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this is the one. the most popular fic in the harry potter fandom. the fic that got me into fanfiction. the fic that i sobbed to for months after reading it.

i tried to bind this three separate times over the last two years and bro the first two sucked ASS. it was legit the very first fic i tried to typeset which is like, not the greatest thing to start off with LMAO. it looked funky, i hadn’t fixed any of the spacing, my footers didn’t match the text font or size. it was very much a baby binding.

the second one was my first time using a cricut and there is a very steep learning curve w the cricut, especially in creating designs that aren’t too complex or too plain. i tried to copy one of the popular printable book jackets and omg i spent weeks modifying my designs and printing and reprinting on my cricut and it looked like trash when i was done.

so finally, we have come to this.

i got really into quartos during the winter and was like omg the editing process for this would be so much more manageable if i broke it down into years! so then i did lol. it allowed me to customize each chapter into sections so i could add the chapter title to the footers, and break down graphics into separate years so i didn’t have 100 pages in one canva file. it was just a lot easier to feel accomplished having broken it down bc this fic is a MONSTER.

every chapter heading is the same - just the swirl. i gilded all the chapter titles using toner reactive foil and my laminator (she broke in the middle of this project. i ended up having to buy another laminator, and about 3 packs of foil from icraft. this is my most expensive fic binding to date🫠). i included the songs ms.kingbean put at the top of every chapter, and the bootleg tapes and christmas special.

i am seriously so proud of how this turned out, and can’t believe it’s actually done. sorry this is super long, but this really was a labor of love. they’re not perfect, i’m still really bad at measuring and cutting straight lines, but i’m satisfied. really satisfied.

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latest bind!! Scent of the Moon by QuietLemonHush: wolfstar and jegulily, wolf packs and instincts, soooo much black family drama. absolutely LOVE!

this bind was pretty fun! i didn’t go too hard on the chapter headings, but i was really excited about the lewk of it. the peel and stick velvet is honestly the best part bc it takes like 2 seconds to wrap my case and it is so fucking satisfying. and this specific brand of htv (gatichetta) peels like a dream AND looks so beautiful. so yeah i’m pretty happy with this bind!!

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omg it looks SO GOOD!!!! i’m so glad it all worked out!!!

The meaning of mistletoe by Endrina, first volume of The secret language of plants. @llendrinall I have read this charming story several times. The voice of the narration, with its fairy tale reminiscence, is something I really like. Endrina is a great author, it is worth reading their novel length fics.

Typeset by Lindsey P. For those inexperienced in fandom, this story can be read for free at AO3.

What I like:

It's quite a simple binding, but something in it remind me of the old editions of my childhood. Reading it give me a special kind of joy, it's both, the comfort of this story and the childhood-like feeling this tome brings me while holding it

What I could do better:

I had problems with the guillotining of the edges, but went ahead [I had already lost a lot of material with a failed first printing]. I couldn't say what happened, but - for me - that mistake gives a Je ne sais quoi to the edition that I love. I don't know why, but when I was a child, back in the 70's, I had many books with the same feeling. The paper was a bit thicker than usual, and the edges weren't perfectly cut. I didn't realize, until I sat down to read this edition, that this binding conjures up memories of my childhood.

Special thanks: During the process, I had a severe case of printer hiccups (Or binder's brain hiccups, to be more precise) but @getfuckedblr hold my hand and helped me.

@llendrinall 

[If I learned to bind, you can do it too. It's not that difficult... ok a little at first, but it is doable. Don't buy fic binds, ok? It spoils fandom's fun]

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i’ve been working on this since january. i’m both so fucking glad it’s done and also a little bit disappointed with it. i made my own book cloth and you can see where the heat n bond has seeped through the cloth bc it go too hot, the small spines i really should have thought of while making the typesets, and should’ve upped the font size to make it larger. i think i was so focused on finishing it that i maybe got a little lost in the details u know?

but anyway! i wanted to try my hand at the inspired by clothbound classics covers, and i’m pretty satisfied with how that came out! it was a lot of fun to decorate these with their charms on the bookmarks (my fav is the little tiny perfume on teenage wasteland. like how cute!! and tiny!!) and to try not to get too caught up in reading when i was editing.

i love all of these stories so much and i’m so excited to have made them all into physical books!

