to be determined.
Not part of the skyscapes, but pretty in a spring flower way. The freebie I got this time.
#I AM VERY JEALOUS#i very much failed to time the drop correctly and missed it#screamibg. crying. throwing up. etc.
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together, we are a prayer by Various
A very small collection of Supernatural fics exploring gender within Supernatural. A gift for @pleasantboatpressâ.Â
For design info / materials / binding process, read below the cut.
Keep reading
#an absolutely stunning book!#the design knocks it out of the fucking park#not my binding#but damn i wish it were!
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Binder's Note for Forms by Trebia
How Forms fits in the long tradition of Star Wars fanfic.
My hope is that this project captures a snapshot in time from Star Wars fandom het shippers between December 2015 and December 2017, before the franchise confirmed any emotional intimacyâif you can call it thatâ between Rey and Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017).
Trebia, then aged 24, wrote and published the first chapter of Forms on Archive of Our Own on December 18th, 2015âthe exact release date of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. When posting this first chapter, Trebia noted, âIâm just working off of memory from the one viewing I saw last night.â The entirety of the fanfic was completed and posted an exact month later, making this fic historically significant in Star Wars fandom as one of the earliest published âReyloâ stories.
A serialized novella that was churned out in an astonishingly short time frame, Forms is notable for predicting many elements of The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019), including the Reylo Force bond, Rey walking away from her training with Luke Skywalker, Kylo Ren pleading with Rey to join him, and Kylo Ren pushing his Force energy into Rey to save her life.
Throughout the story, Trebia mashed new and old Star Wars elements togetherâcharacters like the Mandalorians and Admiral Daala, settings like Illum and Kuatâ âevincing her fondness for the Galaxy Far, Far Away. Forms has classic tropes from this franchise, like stealing a uniform to go undercover in an enemy base and the forced proximity of a âSlow Boat to Bespin.â Present in Forms are scads of fan theories from between the release of The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. These included the theory thatâechoing a Legends plot line from Dark Empire (1991) where somehow Palpatine returns and Luke Skywalker joins the dark side to try and take him down from the insideâKylo Ren had strategic reasons for his apprenticeship to Snoke. Like many Reylo fan-works set in-universe, Trebia lends justification to his many antisocial acts, part of shipper efforts to make the character more self-relevant and sympathetic.
Forms weaves in tantalizing threads that were tossed around by fans and concept artists but ultimately not pursued, including Dark Rey, Stormpilot (Finn/Poe Dameron), and Rey's saberstaff. Trebia even predicted the Kuat Drive Yards plot line started in The Last Jedi (Rose Ticoâs contempt for weapon's manufacturers on Canto Bight) and continued in the abandoned Episode IX: Duel of Fates script by Colin Trevorrow. Forms also addresses loose ends that probably should have been covered for a more cohesive nine film saga, like the Chosen One prophecy and direct interaction between Anakin Skywalker and Kylo Ren.
No discussion of Forms can be complete without also placing it in the context of Star Wars fandom in 2016. Reylo was a fringe pairing that made intuitive sense to many Star Wars fans, particularly women; however, prior to The Last Jedi, the ship was dwarfed by the popularity of slash ships like Finn/Poe and Kylo Ren/Hux. At the time, many fans theorized that Rey was Luke Skywalkerâs long-lost daughter, making her Ben Soloâs first cousin, making Reylo an incest ship.
