This is a multi-fandom blog that sometimes becomes a not-so-multi-fandom blog. Herein there be silly things, history feels in general, and an unhealthy love of puns for which I make no apologies.
Welcome to 1951 is a fantastic series by @prairiedawn, in which the worlds of Star Trek and MASH cross over. Someone on the Renegade Bookbinding Guild discord server recommended the first story, "Meatball Surgery Shouldn't be Green" a few months ago, and the title was enough to make me try it. I devoured the whole series in the course of a few days and immediately knew I wanted to bind it. The character voices are perfect and the plot is gripping.
The book is bound in off-white leather, decorations in acrylic paint, stenciled on. The endpapers I made myself with acrylic paint as well, following a method Roger Green describes over on his bookbinding instagram page.
The edges are sprinkled with yet more acrylic paint, and the endbands are five color silk.
I will say--the process for binding these two books was absolutely cursed. I had sewn, glued, trimmed, and painted the edges of one volume before I realized that a huge chunk of the middle of the book was somehow missing and hadn't printed? I had to start over. And the leather wouldn't pare properly, and my first cover design plan failed miserably because I couldn't do inlays, and then the second design plan ALSO failed miserably because the paint didn't stick properly. It took trying a couple of different techniques (mostly failures) until I eventually got it to work... only to realize I had a spelling mistake on the cover and had to redo it AGAIN.
But in the end, I finally got it to all come together and I'm pretty happy with how these turned. out.
in honour of me clearing out my screenshots in preparation for a brand new season, please enjoy my top 10 23/24 leafs media tweet screenshots that I found in my camera roll and laughed at this morning.
auston and kniesy talking about playing tennis over the summer... auston cracks me up like he's lowkey actually offended and trying to joke w the media but also. he's so unimpressed by them klFJDKSLF the deadpan delivery without anyyy give is so hilarious.
this video has everything, davis wanting to punch someone, kirk admitting he kicks seats, jordan romano calling people psychos, the infamous speaker on the plane