#recycling books

[alysvolatile]

Want to fanbind? Need davy boards/book boards and low on funds? I have an excellent hack for you:

Repurpose shitty books

"But!!!" You may say, "no book is shitty! All human experiences are worth putting to paper!"

You're right! But, also, Counterpoint:

I went to my local thrift shop and got these for the low price of $5 for all 10. ("Getting into politics?" The lovely ladies behind the counter asked me. "In a manner of speaking," I replied.)

Once I got home, it was easy to turn them into this, their component parts:

("Please stop saying you're skinning them," my partner begged. Too late!)

[EDIT TO ADD: Here's a guide! Also on my tumblr. Also - when thrifting, bring a piece of paper folded or cut into the minimum size you need for boards: this way you can make sure you're getting big enough material!]

While these are just book boards, diligent deconstruction can even yield headbands, I'm pretty sure - I'll report back on my next trial run. [EDIT TO ADD: yup, you can!]

I cannot overstate the delight I have in giving these covers new life for binding fanfiction, particularly the queer kind.

Happy binding!

#adventures in fanbinding #fanbinding #fanbinding on a budget #reduce reuse recycle #bookbinding #book binding #the art of book butchery

[ryllen]

i have no other reason of drawing this, other than i just want to

#twisted wonderland #twst #sebek zigvolt #twst yuu #twst grim #twst mc #fanart #who's happy with promo recycling tokens? me! me! me! #i'm so happy i can study potion for text books while also receiving honey from the boxes #i keep running back and forth to sam's mysterious store #i'm so close i'm so cloose i manage to reduce the earth titan's hp to 8000+ i'm so closeeee #why can't the promo recycling tokens be forever #one time i was on piggybackride i remember gravity kept pulling my as s down i never feel more like a burden #i wish at that kind of situation i am feather light like a/nime girl #I JUST HAD THE EARTH TITAN AT 4000+ AUGEGHHSHSHSH

[mcromwell]

The Art Critter is so helpful...

#book arts #bookbinding #the art critter #puppet #skull #bones #upcycled #trash art #recycled art #traditional art #art

[themightynyunyi]

Without you I am lost I keep you at any cost

#marauders #james potter #regulus black #jegulus #james x regulus #nyudoesart #I had this flower frame in procreate for a year now I wanted to use it for an entirely different fanart #but i never finished that so I recycled it #the quote of from jay and the coffee - beautiful vulnerable unreliable unreachable broken #which is the perfect song for the fic on ao3 #whatever happened to the young young lovers? #10/10 highly recommend #that fic caused my marauders donwfall #when its done im prob gonna custom print it so i can reread it as a physical book

[curi0uscreature]

* New AU idea where everyone’s a D’artagnan equivalent (concept art that was turned into an individual character)

#AKA my excuse to draw and characterize concept designs that speak out to me. recycling. even #plus might name the H+B variants Robbie and Belmut! just a thought #psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #Psychonauts 2 art book spoilers #pn2 art book spoilers #psychonauts au #coach oleander #morceau oleander #milla vodello #lili zanotto #helmut fullbear #bob zanotto #click 4 better quality #curi0us artworks #D’artagnan’s World DLC #<- probably a place holder until I actually come up with something good

[muspeccoll]

Sometimes our #ManuscriptMonday posts are beautifully preserved specimens, and sometimes they're survivors that have persisted for centuries against all odds. This is one of the survivors.

After they outlived their usefulness, many medieval manuscripts were cut up and recycled into book covers, binding reinforcements, and even linings for clothing, shoes, and musical instruments. Parchment is durable, flexible, and expensive to produce, so it makes sense that people found ways to reuse it instead of merely throwing it away.

Reuse of Hebrew parchments like this one, however, can bear witness to both medieval recycling practices and religious persecution. This fragment is from tractate Menachot, part of the Talmud, which was subjected to confiscation, censorship, and public burnings in medieval Europe starting in the thirteenth century. We don't know whether this specific fragment was taken from its community by force, but many like it were.

Some medieval Hebrew texts are all but lost, known today only through surviving fragments. Read more about "The European Genizah" in a recent article by Simcha Emanuel in Tablet magazine.

Tractate Menachot, 33-34. Part of a very large 3-column manuscript of the Talmud, in Hebrew, Tractate Menachot, 33-34, Ashkenazi, presumably Germany, approximately thirteenth century, red stains. University of Missouri Digital Library.

