#second binds

[shalottpress]

The Pack Survives by @astolat.

My second bind had to be this Robb Stark centric masterpiece that has lived rent free in my brain since December 2023. I wanted to get this finished before the year anniversary hit in December.

I love this bind and she is my beloved second born but holy hell I’m glad she is done.

In all honesty, this bind was cursed from the off. Everything that could have gone wrong with this bind went wrong. I had to resew the signatures because wood oil, I made my design slightly too big so adding it to the cover was wonky and I melted parts of the black vinyl adding my silver vinyl to the book cloth to name but a few mistakes. I didn’t dare try to trim her edges, lord knows where I would have ended up.

All that said I’m still proud of her and wanted to share. Done is better than perfect and I hope I look back in a year and see how far I have truly come.

The Pack Survives can be read for free on AO3.

[harriertail]

Warrior Cats: Shadows of the Sky, Book One Cover (unreleased)

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

another post for @bttfjanaury! this one's @itsthemorph's mermarty au and very predictably i got carried away with it LMAO.

yap session and bonus stuff below the cut:

once again i came up with an entire backstory for this au, and if i were a fanfiction writer i would genuinely consider writing it since it's a lot less visually comedic than the weredoc au (and comedic in general, it's played a little straighter than "man turns into dog and is thoroughly inconvenienced by it") (unfortunate [in reference to visuals] bc i enjoy drawing mermarty a great deal more than weredoc GBJKGJ) bc i really like the premise but i'm pretty bad at fleshing out a narrative in enough detail to last the whole story so bullet points it is:

doc has decided to take a break from his time-travel-related research and go on vacation! the fresh coastal air might jostle a couple ideas into place, and while he is a nuclear physicist and not a marine biologist he wouldn't mind checking out some of the local aquatic life

and by local aquatic life he meant like normal fish and stuff. a nice mollusk or two even. so when he ends up fishing an entire boy out of the water instead he's understandably very shocked

before doc can move past the "where did he come from??" thought to register his more fish-like qualities, the boy makes a run (a swim?) for it. fortunately or unfortunately for doc, he ends up being able to register the fish-like qualities after all since he gets dragged into the water along with him. the moment doesn't last too long, though, and the fish-boy is gone as soon as doc realizes the guy has a fish tail instead of legs

doc gets back on the dock (haha), thinks about the whole ordeal for a bit, and decides that the best course of action is just to assume he hallucinated the whole thing in a fit of heatstroke or something like that. he's here to relax and get his thoughts in order so he can continue working on his time machine! there's no time to investigate fairy-tale creatures or whatever supposedly living off the coast of california!

it's not shown in the comic but i imagine doc has a little portable radio next to him as he was fishing, so some time passes before he catches a glimpse of something shining in the water underneath the dock

he looks through the cracks in the dock and lo and behold, it's the same boy from earlier! doc greets him, and the boy immediately disappears under the water. doc thinks he's scared him off until a few minutes later where he pokes his head out and says hi back

they get to chatting and doc learns a couple things:

1. his name is marty!

2. he was trying to get doc to realize that he forgot to put bait on his hook but got his hand caught on it, and was trying to get his hand unstuck from the hook without ripping it open before doc ever had the chance to see him, which he obviously failed at

3. both the being seen and ripping his hand open, because in his haste to get away after being seen by doc he ended up doing that anyways. so there's like a lot of blood coming out of his hand now? but like don't worry about it. it'll be fine. he thinks.

4. he really likes whatever it is that's playing on the radio

doc insists on patching up his hand and initially marty refuses but lets him do it eventually, and marty tells doc that for a land dweller he's actually surprisingly nice. doc says nah anyone would want to help out someone hurt, especially if they're the one's who caused it. and marty's kind of confused by that because his family's always warned him of how dangerous humans are, which he kind of never thought too hard about until now where his time off this particular coast has really proven them correct, because he's encountered a bunch of humans over the past couple weeks and they've all tried to kill him or catch him. doc's the only one who's actually bothered to say hi!

after learning that particular not-at-all-concerning tidbit, doc asks him to elaborate because there's a lot to unpack over there, but someone else walks onto the dock before marty can get a word in and he takes off

marty does not return, even once the other guy leaves, and when doc packs it up to return to the place he rented out for the vacation he overhears a conversation among a group of men about spotting something weird in the water earlier and that it kind of looked like a mermaid? and that if any of them manage to catch it they'll all be rich as thieves. and another guy in the convo goes no you're thinking of rich as kings, you're mixing it up with a different analogy. and the first guy goes no i'm not i said what i said

so now this vacation is doing anything but clearing doc's mind. he's really worried about that little fish guy

there's a couple more ideas i had but halfway through writing out this bullet list i've realized that if i were to actually write this as a fanfiction, i'd probably want to keep those a surprise. so what i just wrote out is kind of the equivalent of one chapter

edit after thinking about it a bit more: since most humans have been trying to kill him, marty really has no incentive to let a guy know that he's wasting his time fishing with a baitless hook. so a. he's still pretty optimistic that most humans aren't out to get him, even if his experience off this particular coast says otherwise, so he was trying to be nice anyway or b. (which i think is a lot funnier) he has started to pull on people's lines as a way to fuck with them. i think if i wrote this i'd change it to this one

i based mermarty off of a guppy fish! specifically this kind of guppy fish:

i was searching up kinds of fish and he just had the vibe of this thing. although now i think i should've made him a flying fish instead. for the pun

alternate ending to the mini comic:

the other one makes a little more sense since just approaching a guy whose species doesn't know about your existence unprompted is pretty stupid even for marty (and also i thought it was funny that the hook didn't have anything but doc ends up catching something anyways) but i still think this one's funny too

