#spock replies

[spockandawe]

Hello! I am a novice/hobbyist bookbinder; currently I'm making sketchbooks, but eventually I'd like to bind some fanfic so I can have a hard copy! Your work is awesome! 2 questions: how do you trim your text blocks? (If it's a guillotine, do you have a recommendation?) And do you have any links to tutorials for how to do the k118 binding? I looked up the binding on google and ended up here, hence my asking! (Yeah that's more like 3 questions but oh well! Thanks!)

Ahhh, yes! I do use a guillotine. My model is vevor, but that actual listing is gone now. It's pretty close to this amazon model, it's definitely more POWERFUL than the simple lever ones you sometimes see in craft spaces. Mine handles up to 500ish pages without trouble, and past that, I've tried chisel trimming (without the right press to hold it, i got a bloody outcome and a mangled book) and using a handheld orbital sander (slow and VERY messy, but works)

I do not have a better tutorial for k118 at hand, apologies. I went from the descriptions of the construction that you can find at the top of search results, then used the tightbacked leather covering methods discussed by das bookbinding in his videos. I'm hoping to maybe make a tutorial of some kind soon, because it always makes me sad when I can't answer yes to this question, so one may be forthcoming!

However, especially if you're new to bookbinding, I'd definitely recommend other styles like casebinding or coptic binding first, and getting comfortable with how leather handles on something like a bog-standard case before trying a tightbacked style. I didnt, my first attempts at leatherwork weren't k118, but tightbacked binding with laced on boards, and the learning curve was BRUTAL, it was the closest I've gotten to being completely discouraged away from a bookbinding skill. Whether or not you do a leather k118, you're going to be wrapping a a sheet of material where one side is covered in paste around a three dimensional object, manipulating it to do the turn-ins, and trying not to get adhesive on the pretty side of the covering material

It's the easiest tightbacked style I've tried so far and i love it! I think it is very attainable. I just also don't want people to get discouraged away from the hobby because this particular style was too hard to figure out. I think it's a little reductive to say 'people shouldn't try this style until they can understand it from the vague descriptions,' which is why I want to write a tutorial, but I also think it's important to level up some other skills first before tackling this one!

#spock replies #bookbinding

[tprings-hair]

I find it so funny that every time they get taken captive kirk is rattling his chains screaming "LET ME OUT" and spock is examining the shackles like "hm. interesting. did you know these are made of a very rare, indestructible metal found underground?"

#one thing about a science officer is that he will do science #you cannot stop him #star trek #jim kirk #james t kirk #spock #star trek tos #original series #its so funny every time #and kirk always replies 'yes dear that's very interesting. now can you get us out?' #this has happened at least 3 seperate times by now #catspaw #omega glory #i forget the other but it definitely happened again

[daftmooncretin]

spock pretending not to understand figurative language and earth sayings just so he can roast people will never get old. like go spock play that bimbo act. what an absolute bitch.

#my man is so funny #we all know amanda spock. you understand what your friends are saying #the crews differing reactions always get me too #scotty just walks away silently in this scene no reply or nothing #kirk is practically kicking his feet and blushing every single time like spock doesnt do the same bit every time #and i’d say by the end of the five year mission spocks joke contribute more to bones’ alcoholism then his divorce #star trek #spock #amanda grayson #spirk #bones mccoy #scotty tos #star trek the original series #star trek tos #tos

[sopheadraws]

You don't see them very often - they're native to YouTube comment sections - but some of my favorite Tumblr users are the people who're *really nerdy* about some media, but don't have much experience engaging with other people in fandom, so they'll mosey into the replies/reblogs of Spirk fanart or whatever to earnestly explain that

"Actually, Kirk and Spock aren't in a romantic or sexual relationship in Star Trek. In TOS S3e14, Kirk describes Spock as his 'brother', and Spock describes Kirk as his 'friend' in TWOK. In fact, in the novelization of TMP, Gene Roddenberry explicitly states, through Kirk, that Kirk and Spock aren't romantically or sexually involved even though they're t'hy'la, which is Vulcan for 'friend, brother, or lover', in a footnote. Even though Kirk dies single in Generations, Spock eventually marries Saavik according to beta canon, and this is confirmed in TNG S3e23 when Picard says he 'went to [Sarek's] son's wedding'. He couldn't be describing Sybok's wedding because Sybok died in 2287, and Picard was born in 2305. Furthermore, Spock couldn't have married Kirk because Kirk died at 65 and was born in 2233. You are a very talented artist."

