Bindery Of My Stupid Dreams

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Hello my Kings, Queens and Everything Inbetweens.

1. This is my side bookbinding blog so for my other shenanigans you can go to my main blog: @disenchantedwarlock

2. In this blog I will focus on my bookish thinks (mainly binding)

3. If you’re queerphobic, fuck you uwu

Anyway see y’all’s

[thoughtportal]

[blanketfortarchitect]

This tweet is almost 3 years old has been relevant since the day it was posted

[dreamyzworldlove]

Rainbow Crates tsats cover!

sleeve was done by @alessiajontrunfio !

card was drawn by @velinxi !

[warlocartebloc]

Gay math is when representation adds up to 200%.

Also wtf as a book sleeve/bind nerd it makes me so happy

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[teathattast]

[uugaylol]

Dunno but los novios

[hitokshellart]

Uncle Yukichi was sent to the future right to Yuichi, imagine that (They are about to fall tho)

[moringmark]

[permanently-silly]

felt a little bit bad about depriving u guys of spot content so im going 2 post a series of old things

[kairenn-n]

yes, babe, you’re sick and twisted, will you come back to bed- what? yes, of course you’re evil and irredeemable. now can you please cuddle with me

[zemathememequeen]

[imatiya]

A man lies down next to his childhood friend who was killed during tonight's massacres.

[my-random--thoughts-deactivated]

[klarolinexluv]

Okay we all know how bad it is to steal Remus’ chocolate. We all know what happens.

Sirius has learnt the hard way.

But what if it’s not the first time he has learnt this lesson?

What if he learnt this particular lesson from a little Reggie who was and is a possessive little shit.

What if Regulus and Remus are both dangerous when it comes to people stealing their chocolate?!??

[warlocartebloc]

The book haul from the Livraria Lello

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SOC cause I love the geishaverse

[highlynerdy]

"Aithusa has seen her father's mate in his memories and smelled him on her father's skin when he comes to visit, but this is the first time she gets to meet him for herself."

Nepenthe and Lavender by @0hheytherebigbadwolf

My latest fanARTifact is an entirely handlettered, handbound, and illustrated book of this beautifully fluffy fic (and it has actually been in various states of progress since March 1, 2021.) More below the cut!

So as I said above, I actually started planning this fic over two years ago. Which, yeah, I don't really want to talk about because adhd is a hell of a thing. I love love love this fic (and this entire series) and I was inspired by The Black Hours and other gorgeous manuscripts with metallic on black paper.

I ordered some black paper from Canson for the text block, used Arabic gold finetec paint mixed with water and gum arabic as my ink (I used three pans of the gold paint...), and a Nikko G nib with a straight pen holder for the calligraphy. I really wanted to use one of my broad tip nibs, but I just couldn't my Uncial letters small enough with it. I used Uncial since that was technically the alphabet/font they used in the Arthurian time period.

The paper was cut down and folded into signatures of three and then I drew out light pencil lines for the text and for the margins. Every single letter was done sooooo slooowwllly because if I messed up on one page there was no way to erase it, which meant I would have to do basically four pages worth of lettering again since they were all connected.

And I did mess up.

More than once.

I think the most heartbreaking mistake was at the very end when I was trying to erase my pencil lines and I just ripped a page completely in half. The tears were real, folks.

Once I finished lettering - which took hours and hours and hours over many weeks - it was time to assemble the text block and sew it. I used gold silk thread I had leftover from Arthur's scarf (which is also used as the backdrop for the photo shoot) to sew the block together and I love how it gives just another little peek of gold to the book.

I painted the end papers in a vaguely floral pattern with the same gold and also some silver finetec paint, glued them all together and put them in my book press and then promptly didn't work on it again from October 2022 to July 2023. Sigh.

But once I committed to getting it done, I asked @swanfloatieknight to help be my accountabilibuddy and make sure I finished it this week. I tested out so many different cover designs, from fabric and thread, to paper, to finally settling on this all over design done by my cricut. Historically accurate?? Nah. I'm about as historically accurate as BBC Merlin.

I tried my hand at gold foiling and that was a disaster so I just used a gold silk ribbon to give the color a little bit more color. Once it was bound, I painted in a triskelion and Aithusa on a double page spread I left intentionally blank.

And it was finally done!

All in all, I'm pleased with how it turned out. Was it an exercise in patience? Yes. Did I learn a lot? Also yes. Mostly that handlettering an entire fic is madness and also this is far too small to case bind, but I'm a stubborn ass and it was happening regardless.

All total, I probably worked on this for about 50+ hours. It was most definitely a labor of love and I'm so happy that it's finally done.

Thank you for inspiring me to take on such a project by writing such wonderful fics, @0hheytherebigbadwolf! And thank you for everyone who reads these long fanARTifact posts. 💛

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