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[sanndh]

In celebration of the first anniversary of this exquisite piece of 91W fanart, enjoy the beautiful video Davina Deijns made of the drawing process.

Everybody, please hop over to Instagram and give her a follow (if you haven't already) and show her *all* the love. She's is the most amazing and sweet person and an incredible artist.

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Music used is touch by Antent

All credit for the video goes to Davina, I'm just a humble commissioner who wants to share her art with the world.

[ga-biroba]

"I remember the view

Streetlights in the dark blue

The moment I knew

I'd no choice but to love you"

Abstract (Psychopomp) - Hozier

Reference

(PS: I'm going insane over those two again. Don't mind me)

[szlez]

Is That Straight?

My first but surely not the last art inspired by the ultimate fic Ninety One Whiskey by komodobits. If you still haven't read it you should! 😊

A scene from Chapter 11: Brest: Recouvrance

[cottoncandyofterror]

Still in love with this story, months after reading it: Ninety One Whiskey by komodobits.

[pigsflyinginspace]

O my lord

It's happening It's real

[weanwinwhester]

for those of you with extensive brain rot such as myself i have a recommendation! rereading Ninety -One Whiskey 100 times just not scratching the itch enough? well do i have just the thing. Band of Brothers. now i’m no ra ra red blooded american but having watched this, is one of the only reasons i could follow whiskey so well. and it includes some familiar faces like Richard Speight Jr!

[evil-swedenish]

“Even from fifteen feet away, there is a quiet warmth in his eyes, and Dean’s smile tips crookedly wider.

Dean is trying to decide how best to rile him up—maybe a wink—when Castiel smiles back at him.”

What? I haven’t read 91w in YEARS, why would I have a favorite part of the 91w snippets- it’s chapter 2.

[thestarsmakemedream-art]

It almost arrived on Cas's birthday. Anyway happy birthday Cas! I can't wait to reread this masterpiece

[stuckysnugglebutt]

OMG!!!!! My hard copies of Ninety One Whiskey by komodobits arrived today!!!!! I CAN'T EVEN!!!!!! AAAHHHHH!!!

@cuddlebabies @chaoticdean @winchester-reload

[bloodydeanwinchester]

btw guys komodobits is gonna be writing another 91w timestamp! and you can vote for what you want them to write it about

also you can still make donations to PCRF on their commission donation page!

(also if you love me please fee free to go vote for Dean POV for late war - probably Brunssum to Setterich, Character Growth! it's losing and i'm sad)

[hms-tardimpala]

Ficbinding: A Complete Kingdom by Komodobits

The fic: SPN, Castiel/Dean Winchester, 85k

This fic had me staying up until 2am to read, it swept me up and flattened me. It's so well-written, so faithful to the characters, so well constructed that all you can do is strap in and enjoy the ride and hope you're not sobbing by the end (a vain hope). It's such a good story, period, that I think it can be enjoyed by non-SPN people. Mind the tags. Summary:

The sea; it swallows me. It comes up to my knees and it swallows me. The boys owe Jody a few dozen favours, and so when her niece goes missing near an old fishing village on the coast of Maine, Dean, Sam, and a newly human Castiel agree to take the case on. They settle into an old abandoned lighthouse-keepers' cottage, and slowly the tide comes in. (post-s8)

The bind: I'm so proud of this one, guys. I tried new things, pretty much everything worked, and I learned new skills!

Let's start with the colors. The story is sea-themed and stormy, so I chose black, dark blue and silver for the cover and light grey and light blue for the headbands and bookmark. I meant to use white for the headbands, but discovered I don't have white ones. It's the first time I do an overlap of fabrics and it turned out awesome. The silver stripe is a simple gift wrapper ribbon.

Typesetting:

The title font is so cool, with a droplet effect. For the part titles I chose a kind of blurry, hazy font because this story is about perception of reality and the loss of it. The chapter titles of the first part are solid, then they're altered in the following parts, to symbolize a slipping grasp on reality as time goes on.

I put headers and bottom-of-page numbers this time, which forced me to figure new things out in LibreOffice and do some maths 💪

The image of a lighthouse also changes in the three parts of the story. If you've read this fic, you know why.

Little wave as a divider.

Making the book:

I hadn't made a big book (printed at the A5 format) in a while and it felt amazing going back to that. It stretched my maths muscles. It's relaxing to do a book and not have to fight for every millimeter, like with small books. It's a more forgiving format.

Trimming went amazingly this time, I'm finding my footing slowly.

I had to sandpaper the edges to color them silver. I don't mind working with sandpaper, but it's quite brutal on the book, and wouldn't do it every time.

The edge painting was made with a silver marker, so I knew it wouldn't be perfect, but it looks good enough and doesn't peel away.

My corners are improving! They look almost perfectly square.

In reaction to the last bind I made, I augmented the overhang (still don't know if that's the word) between the edge of the covers and the edge of the textblock. From 3mm to 5mm. I'm very happy with this, it looks much better!

It's rare that I'm disappointed in a fabric, so I'll highlight here that I don't like this endpaper. It's pretty, but it's a sort of glossy magazine paper that didn't react to glue so well.

Overall, I love this book and this story deeply. I think it may be my best work technically so far.

Fonts: Rained (title), Moonrising (author name), Louis George Cafe (text), Brightness, Brightness Book and Brightness inverted (chapter titles), Snorter (part titles). Materials: 2mm grey board, 80g/m² ivory Clairfontaine A4 paper, synthetic ribbon and headbands (found on amazon), black and blue cloth and endpaper from Schmedt, silver non-textile ribbon (bought in craft store).

Feel free to ask me more about materialsand fonts (or whatever), it won’t bother me at all to tell you what I used, but I’m too lazy rn to write it in this post that’s long enough already.

[simplenefelibata]

do you ever wake up and just. think about 'so says the sword'. like. i do. i'd give half of my life to read it for the first time.

[sanndh]

It should be criminal to write words that ring so true and break my heart in 1000 pieces 💔

In his life, Dean knows what it is to pretend. He knows what it looks like. The dutiful son, the staunch protector, the class clown—he knows the burden of the performance and what it feels like to forget who you are when the curtains are closed. It took him five thousand miles and a war to figure out. Novak, it seems, has a little further to go.

[szlez]

You're alright

Another art inspired by the epic fic Ninety One Whiskey by komodobits.

This time from Chapter 14: Aachen

If you feel like helping a good cause (and read some more 91w) pls donate to Komodobits's charity commission page.

[szlez-re]

IT ARRIVED!!!

[hufflepuffheaven]

so says the sword is probably the most heartbreaking but beautiful fanfic ive ever read and ill never stop thinking about it or this: