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[dgbookbindery]

Some stills of the binds of Peeta’s Games series by Igsygrace @igsy-blog, that I completed for a lovely friend for an exchange with my Aussie girlies.

The Peeta’s Games series is available to read for free on AO3 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/8617210?view_full_work=true

[dgbookbindery]

Peeta’s Games; Throwing Sparks; The Mutt; and Back to Twelve - by Igsygrace @igsy-blog & available on AO3 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/8617210?view_full_work=true (Peeta’s Games)

This series is an #everlark Hunger Games retelling from Peeta’s point of view.

This was my contribution to the #AutumnDownunderFicExchange, and my bind for the lovely sleepycat.bindery - https://www.instagram.com/sleepycat.bindery/

Confession - I hadn’t read The Hunger Games yet, and ran to read them first. Then, I started on the Peeta’s Games series, and thought it might be a lil’ short for me to bind since my guestimations are always out of whack. So I thought, I’d bind the set as one. Again, cannot math. So that was going to be too thiccc, but by then I was inundated with ideas, so decided to just bind an entire set 😄.

I also might of got a little carried awayyyy whoops. I had a lottttttt of fun and spent a lotttttt of time creating the designs for the typeset, scene breaks, cover & dust jackets. I tried to do the chapter heading page designs from Peeta’s perspective. I used a mix of Procreate & Canva. I actually had a blast doing the HTV lol. I’ve never weeded so much in my life, but kind of found it thereaputic, and I really like how it turned out.

There were a number of things that made this my first cursed bind(S), the main thing being the textblock cutting/and then my endpaper/board cutting to match this, isn’t perfect by any means, BUT LET’S NOT DWELL ON THAT.

A hugeeeee thank-you to Igsygrace - https://www.instagram.com/igsygrace/ - for gifting us these amazing stories, which are written, so, so, so damned well.

[thebemoon]

Thank you, dgbookbindery, for your kind words. This is an absolutely beautiful binding of my fic "The Darkwood Wand." I love the level of detail, from the clock on the cover that nears 10 pm to the African Blackwood Tree. Look at the chapter headings, and the quote at the beginning. So amazing.

IT’S SPOOKY SEASON!! 🎃 ✨The Darkwood Wand✨ by @thebemoon My first ever exchange bind, and my second ever properly completed bind is done and dusted and in the safe hands of my beautiful friend Emma @bright_owl_bindery (insta), and as part of our Aussie Binders #HalloweenDownunderFicExchange. I’d like to thank Ene @chestercompany (Insta) for allowing me to use their beautiful portrait artwork in the typeset. As a newbie binder, I stressed so much about trying to get this bind just right. I had so many ideas going on in my head, that I inundated myself and had major decision paralysis lol. I changed the chapter headings soooooooo many times, and there is over 60 chapters 💀 I hadn’t read The Darkwood Wand, but did so before binding, with the intention of getting ideas for the bind. If you haven’t read it, I suggest you do! It’s dark, it’s funny, and it’s a brilliant story. I tried to incorporate elements of the story into the bind - the clock on the cover nears 10pm; I designed Draco’s pocket watch for the scene breaks in the typeset, the Part heading pages are of an African Blackwood Tree, which the Darkwood tree is based off of. I have learned sooo much in the process of binding this, and I still have sooo much more to learn #CONSTANTVIGILENCE !! #TheDarkWoodWand #thebemoon #halloweendownunderficexchange #dramione #fanficbookbinding