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Read Happy Death Race by @powerful-owl on AO3

(Carlos Sainz/Oscar Piastri, Formula 1 RPF)

Carlos gazes up at the fake blue sky. Dopey grin, contrapposto pose, head as empty as the cottony clouds above. “Look, look. Look, Piastri. It is always daylight.” Oscar imagines pushing him into the piss water canal. "Yeah, cool. Stop dying!" (Oscar is in a time loop and Carlos won't stop dying.)

helloooooooo to one of my favorite fics on 2024-2025 written by one of my favorite authors, the incredible the wonderful the magnificent the darling @powerful-owl !!! i would follow her over the edge of a cliff after her incredible maxiel work, and apparently that cliff is carcar fic.

so, when the Renegade Loves Fic (Writers) fest came around for Fanfic Writer Appreciation Day, i knew immediately i had to bind Em A Fic.

this fic is unmatched freak4freak energy, and is the sole reason i now ship carcar. the way em writes each driver's individual voice is UNPARALLELED: oscar is such a hilarious wry dry insecure narrator, and carlos is a bombastic fucked-up also hilarious foil for him. em's descriptions, the dark humor, the way it all ties together, it's just the WHOLE FUCKING PACKAGE, and i am so so so honored to have gotten to bind Em a copy of this <3

i normally talk about design inspiration here, but honestly this fic just fell into my lap with em's insane visuals and motifs throughout, especially my lil babe the ominous and evil Las Vegas Sphere. i was also extremely inspired by @phoenixortheflame's incredible bind of Far from the Tree with her glitchy sci-fi vibe.

and now, for some more money shots:

binding info:

body font: Minion Pro

accent fonts: SF Pro (official Instagram font), Slipstream D

endpaper: claire guillot

bookcloth: duo sunshine

Mini-Quest

This year, for @renegadeguild's ffwad event, I bound New Wave by @yellowocaballero. This is probably one of my favorite binds I've done so far, it just came together so nicely.

The theme of the bind: PURPLE! The cover is done with leftover purple book-cloth from a previous bind, with the title written using a foil quill and, because the fic is all about Steph, my favorite comic panel of her as Spoiler. I sewed the end-bands myself, and the end-papers are a gorgeous double marbled paper by Jemma Lewis. And the star of the whole bind is, of-course, the beautiful shortgrain A4 paper that was a complete pain to get but allows the pages to sit open neatly!

@renegadeguild runs an event every year called Renegade Loves Fic(Writers) to appreciate our fan writers by gifting them with binds of their work, and I took this day as an opportunity to finish a long-since promised author's copy of Hold the Line by @dontbefanci . This fantastic Glee fic where they are in marching band instead of show choir is free to read on Ao3.

Today is Fanfiction Writer Appreciation Day (FFWAD) and so I bound this deliciously fun fic for the author for Renegade Loves Fic(Writers) 2025 hosted by @renegadeguild.

If you know this song, it is right now stuck in your head and will be for the next 24-48 hours. I'd say I'm sorry but it's such a great song, I just don't feel like I have anything to be sorry about. (I mean, honestly, watch the 70s-tastic video, it is guaranteed to make you smile.)

I suppose the theme for the bind is kind of obvious and you know me, when I lean into a theme, I lean into it hard, and this time was no exception.

We've got blue skies on chapter pages and on the dust jacket, we have clouds and rainbows everywhere and a sunny yellow cover with the spine title painted on to look cloudy with cloud colored hand sewn endbands!

I hope the author likes it as much as I liked the fic!

Renegade once again celebrated in our favorite fashion, by crafting books for fic authors we love! Thank you to all the folks out there who are writing fic! We appreciate you and all the joy, laughter, cozy times, raw emotional gutting, love, hope, chaos, and more that you have brought into our lives.

I took part in @renegadeguild's FanFic Writers Appreciation Day this year by binding the copy of the story that brought us together. They Say I Killed You (Haunt Me Then) by @foxinthegodswood (otherwise known as Haunt Me) was my introduction into the wonderful creative mind of someone I call my dearest friend. It's been a wild few years since we started on this journey, and I am forever honored at the trust you placed in me as your beta reader.

This also features Wylla x Aemond art by @murmel-malt!

They Say I Killed You (Haunt Me Then) on AO3 House of the Dragon Rating: Explicit Chapters/WC: 30/245,137 Aemond x OC, Aegon x OC, Helaena x OC, Annoyances to Lovers, Dub Con

Wylla Karstark is content with her life in the far reaches of the North, happy to be so far from the brewing war that threatens to tear apart the country. She has everything she ever thought she needed - her brothers, her mother, the land she loves. Then Aemond Targaryen tumbles from the sky, abandoned by his dragon and left at her mercy, pressing at her every nerve and opening her eyes to the possibility of life beyond Karhold. But what happens when the tables turn and it's Wylla who finds herself under the thumb of the One-Eyed Prince and thrust into a war she has little hope of surviving? Can a fox endure the attention of a dragon?