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Sandman Universe Deadboys Detectives #3 Writer: Pornsak Pichetshote Artist: Jeff Stokely Inks: Craig Taillefer Colors: Miquel Muerto Letter: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou Cover: Nimit Malavia
#Sandman U#Deadboy#DC com#comics#comic#comic books#pornsak pichetshote#jeff stokely#Craig Taillefer#miquel muerto#Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou#nimit malavia
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Toys, and the path for autonomy
#someitmes...sometimes its just easier to just paint in white AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#u thoyght i was gonna say something deep...BUT NO JA KJABDKHBAHKDCBACD#dream of the endless#the sandman#dreamling#hob gadling#awua
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It is done! This is The Death of Translation, originally written in English by @landwriter, translated into Mandarin by @thirrith. Binding is dos-à-dos, with English version on one side and Mandarin on the other. Bookcloth was handwoven by me, on my rigid heddle loom :3
More under the cut!
Typeset: Fanbinders are Liars
Full stop, this typeset would not have been possible without Eth and all their patience, enthusiasm, and willingness to do even more translating! I reached out to them *checks watch* nearly a year ago in July 2023 (lololol), asking if I could use their translation of TDOT in a surprise bind I wanted to send along with Gloam's author copy of Flower King. They were kind enough to say yes, and even kinder to answer my questions when I reached out six months later in January, when I was finally able to start work on the typeset.
We talked about the many delicious things that are bound to come up when discussing translating not just from English to Mandarin, but also from digital space to meatspace. Some topics I had anticipated, like font questions, translating the colophon, etc. But even with the topics I thought I'd prepared for, there were still things that came up that both surprised and delighted: for example, while AO3's website allows for italics in Mandarin--
--my publishing program doesn't (or at least, it doesn't without needing to manually tilt every character by about 10 degrees). So as a workaround, Eth suggested changing these cases of italics to the font 华文楷体:
Through no one's fault but my own, this ended up being only slightly less work than manually tilting every instance of italics--I wanted to be sure that I got all of them, so I ended up doing a lot of double-checking manually anyway, instead of relying solely on the Search function. There was a lot of cross-referencing with the Word document that Eth was kind enough to provide, as well as squinting and general swearing. I also did the same for the uses of Latin script, manually styling each instance as Garamond to keep it consistent with the English edition:
The only other time I've had to do font surgery this intensive is probably for my typeset for Tell Me About the Big Bang, which I had to port over from a PDF. Folks, hell on earth. Do not recommend XD I remember squinting at my monitor as I had to visually confirm every instance of italics, thinking I will never do this again. Welp, four years later, here were are: fanbinders are liars, LMAO. At the very least, using Eth's Word document at least allowed me to search by styles, so it was a little easier on my eyes. 🙏
Is there a script that I might've been able to use if I was more code-savvy? Probably. But I figured going at it sledgehammer style would be the least hair-pulling way to get the job done, weirdly enough. Still, despite my best efforts, there are a few instances of PMingLiU to Garamond and PMingLiU to 华文楷体 that I know I missed, and I know I missed them because I caught them after I'd printed/cut/folded/sewn/glued (cue more swearing), so Gloam and Eth, my apologies >.< please consider them artifacts of a uniquely handmade object ajslkdjfs
In addition to the fonts, there were also some other fun things Eth and I discussed, like how to translate the notes I usually provide on the colophons! In addition to information on fonts, I also usually include some variation of:
This private, limited edition published by chubsthehamster (Moonham Press, imprint of Renegade Publishing) in 2024. This is chubsthehamster's personal copy. Out of three existing copies, this is the first.
The thing that came up with this, which still tickles my brain to this day, was how Eth chose how to translate "Moonham Press, imprint of Renegade Publishing." To get a better sense of what word to use for "imprint," they asked what the relationship was between Moonham Press and Renegade Publishing, which got me thinking about the relationship between my lil imprint and the wonderful @renegadeguild:
What's all very funny about all of this is that we are now, in fact, going by the name "Renegade Bookbinding Guild," per our most recently updated Code of Conduct. While this renders the wording I asked for out of date (and thus, the wording that made it into the book out of date :'D), I think it's also a testament to how cool the work @renegadeguild is doing--like any artform, fanbinding is alive, with its own evolving language, communities, and ideas about the craft. And I love it, I love it so much. (Was this also a plug for our new-ish website? Perhaps).
