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being obsessed w a piece of media is so scary. what if my mutuals see how insane i go about it and think oh i gotta check out what this is about and then think it sucks and kill me with rocks. what if they hate my favorite characters

#the struggle is real #old mutuals please don't think I'm stupid and wrong for liking whatever I'm into right now #which is mostly gay and stupid vampires

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The newest quarto binding, featuring my first hand-wound headbands - the four finished stories in the watchmen Carrefour AU. Cover design meant to evoke the idea of crossroads, along with marigolds, which were an important image in the story. I wrote these collectively with Daylilymoon back in the day, and it's one of my fondest memories. Daylily if you are still around, please reach out to me, I'd love to make you a copy too--and I won't even fuck up the spelling on the spine, for your version DX

Text is Sylfean, Trajan Pro for the titles and drop caps, Caslon Antique for the cover text. Chapter header graphic and back cover version of the Kalfu veve by me. The text block was printed on some rustic, thick grain paper that I bought ages ago at Meiningers and I have no idea what the brand was, but it seemed appropriate for an 1800s era story. Cover and endpapers are art paper also from the art store. Siser metal HTV as usual.

I cannot believe I misspelled the spine, aughhhhhhhhh

#ficbinding #fic binding #fanbinding #fan binding #bookbinding #book binding #handbinding #hand binding #quarto #quarterbind #sort of

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trevor belmont

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ugh i can't stand this bastard he's so cunty. in a really unwashed and sad kinda way

#damn look at that eye glint #this is some amazing Trevor art friend #castlevania #trevor belmont #art that isn't mine

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A question, for the ficbinding community.

I know that the community is largely centered around the gifting culture of fandom. Is it considered weird, or tacky, or cringey, or a general faux pas, to mostly bind your own fic?

Because I have SUCH a backlog of fic I've written that I want to bind, but I don't generally see a ton of self-binding out there. I do have some projects in the works for other people's fic but most of them are looooooong and are taking forever to typeset, and I keep getting impulses to just do quick lil quartos of my own mid length fics, and I just don't know if that's considered WEIRD.

Hey let's just make this a poll for ease of information gathering.

#ficbinding #fic binding #fanbinding #fan binding #book binding #bookbinding #hand binding #handbinding

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Hiii I'm alive btw. Just fighting for my life with art block and my uni being close to finals again... An you know what? I have no power left in me for that, but who cares about it? Non.

Anyway. Trevor been poking me a lot lately so I decided to give him a go and end up drawing the whole trio :> Hope you enjoy it, like I did drawing it. It's a wip yeeee

#castlevania #trevor belmont #sypha belnades #alucard #adrian tepes #trephacard #maybe? #close enough for me #art that isn't mine

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ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

#best tumblr holiday #neil forever in our hearts 🎵🎶

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My first REALLY tiny book, a bind of Four of Swords. A sextodecimo! This lil guy is about 3" x 2 1/4" and is bound with actual cards from the miniature edition RWS deck. Because of the fun tarot imagery I'd been wanting to bind this one, but it's so short, just about 5000 words, so it had to go really little :3

Printed on pop-tone white from French, spine and sword detail done with HTV. I printed the main narrative in black and the flashbacks in blue, for visual separation, and the endpapers are of artwork done for this fic by the incredible @sandwichartistdatzu !!

#book binding #bookbinding #ficbinding #fic binding #fanbinding #fan binding #handbinding #hand binding #tarot #tiny book

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My first bind for another writer! This is Whiter Fang by Doubledog, in which Trevor and Sypha are a hunter and scholar without their soldier, Alucard is a wolf that isn't a wolf, and literally everyone knows what's going on except for Trevor. And it is hecking hilarious. So happy with so many aspects of this--the HTV worked much better this time, and the edge gilding turned out lovely, and the charms are so cute and perfect. And when I saw the endpapers with the yellow googly eyes on one side, I couldn't resist.

Details under cut.

Typeset in Word, printed on French Smart White 80lb text, in Sylfean. Inside titles in Charlemagne Std, drop caps in TypographerWoodcutInitialsOne, cover titles in Gill Sans Ultra Bold Condensed with some raster editing. Animal Prints font for the pawprint. HTV is Siser, cut with cricut, applied with home iron. Endpapers are from a retro pop art paper pack, bookcloth is generic BbH, and edge painting done with FW acrylic ink in Imitation Gold.

