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Hello hello I am new to the bookbinding world of fic (as in, I’ve never bound a book or considered it, I just started seeing gorgeous bindings on tumblr) and I’m wondering: what are the ethics & rules around binding fics? What about paying artists to bind fics for you?

hey there! thank u for your question, but i’m not like an Authority on the ethics of bookbinding hahaha. I’ll answer to my opinion, though!

i think the most generally accepted guidelines would be:

when possible, ask the authors permission - to bind it or to post the typeset (for free). to this point i would add that it’s becoming kind of a general practice among fic writers to have a statement abt their stance in their bio on ao3 - i would check that first, but if they don’t i generally leave comments on the most recent/last chapter asking for permission, or if they have their tumblr listed i contact them here!

this is a hobby/craft, first and foremost. you’ll find a lot of the community discussing less the content of the book and more the skill/time/effort of actually making a book. i love it and it’s very worthwhile, but it is expensive and time consuming with not too many avenues for turning a profit

and as for profit: selling bound fanfiction jeopardizes the ff community as a whole. the police aren’t gonna knock your door down, but it is gonna scare writers into pulling their work lest they get served a lawsuit for copyright infringement. if you find someone who is open to being commissioned to bind a fic, that’s fine in my opinion. if an author reaches out and wants to pay you to bind their fic, i also see no problem with that. gifting is actually a large part of this community - a lot of binders, if they have the resources, will gift a bound copy to the author. the issue becomes when you sell like many copies of fanfiction on a public website like etsy, as we’ve seen with manacled - that is actually reportable bc of copyright, and can get the seller as well as a non consenting author in legal trouble.

so yeah those are my thoughts! there’s a lot more nuance going on in the community but i fear there are much better articulated videos and posts about it on here and on tiktok.

i hope you do take up bookbinding bc it is the most rewarding craft i’ve tried so far (and i hope you have better luck with cutting straight lines than i do LMAO), but you’ll be fine if you accidentally cross some invisible ethical line. no one is mad about accidents - it’s really only the malicious people who know it’s wrong and continue to do it anyway that everyone is mad at.

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seeing people fight over mc ships is sort of funny to us cuz we just headcanon all of the mcs as polyamorous. makoto's rizzed up all the sees boys, kotone has like five girlfriends she picked up by being autistic, yu is dating like half the investigation team, royal trio ftw. persona more like polysona-

I LOVE POLY HEADCANONS thank u for this anon

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kenji tomochika shouldve been a romance option for minato

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Tower Arcana

Temperance Arcana

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miku igor

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THEM

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Confession #591

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Guys, I just...really need to see Doctor Oobleck content. I miss seeing him. I miss my man. This tall, hyper, speedy, geeky history nerd has such a special place in my heart.

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Fandom: RWBY

Character: Ozpin

Sample Size: 841 stories

Source: AO3

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Is there a chance you can make a Grimm Arkos?

Grrrrrrr!

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two in harmony

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Glynda Goodwitch being Jaune’s Aunt has got to be the funniest headcanon ever. Imagine knowing your nephew damn well did not get trained at all by his parents, and suddenly he’s being accepted into Beacon and just launched at the Grimm. Like you’re watching him bumble around and somehow failboy his way into getting the feelings of Pyrrha-Fucking-Nikos, terrified that he’s gonna trip and die because you know for a fact he did not have aura before initiation. And any time you try and bring these concerns up to your boss he just smirks and drinks his coffee.

Actual maximum stress for her, ESPECIALLY when Ozpin picked Pyrrha to be the Fall Maiden. Glynda had to have been panicking because she would have to explain this to him.

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Oliver Wood seems like he'd put the container of salt (like the tube containers that contain a triple digit gram amount of salt that you buy in the store) in the fridge instead of a "cool dry place" the instructions on the container say to do when he's tired. The Weasley Twins seem like the people would do it on purpose as part of a prank

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Me, yesterday: Oh, people joke about how much RWBY spin off content there is but there can't be that much

Me, now: The jokes weren't really that wrong because there is so much supplemental stuff

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penny my beloved <33