#fanfic binding

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A Thing with Wings by paperpuffin (@clockwayswrites)

This is an amazing fic by one of my favourite fanfic authors. It follows a BruceXDanny ship which I’d not actually read before. This was one of my favourite covers of the previous year and I really like the style I have continued throughout. It is based of of the A thing with Feathers book by Edgar Allen Poe. The additional pages I made for the chapter pages and title pages took me 45 minutes to make and I am super happy with them! The cover took me about 1 hour & 15 minutes though I will be spending more time on it in the furture as I would like to continue the style of the inspo cover and have quotes surrounding my ‘bird’ Danny. and the typeset took me about 1 hour & 40 minutes to complete. All together the digital side of this bind took me approx 3 hours and 40 minutes - with the changes it will likley be around 4 hours spent total.

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Batman - Borderline - Dark Version

This is a simple inverted version of the cover design I had already created. The original cover has a white background and black elements and text. I was curious about how it would look with a black background and white elements/text instead so I spent 6 minutes switching them all over.

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Fallout by Whisper91

This is another redo of a previously made typeset though kept in a very similaur style so very little work was done to change anything. It was mostly just adding in the target for the text separation and  changing a few of the chapter page fonts. Of course, I don’t know how long I spent on the first typeset or on the cover. As it was the beginning of my typesetting journey (late 2024/early 2025) I know it was probably quite a while. I have been redoing the typesets I made on google docs to try and have a higher quality typeset. This typeset took 1 hour and 20 minutes to complete. The additional pages took about 15 minutes. The total (timed) time spent on this typeset was 1 hour and 35 minutes.

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A New Place To Stay by Debstheslytherinsnapefan

This is the 1st volume in the 3 volume series from the amazing Debstheslytherinsnapefan who is one of the integral and terrifyingly efficient HP authors. I have kept the typeset very simple as I really like a more minimalist look for this series and sometimes I just go for simple designs. As it is a more simplistic looking typeset, it has taken less time that more complex designs. The additional pages (title pages and border) took 8 and ½ minutes for all 3 volumes. As a result I will separate the time into 3 equal parts even though the time spent would not be equal - about 3 minutes and 15 seconds each. The cover was made on canva and took about 1 hour and 30 minutes for all 3 volumes. Again I will divide by 3 equal though that is not accurate (30 minutes each). The typeset for this volume took me approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes. In total, the digital side of this bind took about 1 hour and 43 minutes.

This is the 2nd volume in the 3 volume series from the amazing Debstheslytherinsnapefan. I have kept the typeset very simple and followed on from the format and style from the previous volume as I really like a more minimalist look for this series. As it is a more simplistic looking typeset, it has taken less time that more complex designs. The additional pages (title pages and border) took 8 and ½ minutes for all 3 volumes. As a result I will separate the time into 3 equal parts even though the time spent would not be equal - about 3 minutes and 15 seconds each. The cover was made on canva and took about 1 hour and 30 minutes for all 3 volumes. Again I will divide by 3 equal though that is not accurate (30 minutes each). The typeset for this volume took me approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes. In total, the digital side of this bind took about 1 hour and 53 minutes.

This is the last volume in the 3 volume series from the amazing Debstheslytherinsnapefan. I have kept the typeset very simple and following on from the previous 2 volumes. As it is a more simplistic looking typeset, it has taken less time that more complex designs. The additional pages (title pages and border) took 8 and ½ minutes for all 3 volumes. As a result I will separate the time into 3 equal parts even though the time spent would not be equal - about 3 minutes and 15 seconds each. The cover was made on canva and took about 1 hour and 30 minutes for all 3 volumes. Again I will divide by 3 equal though that is not accurate (30 minutes each). The typeset for this volume took me approximately 45 minutes to finish and is the shortest of the 3 volumes. In total, the digital side of this bind took about 1 hour and 18 minutes to complete.

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Naruto - A holmes in Konoha by GremlinSR

V 1, 2 & 3  

I was not sure what design I wanted to use when it came to these covers but I did want to go with a more Sherlock Holmes vibe. I spent some time looking at different Sherlock Holmes books to see if there were any to recreate but while I did find some elements I liked from different covers, I did not find any I really liked. I did decide on 2 design elements I liked from some different covers, text in the background of a keyhole and a shadow figure of sherlock holmes side profile. I decided to do a simple circle cut out with I chose a section from the fic as the text over a parchment texture/colour background. I looked for some photos of young detectives until I found a photo to edit into a shadow figure. Originally I wanted to have a magnifying glass round the cut out but did not like the look so did a shadow instead.  I chose a few different fonts to have on the cover and copied over onto the spine. For the back I added a page, drop shadow and the summary in a loopy font with some ink splatters. I added a bunch of different textures over the green Konoha colour background.  The volume 1 cover took me about 39 minutes to complete. 