As noted on the Fanlore wiki, the tags on this fic changed over time. In addition to âRiding the bus to hell either wayâ Trebia joked with tags like âPossible incest?â and âNot incest until proven guilty in the court of law.â Following the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Trebia celebrated by replacing those tags with a celebratory âIT AINâT INCEST.â
The story's strong influence in early Reylo fandom reflected a hunger for more Star Wars romances about the pull between light and dark. After all, the sequel trilogy did not set up Kylo Ren as a horned, alien-appearing monster or a wrinkled geezer. Unblemished by the ravages of the dark side, Kylo Ren was depicted with pillow lips and a fabulous, voluminous coiffure unencumbered by his helm (which really should have flattened it to his scalp.) The groundwork for a lightsider/darksider romance was previously explored in other Expanded Universe stories. At the forefront of these were watered down lightsider/darkside romances like the tepidly written romance between Luke Skywalker and former Palpatine agent Mara Jade. Given Mara Jade was hardly a champion of the dark side, there was no risk of corrupting Skywalker. But the Expanded Universe also boasted stories that played with this dynamic, like the twisted connection between Fable Astin and Jaalib Brandl by Patricia A. Jackson for the Star Wars Adventure Journal (1994), the conflict between Jaina Solo and Zekk in Kevin J. Anderson's Young Jedi Knights (1996),or the passion between Darth Revan and Bastila Shan in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003). In this respect, Forms and the rest of the Reylo fan fiction oeuvre continues the grand fan tradition of Star Wars villain fucking.
âDarksider and lightsider conflict is one of the most fascinating points of Star Wars,â Trebia said in 2016, when interviewed by Spencer Kornhaber for The Atlantic. âRey and Kylo represent the fight to find the balance.â Yet, at the time, the fledgling âReyloâ ship was abhorred by affirmational Star Wars fans who despised the emphasis on shipping with a female gaze, as well as scorned by media commentators who found the ship to be âproblematic.â In male-dominated, established fan spaces like Reddit and Jedi Council Forums, discussion of Reylo was effectively banned by moderators through the freezing of threads. In other fandom spaces like Twitter and Tumblr, discourse about Reylo mirrored larger purity culture. The ship became a convenient target for alt-right misogynists, and also for antiâshippers concerned that the ship âromanticized abuse.â Productive and unproductive debate arose around media consumption construed as agreement or approval, whether a sympathetic Kylo Ren lends people to give more latitude to real-life white right-wing men with anger management problems (or if it's the other way around), and if shippers can tell the difference between a fictional antihero and the same dangerous thing in real life. Critiques of Reylo fandom also included the implicit racism inherent in the sidelining of John Boyegaâs heroic character Finn in favor of white whiny fascist Kylo Ren. (It did not help that 2016 also saw the election where white American women voters decided to displace a competent Black man with a white whiny fascist.)
In the September 2020 issue of the Journal of Fandom Studies, Andrea Marshall notes that Reylo âfan fiction acts as a locus of resistance to gendered oppression as feminist authors construct selves that critique the source material and the fandom for gendered oppression within tropes and attitudes.â By having Rey actually interact with and befriend a woman other than Leia, Forms already improves on the source material. It's a delight to see Forms depict older women over age fifty who are plot-significant and interact which one another, if only because Star Wars movies are fairly gender regressive. On the other hand, Rey's strategy to convert Kylo back to the light is to uh, suck the badness out of him. It's PadmĂŠ Amidala logicâsure, he arranged the wholesale slaughter of an entire village, but he can also deftly finger you to orgasm! Granted, Star Wars is infamously a franchise of excuse making, where really shitty dudes manage to turn it around and do the right thing at the last minute. Forms also doesn't push all that hard to actively resist the neo-fascist allegory in the sequel trilogy, particularly in Trebia's appendix, which dissatisfactorily explains that all of the First Order war criminals in the story ended up as instructors in military academies. (Who would even hire them, Albus Dumbledore?!)
