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I wonder what the spell book is made out of. Kinda morbid but human flesh would be sick as hell. 🧐💀

DCXDP Fanfic Idea: Book Bind

Danny Fenton gets kidnapped by the GIW and used in an experiment. Technically, they captured Phantom, but after a collar was snapped around his neck, meant to keep his powers at bay, Phantom turned into Fenton.

The GIW had no idea what to do with a human child. They haven't come across a Halfa before or had a single record of the possibility. Why would they?

Vlad was the first Halfa in history, and Danny was the second. Heck, the GIW weren't even sure what to call him. It's entirely possible that the Fruitloop was the one to coin the term Halfa, though Danny could never prove it.

The GIW weren't the most intelligent people around, nor were they taken half as seriously as any other underfunded government department. This played in Danny's favor because they had come to the assumption that Phantom had merely formed around Danny.

Much in the same way, Kitty once tried to take over Jazz, the GIW assumed Phantom had given him some kind of object that anchored him to the mortal realm. They searched his body for anything that Phantom could have infused with his power and all decided the pocket size spell book Danny picked up for Sam was the anchor.

They assured him they would free Danny from his role of a human puppet and flung the spell book into a ring of runes. Apparently, it would send the spell book back to once it came from as the agents stood around chanting.

To Danny, it just looked like a bunch of grown adults dancing around a poorly drawn salt circle. He was halfway through a witty remark when the spell book suddenly caught on fire. From there, the spell book rose, spinning in tight, fast circles until it melted away into a purple portal.

All portals Danny knew were green. It did not sit well with him that these hacks were able to obtain a different-colored one than the normal one. All at once, his inside turned, the hair on his arms rose, and a part deep within him actually felt like it was recoiling away from the salt circle.

Before Danny could even think of doing something- scream, run, fight- he felt himself being pulled towards the swirling shards of plum as if some invisible hook grabbed hold of his stomach and yanked.

The GIW agents watched, jaw slackened as what they were sure was human fly by, still tied to the office chair, screaming vulgar swear words. Danny collided headfirst into the portal, feeling the strange spell wash over him like a splash of ice water. The sensation of water didn't disappear as he was dragged through a tunnel of plum light, feeling his lungs scream for air.

As if being dragged underwater, Danny scrambled to make heads and tails of which direction he was going,- which was up? Which way was down? Where was the air!?- until the rushing water sensation spat him back out.

Gasping for air, Danny coughed, trying to get the water sensation out of his lungs even though he was bone dry. He floated a little across the floor, as if he were sliding on a puddle, unable to tug himself free of his bonds.

Since Danny was tied down from his wrists to the office chair armrests and his ankles to the pole holding the chair wheels, he was unable to push himself upright, winding up against a wall on his left side.

The sound of crashing waves eventually disappeared, leaving him groaning in pain on the ground. Black dots danced in front of his eyes, so he shut them, trying to get the nausea to stop swishing in his belly. Danny had never been inside a whirlpool, but he thinks that was a pretty accurate representation of the sensation.

Where in the world was he?

"Who's there?" Someone yelled from a distance away. They sounded young, likely close to Danny's age, and male. He tried to turn his head in that direction but found that doing so made his vertigo far worse.

Not to mention the ache in his lungs.

All he wound up doing was making a pathetic, small whimper of pain.

Danny felt the last bits of his consciousness start to slip away as footsteps grew closer. The echo that accompanied them made him think he was in some kind of underground cave. He swore he also heard the sound of waves, but that might just be the portal's non-water still stuck in his ears.

"Oh!" The voice from earlier gasped, now far closer. "My word. Are you alright!?"

Danny cracked his eyelids a little, looking up into the eyes of a strange-looking ghost. Danny would have almost called him human were it not for the gills he could see on the guy's neck. Though he did note that the stranger's grey eyes looked good with his sharp facial features and blond, white hair.

Danny's eyes felt heavy, causing his gaze to slip down to the bright red shirt the stranger was wearing, and then lock onto the golden, spear-like belt buckle. He slumped against the ground when his neck could no longer hold him up. Distantly, he noticed the gills weren't just a neck accessory. He had fins on the back of his calves and webbed feet.

Was this ghost part fish or something?