There's more I could say here, but this post is already going to be long enough, so I'll move on for now! If you get anything from this section, it's that @thirrith is amazing and very patient and kind, and I'm so grateful that we got to talk shop together. Thank you so much for all your invaluable help with this, Eth! I hope the typeset, though undoubtedly flawed, does your hard work justice!
Binding: Or, SO Much Math. Like, So Much, Guys. (It was worth it, though!)
Whoo, boy! So math was never my strong suit in school, but when I set out to do this bind last year, that wasn't an issue. At first. The dos-à-dos binding, if anything, just requires a little bit of finagling on the usual case-bound format--a bit more math if you want to do an all-cloth cover, like I planned on doing, but nothing I couldn't work out with some trial and error. (My prototype below!)
Then came February, when I took a weaving class with my friend, and then everything kinda exploded.
My original idea was to use some green Duo bookcloth I had on hand (this color, actually)--for those of you not initiated into the Duo cult, Duo is a Rayon bookcloth with a very devoted fan following in Renegade. It's very pretty; the Rayon weave is one color, and the paper backing is usually complementary color, so it has this cool two-toned effect. Duo is in high demand in Renegade circles because sadly, the company that manufactures it went out of business last year. (Although I've heard rumors recently that there's another company making something similar, but the cloth has a really high purchase requirement and is, like, for businesses only I think).
Anyway, I also wanted to have a gold line around the whole book as a kind of bellyband/obi to further connect the two versions of the story (another reason why I chose the dos-à-dos format to begin with heh), as you can see from my scribbled notes here--
But alas! I knew going in that adhering things to Duo is often Problematic, thanks to one very painful experience trying to get some iron-on foil on another bind (the textured surface of Duo just makes it kinda hard to stick or paint stuff on it). So if I wanted a clean, continuous line, the remaining options were to either paint it on a strip of paper that I'd somehow...adhere to the cloth? Or maybe cut different slices of bookcloth and glue them on. I wasn't satisfied with either of those options, though.
Then--the weaving class. I made a scarf, and I love it and I loved making it. But the whole time, I'll not lie, my thoughts were elsewhere.
In short, my decision to weave my own bookcloth kinda came from a few different factors:
The desire to attempt to recreate Duo, that elusive beauty, the one that got away, etc. (I have several yards in my stash, but still). Others have also attempted to recreate it, and I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring.
My current spiral into the deep hole that is fiber arts (it started with crochet, then knitting, then sewing, then weaving, then spinning, and now I'm eyeing quilting! Please help me).
The gold line. It kept bugging me. And when I found weaving, I just thought there was something very neat about the process of actually making the cloth for a dos-à-dos binding from scratch, and especially for this binding. I wanted to bind a story about translation (or rather, the death of it, and yet still the necessity of it--how we must try to communicate, despite of, or perhaps precisely because of, everything that gets lost in the spaces between people, and the tragedy of that loss, and the beauty of what makes it through, and the love always present in the effort regardless), and also, the translation of that story. Weaving is a very meditative process, and with every pass of the shuttle, back and forth, building slowly but surely the fabric that would hold the story that Gloam had written and that Eth had translated, I thought a lot about translation, and the gaps between people, and how we choose our words not just when translating, but when we speak at all. From a design perspective, I used the same colors I would've used had I chosen the Duo bookcloth--green and gold--so the design wasn't too altered in terms of color scheme. But I think the choice to weave the bookcloth--the thing that bound it all together--made the project take on a completely new meaning for me, both in process and in scope, one that hadn't been there when I started. I saw the warp, perhaps, as the original story, laying the groundwork for the weft, the translation; or maybe it was the other way around, with the translation providing the scaffolding for its own, new meaning, choices that Eth had to make with this word or phrase or another building something new, something translated, and the original a live, moving thing that wove over and under each word turned phrase turned story; or maybe it was both. Maybe it didn't matter which was which, in the end. And as I wove, the thing that connected them, that gold line that had started all of this, slowly formed.
