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@nocturnus33
With over 20 years in fandom, I dedicate myself to binding the stories I like: with more passion than talent 😂. I also reblog the work of others as a way of celebrating fandom and these beautiful works of fan art that are bound fan fiction. For other ficbinders' work, I always use the same hashtag so that they can be found easily: "Fantastic ficbinders and where to find them"
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Bookbinding the fic Across the Sands by @lulurhythm
First off, I have to say that I absolutely love this fic, I definitely recommend it, and also it is twice the wordcount of the first Harry Potter book, which makes rereads an endeavor. Solution? Bookbinding!!
I found this little old photo album that wasn't being used -- super lovely, leather bound (though idk if the leather is real) and just about the perfect size for nearly 800 pages of fluff and angst and family feels :D
On the front and back inside of the cover, I drew these fun living-color swirls, and it might not look professional but also fight me bc it was fun and painstaking to do :)
Here we have the inside title page & author, the dedication (in italics bc I'm pretty sure that's what they do) and a table of contents which actually spans 4 pages but I figured you get the idea with just the first bit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We have some excerpts, plus the beginning of the author's note at the end, which was beautiful, I have to say. It might be visible in one of the in the photos, though I used white thread, but I did print them in 16-page signatures, then fold them, and sew each one together -- there were so many ToT
Dunno how visible it is, but in the one photo I think you can see that the long edges of the pages are kinda curved, because with the changing font size (I ended up at 10.5 Times New Roman) and page size, I could barely fit it into the spine, and I had to put several books on the stack of papers before I glued the felt spine on (which had flaps that I then glued to the actual cover for flexibility), so some of them are pushed up on the edges. A little annoying, but I made it work, so it's all good ^^
Now it's on my shelf with all my other favorite books! I hope y'all appreciate that it's been placed with A Death In the Family and some other Batman stuff. Also, I collected tiny Jesuses and made them into a rainbow :D (there's no purple or pink but if I somehow get more in the future I'll prob sharpie a couple of their sashes to complete it)
Thank you so much for reading, and thank you to @lulurhythm for giving me -- and all of us -- something to love so so much!! If you haven't already (assuming anyone besides me and the author have read this far), definitely go check out Across the Sands; you will NOT regret it <33
I finished my first book bind! I made two copies, one to keep and one for the author, because that's how it should be whenever possible. I learned a lot about the process on the way. There are things I know work, and things that I will change going forward.
Now I have to decide what to bind next!
ficbinding archive: manacled / alchemised
wow. so, this took a while. i began typesetting this project in june/july 2025 and pasted down the last endpaper on 25 june 2026. 😅
the story: manacled by senlinyu. published as alchemised in september of 2025.
archive notes: since this is a recent pub and a fairly recent fic surrounded by a swirl of Disk Horse, i took the opportunity to collect as much contemporaneous reaction as i could, including:
the AO3 meta, including a list of all tags, collections, and translations related to the fic
fan art. every linked piece that sen called out in their chapter notes (that was still active/public) is included
examples of fan binds
selections from sen's manacled sideblog where they answered asks and gave meta/background on their process
podcast transcripts about the fic
meditations on P2P in general that used manacled (and other recent dramione pubs) as a hook
the binding:
all of Avendell's "official" art is included within the text
i utilized the "official" manacled font (Morpheus) for key parts of the typeset
there is a palimpsest on each chapter heading (and on the front cover) calling back to the original HP fandom
the text is printed on red river bright white coated paper to facilitate the inclusion of the images
all interior text rendered in Alegreya; chapter heds in Morpheus, chapter subheds in Harry P
typeset from a PDF, with an extra volume consisting of compiled contemporaneous notes and news articles/blog posts
rounded and backed casebinding (adapted/faux three-piece bradel binding with french groove)
oxford hollow spine
faux raised bands across spines to create a sense of the editions
made endbands in chiyogami paper with crane motif
dubletta bookcloth with leather spines
titles in holographic black HTV from teckwrap
Getting close to finishing a frerard puppy play anthology-zine!
