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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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If Leo Tolstoy Wrote the Marauders: The Epic of Heart and History
If Leo Tolstoy took on the Marauders, he would not be interested in just a few years of school pranks. He would treat the First Wizarding War like War and Peace. It would be a massive, sprawling masterpiece where every single character—from the youngest Hogwarts student to the most obscure Ministry official—is connected to the grand, inevitable sweep of history.
If you are a fanfic writer looking to add some Russian classic gravitas to your Marauders era work, here is the Tolstoy method.
The Tolstoy Blueprint for Your Fic
1. The "Big History" Perspective
Tolstoy did not believe that "great men" alone changed the world. He believed that millions of small, individual decisions from everyday people shaped the course of history. In a Tolstoy-style Marauders fic, the war is not just about Harry’s parents or Voldemort. It is about how the political tension at the Ministry affects a shopkeeper in Diagon Alley, a student in the library, and a house elf in the kitchens.
Writer Tip: Zoom out. Every now and then, break away from your main characters to show how the "big" events are affecting the average wizarding family. It makes your world feel massive and real.
2. Deep, Messy Interiority
Tolstoy was the master of showing how people lie to themselves. His characters are constantly changing their minds, falling in love for the wrong reasons, and feeling guilty about things they cannot control. James and Sirius would not be static "hero" types. They would be complex, morally gray young men who are sometimes arrogant, sometimes noble, and often confused by their own motivations.
Writer Tip: Write a scene where a character thinks they are doing the right thing, but show the reader they are actually acting out of pride or fear. That contradiction is where the best drama lives.
3. The Search for Meaning
Tolstoy’s characters are always looking for the "point" of life. Is it duty? Is it love? Is it power? The Marauders would not just be fighting for the Order of the Phoenix; they would be grappling with the existential dread of why they are fighting at all.
Writer Tip: Give your characters long, late-night philosophical conversations. What is their philosophy? What do they believe happens when they die? What do they owe their friends?
4. The Grandeur of Domestic Life
Tolstoy loved describing the small, mundane details of life—the way a tea service is set, the silence in a house, the specific tension during a dinner party. He used these small details to show how the world is falling apart.
Writer Tip: Describe the quiet moments before the war hits. The way Remus buttons his coat, the way the light hits the floor in the common room. These details make the eventual tragedy hit ten times harder.
The TL;DR for Your Next Fic
Go big or go home. You are not just writing a story; you are writing a tapestry of an entire era.
Let your characters be flawed. They should be making bad decisions for complex, human reasons.
Connect everything. Every meeting and every conversation should feel like a piece of a larger, unavoidable puzzle.
Does the idea of writing a sprawling, historical-style epic sound like your dream project, or do you prefer to keep your stories intimate and focused on one specific relationship?
Owl was well by @fencer-x
But make it ACNH 🤭
My contribution to the Animal Crossing exchange hosted on Instagram by @thebinderwholived that I made for my fellow Drarry lover @amandabynds!!
This is a super cute and silly Drarry fic and it made me giggle to image them as little villagers.
The cover illustration is made by me!! I had so much fun with this owl post theme! … and I couldn’t resist a little self insert 🤭
I’m also super happy with the choice of endpapers they made me think of the triangle pattern on the grass.
Made some headbands too, although the technique and I weren’t exactly best friends at the time.
baby's first ficbind!
This is One Step Forward and Like Footprints on the Seashore by @adrianainthesnow (Stepping Stones blog, AO3)
It's also double sided!
[video desc: op flipping the book over to reveal that both stories are on the opposite sides of the same book, with one cover for One Step Forward and one cover for Like Footprints on the Seashore]
I stole this gimmick from Lauren Oliver's Replica - it's 2 perspectives of the same story in the same way so I figured the format fit
after many months of not being able to do almost any bookbinding at all, i bring to you: handprint on a belladonna heart by the magical @maplesdonut! everyone go read it right now i'm so serious. pause and go read it. you can come back when you're done
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The Oscar Wilde Method: Turning the House of Black into a Stage
If Oscar Wilde were to write about the House of Black, he would treat every line of dialogue like a razor blade and every family gathering like a high stakes theatrical performance. Wilde did not care for "grit" or "realism." He cared for wit, aestheticism, and the tragic price of being oneself.