#very much a sink or swim situation #also the reply that inspired this post was so funny #I wrote this myself because I don't want to chastise that user for being confused #but it made me laugh #spirk #spock #jim kirk #saavik #sybok #jean luc picard #gene roddenberry #star trek #star trek tos #star trek tng #textpost #philosophie of mind

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#415

"Insult me all you want but Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow was just Khan-flavored City on the Edge of Forever if Spock was a woman."

#you know when you get a confession you're scared to post because you know there's a chance of war in the replies? #critical confession #confession 415 #star-trek-fandom-confessions #star trek #strange new worlds #episode tag: Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow #anti kirk x la'an #i guess?? #anti la'an x kirk #tagging to keep this away from the shippers because they don't need to see it #i don't know how to tag this #spirk #kirk x spock #spock x kirk

[arttsuka]

Happy late anniversary to the first episode of Hannibal (pretend it's April 4th pls)

Take a little song to go with this

Tumblr better stop ruining the quality or else. Click it for better quality pls

The whole time I was like 'trust the process' but the process kinda lied to me

I like posting these wips but I usually just forget to take pictures of the process until it's too late...

Btw this is one of my 'cleanest' sketches. Usually they are more chaotic and/or ambiguous

#yes this is that one spock sketch I had to erase #was it worth it? #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #will graham #hannigram #fanart #art #traditional art #cw blood #tw blood #I made another post asking for color ideas for his jacket and I think someone replied but then deleted it? #because I think i remember reading a comment but I had just woken up (went to sleep again right after) and when i properly woke up boom gon #so sorry I didn't get to actually read that comment (maybe I dreamt the whole thing?) idk #I hope this'll get enough notes to be on the top of my page. I quite like how it turned out even if it isn't exactly what I expected

[autisticburnham]

I know not all Jewish people keep Kosher, but the fact that they decided to have Spock eat bacon of all things to show that he's no longer participating in Vulcan vegetarianism is such a baffling choice

#before you reply abt him not being canonically jewish #1 he is in beta canon #and more importantly 2 he has always been heavily coded as jewish #if you're upset they're not treating him as queer because he's been interpreted that way for so long #despite that not being the intention of the creators #then you have absolutely no right to argue about people reading him as jewish and being upset about this #spock #snw

[spirkbitch]

someone said “kirk sucks and spock deserves better” implying that spones is the “better” relationship for spock

i’m sorry what? like ship what you want but literally every chance he gets (whenever kirks gone lol) bones is calling spock names and making fun of his lack of emotions while also undermining his authority

and other people in the replies were actually explaining their reasoning, (for shipping spones over spirk) like how the relationship development is more interesting than spirk (valid) or how they like the dynamic better (i don’t but also valid)

so like, yeah it’s a show and obviously it doesn’t actually matter what you ship but personally i very much disagree with the idea that bones is what spock deserves or that it would be a healthier relationship like that person was trying to imply

#star trek #spirk #star trek tos #tos spirk #tos #tos spock #spock #can’t remember who it was to tag #it was in the replies of something and i can’t reply there so #if you’re the person that said that and would have preferred to be tagged i’m sorry #i can’t remember #and i’m not scrolling that far back in my notifs to find it #like am i wrong though? #bones is mean to him all the time #and i can see how the development in the movies makes it an interesting ship #but like throughout tos he sucks towards spock #and kirk is wayyy nicer especially to spock #so i just don’t see where the ‘kirk sucks and spock deserves better’ comes from #plus in sarpeidons past spock told mccoy he never liked the way he treated him #just doesn’t seem like the best basis for a romantic relationship

[youvebeenlivingfictional]

also not to be dramatic but spock and the kneeling and the implications of that specific pose with people who were not his betrothed

but also spock and the kneeling in front of reader, and there's no particular urgency for the mind meld like there was with la'an and christopher but maybe spock asked a question that reader's been trying to answer and he suggested a mind meld because he wasn't really understanding and just

the implications of it all

"Mind meld? Is that that thing where you put your fingers on my face?"

"It is far more complex than that, but yes. In essence, I...Put my fingers on your face. In doing so, I--"

"Okay. Okay, fine."

Spock starts raising his hand and Reader stops him like, "When's the last time you washed your hands?"

"I assure you, they are clean."

"Fine. Fine. Going to have to exfoliate later but fine."

Spock begins to reach out again, but--

"Do you have to do it from there?"

"Pardon me?"

"The--kneeling, is that--"

"This is posture is conducive to a mind meld."

"Okay."

Spock begins to reach out yet again, then stops himself.

"You seem tense and apprehensive."

"Pff, what? No, what? No."

"Your attempts at deflection are far more telling than you may believe."

"Please just put your hand on my face."

