#shit!

This is an anthology composed of No Ordinary Love, Nothing Can Come Between Us, and Shit! , all written by the talented @hatethysinner. Two of them involve Remmick stumbling into fatherhood, and one is about him crashing onto a roof, because I like him like that..

Given the common origins of these fics, I wanted these three stories to be connected together by a visual theme. Creating a half-title page(s) was relatively simple, but I wanted to make a colored double-page spread for the full story titles. Unfortunately, I am also familiar with my printer jamming up if I tried to do borderless color spreads.

Solution: make the double-page color spreads onto A4 paper, and then cut them to size to glue them onto the textblock.

They all turned out beautiful.

To set the mood. I wanted the opening pages of every fic to have an accompanying picture. So I used the technique I applied to previous ficbinds—print pictures on a separate piece of paper, cut them, and paste only the spine-facing and top-facing edges on the textblock.

End result: art prints that bend with the pages but aren't wavy when I close the book!

The fic writer also noted on Tumblr that she was inspired to write these Papa!Remmick fics based on several songs she heard. So I went to their YouTube videos and made QR links to them!

Besides this, the artist @yasmin-lee117 made several pieces of fanart for No Ordinary Love. After obtaining her permission to use them, I printed them on sturdier paper and pasted them onto the pages, designing a border to make them look prettier amongst the text.

She also made some other Remmick fanart that I printed to use as endpapers!

Lastly (for the main book), I wanted to use an image to close out the ending of each fic, something that resonates with the theme of children and connection.

After some searching, I finally found a series of free graphics of different-sized hands holding each other, parent and child. Some reworking and paint, and now they look like Remmick offering his hand to his daughter (and wife!)

But the pièce de résistance of this entire bind is the secret compartment I made in the back cover that holds a booklet, full with Papa!Remmick headcanons from the author!

More specifically, this headcanon, this headcanon, and this headcanon.

It took some nerve-wracking measurements and veeeerrry careful cutting of the top/bottom edges of the booklet to make it small enough to fit. I also glued a ribbon into the hollow that I can pull to reveal the booklet. The ribbon also pulls double duty as a bookmark and wrapper!

All in all, this book took over a month and a half to make, from beginning to end. I had to do short bursts of work on my spare time after dinner (on workdays) and in whatever time I can find in weekends, which massively slowed progress. There were times when I felt despondent that this project would ever be completed. But now it's complete! And despite some mistakes made, it still looks amazing!

Special thanks to @hatethysinner for writing the amazing fics! And thanks to @yasmin-lee117 for her beautiful fanart!