#manuscript monday #manuscripts #medieval manuscripts #manuscript recycling #talmud manuscripts #hebrew manuscripts #manuscript fragments #fragmentology #mizzou #special collections #rare books #bookhistory #university of missouri #libraries #private collection #fb #kelli h

[nateriverswife]

btw the rosary isn't worn around the neck argument for why Mello can't be christian is not valid. it's all about intent, to be honest. if it's worn as a jewelry, yes, that's disrespectful. but if it's not, then you can wear it. there are christians that have rosary bracelets or rings, which are meant to encourage frequent prayer. priests of the Dominican order have the rosary hanging down from their belts, so having it on your body at all times is not a problem. the church doesn't have any clear rules about it either. it just says that you shouldn't use it in a profane way, so if wearing it around the neck is a reminder to pray frequently and you're not using it as a fashion icon, you're good

#I also feel this argument is a bit naive because do you really think christians are just following everything by the book #but anyway. now the question is does he wear it as jewelry #which I'm not going to answer because everyone has their own hc #I just want to say this cuz I saw it in a lot of posts but it feels just like a recycled thing someone said without any actual reaserch #death note #dn.mello #mihael keehl

[where-our-stories-start]

Recycled Disney animated sequences

#disney #animation #recycled disney #parallels #sleeping beauty #beauty and the beast #the jungle book #the many adventures of winnie the pooh #robin hood #the sword in the stone #snow white and the seven dwarfs

[colorisbyshe]

There's a thread on r/books right now about what you should do with books that are genuinely terrible to you and so many people are insisting on donation over straight up trashing/recycling them and it's really does highlight to me how... donation is the world's garbage can.

The same way people who buy multiple copies of kpop cds for photocards end up trying to donate the cds. Or people will donate clothes with holes and stains to thrift shops. Or people will donate food that's just been languishing in their pantry for months and are close to their expiration dates to food pantries.

And as someone who has needed to get rid of large amounts of stuff before... I get it. But I've also worked at the local library for a used book sale and had to sort and box all the donations--I've been on both sides of this.

The only worthwhile conclusion I have gotten is that people really abuse the system of donations. Donations should not be focused on shit you do not want anymore. They should be given on the basis of what you think other people need and want.

Real labor goes into sorting donations. HOURS of time. Time that is spent inhaling dust and mold and inspecting labels and often THROWING OUT DONATIONS. It feels like people are offloading their guilt and their labor onto volunteer forces, sometimes. You feel bad about throwing it out, so you'll make someone else do it for you.

And my point isn't that you shouldn't donate stuff. I will say, it's almost ALWAYS better to donate money or going according to specific requests. But even then... you can donate stuff. Even used stuff.

But like... people really do need to just actually pause and think if they are helping anyone with that donation. Like the r/books thread--if a book is morally repugnant, is it better to recirculate it for free? Maybe it's good to prevent someone from paying the author for it but maybe someone who wouldn't have ever read it picks it up and suffers from it. You should actually take a second to think about this before just deciding to make it someone else's problem.

Donating is not always the morally correct answer. Some used or gross crap is better just thrown out. Or at least put on a curb so people know the risk they're taken in inspecting it before taking it home.

#googling ho w to properly recycle books saed me so much pain #like there IS shit i dont want other people readig #SO IT GOT SHREDDED #allt he better for it

[alysvolatile]

The Fine Art of Book Butchery Deconstruction

What you need: bad book, a utility knife/box cutter. That's it!

A full guide below!

Strip the book!

Once it's naked, take a look! I've marked where the bookboard is attached to the spine. This is where you cut!

Do both sides and voila! Boards!

You can trim these to fit whatever size you need later - for now, set them aside! We're gonna get the headbands!

Delectable...hidden...Not for long!

You can very easily peel the spine back as seen here - and then you can peel the headband off.

Sometimes the glue makes it a bit tricky (as seen here) - just use your utiliknife!

Do both sides... and that's it!

With the remaining text block, it varies on if your city can recycle it. However, it's also good for paper mache! Pulp! Blackout poetry! Discard paper! Compost! Anything you'd like to do - have fun!

