DraconicReader

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[draconicreader]

Free realestate fic idea for those who’ve been following the Mpreg poll recently,

A trope in Xianxia settings sometimes objects and artefacts of specific spiritual degree are able to cultivate human bodies with enough qi over a long enough period of time. So I posit Yue Qingyuan’s sword Xuan Su is an old and powerful sword to which has an unfortunate parasitic bond to his soul, such an old sword could theoretically cultivate a body

so perhaps mqf in searching for a way to sever that parasitic bond comes up with a new experimental (and highly unethical) treatment, to try and get Xuan Su to cultivate a body for itself, although at this stage it is as if yqy himself is Xuan Su’s body the way the meridians and spiritual energy is all mixed up, to get around this with the help of (insert Mpreg mcguffin, sex plant, spiritual tool, etc here) mqf gets yqy to go through pregnancy to host and speed up cultivation of a new body for Xuan Su. The theory being that the baby being made from yqy is but an extension of himself, his body, his blood and spirit. That a parents child in spirit should be but an extension of the parents lifeblood and legacy. so a fulfilment of this process should in part disentangle yqy from Xuan Su on an almost ritualistic level but also a physical level.

Some additional things that could make the whole ordeal more fucked up/funny if you wanted

-some kind of health complication because who said literally hosing the manifestation of your own sword in your body would be easy

-mqf fully expects yqy not want to keep the end results and is either so clinically detached about the whole thing, strangely fascinated in an almost flippant manner that he gets to do this new medical procedure, or just in a constant manic state of alarm for his shiddi’s health for all the shit that could go wrong and yqy is just happy to be preggers

-Yqy does in fact want to keep it to an almost strangely reverent degree regardless of possible complications his this is his very own blood and flesh to care for, to nurture and grow (especially if the method of conception involved sj somehow)

-wqw is involved somehow because he knows swords

-sj is seething and trying to figure out who got qi ge pregnant (even better if the answers a spiritual tool and he’s mad/jealous of no one)

-it’s only after the whole pregnancy thing happens that sj finds out about the parasitic bond and that makes their whole thing worse because what do you mean the way he had to find out was by yqy giving birth to a human sword and not just telling him for heaven’s sakes

On that note if you haven’t already go vote for our dear sect leader! We are currently tying with Gomez Adam’s with only two days left so every vote counts

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[eggfriedpenguin]

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

Paperback to hardcover rebind, a birthday gift for a friend

My idea was to have the dust jacket featuring Six wearing her diviner dress, but the pages are ripped and underneath you can see peaks of her in her armor

[floralbearies]

Oh god not again! By Sarah1281

Here are the stills of my most recent bind!

This classic was absolutely hilarious and I’m absolutely obsessed!

So, the cover was meant to mimic the Hogwarts- A History book design, as it’s brought up many times in the story, but I made it as if it was some Potter merch. 😅

I used scraps of genuine leather for the spine and corners, and I scanned marble paper I had at home to print it on bookcloth for the cover. (I would have used the actual marble paper but I didn’t have enough of it)

I made 50+ silly doodles to illustrate the story, as if someone sketched them out of boredom on the margins of a schoolbook with a feather quill.

The dust jacket is meant to fit Harry’s merch line from the story. Designing it was half the fun, and I was heavily inspired by the classic Mina Lima aesthetics.

It’s such a silly story, it only made sense to make a silly binding to match.

[eggfriedpenguin]

Winter of the White Wolf by @klecrone

Done for the @marveltrumpshate 2025 charity auction, I donated a fanfic binding slot for authors

[writingdose]

this is a life saver 😭

[roseserpentpress]

Finished binding a positively delightful, smutty and devastating fic Praeteritum Memorias by smoace_shipper; it's been one on my list to bind for a while, and well pleased to have finally gotten around to it. The cover paper I actually had bought a few years ago, it was a matching pair of one white and one red swirls, and in seeing them immediately knew I wanted to use it for a smoker/ace fanfic; I actually cut with an x-acto knife the separate papers to form the interlocking of the fire/smoke, which can be seen below, with the fic information

Praeteritum Memorias by Smoace-shipper (E, 43k)

Ace never had an island on the grand line that he so vehemently hated. It almost reached the levels of hatred that he held for Loguetown when he held up a child that looked too much like his lover. Everything down to the hair, the scowl, the eyes, hell even the name matched. He understood the Grand Line was a crazy place but this was easily top 5 of creepy island.

