#bionic battle granny

[zhalfirin]

Bionic Battle Granny - ozhawk

These books were part of the Renegady Publishing Tiny Books Bang 2023 event

The typeset was provided by @claudeng80 The story was written by @ozhawkauthor, check out their work!

Full leather binding with leather onlays in clamshell box. case materials binders board 1,5 (case) different leathers, goatskin, (covering material) heat reactive foil, blue (hot stamped title) blind tooled author name

inner book Munken polar 100gsm (book body) @renato-crepaldi marbled paper (endpapers) wibalin (second fly leaf, tipped on the first) button hole silk (endbands)

clamshell box binders board 1 and 1,5 (boxes and case) uncoated blue book cloth (covering material case) @renato-crepaldi marbled paper (covering material boxes) heat reactive foil, cream (hot stamped title)

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Detail shots of technical differences on Bionic Battle Granny the book and the clamshell box.

First up the inlay on the clamshell vs the onlay on the book.

The inset leather is (almost) even and level with the covering leather.

The onlay, though buffed and slightly rounded a bit along the edges, still adds visibly on the covering material. (Which is not a flaw! it's just the way onlays work.) The onlays were also part of why I decided to make the clamshell, the edges of the onlay could take damage when shoven between other books and in any case they'd be more susceptible to wear. Another reason was light and dust protection.

(I have no idea how to translate this, perhaps indrawn corners vs. cut corners would work best. Anyhow... )

Another part that differs are the corners. On the book I cut material off, pared the rest thinly and folded a tiny ledge over to cover the corner thoroughly (see the first two pictures). On the clamshell I cut some of the material off as well, but not closer to the corner. The remaining material of the turn-ins got pulled over the corner so there's only intact leather there. The downside of this is, there is too much material and it will set in folds even if spread as evenly as possible over the board. Those folds can be hammered down though and having the turn-ins pared thin helps too.

[zhalfirin]

Clamshell box for my second bind of Bionic Battle Granny by Ozhawk

Materials used

greyboard 1,5 and 1mm (base construction) goat skin leather (covering material and decoration) marbled paper by renato crepaldi (box sidewalls elephant hide paper (box bottoms and inside spine) coloured foil (hot stamped text)

[ozhawkauthor]

by ozhawk

Yeah... I had some issues with Civil War. So here. Have a cracky BBG chapter to fix things! With Deadpool!

[ozhawkauthor]

So I caught up with eps 5 and 6 of Agent Carter S2 last night. (7 tonight).

And what I want to know is, why hasn’t this scene been all over my dash?

Peggy Carter IN THE AIR VENTS.

Because now I have headcanons about air vent infiltration being a Required Subject at SHIELD Academy. Clint took to it like a duck to water and became Peggy’s star pupil :D

I also have Bionic Battle Granny headcanons coming on. Once her ankle, knee and hip joints have been replaced Peggy discovers that dropping through air vents feet first onto enemies with a battle cry is by far the easiest way to dispatch them. The first time a SHIELD agent witnesses the little white-haired old lady dropping down like this with a pistol in either hand blazing away, it’s Melinda May. Then and there, she decides that she wants to be Peggy Carter when she grows up.

[ozhawkauthor]

800 followers!

Still no idea why you’re all here, but I love you all SO MUCH.

SO MUCH that I have decided to release the PREVIOUSLY EXCLUSIVE bonus chapter for Bionic Battle Granny that I wrote for the Fandom For Rainne fundraiser :)

So here it is; Peggy Carter meets Darcy Lewis and decides she rather likes her - and decides that she’s getting a bit old for the spying game and she’s going to take up a new career...

Peggy And Darcy Raise Hell

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"You, sir, have a lot of explaining to do."

“Peggy made me do it.”

“That is not a valid excuse for every mad scheme that pops into your head, Barton!” 

Maria Hill actually had a forehead vein that pulsed when she got angry as well, Clint discovered with fascination. He watched it avidly.

“It wasn’t my mad scheme,” he protested. “I was just gonna kill her, except she nearly killed me instead, and then Peggy hit her with a bin lid and made me bring her back!”

He suddenly had the unnerving feeling that there was a hole burning in the side of his neck. Turning his head, he found Natasha staring at him, her green eyes glittering. “Barton, you promised not to tell anyone about the bin lid.”

“Oh, shit.” 

[ozhawkauthor]

OKAY, AUTHOR FRIENDS: Time to answer this question. I don’t care if you’ve written 2 or 200 fics–answer! What is your favorite fic you’ve written, and what is your least favorite? WHY?

I was tagged by @dresupi for this one.

My favourite fic I’ve written... this is a close call, but I’m going to go for Bionic Battle Granny. It’s the only one of my own fics that I re-read on a regular basis just to give myself a good laugh. I can be pretty damn funny sometimes if I do say so myself XD. The first three chapters - the main story - were written in a single 24-hour period after Aged Battleaxe Peggy Carter invaded my brain and refused to leave me alone.

My least favourite fic I’ve written... hmmm. Probably The Wrong Three Words? A cutesy Clintasha that is pretty OOC for both of them in my opinion. Nonetheless I don’t delete my work because you never know if that fic is one person’s equivalent to comfort food when they’re down ;)

I’m gonna tag... @ladywinterlight, @strunmahmah, @amusewithaview, @suzukiblu and anyone else who’d like to have a go at this!