#acernor

[daedalusdoesstuff]

I've been gobbling down Bingliushen at an alarming rate, so here's another horny OT3 fic, but this time Liu Qingge is trans because of course he is!

Cover for: Tiger, Tiger by acernor

[thegoldenavenger]

some fanart for acernor's tiger, tiger which convinced me there was a target audience for big cat lbh that wasn't just me, haha ;v;

[howlingmoonrise]

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

my last work for battleship is done, and it's time to say goodbye to team mermaid!

for @acernor, who i thought was super cool when we last spoke: i was over the moon to see you'd submitted a prompt to the collection and really wanted to write this for you! if there is one thing i can say about this fic is that it very much kept to your prompt of dfs bottoming, even if i wasn't too sure in which direction you'd like to see this ship in particular go. i hope you enjoy it 💖💖💖

many many thanks also to @a-memory-a-distant-echo for the very wrinkly-brained dfs takes, incredible brainstorming, major cheerleading, and for putting up with a truly ungodly amount of whining! i owe you like a thousand and shall continue to bother you ceaselessly 💖

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Pairing: Di Feisheng/Fang Duobing

“You’re so cold,” Fang Duobing says as he pours him a fresh cup of tea, the brush of his hands warming him in ways the blankets will not. “I wish Li Lianhua had left more instructions.” He looks so distressed, Di Feisheng thinks hazily. It’s ridiculous - he’s hardly Li Lianhua, withering away like a plucked flower, and he’s suffered through so much worse besides - and yet the pup is acting like he’s dying on his watch.  This is nothing. He’s just-- cold. Very cold. Colder than he was as an orphan on the streets, shivering in threadbare robes and not yet knowing how to start a fire. Colder than when the sea had claimed him ten years ago, icy and biting down to his bones. Di Feisheng curls further into himself - the dampness of his hair is not helping, soaking into the fabric wrapping his back, and neither is the stray breeze he can feel make its way through Lotus Tower. Every shiver feels like it’ll shatter him into pieces, like ice on the ground. It’s nothing. He just has to wait it out.

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[flowermountainpress]

I've decided to make a lot of posts on patreon released to the public/free because I think most everyone who subscribes is just doing it for the stickers and bookmarks and to support me, not for early access to posts. This also means I can just copy paste on the same day to tumblr which is a little easier for me.

Photo session for acernor's "Laid to Rest"

I actually decided the pastel store bought bookcloth looked a bit too plain and added metal corner pieces in gold. As mentioned, the end pages are hand-marbled by me and not the best, but it's important to me to try using the things I make even if they're not perfect.

The illustration is by @velinxi on twitter, used with permission for human_alias' typeset, which I had permission from both to print.

It was strange but fun using someone else's typeset; I don't usually do that, but this caught my eye. Especially the illustrations!

And we all know I'm a sucker for acernor fics.

This book is what converted me to the 50% pva/wheat starch paste church because I glued down the end pages with pva like usually and had to destroy it to adjust it. When mixing pva with paste, it takes longer to dry and you have more time to adjust. Highly recommend.

Although I love the gold corner pieces I've designed a cover art to do in gold vinyl. Usually I do the vinyl before casing the book in because it's easier (ironing a flat rectangle vs ironing a book) but that's how this turned out. Acernor liked the cover design I came up with so I'll be doing that soon.

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[acernor]

Shout out to kitchen sink bingo exchange for making me this BEAUTIFUL bingo sheet to help people write/ draw gifts for me >:D me reading all the tropes: WOW... THESE ARE ALL SO GREAT... WHO CAME UP WITH THESE BIG BRILLIANT GENIUS BRAIN PROMPTS...

if anybody wants to try to hit acernor bingo, PLEASEEEE LINK ME TO YOUR CREATIONSSSSS

full prompts here: https://kitchensinkbingo.dreamwidth.org/1226.html

[mdzsao3]

it's mdzs of course there's pining, even while he's getting eaten out there's pining

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[squigglyart]

[humanalias]

Laid to Rest by acernor

67,946 words | 224 pages

Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System by Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Pairing: Liu Qingge/Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu

Illustration: Xiao Tong @velsmells

Wow, this book ended up being much more of a project than I anticipated, as you can see from the "published in 2020" on the title page. It's three months later, and I've finally finished! 🥰

I absolutely adore this fic, such a great character study and coda to the novel, and of course some excellent porn with feelings. Such exquisite writing, one of my favorite SVSSS fics! I’m ashamed to admit, when I first read Scum Villain, Liu Qingge didn’t make much of an impression on me; I credit this story for showing me the light. So earnest, so awkward, really just my favorite kind of character.

Continue past the cut for my ~process~ (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Fonts

Body: Cheltenham

Titles, header and page numbers: Novarese and Gill Sans

Materials

Bookcloth: Arrestox pewter

Cover: Gray, pink, and gold marbled jute fiber paper, 96 gsm

Headbands/bookmark: DMC Diamant D140 Black Gold; DMC Pearl Cotton Size 5, 353 Peach; 3/8 in. grey satin ribbon

Title: Cricut Foil Iron-On

Text block: Hammermill Cream 20lbs, Lineco linen binder’s thread

Unusually for me, I made my decision for the layout pretty quickly. I knew I wanted something that looked like a contemporary fantasy book. In particular, the 1 inch indent on the opening chapter paragraph, parallel with the chapter title, I saw in Gideon the Ninth. I think it really gives an elegant, modern feel. I did the same mixture of Cheltenham for the body text and Gill Sans for the header and page numbers in my previous project, astolat’s And I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You.

(Comparison with Gideon the Ninth, as well as some clearer pictures of the layout because I can't take focused photos to save my life)

I debated for a while about the cover paper: I thought maybe something blue, white, and/or gray would work as Liu Qingge’s colors, but I couldn’t find anything I liked. My next thought, was, Hey, this pink/grey paper I already have looks blood-ish … demon blood… 🤔 So, it’s not much of a thought, but the combination with the gray bookcloth turned out so well, I can’t really complain.

For this project, I did zig-zag endpapers using DAS bookbinding’s tutorial, which was frustratingly vague at parts. But I much prefer the end results compared to pasted on endpapers, and I’m going to continue to do it in the future. However, I was a bit dumb, so I pasted paper over the spine as reinforcement…but that also went over part of the hinge, so it doesn’t flex as much as it should. Well, you live and learn.

Once I found this tutorial, I was able to make the headbands very easily. The use of tissue paper makes starting much easier and the process much less fiddly. I think that the satin ribbon looks pretty, but in the future I want to use cotton, and for books of this size, a smaller width. Getting the needle through the weave and keeping the ribbon centered was difficult.

I used my sister’s Cricut machine to cut out the titles, and I was really surprised how it cut out the thin serif font. Unfortunately, I had already constructed the case so I couldn’t properly lay it flat on the ironing board--would not recommend.

For a long time I've been hesitant to make wheat paste, since PVA worked fine already (and I hate trying new things). But it was so easy, I’m annoyed I didn’t do it sooner. Water, flour, a microwave, that’s all you need. I got a much smoother application with a mixture of paste and PVA, as I wasn’t rushing to put down the endpapers before the PVA dried up.

I tried a few new things with this project: using zig-zag endpapers, adding headbands and a bookmark, titling the spine, and gluing the endpapers with a paste/PVA mixture instead of straight PVA. I really think it ended up creating a more professional-looking book.

Thank you, acernor, for writing such an excellent fic, that was such a pleasure to bind! As well as to velsmells for graciously giving permission to use their artwork, and everyone on the Renegade Bindery discord who took the time to give me advice and feedback. 💖