Fics like Forms led to âship warsâ discourse, which led to the publication of ozhawkauthor's âThe Three Laws of Fandomâ meta essay on January 1st, 2016. âLawsâ is a bit of a misnomer since there is no enforcement body; the essay is more of a request for courtesy in fandom spaces. The laws were also meant to apply specifically to shipping, not fandom or media criticism as a whole. âItâs not up to you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not like, to create or not to create,â wrote ozhawkauthor. âThatâs censorship. Donât do it.â
For fans conscious of fandom history and the impact of censorship in spaces like FanFiction.net and Livejournal, ozhawkauthor's guidelinesâ(1) Don't like; don't read, (2) Your ship is not my ship, (3)Ship and let shipâfelt intuitive. This is reflected in spaces like my bookbinding guild, Renegade, whichâsimilar to Archive of Our Ownâtakes a hands off approach to policing content. This did not prevent widespread handwringing about Reylo content. Star Wars fan ughwhyben reflected on the âgigantic fandom that is suddenly experiencing a renaissance, where an influx of mainstream folk are trickling into (or running into) the fic side for possibly the first time right now and donât have this training. Itâs like weâre flickering back and forth between the modern evolution of fic side fannish culture and what things were like in, for example, 2001 when I first stumbled in.â
Decades ago, in May 1981, Lucasfilm reacted to the publication of âSlow Boat to Bespinâ by Anne Elizabeth Zeek & Barbara Wenk by declaring a ban on smut in fan fiction. I've included in the errata of this binding a letter from 1981 written by the Star Wars fanclub president to circulating fanzines threatening legal action. While slash was also caught in this netâdisproportionately targeted given non-explicit gay romance was not okay even though Star Wars has non-explicit het romanceâit was this fairly tame (by fic standards) heteronormative fic, featuring Han Solo and Princess Leia, that signaled to Lucasfilm that smutty fanfic was no longer on the fringes and now needed to be addressed to protect the âwholesomenessâ of the franchise. Subsequently, fanfic writers had to make a conscious decision to flout Lucasfilmâs policy and go forth with propagating their smut.
And, in 2016, of all the ships in all of fandom, it was the Reylo Star Wars pairing, featuring this specific heteronormative female power fantasy (of being able to leash a villain by the dick to drag him back to the light) that led to a communal reaffirmation of these fandom norms. In her interviews with the The Atlantic, Trebia directly quotes from the Three Laws of Fandom, endorsing âship and let shipâ as a basis for creating Reylo fanworks. âI am fully involved in the garbage compactor that is this pairing, and I love it,â Trebia said. âNo matter what way it goes, I will stick with it.â
After studying early romance novels from the late 1600s and early 1700s, Ros Ballaster observed a polarity between didactic love fiction and amatory fiction. Didactic love stories are sweetâaspirational, moral, and idealizedâwhile amatory fiction is spicyâerotic, transgressive, untethered from social sanction. We do see representations of didactic love in Reylo fan fiction, particularly in contemporary romance âModern AUsâ like Ali Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis (2021)where the Kylo's homicidal Sith rage is sanitized to a more socially-acceptable grumpy academic brooding. One can comfortably bring Adam Carlsen, Ph.D home to meet Mother. But certainly, the majority of Reylo fic written by fans gravitate towards and come with the self awareness of the amatory. For one, Trebia loudly proclaims in her Chapter Two author note: âMORE TRASH FOR THE TRASH GOD.â
Discourse over the âmoralityâ of Reylo fan fiction tends to overlook the distinction between the didactic and the amatory. As compelling as the idea of a âForce dyadâ is in fantasy, this relationship is not meant to be aspirational in a literal sense. Yet, readers of Reylo fiction were and continue to have to defend their interest in the archetype with disclaimersâyes, it's trash, yes, I know it's problematicâwhile men in fandom are not held to the same standards when it comes to âproblematicâ media they consume or enjoy, whether it's a Michael Bay blockbuster film or male-gaze pornography.