If you are a fanfic writer looking to add some Wildean flair to your work, specifically with the Blacks, here is how you do it.
The Wilde Blueprint for Your Fic
somewhere out there, a writer is looking at the anguished keysmash and string of emojis you left on their fics and smiling. somewhere out there, somebody's shitty day has been made a teensy bit brighter because of you said you want them to update their writing. somebody who's feeling insecure about their story is sitting down to write a few more paragraphs because you said you loved their style.
you may have left a detailed paragraph about the structure of their sentences and their usage of extended metaphors. you may have also left a "COMPLETE PERFECTION. PLEASE WRITE MORE I NEED IT". we love you and need your validation more than oxygen nonetheless. 🫵 go comment on somebody's fic
to everyone saying their comments don't matter: they DO. writers don't care whether your comment sounds apathetic or unenthusiastic, because even something like (taking prev's example) "wow i loved this. this is cool. you are good at this Writing thing." will help. nobody will ever find you annoying or insincere.
why? because you took the time out to say that you liked our fics and you think they're cool. that in itself means more than any notion of tone or emotion. comment on fics, guys. that in itself spreads more joy and motivation than you'll ever know.
don't believe me? look at the tags :)
I bound the script for Nirvanna the band the show the movie!
So this movie is largely improvised and there wasn’t a script just lying around. Luckily I found a website that had Matt and Jay’s lines, and I was able to figure out other people’s lines and important stage direction from the movie itself. I formatted everything from there.
Is it properly formatted like a script? Idk. I followed the loose directions from like four different script writing websites. It certainly looks good enough for me!
(Plus my CN Tower shot glass as a paper weight)
Plus a little page at the end as a nod to one of the Nirvanna the band the show bits my brother likes
I also tried something new by just gluing along the side instead of actually sewing it. Should I have done this? Probably not. I probably should have done some research on how to bind without folding. Maybe Japanese stab binding would have been good for this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Only time will tell how it holds up. But it did make the paper a little warped :/ If I were to try it again, I probably would glue 10-20 pages at a time and then attach them all instead of just going for all of it at once. Oh well
I wanted to keep it classy, so for the end pages I just did solid red and made the cover black with silver text. Many thanks to @engendersfear for the art on the back! It’s beautiful and silly and absolutely perfect!
Lastly, I finished this up with a dust jacket. I basically just spoofed off the movie poster for the front and quoted some reviews on the back
I love it! Happy binding, everyone!
Now that the copies have been sent and received, I can finally post these.
We all start somewhere... And Snake Charmer, a really cute Puzzleshipping AU by @ink-flavored, was my first fanbind ever. Up until I started it, I had only bound notebooks and original fiction, and clumsily so.
The photos you see above are from the final version, made in April 2025, that finally made their way to the author and artist two months ago, because I'm a disaster.
But I actually started this project in July 2024. and it saw two different iterations before reaching its final form. I'm sharing under the cut, in case you're curious about the path of a beginner bookbinder.
I've recently learned how to bind books, in no small part because I wanted to turn some of my favorite fics into books! This is my binding of What's Become of You by @backfliips!
Sadly my printer tends to wash out colors, and I messed up the outer margins a little, and so on and so forth, but for my second time ever turning a fic into a book, I'm pretty proud of how it turned out!
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'put us on ice' by xjustakay ⛸️❄️
Since I’m in my hockey romance era, I had so much fun working on this project! In this fic, the Potter family owns a rink, and James is a hockey player while Regulus is a figure skater. So I made the rink the heart of my project, and I really like how it turned out!
art and typeset by @jessonel 👑
It has been...several...months since the 2026 Binderary event organised by the @renegadeguild but I have finally gotten around to photographing this year's binds.
My goal this year was to bind four books in one month and I almost made it! Funnily enough, the smallest of the four books ended up taking me absolutely ages...!
I also tried some new and exciting binding styles. Pictured from top left to bottom right:
half-bound
case bound
Steifbroschüre
Bradel with custom printed bookcloth
You Don't Have a Writing Problem. You Have a Blind Spot.
Most authors don't have a writing problem. They have a seeing their own work clearly problem. You've read your manuscript so many times the plot holes became invisible.