Now his question was how the hell was he going to get his Smoker back if he was stuck with this shrimp that barely reached up to his hips? Would he even get to see Smoker again?

[maliinka]

AVGN meme!!!!!!

[organic0ranges]

'Alligator Bites Never Heal', fanbind for @flawlessassholes !!!! A spectacular fic (with an ongoing sequel!) that I was genuinely so happy to make physical!! Also posted over on my AO3, along with my other ficbinds!

[fiend-for-culture]

Happy Wednesday! A few big updates today!

Update #1: I finished Notting Hill 🎉 I posted four chapters back-to-back and now it's all out there for you to read! Epilogue and all!

Update #2: I'm nearly finished with my @you-remind-me-of-the-babe's Depth of Reason rebind! I finished the covers and now all I have to do are the finishing touches! But here's a sneak peek:

Update #3: THE BIG UPDATE

I alluded to some big secret potential opportunity that I was being very chill and cool about last week. Well it happened! It's happening!

I'm working with author Alexandra Rowland on their Kickstarter for their new book, Wisdom of Emperors!

More below the cut:

On Saturday morning, hours before I was even awake on the west coast, Alex had posted the handmade luxury editions of the book, and they had sold out by the time I was awake.

Crazy! Exciting! Thrilling! (Scary!)

I was only able to commit to making five of these books, because they are... very elaborate, but after they sold out, Alex asked if I thought I could make any more. After some brainstorming, I agreed to make 10 more books with some alterations.

(There are currently five of those books still available.)

And so begins... The Plan 📝

The Plan for the month of May has ONE step.

Finish reading the manuscript.

It would have (and probably should have) more steps, but I'm going to a wedding and, you may not know this about me, I make most of my own clothes. So I need clothes to wear to the wedding. And that means making them, by June. (Tomorrow, work begins on the pants.)

Anyways, that's all for now!! I will be posting some in progress things for Wisdom of Emperors, so let me know if you'd like me to tag you in those in the future! 🤍

tags & hellos:

@argumentativeantitheticalg, @arthur-pitch, @artsyunderstudy, @asocialpessimist, @bachusekart, @best--dress, @blackberrysummerblog, @bookishbroadwayandblind, @brandnewcountrystar

@confused-bi-queer, @cosmicalart, @cutestkilla, @emeryhall, @excalisbury, @facewithoutheart, @greybazzy, @harrie-leithillustration

@iamamythologicalcreature, @ileadacharmedlife, @jyae23, @lovelettersto-mars, @mooncello, @noblecorgi, @orange-peony

@probablily, @raeny-day, @rimeswithpurple, @rbkzz, @run-for-chamo-miles, @shrekgogurt, @sillyunicorn, @skee3000, @sleepyphobzz, @stitchyqueer

@talentpiper11, @terra-fae, @toc-the-scrambled, @thewholelemon, @tiarrrita, @valeffelees, @youarenevertooold

+ anyone else who wants to share what they've been working on 💛

[pangur-and-grim]

all books should be written by deeply damaged autistic perverts

[ssajin]

@pangur-and-grim ?

[pangur-and-grim]

YOU DON'T NEED TO TAG ME ON THIS, I WROTE THE POST

[nat-20s]

out of curiosity, how many books have you read this year

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Voting ended onJun 5

[nat-20s]

the tags on this are really funny bc half of them are like "read 6 this year I'm queen fuck of bitch mountain I am CRUSHING this" and the other half are like "I'm only on 47 :(. im in such a slump". I love u all

[chuchu-glee]

Eyes squinted staring at a Shen Qingqiu art trying to figure out if it's Shen Yuan or Shen Jiu.

