Towns End Bindery

This is Innocuous by flamethrower and it is a canon-compliant, post-s1 Good Omens fic from 2019. Without getting too spoilery, Heaven and Hell are getting up to mischief again and our favorite pair are not nearly as at-liberty as they think. They have to think their way out of a trap that they don't even realize at first that they're in.

Alright, for cover materials we have lineco tan book cloth on the spine, textured turquoise cardstock for the base, chiyogami with a floral mosaic pattern for the ornamental parts, and gold foil HTV for the title. I included two photos to show off how shiny it is. The chiyogami is actually a couple of scraps from way back when I bound The Rose and the Serpent back in 2024. I used it for the endpapers in that one and this is nearly every bit of what was left. There's more on the back, so have a look under the cut!

Much Ado About Chickens (or "With This Chicken I Thee Wed") by Silvarbelle

Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Category: M/M

Words: 4,189

What the CLUCK? Wei Wuxian has the sense of clucky mutterings with every gift and kindness his Lan Zhan gives him, beginning with Unexpected Proposal Chickens.

and it's fanart comic With this chicken I thee wed!!! by @pakhnokh

This was a fun little story! Gotta love the scene with the roosters — the joke writes itself, and Silvarbelle's delivery is fun:

"With his hands full of cock, Wei Wuxian wondered if his beloved Lan Zhan had finally flown his own mental coop."

Pakhnokh's comic is also beautiful, and I absolutely had to include it!

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ABOUT THE BOOK

FORMAT: Perfect binding, trimmed to 5 7/8" x 4 1/4"

FONTS: Palatino Linotype, Rosarivo [Google Fonts]

IMAGES: Painting of a chicken [Pinterest], Painting of lotus seed pods by Qin Tianzhu [Pinterest], Lotus Home For A Little Mouse by Violetta Boyadzhieva [Pinterest]

MATERIALS: 20lb Domtar EarthChoice Multipurpose Colour Copy Paper (cream), 20lb Hammermill Premium Laser Gloss Paper for Coloue (94 bright), cardstock

PROGRAMS USED: Procreate (cover design), LibreOffice Writer, Bookbinder-JS

TIMELINE OF SHAME:

Typeset: May 2022.

Printed and bound: October 2024.

Posted to Tumblr: July 1, 2026.

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Regarding the typeset:

The decision to use glue and make it into a perfect bound book, instead of a sewn binding, came later in the process. The typeset was made with sewn signatures in mind, so I ended up making 3 separate documents for this fic:

Everything before the comic. I finagled the document so that there would not be random blank pages before the comic.

The comic. Printed on glossy paper for laser printers. The resulting colour was a little lacking compared to if I'd used my inkjet, but there was no ghosting from the other side of the page!

The backmatter. Here, I included links and QR codes to souces, the materials list, and the information from AO3.

Regarding the binding:

This was also my second try at both perfect bound style binding and at making a paperback. I was more liberal with the glue, and pasted down the cover 1/4" onto the endpaper, instead of 1/8" as previous. Definitely more secure!

Regarding the cover:

In anticipation of the upcoming Stray Kids concert (last June. It is now July 2026. This has been sitting in my drafts for over a year), I made a mini lyrics book!

The lyrics to the 'ATE', 'HOP', and 'Mixtape: dominATE' albums are printed in 3pt font onto 120 pages (1 sheet of paper exactly, using the Mini layout). The fun thing about minis is finally finding a use for hoarded scraps! Cover decorations drawn onto the completed book with acrylic paint pens. Not pictured here, but there's also a small jump ring coming out at the head, so the book can be attached to something/worn. #BananagramsForScale

Format: Mini (from Bookbinder-JS's Whacky Small Layouts)

Fonts: Noto Sans KR, Mandhor

Materials: scraps of decorative cardstock from Michaels and Dollarama, cardboard from a box of crackers, a tiny red jump-ring leftover from my forays into chainmaille, acrylic paint pens, 30/3 size waxed linen thread

Programs: Affinity Publisher V2, Bookbinder-JS

TIMELINE OF SHAME: Typeset: May 2025. Bound: May 6 - June 18, 2025. Tumblr post draft created: May 7, 2025. Concert: June 29, 2025. Posted to Tumblr: July 1, 2026.

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Actually, I made two (2) tiny books. This project was intended to be many editions made as freebies for the concert, but I severely underestimated how much time it would take. So now I have a pair of charms or earrings. Mini books are so much more difficult to work with than regular folio or quartos, wow! Printer skew is deadly — when you're working with something so small, even 2mm is huge! And so much less wiggle room for clumsiness.

Because I typeset it with the idea of giving these mini books away to other fans at the concert, I included a little message on the frontmatter page:

STRAY KIDS DOMINATE LYRICS BOOK This book was made with love for the show At the Rogers Stadium in Toronto on June 29, wishing You: A Tremendous Evening!

Как я сделал книгу в твердом переплете!

Уже пробовал печатать и делать мягкий переплет для некоторых книг, в основном в формате А6. Теперь же решил научиться делать твердый переплет, выбрал для этого учебник на 200 страниц, формат страниц А5. А в качестве материала обложки – ткань перкаль и переплетный картон.

