#Renegade!Blue

[monodramatic-cannibal]

Renegade au doodle page. I made this before I made updated refs, so some of the designs are their old designs. And you can also see redesign doodle notes on here as well.

[glitchedcosmos]

Sonadow aside I also REALLY REALLY loved them the whole time

[bluevelvetbindery]

This book has been a looong time in the making. I think I printed and stitched it together all the way back in February? But my plan for the case required me to figure out some things so I just kept putting it off, lol.

But finally! Here it is! My rendition of the Tumblr Stories typeset, courtesy the amazing people over on the Renegade discord.

This is the first bradel binding I’ve done, and I am really pleased with how well it turned out.

The end papers are ones I designed and had printed. Also very happy with them!

And the thing that held me back the most on this book was the cover decoration. I knew what I wanted, but not how to get there. I personally don’t like the look of heat transfer vinyl, and I don’t have access to a cutting machine anyway.

Or so I thought.

Two weeks ago, I took a little certification course at my local library which means I now have free access to the cricut machines in their public Makerspaces! It took some time and experimenting, but I did settle on a way that works for me to paint the covers that looks, in my opinion, not too shabby.

Overall, I’m really happy with this one. I think it’s my best bind yet. Here’s hoping the next ones are even better!

[waste-iisolation]

is this anything

[zipadeea]

[boin-de-bindery]

Love's Ruthless Game: A Kunigiri Zine

This zine was compiled by the wonderful mods over at @kunigirizine and distributed to fans with proof of donation to the PCRF. It raised $502, a figure our small fandom can be proud of 🧡❤️ Ón abhainn go dtí an fharraige, saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸

The zine focuses on the Blue Lock ship Kunigiri (Chigiri Hyouma x Kunigami Rensuke). It features stories and art from 22 contributors, including myself. The amount of love that went into this sings from its pages—it's a beautiful-looking publication and I'm so grateful I got to contribute.

Naturally, I made a physical copy to gnaw on admire ✨ Technical specs below:

A5 casebinding with linen bookcloth

Handmade dust jacket, featuring art by the inimitable bell (@\forb1ddenrain on twitter)

128 pages (8 signatures) printed on A4 recycled cartridge card (140gsm), thick enough to prevent bleedthrough. Signatures were guillotined before sewing.

Endpapers were marbled by me and sewn on. The colours contrast but I think it works in person 🌈

French link binding with alternating thread. The idea here was to avoid having white thread visible in the darker coloured signatures. 'Twas a pain swapping thread every 1-2 signatures, but look how pretty the sewn textblock was! ...only to get glued over and hidden. I'm happy with the in-bind result though:

Handsewn double core headbands in Kunigiri's signature colours.

Metallic rose/blush coloured HTV for the bookcloth cover.

My printer is basically out of magenta now, but I'm so happy with this bind 💕

The zine artists also provided a haul of printable and digital merch! 🥺 these bookmarks and stickers are both by Froggi (@froggirum on twitter). Best believe I stuck them EVERYWHERE.

[finalfrontierpublishing]

Remembrance by @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning

I finished binding Remembrance by @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning, which is the next part of The Desert Storm Epic. This is currently volume 2 of a projected 14/15 volumes!

some stats:

97,852 words || 384 pages

Title font: Ghaomiec

i'm still using the lovely @celestial-sphere-press' beautiful typesets. Sticking with the current theme, i decided to do Coruscant this time, with the Jedi Temple front and centre. Egged on by Des, this design is something like 10 times more complicated and took an entire hour to weed. The bookcloth is Colibri Copper, while endpapers are @renato-crepaldi, whose papers i love. I finished the bind with gold and brown silk endbands in 3 colours. Am likely to vary it up a little with the next volume with a different bookcloth colour, just for kicks.

Next up, I do have one more FFWAD bind to complete, and once i'm done with that, my physical stack of textblocks will have decreased to 4 (SUCCESS) and i can let myself print more things. Am working on my list of author copies as usual, slowly but surely.

i'm also waiting on legal paper (in the right grain this time) very excitedly, because i want to make more legal quarto books.

[515limit]

“So tell me what you want, if this all ends tomorrow, what happens to us?”

“Marriage, old age, and a lot of little blue children”

They made it, Happy father’s day o7

[clericofshadows]

Major Kaidan Alenko One of many portraits taken commending his efforts in creating and commanding the 1st Special Operations Biotic Company. Rendered in Blender Cycles v3.3 companion piece to my Commander Shepard render

[monodramatic-cannibal]

Renegade au refs 2

Au information post here

Part 1 of refs

(since I haven't finished all the character info I have posted their refs in bulk. So here are those two posts, but when I finish all the character info everyone will get their own separate post. I made this au around 2+ years ago, but then I made updated designs recently before I made my ut blog. So all of these were made before I started posting.)

Renegade!Blue

Renegade!Chief

Renegade!Cross

Renegade!Dust

Renegade!Fell/Edge

Renegade!Gans/Echo

Renegade!Horror

Renegade!Killer

Renegade!Lust

Renegade!Outer

[retrocgads]

USA 1993

[bluevelvetbindery]

Catching up on Binderary workshops today and this is what I accomplished! So pleased with this lil’ fella! I see many more tiny books in my future!

[jak2gooberglub]

I FINALLY FINISHED IT

THE VOID IN BLUE EDIT IS DONEEE

ENJOY BC THIS TOOK WEEKS(on and off) TO MAKE THIS

Song:

Void in blue - glare

Clips:

Jak 2

Jak 3

[black-eco-sage]

// From my CO.r.E //

"If I had a heart // 01101001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101"

(Last art piece of 2024 and first of 2025, feat. Viris!)

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[boin-de-bindery]

(this is the part where you find out who you are) - @kae-karo

A fanbinding of this hilarious & heartwarming Blue Lock Mall AU: thanks again to kae-karo for agreeing to let me make this! After I'd finished, I took my copy to an Auntie Anne's to mark the occasion 🥨 only recently learned that she sells pretzels across the Atlantic!

The bind includes an illustration of Hot Topic Employee Rin by nanabee ✨

This was my first time making two copies of a fic, and I ended up refining the typeset and design elements midway. The bindings are siblings rather than twins as a result, but I'm very pleased with them both. Went for a Hot Topic/2000s grunge vibe.

The cover title is a collage of lettering from the stores that the characters work at in the fic + a few others that would be familiar to American mall goers. I used printable vinyl sticker paper for the author copy, covered it with transparent film then layered metallic red HTV on top.

The personal copy has regular sticker paper for the title while the HTV is unbacked. It's hard to read on the stripy bookcloth, hence the adjustment.

clock the typo on the personal copy idk how that happened :(

This is the most thought I've put into a typeset so far. The chapters have unique character POV headings based on their employer's branding or their personal vibes (e.g. since Kaiser makes me think "expensive & European", he has a Chanel-inspired POV font). The fonts have their own credit section at the end.

Technical details:

A5 binding with rounded spine.

13 signatures of 8 sheets, for an overall page count of 416.

Glitter card stock endpaper for the author copy, regular cardstock for the personal copy.

Handsewn headbands with a ribbon bookmark.

Homemade bookcloth (heat 'n' bond method) made from a fat quarter for emo/Beetlejuice flair.

Edge painted with red metallic gouache. This stained the interior in places but, y'know, 𝖆𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖙𝖎𝖈.

One final difference between the two copies is that the author copy benefitted from the arrival of my 20-sheet guillotine. While not perfect, the edges look much more even on the author copy. This will be my main method of edge trimming going forward.