drangercore

I draw occasionally and share fannish stuff. Profile by chestercompany. Moving my fanbinds to @stingandsnoutbindery.

[drangercore]

Love and Other Historical Accidents by @pacific-rimbaud​

Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy never intended to blow up their life's work, but that's rather what they've gone and done. Now they're trapped 200 years in the past, with a broken Time Turner, a missing snuff box, a handful of overly-eligible daughters, and a House-elf in a cable knit cardigan. It will require the combined power of their keen intellects to get them home, if they'd stop arguing long enough to use them. As it turns out, history is just one damned accident after another.

Fandom: Harry Potter

Relationship: Hermione Granger x Draco Malfoy

Art by @gingerhuneybee​, @jjuuppiter​, @jaxxartbox​, & yours truly

My first fanbind! 

L&OHA is an impeccable story and is so very dear to me. This was the fic that made me go “I want that on my shelf!”, so here we are. 

keep reading for more binding info and to see my gushing on the fic.

QUICK SPECS

153,854 words | 571 pages | 5″ x 8.5″ 

Binding Method: 3 Piece In Boards Bradel  Body Font: Adobe Caslon Pro Decorative Font: IM Fell English

I am very proud of this book, having accomplished many firsts with it. My first book that I rounded and backed, sewed double-core endbands on, painted the edges, and used toner reactive foil and HTV on!

ON THE STORY

Sighs. What more can I say? It’s simply brilliant. A unique multifaceted story with incredible dynamics, clever foreshadowing, great character studies of Draco and Hermione, and such beloved original characters. It’s comedic and refreshing but it also takes on grief and goodbyes, and heartbreak. It’s fucking romantic and also So nuanced. I dislike stories that spoon-feed every little thing about the character, so the parlor tricks on this one? Ate every crumb of it. It was filled with implications and was misleading in the best sense. You’ve got to be an astute reader to catch some things the first round (which I definitely wasn’t). 

While it doesn’t entirely shy away from typical lovey-dovies, the regard for mundanity and the inconsequential, I just find more inherently romantic. The exploration on time travel and the vivid prose further underscores the depth of PR’s talent. She captures so eloquently, the mind of an extremely logical person in a very illogical experience. I saw myself in Hermione so many times. The story demands to be read again and revels upon doing so. Pacific Rimbaud is such an incredible writer *sobs* all her works are simply a masterpiece. 

That said, this beautiful story deserves to be turned into a physical book.

DESIGN PLAN (or lack thereof) 

This is my first fanfic project and my third book overall which I must say was quite a leap considering my very little binding experience. I think the demon small niggling part at the back of my head got the best of me and positively thought she could make a relatively fastidious book despite the lack of skill. BUT nothing can stop me when I am overly enthusiastic about something, thus began my 2 month research, soaking up every gobbet of binding info in reach. As far as my book binding journey goes, gathering supplies was the hardest part lol. Bookbinding is not a common hobby in the Philippines so it was tedious to to look for materials and/or to settle on alternatives.

I credit 70% of the 4 month stretch of this project to my indecision. The novelty and sheer excitement with a new hobby, I think, divested me to properly conceptualize heh. I redid my typeset 1 billion times because I kept switching softwares: Word→ Pages→ InDesign. I probably have 8 versions of the typeset that will never see the light of day. Anyway, I did finally get the stuff done. Here’s my little design dump:

Nothing symbolic about the design really. I just worked around elements I thought were appropriate with the regency era and time traveling aspect: vines/ flowers and the time turner. I tried to reflect PR’s elegant writing in the book so hopefully I did it some justice. I added my fave works for this fic too and even drew fanart myself. Arts 1 through 3 are by yours truly, fourth art is by jaxx in a box.