As Deborah Lutz notes, âThe Dangerous Lover Romanceâ is a centuries old, conventional way to represent erotic desire and romantic love. The âsublimely tormented Byronic heroâ is hardly groundbreaking, to the extent that Rian Johnson's depiction of Reylo in The Last Jedi subverts the tropeâat the end of the film Rey isn't enchanted, she's repulsed. The same way Star Wars replicates Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey monomyth, Reylo stories like Forms reflect the broad appeal of the âhow-the-turntablesâ Dangerous Lover romanceâwhere the woman protagonist, initially subjugated by the debased, restless misanthrope, ends up subjugating him through her strength of will and the power of love. Trebia's Kylo even sports malevolent scars like so many Gothic male romantic leads before himâalways on the face. In the Gothic romance, the heroine accesses socially undesirable aspectsâpower, rage, craving, desireâas expressed by her double, the Dangerous Lover. His presence in the story provides a basis for her disinhibition. The Reylo ship follows a well-trodden cultural script of transgressive female desire.
Forms the fan fiction novella is a notable cultural artefact reflecting a distinct period of time in Star Wars fandom. At the time, Reylo fanfic held all the promise of improved representation for women characters, crossed with the instinctual, regressive insistence that maintains a white male character in the forefront. Reylo fan fiction produced in early 2016 also led to the reification of anti-censorship values in fandom. Seven years later, a fandom that was once derided has gone fully mainstream, as fic writers like Ali Hazelwood, Ashley Poston, and Thea Guanzon top traditional publishing bestseller lists. What Trebia knocked out, hours after her introduction to the characters, is now it's own Star Wars literary tradition.
#fanbinding#not my binding#i love it when ppl include meta and printer's notes in the bind#and man this is SUCH A COOL BOOK DESIGN MY GOD
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The amazing Christmas Special fic The Grinch Who Sold Christmas, by @darcylindbergh. Gorgeously typeset by @celestial-sphere-press
(T, 60,854)
#absolutely lovely!#great color choices#the textures in the fabrics look so touchable#i want to touch#not my binding
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Ficbinding: Tales from Tatooine (this fic and this fic)
I joined the good folks at Renegade Bindery in 2020, and it only took me âŚthree years to get around to the project Iâve been meaning to do since the beginning: binding a collection of volumes of my own fic. (It took me a long time to figure out my typeset, okay? The binding I knew how to do, Affinity Publisher, not so much).
I started with volume IV of the collection (itâs the George Lucas way!) because I'd finished the typeset first and had all the materials gathered. Vol I and II are currently in progress but I wonât have time to work on them until the end of the month.
I bought some nice dotmar cream for the text block and Iâm so happy with the quality of printing that my little inkjet printer supplied. The bookcloth is Duo, and the cover is marbled jute paper. The typeface is Crimson. The vector images came from craftsmanspace.com. I had a rubber stamp made for the Alliance seal.
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Volume II is here at last!
Pour Away the Ocean is volume two of a set of fic collections I'm binding of (mostly) my own fic. There are nine stories in this volume, including the title story and Unnatural Objects.
I chose an ocean theme to match the title story, with Chiyogami paper printed in an abstract sea pattern on the cover and a set of ocean vector images to illustrate the title pages. The text paper is dotmar cream and the spine is duo book cloth. I did a much better job on the spine this time! I didn't have the measurements right when I bound volume IV, and it kind of bugs me now.
The ocean theme was a fun contrast to the desert theme of vol IV. Next up, warm florals for vol I.
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Volume One (Miracles and Wonder) is the third volume I've bound in the set, because... it just worked out like that.
I call this "the feel-good fic" collection, and the stories are mostly (with one notable exception!) older, shorter fics with happy endings. They're fun and self-indulgent fics (though isn't all fic self-indulgent?) The warm colors and flower theme reflect that vibe.
And it has illustrations! Many thanks to @kuiilandtorch for the fanart for We Can't Keep Meeting Like This.
Volume two and volume four.
#i was convinced i had reblogged this but apparently not?#but it is a lovely binding!!#the triangle inset detail for the rebellion symbol is such a nice touch#beautiful typeset#not my binding
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The meaning of dandelions, by Endrina. This is the second volume of "The Secret Language of Plants".
