Xuebing Du
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Noah Kahan
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Let Them Talk by @manic-intent
My bind of the Let them Talk Series
This is one of the fics that I find myself re-reading very often. I'm usually a Cherik fan but Logan/Charles work SOOO well in this.
The typeset for this was pretty simple but it works for the vibe and setting of the fic.
I even included the first mini fill in for the prompt as a sort of prologue.
There also a cute tony/Steve fic included in the series.
As always, this was bound for personal use.
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Itoshii yasuragi...
Once again, another artwork inspired by As if in a dream...
wild geese by mary oliver
My lovely friend @kitebird-hockey hosted a snack exchange for those of us in the @fanauthorworkshop, and I was fortuitous enough to be paired up with her🤩! She spoiled me rotten with my snacks omg the unboxing experience was better than all my Christmas' combined I swear...
I, of course, sent kitebird some snacks too–but with a bonus of a mini book😉. She gave me a few poems to potentially typeset and I ended up choosing wild geese by mary oliver.
Here are a few pics:
And my cat for size lol😂
I initially struggled with the typeset, since it was my first time doing poetry. But I think it turned out great! And I'm glad kitebird thought so too🥰
With love,
Emi xoxo P.S the fonts are P22 Franklin Caslon (body) and Milonguita (title).
“where all the veins meet” by @saxamophone (thank you for writing this beautiful fic I love it with my entire heart).
Artwork is by the incredibly talented @amomorii 💖
Bound for my bestie @inkstainedforever bday MWAH ILY
I am neck deep in pre production for a project I’m really really excited about. This is another test notebook for that project. It’s another stab binding, this time using a combination of the traditional noble and hemp-leaf stitching designs. I’m happy with it; I really think I’ll be able to pull this project off 😁
The covers are made from watercolour paper that I marbled myself. I’ll be taking another workshop on that next month, so hopefully my marbling will improve enough I can include it in the upcoming project without dying from embarrassment, haha
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This book has been a looong time in the making. I think I printed and stitched it together all the way back in February? But my plan for the case required me to figure out some things so I just kept putting it off, lol.
But finally! Here it is! My rendition of the Tumblr Stories typeset, courtesy the amazing people over on the Renegade discord.
This is the first bradel binding I’ve done, and I am really pleased with how well it turned out.
The end papers are ones I designed and had printed. Also very happy with them!
And the thing that held me back the most on this book was the cover decoration. I knew what I wanted, but not how to get there. I personally don’t like the look of heat transfer vinyl, and I don’t have access to a cutting machine anyway.
Or so I thought.
Two weeks ago, I took a little certification course at my local library which means I now have free access to the cricut machines in their public Makerspaces! It took some time and experimenting, but I did settle on a way that works for me to paint the covers that looks, in my opinion, not too shabby.
Overall, I’m really happy with this one. I think it’s my best bind yet. Here’s hoping the next ones are even better!
iconoclasts by rowanisawriter
AUTHOR COPY HAS SAFELY ARRIVED🙏🔥🔥🔥
which means I can finally share my bind!
Another classic book look! Which was perfect for this bind especially, on account of its themes of sacrilege, blasphemy, and doubt.
The cover art is “Saint Veronica with the Veil” by Mattia Preti. When I saw it, I knew it was The One—it made me think of Mira looking up fearfully in face of Mystra’s perceived wrath.
(I wish I could’ve included the blood-stained cloth shaped in Jesus’s face, but you win some, you lose some.)
As for the typeset, here it is:
I’m so proud of it—I think it’s the best typeset I’ve done so far!
All the chapter images are from the public domain, by French artist, Maurice Denis. Each were carefully selected to suit each story. I’m especially a fan of the art I chose for heretic’s Act I and Act III.
Now, the dust flaps:
Fun fact: the “follow Rowan on tumblr” section is inspired by Megan Whalen Turner, since on the edition I have of her book only lists tumblr as her social media which is so iconic🤣💖
Thank you @rowanisawriter for letting me typeset this, but also for writing this series, thereby dragging me into BG3 fandom and allowing me to meet all my new friends! Will always be grateful for that💖
With love,
Emi xoxo
Black Myth Wukong: Journal Entries
Personal use only, not for sale! I don't do commissions either.
