StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.
The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."
The Useless Web
Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)
Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."
Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."
And The Goddess Said Let There Be Chaos by itsultraviolet
Several years ago, my family received a box of luxury chocolates. It was held in a custom-made case that had a plastic window, looked as if it belonged to a century past, and had a magnetic flap to close the lid.
Seeing the container, I resolved that it was too-well made to just be thrown away. Instead, I'll make a custom book that will fit into the box and match with its theme of bygone eras past.
It will take me nearly 2 years.
I have known of the 'and the goddess said let there be chaos' SBI series ever since the height of the Dream SMP. In fact, I made my very first ficbind ever in 2023 for this series, although the result was never documented on this blog.
Nevertheless, I wanted to revisit this fic series where Philza becomes a dad to the fae. The descriptions of magic and forestry made for a vivid visual and I sought to achieve that look by finding the most vivid color image for the cover. Magic in the fic series has an oily, colorful, and cloying vibe - the same vibe as with the image I found for said cover.
As for the pages, I wanted the paper, text, and decorations to feel like old woodblock prints to present a medieval vibe, as if Philza himself wrote down the letters, cut up the pages, and pressed woodblocks in ink to bedight what he wrote down. I looked through literal hundreds of patterns, designs, images, and templates to find the ones that fit this theme and will often delete previous designs if I found a better one.
This took me to go on-and-off with this project for weeks and months at a time as I completed other binds or embark on new projects.
The very text too was something I was particular about. There were parts such as the fic summaries that I wanted to look as if Philza himself handwrote the letters. There were other parts where I want the letters to look lush and beautiful (see the drop caps). I also want to preserve the fic metadata and make them fit into the medieval aesthetic, which meant using a different font instead of the main text font.
It took a lot of trial and error but in the end, I managed to find the right combination of text fonts and styles to make them all flow together.
I also wanted to carry over something I did from my 2023 bind - a collage of leaves, branches, and stems that I used to decorate my very first bookbind. I wanted to bring them into this book as a reminder of how far I have come in my bookbinding skills, and how much this fic series meant to be back then.
All in all, this entire book project from beginning to end took 1 year, 9 months, and 21 days. There were a lot of mistakes and corrections I made along the way, but now, at least, one of the longest projects I have ever undertaken is finally complete!
Special thanks to itsultraviolet for writing this fic series!
Tunneling upward out of the darkness where they had lain in wait for 13 years, the latest brood of Disney child stars reportedly emerged from the ground Monday, filling the air with their mindless droning.
Thousands of spunky young actors, part of the child performer population known as Brood D, were spotted bursting out of the soil en masse within the 51-acre Walt Disney Studios campus, where they wriggled through the grass on their bellies in search of a vertical surface to climb up and cling to. Earsplitting screeches were heard as the child stars frantically delivered lines from yet-to-exist scripts about surfers who were secretly werewolves, preteen mayors who could speak to animals, and triplets separated at birth and suddenly reunited at the same hip-hop boarding school.
And The Goddess Said Let There Be Chaos by itsultraviolet
Several years ago, my family received a box of luxury chocolates. It was held in a custom-made case that had a plastic window, looked as if it belonged to a century past, and had a magnetic flap to close the lid.
Seeing the container, I resolved that it was too-well made to just be thrown away. Instead, I'll make a custom book that will fit into the box and match with its theme of bygone eras past.
It will take me nearly 2 years.
I have known of the 'and the goddess said let there be chaos' SBI series ever since the height of the Dream SMP. In fact, I made my very first ficbind ever in 2023 for this series, although the result was never documented on this blog.
Nevertheless, I wanted to revisit this fic series where Philza becomes a dad to the fae. The descriptions of magic and forestry made for a vivid visual and I sought to achieve that look by finding the most vivid color image for the cover. Magic in the fic series has an oily, colorful, and cloying vibe - the same vibe as with the image I found for said cover.
As for the pages, I wanted the paper, text, and decorations to feel like old woodblock prints to present a medieval vibe, as if Philza himself wrote down the letters, cut up the pages, and pressed woodblocks in ink to bedight what he wrote down. I looked through literal hundreds of patterns, designs, images, and templates to find the ones that fit this theme and will often delete previous designs if I found a better one.
This took me to go on-and-off with this project for weeks and months at a time as I completed other binds or embark on new projects.
The very text too was something I was particular about. There were parts such as the fic summaries that I wanted to look as if Philza himself handwrote the letters. There were other parts where I want the letters to look lush and beautiful (see the drop caps). I also want to preserve the fic metadata and make them fit into the medieval aesthetic, which meant using a different font instead of the main text font.
It took a lot of trial and error but in the end, I managed to find the right combination of text fonts and styles to make them all flow together.
I also wanted to carry over something I did from my 2023 bind - a collage of leaves, branches, and stems that I used to decorate my very first bookbind. I wanted to bring them into this book as a reminder of how far I have come in my bookbinding skills, and how much this fic series meant to be back then.
All in all, this entire book project from beginning to end took 1 year, 9 months, and 21 days. There were a lot of mistakes and corrections I made along the way, but now, at least, one of the longest projects I have ever undertaken is finally complete!
Special thanks to itsultraviolet for writing this fic series!
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