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if you’re buying bound fanfiction, it’s malicious. no one is entitled to owning a bound copy of their favorite fic.

the list of authors pulling their work from ao3 is only getting larger by the day. and it is a direct result of buying bound fanfics. buying bound fanfiction opens up authors, who did not consent to the selling of their works, and are not seeing any of the profit, to being sued.

there are so many free resources available to learn how to bind, there is an actual option on ao3 itself to download a fic as a pdf, there are free typeset drives and blogs dedicated to learning about bookbinding, so many warnings all over ao3 and fics themselves about how we’re toeing the line on copyright laws. how fucking despicable to see that line and just jump right over it.

capitalism assumes that everything we do has to have profit, has to create money, create monetary gain. you can just enjoy things. you really can. you can get into bookbinding and simply enjoy having the books. you can gift your books to people who will appreciate them. you don’t have to make a profit on things you didn’t even write.

if you’ve gone all the way to learning how to bind books, you can’t play dumb and pretend you don’t know the legalities of selling fanworks. i hope you’re happy with what you’ve created.

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latest bind!! if we were lovers by @reggieblk

i read this over christmas and was OBSESSED like was sneaking off to read it during family time obsessed. she came in at like 700 pages and i had to physically wedge her into my guillotine for trimming, but i’m so proud of her!! the covers didn’t come out perfect (but then they never do LMAO) but i’m pretty satisfied!!

bound in peel and stick green flocking, gilded with bronze toner foil and gold htv for the cover!

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i sat with this for a couple of days, because i don’t think we disagree. i think maybe i wasn’t specific enough in my original post, and maybe your post also made me think a little harder about the line i was trying to find.

but what i came to is you’re absolutely right that there’s nothing wrong with self promo. it’s inherently human to want validation, and to want to join a community, and to try reaching out to that community via self promo. i think what rubbed me the wrong way was the way in which specific people on tiktok were marketing their stories.

it’s almost a feeling of being tricked? the way that they’re doing it. at the end of the day we all love fics, we love ao3, we want to support authors and give new fics a chance. i have no issue with authors who make it clear it’s self promo: in the comments, the video itself, the caption. i think the problem comes in when it’s unclear that it’s the author posting it bc they frame it as “look at this fic i found that’s so awesome!”. it creates the expectation that this person is nuetral in a way, or not invested in the success of the fic, a la booktok rec pages; kinda like when you catch influencers stirring up their own reddit forums anonymously.

it’s almost like taking the tools of The Man and firing it back on your own community, when most of us would’ve supported without the trickery? u know? i think this is especially insidious bc of the age we’re in where people feel less than ever like people and more like commodities, and eyeballs to be tricked into watching ads. it’s like we’re creating a capitalist system within our communist regime bc we’re so programmed to only do something if we can be successful/profitable at it.

idk maybe i lost the plot with that last one but this is all to say i agree with gore, and i hope my original post didn’t upset anyone. fandom is always changing, and idk if this is less of a problem or bc tiktok knows i don’t like to see it, but i haven’t really seen this in a while. so maybe this is moot, but i still enjoyed thinking about it!

i think the intersection of fanfiction and tik tok is so interesting. you’ll get a tok that has a screenshot of a page of fanfic, only to find out it’s the actual literal author posting it trying to get people to read it. adding on the discussion of famous ppl in fandom, it feels a little weird to see self promo like this? do u know what i mean?

like fanfic is about writing bc you want to, for whatever reason. but it feels in the wake of miss king bean and zar, it’s starting to feel like ppl are searching out notoriety? i think what makes fandom such a cool place is that it’s anonymous. like idk who this person is but i know they write beautifully, and they’re in school for a medical degree, and they have shit going on in their life but they’re trying to post semi regularly. u know? it’s about the people in it, not the being known of it.

and i haven’t personally written any fanfiction, but i don’t think it’s about how many hits or how many kudos you get. u know? it’s like who doesn’t want validation that way right? but that’s not really what ao3 is about. it’s a way to show appreciation sure, but it’s not a popularity contest. idk maybe i’m overstepping here but it feels like new writers want to be popular overnight, and we’re in one of the largest fandoms on ao3. that’s just not possible.

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your bindings are insane! dripping fingers and the secret language of plants series are my favourite fics of all time so seeing them in physical form made me lowkey emotional ngl

ahhhh thank u so much!!! it makes me emotional that it makes u emotional omg!!! but yes i think that’s exactly why this hobby is so rewarding it’s like this thing that i am so deeply connected to is in my hands bc i made it. i sewed her up and glued her together and tried to make her pretty and now she exists! physically exists! sorry that got weird but thank u for your comment!! it really means a lot:)

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Paradise Kiss by Ai Yazawa

20th Anniversary Edition

A gift for a friend. I’ve not read this manga at all, so don’t @ me 😆.

I did layer a couple of sheets of cardstock frames to create the “well” for the cover label to sit in. The cover was printed on adhesive vinyl. Designed in canva.

The spine was foiled by hand with a foil quill (heat pen).