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The Small Matter of Divinity by @coffeetailor /coffeetailor
The story was done. Binghe and Shen-bro were off on their honeymoon, Mobei-Jun was finally the actual king of the Northern Desert, they'd had their big fight and actually made some progress, and Shang Qinghua had even been allowed back into the sect. So happily ever after, right? At least, if survival and paperwork counted as happy. Then what was this shit?! Being in some rip-off 'Honey I shrunk the Cultivator' fanfiction wasn't part of the deal! In other words, Shang Qinghua, the great master Airplane Shooting Into the Sky, overworked and underappreciated god of this universe, accidentally accepts an optional quest with no cancel option and ends up even shorter than usual. Wasn't his life dangerous enough as it was?
title/drop caps: Gyahegi chapter numbers: Agatho system messages: Montserrat chapter titles/body text/headers/page numbers: Coelacanth
151,889 words | 414 pages
I made this copy as a gift for my friend @kaleidoscope-draws for a little gift exchange last year as she made me some BEAUTIFUL ART!!! PAINTED ON A CANVAS. I might just expire. Thank you friend for always being eager to chat about svsss, I appreciate you a WHOLE BUNCH. This copy is a bit different to the copy I made for @coffeetailor that FINALLY ARRIVED!! Woohoo! I hope you enjoy your book, coffee <3
This was my first set of silk endbands after buying the Entire tire silk collection from Japan. I think this means I can sew endbands for the next 100 years. I had some fun using minimal colours for this bind as I wanted the Wintry mountains piece by Gong Xian to shine as the chapter headers art. Plus I really love a cheeky peek of colour used in a bind lol.
Thank you to coffeetailor for having an open fanbinding policy, and for writing such a fun fun fic <3
🍓Soft as it began - rubber_soul02 🍓
A new cover and endbands for one of the first text blocks I ever made 🥰 it felt good to remove the old cover!
Wrap cover with soft touch laminate 🍯
Created by me in Canva with images from Pinterest 🍓
Draco Malfoy by Georgette Heyer
Heyer would approach Draco by leaning into his position as an aristocratic, pampered heir caught in a world of rigid social codes and ancient family expectations. She would bypass the dark, overt villainy often associated with the Malfoys, instead focusing on the sharp, brittle wit of a young man attempting to maintain his dignity while his "traditional" world crumbles around him. Her technique relies on comedies of manners and meticulous historical grounding, using dialogue that crackles with Regency-era snobbery, irony, and the specific "slang" of the elite. Heyer would treat Draco’s internal crisis as a series of social negotiations, emphasizing his vanity and his desperate, often humorous efforts to uphold the "old ways" in a rapidly changing environment. By blending a light, satirical touch with an obsessive attention to the "correct" ways of navigating high society, she would transform Draco from a schoolyard antagonist into a tragicomic figure whose greatest weapon is his razor-sharp, aristocratic tongue
Voldemort by John Milton
Milton would treat Voldemort as the ultimate Fallen Angel, a being of immense intellect and pride whose rejection of human connection is his ultimate sin. The writing would be epic and grandiose, framing the conflict not as a mere wizarding war, but as a cosmic battle between order and chaos. His technique centers on sublime rhetoric and the epic tradition, using grandiloquent, commanding language to define the protagonist's fall from grace and his defiant, terrifying claim that it is "better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
Neville Longbottom by Charles Dickens
Dickens would see in Neville the quintessential "social underdog," a character whose slow, steady rise from timid obscurity to heroic stature mirrors the trajectories of his most beloved protagonists. He would lean into the poignant details of Neville’s childhood [the weight of his family’s expectations and the quiet, persistent trauma of his parents’ condition] to build a foundation of deep, reader-aligned empathy. The technique here is sentimental moral development, where Dickens uses a series of external trials to strip away Neville’s self-doubt, revealing a core of iron-willed goodness. By balancing the "grotesque" nature of Neville’s early, clumsy failures with the eventual, earned triumph of his character, Dickens would transform him into a symbol of the common man’s capacity for extraordinary virtue.
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Fanbind: "our bodies, possessed by light", by @iftheshoef1tz
(this is not a new bind; in fact, it's been sitting in my phone gallery for about a year, but it's about time it finds its way here)
🍂 "This is how we all keep our eyes" - Eris Vanserra
Typeset and bound by me, with author permission.
