Art, perhaps?

Second book in trying out leather covers; a delightful puppy play Frerard anthology-zine, which includes a foreword written by me, and a copious number of images. I enjoyed the chance engaging with a specific kink for the anthology provided me, as I always love a good theme; this is actually the second of the kink anthologies I'm doing, but i've yet finished the first, which is on vampires. Fic links below the cut, as always.

Another fantastic Danger Days FunPoison fic by @liberxi , You Be My Detonator, with a positively charming story that I adore; what can I say, found family fucks me up in the best way. Cover design is literally a copied exploding warning sign minus the triangular border; the centering of the exploding object mimics the sun in the DD album cover, and the flatness of the red was to mimic the flat colour of the warning sign. Originally, the explosion was going to be in yellow, but I realized I could use gold foil, in which I had a lot more fun using and think it came out much nicer than a flat yellow. The title page image is taken from a file folder on images taken from the DD music video sets. It was a tricky book to design, considering that explosions doesn't necessarily bring a more cozy, found-family feeling vibe, but overall I like the way it turned out and think it fits well, especially considering what found family we are talking about.

Video of handling below the cut, and fic description as always:

T shot for lltbp cat Frankie w @transangeliccowboy and @mothghhost (another shot below)

The second (and positively delightful) fic by @theopteryx that I've finished binding, as well as the first book I've done with leather! With the Indiana Jones-esque story, I really wanted to do a book bound in brown leather... and so I finally caved in purchasing a bunch of leather and some leather working tools and paint for leather bookbinding. I also in classic fashion of remaining true to the images I've cooked up deliriously in my brain decided I wanted to have a stone set in the center (also cardinal to the story) to further complicate matters (as well as doing cordage on the spine). I also rummaged through an old box of semi precious stones from my childhood, and to my delight found one that would work, although it certainly was not flat on one side; which is why I set it within a raised platform after also trimming part of the way through the cover bookboard as well, but I quite like the little elevated platform it is now on. Overall, I really enjoyed the process and am quite pleased on how it turned out, and am excited to continue to do leather bookbinding. As it was my first time working with leather, I've certainly learned a few tricks in which I'll apply to later books, as occurs whenever learning a new medium.

Can Never Wrong This Right (23.5k, E)

Written for the hc_bingo challenge, for the square of 'forced soul-bonding.'

Extremely excited to have finished this bind for the incredible funpoison/frerard Danger Days fic Don't Need The System by @liberxi . Seriously during the process I kept getting distracted and rereading parts of the fic, it just sucks you back in...

I had a lot of fun designing the book; the cover inspired from the promotional posters of the spray painted spider over the BL/ind, which have a white, black and pink colour combo to represent the BL/ind (black and white) and pink (colour!) as a breaking away from the system to become Killjoys; something certainly applicable as the whole fic is on leaving the system. For the title I used a font very similar to the actual killjoys font (the true font you have to pay to use) while I also the secondary fonts where the BL/ind font throughout the book. I also thought it would be fun to switch out the chapter heading designs as the story progresses, and in the end choose a strawberry endpaper, also thematic to the fic.

Video of me handling the book and fic description below;

Finished binding a positively delightful, smutty and devastating fic Praeteritum Memorias by smoace_shipper; it's been one on my list to bind for a while, and well pleased to have finally gotten around to it. The cover paper I actually had bought a few years ago, it was a matching pair of one white and one red swirls, and in seeing them immediately knew I wanted to use it for a smoker/ace fanfic; I actually cut with an x-acto knife the separate papers to form the interlocking of the fire/smoke, which can be seen below, with the fic information

Cat lltbp Frankie tattoo, about a month after being done w stick 'n poke for a dear friend of mine @transangeliccowboy . Thanks for the trust!

Linework and photo of right after finishing the shading below.

The Foundations of Decay, MCR

Book two of the Gerard Way's Vampire Detective Agency by jjtaylor (prev book here), The Detective's Secret and the Mystery of the Dancing Flowers! I dropped having a more similar cover for the sequel to the first for an antique cover design (Verzamelde Opstellen, erste bundel, by Lvan Deyssel) that I absolutely fell in love with and fit the sequel quite well (if we wanna split hairs, the Hounds of Baskerville by sherlock in the same first edition collection has a widely different cover). In fact I kinda went bonkers for using oak leaf designs throughout the book in entirety, but what can I say I love a theme. I know the dancing flowers are a viscaria but like... So many good oak leaf designs for the green man out there...

The photos of the book that I could find online only included the front cover, so had to mock up my own spine (it has designs on the spine, you just can't see em) and played around with the design for the back to get them in a way I liked. Spent most of the time while painting the covers binging my way through the white vault, which I do highly recommend btw. All in all very pleased with the result; nothing like such a fun repeating design like this, and I also got to trot out again my newly learned double core endbands, which I did this time with five different colours (we getting fancy!)