#door of time books

[ohmightydevviepuu]

fanbinding: the reason birds can fly

the story: the reason birds can fly by philthestone

genuinely i sometimes wonder if i am the only person who has read this little gem of a fic. canon-divergent post-s5 finale and an absolute delight of absurdity and ... reality from Henry Mills' POV as he heads to college after everything he has survived.

the binding: sewn boards paperback legal quarto. designed to look like an american school kid's composition notebook. took me ages to line up the notebook lines and then they didn't print that way so i had to trim it pretty much by hand using a guillotine. speckle design from stock imagery printed on sparkle HTV. modified spine with bookcloth, no backing, to give it that rounded feeling. in retrospect, i might have made a few different choices; if i ever print it again i might try black kraft paper with white sparkle HTV so the feeling of negative space is different. but this bind has been in progress over a year and i'm happy just to be holding it in my hand.

yes, the first page is on the wrong page. yes, i (mostly) did that on purpose. lol.

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[ohmightydevviepuu]

the story: often imitated but never surpassed, laura's season-long hockey AU changed the parameters of CS fanworks in every way possible. a truly epic and unexpected setting for a fairytale that i found on exactly the day i needed its company the most.

binding: five-volume sewn board CHONK in canvas-printed covers meant to evoke NY Rangers away game jerseys. half-letter folios with painted spines tied in laces. NHL font designs from FFonts. includes fanart by @distant-rose and @clockadile (not pictured).

A very long time ago, my mother-in-law mentioned that Justin used to skate so quickly and without much finesse and as such would trip over the blue line. And something in my brain just went: oh. And then I...wrote, like, a million words. And got people to like hockey? And spent most of my mid to late-20s writting about this fictional hockey team with their kids and their kids' kids and people made art and I made spotify playlists and it was, like, my little safe space of happiness and found family and an absolute excess of love that I could just dive into whenever I needed it and then life happened and I haven't written in forever and we moved and @ohmightydevviepuu asked me for my address because she bound totbl by hand! Five volumes! They're named for periods! She wrapped them in laces! And I gave her the wrong addresss because we just.moved but all five (!!!) volumes got here and I actually cried and ran around our new house because it's been years and literally almost a million words, but this is my whole fandom soul and all five (!!!) volumes are going in our new reading room.

[dragonpyre]

Ok, now that the dog sitting from hell is over

TRAIN YOUR FUCKING ANIMALS

[cozylittleartblog]

me omw to scare mormons out of a wendys!! 🍂🖤🍟

ootd from like 2 weeks ago and yes that really happened

[auspicioustidings]

You know what fuck it, Simon Riley deserves to retire from service and open up a tiny little bakery because his ma always loved the cake he made her for her birthday every year. It was shit, he made it from box mix that was expiring so was reduced to 25p, but she always acted like it was the best cake on the planet.

He puts a ton of work into learning to bake. Finds he likes it, likes how you have set steps to follow to reach the correct outcome, likes that to get things ready he's awake with the sun when it's quiet and there's nobody around. He decides to name it Beth's (his ma would have liked that, she'd have been mortified if he named it after her).

He's not expecting much on opening day. He sells out. Every soldier he has ever worked with, every single one still alive and kicking, walked into that bakery as a friend to support him. Even those that wound up on a different side from him came because they understand that the Ghost deserves this, he deserves to grow old and fat, to make peace with his past and learn to enjoy his future. So few of them get the chance.

[ohmightydevviepuu]

ficbinding archive: Head Over Feet / The Love Hypothesis

the story head over feet by ever-so-reylo published 2021 as The Love Hypothesis

fandom: Star Wars / Reylo

archive notes i found the original fanart of what became the title image as well as several saved tweets, manips and moodboards highlighted by the author in their chapter notes. most importantly--the chapter notes. the author writes often about how they are finding their way through the story and include a lot of insecurities about it and thanks for the growing support. includes AO3 metadata.

the binding:

churchpaper warm white 24# paper

rounded and backed casebinding

oxford hollow spine

all interior text rendered in alegreya

dubletta bookcloth

siser HTV glitter titles

made endbands sewn over piping

[ohmightydevviepuu]

i need to talk about what an absolute platonic ideal of fic this story is for me. i found it on the day i needed it most. i read it in one single sitting. i made my sister bring me a grilled cheese so i wouldn't have to get up. i ran out my laptop battery and while it charged i ran out my ipad battery and then switched back.

