Fanbinding: Drink With Me by Ink&Dagger
After almost 8 months I can finally reveal my secret project, a fan bind of one of the most delicious Silco fics ever. Drink With Me was a monster of a book, and I had so much fun letting it get bigger and bigger. The cover art is gold, orange, and black heat transfer vinyl (that didn't want to photograph well on the spine)
The original plan was red, gold, and black for the color motif, but when I saw the name "whiskey" for a color of Duo cloth I had to. I had to. So the headbands have a dark brown instead of black to match the spine cloth. The endpapers were marbled by hand by a friend of mine on gold paper.
The typeset was the most involved I've ever done so far. I cannot stop myself from maximalist all the time, even when I'm trying to be subtle, which I wasn't, here. I went nuts with the flowers.
I commissioned the title page art from the wonderfully talented @celine-designs because I knew exactly what I wanted it to be and knew I'd need like 10 years to be able to draw it myself. It needed to be that moment. I took inspo from Celine's label design for the cover art.
Anyway thank you so much @ink-and-dagger for this joyous ride of a story. I laughed, I cried, I screamed, I stayed up way too late reading, I had to remind myself I was asexual a few times. I wanted to return your labor of love with one of my own. Thank you for sharing this story with all of us, and I hope when you see this you see a reflection of the incredible time and effort you put into your writing.
Still in complete and utter awe of this beautiful object of love and labour. I cannot express just how much it means to me to hold my story in physical form, in my own two hands. Like, I wrote this..? I wrote this big fat beautiful baby and it's real and it's here and it's mine? I cannot believe Spooky's generosity either. The amount of time and effort and resources they put into creating this gorgeous binding – because seriously, EVERY SINGLE DETAIL, no matter how small, has been meticulously thought out, executed, and relates back to the story – and then to just go ahead and casually gift it to me??? I’ve already screamed enough at them in discord so I’ll just say one last, extremely emphatic Thank You 💜💜💜
She has made her home pride of place between two of my favourite books of all time, and is now the first thing I would grab in a house fire (after my cats) ✨✨✨
