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The Dreamwalker by Hydre

When I first stumbled on this fic, I knew I found something I wanted to bind. And after 3 months of work, it's finally finished!

At 135,787 words, The Dreamwalker by Hydre (@leva-prava) would be the second-longest fic I'll bind. But it's so worth it! The fic is soooooo good! Tommyinnit getting transported to our world? While asleep? And meets alternate versions of his friends and enemies? And gets cared for by an alternate Dream? Who genuinely cares? Where have you been all my life.

After my last time binding something this massive, I've since learned a few new techniques that would further stabilize the book and enhance it, like endbands! And ribbon bookmarks!

From the start, I wanted this fic to have a distinct visual feel: Home and house. Solid-minimal headers. Distinct-yet-unobtrusive page numbers. Distinct section breaks to visualize how drastic things can change.

The house was particularly important. The fic has heavy themes of home and belonging and I wanted a silhouette of a house that could convey that. But after weeks and weeks of trawling through the internet to find AI images of houses, I manned up and drew my own from scratch (with the exception of the tree as a stock image from elsewhere). It now dots every page and every chapter!

Cracks indicate sudden scene shifts, black with white line indicate a peaceful transition, and a black line shows a scene break within the same day, setting, or action that is relatively minor in importance.

I also packed in so many subtle details into the text such as different fonts for political campaigns, back-lighted words to convey terrible memories, comm chat, text messages, even darkened pages for dream sequences.

The fic writer also made drawings of some parts of The Dreamwalker and so I tried my best to lighten them up and add them into the pages at their relevant plot spots! Some of them were a bit of a challenge - you'll notice the double-page confrontation of Wilbur and Tommy is less-cleaned up, because I couldn't find a way to brighten them without losing the pencil work. Dammit!

And lastly, I added the chapter notes as footnotes in almost every chapter in a way to save the meta-text, which were important in their own way as they explain the author's thoughts, motivations, and directions for the characters within the fic.

All in all, this entire bookbinding took 3 months and many days from beginning to end. I worked this intermittently with other projects as to not be burnt out, and I think I have delivered a bind that does some justice to this fic. Go read it! And full thanks to Hydre / @leva-prava for such an amazing fic!

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sprinkling in watcher Pearl :3 set at the start of hc8 prev

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Much needed rest

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something about coming back to life

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THIS IS MY BABY GIRL!!! does she have a name? I love her dearly <333

Her name is Catalina!!

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hear me out cake but instead of ppl i want to fuck it’s songs that kind of fit The Character if you squint and tilt your head just right and have a beautiful mind

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doodle

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What's your favorite drawing you've done so far :D

-random question anon, but this time i actually pressed the anonymous button

Aghh I can’t really choose between my digital works, but I do have a favorite traditional drawing,

(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ᕤ

(I love the hand and the gun and I’m not sure how I did it or what possessed me)

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Caught up in the rain, using Cait’s cloak for cover

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sigh. i miss the permit office

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happy pride month ❤️❤️ have some scarian doodles from midnight strangers by SeriouslyCalamitous.... again... sorry i really cant help it.

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they make me sick /pos

revived me from the dead they did

Based on the latest chapter of Midnight Strangers by @seriouslycalamitous !

guys read it it's really good

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could u perchance do some more midnight strangers fanart I just eat it up so much when u post them!! also his new chapter was JDJDJDJ much appreciated:D

oh man, totally!! i actually just finished fanart the moment i got this notif LMAOO

grian in red scrubs below

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Midnight Strangers redraw!

It was a very fun request to do even if a long one. Love this scene, so funny.

Midnight Strangers by @seriouslycalamitous

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i imagined smth like this is in the bathroom while i thought abt jizzie in MS.

obviously joel hasn't made an actual cameo of him talking yet in the fic but i imagine grian watching the news with the bamboozlers on a thursday evening, watching furioso (joel) fighting a strong opponent and putting the new found information from scar that furioso is a brawler and loves improptu fighting, cutting to a scene where furioso is at his best, fighting the villains with his incredible skills and dodging every attack and going batshit insane, and in the midst of it furioso just fucking laughs maniacally, ultimately giving grian the shivers.

'this guy would be terrifying if he chose to be a villain' grian thought. then he turns over to eclipse (lizzie) and saw her pupils dilating, heart swooning like a scene in a damn kdrama where the mc just knows she fell in love further and further by seeing his brash nature. then the interviewers rounded up around furioso when he was done fighting and arrested the villains, he simply insults the people, calling them "stupid idiots" for not reporting sooner and puts on this persona of an 'egotistical snarky antihero' man (just imagine his online personality on youtube, im doing a terrible job describing it) his energy is just as intense as his battles before, it's like he barely broke a sweat, he talked about how he loved fighting those people and was looking for another challenge next time where he could quote "bash their heads off". and grian looks over to eclipse again and said "you have a crush on a man that's bordering on the verge of mania" and the rest of the bamboozlers (except eclipse) just busted out laughing at his sudden comment.

ANYWAYS I LOVE YOUR FICS !!! I READ ALL 5 ONGOING CHAPTERS IN ONE SITTING 😀😀😀 i have a new hyperfixation and i LOVE the way you write stories! keep it up!! ^^

Awwww that is a cute idea <33 i’m glad you’re liking it so far!!!

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Doodles from the fic midnight strangers by calamitous on a03!!!

Just read the 5th ch its so gooooddd

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I adore SOTM clean o vac so much,,,