it’s funny bc you’re 13 and you’re like wow dan howell is literally meeeee. and then you come back over a decade later and you’re like oh ive changed so much, dan howell can’t possibly be me anymore. but turns out dan howell has changed too and he is still literally you.
Over the last week, I’ve finally gotten around to working on some fanbindings again. I wanted to try out the three piece bradle binding described in DAS_bookbinding’s video here and now was the time to do it.
I’ve made two cases in this time, actually, but the other one is for another project where I’m waiting on some ordered paper (because I didn’t have enough, dammit), so I can't proceed right now. It will be posted at a later date.
Behold the beauty I made:
It’s “The Fire Lapping up the Creek” by notevenyou, a fic I absolutely adore! I did the typeset in 2021, printed it then, too – and that was basically it for the last two years. XD But good thing I waited because I felt adventurous now and also had some cool new paper as well as booklinen to use.
Doing the case was a bit of a learning curve, and the other case did not turn out as perfectly as this, though it must be said that that one isn’t done in linen but in paper. This linen here worked like a dream, very easy to handle.
I’m also very pleased with how the waves turned out – they’re lacquered Yuzen that I cut on the upper edge along the wave pattern. It’s pretty much how I imagined the design in my head, mostly. The endpapers also lean heavily into the theme of those “bloody” waves as the story is set in the Burial Mounds for the most part and is heavy on the angst in the first half. It just seemed to fit.
Did the titling with hot foil and a pen, which worked like a dream in this case (the other one was a different matter...).
I also added a few illustrations here and there. Nowadays, I might do more with the chapter headers, but they’re fine. Also, that particular font (Harukaze) always died on me whenever I went over a certain size, so I had to basically a) make it smaller than I wanted to, and b) not touch it at all once it was set to the size. XD
Materials used:
Printed on Clairefontaine Papago 80g (long grain, unfortunately, but it’s okay)
Case + endpapers:
- English Buckram booklinen, library certified
- lacquered Yuzen (Japanese paper) “Konami”
- Chiyogami paper 60g
- hot foil (the cheap stuff)
Finally really getting into Word of Honor after being obsessed with MDZS/The Untamed for a while. Now reading some backstory and about the actors and like what, they really got to torture actors who play in these danmei adaptations? Cancel them and demand apologies? Are the fans insane? Is there some system to mess up their lives and pit them against each other or their fandom? Happy that the actors have ovrercome most of the bs but it's not fair to them to deal with all this at all. Let them just live normally please. Insane expectations are put on them by fans and authorities and managements, they are just regular ppl doing their job.
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