so to say that binding this fic was a goal of mine is not an adequate thing to say. i love this fic so much--and all of its horses.

since i first read this story in 2019 i have had the absolute honor to get to know A and idoltina and to luxuriate in the art that comes from Iverna. it was important to me to do this justice.

binding details

cover: took my inspiration from old 1980s category romances, because nora roberts and irish thoroughbred. using the art provided by idoltina, i re-created the vibe of an old silhouette category romance. the cover itself is a giclee print on hahnemuhle william turner 310gsm (the last sheets i got through my inkjet before it gave up and i had to switch substrates). the covers are finished with archival modpodge.

binding method: sewn boards again and always. the initial typeset for this fic came in at a whopping 700+ pages, so i knew i could not comfortably bind it in one piece. however, the plotting on this fic is so meticulous that at the exact midpoint of the pagecount there was also an appropriate midpoint where i could break the fic.

for the spine piece of the sewn boards i took artists' canvas and painted a mixture of purple and purple metallic paints to get a color i was happy with. not only was purple thematically on point but i happen to know that A loves purple. similarly, i used purple tissue to glue the sewn spine and purple 220gsm cardstock for the endpapers.

typeset: horse dingbats for the central ornaments and headers. kaoly (demo) for the title pages and drop caps; rose quay for the chapter headings. garamond 11pt for the text body.

printed on neemah cougar natural cream vellum 70# text weight paper.

stock images courtesy of unsplash: tim schmidbauer, scott warman, kirsten lachance.

I wrote this, in 2015 and 2016, a monster of a fic that went from “haha 16 chapters at most, like 2-5K words each” to a massive 28 chapter epic of over 220k words and 7 spin-offs. And @ohmightydevviepuu surprised me by binding it, by hand, into two novels (JUST THE ONE STORY BECAUSE IT WAS TOO LONG JUST BY ITSELF???) and honestly I’ve had these for weeks and only just now stopped looking at them like they might vanish. It’s one thing to know how verbose you are and another to see it in physical form, like yeah you wrote so much about love and trauma and healing and family and *so many horses* that it’s literally not gonna all fit into one book.

Anyway, Dev made me cry and i texted several people to yell at them because only @distant-rose knew my address and @idoltina had commissioned that art from @iverna for my birthday a few years ago (a scene from one of the penultimate chapters) that Dev then used for the covers, and then it turns out literally everyone knew this was happening and there was a collective worry about the post office.

Anyway it turns out I’m still not done tearing up over this. Thank you, Devra ❤️🦢⚓️

[egophiliac]

I have never been more concerned for a JP update from your art than I am seeing a Cheka knowing the context of Leona’s dream.

My bois ok right?????? My sweet nephews ok right??????

well

uhhhh

I'm sure the real one is fine :)

[7cfc00]

home is where the heart is (and yours is gone)

[shy-sapphic-ace]

List of queer books I read, loved & recommend!

(There isn't any particular order, I wrote these as I remembered them)

Master Of One - Jaida Jones & Dani Bennett (mlm, fantasy, very cool worldbuilding and magic system, funny, cool characters)

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree (wlw, fantasy, very soft & chill vibes)

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon (wlw, high fantasy, cool worldbuilding, kinda reminds me of LOTR but with more dragons and feminism and lesbians)

Even Though I Knew The End - C.L. Polk (wlw, supernatural noir, cool 1930s detective story with angels & demons, I loved this one!)

The Love Interest - Cale Dietrich (mlm, science fiction, very cool concept)

The Darkest Part Of The Forest - Holly Black (side mlm, fantasy, cool fae lore)

The Weight Of The Stars - K. Ancrum (wlw, not quite science fiction but space stuff is involved, lovely and complex characters)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz (mlm, fiction, very nice in general, there is also a sequel)

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee (mlm, historical and vaguely fantasy, nice story but I preferred the sequel honestly)

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - Mackenzi Lee (wlw, the sequel to the one before, more fantasy elements than the first, asexual main character!!)