BINDING

I watched DAS bookbinding religiously during my research phase and I knew then that I wanted to someday follow his in-boards 3-piece bradel tutorial, but it wasn’t supposed to be so early on in my binding journey. One look at this book however threw me off course. It was incredibly ambitious of me, so I guess I deserved all the stress I endured in the process. I was supposed to trim the edges in between glueing the spine and rounding/backing, but I only had my poorly sharpened Php145 wood chisel to finish the task. That and nursing the finger my chisel wounded took enough time for the glue to dry, so I was fiddling with a stiff textblock the entire time after. I learnt along the way that a blow dryer and bone folder would be my best friends (and plenty of patience). I’d also like to apologize to my neighbors if they heard any hammering at 1am. 😳 

The covers were... finicky. For some reason, midway, I decided to make either covers differently, and all to the good because the one made following DAS’ tutorial ended up slightly warping. DAS’ was made with two 1.25mm boards glued together, while my experimental one was with a single 2.5mm board of which I peeled layers off of to reduce its thickness in half as needed.  (see pictures below for reference)

A lot of how the book looks like now is either born out of impulse or a desperate remedy. The book in turn is very gold. Chapter headers were impulsively foiled with gold laser reactive foil (so much for illustrating the headers only to cover them up haha *eye twitches*). 

I accidentally stained the edges while smoothing with black sandpaper so I covered the mess with an admix of Sakura acrylic paint in black and Liquitex acrylic ink in iridescent gold (Paint order: 1 layer gold- 2 thin layers black- 3 layers gold).

 I am very proud of my sewn endbands as this was my very first attempt at doing a double-core. I used DMC cotton threads in cream (712) and gold (E3821). Below is a close-up because why not. (as you can see, I had some flaking on the paint, luckily this was on the bottom edge so I fixed the issue on the more visible sides.)

I don’t like the bookcloth selection where I’m from (if there’s anything at all) so I made my own with pastel blue eco-ramie cloth, flour paste, and 80gsm paper. I ordered my fabric online and the shade was too icing-like. It looked tacky so I bleached to lighten. The white cloth also came from the same fabric which I bleached till it paled to white.

Titling was one of my biggest worries because majority of binders I saw were using a cricut to cut HTV. I almost entertained the idea of cutting it manually or even painting or embroidery, but to my luck, I found a local shop that offers vinyl ! cutting !! service !!! I sent them my design and they cut and weeded the vinyl for me. I chose white for the title and metallic gold for the vine detail. I messed up applying the word “historical” though, but let’s pretend i did it on purpose for the vintage feel.

Four months of faffing later, I have this story in corporeal form! Overall, I’m overjoyed with the outcome and I’d like to thank PR for the opportunity to have such a wonderful story on my shelf (and free to be read by anyone!)

If you made it this far, thanks for reading! 

[pacific-rimbaud]

Hey, friends! Some news. Lmk if you have any questions, I'll answer what I can. Love to you all and my terrible son Francis.

[dhr-advent]

Prince Draco Underground by PacificRimbaud

Prince Draco Underground (5000 words) by PacificRimbaud Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy Characters: Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter Additional Tags: Fae & Fairies, Claustrophobia, Asphyxiation Summary:

Of her lover’s many faults and arguable virtues, he's never late. So when 8 o’clock runs into 10, 12 ticks into 2, and Hermione's third note of rationally tempered concern flies unanswered back to sender, she panics.

“He's probably sick,” says Harry. “You both work in a hospital. The place where diseases live.”

“When has he ever,” says Hermione, “failed to advertise a twinge?”

Outside the Malfoy Manor gates, the grass is green.

Inside the fence—

“Go home,” says Harry gravely.

“Go to hell,” Hermione replies.

And because that is that, they plod up the drive and strain open the door to a landscape of ominous white.

[drangercore]

AHHHHHHHHH

[omniluci-estumbra]

Love and Other Historical Accidents by @pacific-rimbaud on AO3

[blvnk-art]

Astoria's first time on her wedding night.

Draco: Tell me everything you want me to do... Astoria: Haven't we talked too much? Draco: I don't want you to regret waiting so long for this...

[dhr-fics]

Author: provocative_envy

11:00 AM (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) Draco grits his teeth as the town car hits another goddamn pothole.

Bite Marks (57KB - 2 Chapters - NC-17) Draco’s mouth falls open. He clutches his cookie and ignores the shower of crumbs littering his grey cashmere fingerless gloves. He can’t decide if he wants to fuck this girl or fight with her. Maybe both? Maybe at the same time? “So—you’re upset,” he says with a nonchalant nod and discreet adjustment of his slightly too-tight khaki corduroys. She blinks at him, her expression alternating between indignation and incredulity and flat-out fury. He had been right about her being pretty beneath the intimidation tactics.