All that to say: Good God, was there a lot of math. So much math. That prototype pictured above was actually made specifically so I could calculate exactly how much I needed to weave, lol, because while I certainly had enough thread, I didn't want to have to warp more than once. I'd learned the basics in my class, but the training wheels came off here. I wanted to make my own custom fabric, which meant calculating things like ends per inch, picks per inch, loom waste, shrinkage after washing, the width of that damn gold line, how much I'd need for the hinge, the turn-ins, the boards--the whole nine yards (I didn't actually weave nine yards tho heh). It was all absolutely worth it in the end--so challenging and so, so rewarding!
(And my final reason for weaving the bookcloth? Not gonna lie, It was because I just wanted to see if I could do it LOL. I love trying at least one new thing with each of my binds, and this was it for this project. While I've been bookbinding for a few years now, I'm still very much a beginner weaver, and I'm so excited to continue to learn and experiment! Also, here's a video of me unwinding the cloth from the loom, heh. I used 10/2 Perle cotton in gold and green colors :3)
Also, turns out, you can back handmade cloth the same way you can any other cloth! I backed it using my usual heat-n-bond method, and with some Unryu Tissue in the color Forest. Since the cloth itself is a bit transparent, there are a bunch of really fun fibers you can see when it's held up to the light, but which aren't visible when the cloth is glued down to the boards. Still, knowing they're there still makes me happy :D
Finally, capping all this off, is one final, small detail I really liked: ginkgo leaf endpapers :3 this one's for me and Eth and Gloam specifically <3
Aaaand that's all from me for today, folks! Thus ends (several months late XD) my last Binderary project for the year. This was probably my most ambitious bind to date, and gosh it was so, so much fun.
And, of course, thank you so much to Gloam for sharing your story, and Eth for translating it. I can't wait for y'all to receive your copies soon!
All my love! <3
#the sandman#The Death of Translation#bookbinding#fanbinding#binderary 2024#<<<lol#landwriter#Ethiseth#also IF YOU SAW THIS POST BEFORE I FINISHED WRITING IT. NO U DIDN'T AJLKSDJFS#weaving#rigid heddle weaving
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cries for 5 billion years about hounds by @xx-vergil-xx
#my art#fishfingersandscarves#the sandman#the sandman netflix#comic#matthew (the sandman)#matthew the raven#hob gadling#robert gadling#crying sobbing did u know if u read 12 hound chapters in a row until the end of the fic for 6 straight hours u experience shrimp emotions
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this is what happened right
#dreamling#the sandman fanart#hob Gadling#dream of the endless#the sandman Netflix#I hope the meme I’m referencing is. Apparent.#I’m obsessed with the dreamling dynamic where Morpheus is like.#I’m so sad everything I love I ruin who could ever withstand my nature and my feelings#and hob just matches his insane energy immediately. He’s like we’ve met five times in like five hundred years but I would do anything for u#Dream: who could ever love a monster like me#hob ‘desperate slut’ Gadling:
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thinking about how death of the endless almost certainly knows by now that edwin payne and charles rowland run from her hand in hand each time she comes for a departing soul they've helped, and maybe she even lets them get a head start.
thinking about how both of them are so deserving of the peace her kind word and friendly face bring, but they are too terrified she'll separate them to ever receive the actual gift she could offer.
thinking about how it might just fix something in them both to just... sit in the office with death of the endless while she has a cuppa, or eats an apple, and tells her terrible corny jokes; and maybe it helps them realize that nothing would dare to ever part them in the afterlife or beyond— least of all death herself.
#dead boy detectives#dbda#payneland#yes i'm listening to the sandman score again can u tell#this post brought to you because i really think death should be their friend#she is so gentle. she is a balm. a soft breeze on a day that's the perfect temperature. they could use that...#(listen. they meet hob. then they meet dream through him. then they meet his sister and to their surprise she doesn't want to take them#then edwin realizes they're both related to despair whom he met in hell the second time and freaks the fuck out#meanwhile... desire is like oh you already know all about me babes. i don't need to come to this party. i'm already here)#the sandman
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trapped
#the sandman#sandman fanart#morpheus#dream of the endless#sandman netflix#fanart#my art#anatomy is so wonky but u get the idea#dream fanart#give him a blanket and a sandwich
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and it rings in the day and it rings in the evening oh, i could pray, but it won't stop you leaving —phildel, “funeral bell”
#sandman#the sandman#the sandman comics#mother night#father time#delirium of the endless#destruction of the endless#death of the endless#dream of the endless#sandmanverse#sandmancentral#*#*my gifs#*my edits#flashing cw#i fucked up the delirium gif but i didnt save the psd SO HERE WE ARE#lessened the colors to make up for the size but i dont think its that noticeable...#oh i switched up the order of the lyrics for ~aesthetic~#anyway........ shoutout to vi for the idea thank u for absolutely obliterating me with that song#just had to make a set for it idk.#plus im warming up for something else! hehe#and why yes this is about dream of the endless lord morpheus prince of stories lord of nightmares etc etc#and yes this is about his ending#i wanted to do something with the hands lyric but . idk how to insert... also im way too excited to get this out there#GOOD NIGHT ITS 330AM#edit: oh mobile app makes this set look sooo Bad. especially the death one. pls do me a favor and look at it on desktop or mobile browser.
