#should i add ficbinding to my permissions?

[shanastoryteller]

what's your stance on ficbinding? I've seen that you encourage translations, podfics, and fanart, but binding is, well, a bit of a different beast

answering this publicly because i've gotten this question a lot, i think in waves mirroring whatever ficbinding drama is happening at the time

lol nah it's the same beast. it's no different to hitting the download button on ao3, people are just confused about copyright law (my eternal burden is knowing too much about copyright law and watching the internet be wrong about it all the time)

if you look in my "fanworks of my work" tag you'll see people who have bound my fics. i think i have a few more buried in my likes that i still have to reblog too

[tsurashi-bindery]

All I Want For Christmas (Is For You To Stop Talking) by Femme (femmequixotic) & noeon (noe)

This is the first fic I ever bound and also my first ever ficbind posted on tumblr! I've only bound a handful of fics and will be posting the ones I've done when I get the time.

I bound this back in November 2023 (last year), I've been wanting to get into bookbinding for yeeears, and I finally got the nudge to do it after seeing ficbinding was actually a thing!

Since this is the first bind I ever did, there are things I want to change but overall as a first ever bind, I think it's good!

I actually bought the wrong foil and had heat activated foil instead of toner reactive foil for the cover but ... somehow it worked? Kinda?

I also do not own a cricut or silhouette so all the covers were made using Kent paper, hence why you can see the pretty distinct line on the white paper (that's the edge of the black cardstock that's covering the spine)

This was also the first time in my life that I ever touched InDesign, it was thankfully not that hard to learn the basics and I now love to use it! (I do have all my typesets to download for free here if anyone wants them, I'm also able to quickly change them into letter size if you wany since I know most American binders tend to use that!)

I might've gone a little overboard with adding all the details like stars in the corners and by the page numbers and changing fonts, but I think it's a cute typeset seeing as it was my first.

I also tried making my own headbands using literal shoestring and ¥100 fabric and glue, it somehow worked and it looked cute, but this was also the only time they turned out okay I think?

The art added is by @longdaytogo with permission! (Absolutely love their art, it's stunning. Also the reason why I even got back into drarry after a decade long break lmao)

I also didn't know I should add a flyleaf at the end of my bind for this one, hence why it's right next to my endpapers, but hey, it's a first bind!

That was all for my first ever fic bind. It has actually become such a fun hobby and I really enjoy binding fics, I think I've made... 8? In total since November, a lot of the last couple of ones have been purely experimental and kind of wonky and chaotic, but that's (sadly) part of the learning process!