[thingsidrawgohere]

Here's the Dead Men book. I wanted to try using photo-collage engraving for the texture (most of which is lost in the photos) and I'm not terribly pleased with the results. But! Some very happy mistakes.

The boards are- boards. Straight davey, engraved via laser. I sealed them with spray sealant to protect the images and keep the PVA glue from darkening the board. The glue was used to give the toner foil something to grab and the foil was chaotic in its will, going where it wished, a beast with no master. Good thing I'm into it. The story titles in the text block are similarly foiled.

A rasp was lightly pressed into the block edges to create a pore-like texture. There's a whole bone thing happening with the text block but it's subtle. I will not be subtle with motif in the next book.

(These next two images are gifs.)

And here's the three fics on Ao3 if one is interested.

[pangur-and-grim]

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

[pangur-and-grim]

if you'd like to show support, here are some upcoming queer books:

When Life Gives You Corpses is a brilliant YA about a cursed praying mantis who falls for a young witch. Yield Under Great Persuasion is a raunchy, but surprisingly sweet story about two men repairing their relationship. Fabulous Bodies is a horror story about a queer rockstar rising from the dead.

This is Where the Future Bleeds is a fantasy set in a vividly imagined land, where two women (who happen to kiss) are the key to healing the broken sky. You're No Better is a story about a teen struggling in the shadow of his murderous parent. Oil on Canvas is about a woman who finds disturbing paintings in the home of her dead mother.

and then here's a list of 26 queer books by Black authors set to publish this year, and a 10 upcoming books by trans authors. if you want to fight back against queer censorship, use your wallet! or (if that's not an option) you can contact your local library and ask them to stock a copy.

[spockandawe]

OKAY, LADS. Got a long post today, because I've been Experimenting. So there's nothing that brings me more delight than uncovering and trying new niche binding styles. I'm a little limited in that i only want styles that can contain a nice big novel, which excludes a lot of art book styles, which means that i get really excited when i find something truly different, like the k118. And for a few years. I've been ruminating on ben elbel's pixel bindings.

And for me, following a tutorial or taking a class... does not spark as much joy as rummaging around on my own and making my own mistakes. This fell by the wayside for a while, probably because I wasn't that experienced when i found out about it, slash I didn't have a story in mind with the right aesthetic. But it never left my mind. And when I found out about the genealogy of this style, with forerunners like alain taral combining bookbinding and woodworking (and marquetry! be still my beating heart) and the articulated binding style developed for italian phonebooks in the seventies, I was reinvigorated.

Oh, and the issue of wanting a book thematically compatible with pixel binding? That's gotta be C Language Cultivation, babey!

So, pixel binding. The broad concept is that it's a semi-flexible cover style created with squares of board material (pixels) hinged together with the covering material. I understood the principles. I bought 3mm tile spacers years ago for this exact project. It was still an ADVENTURE in iterative experiments. These are all C Language Cultivation, and from right to left, i shall call them v1, v2, and v3. And in the end, they were *also* an experiment in different materials. But for all of them, i went in with cover board squares, spaced, and with my turn-ins finished with doublures before casing in.

V1! I knew I was probably going to run into some unforseen game-breaking issue with this one, so I didnt sweat it too hard. I got my thinnest board (0.5mm), faux suede bookcloth, and i even misprinted my book (note the untrimmed fore edge) and just went for it anyways. I lined with more bookcloth. It's not a great book, the boards are awfully thin for the size of the book, my shoulders are HILARIOUSLY large, and my doublures want to come up at the corners, but it works! And the covers are NICE and flexible.

