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The young adventurer's club by Artemisgrl

Summary:

"Bored by unchallenging classes? Sick of sitting around, doing nothing grand? Eager to learn forgotten magics and gain power beyond your wildest dreams? Join the Young Adventurer's Club now!" A mysterious poster for a new club catches Severus' eye. Little does he know... What the club has planned will challenge everything he knows and change the course of his entire life.

The cover is made of ecru canvas (homemade book cloth), printed on a gel plate with black acrylic. The title and image are made with stencils.

I wanted to evoke the idea of an old, rustic, well-used and worn -out document.

As always, it was bound for my personal use. You can read it for free at the link.

So Armory Rasa recently moved again (my second move in less than a year >_<), but this should be the last one for a long time, and as of today the workshop is up and running again!

My new space is GORGEOUS 🤩 and there will be more pictures incoming soon, but for now, enjoy Miss Monster on the new rug. 🥰

#the meadhall #is what we call that room #my workshop #the monster in my workshop

Spent 4.5hrs in the garage/workshop sorting it all out today. It was so full of boxes of assorted crap from the house etc. that you could hardly get in, and the worktop was unusable. I filled the entire back for the car with cardboard for the recycling centre. I'm exhausted. But it means I'll be in there making some commissioned silver cufflinks tomorrow :D.

#my workshop #Raufnir's metalwork #needs more natural light

Kill your darlings by MesserMoon, a fantastic fic you could read at AO3 for free.

I love this story, and am happy to have it in my collection. That said, I can tell you that this binding was very eventful.

I think I will change my name to Not Perfct bindery. The two volumes of this book took me a long time, because I was buried in workload. It seems that every day I picked up this binding project, I made some mistake. The worst one was sewing the signatures too tightly so it was impossible to round the spine. Another mistake I made while cutting the fabric, as can be seen, the covers were in different proportions. This is my 60th binding; and I must learn that in excess of confidence lies the danger.

@sophsicle

To rebind or not to rebind?

What do you think about rebinding your early ficbinds?

Looking at mine, I see so many mistakes that it makes me want to redo them, but on the other hand, they are a testament to my progress, a constant reminder of what I've learn.

It's not that I'm now an ace at binding, but I have improved. My first binding were lot more crooked, smudged with glue and there is definitely room for better endpaper finishing ... but I'm fond of them.

My edition of Modern Love by Tacky Tiger- This is an amazing Drarry story that can be read for free on AO3.

What did I achieve? I accomplished several things with this binding, the one I'm most proud of is that I managed to rounded and backed the spine. Also, I used linen to make the book cloth and I think it turned out well. It's the first time I applied HTV on linen, and I liked the result. I haven't placed the title and the author on the spine yet, I think I will do it by gluing a label. What can I improve? The end paper didn't look good, in fact, I'm thinking about reapplying it.

I must improve the backing, as I think I hit the block too hard with the hammer. Oops! What should I learn? I'm not sure when to guillotine the text block so that it looks good when I curve the spine. I sew it's before curving it, but since I use a looser stitch, I don't know if it will be alright.

The book feels good in my hands, the texture of the linen is nice, and the size is comfortable. The curved spine looks beautiful on my shelf.

This copy is for my personal use only, remember if you want a copy you can always learn how to bind. It's not rocket science!

@tackytigerfic

The meaning of mistletoe by Endrina, first volume of The secret language of plants. @llendrinall I have read this charming story several times. The voice of the narration, with its fairy tale reminiscence, is something I really like. Endrina is a great author, it is worth reading their novel length fics.

Typeset by Lindsey P. For those inexperienced in fandom, this story can be read for free at AO3.

What I like:

It's quite a simple binding, but something in it remind me of the old editions of my childhood. Reading it give me a special kind of joy, it's both, the comfort of this story and the childhood-like feeling this tome brings me while holding it

What I could do better:

I had problems with the guillotining of the edges, but went ahead [I had already lost a lot of material with a failed first printing]. I couldn't say what happened, but - for me - that mistake gives a Je ne sais quoi to the edition that I love. I don't know why, but when I was a child, back in the 70's, I had many books with the same feeling. The paper was a bit thicker than usual, and the edges weren't perfectly cut. I didn't realize, until I sat down to read this edition, that this binding conjures up memories of my childhood.

Special thanks: During the process, I had a severe case of printer hiccups (Or binder's brain hiccups, to be more precise) but @getfuckedblr hold my hand and helped me.

@llendrinall

[If I learned to bind, you can do it too. It's not that difficult... ok a little at first, but it is doable. Don't buy fic binds, ok? It spoils fandom's fun]

Another addition to my "not perfct" collection. As always, I like it with all it's imperfections.

The traveller by Somigliana.

I read this story in Ashwinder eons ago and have always liked it. (If you know what Ashwinder is, you've been in this fandom a long, long time).

"Hermione has deviated from an obvious life. She has moved down a challenging and divergent, but ultimately lonely, path. She meets Severus Snape by chance one day, and she has some difficult choices to make"

Bound in the south of the world. Cardboard cover, exposed spine with French stitching.

I liked the idea of using shells and stones slowly worn by the sea. I wanted to place them as stepping stones, as a way to make reference to the time jumps Hermione makes in this fic. The photos are not very good, but they show the beautiful place where I was able to make this book. The shells and stones were collected by me in an area where pre-Hispanic people used to shellfish (obviously, I did not collect stones from that time, but newer ones).