Usually when I pick a fic to make into a book, it’s one I’ve already finished. But this time I was about two-thirds through Disjoint by @liesonthefloordramatically when I decided I wanted to make a book out of it! Including illustrations by @anticiajk to make this binding extra pretty :3
Extra pics and a lot of yapping below the cut
This initially wasn’t going to be a hardcover binding; I was actually thinking about doing a Japanese-style binding. It’s a fairly short fic, and I already had some ideas brewing. I’d even bought some paper for that purpose and sketched some of the ideas I had. But once I knew I could use Anticia’s illustrations, I realized that that binding style wouldn’t quite allow those illustrations to shine, at least not at my current level of experience. So, I switched to a hardcover binding. Properly incorporating the illustrations into the typeset was a new, but fun experience!
I also decided this would be the book where I would try making a dust jacket. It’d be a cool new thing to try, AND a great way to simultaneously use Anticia’s cover illustration and execute some ideas of my own. It also meant I could leave out the summary page I usually include in these bindings, which felt a little weird
Disjoint is fairly short compared to most of the other books I’ve made, and for a while I wasn’t quite sure there’d be enough pages for a hardcover binding, but thankfully there were!
Making the book block was mostly quick and uneventful. Though, the thing that should’ve been the easiest part, trimming it, became the most troublesome. I don’t have the tools to trim a book block myself, so I usually let a local printing shop do it for me. However, they had closed for a few weeks, and I was under pressure to finish this book roughly within a week. I actually traveled to a nearby city to see if any print shops there could trim the book block! It was a very fun experience because my walk to both print shops took me through parts of the city I hadn’t ever seen before.
Since the dust jacket would have an illustration and the title and everything, I decided the design on the cover itself would be simple. Since the fic is about Bruno, I wanted to add elements reminiscent of his character design. The obvious choice was replicating his suit pattern, which was a nice and easy change of pace from previous cover designs.
Also! An idea left over from my initial idea and modified a bit, a reading ribbon with one of Bruno’s zippers attached to it. Like the cover pattern, it wasn’t difficult to make but I had a lot of fun. I cut out the base shape from some really thick black paper, and cut the details from some nice textured gold-colored paper, and glued those together. I thought I’d use my screw punch to make a hole to pull the ribbon through, but the hole I’d included in the cutting pattern was big enough for me to use a needle to thread the ribbon through. Once that was done, I tied the ribbon into a knot and glued the loose end to the ribbon to make things look a little neater. Probably could’ve just glued the ribbon to itself without the knot, but whatever
The dust jacket was both easier and more trouble than I expected to make. I thankfully didn’t need to adjust the illustration’s size much to have it wrap around the spine and still look good, but I still needed to reprint it a couple of times (I’d made some easily fixable goofs which showed up more obviously on paper than on my screen XD). My old-ass printer also didn’t care for the slightly sturdier printing paper I wanted to use, so I had to use regular paper instead. After all that, though, I just cut off the excess parts, folded the dust jacket around the cover. I was done, and right on time too!
This project was an absolute delight. Especially after my previous binding went awry at the very end, this was perfect to cheer me up again. Making the book block didn’t take nearly as long, and the cover design was a lot easier to figure out. At the same time, I got to try tons of new things! Integrating illustrations into the text, making a little charm to attach to the reading ribbon, and making a dust jacket! This book really feels like it’s got a bit more character when compared to some of my previous bindings, and not just because it’s a fanfic and binding centered around one fictional character in particular ;p
Dio lackeys are always saying shit like “Lord Dio will be so pleased when he hears tell of my deed! He shall reward me!” I don’t know how to tell you but Dio does not give a fuck
tubi is one of our greatest warriors in the fight against streaming services costing a fortune for mediocre content. tubi has the most insane collection of movies you will ever encounter all for free. it has cult classics and questionable lifetime movies and movies that nobody except like three people on the planet have ever seen. tubi has movies that doesn’t exist. like if you just thought of a movie one day but never made it and no one ever made it it would somehow still exist on tubi. one day i will log onto tubitv dot com and i will see terribly inappropriate, overly complex, and strange on there. and i won’t even be surprised.
He can’t look back. The only way through is forward.
IT’S HERE! A Giorno character study that I’ve been working on for approaching four years now. Ft. C-PTSD, grief, gender euphoria, Giorno’s wack moral compass, reverse chronology, and a bunch of traumatized teenagers caring for each other as best they can.
a classic "might revisit this to improve it later" moment
Pencil sketch that i colored digitally and then hid some jank with some photoshop filters lol
original sketch under cut!
I think a lot of people are capable of recognizing that Giorno has a facade the reader is meant to dismantle but the issue is that they take it too far and instead see him as some kind of total woobie dweeb which is also not the case. Not only is he a very confident person, he also sees himself as worthy of passing judgement onto others; killing people he considers unjust is no big deal to him. He lowkey has a god complex. What he lacks is a sense of self-preservation and a sense of personhood outside his ambitions. Giorno sees himself as a servant to his county, city, community, he sees himself as an embodiment of certain values and ideals. And if he couldn't fullfill his dream then I think he would see himself as totally worthless because that is all he is, that's all he has. This is why he would struggle with personal relationships and with his sense of self-worth. He wouldn't know how to ask for his needs to be met or even recognize that he has them without feeling conflicted. His awkwardness lies there, in the long-term perspective. Giorno is excellent at reading people and getting what he wants from social interactions, wether if it's by being palatable or by causing friction, the issue is that he would still struggle to do the right thing by the people he loves, even if he suffers from it, because he cannot fully conceptualize himself in the role of the friend or the lover. He is merely a leader of others and a servant of his county.
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