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little tiny baby book!!! bound in peel and stick velvet wallpaper and silver htv:)

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experimenting w a quarto!! it’s so tiny and baby i’m obsessed!! and i think it might solve the problem of what to do with short fics which is also super exciting. ever since i saw ladybobbit’s video about quartos i’ve been itching to try it and today i had time:)

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she’s here! one of the absolute best severitus fics - namesake necklace by @wiceba !!! i’ve printed this out like three different times and ended up either messing up the end papers, or the cover design (cheap htv is generally awesome until it melts bc it’s cheap and my iron is too hot). but yeah i’m calling this done!

none of my binds are perfect bc i can’t seem to cut in a straight line (?) which is actually like a lot harder than it should be??? but again this is for me to have my favorite fics on my bookshelf, not to sell so i’m satisfied!

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Songs of Love & Death

♥️☠️🗡️

Edited by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois

Features stories by Neil Gaiman, Jim Butcher, Jacqueline Carey, Diana Gabaldon, Majorie M. Liu, Carrie Vaughn, and many more.

This is the finished look of my latest rebind!

📚📖

Process videos:

PART 1

PART 2

Original Cover designs:

HERE

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My completed bind of HEX by maidenmothercrone! This one gave me a little bit of an ass kicking bc I just had to gild every chapter heading, which ended up being like 200 chapters in all. But I’m so glad I stuck it out!!! This is one of m favorite timeline mash up’s ever and the way the author handles all of the plot lines is legit beautiful

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here’s my guide to making typesets! I use Word to make my typesets, Canva for designs, and Adobe to insert the majority of my designs.

this is a ton of info and I tried to make it as readable as possible, but plz let me know if u need any clarification!

Word: always use the app, the online program doesn't have all of the options needed

paper size: US Letter Borderless

then i flip it landscape, do custom borders, and select book fold. I do 1 inch on top and bottom, .75 in inside, and .5 in outside. i leave the gutter option alone and leave it set to 0. You can choose how large you want your signatures to be (sheets in booklet option on the margins page): I normally do 40 page signatures, but if it's a smaller text you'll want to go smaller for stability. after that, you should have a half page to start your typeset!

Inserting your fic:

the next thing you’ll do is insert your fic; on ao3 click entire story, CTRL A to select all, CTRL C to copy it all. Paste it into your document. word automatically detects the headings, and you should be able to see all your chapters on the left side bar (if you can’t see it, click the page numbers on the bottom left to open the tab).

Formatting:

you can do the next few steps in any order, but we’re going to fix the formatting now. you’ll want to CTRL A everything, pick a font and a font size. I normally use georgia and size 10, going smaller or larger depending on the file size.

To have an indent on every line: CTRL A your work to select all, right click the “normal” style, on the home tab. go to the bottom left, open the drop-down menu, and select “paragraph”. next to special, hit first line. i like to do .3, you can do whatever you want. i then like to make sure the space after is set to 0, the line spacing to single, and then hit save. it should automatically adjust your lines to start at whatever indent you picked.

To fix the spacing: go into the layout tab, and go to spacing. There'll be a before and after option: write in 0, then click enter for both of them. Word is a little bit bitchy so you have to force it do things sometimes. after this you can choose if you want single spacing, or 1.5, or whatever you want.

*sometimes, the way the fic was formatted when posted to ao3 means that even after setting the line spacing to zero, there will still be a space in between each line. this is where you have to troubleshoot. you can either go line by line to delete the excess space (yes, for real. and yes, it's just as awful as it sounds) or, sometimes, not every-time but sometimes, you can highlight the chapter text, go into the home tab on top, click the A with the purple eraser to erase all formatting, and then do all the beginning steps again, and it will get rid of the extra space.*

Now that your format is mostly fixed, delete the archive of our own beta, and anything else you don't want. I normally delete everything up to the title of the work, and leave that for creating my copyright page. Remember to do the same for the end of the work!

Page Breaks and Section Breaks:

the next part is the most crucial. it's how we format both the chapters, but also how we format the headings and footer. this was the part that took me the longest to figure out: it's the page breaks and section breaks. page breaks mark the place where one page ends, and another begins. section breaks will create a new section in your document, so you can break the beginning few pages from the rest of your textblock. This will allow you to insert page numbers that start on page one, instead of at the first page of the document.