"Aqualad to Team, I have found a half-drowned civilian, requesting medical assistance." He heard the Fish-Ghost order before hands were on his body, cutting away at the rope. "You will be alright. Help is on the way."

Danny attempted to answer, but all that came out was a strange wheezed mutter before he passed out.

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This is How To Lose the Time War by Fleabagshair

This is my holy grail Tomione fic I loved doing this project so much. Tom Riddle and Hermione are so delightfully unhinged. I’ve been planning on making this bind I think well over a year. There was some difficult parts with the typeset and the casing but overall I am happy with this bind. I made a paperback as well because I actually read my binds. But it was a fun bind to come back to because of my injured arm.

Letters where a significant part of this typeset and I tried to incorporate that extensively. I used tomoe river paper on this project and when I tell you it lays like no sort grain it’s insane really good flop. So it was so fun.

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Love this so much.

The Lunar Year - Elsin

with kind permission of the author

Full cloth binding with paper onlays

Materials used

case materials covers - grey board (1,5) spine stiffener - cardboard covering material - book cloth, red paper onlays - commercial decorative paper

inner book text block paper - Munken polar, 100gsm endpapers - commercial decorative paper endbands - button hole silk

Format: ~A6 (10,5cm x 14,8cm)

Typeset in Affinity 2 Fonts used title font - Thelorin text font - Alegreya

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Long time no see. I am back again with how to use a corner punch and how to get rounded edges. You’re gonna need a corner punch and some nail files.

When punching out pages only do three or four pages at a time. Because if you do too much, it’ll be more difficult to punch evenly smoothly through the pages. The rounded corners can be used for a paperback as well as just a text block.

When you are done punching all of the pages. Take two different types of nail files one rough and one for smoothing and work your way along the edge of the paper. It might take a while to smooth everything out, but it all look good in the end. If you have any questions, feel free to send me a message or comments on this post.

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Local nerd realizes doing things are hard

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Love this

author copy of heartless I made for @thisliminalspacedaydreams since it took me so long to get our trade bind done 😅

I drew the little Regulus and the kraken and the background on the dust jacket which was a fun challenge

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Oh my goodness thank you. I have actually bound this fic two other times. In a single volume and once in a bible style. I loved this fic for so long. I’m glad I found someone who actually read this. And again thank you ☺️.

Not my best but it’s been a labor of love. By any other name by Deviant Nature . A Kagome/ Kurama fic my

Favorite fic for over 15+ years.

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My goal in life is to spend a large fraction of my free time and money learning as many bookbinding skills as I possibly can, and then using them to make things that are exceptionally silly.

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THE SONG OF THE JADE BOWL written by the imperial brush (Yu bi yu weng ge) in Chinese in the manner of the calligraphy of the Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), engraved and gilded on ten folios of nephrite jade. (China: 1745) Title page.

Chester Beatty Library.

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My most ambitious bookbinding project to date, a gift for author Christopher Buehlman for his incredible book Between Two Fires.

More info and process below the cut!

Since the book is set during the 14th century, I really wanted to do a typeset that included semi-contemporary art as accents. Before even printing the book there was a lot of work to do in the typeset process, including researching the artwork for chapter pages and dropcaps, as well as the title page image, all taken from woodcuts from the 15th-16th century (most of them are from Hans Holbein the Younger). It's not quite the same time period as the story, but I liked the more austere look of old woodcuts to illuminated art from the 1300s.

After typesetting and formatting, it was time to print, fold, and sew!

Then trimming the sawtooth edges with a chisel...

...and gilding the edges, weaving faux double-core endbands, and painting a hidden fore-edge image that reveals itself only when the book is flexed. These were all Firsts for me, and while they are far from perfectly executed, I'm obsessed. Every book is getting gilded edges and fore-edge paintings now.

I really wanted this book to have a leather cover, both because I've been eager to try my first true leather case, and because it felt so fitting for the rough, Medieval vibes of the book itself. Unfortunately, I got influenced by my local leather supplier, who convinced me that dying my own leather was the way to go...

...and she was right 🙈 I love how much control over the color and texture of the finished leather I have this way, and I will definitely be using up this veg-tanned hide that I purchased for future projects.