As with most of my bindings, this book is "not perfct" at all, yet it joins my bibliographic collection of beloved imperfections. I like how it turned out despite everything.
This tome is full of errors due to my lack of concentration. I think I should change the name of this blog to "Adventures of an ADD fic binder". As some of my worst ADD days, yesterday wasn't the best day for me to try anything! The thing is, I had a great time binding this weekend, so no amount of mistakes will take that away. I still like my little green book.
Unlike volume 1, this time I remembered to put the headbands, yet I forgot the bookmark. More importantly, I got the series name wrong on the spine!
What I like?
I like the green cover, and how it looks next to its companion, the yellow tome. Likewise, the little dandelion seed on the back cover really charms me.
What could I have done better?
Apart from placing the correct title of the series?, I could have transferred the HTV with less temperature. There are plate marks on the cover.
I should have added the endpapers - I had them ready and forgot!
Plus, add the bookmark.
For those with little experience in fandom, this fantastic fic can be read for free on AO3. Just remember to leave a constructive comment for the author.
 @llendrinallÂ
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The Call of Cthulhu - H. P. Lovecraft
Half leather binding, with leather corners. Title stamp on the spine. Hand sewn endbands. Edges coloured with acrylic paint.
Dimensions approx. 4cm x 5,5cm
With accompanying slipcase.
materials case
binders board, 1,5 (coverboards)
cardboard (spine stiffener)
goatskin leather
decorative paper
gold foil, hot stamped (title)
materials inner book
Munken polar, 100gsm (text block)
Majestic fancy paper, iridescent, 120gsm (endpapers)
button hole silk (endbands)
acrylic paint (edge colouring)
Dimensions: ~A9
materials slip case
binders board, 1,5 (case construction)
Satogami paper (lining)
decorative paper (cover material)
Majestic fancy paper, iridescent, 120gsm (cover material)
#my god it is adorable!!#and beautiful#a stunning little book#not my binding#and look at its little case!
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Away Childish Things by @letteredlettered
I'm so excited to finally share this bind of one of my all time favorite fics! Thanks to lettered's generous binding policy, I decided to go all out.
This bind has a foiled cover and spine, hand sewn silk endbands, and thirteen custom chapter headers. It was also my first time rounding and backing.
You can find more pictures and information about my process under the cut.
For the cover and spine, I recreated the design of Beasts of the Field (1902) by William J. Long.
I wanted something that captured both the whimsy and maturity of the story, and this cover fit my vision perfectly. It also gave me the opportunity to recreate another antique cover from the public domain.
Unfortunately, the design was a bit complicated for my Cameo 4, so I was unable to fill the lines in. You can also tell that the foil did not adhere properly near the bottom, so the flowers are lighter than I would like them to be.
Because of the trouble I was having with my Cameo, I decided to foil the spine by hand. I deeply regretted this decision two hours later, and it took me four hours to finish foiling. My wrist still hurts!
Sewing the headbands was my absolute favorite part. I was encouraged to try them by a lovely binder on Instagram, and I ended up completely addicted. I splurged on some fancy silk thread so I could give this fic the royal treatment it deserves! I think they look like beautiful little caterpillars.
As for the rounding and backing... I'm not going to talk about it. Nightmare. Lots of nervous sweating. Emotional agony. Next topic!
I worked on the typeset back at the beginning of January when I had some time off, and it took me a solid week of obsessive editing to complete. My sister suggested that I use Harry and Draco's patronuses for the chapter art, but there unfortunately aren't many public domain illustrations of deer and foxes playing together.
It was at that point that I also decided that I wanted the animals to match the respective ages of Harry and Draco and the tone of each chapter. For the 13 chapters I ended up editing 25 different illustrations together. The bulk of these are taken from vintage versions of Bambi and Reynard the Fox. It's possible that a few stock images from 1980s nature books snuck in there, but I did my best to keep them all pre 1925.
