I’ll Light Your Way Home by BeaArthurPendragon, binding by DCB Bindery (dontcallmebree)
Summary:
Two lost Vietnam vets find each other in a Hell's Kitchen gay bar one hot September night. This is how they find their way home.
Specs:
Straight back bradel binding, gold leather headbands, 295 pages, B6, purple made endpapers.
When choosing a proper binding project, this series was an easy pick. Soft, grounded, and full of sweet melancholy, I have not stopped thinking about this universe since I read it the first time around.
Thanks to @beaarthurpendragon for letting me bind this wonderful series!
On the process:
Many mistakes were made but I’m delighted with how this binding turned out! I particularly loved being able to typeset epigraphs and matching each of the five parts to a corresponding illustration of flowers for its introductory title page.
Made endpapers for some reason took longer than it should to get my head around, the gold leather headbands aren’t perfect, and trimming the textblock took years off my life but at least lessons were learned. We’re not talking about the casing in, especially not the fact that it’s crooked.
Very pleased with my first DCB Bindery project!
Submission for @steverogersbingo Card SB2003 / Square A4 Get Together
(Thanks to the @renegadepublishing community for the many resources and assistance!)
Steve gives him a serious look. “Do something for me?” he asks.
Bucky swallows miserably. “What,” he says.
“Smile for me.”
Bucky turns away and sighs, though the corners of his mouth twitch up a little. He knuckles away a fresh crop of tears.
“That,” Steve says, guiding Bucky’s face back around with his fingertips, “is what I like to see.” He cups Bucky’s cheek in his hand and Bucky smiles instinctively into his palm. Steve runs his thumb along the curve of his lips, then leans in to kiss him. “This, right here. I want you to be happy.”
coming on 28/06: Bucky Barnes' great nonbinary, genderfluid awakening in By Light of Day - a Pride Month collab with @beaarthurpendragon 🧡
For I am still thy lover true, come once again and love me. Castles, quests, and adventure! Below are my Top 5 Favorite stories:
“Change Your Stars” (M, 52) by histoires_eternelles, JJK
“No, wait.” Steve reached out a hand to stay Sam, overcome with a terrible, or maybe a brilliant idea. “All he has to do is not fall off his horse,” Steve said, with a slow smile spreading across his lips.
Sam frowned at Steve.
“One of us could ride in his place.”
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A Steve/Bucky Knight’s Tale AU with a double dose of Identity Porn, featuring fake-knight Steve and secret-prince Bucky.
+ Steve pretends to be a knight and Bucky pretends to be a squire. Jousting, banquets, falling in love, and chivalry.
-☆-
“A Simple Breeze, A Single Spark” (T, 36k) by leveragehunters
Like he'd been waiting for his cue, a tall, dark-haired man appeared behind the jailer. He wore a fighter's leathers, all in black, with a long sword peeking over one shoulder. His eyes were a complicated grey, flecks of blue giving them richness, but they were…empty.
Steve fought not to recoil from the blankness, letting his gaze flick to the bird perched on his other shoulder. It was some kind of hunting bird, maybe a falcon or a hawk, no hood or jesses, and it mantled, staring down at Steve like he was a mouse it was considering for dinner.
They were something from a legend or a nightmare and they were here for Steve.
+ Ladyhawke AU. Bucky is a wolf by night and Sam is a hawk by day. Steve joins them on their quest to kill Pierce.
-☆-
“silver and gold” (E, 19k) by Claudia_flies
Bucky wakes up to the sound of the rooster, like he’s done every morning since he arrived in the village. The crow echoes through the yard and makes the horses move in their pens below him, they too waking up to the day.
+ Omega Bucky escapes Pierce and finds a home in a new village. He gets an anonymous partner for his seasonal heats and a crush on Lord Steve
-☆-
“The Tale of the Silver-Armed Knight” (E, 5k) by BeaArthurPendragon
After being exiled from Ireland, Steven Grant is quietly making a new life for himself in York crafting the finest armor in all of England. One late December afternoon, a legendary knight visits his smithy to commission armor with very specific requirements.
Mr. Grant has a few requirements of his own.
+ Part 1 of a series where Blacksmith Steve and Knight Bucky spar and get frisky
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“A Midsummer Knight's Dream” (E, 29k) by cobaltmoony, GoldBlooded
Sir Steven, knight, alpha, and baron of a small countryside estate, receives an invitation to a Royal Tournament: It’s a winner-take-all competition, and the prize? The hand of Prince James, the kingdom’s most eligible omega, in marriage.
It seems like a lifetime ago that young Steven left the palace – and his best pal, the prince - to attend to his familial duties. Since that time, he’s dreamed of reclaiming his friendship with the prince; if not as a companion, then perhaps as a member of the prince’s guard.
Prince James, royal, omega, and heir to the throne is tired of being reduced to his designation and pressured into an arranged marriage like a political pawn. He devises the tournament as a means to an end: winner claims his hand in marriage, but if he wins? He’ll get to claim his own future.
Let the tournament begin...
+ Omega Bucky fights for the right to avoid arranged marriage. Childhood friends, requited feelings, heat/rut. Dense King George and awful Rumlow
1969!Stucky series: Last year, Buck Barnes came home from Vietnam with a bad back and a prosthetic arm named Roz–and with nothing left to lose, he let the GI Bill take him to college as far away from his closeted life in Indiana as possible: New York City. When a gorgeous blond square looking lost as a lamb walks into the gay bar where he works on the weekends, he’s only thinking about tonight. He never expected to find himself wishing for a tomorrow, too.
(Or: Two lost Vietnam vets find each other in a Hell’s Kitchen gay bar one hot September night. This is how they find their way home.)
It’s heavy from the beads, but the fabric is smooth beneath his fingers—silk, maybe, from the slight sheen—and when he unbuttons the back and steps into it, and feels the smooth heavy drape sliding across his skin, he can barely breathe.
(On a cold Friday night in 1940, Bucky Barnes becomes whole.)
By Light of Day - a Pride Month collab with @beaarthurpendragon just posted!
Read this Stucky masterpiece in beautiful full resolution on AO3 (and leave kudos/comments for both auteur @BeaArthurPendragon and artiste @lokewolf82 😻)
“After a Russian bomb in Ukraine ends combat photographer Bucky Barnes’ career several decades ahead of schedule, he returns to the lake house he hasn’t visited since his parents died to put the pieces back together over the long, lonely winter.
He’s got no idea what his life is supposed to look like now that he’s not constantly on the move and facing danger every day, but an unexpected friendship with his elderly neighbor—and then her astronaut son—leads to the kind of connection he never thought he’d get to have.”
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“So.”
“So.”
Steve smiled against Bucky’s mouth, then leaned forward and kissed him again.
“What do you say we start figuring things out now?”
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OK, Bea, I promised I’d beg, so *ahem* here goes -
PLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEE continue this story!!!
tagged by the wonderful @beaarthurpendragon and the delightful @stripedscribe: Post the last sentence of my most recent WIP and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.
Then she rose to her feet, slinging the bag over her good shoulder, and followed Fallira past the now burning pyre into the silent shelter of the trees, Jamen at her side.
This is the last line of chapter twelve of my book, the Lost Lahsrí, called The First Betrayal. The she is protagonist Nyra :)
That’s way too many people so I’ll just tag:
@ceterisparibus116 @gotarcher94 @beguilewritesstuff @martial-quill @anyone with a WIP they’d like to share :)