Beck & Call (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) It isn’t the kind of restaurant anyone would go to twice; not on purpose, at least.

bitter/sweet (24KB - 3 Chapters - R) When I finally came, it felt as if I had been flayed open, spine exposed, a cachet of fireworks set off in half-second increments along my vertebrae as he murmured my name so reverently I could not help but think that there must be some magic to it, to me, to him.

Bleach (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) The bane of her otherwise peaceful existence.

Blow (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) Draco Malfoy was supposed to be dead.

By the Way (70KB - 18 Chapters - PG-13) It was exquisite, the way his face fell, the way his eyes grew round, the way his mouth dropped open: he was a study in disappointment, his dashed hopes cluttering the space that loomed large and noticeable in between us.

Dead Weight (11KB - One Shot - PG-13) Draco asked for a pet snake, once.

Difficult (240KB - 30 Chapters - R) “I should,” I repeated. “But I don’t want to.” And then he smiled, and I was wrecked.

Disasterology (66KB - Incomplete - NC-17) She wakes up at exactly midnight on the eve of her nineteenth birthday—She screams.

Fixed At Zero (5KB - One Shot - PG) Draco had always thought the end of the world would be a bit more exciting, truth be told.

Her name is Hermione Granger. (5KB - One Shot - PG) Draco wastes two and a half weeks watching her—from a distance, from the shadows, from behind shimmering spider-web walls and misty-eyed cigarette smoke windows—before he decides to make his move.

The History Of (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) The breakup is as amicable as it can be, considering.

Hostage Situation (5KB - One Shot - NC-17) The gold-plated analog clock sitting on the farthest corner of Hermione’s desk reads 3:45 PM when it happens.

Lightning (11KB - Incomplete - PG-13) I remembered the times he’d made me cry, warned me not to, the times our bare legs had entwined themselves in his bed sheets, and all the while I’d felt ashamed, disgusted, atrophied, in the aftermath.

A Little Piece of Sincerity (125KB - 18 Chapters - PG-13) Hermione Granger falls in love with the harshly realistic words written on a small scrap of paper she finds on her way to Potions. She loses it, only to have fate play a part in making her the victim of Draco Malfoy’s deception.

Lockjaw (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) It isn’t Ron’s hand that Hermione reaches for when she understands what she has to do.

A Mandatory Alliance (60KB - 13 Chapters - PG-13) A mandatory correspondence with a foreign wizarding school and a chance encounter with two Gryffindors start a chain of events that leaves Draco Malfoy reaching an inevitable conclusion: he is madly in love with Hermione Granger.

Penalty Shot (5KB - One Shot - PG) It’s corporate tax season, so it takes Hermione a couple of days to notice that something has gone terribly wrong.

Permanent Ink (5KB - One Shot - PG) Draco is sixteen when he wakes up to a searing, almost effervescent pain blistering across the inside of his right wrist.

Plans for the Weekend (24KB - Incomplete - NC-17) “Draco,” Lavender chirps, dipping her chin. “And Hermione! Gang’s all here!” Hermione forces herself to smile back. “Lavender. Good morning. We are not a gang.”

Prism Sounds (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) When it finally happens—when it finally blisters, and burns, and bursts into flames—it’s the fourteenth of February, and there’s a door between them.

Ready Set Go (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) Modern, non-magical, high school AU

Reset (24KB - One Shot - R) And the fear—the fear that he’s learned to swallow, choke on, bury the crushed and fragmented shards of—it’s turning the space between him and her and the last six weeks, the last six months, into a gaping yawning brutally invincible chasm; a wall to scale and a cliff to jump and a step he’s never quite been brave enough to take. She takes it for him. Of course she does.

Stronger (105KB - 19 Chapters - PG-13) My whole life had been leading up to this moment, this second of tragedy. I couldn’t imagine anything less of a disaster, less of a letdown. There was nothing anticlimactic about the wrenching of my gut, the roaring of my blood.

The Science of It All (131KB - 21 Chapters - R) That clutching, awful, cold, hot, flashing, clawing, cluttering sensation curling its way through my stomach, tearing its way down my vertebrae, winding and trailing and ending up somewhere in my throat.

Skin & Bones (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) It’s a crisp, clear day in early November when it happens. Hell freezes over.

Spider Web (10KB - One Shot - PG-13) “We were discussing Draco’s latest…distraction—the girl who thinks we should dissolve tax brackets and replace Mount Rushmore with a Stalin statue.” “That isn’t what she said—” Draco snaps, just as their waitress approaches to take their order. “Yes, hi, I’ll have the eggs benedict—make sure the Canadian bacon is extra Canadian, will you?”

