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Hey! Stop bullying him!😡
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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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appleslightning · 13 days
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sleepover<3
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Above all, boop thy enemy
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Draco’s hair is a hot mess when he’s sleep deprived
(Art from ch3 of Follies!)
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Just dropped a ton of new things in my Etsy shop!
Check it out here
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For lack of wanting by fluxweed
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Nightswimming by @sweet-s0rr0w
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Professor Potter au
Please give me more reasons to draw Harry in these shorts.
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The Favourite
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i'm so fucking stoked this is finally live! please read it, you're in for a RIDE!!!!! also! i did a lil dirty fanart for it that you can check at the end of the fic😎😎
Dronarry Fest Fic: The Favourite
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Title: The Favourite Creator: @mallstars Type: Fic Wordcount/Length: 17k Rating: Explicit Warnings: None Prompt: 8 Pairings: Draco/Harry, Ron/Draco, Harry/Ron, Harry/Draco/Ron
On a throne of glitzing clutter, Draco Malfoy sits like a degenerate prince. His robes are the colour of sour champagne, celestial patterns stitched across the sweeping silk where it drapes over sharp shoulders and cradles a spindly waist. A rain of glitter dangles from one of his ears, and his expression is nauseating. The curl of his lip, the upturn of his pompous nose. Draco is a criminal. Harry and Ron are the Aurors who arrest him.
Read The Favourite on AO3!
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draco , harry - 🫀
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Parallels?
Two lonely kids in two different worlds.
Before i post this on instagram, here you go tumbler❤
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glimmer!
Slipping one hand under the linen, Harry slowly unbuttoned his shirt with the other. He watched as the fabric pooled on the floor by their shoes, leaned his head against Draco's shoulder and took him in.
The hurried rise and fall of his breath, the glimmer of the Lumos shining lavender over the planes of his body. His skin was marred harshly by the ugly snake twisting out of a skull and the savage criss-cross of Harry's past cruelty, shoulder to pelvis.
Harry sucked in a breath.
"We're not talking about this right now," Draco cut in, mildly twisting both hands into Harry's hair. "You can say your part before all that damn missionary in the starlight tomorrow. Think of it as some kind of twisted foreplay. Right now I don't want to hear it."
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Send a random word to my inbox and I'll post a line/passage containing that word from a released or unreleased fic!
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Dronarry Fest Fic: Some Nights
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Title: Some Nights  Creator: @thecouchsofa Type: Fic  Wordcount/Length: 23k  Rating: Explicit Warnings/Tags: Voyeurism, Exhibitionism, Dubious Consent Prompt no: 28  Pairing: Draco/Harry/Ron 
Ron fucks up his Silencing Charms in the dorms one night. Then Malfoy does. The rest, as they say, is history. 
Read Some Nights on AO3!
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appleslightning · 2 months
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long time no comic!! this one is just uh. what it says on the tin. sorry
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