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[stingandsnoutbindery]

Advent Anthology by @pacific-rimbaud

A Compilation of PR's one-shot entries for DHr Advent, years 2020-2022.

Fandom: Harry Potter

Relationship: Draco Malfoy x Hermione Granger

Art by the wonderful @chestercompany

My binderary baby and second fanbinding project.

read below the cut for the process and other binding deets.

Quick Specs

20,015 words | 179 pages | Quarto (1/4 of Letter)

Technique: Flatback bradel Title & Body Font: Libre Baskerville (in various style emphasis)

Fics included:

Les Pelerins (10k; 2020 entry)

I'm Never Lonely When I'm With You (5k; 2021 entry)

On The Virtues of Inexhaustible Burning (5k; 2022 entry)

Pac is the type I could trust to write anything and I know I'll absolutely love. Her advent fics, in particular, I especially adore. The writing is very visceral and I will not admit how many times I've reread these.

On The Book

I had not intended to bind any book/s for @renegadepublishing's binderary because of my hectic schedule, however FOMO won over and this book was born. It was a relatively quick design and typeset (I really do better under pressure lol). I wish I could say the same for when I started the actual binding though. This is the 8th book I’ve bound and I had expected it to go relatively smoothly, but this book fought me every step of the way and I'll indulge in expressing my distress on this post.

First, the print place I go to messed up my typeset, thus me having to travel back home to use our old crappy inkjet (that took 3 hours to print). And because said printer is crappy, I had to use 100gsm short grain to minimize show-through, and well, you can imagine how stick straight the pages are. Second, I made the case too small (I worked on the book after a toxic 12 hour lab day and was not in the right state) and instead of redoing the covers, I re-trimmed and repainted the fore edge (at cost of my lovely margins ..wails). Third & last, the vinyl refused! to stick to the cover and I proper burnt the HTV as well as my finger on my iron. In the book's defense, it was my first time using leather paper and I forgot to test their chemistry.

On The Bind

Everything else went swimmingly, aforementioned shit aside. I tried not to make this book scream Christmas and leaned into a more subtle theme through color choices. I finally got to use this lovely red leather paper from Itoya, which my parents bought me during their trip in Japan. Many thanks to @celestial-sphere-press for helping me out with the shops to visit!

The design cover was made on Illustrator. The words are actually the fic prompts which I arranged in concentric circles, inspired by the arrangement of the advent candles in our local church from years back. I have no idea what paper my print place used, but it has some nice pulp to it.

As I said, I melted the HTV and certain parts refused to stick, so I peeled all of it off, except for the spine title (which miraculously stuck) and used my foil quill pen instead. I used an off-brand one and it's really good!

I also did this sort of strip across the edge which I learned is called a "river" as Nic @bindsbymunchkin called it. The side near the spine though, looked asymmetrically empty, so I added the foiling. And as this is an anthology, the punctuations was a design choice to convey the start and end and pauses in-between stories (and mostly because they just look fancy lol).

Like my last bind, the edges are gold which is comprised of an undercoat of diluted dark gray Sakura acrylic paint and many layers of Liquitex iridescent gold acrylic ink.

Endbands are made with alternating colors of cream, gray, and gold DMC cotton threads, however I'm learning I don't very much like how sewn endbands look on small flatbacks.

The endpapers are my fave. I had already tipped in plain cream cardstock but then I was like: this book needs MARBLED PAPER! so I ripped off the one I had stuck and replaced it. It's actually not real marbled paper HAHA. I sourced it from this site, printed it on some heavy paper, and oh my god I believe the universe really meant for me to find this pattern because it coincidentally matched the colors of the endbands!!

On The Typeset

I wanted to keep things cohesive but also give each story its own character. Libre Baskerville was a lovely typeface to do that on.

From left to right: Les Pelerins, I'm Never Lonely When I'm With You, On The Virtues of Inexhaustible Burning

For Les Pelerins, I wanted to mimic the silhouette of the establishments in Montmartre, hence the varying heights of the letters. If I wasn’t on a time crunch, I would’ve spent more time editing the headers but alas this is what we get. INLWIWY is more straightforward– a pinecone, which was a recurring theme in the story. And I think OTVOIB is my favorite. I drew tiny gold cracks onto the coal rock which is a significant element in the story. It still gives me that stomach flip whenever I reread it (iykyk).

[writer-rider-flirty-thirties]

Marinette wants them to hurt. 88/101 of Fanfic Wars (2022)

[nereb-and-dungalef]

i hope in the last few years i have gotten Better At Music but who's to say

[shootthfckp]

TW: BLOOD, STING

picrure of little edward with hands gnawed by rats. i was very hooked by a quote from the movie

bonus: my old art with him. in figures 1 and 3, he is in the ecclesiastical garb of my setting.

[of-fear-and-love]

Reds and greens - from Barry Lyndon (1973), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), The Mighty Quinn (1989), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), The Kremlin Letter (1970), The Sting (1973), Nope (2020), Winners & Sinners (1983), Boomerang (1992), Send Me No Flowers (1964), The Color of Money (1986), and Rush (2013)

[figureskatingcostumes]

Deniss Vasiljevs skating to Englishman in New York for his short program at the 2023 Europeans and 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy.

(Sources: 1, 2, 3 and 4)

[ratkingartattacks]

knife man

[yanagidams8]

THE PHOTO SESSION OF JTETK STINGS AFTER THEY WON EMPEROR’S CUP FINAL

vid cr. _SEIPHOTO on twitter

[vexfulfolly]

24 Hours until Slugmas 2022 application close!

See my previous #slugmas2022 post for more details, and the link to the form. Can’t wait to see who joins this year!

[kingofpaindemo]

SPOTIFY WRAPPED DAY!!!!

And also first time giving my money to these three men

[msdroppinit]

I SEND THE TREND & REMIND YOU TO REMEMBER

Roots Rock Reggae Music Dancehall Stageshow Sound Systems & Sound Clash Culture

[2194teddy]

I want this show Back! #ToilandTrouble

Concept art (and an early sketch) from Lauren Faust’s original series, Toil & Trouble. It was SUPPOSED to premiere on Oct. 31st, but sadly, as you might already know, Netflix pulled the plug on it in April. Thankfully Faust got the rights back, but still, a damn shame. Looked like it was gonna tick off almost all my boxes.

[writer-rider-flirty-thirties]

Chloe's urge to break things started at a young age. 91/101 of Fanfic Wars (2022)

[llhmua]

Harper's Bazaar Taiwan

Happily Ever After Published: May 2022

Cheng-Po Ou-Yang - Photographer

Sabi Khazgaleeva - Model

Sting Hsieh - Makeup 

[figureskatingcostumes]

Mihhail Selevko skating to What Could Have Been from the Arcane soundtrack for his free program at the 2022 Finlandia Trophy.

(Photos by Antti Lehto)