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Mutlifandom Blog. On Ao3 as ThatOnePlatypus.

[ratsoupee]

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

[viralfrog]

[hms-no-fun]

THE SPIRIT OF BUSTER KEATON LIVES ON

[whales0ngworks]

my fanart for markiplier's iron lung! i was blown away by this movie and its immediately become a favorite of mine!

[galacticsabc]

Two of Us

[vonlipwig]

I've completed my Project Hail Mary rebind!

I'm super happy with it! It's a little botchy around the edges and definitely wonky in places (and there are quite a few mistakes that I can neither unsee nor correct) but, considering it's my first proper rebind, I'm really freaking happy with it!

More glamour photos and some in-progress shots under the cut...

Layered bookboards for the Petrova Line, metallic red painted edges, little red glitter star charm on the book ribbon, and two tiny Platonic Soulmates on speckled metallic endpapers (an incredible idea by @bucketsofodo13)

Sketching out the Petrova Line onto the book boards (the too-short spine board is a placeholder!)

Checking the layering and the tedious process of carving loads of tiny notches into the bookcloth and sticking it around the swoosh.

Painted edges! (Everybody say 'Bye, Ryland!' - the paperback cover was removed and binned immediately after this photo).

Ready for casing in! (I was so nervous about this part that I took this photo, then went and did a tesco shop to try and stop my hands shaking).

I'm really proud of this! It turned out (save all the mistakes) how I envisioned it! Yay!

And now I really, REALLY want to rebind my copy of The Martian in a similar style...

[h2ocolors-blog]

Eva Funderburgh

love her work

[s-olipsism]

she still makes these and they’ve only grown more wonderful over the years. The wood-fired surfaces really give them life.

love these lil guys

[littlestpersimmon]

free ornamentation. no copyright, use it however you wish. :)

[copper-leaf]

Spoilers for the Project Hail Mary director's commentary but they confirmed what I thought was just my own wacky hare-brained theory is actually 100% true.

There's that scene where Grace is sitting alone in the Don't Go Crazy room looking at an image of a beach, and he looks to the side and sees himself walking towards him. Waves splash over his sneakers, and you wonder for a tiny moment if this is real, maybe it's one of his memories. But then, the ship alerts that it's decelerating, he rushes upstairs, and the moment is never brought up again.

The version of Grace walking on the beach is wearing the same outfit that he wears at the end of the movie on Erid.

Chris and Phil confirmed in the commentary that in that tiny moment, Grace is getting a glimpse at his future self and his future life. He hasn't even met Rocky yet at this point, he barely remembers anything about the mission he's on, but he's promised a happy ending. He just doesn't know it.

[kenjo-arts]

Your future self hits the ground first

[feefal]

Life cycle of our Sun, from beginning to end~

[feefal]

And her sister, the moon! Always going through some sort of phase🌙

[gebo4482]

Project Hail Mary by Jesús Alonso Iglesias

[featherfangart]

The foolish little girl, the witch, the mother, the goddess

Finally my own tarot card for my dearest witch of the wilds! Hoping to make this one golden later!

[loopofrosewood]

[ID: morrigan from dragon age. she sits on a mostly obscured dragon with a smug expression and is surrounded by large raven wings. she has a mirror held loosely in one hand and a white outline of flemeth's headpiece on her head. End ID.

[atomikats]

curiouser and curiouser

[teleportbooks]

This book has reached its recipient, so I can share pictures now! This is Deadset by @pbaintthetb, an amazing Nie Huaisang fic in which Nie Huaisang is murdered and becomes a tgcf-style ghost.

I did a kintsugi-look binding for a different calamity au (ironically, one in which Jin Guangyao was the ghost) but spoilers, this was the fic that I first thought of using it for. And while my first attempt was just a surface design on the cover, I built this into the structure of the book itself. The cover structure is inspired by Ben Elbel's "pixel binding" which is a book cover made of many tiny squares; using irregular pieces here makes it not quite as flexible, but I'm still very happy with the effect.

The individual sections of the cover were glued to a thin, flexible paper, then covered with a decorative paper that I worked down into the spaces between (definitely use paste rather than pva for this). The gold is deco foil, often called toner-reactive foil but it adheres to dry pva as well, so I simply filled the channels with pva and then applied the foil using the head of a pin to apply pressure (you don't need heat when applying it to pva).

For the rounded spine, I used leather pieces so that I could still have the thickness but they would be flexible enough that I wouldn't have to sacrifice the irregular shapes.

The way Ben Elbel builds his pixel binding books is the textblock is wrapped in a suede cover, basically like a paperback but suede, and then the pixel binding cover is glued to the suede at the spine. I'm not sure that duplicating this construction was necessary here, but it worked out well enough. The suede-covered textblock is an interesting look and feel all by itself actually.

[melandrops]

the aroace read of ryland grace is so personal and haunting. "you don't even have a dog." was it not enough to love the world for the sake of living in it. was it not enough to live for the thrill of discovery. was it not enough to smile at your students. was it not enough to be afraid.

[va-nnahs]

In another universe, slight things change and Dick finds himself in the cementery one fateful night

[yorgen-sh]