"I'm beginning to find your oversimplification insultingly dismissive."

#Spock x Reader #WELL THAT'S A NEW TAG FOR ME MICKY #asks #replies #SNW

[gasexplosionatthescalpelfactory]

Star Trek TOS fandom rise up and give me some prompts for Spocktober

#star trek: tos #mr spock #spock #vulcan #spocktober #spock tos #come on y'all #tumblr #reply to this post #reblog this post

[lionbearfox]

you guys ever suddenly vividly remember conversations you had at 14

#my art #yeah... :') #we got there eventually! #fun fact tho im exactly as tall now as i was then. was a very tall 12 year old and then never grew again #showed this to the friend i was talking to and not only did she remember it #she saw it and instantly went 'spock ass reply'

[spockandawe]

Hello! I've been thinking about binding some danmei novels in my native language, but I don't know where to start. I found your blog recently and find it very inspiring! I was wondering if maybe you could share with me what tools and materials would be good to get started with?

Sure!!!! So, I'm on mobile and don't have links at hand, but if you go back through my bookbinding tag, there are other replies I've got about the materials for making a book specifically. The renegade publishing blog also has resource documents that walk through the bookbinding process and include links to educational materials, etc. So for here, I'll focus on the danmei side of things!

So, a fun feature about these books is that they tend to run LONG. I've seen a number of people try to take up bookbinding in google docs, and honestly, it's doing things on hard mode. For many danmei, it's basically impossible. I think my EARLIEST earliest attempt at svsss began in gdocs, and that's not a super long novel, but gdocs was choking on it. A word processor on your desktop is going to be your best bet. Personally, i invested in a microsoft office license, because it was familiar and i could afford it. But the free parallel to that will be libre office, which does basically everything word can do, with just minor differences.

On the fancy end of bookbinding software, affinity, indesign, and microsoft publisher are also names you may hear tossed around. These can do fancier, more artistic layouts, but also come with a heavier price tag. And because i had webnovels on my radar from the start, i wanted something ROBUST. I wanted to be able to dump all of the husky and his white cat shizun into a single file and work from it. And i did eventually do that! Being able to typeset a single file rather than repeat each step across several is great, especially since i tend to tweak design choices as i go.

For danmei, you're also going to want a robust printer. I have a color laser that's been an absolute beast of a machine, but a black and white laser can get you a long ways, and monochrome designs can be very elegant. You don't want an HP brand printer, their toner subscription practices are downright predatory, but Brother and Canon are names I've seen recommended highly. You probably don't want an inkjet printer, because long books take a LOT of ink. The one exception would be if you can find an affordable ink tank printer.

And the last major thing i can think of is that if your main computer is a laptop, consider typesetting with an external mouse and keyboard! Danmei novels are split into lots of short chapters, frequently split across just as many web pages, with lots of footnotes to format, and laptops are convenient but not ergonomic. Doing too much on there is just asking for a repetitive strain injury. I've done it, but often paid for my sins in pain! And your laptop keyboard may start complaining too, I'm almost certain my first typeset of mdzs was the nail in the coffin for my last laptop's keyboard, haha

I hope that helps! Best of luck to you! Ive found binding cnovels to be EXTREMELY rewarding, even though my original reason was because these things would NEVER be licensed in english 😂 I'm delighted to see people experimenting with it for other translations in other languages, I really hope it goes well for you!!!!

#spock replies #bookbinding

[ceremcnials]

#star trek strange new worlds #captain pike #spock #una chin riley #hemmer #la'an noonien singh #nyota uhura #sam kirk #erica ortegas #christine chapel #m'benga #i think im correct #i think t'pring would be at the top #i would like to add #pike sends a similar good morning gif to the enterprise gc every damn day #and only ortegas and mbenga replies with the same energy

[greengrossers]

i’m obsessed w ur spock drawings thank you so much for making them

Thank you so much 😭 I love making them here's one just 4 you

#s'chn t'gai spock #hes from my spocktober as well but i have some new ones in the works.. #spock tag #star trek #my art #replies

[oddthesungod]

You know how majority of humans meow at cats when they meow at you (myself included), what if someone meowed at Spock one day and he just stands there like they've insulted his linege?

LMFAOOOOOOOO

Spock just standing there like

#reply #anon #spock

[lucycola]

@deansapplepie “Hey! I was reading it and I wondered when we’re going to have a part 3. I loved it”

I’m glad you liked it! I’m not sure when I’ll be able to post part three due to personal reasons. I’ve had so much on my plate lately and I’ve been I’ll. I’m sorry to disappoint! Hopefully I will be able to soon!

#replies #spock x reader