Tell me what part of your manuscript are you most unsure about right now?
👇 Drop it in the comments. I read every single one.
I call this one The Bina Collection, and it is a surprise for @binart that was SUCH a long time coming. Bina, I don't know if you remember, but I hope you won't hate me for not warning you ahead of this post!
A bit of context because as usual, I can't help yapping about my process. By now, my huge Call Me Beep Me Excel typeset debacle is well known, but basically: I fell into the VLD fandom completely by accident at the beginning of October 2025. After this (tragic) event (for my sanity), I spent some time going from one AU to another, until I stumbled upon Bina's art. SRPA was my first foray into canon-compliant VLD fancreations, and it was everything I wished for in a post-canon work. It also impacted me as what I consider a creative tour de force: I found Bina so strong for having completed such a massive story in spite of everything, from art to writing. I know many who would have given up.
As it turned out, SRPA was my 1000th bookmark on AO3. So, naturally, I had to bookbind it. Which is how I found myself asking for permission... in October 2025. Yes, that's seven months ago. Stuff™ Happened. It's been hard to keep track. And after Bina answered my enthusiastic (and very shy) request with an even more enthusiastic message, and told me her wish to have a tangible copy of her art, I thought... Hey, I loved BPJ. Why not do BPJ too?
And then, as mentioned, Stuff™. So I thought, you know, sometimes it's important to have reminders of our accomplishments, things that we can be proud of, things that brought joy to both us and the people around.
The Bina Collection was born.
I wanted to keep a coherent visual design for all, something to sort-of remind the good old sci-fi book collections I loved when I was a teen. I went for simple bradel binds, with suede bookcloth (with titles printed on it) for the backs. The covers are black paper, the titles are heat foiled with my laminated machine, and the illustrations are printed and laminated directly on the black paper. Making those was an adventure and a half, but I'm so happy with the result.
The font for the title is the NASA-like font Nasalization: it was the closest I found to the font Bina used for her own title pages!
And since I wanted a harmonised design, I went with my favourite lion pattern. Yes, the one I've already used twice. It's just so good.
This post is already quite long: I'm adding a cut here, you'll find all the details book-by-book beneath it.
The E.M. Forster Method: James Potter and the "Muddle"
If E.M. Forster wrote about James Potter, he would steer clear of the "golden hero" myth. Forster was a master of the English class system, the tension between social expectations and private desires, and the way "muddle" (that peculiarly English state of confused, well-meaning chaos) destroys people.
For Forster, James would be a study in the limitations of the public school ethos. He would be a boy trapped by the very prestige and social code he helped to create.
The Forster Blueprint for Your Fic
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Happy Wednesday! A few big updates today!
Update #1: I finished Notting Hill 🎉 I posted four chapters back-to-back and now it's all out there for you to read! Epilogue and all!
Update #2: I'm nearly finished with my @you-remind-me-of-the-babe's Depth of Reason rebind! I finished the covers and now all I have to do are the finishing touches! But here's a sneak peek:
Update #3: THE BIG UPDATE
I alluded to some big secret potential opportunity that I was being very chill and cool about last week. Well it happened! It's happening!
I'm working with author Alexandra Rowland on their Kickstarter for their new book, Wisdom of Emperors!
More below the cut:
Fanbinding: Winter of the White Wolf by KLeCrone
This was the first of my Marvel Trumps Hate binds from 2024 💀.
I did sunken cords, which was the first time I had done that in quite a while; I thought it'd work better since the text block was so thick, for the pages to have a little more to rest on than to hang from. It did make it a little bit stiff, though that should hopefully loosen up over time (I love leather for this.)
Cover is two layers of board, with leather.
It's painted instead of tooled because I really did try to tool it, but it was going to take a crazy long time and be less consistent. Normally I wouldn't do paint on a cover, just because it'd flake off, but since it was debossed I figured it'd be fine.
Along the way I did make an Exciting New Type Error, where the spacer was just a little bit loose and slid forward, but not enough to show on my light test stamps. The result was after two sessions of futzing to try and make them centered properly, I fucked up in a way I had not known to plan to avoid. Anyway. That's why there's now two patches.