I loved this game so but I wished there was a way to read the journal entries while listening to the Music Library, so I've decided to make my own physical book with all the journal entries. Also because because staring at the TV screen reading the tiny fonts was too much on my eyes.
✦ Everything is made by myself, from the book formatting to the text block and case and slipcase. ✦Yaoguai portraits are screenshots I took from my game, the entries text are copied from the fandom wiki page. ✦ Endpapers are foild with red foil and the slipcase pattern are the achievement pictures, which I printed on textile for the slipcase. ✦ I decided to format the book to be read from right-to-left, as this is how text in ancient china were read. ✦ Front page illustration is a screenshot I traced from the game
WIPs: https://szynkaaa.tumblr.com/post/761687159583473664/some-progress-textblock-has-been-sewn-together-i https://szynkaaa.tumblr.com/post/761966032402432000/endpapers-have-been-foiled https://szynkaaa.tumblr.com/post/762358966045016064/some-more-wips-both-copies-are-cased-in-so-the https://szynkaaa.tumblr.com/post/762969024938295296/got-the-achievement-icons-printed-on-textile-to
Link to the PDF of journal entries for those who wants to read it on your device.
Some journal entries are incorrect, typos have not been fixed either, I might go back and fix the mistakes another time! It is read right-to-left, so please scroll to the last page of the PDF to start reading :)
I'm kindly asking you to not use professional book printing services to print your own book, thank you!
FINISHED BINDING MY BOOK!!!
tell me why this took me forever 😭😭 well, I know why... I fucked up... but whatever, we persevered
anyways, behold. my baby
overall, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out (if we ignore the crook in the embroidery on the front cover....), and now this exists as a physical entity :)) very cool
alsooo, I made a video about my process, so would reaaaally appreciate it if y'all checked it out and told me I did a good job ok great thanks (I am soooo not nervous about putting my face on the internet, I am sooooo calm about it)
Dated calendar/organiser cases to notebooks
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Patience on a Monument – betts
I've been binding at such a rapid pace, yet neglecting to post about them! Time to catch up💪😤
So here's the third fic I've bound, Patience on a Monument by my dear friend @bettsfic💖
Fun fact: this fic is how we became friends! Years ago, I read it, went crazy over it, followed betts on tumblr, then a few years after, decided to participate in the @fanauthorworkshop to get better as a writer and meet senpai
Well, not only did I meet senpai, I also became senpai's friend! I'm living the dream ya'll.
Anyway, PICS:
The cover was inspired by that trend of classic art slapped over with graphic type, a la Ottessa Moshfegh’s books. As for why I chose this artwork? Because it’s called Patience on a Monument😂. But! Also because of the back cover, with figures that match on quite well onto Jaime, Brienne and Cersei, imo😉
For the epigraph, I chose to include a photograph from Marilyn Monroe’s last photoshoot, since A) Betts loves her B) the pose fits the quote very well.
Here’s the interior! I chose a font for Jaime’s handwriting that I felt best fitted Betts’s description of it.
Spine and flaps!! For the author photo, I got it from Betts’s profile pic of her substack (her newsletter is so good btw definitely check it out here).
And thus concludes this bind! I’m so chuffed about how it turned out. It set off a “classic book look” craze in me lmao which you’ll see in future binds.
Until then!
With love,
Emi xoxo
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Another Phantom! But this time, it’s a rebind for a friend. I experimented with inkjet canvas. It feels and looks pretty legit. I sprayed the case down with varnish to seal and protect the colors. I added these metal corner protectors that have bats on them because bats are one of their favorite animals.
This was also my first time adding a pocket to the end paper of a book. I was asked to preserve the front of the original soft cover, so now it has a spot right inside!
The cover art was originally painted by artist Annie Stegg Gerard.
