Avid fanfiction reader.

The typeset I’ve been working on for the past… 2? Maybe 3 weeks? Is at last finished.

I want to bind Evitative by Vichan (a wonderful Drarry fic on AO3) and I don’t yet have an answer from the author buy I’ve seen other binds so I figured I could at least start the typeset. And oh boy what a long but fun process it was!!

I knew I wanted to do something art nouveau themed but it took a while before I discovered an amazing artist called Aubrey Beardsley, who’s illustrations fit perfectly the vibe of the fic imo!

I can barely believe this book is done, after 1 year of planning! 💗

There's this feature of the ACOTAR fandom, in which we have great writers who show us how much better the source material could be if we tuned up a couple of things... Like Rhys's villainous nature (or his caring side), Rhys and Tamlin's communication, or even if we added some actual difficulties for our beloved MCs!

In this anthology, I wanted to honor those retellings that I loved so much, here with a specific focus on Feysand - love them or hate them, you can't deny that Rhys and Feyre are really made for one another!

Fanbind I did last year of the most Miraculous * late night texting misadventure fic.

* I make me laugh

I worked so hard on formatting the texts with just styles in Microsoft Word. Did I need to do that? No. Did it make things interesting? Yes! Do I recommend this method? Not really. Will I be using it again? Probably yes, it’s a challenge and I’m insane.

I wanted it to be clearly texting without being a screen clone of any existing phone interface. I color coded the text to the characters consistently throughout and moved them between gray recipient bubbles and color matching sender bubbles as needed so it would be clear whose phone you were looking at at any given conversation thread as the pov jumps back and forth.

Then I made my title page look like a lock screen, and did a coordinating print for the paper on the cover itself. This was my first experience with foiling too which I’ve absolutely run with ever since. Oh yeah and it was a first time doing a planned trim not just sanding the deckle edges plus it’s funsized very pocketable proportions because being roughly phone sized on the page really made the texting bits look like texting. Who knew. Old school paper backs and cellphones both designed with the average user hand and pocket size in mind.

⟡ Forgets their own name when asked to introduce themselves in front of more than four people

⟡ ⟡ Has a whole rehearsed answer for common questions that evaporates the moment they're asked

⟡ Trips over words in high-stakes moments that they say perfectly fine every other time

⟡ Laughs at completely inappropriate moments because their nervous system has chosen chaos

⟡ Gets asked a simple question in public and suddenly cannot locate any information they own

⟡ Waves back at someone who wasn't waving, realizes it mid-wave, and cannot stop the wave

⟡ Freezes during low-stakes moments and is completely fine during actual emergencies

⟡ Accidentally says the quiet part loud and then says something unrelated very loudly to cover it

⟡ Nods while someone is talking and has no idea what was said and nods again

⟡ Forgets a word they use every single day when they need it in a sentence out loud

⟡ Gets a compliment and responds with something that is technically not a word

⟡ Says the wrong name, knows it immediately, says it again, fully commits

⟡ Texts perfectly and then cannot convert any of it into speech in real time

⟡ Runs through the handshake, hug, or wave decision too slowly and does all three partially

⟡ Says 'you too' when someone says something that cannot be replied to with you too

⟡ Has a practiced calm face that they deploy too late so everyone sees the moment before it

⟡ Responds to being startled by making a sound that has never been made by a human before

⟡ Sends the message to the person the message is about and discovers new levels of stillness

⟡ Has a laugh that changes pitch under stress in a direction no one predicted

⟡ Knocks something over, tries to catch it, knocks over something else, stands very still

⟡ Gets asked what they want to eat and all food leaves their brain simultaneously

⟡ Makes intense eye contact while trying to seem relaxed which confirms the opposite

⟡ Says goodbye, walks away, comes back because they forgot something, this happens twice

⟡ Panics in a way that looks exactly like calm to everyone except the people who know

⟡ Types a frantic message and sends it with a typo that changes the meaning completely

⟡ Has a full and sensible thought that exits their mouth as a different and confusing one

⟡ Goes to say one word and produces a completely different word with similar energy

⟡ Does the awkward sidestep dance with a stranger and ends up doing it four more times

⟡ 29.⟡ Agrees to something before processing what it was and has to go back and check

Rainbow Sterek Green brings you Lap Magnet by @prairie-grass. A hilarious and sexy accidental mate bond fic.

Royalty free art from pngtree, I love the more softer look of this bind, with the textured background, and I had the perfect endpapers for it too! So happy with how it turned out!

Rainbow Sterek Violet brings you (not so) Pure Imagination by theroguesgambit @halekingsourwolf. A nice and spicy fic with shared fantasies but with a twist!

I had a lot of fun with playing around with the text on the cover for this one, and am really happy with the result.

I got the chapter number frames from pngtree and recolored them to match the purple theme.

A post-WW2, mermaid!Cody AU, and featuring art by @shukruut on the dust jacket and for each of the title pages which is absolutely stunning!

For this bind I finally got to pull out *two* of my marbled papers from izumin marbling, the stone wave pattern on the front and the bright marble on the inside for the endpapers, paired with duo oatmeal bookcloth. I pulled colors from the endpapers into the french double core endbands as well. Edges painted in "cloisonne orange."

for each of the three parts in this bind, I used a @shukruut artwork, and pulled a color from that art to set the chapter headers and one of the sea-creature drawings in as an accent on the summary page.

(I also found a very silly little fish as a paragraph break ^)

the combo of script font (Trafton Script) and art-deco-ish font (Onyx) is directly inspired by a 1940s yearbook on the site Fonts In Use. The script + serif font combo was very popular for this time period. Nautical paragraph breaks, chapter headers, and summary page illustrations are from Heritage Library's free public domain collection.

Fanbinding: i know where to draw the line by magneticwave

This was for my local Heated Rivalry fanbinding exchange (everyone picks a fic and gets a random one; no prior matches or references.) I wanted to stick with my exchange tradition of trying new things, so this was "horizontal stripes that go around the spine." If there's a better word for that I don't know it.

What I did was I glued the boards and spine to brown paper first, and then put the fabric on top; that way they didn't overlap each other, which I thought would make it hard to open, but also means there weren't any gaps around the hinge because it's all glued down.

I learned from my Moby Dick mistakes and glued the fabric on in top-down order, instead of color by color, so that I wouldn't have to cut the middle strip with insane precision. I didn't get the edge quite as clean as I'd like to have; I need to put little grippy feet on my ruler so that it doesn't slide. Normally my lines do not matter this much.

Rainbow Sterek Yellow brings you Lock All The Doors Behind You by @entanglednow, which is literally the most kudo'd Sterek fic on ao3. And for good reason! Feral Derek trusting Stiles and receiving comfort is just *chefs kiss*