Summer Whatever (KB - One Shot - PG-13) Her name was Hermione Granger, and Draco was going to keep her.

Upper Body Injury (13KB - One Shot - PG-13) “Careful,” he says dryly. “Or I might think you’re trying to flirt with me.” “Oh, you’d know if I was trying to flirt with you.” “Maybe,” he concedes, flicking his hair back with a practiced nod of his head. “But would you?”

Tip Toe (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) Draco has loathed Hermione Granger from a safe, perfectly practical distance for about as long as he can remember.

Ultraviolet (5KB - One Shot -) Modern, non-magical, drummer!Draco + college student!Hermione

Universally Speaking (5KB - One Shot -) Modern, non-magical AU; tattoo parlor owner Draco, florist Hermione

Untitled #6 (5KB - One Shot - PG) Hermione’s first few weeks of school are…adequate.

Untitled #18 (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) “He’s a dick,” she retorts. “And he’s a dick who only ever shows up when you’re working.”

When Tomorrow Comes (17KB - One Shot - R) I’d wanted the rest of the world to know, the same way I did—elementally, with every last scrap of blood and plasma and grey matter that called my brain its home—that she was mine, that I’d managed to dislodge my head from my arse long enough to recognize that perfection personified had a name, and it was Hermione.

With Teeth (21KB - One Shot - R) Albus Dumbledore had been wrong about Voldemort’s horcruxes.

[onyx-and-elm]

due to the seemingly unstoppable monetization of fandom and the sheer volume of illegal fan bindings being sold, I will be pulling all my works within the next few days. thank you to those of you who worked so hard trying to keep fandom free and to all of you who supported my writing. it was fun while it lasted 🖤

[senlinyu]

I'm excited to announce that I have signed a book deal with Del Rey at Penguin Random House in the US and Michael Joseph in the UK for my debut novel, Alchemised, a standalone dark fantasy set in a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy, in which a healer with amnesia is taken as a prisoner of war and must fight to protect her lost memories and the secrets hidden among them. It will grapple with themes of trauma and survival, legacy, and the way that love can drive one to extreme darkness, and it is, as you may be able to tell, a reimagined version of Manacled.

I know I’ve been rather quiet about my publishing journey, and a lot of that has been because I didn’t want to spark any concerns or worry that I might be abruptly taking away a story that is such a deep part of myself and that I know has meant so much to so many people. This process has unfolded very slowly and quietly because I have tried to be mindful as I could be in every step of the way. 

As most of you know, I have been a reader in fandom long before I ever began to write. Fanfiction is incredibly special to me, and I have tried to do my best not to undermine its legal protection or allow my works to do so either. During the last several years, there has been a growing issue with illegal sales of Manacled, putting both me and the incredible community that shares fanfiction freely in legal jeopardy. 

After consulting with the OTW as well as other lawyers, it has grown clear that as a transformative writer I have limited options in protecting my stories from this kind of exploitation, but I wasn’t sure what to do; I didn’t want to just take the story down, in part because I worried that might only exacerbate the issue, but I didn’t know what other options I had. Then I suddenly had this idea of alchemy, which was peculiarly appropriate; an academic world filled with unique transmutational abilities, and a necromantic war against people who had discovered the secrets of immortality, and I could see a path to reimagining the story while still holding on to as much of the original spirit of Manacled as possible. 

I began redrafting the concept privately around Christmas 2022, and then as if the universe had aligned, just as I was finishing, Caitlin Mahony and Rivka Bergman of WME reached out to me and were delightfully enthusiastic about concepts and ideas for my new alchemical world and the ways I had reimagined the story. 

I'm thrilled to be working with Emily Archbold, my visionary editor at Del Rey, along with Rebecca Hilsdon at Michael Joseph in the UK, to polish this novel for publication in Fall 2025. I feel uniquely privileged that both my publishing teams are familiar with Manacled and understand how special it is to so many people, and how important it is that this reimagining captures the same spirit while also having its own wings. 

Manacled is not going anywhere at present. It will remain online throughout 2024, at which point it will, if you’ll pardon the pun, alchemise for 2025 and be removed from AO3. 

I'm so thankful to all of you who've enjoyed my works, and I hope that I can continue to rely on your support as I take my next steps as an author.