V2! I felt confident, and it was time to break out the real leather. But my DREAM was to bind this in those old school royal blue compiler colors, and i didn't want to risk my good hide just yet, so i grabbed some hand-me-down goat. I did manage to goof things up by cutting my hide too large, needing to trim down some turn-ins after the pixels were in place, and then not being able to pare them. It's lined with paper rather than bookcloth, and despite trying to be careful, i DID punch through it once while trying to work it into the hinges. I also used my BEEFY board, 2.5mm, and the cover feels sooooo nice and luxe, but it is.... very, very stiff. Comparably.

(i am also struggling like HELL to get my squares right. this is a style that really prefers notebooks over actual story contents that need precise trimming and margins, but im stubborn.)

Okay!!! At this stage I was big confident and big impatient, and for v3, it was time for the good leather. I went for the same dimensions as the v2 case and tried to trim my text block less (mixed success). I measured my cover dimensions including the tile spacers and cut my hide to size and pared it carefully. And I went with in-between 1mm board and lined with paper, but was more careful with it. It was nearly, nearly brilliant. This was also a hand-me-down hide, and halfway through assembling the cover I realized... it was probably sheep. And sheep wants to screw you over and delaminate when it gets wet. The book is not bad at all, but it's undeniable that the hinges on v2 are MUCH more elegant and crisp than for v3.

But despite that, it's a very exciting success! Look at that FLEX! I'm almost definitely going to do a v4 (sob) when i get some blue goat hide (soon!), and this was a really cool set of iterations. There's all kinds of interesting quirks, like how i realized it was best for turn-ins and doublures to avoid having edges land too close to a hinge. Or one of the things that came down from alain taral's techniques is that for the best opening action the endpapers flyleaves are a single U-shaped sheet, laminated to the first and last pages of the text block, and then the book isn't cased in at the cover boards, but along the spine. I was so skeptical at first, but i gave all of my books the dangle test, and they performed admirably!!

If I hadn't accidentally used sheep instead of goat, I think I would be completely happy. But as it is, this is still a successful increment, and I'm one hundred confident I'll realize my vision next time!! I'm sure there are more secrets and hacks that I'm missing out on by not taking one of ben elbel's classes, but experimenting and failing myself makes me happier than ANYTHING.

I will say that for someone casually looking for this flexible cover effect... the horizontal hinges are much more for aesthetic than function. The cover is fixed at the spine as it is, so there's simply a limit to how much the cover can move outside that plane. If you're interested in the cover flex more than pixels specifically, I think the italians had it right, and vertical strips of board are the way to go. I'll be trying that out soon as well, but I don't have specific plans just yet. This was a really cool exploration and I'm so, so happy I finally committed to it!

[exoticghosts]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: ½ Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu Characters: Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Luo Binghe, Cang Qiong Mountain Sect Peak Lords, Lao Gongzhu | Old Palace Master Additional Tags: Magical Artifacts, Truth Spells, Kind Of, Confessions, Compulsion, Suicidal Thoughts, again kind of, Death Wish, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:

During his trial at Huan Hua Palace, a disciple mistakenly puts the Diadem of Life’s Purpose on Shen Qingqiu instead of the Diadem of Unsavory Truths! Shen Qingqiu must get through this trial with this minor truth-compelling artifact and then go on to fulfill his ‘life’s purpose’ in order to remove the crown! - Title from the song The Place Where He Inserted the Blade by Black Country, New Road. - Shen Qingqiu smiled. He opened his mouth. This one’s purpose is to make sure Luo Binghe grows up well, he went to say. That was not what he said. He watched as the words left his mouth, as his sect’s faces dropped. Yue Qingyuan and Luo Binghe turned pale. Qi Qingqi, confused. Mu Qingfang, upset but not surprised. Liu Qingge and the various disciples, angry. “This one’s purpose in life is to die.” “What do you mean by that, shixiong?” Mu Qingfang asked softly. Shen Qingqiu quickly thought of a way to mitigate. Well, isn’t everyone’s purpose in life to die? Is that not the circle of life? He means to say. Instead, what comes out of his mouth is, “My sole purpose in life is to be murdered and allow those I have wronged to enact their revenge.”