Проклеивал всё столярным клеем ПВА. Ткань перед приклеиванием к картону проклеил с помощью бумаги (получился такой трёхслойный материал – ткань, бумага, картон). Кисть слегка мочил в воде, чтобы легче было тонким слоем наносить клей.

Проклеивание ткани бумагой далось очень нелегко, но это того стоило – результат получился очень приятный на ощупь. На третью попытку это ощущалось как мучения, но потом было очень приятно собирать обложку.

Для прошивки блока использовал капроновые белые нитки, прошивал сам блок на три киперные ленты (10мм).

Потом корешок книжного блока "армировал" той же тканью, из которой делал обложку. И перед этим приклеил закладку ляссе из атласной ленты.

Печаталось всё на обычном недорогом лазерном принтере (тут важно соблюсти порядок страниц, чтобы получилось правильные тетрадки, в моем случае по 16 страниц).

А надпись на обложку переносил с помощью проектора и карандаша. Очень странный, но очень рабочий метод, хаха. А потом закрашивал акриловым маркером.

Если кто-то хочет поделиться своим опытом, то буду рад почитать в комментариях. Ещё больше фотографий прилагаю ниже:

My "Black Book" (wink) of unsettling wolfstar stories that I have been working on for a while now.

This was a lot of firsts for me: first quarto, sewn endbands, painted edges, and foil. Absolutely delighted with how it turned out.

Details below.

Please feast your eyes on the work of my very good and talented friend @boltlightning, who surprised me by turning my Dorian in DA2 long-fic into a real live physical book!

Because bolt is a bookbinding genius, it includes so many cool details... It's stamped with the Kirkwall seal! Stitched with a peacock-blue headband! And peacock-inspired endpaper! And subtle Hawke-red accents in the design!

...And a stupid title I sure didn't picture in elegant print when I chose it for a laugh! But look how beautiful it looks now. (bolt even legitimized my stupidity by adding the canon banter as a lovely epigraph! How perfect is that?)

Also: My overthought new translations and food lore incorporated as footnotes and appendices! Now that's a true friend who listens to my brainrot. (please don't encourage me, bolt)

And finally: This beautiful art I commissioned from @the-upper-shelf with Hawke and Dorian in Kirkwall-non-mage disguise, placed as the endpiece to the epilogue ♥♥♥ IT LOOKS SO GOOD.

(feat. me awkwardly obscuring spoilers for the 2 remaining people out there who might still be interested in many thousands of words about Andraste's most niche ship)

Hand dyed black goat leather

3 piece bradel binding.

Leather joint end papers

got it into my head over the winter to make a LORGE book, so this one is 500pp of half-tabloid folio (11x17). a selection of short (and long-ish) stories that are canon-divergent, arranged by season.

This bind was a challenge for me, as I had the idea from the start to try and make it evoke Dream's guitar. That led to the raised bands on the spine (painted to look like guitar strings) and painted wood veneer on top of the leather covers.

For the typeset, I wanted to distinguish the singing from the speaking, and so went with both a different font and color. Since the chapters didn't have titles, I called them "Tracks" and the table of contents ended up as the "Setlist" to be part of the theme.

I have a two-part set of books to share with you all today! This is Divine Restorations and Repairs by skimmingthesurface and SylWritesStuff, and it's one very long fic that I split into two volumes for binding. It is a Good Omens human!AU in which Aziraphale runs a business restoring antiques and Crowley has just gotten out of prison and is looking for somewhere to belong. It's a slow burn with excellent characterization and you'll see significant appearances from all our Season 1 faves (it wrapped up in 2021 so no S2). Go give it a read but be warned, you may lose the rest of your day to it.

Apologies but I neglected to get a photo with both covers in one shot so you have to deal with separate ones. Up there on the cover we have skivertex white faux leather and lineco oatmeal on the spine and corners. I added the green ribbon late in the game to cover the seam. The logo is made up of elements from the Noun Project and cut out in gold foil HTV. I do a lot of things in dark colors so this one was something of a departure. I wanted it to be fussy and pale and old-fashioned, like Aziraphale, and I think I nailed it.

More photos under the cut!

Inspired by Nótt - the Norse personification of night. The silver HTV meant to be reminiscent of the constellations in the night sky. The dragon line art an ode to Theo’s tattoos and (someone fact check me) an ancestor of his supposedly slaying a dragon.

Hand marbled endpages by yours truly.

This copy was gifted to Lizz to round out an earlier exchange. 💙 #NottPottValentine

It's been a couple of days since the last one so I've got another book to show off today. It's not immediately obvious from the photo but this is Car Trouble by summerofspock, and it's a Good Omens human!AU in which Aziraphale is a college professor and Crowley is a mechanic. If you are in the fandom and you haven't read this I beg you to do it immediately. It's wonderful, does not seem like it should work but absolutely does. And it's hot. Really hot.

The photos in this post are a tad overexposed (I think? I do not know photography) but the cover material is a homemade book cloth in a brown tweed pattern, because I thought that was professor-y. It's a garment fabric so it's softer than a purpose-made book cloth. We've got silver photo corners for protection against wear, and black skivertex faux leather on the spine. In the past I've had largely poor results putting HTV on homemade book cloth no matter what kind of cloth I start with, so I elected not to put a title on the front. I'm relying on the corners to give it some visual interest as well as protection.

More photos under the cut!