#the art of book butchery #fanbinding #adventures in fanbinding #bookbinding #book recycling #reduce reuse recycle

[pumpkin-wants-a-cherry-scone]

Day 2: Confession

Agatha wearing a dress when the ramparts are cold and windy was so dramatic of her lol

#this paper is kinda weird #maybe its suppose to be recycled? #I actually have no idea where it came from #Carry On Countdown #COC 2023 #It's kinda funky #but I think it turned out alright! I hope that it's “someone” and not “somebody” or smthn. I'm WILL get the books tomorrow for reference #when I heard confession I first thought of a romantic confession #so I did the opposite lol

[rochenn]

this looks like a tumblr shitpost except it's really a youtube thumbnail for a video made by a salty ass dudebro. i think we should take it out of context

#repurpose it #gay recycling baby!! #star wars #obi wan #yes this is abt the new padawan book #some people just can't keep their opinions to themselves

[ghostbergara]

The hug ™ scribble

#scribbled this in a little handmade leather bound book filled with recycled paper! #thought this would be a great start to it! #I’m also still in London and I am really missing doing some art so here’s this ballpoint pen sketch agshsns #it’s not great but it’s something! #don’t look at Shane’s face too closely please #my art

[strbry-shortcakes]

more sketchbook hopping featuring my take on a genderbent Gabriel (GabrielLE)

#sketchbooks are: #Zap Book 100% Recycled sketchbook #and #Hahnemüle Nostalgie sketchbook #both A4 #i want to talk about them so much oh my god #i have really bad art supplies autism #ultrakill #minos ultrakill #v1 ultrakill #sisyphus ultrakill #gabriel ultrakull #ueh

[serenpedac]

Snippet Sunday

So, this is something I wasn’t planning to write at all, but while reading the ending of Book 3, it struck me that Yael would never tell Nate, calm and collected, that he has to trust her, but was more likely to.. accept he was breaking up with her. My plan was to ignore those thoughts, but then @agentnatesewell asked me about it and here we are (thank you, Mar, you’re wonderful <3). This was written on a whim, so please ignore any mistakes. Book 3 spoilers ahead.

*** *** ***

“I am in love with you, Yael.”

Her heart hammers against her ribcage. These are the words she’s been longing to hear, but all they do is ache. How could they not, when pain shimmers in his eyes and his previous admission still swirls in her mind. ‘I don’t know how this is going to work.’

This isn’t a love confession, this is a goodbye. She gulps for breath as the realisation hits her. 

Nate explains— he says something about losing her, worrying about her.

“But it has worked out so far, right? I’m still— I’m still here, I’m still fine, despite—” Her teeth dig into her bottom lip in anger at how feeble she sounds, and his hand falls from her cheek, strokes her arm briefly, his thumb brushing the inside of her wrist as if to call her out on her lie in that gentle way of his. She’s not fine. But can’t he see that losing him would make it even worse? Her voice pitches higher with desperation when she asks, “Will you trust me? Please?”

I love you, Nate. I love you, I love you, I love you. The words fill her chest, suffocating her, remaining as unspoken as they had been during that picnic. That beautiful, wonderful picnic when she’d thought, when she’d finally allowed herself to believe that maybe this was real, that maybe she hadn’t been dreaming up some fairy tale, but that he was truly a part of her life. A part she couldn’t do without. 

“I do. I trust you with every fibre of my being. But I don’t trust all the people who want to come after you.”

The sight of him—his forehead creased in a frown, his hair curling against his temples, his sweet mouth—everything blurs as tears gather in her eyes. What if he’s right? The Trappers didn’t hesitate to take Vieno, why wouldn’t they take Nate next? And if not them, then someone else who wants to hurt her. 

A first tear rolls down her cheek and Nate reaches out as if to brush it aside, only to withdraw. Taking a step back, he pushes his hands deep into the pockets of his jeans.

Yael’s heart breaks.

She can’t ask this of him. He shouldn’t have to worry about her and he certainly shouldn’t have to risk himself for her.

“I understand,” she whispers. She turns around before he can see her break down completely.

Maybe this was never meant to be after all.

#twc book 3 spoilers #serenwrites #i do not like recycling dialogue from canon like this #might change things if i decide to pursue this further #twc

[gold0kapi]

I was messing around in character creator and accidentally made a new character 😫 But she's so cute!! I couldn't really decide on a class but I ended up choosing Ranger just because I haven't played it since the full version of the game came out (plus its "research" for SoapGhost DnD AU...!) Dunno if that'll be her "official OC" class though... I gave her high Intelligence, I think she loves to learn and read. Plus my current playthrough characters (Cal and Jacks) are dumb af and I miss having a character with a brain cell lol.

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #her name is ilari #all of my bg3 characters are just named from characters in my books #i'm a name recycler #these characters have nothing to do with the book name counterparts though...!