[pacific-rimbaud]

For the never have I ever game- have you ever written a greenhouse spicy scene?

No! Which is surprising given the amount of Panville I've written. I had a story idea for Pansy as a very young widow processing a lonely, humilating marriage to an emotionally abusive philanderer. She has two little girls, and hires freshly minted DPhil in Education Neville as a live-in nanny, which works well for him as he returns from studying abroad and focuses on organizing a new nature-based primary school for magical children. They would absolutely have desperate greenhouse sex in that one.

[drangercore]

oh the things i would do to read this

[stingandsnoutbindery]

To folks (friends, authors, and artists) I’ve promised books to, I have not forgotten about you or your books. They are all in various stages of progress, but given my schedule and time conflicts, it seems that most binding activities will be resumed by next year. Please know that I’ll work on them again as soon as and whenever I can, and that I’ll get them to you all soon!

Thank you for being incredibly patient with me <3

[isthisselfcare]

Gorgeous news

I am so honoured, so full-hearted, so excited, to announce that I am now represented by Thao Le of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. Yes, that Thao, the one who represents Ali Hazelwood and Thea Guanzon. (I am all nerves, I am a single nerve, I am screaming, crying, throwing up)

Thao found me through The Mortifying Ordeal, mutual fangirling ensued – and now, this is officially happening. The project we are working on will please the Dramione stans, the slow burn masochists, and the STEM girlies all at once. 

So looking forward to sharing this next chapter with you!

Warmly,

Brigitte xx

[bluejayblueskies]

saw a post this morning that got me thinking about bookbinding and the inherently transformative and collaborative nature of fandom, so:

If you are a fanfiction writer or a fanartist, are you okay with people hand-binding your work/including your work in a hand-bound book?

Yes, but only if they ask for permission first

Yes, and there is no need to ask for permission first

Maybe; it depends on which story/artwork is being bound, who is binding it, etc.

No, I never want my work bound, but I am okay with fanbinding in general

No, I never want my work bound, and I'm not okay with fanbinding in general

Other (tags/replies/etc.)

Voting ended onOct 12, 2023

edit: i guess i should have clarified: hand-bound books for PERSONAL use, not for profit or resale! i think that's something obvious to me as a bookbinder but not to writers/artists so i thought i'd clarify

[dhr-advent]

Nominations are now open for the 2023 D/Hr Advent! Nominate up to 20 of your favorite Dramione authors and artists for this year’s fest!

Fill out this form! https://forms.gle/bo1oXhTzwvmNvcLZ7

Due to limitations of the form and the necessity of ensuring one nomination set per user, a Google or Gmail account sign-in is required. Nominations will be anonymized/randomized; emails will not be kept.

Nominations will remain open until 11:59PM EDT (-4UTC) on Sunday October 1.

FAQs: https://dhr-advent.tumblr.com/post/663858211548479488/some-faqs-about-advent-a-lot-of-new-dramione

Timeline: September 24 to October 1: Nominations collected October 2 to October 8: Invitations sent October 9 to November 20: Fic and art created December 1 to December 24: Works revealed!

Questions can be sent to [email protected]. Response time is typically within 24 hours.

[littlewinnow]

Found some time to color my sketches :)

[merryartposts]

A portrait of Draco Malfoy.

It’s not finished yet, but I swear to myself to post something today. So there’s that. A WIP that maybe, someday, when I am skill enough, could be completed.

[lilbeanz]

Lately I've been pondering alot on footwear in the wizarding/wixen world...

There's so much to tap into fashion wise...like what the hell does just "robes" even mean Terf-face McRowling????

And I feel like the fan base has done such a wonderful job to portray their own beautiful and unique designs and descriptions... but not so much on shoes 🤔

Like the most generic thing is for them to be walking around in muggle shoes or "loafers" or "dragonhide boots"....

Hell no. These mfs are walking around rocking THESE bad bois!!!

✨️S L I P P E R S✨️

At least for dress robes, formal wear, and those who are fun, fancy biatches on the daily......

[dhr-advent]

COMING SOON

For the thirteenth year, D/Hr Advent will be showcasing your favorite authors and artists!

Nominations will open on SEPTEMBER 24, so start making your lists. Up to 20 nominations per person!

[drangercore]

holy shit time flies by so fast 🥹