For the second cover, I kept almost exactly the same format; same font and location choices with the only difference being the V1 to a V2, same summary page on the back, same spine, and the same circle with shadow as a cut out.I did find a different section for the text cut out, different splatters on the back corners and a different girl shadow figure I created from a random photo I found on google. This cover only took me 12 minutes to make and the majority of this time was finding a section of text to use. Not that it will be super obvious or even readable really.

Same as the other two covers, I kept most elements of the cover exactly the same and just changed the text section, volume number, figure and ink splatters. For the figure I found a photo of a sakura cosplayer I liked the pose of and edited it into a shadow figure. This one took me 7 minutes to complete and I then spent a further 3 minutes messing around with the different colours for the 2nd and 3rd volume as I didn't really want them all to be green. I am not sure whether I would chose red or blue.

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A set of 3 volumnes of fanfics from the writer llamllamaduck on a03 all based in the bat-verse.

This is the 1st volume for the llamallamaduck collection of some of their into the bat-verse fanfics. I have not read all of them, possibly one from this collection but I love their writing style and figured it would be fun to read. This is part one of a planned 3 parts (so far at least). The typeset took me about 2 hours & 10 minutes to make but I am happy with how how it has turned out and it will act as the format template for the other volumes. The cover for the 1st volume took me about 50 minutes to complete as I kept changing things. The additional pages for all 3 volumes took about 30 minutes so I will divide that time by the 3 volumes (10 minutes each). All together this bind took me about 3 hours & 10 minutes to complete the digital side of.

This is the 2nd volume for a collection of llamallamaduck fics featured in their bat-verse collection. These are all blind picks and I have not read any of them previously. I followed the same format (style & fonts) from the previous bind and I am still super happy with the way it has turned out. It took me 2 hours to make the typeset, the additional pages took me for about 30 minutes for all 3 volumes so I will divide that time by the 3 volumes (10 minutes each) and the cover took me 26 minutes to finish. 

I followed the same format (style & fonts) from the previous bind and I am still super happy with the way it has turned out. It took me 1 hour and 50 minutes to make the typeset, the  additional pages took me for about 30 minutes for all 3 volumes so I will divide that time by the 3 volumes (10 minutes each) and the cover took me  26 minutes to finish. Realistically the time spent on the typeset was longer however I was doing multiple other things at the same time as the program was playing up. I would pause before then restart my timer when I would do other things.

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Two typesets of various Dareveil fanfics.

A Capithony of The Devil Vol 1

 This is a redo of a previous typeset that is a collection o various shorter (2000-30000ish word count each) that I made back when I first start learning. I am still figuring out little things on affinity and that includes trying to copy over font features like italics and bold when copying over text. This time I had to go through and change it all. I almost wish I had just started again from the beginning as I believe it might have been quicker than going through. This typeset took about 5 hours to make (not including the first iteration). It took about 10 to 15 minutes to make the additional pages though I honestly did not end up really using them as I liked the simplistic look. I am hoping the following collections will be quicker as I think I have figured out what went wrong when I copied them over. In total the cover was about 20 minutes so combined the whole digital aspects of this collection took approx 5 hours and 30 minutes.

A Capithony of The Devil Vol 2

This is a redo of a previous typeset that is a collection o various shorter (2000-30000ish word count each) that I made back when I first start learning.The 1st Collection (I made right before this) took over 5 hurs as I had issues with pasting over the italics, etc. this time I did not have this issue. YAY! So it took about 50 minutes in total! Huge difference. I  might still go through it in future just to change font sizes but I am happy with it and I am glad I have continued the simplistic look. I do have some additional pages I did not use. When I actually go to print it in the not so distant (hopefully) future when I get the printer I want, I might go through and add them in. We shall see. For now, It was about 50 min for the typeset, 10 minutes for the additional pages and 10 minutes for the cover. This means that, not including the 1st version, this typeset took approx 1 hour and 110 minutes.

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There is another sky, (--Ever serene and fair) by llamallamaduck

This was a super quick typeset that took a little under an hour to make (58 minutes). Now I know how to copy over italics/bold text, I hope to be much quicker. Of course it is a more simple typeset with the chapter columns and text separator being the parts that took longer to accomplish. The rest was pretty quick especially as this typeset is following the format and design choices of the cover that I am continuing on from a previous bind from this author.