#pamphlet binding

When We Were Small by deliciousblizzardshark

When I knew I was going to be sending a book to @deliciousblizzardshark for Fanfic Writers' Appreciation Day, I couldn't resist adding in a little pamphlet bind of another one of my favourites of their MDZS fic. TOTALLY different tone from the other book, this is a very lovely little heartfelt modern AU good uncle!Lan Qiren fic, from Lan Qiren's point of view. (Did I make myself a bit teary re-reading it to bind? Yes. Yes, I did.)

"The best things that ever happened to Lan Qiren were brought to him in the middle of the night by women with perms. First, his nephews, stricken with grief at the death of their parents, then Wei Ying, brought by a harried babysitter when his parents disappeared."

Pamphlet binds are so satisfying, and are practically an instant gratification project when it comes to the binding! I pulled out an orchid theme for the cover and some inside accents based on a reference to Lan Qiren raising orchids, and decided to run with it. Cardstock cover, some green crochet cotton to sew it all together, and a very light coat of finishing wax on the cover and we're done. (Not counting all the browsing of images, and ultimately deciding to find some creative commons photos of orchids and run through them through some filters to get the front and inside of the cover.)

No teeth in this one, just flowers and feelings. Happy FFWAD, @deliciousblizzardshark!

time for mistletoe and holly! by @andiwriteordie​

Summary:

Mike and Will like each other. As in—they like like each other.

And they really need to get their act together—and soon, because Holly thinks that everybody in the Party is one more flirty (and adorable) moment away from strangling her big brother.

But that’s okay. 

Because Holly’s got an idea. 

I very recently entered the Stranger Things fandom and I read this and really, really loved it! Between the writing style, characterization, humor, and just everything about it, it’s really incredible. I then went through the author’s AO3 page and read a bunch of her other fics, but this one still stood out to me.

Art credits: I used this by @frogsdontcry​ and this by @movvveton​ on the back cover!

Fonts: Garamond for the body text, Snow Kei for the title, Holly Christmas for the headings for each part, and KG Candy Cane Stripe for the dates below the headings. 

Lastly, I used this tutorial by @eat0crow​​ to physically bind it. 

More pics under the cut!

Today is Fanfic Writers' Appreciation Day (FFWAD), and @renegadeguild loves fic! To commemorate the day, we gift authors with handbound copies of their fic. As I posted earlier, I just kind of rolled a belated Christmas present for @zulufic into gifting it to her to match FFWAD's approximate date... but what better occasion to also do some bonus pamphlet binds of a few of her shorter fic? Pamphlet binding! A cardstock cover, a tiny bit of punching and sewing, and you're done! They are the equivalent of bite-sized, and I love them.

All three of these are A League Of Their Own fic. First up, Country Fair, a sweet little bit of canon-era romance.

Followed by a canon-divergent five plus one fic, Five Times Carson & Lupe Were Bros (And One Time Carson Was Lupe’s Wingman)

And finally, a little half-sized ficlet! A Glimpse of A Higher Life is a modern AU that's a classic meet-cute, where Greta and Carson both have a cat... the same cat. I HAD to bind this one, since Zulu had borrowed, in passing reference, an IRL architectural cat containment strategy from me for this one.

A shorter pamphlet-bound fic! Winter ghosts that steal the warmth from your stove, very seasonal right now in my hemisphere.

The Guests of Cloud Recesses by cafecliche is a post-canon MDZS casefic and ghost story set in the winter, with an unfolding mystery, and some solid Wangxian relationshipping. I love both those things! There's some lovely evocative details here, and clearly I rec it.

I miraculously had enough decent daylight to get some pictures, since it's been pretty gloomy here this week. The cover is waxed cardstock, the thread I bound it with is some leftover navy cotton from a weaving project, and both pieces of art are woodblock prints in the public domain.

Behold! My first fanbinding project, from last winter. In which I raided my long-time RL and fandom friend @zulufic​‘s AO3 for the assorted snippets of crackfic that she’s written over the years, and smushed it into a short little pamphlet bind! We’ve got ridiculous in-jokes, moments in fandom history, and a few things that were written on our living room couch. The pictures above are from the copy I made for myself over the summer, and the ones below the cut are the original Christmas present. In between, I got a printer that can handle cardstock for the cover, and some slightly better paper, but they’re pretty similar overall.

I’m kind of hooked on these pamphlets for smaller projects. They’re a good instant-gratification project, since there’s not much in the way of construction and no waiting for glue or paste to dry.