Stuck in the Sunshine/In Spite of the Way that It Is by anomalation
First off, thank you so much for all your love on my first post! It warmed my heart to see all that support🥹💖
Second off! Here's my second fanfiction bind, that I bound for my dear friend and graphic design senpai, @significationary, who is also the author of these beautifully written fics.
In Other Lands is my most favouritist book EVER, and Anna is among my most favouritist people, so the fact she wrote fanfiction for it had me wild. I simply HAD to bind it!
So, here you go:
A few notes:
Since these fics are based on a book, I wanted the cover design to capture the original's design as well. So desperate was I to achieve this effect that I even illustrated the cover, despite being in a years-long art block that this project clawed me out from. So grateful for that!
I bound this in a tête-bêche format, which basically means that if you flip the book, there's the other one shot to read. Since I consider Stuck/Spite to be sister stories, I just had to bind them together. I was, of course, inspired by @oficmag's Issue #9 (which Anna and I both worked on as designers!) that features two novellas bound as a tête-bêche. Thank you Anna for the inspiration!
This was the first book I bound without any help, so I ended up making quite a few mistakes. I even ended up crying because I wasn't happy with the result. BUT!!! I woke up the next morning feeling better about it and absolutely euphoric when it arrived at Anna's place safely. She was so so happy with it, which in turn, made me so proud of myself! So never give up guys :)
OMG I'VE DIDEN IT!!
I wanted to make a cassette notebook for half a year already omg it's finally done!!
In singular deranged days work (where I was supposed to be getting OTHER things done) I made a cipher journal for decoding the ciphers in Gravity Falls, specifically for Journal 3, the Book of Bill and thisisnotawebsite.com. This included (ultimately) three pages of common ciphers used in the Gravity Falls fandom; originally I was only going to do two, but then got to the Blendin page in Journal 3, sighed deeply and made an extra page on the Vignére cipher. The clasps I made myself by hand, and the little white toggle is a raccoon tooth, which I may change out depending on what becomes available. The purple ink, although unable to be seen within the photos, actually glitters and looks rather cosmic to my delight.
Considering I made the most of it within a day, it meant I used the paper I had at hand, which wasn't good paper for actual ink as it bleeds through slightly (and is thus unbecoming), but as a fancy schm-ancy idiot who insists on using actual ink with dip pens for the 'breadth of the experience', this means I'm ultimately only using one side of the paper (to my chagrin) and the letters aren't as clear as they could be when I write on the paper. Nevertheless, I am rather happy about the result; young me from about a decade ago, who began to make a similar journal only to abandon the project would have been immensely excited that I actually made one and am currently using it to decipher things within Journal 3. There is something rather satisfying about it, I do confess.
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Bound: Under Giant Mountains by wolfpants
The delightful, evocative, and thoughtful Under Giant Mountains by @wolfpants is up next in my tour of wolf’s fic I bound. This landscape of this fic is soaring: mountains and dragons and wilderness. But at the same time, its subject matter is as small and carefully contained as Harry's postwar pain. This is a Harry who is struggling, and struggling to even admit he's struggling. At the risk of spoiling anything, the way wolf writes Harry's breakdown and surrender is so, so soft and sweet and real. I love a Harry who confronts any danger head-on except the danger of what's going on inside him.
(Fun fact: this fic was posted while I was in the midst of writing Polar Night/Midnight Sun and I was like OH GOOD WOLF HAS DONE THE DRACO IN NORWAY THING AND DONE IT BETTER THAN I COULD, I CAN STOP WRITING NOW but of course, I didn't stop; I let wolf's words inspire me onwards, and this is another reason why I love fandom: the overlapping of writerly worlds, the echoes and resonances we experience as creators and fans.)
For this bind, I chose a relatively simple aesthetic, but couldn't resist inserting little tiny dragons as scene breaks.
More process and materials talk under the cut.
How I bound my fic
Disclaimer. I watched like three you tube videos (one of which is here) and this is like my fourth or fifth time that I've bound anything. I don't think I'm doing things correctly and in those steps I will be pointing that out.
This is going to be long so I'm going to tuck the rest under the cut.