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more dreamling dad au bc thats just what i do now apparently i like lazy afternoon naps and so do our boys
#dreamling#hob gadling#dream of the endless#morpheus#the sandman netflix#sandman fanart#a few people have asked me what the babs name is#ive been calling him Kian#and he gets jealous of Nightmare and wants to be scary too sometimes so his dad made him that horrific onesie#to kian's exact specifications thank u#my art#its important to me that people know kians got dreams dark hair and flair for dramatics but#hes also got hobs big dumb sunshine brown calf eyes that he flashes to get his way bc he also has hobs effortless charm#i also headcanon as he gets older he secrets handfuls of sand into his pockets from EVERYWHERE bc he wants to be like his dad#and hob has to be the sand police and has to make kian turn out his pockets on the doorstep every time they come home from anywhere#bc theres only so much vaccuuming even an immortal man can take#and kian does so but petulantly and while sporting dreams patented Imperious Pissy Face#they have a rule that kian is allowed to stomp as loudly as he wants to his room but isnt allowed to slam doors#in this essay i will-
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GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS
ITS FINISHED I FINALLY FINISHED IT ANAHAHANAHAHAHHA
Anyways I’m gonna go fly into a wall now. Enjoy :3
Bonus Alternates:
#DINNER IS FUCKING SERVED LADS#or dessert u decide#punch out#punch out!!#punch out wii#punch out au#little mac#glass joe#von kaiser#disco kid#king hippo#piston hondo#bear hugger#great tiger#don flamenco#aran ryan#soda popinski#bald bull#super macho man#mr. sandman
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sandman comic about ex’s (comic spoilers)
#the sandman#the sandman spoilers#dream of the endless#sorry its at potato quality i saved it too small#im mean to him bc i love him so much#also s/o to all of morphs exes u are queens
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Look personally. Y'all know that I think Hob prefers to bottom. It's the one time he allows himself to be taken care of. It's his one little indulgence. BUT. He's constantly hooking up with guys who also want to bottom, or vers guys who take one look at him and assume that he wants to top. And Hob is an eternal people pleaser so he just goes with it.
So when Dream finally takes the initiative after all those centuries and drags Hob off to bed... Hob is mentally preparing himself to get into his role the world's most enthusiastic service top, right? Until. Until. Dream cups his jaw and says very gently, I would like to fuck you, if it would please you.
And Hob has a minor cardiac incident and his knees turn to jelly and in appropriately 0.5 seconds he's been reduced to an absolute babbling mess thanks to the thorough sexiness of consent and the fact that he's finally gonna get his guts rearranged by his favourite entity in the universe hehe.
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i'm enjoying the implication that dream isn't the only endless with a mortal blorbo and that despair's just happens to be a repressed gay edwardian ghost who's really good at being tortured
#despair of the endless i love u btw#dead boy detectives#sandman#my posts#kam stop shitposting challenge
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season 2 when
#sandman#the sandman#dream of the endless#rbs > likes!!#sandman tv#morpheus#lord morpheus#lucifer morningstar#if you noticed the date this was signed no u didn't. xx#i am literally so hype for season of mists okay. it's my FAVORITE sandman arc#and i cant WAIT to see it onscreen#300th post yay#dc meme
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mopey of the endless
#thesandmanedit#sandmanedit#tomsturridgeedit#morpheus#tom sturridge#dream of the endless#the sandman#gif#i almost called it a mopey bitch but i wanted to be nice#he's just figuring things out#very slowly#also he looks very offended holding his bread like sister how could u
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