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Tumblr's Top 50 Musicals - #1

1. Les Misérables

723 points, 100 mentions

SURVEY - STATS

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Lidded boxes for endband silk

Stapled boxes with lid, middle dividers and movable sliders

Materials used construction main body of the boxes - grey board 1,5mm divider - grey boar 2,4mm base - grey board 3mm lid - grey board 2,4mm and 3mm

cover materials box body - book cloth (pigeon grey) paper onlays and box insides - tairei with fibre inclusions (black with gold and black with silver) base - elephant hide paper (black)

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Hey guys, sign my guestbook. // Please do not repost nor remove captions.

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This is an extremely local news piece, but I thought it was interesting enough to share on Tumblr anyway.

There's a village called Kvidinge in the south of Sweden. Probably the most notable thing to happen there was that in 1810, crown prince Carl August fell off his horse there and died, from unknown reasons, possibly a stroke. In 1826, a monument was raised in his honour.

It looked like this:

Until last week, when it was struck by lightning. Now it looks like this:

In conclusion:

Lightning is pretty powerful.

Having a large pillar on an open field was maybe not the best idea.

I'm really grateful for the invention of lightning rods.

(Pictures from Wikipedia.)

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I Dreamed a Dream won the last round, it was a very close one those time though (compared to other pairings at least)

Next up we have two Javert songs: Confrontation vs. Stars!

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THE OLD GUARD 2 Character Posters

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Party Favours by @howlsmovinglibrary

"You want to go down this road?" asked Shadowheart. "At least do it well. If you need a fake date who’s pretty, charming, and distracting for both yourself and others? Who won’t take it too seriously, but also won’t fuck it up by being embarrassed the entire time? You don’t ask me. You ask Astarion.” A year after their adventuring party officially disbanded to enjoy their fame and immense wealth to the full, tiefling wizard Rosalie (reluctantly) asks Astarion for some help with a large, fake-date, ex-girlfriend sized problem.

Now this... this is a bind that got away from me somewhat. The typeset is one of @besidekick's lovely typesets made for the 2024 Renegade Exchange. I had read Party Favours a while ago and loved it (such a fun Astarion/Tav dynamic, funny as hell, deeply tender, and I'm weak for a fake dating trope), so I immediately squirreled the typeset away for future use. Turned out that the future was about two weeks later when I attended the Renegade Binderary workshop on cover cutouts and thought, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool to design a cover for Party Favors that incorporates the astrological elements of Rose's divination spell and a window cutout." Which was a good thought, actually, because this bind turned out incredibly well.

About the Bind

This particular bind is a legal quarto, printed on cream 20/50 lb long grain paper. It was also my second try at chisel trimming a text block, an attempt that mostly went off without a hitch.

Endpapers are a lovely chiyogami. Front and back covers each feature a window cutout to reveal some delightful foiled scrapbook paper that I scavenged from one of those weird collage pages that appear in every scrapbook pad for some reason.

The cover was my first attempt at foiling a full cover design. That was... a battle. But we eventually got foil onto the bookcloth. Now, did it take me three tries? Perhaps. But we... we don't need to talk about that part.

This was also my first in-boards three-piece bradel construction. (Lot of firsts on this bind.) Somewhat more involved than previous casebound binds, but it was so satisfying to assemble.

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Wangxian A/B/O Bingo by @youhideastar

This was a bind for my @bishopmyrielfundraiser auction item. It's a gorgeous series of every dynamic pairing for the ship, and delves into things I've never seen A/B/O fic touch on.

My first inset on a cover, and I'm obsessed. It looks so fancy and clean. The Untamed has really rich visuals to draw from, I had a lot of fun coming up with the design of this book and figuring out how to execute it.

Some details

All the decorative paper is chiyogami from Mulberry Papers

Bookcloth is silk moire from Hollanders and was inspired by Wei Wuxian's costume.

Each fic has a title page, decorated with a different public-domain painting by a Chinese artist held at the Met.

The title page, and matching spine title, was my time using a foiling tool on my Silhouette machine, and I love the finish it gives.

Thanks to Deastar for bidding on my auction item!

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guys you can see the cute little lower back dimples… oh my fucking god……

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hem the edges of the pants by 创意手工坊

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“nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”

damn you must suck at cooking. check out some youtube tutorials man. i believe in you.

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Scandinavians when outdoor string lights were invented

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Three couples, 1910s, Sweden.