I like to go the end of the description, and then click on the first chapter. then I'll add a section break. you can find this in the layout tab, click breaks, and then click section break. so now our section 2 starts with chapter one. After this, add a blank page after the description and before your new section, and then click on the first chapter. (adding a blank page allows for smoother formatting later with headers and footers)

I then go to each chapter, delete the authors notes at the start and end of each chapter, and add a page break at the start of each chapter. i like to use the heading tab on the left to click each chapter, so I know I'm actually starting the new page right where I need to, and other formatting won't delete the page break.

when I create a compilation fic, where I have muitlple fics in one typeset, I use section breaks at the starts of each new fic. this will allow the page numbers to continue, but I can then edit each sectio to change the fic title and the authors name. if you're really fancy, you can do this for each chapter title as well, you would just hve to use a section break for each chapter instead of page break. *Remember to click link to previous to turn it off, so you are only editing that section, and not all the other sections. this can be found in the heading and footer tab on the top, which will automatically open when you click on the heading or footer.*

Adding page numbers, authors name, text name:

To add a page number, I click the footer, which automatically opens the header/footer tab on top. Then, I click page numbers, add page numbers. I turn on different odd and even pages, which is also found in the header/footer tab. you'll have to insert page numbers on both an even and odd age to get them to show up once you click that option. Page one should be an odd page, page two should be an even page. I like to put the page numbers on the outside of the page. Then you'll click format page numbers, click "start at" instead of "continue from previous section", and write in 1. now your typeset starts at 1 on chapter one instead of the start of your document! you'll need to go back and delete the numbers that showed up on the first section, but remember to deselect link to previous before you do that! or you'll end up deleting your page numbers again.

to add text on page numbers:

click into the header/footer again. double click directly on the page number, then start typing. You ca highlight the whole thing to change the font, font seize, etc. I normally do the same size as my text, and I'll either do georgia font or garamond font. I google "copy paste line for text" to get that line dividing the page number from whatever text I have next to it.

to add graphics on an entire work:

you can go into the header or footer, go to the insert tab, and insert a picture. Doing it in the header or footer will ensure it's on every single page that shares that header or footer. I have done this in the past, and find it's cute, but it's also tricky because it needs to be small enough to fit inside the header or footer, and won't really be able to interact with the text because it's different on each page, while the graphic will stay in the same position regardless.

Blank Pages:

you want blank pages at the start and end of your textblock: this is what you'll be glueing your end papers to. even more, you'll want to ensure your total page number is both divisible by 4 (each page of paper will have four pages of your text on it, two to each side) and fits into your signature count. If you're working with a 40 page signature, and you have 420 pages, that's fine. You'll end up having the last signature only be 5 regular pages instead of 10, which is plenty enough to sew. you really just want to try and avoid only having one of two pages in that last signature, as that won't be very strong in holding up your end page, or be very stable in sewing on to your book block.

to make sure they're blank, with no page numbers, you'll want to insert a section break on the last page of text. Deselect link to previous, delete the page numbers and you should be all good!

Printing/Saving:

I'm on a mac. I don't know how you would do this on anything but a mac. let that be a warning lmao. but I will CTRL A everything, ensure it's US Letter Borderless, and then hit print. if you don't tell the document it's the right size, it'll be funky when you go to print because of the margins. to insert images, i click save as pdf. it'll save it in the correct order to print for your signatures, and then I upload it into adobe to edit further. that'll have to be a different post bc this is entirely too long already.

If you want to print directly from here, ensure it's printing the right size, flip on short edge, double sided. and you're all done!

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my completed bind of the secret language of plants!

this was one of the hardest fics i’ve bound yet; the small spines really worried me, and didn’t come out perfect, but i’m pretty happy with it! i made mistakes with the wording on the spines, and the guillotine is still very hard to use LMAO so all of the book blocks are different sizes. but i just make sure the cases are the same size bc good enough is good enough u know?

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welcome to my revamped fanfic drive! i haven’t printed out all of them yet, so no promises that there aren’t any mistakes i haven’t caught yet. but yeah happy binding!

*just as a note, these are pdf’s that are saved in signature order. so all you have to do is print it out (flip on short edge) and then count out the signatures (or, find the center of the signature. it will have two pages numerically next to each other. ie 12 and 13 on the left and right would be the center, and everything else folds out from it). most of them are 40 page signatures, but a few are smaller.

included fics:

namesake necklace by @wiceba

secret language of plants by @llendrinall

a big black sky by alexmeg

dripping fingers by May_May_o_o

HEX series by MaidenMotherCrone (pics of this finished bind coming soon)

scaredy cat by gallaplacidia

teenage wasteland by gallaplacidia

adventures of a suicidal gentleman by gallaplacidia

entire gallaplacidia drarry collection (quarto size)

The Foxhole Court Extras (all of the extra content from Nora’s ask)

Onyx series by Lomonaaeren (quarto)

All the young dudes by ms.kingbean89

i’ll update the list as i add more fics:)