Gallant - V.E. Schwab (no romance, but in the background one of the characters(?) uses they/them pronouns, very cool dark fantasy vibe)

Stranger Than Fanfiction - Chris Colfer (gay main character, trans main character, coming-of-age, nice book)

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (yes it's the Love, Simon book, mlm, fiction, pretty nice)

They Both Die At The End - Adam Silvera (mlm, sci-fi ish but mostly fiction, cool ideas, but the ending is sad! Very amazing book though, I haven't read the prequel yet)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (wlw, bi main character, historical fiction, cool story, just a neat book in general)

This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (wlw, sci-fi, very cool time travel stuff!! and very beautiful, it felt like reading poetry most of the time)

One Last Stop - Casey McQuinston (wlw, background trans & pan & queer characters, sci-fi or fantasy idk, but time travel, I loooved this book, great)

The House In The Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune (mlm, fantasy, THIS BOOK oh my gosh you should read it!!, just cute and lovely and good)

Under The Whispering Door - TJ Klune (mlm, fantasy, this book is also sooo amazing, great character development and awesome relationships and stuff, it's been a while since I read it but it was so good)

In the Lives of Puppets - TJ Klune (mlm, ace main character!!, sci-fi, now THIS is found family, oughh feelings. argh, tj klune you’ve done it again, a human and his family of funky robots… I love them)

And They Lived... - Steven Salvatore (nblm, fiction, about gender identity and learning to love yourself, read it a while ago but it was very nice)

I Wish You All The Best - Mason Deaver (nblm, fiction, about finding your identity and people who care about you, very cute and sweet)

The Song Of Achilles - Madeleine Miller (mlm, historical, very good in general)

Carry On - Rainbow Rowell (mlm, background wlw in the third book, fantasy, it's a trilogy, basically Harry Potter if it was gay and also better)

Silver In The Wood - Emily Tesh (mlm, fantasy, very pretty, lots of fae stuff and lovely descriptions, it has a really good sequel too)

Pretty much anything by Alice Oseman (all cute and lovely and great, though I've only read Radio Silence so far I hear only good things, Solitaire is on my to-read list)

I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuinston (wlw, fiction, it's been a while but I liked this book)

The Falling In Love Montage - Ciara Smyth (wlw, fiction, this book was so cute and funny and deeply emotional it made me Feel way too many things, I'd definitely recommend it)

What Big Teeth - Rose Szabo (a bit of queerness all around, fantasy, werewolves and monsters, this one was pretty cool!, lots of original ideas for the world/character building)

His Quiet Agent - Ada Maria Soto (mlm, asexual, fiction, about like spies but this book was so gentle and sweet I wanted to cry in the best way possible)

Some By Virtue Fall - Alexandra Rowland (wlw, historical fiction(?), theatre drama!! rival romance!! duels!!, a very good read in general)

Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend - Emma R. Alban (wlw, historical fiction, I’m not usually one for regency romances, but I really liked this!!, very cute and lots of drama, and there’s a sequel coming out soon!)

[ohmightydevviepuu]

the story: written for the Captain Swan Supernatural Summer and a favorite of @spartanguard's work, it was such a pleasure to explore this fic for binding. kait has been a wonderful friend and supporter and fellow writer and cheerleader over these many years, and what a gift to be able to give some small part of that back to her. did i overdo it on the middlemist imagery? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

binding: half-letter sewn boards with homemade fabric bookcloth and gem details. ribbon closure obi band.

i wanted to keep the dark garden imagery but include the pops of color brought in by the pink flowers in the middlemist field. all font choices approved personally by @optomisticgirl.

Y'all. @ohmightydevviepuu is living up to the MIGHTY in her URL, because she is SO TALENTED. LOOK AT THIS STUNNINNGGGGG PIECE!!!!

Seriously—this looks professionally made. The construction of this is INCREDIBLE; the actual page setup is PERFECT; and then she took it the extra step with the gorgeous details on the front (and back) with the gemstones and the ribbon and the flowers (which I need to find a way to secure so I never lose them because I am going to cherish this forever).

We all know the feeling of success of feeling a story. But holding it in your hands like this is something else, and I can't thank Dev enough 💗 (she has her own post coming for this and I don't want to steal its thunder because she deserves ALL THE CREDIT FOR THIS AMAZINGNESS but I had to say SOMETHING because I've been staring at this for a WEEK)

[brainrotcharacters]

"it should be me" those are romance words Logan

[backpackingspace]

Love that it's Canon that odysseus built secret passage ways into his house and then never fucking told anybody about them (except penelope of course)

[incomingalbatross]

hlrngh

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