I'm not a skilled editor, and some of these are worse than others, but I'm quite proud of what I was able to cobble together. On the final page I put a young fox and deer running off together. I wanted it to seem like Harry and Draco's inner children had been freed.
I'm a bit embarrassed to say that this bind took me about 4-5 months to complete! I started in early January, and went wildly off track learning how to round, back, and sew headbands. And then I was hit by some killer creative block that only lifted last week!
There are still many things I could improve on, but I'm so proud of everything that I learned and accomplished with this bind! A big thank you to lettered for inspiring me with such a wonderful story. <3
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Book No. 22
I bound my first tiny book last week, a very small copy of Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by @tsttoain, and I am a convert. I love the cute size, I love that fucking up only costs one (1) sheet of A4, and I love turning a project around in a single evening. Seriously. 4-5 hours, including typesetting, and thatâs with me pausing to figure out each set as I went. Amazing. It is a *revelation.*
Not only was this my first tiny book, this was also the authorâs first foray into this ship and into writing smut; I really like the symmetry of trying something new in my binding when she was trying something new in her writing. I bound two copies, one for the author and one to keep.
I am always grateful to the @renegadepub discord community for their support, but they really came through this time as I gave myself a crash course in tiny typesetting and binding and turned this around in just a few hours.
With the exception of the pages, both copies are made entirely of scraps from previous projects, and I am delighted at how theyâre both a new and complete object in their own right, and simultaneously one that carries with it the ghosts of other books books Iâve bound to date.
#bookbinding#ficbinding#TINY BOOKS!#not my binding#i have not yet explored tiny books but i enjoy seeing what ppl do
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I made a book of my own fanfic! Because I can, cause no one can stop me... (cause it makes up for things I lost)(sorry, had a W/IFS moment there, I'll stop now).... ANYWAY.
BEHOLD.
Like the fic itself, this was an exercise in just DO IT and don't overthink. If a problem persisted for more than five minutes I simply got rid of it (that's why there's no page numbers, they kept getting cut off). I didn't look up how to make mini books. I did the illustrations with the first gel pen that I found on scrap paper and scanned them in.
The board is a cut up frozen sausage box, the cover paper is lokta (I think) that I got in November. The endpapers are basic black printer paper.
I love it so much.
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Salvage by MuffinLance
I completed this baby back in October early November it was painfully fun, lol. Shoutout to @no-name-publishing for sharing their typeset with me!
Below the line, there is more information and photos on this bind!
The foiling took about 8-9 hours or so. There was a lot of trial and error, and I ruined about 3 books worth of bookcloth. I ran through all my heat reactive silver foil (neverforgetâď¸)before I was able to compelte it. I used foil I got from a bindery that is closing down, I used my new cameo, and the memory keepers heat foil quills.
I was originally going to use The Great Wave off Kanagawa as my cover art, but my friends talked me out of it, and I'm glad since, had I not listened, it may have taken longer. The sound of the cameo working will haunt my nightmares. My spouse was dreading their life choices. "Why did I buy her the machine from hell?" Cause you love me, my sweet honeybooboo, that's why.
I used 28lb paper for this puppy, my printer was such a good boy and printed it out without a single issue (bless you babe I will thank you first when I get a trophy one of these days) but after I folded it it was like 3 inches wide and I got so scared for my life.
I used remie band and linen thread (only the best for you, my precious), I made headbands with the bookcloth and l2mm leather core, and I used glue and kozo paper to strengthen the rounded spine.
Rounding and backing almost made me cry, but I had DAS there with me. Also, shoutout to my friend's cousin for the backing and routing boards and Jim with ABE for the wonderful laying press.
The endpapers are from De Milo Design. They are handmade, and I got them at a local faire. They are beautiful!
The bookcloth is from BookcraftSupplyCo in CA!
If you would like to learn more about bookbinding, consider joining @renegadepublishing
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