The symbol on the front (matched on the back) is my own design, and meant to evoke a comet. The detail of the protagonist Thomás witnessing a comet in the sky, and thus standing between the fires of the heavens and earth, was one I wanted to emphasize for the title.

I'm so thoroughly proud of the finished project, hiccups and all, and I'm so eager to make more leatherbound books now. Thank you so much to Christopher Buehlman for his blessing in creating this bind, which is now safely within his possession!

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Rounin Kaoru: Tokyo & Kyoto Arc by Dragonsdaughter (Rurouni Kenshin)(inc)

Bought and Sold by Tevinter of our Discontent (Dragon Age)(inc)

Name a Thing, and You Own a Piece of it by FormerlyIR (Dune)(complete)

This is a trio of fics that were so small and two were incomplete but I wanted to see how thin I could bind a paperback. I wanted to bind in fandoms that I never really see to often. So Kenshin, Dune, and Dragon Age II it is. This was a fun project and I want to do something like this in the future.

Typesets and Covers done by Me

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So, several long long long months ago, I promised a certain fanfic author to bind their fic when they finished it. Now, it's a hefty fic and I've never done book binding before, so it's a little daunting. And with the fic being split with a time-skip, I decided it might be more feasible to put it into two books. Life is hectic and busy but I wanted to share what I have to build this magnificent book, Somewhere, Sometime by IGOM.

I don't like gutting real books for any sort of reason but this needed a hard cover. I thought I'd just go to Walmart and get one of those nice leather looking journals. Simple, but sleek. I could design a jacket to make it fancier. But! I found this.

You can slightly see the texture on this thing. It's so shiny and lovely. And it was just there in my local coffee shop. The pages have this slight pattern that I know won't translate once I print out the fic, but I thought I'd bind it then use some spray paint or something to get something like this. Will have to test before placing in book, of course.

Then the front and back have these nice, solid brown pages and I do love the elastic to keep it together, as well as the ribbon. Those stay. Pretty sure I have to gut them but they will be returned in the finished product. There is also a little envelope, folder piece but I don't know how attached to that part I am.

And for those curious, the little blurb on the back.

I followed the barcode by accident but it brought me to the company that made this and lemme tell you, if this works out, I will be spoiled for options for the second part.

Depending on how the second part goes, I'm thinking either the Wildflower Song, Layla, or Iron Horse. I want the designs to be similar but not identical. (Also, if anyone wanted them, here.)

This is what I've got so far as the current title page. I think it looks decent.

Looking again, this journal does only have 144 pages and my current document for the formatting has the fic at 762 pages. I may need to put it into multiple different books. Maybe this one is just the Jeralt in Almyra arc.

...Yes, I think that would be fun. We'll see how this goes.

Does it look better with the "Part 1" under or over the author name?

And finally, at the moment what the pages look like.

The pink line will have to be changed but I haven't yet figured out what I pushed to make it pink.

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Love all this.

I wasn't satisfied with the gag on Catharsis so I decided maybe I needed more room to work. So I wrote this great book (Maybe you've heard of it?) and carved out room for a box.

My initial thought was to use mirror vinyl to wrap the chipboards but that shit doesn't take a corner at all. So I moved up in price and toxicity to mirrored acrylic sheets. Which of course needed to, itself, be mirrored on its obverse- so the vinyl did reappear. That yielded this.

The cover was very sparse- because, you know, it was about the inset- but the placement needed to be exacting. Thusly, as I was prioritizing the face, the spine and the back got cattywampus.

I also had this worry if I set the endpaper right to the edge of the cutout, it would overly darken the inset. So I cut an interior mirror for the front cover. That was probably silly. And I hate how it looks. But dot dot dot.

Also I bought some foil to maybe do the edges but I liked the garbage streaky look so much, I failed to investigate further. Some day, I suppose.

It's a shame I still didn't get what I wanted, vis á vis the hall-of-mirrors thing, but I was growing increasingly worried I'd need to get into lighting and wiring and dear god, Dear God. I'm not emotionally ready to plug in a book quite yet.

Edit: I just noticed I didn't add a Read More and/or make this a tidy visual experience. That must be tough.

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subscribing to a fic isn’t enough I need the author to blast a bat signal into the night sky whenever they update