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Fanbinding: Atlas by distractedKat

Bind #23

Atlas by distractedKat

Date Completed: 4/10/2025

Size: Folio, 135,529 words, 432 pages

Copies: 1

This is a pretty classic Star Trek AOS series about the final semesters of the Academy after the Narada incident and the maiden voyages of the Enterprise.  Starts out light and then gets pretty dark.  

I had a lot of fun with the typeset on this one.  It was originally a series of four stories so I found a vaguely planetary dingbat font (52 Spheroids) and gave each section its own unique icon to go behind the title divider & chapter numbers.  Century for the body font at 10.2 size - as bad as the orphan words are at this random size they were worse when the font was smaller or larger.  Viner Hand for the titles picked solely on the “looks cool and already loaded on my computer” basis.

This fic has always been red in my brain (probably because it starts at the Academy), so that was the spine settled and I had the perfect scrapbook paper in stash.  Casing this in was a struggle - I had to trim it several times to get a square cut so my margins are smaller than I planned, and then I somehow twisted the whole thing into a vaguely spiral shape when I rounded the spine.  Best not to look too closely at the coverboards in relation to the textblock!

Once again, I took too many pictures.

[finalfrontierpublishing]

Atlas by @distractedkat

So I've used the warp design before for my design for @pleasantboatpress's copy of For Gladness of You, and I wanted to see if i could replicate it again. I do think if I ever re-attempt this design i'd like to use a little purple in there.

Design inspired by queercore's lovely modified long-stitch bindings, which i've bastardized into purely decorative spine designs (i am the jackass of decorative faux long stitch and i'm not even sorry). Blue endbands are also inspired by nim from morningstarbindery on instagram's beautiful copy of Away Childish Things. It's ridiculously gorgeous and i'm always pushed to do better and more beautiful things by my friends in Renegade.

Some stats for you - as per usual:

135,529 words || 426 pages

Cover Titling font: Mandalore Gradient

Body Text: Liberation Serif, 10.5 point

Accents: Alien League II

Can you tell how much I freaking love this fic? I actually received a RIDICULOUSLY STUNNING and beautiful copy of this fic from queercore from the exchange but I had already started typesetting and prepping this amazing story and MORE PHYSICAL COPIES OF THIS FIC SHOULD BE IN EXISTENCE.

This is probably the first long star trek fic I ever read. It is that old, so it holds a lot of special memories in my heart. I used colibri graphite for bookcloth (colibri my beloved, of which i tragically scuffed the back cover, hence no photos). Endpapers are renato crepaldi (can you tell i have some loves), and the spine design is done with lightly waxed linen thread in 4 different shades of blue. I once again forgot to factor in the bulk of the thread at the spine, could possibly have added 0.1cm to the length of the cover boards but what's done is done. had a near catastrophic fuck up with endpapers on casing in because of the bulk of the thread, but luckily remedied fast enough before the PVA dried. the squares are not perfect, particularly on the back cover, but i can live with it.

I couldn't really decide what to do with the cover so as I always I kept it simple with some silver and subtle holographic HTV.

I have also discovered my binds bookshelf is absolutely fucking full and i have a problem. The solution is evidently to buy another bookcase.

next on my list are the author copies for FFWAD - they've been started and i hope to finish two of them in the next 2-3 weeks.

As always, @distractedkat, if you'd like an author copy please don't hesitate to let me know, I love making author copies :)

[zenzaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Hi there! What was the white thing in the water Jee couldn't save? My brain keeps going BELUGA WHALE even though that's not a spirit, brain. Is it a critter from your imagination or based on a real world critter or?

Well, well, well. The answer to that question is. Complicated.

But uh. When I was watching the new season of She-Ra I busted out my drawing tablet and made a piece of art for an idea of mine. And. Well. I took out a section of the drawing and the background to hopefully keep some secrecy, but here you go.

[insomnova]

UUHHH SO I've admire your art a long time and someone showed me you liked my fic Kindred so I thought this would be a good time to introduce myself?? YOU DRAW MY FAVORITE CALEB THANK YOU FOR EXISTING

/HOLDS YOUR FIC GENTLY IN MY HANDS!!!!!!!!!!

it most likely won’t happen but GOD............ COULD YOU IMAGINE........ YELLS ABOUT THE JUICY DRAMA!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAA

also thank you!!! ponytail caleb......... is Best Boy :’)

[musicalluna]

distractedkat replied to your photo “there is a huge element of...”

So many assholes! Because that's REALISTIC and DEEP and have you seen the Male Novelist Jokes poem on youtube because if not, get thee to a youtube and spend a few minutes laughing and nodding and going YES

i hate it

[musicalluna]

distractedkat replied to your post “i am so happy i finally learned how to make miso and found the asian...”

can I steal your mochi recipe?? I have mochi flour but the recipe on the box isn't actually for just regular mochi. so can I have yours??

yes i got it on tumblr lmao http://loving-that-officey-feel.tumblr.com/post/157040257979/perfectly-easy-and-tasty-microwave-mochi-recipe :DDD it’s really easy and fun. so squishy.

[snailfloss]

the mislaid plans

Lucretia’s plan was to scatter her family into new lives, where they could find happiness and thrive. 

They’re scattered already, by a force she doesn’t understand but can’t help but characterize as malicious. Barry’s dead for sure. On this plane, necromancy carries heavy penalties; their greatest fear until today was that Lup was incarcerated beyond their reach, by the goddess who polices such matters. That fate could befall him too. Taako and Davenport may be dead. She, the ornery dwarf staring her down, and Magnus’s somnolent sack of flesh might be all that’s left. 

She spent months preparing to cast them aside. Now, her resolve crumbles like Taako’s flaky baklava. 

“Why am I tied. Up.” Merle repeats. “Ropes, knots, the whole shebang, and let me tell you, sis—this isn’t the right ohm-bee-yoncé to make that fun.”

Lucretia refuses to unpack that. She checks the wheel and, haltingly, goes to untie him. She furrows her brow and glares when she realizes her knots are barely secure. “You couldn’t have gotten out of this?”

“Nah,” he says, leaning heavily on the mast to stand. “Not until I knew the weird lady was okay with havin’ me up and about, and that you weren’t gonna blast my ass. Who are you, again?”

“Gods, no, no ass-blasting. And my name…is not important,” she says. She can’t stand the thought of enduring another twenty years of him fumbling her name. Or of him saying “Lucretia” with the tone he uses for strangers. “You um, as I said, you’re my bodyguard.”

[musicalluna]

distractedkat replied to your post: i like ynab, but ynab also confuses me deeply

WAIT. You use YNAB?? I just discovered it and I am both intrigued and deeply confused

i do! those were my sentiments exactly when i started using it