#binding bitch

My second time rebinding The Great Gatsby— this time for Father’s Day 💚

I have a love/hate relationship with this book and movie— I had somehow never read it or watched the original before the remake with Leo came out, so I went in expecting a fun, roaring 20s party movie. Instead I was left devastated 😂 This rebind didn’t help, considering it fought me every step of the way.

Now that it’s landed safely to its new home with @theladydrgn and @sylwritesstuff I can post pictures of my latest bind 🥰

My first paperbacks! I have another one but these are the author copies, and my personal one was my first attempt so doesn’t look nearly as nice 😮‍💨

I’m so in love with the process, and I have four more I’m working on already.

Killian, by @theladydrgn and @sylwritesstuff is a sweet little aziracrow fic, full of fluff and romance (and dragons) 🐉

I really wanted the cover to look like a classic feel good romance, and I think it fits with the book so nicely. The back is super cute, though hard to read, so I’ll remember that for next time 😅

Typeset by yours truly, not pictured is the cute little dragon breaks.

Contrapasso by damagecontrol 🩸✨

This fic is so much fun. Jegulus my loves… I loved the banter, the vibes, and honestly anything with vampire/vampire hunter I’m gonna gobble up with a spoon. Blame it on Buffy and Spike okay?

This was my first time typesetting in Affinity and I had a blast. The texts were so much fun to do!

Cover made on Canva, art is Tamara and Damon (though sources on this are mixed) by Mihály von Zichy. Typeset by yours truly.

Contrapasso can be read for free on Archive of Our Own. Don’t buy fanfiction or else. This was hand bound for personal use only.

Light in the Darkness by ArtisticRising on Ao3 ✨

This fic has everything: space, time, the nine circles of Hell, Aziraphale and Crowley being hopelessly in love, and Dr. Who references—all set to Hozier’s music.

I took a day off of work to read this. Like, it’s really that good. Dark, philosophical, funny, and for all of us who want to see Naga!Crowley 🐍

Typeset by yours truly, book cloth is the Verona line from Hollanders in emerald, cover designed mostly on canva other than using procreate to get the image of space behind the window. I used htvront’s heat transfer paper to print it out and then iron it onto the front and back. I also hate doing spines so it’s blank for now. The charm is literally just a bracelet repurposed ✨

Bound for personal use only, with author’s permission.

Manacled by senlinyu, aka the only dramoine fic I’ve ever read.

I started this fic to see what all the hype was about, not expecting to get sucked in. Surprise, I was obsessed. I told myself I wasn’t going to bind it. Surprise, a week later I was working on cover designs.

I wanted to feature women of the Bible who are often left out of Sunday school for one reason or another. Whose work is downplayed or straight up ignored. Please note: I was raised in the south, with Southern Baptist churches everywhere. So this is going on what I was taught, not exactly what I believe in ✨

Volume One features Mary Magdalene, who was a disciple of Jesus but usually not recognized as one, at least where I’m from.

Volume Two features Lilith, the first wife of Adam, who was cast out of the Garden of Eden for refusing to be subservient to him.

Volume Three features Jochebed, mother of Moses, who had to make the ultimate decision when it came to the safety of her child. Not much is mentioned about her in the Bible, other than her hiding Moses then putting him in a basket on the Nile.

These were always the women I looked up to growing up, who did what they had to do, who fought how they could, and usually didn’t get a single thank you for it.

Anyway, sounds familiar in the context of Manacled.

Typeset is by the lovely ladybobbitt on instagram, thank you so much!! Cover was designed on Canva.

Manacled, by senlinyu, is available to read for FREE on ao3. Mind the tags. Keep fanfiction free. Stop selling this, for the love of all things holy.

WIP for the cover of this fantastic ineffable fic by artisticrising on ao3 that I have the pleasure of binding. I’m so excited to work on it more but I’m letting it press for a while, cause it’s a big boy.