[nonbinary-octopus]

sometimes I forget that other people have object permanence about me

like, I'm in a bookbinding discord with a pets channel, and every now and then someone will respond to me talking about my cats, with information I had mentioned some time prior. I talked about progress they're making towards being able to coexist peacefully, and someone comments it's been a while huh? and I'm like, you remember how long it's been? like yes, but you remembered that? I told them October comes when he's called, and someone responded "Another point for the 'October was raised by dogs' column" and I'm like, you remembered I said that theory?

and it's just. wild, sometimes. you remember me, the things I've said, things I've done. I left a mark behind me. wow

[avisbindery]

My biggest joy this holiday season was delivering these binds to @languagelessonswolfstar 🎄

Language Lessons

Second Generation

It's A Nice Day for a Wolfstar Wedding

To All a Good Night

I'll Be Home for Christmas

Alex, please don't ever stop writing! 💖

I could not rec these fics more. Everyone go read everything by MsAlexWP! Including her current WIP (Dear Mr. Black)

Art by evix.art and @gottabewolfstar 🫶🏻

[kiwim7]

alan ross watching the ocean from the lyric and such

heres the ref i used for the main pic

[raindropren]

session 7 was so fun!! also oh my stars, they gave her wings!! Yiippee!!!!!

Hermes-core fr fr

the women ever.

this is my first drawing of pearl in awhile and the first on my new tablet and wowie i'm inlove with how I drew her,, eee :3 I'm proud of this!!! :D

she's so silllyyy :]

[54625]

Still not over fit stuttering "d-do-do you wanna hug...?" To pac yesterday. Btw. Still thinkin about it

[gravelsong]

What the fuck.

[adrianaafz]

[Even when the life leaves your bones, your soul will follow me]

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

i tried to play into tumblr's automatic video looping but you can also watch it on youtube with subtitles for the dialogue, it's not that important, it's more about the idea of the loop than the experience

[lemonsrosesandlavender]

I don't think it's been asked before, but... thoughts on Rolan and somnophilia? Whether he's on the receiving or giving end, however you prefer

Oh YES. Thank you for asking, I love somno!

I think he likes it most receiving; to me, he’s a bit of a pillow prince at heart. Being fucked so thoroughly he can’t even think; being utterly “ravished” so it’s not his fault he was submissive or being distracted from whatever important thing he was supposed to do that day; nothing will make him cry out and moan louder than this. So waking up to his partner already using him, and he “can’t do anything about it”? He loves it.

(under the cut for more …specific… thoughts)

Maybe they fucked his hole before bed and it’s still a little relaxed and easy to slide their cock or strap into when they decide they want a second round…. maybe they wake up in the morning and just can’t resist riding his lovely hard cock, shoving their hand over his mouth as he wakes up with a start and his eyes widen. (They roll back into his head after that). Maybe Tav with a clit “suggests” he sleeps face down… so that they can climb on top and grind on his tail ridges whenever they want. And when Rolan wakes up, face shoved roughly down in the pillow and Tav groaning in satisfaction as they use him… well, I don’t think it takes long for him to be coming all over the sheets.

(That latter one has me in a chokehold. I love the idea of a big tav like Steel Weave Tav pinning him down with their weight and muscles, and Rolan so desperately trying to rut his hips into the bed at his pace, but there’s nothing he can do against their might. Poor thing, he’s just got to hope that Tav taking their fill rubs his cock enough against the sheets that he comes too… but luckily he’s such a slut for being woken up like this that it doesn’t take much).

Tav can further torture Rolan by refusing to let him clean up after waking him. No, he can go back to sleep with his cum splashed across his stomach like the filthy little whore he is. They want him to take a good look at himself in the mirror when he wakes up - at which point he’ll blush, scowl, and immediately beg to get fucked again.

[archersartcorner]

Quick doodle, sorry I haven’t posted in a bit! I’ve been lazing about. Anyway, trans? Butch? Undercover? Some mixture of the three? Idk but I need mister Saavik’s gender…

[daveyfvckingjacobs]

back at my uni flat which means. everything is finally together

[merverelli]

dec 2023 - jan 2019 - sept 2017

its a redraw of a redraw!

(psst: here's a speedpaint if you're interested! https://youtu.be/9nn73oxU7eg)

[these-crafts-will-fix-me]

Book binding

People who book bind - where did you get your supplies? I'm starting from scratch. My local Michael's doesn't have anything, and I'm not sure what Joann's will have since they are closing.