This is the baby that re-started my bookbinding journey, about a year ago. There are works of art that simply make you feel, and then there are those that inspire you - and this fic inspired me to learn how to make a book from scratch, because it would have been a crime not to give it a permanent, physical body.
Cover design for There is another sky by llamallamaduck. This is a cover I made based on the designs I did for a few of the other llamallamaduck fanfics. It is pretty much a copy of the format choices and font designs with the title and author name in the same place, same font, size, etc. It is now a quarto which changed some of the design but not a lot. I did change the colours and I kept the black coat of arms. I also added in a dog for Sirius and a rabbit for Regulus. Having now looked at some of the original penguin covers this style is based off, I think I need more of the three images, just everything in smaller sizes. I added in some Egyptian elements as that is the first place boys went. Cute and simple with not a huge amount of choices needing to be made.
This took about 17 minutes to make in canva.
Book 77 and 78 ✅ ✅ were copies of Courage [it couldn’t come at a worse time] by @veilofimag. I was immediately totally captured by this story and absolutely had to bind it. Then it ended up on my bench for months because real life 😮💨 but we got there and USPS came through and everything is delivered so I can share!! I am SO happy with how this marbled paper inlay worked out on the cover and how smooth the vinyl lays on the Japanese bookcloth. And, of course, with the fic inside. Everyone go read Shane actually getting to make up his own mind and choose Ilya on purpose.
if you like any of these, then imagine what i can do with 1. time and 2. money and 3. The Wisdom of Emperors☀️🪿
(there are 7 more special luxury editions of @ariaste's new book The Wisdom of Emperors currently available on Kickstarter!)
Fred and George Weasley by Svetlana Aleksiévich
Alexievich would approach Fred and George Weasley by weaving together the disparate, often conflicting memories of those who watched their legendary prankster spirit slowly calcify into the grim necessities of resistance. The writing would be raw and polyphonic, shifting between the light, chaotic brilliance of their shop displays and the hushed, terrified accounts of their involvement in the clandestine radio network. Her technique relies on the accumulation of unfiltered human voice, focusing on how their twin identity was torn apart by the violence of the final battle. She would frame their transition from symbols of youthful, subversive joy to casualties of a brutal political war as a documentary study in how systemic cruelty systematically dismantles the most vibrant parts of a society, leaving behind only the echoing, painful testimony of those who must grapple with a world that feels suddenly and permanently diminished.
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Luna Lovegood by Maggie O'Farrell
O'Farrell would capture Luna through a lens of tactile, sensory sensitivity, focusing on the permeable boundaries between the internal self and the external world. Her prose would be intensely domestic yet ethereal, lingering on the specific texture of Luna’s mismatched jewelry, the smell of Dirigible Plums, and the quiet, crushing loneliness of being misunderstood by her peers. O'Farrell’s technique involves a heightened, somatic focus, where she anchors abstract, eccentric thoughts in grounded, physical sensations—describing the grief for Luna's mother not as a concept, but as a phantom weight in the room. By weaving together the mundane details of daily life with the shimmering, surreal quality of Luna’s intuition, O'Farrell would reveal her as a character who exists in the "in-between" spaces, turning her perceived madness into a profound, poetic method of survival.
Fred and George Weasley by Svetlana Aleksiévich
Alexievich would approach Fred and George Weasley by weaving together the disparate, often conflicting memories of those who watched their legendary prankster spirit slowly calcify into the grim necessities of resistance. The writing would be raw and polyphonic, shifting between the light, chaotic brilliance of their shop displays and the hushed, terrified accounts of their involvement in the clandestine radio network. Her technique relies on the accumulation of unfiltered human voice, focusing on how their twin identity was torn apart by the violence of the final battle. She would frame their transition from symbols of youthful, subversive joy to casualties of a brutal political war as a documentary study in how systemic cruelty systematically dismantles the most vibrant parts of a society, leaving behind only the echoing, painful testimony of those who must grapple with a world that feels suddenly and permanently diminished.