#book binding #bookbinding #fan binding #fanbinding #fic binding #ficbinding #hand binding #handbinding #book arts #fanfic #castlevania #fic that isn't mine #fic recs

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༝ Finally able to share my piece done for the amazing @castlevaniazine!

#hot damn this is gorgeous #the first and the last #and the bastard that gave the entire line purpose #castlevania #trevor belmont #leon belmont #dracula #art that isn't mine

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Now in this twilight— How dare you speak of grace?

More vampire Leon bullshit. Sorry not sorry.

#reblogging because i basically originally posted it ten minutes til boop o clock #which had everyone distracted #understandably #but I'm proud of this one #castlevania #lament of innocence #leon belmont #mathias cronqvist #dracula #he's kind of in between identities at this point #(roughly 60 years after lament) #vampire leon #my au leon #art that is mine #fanart

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Now in this twilight— How dare you speak of grace?

More vampire Leon bullshit. Sorry not sorry.

#castlevania #lament of innocence #leon belmont #mathias cronqvist #dracula #he's kind of in between identities at this point #(roughly 60 years after lament) #vampire leon #my au leon #art that is mine #fanart

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reblog this if your blog is a safe space on april fools and won’t have any jumpers, screamers, or anything scary or anxiety inducing

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YIPPEE YAHOO TRANS PEOPLE RISE UP!!!!!

#🩷🤍🩵 #💜🤍💚 #💜🤍💛🖤

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Two sketchbooks for two friendos!

The first one is just casebound like the rest of my books because it's all I knew how to do at that point, but I did play around a little with that round window in the cover as a display for the bat stamp :3 The second I made larger because the friendo in question tends to work larger, and I decided to try Belgian secret binding because it seemed like a nice flat-laying method that would work well for a sketchbook. Really pleased with how it came out!

#book binding #bookbinding #hand binding #handbinding #sketchbook #book arts #belgian secret binding

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An au fic that is near and dear to my heart, and one that spawned hundreds of thousands of words of follow-up, companion pieces, aus, and so on. AKA the one where I fixed canon by turning a major character into a zombie.

Lot of firsts on this bind -- first time using a guillotine for the edges, first time including a bookmark, and first time using heat transfer vinyl, for the lettering and bloodstains on the cover. For a first attempt, not awful; the letters came out a little raggedy but I decided to just roll with it since this is, thematically, supposed to be a bloodied and ratty relic of an apocalypse. And I FUCKING LOVE how the blood splattered page edges turned out.

Technical details under the cut.

Body text is Kozuka Mincho Pro R on French fleece white parchtone; titles are Haettenschweiler; chapter headers are Traveling Typewriter; chapter caps and Tshirt text are You Murderer BB. Blood splatters from a font called simply "splatter".

End papers are some kind of scrapbook paper from a "blood splatter" pack I found online somewhere. Bookcloth is generic BbH. Vinyl is Siser Metal HTV, cut with cricut, that I jacked up by using an iron instead of a proper heat press. Edge splatter with mix of liquitex naphol red light and FW Pearlescent black acrylic inks.

I think that's everything. Most ambitious bind I've done and one of the ones I'm happiest with in terms of overall presentation.

#book binding #bookbinding #fan binding #fanbinding #fic binding #ficbinding #hand binding #handbinding #book arts #I'm still very much a newbie at this ok #so don't be too harsh about my messed up vinyl #watchmen zverse

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I realise a lot of girl’s Gay Awakenings was kiera knightly or kristen stewart which is cool phenomena tbh but I’m rlly interested in other Gay Awakenings like for example mine was morena baccarin in firefly and also gemma artenton in st trinians. CALLING ALL GAYS (boys and nb babes included)!! reblog with ur non kiera/k-stew Gay Awakening!!!

#this is gonna date me but #annie lennox in the sweet dreams video #😍

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THEY DESERVE TO BE HAPPY

#I'm sure I've reblogged this before but #it's one of my favs #castlevania #trephacard #trevor belmont #sypha belnades #alucard #adrian tepes #art that isn't mine