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I'm participating in the @fandomtrumpshate bazaar! I'm offering hand-bound paperback copies of your favorite fic. Or your least favorite; I don't judge.
Auction bids are for donations made to any of the charities chosen by FTH.
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me, opening my doc to write soft drarry: just two boys. maybe a kiss. maybe a flower or two. something light :)
also me, thirty seconds later: draco has not slept in six weeks. harry is bargaining with the stars. the moon is complicit. the walls are bleeding. love is war and healing is a hoax.
me, pausing to take a sip of water: what if a violin played somewhere in the background and it was actually his soul screaming
my google tabs:
The Superfluous Man lives in my head rent free
My first Drarry bind(!!), my first non-magical AU, and my first time gifting a bind to another fanbinder. @haxkattpress generously allowed me to use her beautiful typeset back in October, and I decided to gift her and the author a bound copy by way of saying thank you.
I know I'm supposed to talk about my bind, but it was her bind and description of this fic—“...the most creative and meticulously researched fics I have ever had the pleasure of reading"—that hooked me last year. I had never read a Drarry before, but I suddenly wanted to blind bind OORU based solely on the time and effort she dedicated to it.
So thank you, Haxkatt, for your generosity and for finding your way into friendship with me. Cheers to binding slowly, not rushing creativity, and becoming so absorbed with tedious details that the rest of the planet fades away.
And thank you, @citrusses, for writing such a wonderful AU to become immersed in. As soon as I finished binding my copy, I plopped myself on my couch and dove in. I loved it and love your work.
Also, I will never get over reading the physical copy of a fic I bound myself. Holding it in my hands, curled up on my couch, and disappearing into a story someone spent countless hours crafting for free is such a high.
Fanfic writers, I will never get over you.
Since this was a blind bind, I gleaned details from the typeset and the fic description, going for posh academic vibes to match the Oxford setting. I nearly fell out of my chair while sifting through my fabric stash; it matches the chapter headers perfectly. I kept my endbands simple and found beautiful art by Kenneth Crane for my dust jacket, making adjustments in Canva.
In the fic, Draco quotes poetry, so I pulled those for the flaps. Thank you to my dearest @phoenixortheflame for checking over my dust jacket for final tweaks—I've nicknamed her "The Finisher."
Bind details below for each copy—one for Haxkatt, one for citrusses, one for myself—bound for personal use only.
Bind details: bind style: full cloth bind, flatback(2), rounded&backed(1), sewn endpapers, ramie bands endpapers: 65lb tan cardstock fabric: quilt fabric from a quaint little shop in Ball Ground, Georgia, where my mother and grandmother live. Picking through fabric with them (quilt ideas for them, book ideas for me!) during December 2024 is a fond memory. This fabric came from that haul. book edge decoration: acrylic ink edges(2) and hand-marbled edges(1) from the @renegadeguild California meetup in February endbands: double faux core, 4mm leather core, Japanese silk thread typeset: @haxkattpress I love every.single.detail. dust jacket: designed in Canva; title font, Craw Modern; author font, Zing Rust Script; body & flap font, EB Garamond, The Seasons; art by Kenneth Crane
It was during these binds that I made the decision to keep detailed notes throughout my process. My ENDLESS thanks to @mourningmountainsbindery for sending me your awe-inspiring Google spreadsheet.
What a difference it makes, keeping a record of what you did right and what you'd change going forward. Sometimes you don't know until the bind is done, but now I can look back and learn from my mistakes or replicate my wins.
Now for my favorite part: BTS!
And finally, because no bind is complete without a little pain, I've included a few quotes between myself and @maleekamolscreates when it came to sanding a rounded fore-edge. The time it takes to get it right is a special type of agony.
Especially when you have to do it twice. Which I did, because Round 1 was not perfect and because I love pain.
I am not okay and I will never be!! The skill and attention to detail and vision of @copticcowgirl actually take my breath away. This is artistry. Thank you so much for such an incredible honor to my fic! The cover, the edges, the bookcloth — each element is stunning but they also add up to such an incredible cohesive whole. @haxkattpress your typeset will never not knock me over. I am so moved, thank you so much!
This feels like a safe space to share that I really hate it in movies when they’re, like, crossing this wretched fuckoff gorge by a rope bridge and some jagoff cuts the bridge like - I do NOT want to even think about how much work and material and handcraft that was!! And then people had to install it as well!! Imagine how many commutes you’re fucking up! Stop destroying rope bridges assholes
For anyone who has no idea what @elodieunderglass means...
oh my god that's amazing! these are the people and the materials and this is the work that's getting messed up, when heathens whack a handmade bridge down!!
And quit stabbing fucking maps!!
i love this because it's like. why did paleolithic peoples paint the hunt. perhaps to celebrate and honour brave deeds that kept the community alive. perhaps to bring luck for future hunts. perhaps to instruct those who came after how to slay the beast. perhaps to remind us we can: that the mammoth is not unkillable.
this graffiti, too, serves those purposes!
Kinda recontextualizes the hunt for mammoths though
Maybe it wasn't for food
Maybe mammoths are really fucking racist
I recently had the absolute joy of participating in a small binder + artist collab exchange with the wildly talented @redtulipsbindery to create a custom bind of Rookie Moves (gifted to the phenomenal @citrusses! ❤️)
RTB handcrafted the stunning Auror robe-inspired cover (like…ya'll!!! LOOK at those details?!), and I had the chance to contribute the dust jacket design and interior artwork. HUGE shoutout to the amazing mods @maleekamolscreates and @phoenixortheflame for organizing this dreamy project and pairing me with such a brilliant binder!!!
This collab was also a huge step for me creatively, too. I’m still pretty new to drawing (especially THIS much!) and had never done dust jacket design work before, so this was a major first! I really wanted to capture the warmth, humor, and heart of Rookie Moves in the visuals, and working in tandem with the bind design pushed me to think in new ways about layout and storytelling through art. It was a big ol’ learning experience, but a ridiculously fun one, and the fact that I got to make fanart for a fic that owns my soul?? YESSSS. ALL THE FEELS. I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS EXPERIENCE.
Again, THANK YOU to the mods for hosting this exchange and to redtulipsbindery for their support, creative energy, and friendship!
Summary:
Harry's still getting his head round this whole thing: being into blokes, being into Draco. Draco's way ahead of Harry on that front. He's done things before — not many things, but more than Harry had before they started this. He has dirty mags he's shared with Harry. Draco has fully developed tastes and preferences and little kinks — I like it when you touch yourself in my bed and use your school tie to make me stay still and it tastes good, haven't you ever tried it?
With thanks to @citrusses for looking this over while I was (still am) Covid-loopy and not very coherent but apparently porn-motivated.
by @quicksilvermaid // ao3
I made two tiny paperbacks woo! The text inside is just a little bit crooked. It's fine. I tried a different method for these paperbacks and I love it.
This was the first Drarry I bound and I think it might've been the first I read too?
Idk why I decided to start posting here too, but oh well.
Lovely to see Shadows in paperback! Thanks so much for choosing to bind it and I love your cover image choice ☺️
--ROOKIE MOVES BY PEU_A_PEU
finally finished this painting i sketched out months ago… please click for better quality i know tumblr is gonna kill it (reference used)
Oh my god this is a painting
Me: This is not a painting at all I don’t believe it even though everyone is saying it and the artist themselves said it
*clicks for better quality and zooms in*
Oh my goodness this is a painting
a painting you say???
THERE IS A LITTLE FROG!
everyone make sure to set out cheese & crackers for neil tonight <3
love when fictional men are so devoted to their partner it makes them dangerous and insane. very slutty behavior keep it up king
