#sigh no more

[good-night-my-sweet-prince]

hear me out

william shakespeare invented political lesbianism with "sigh no more" from much ado about nothing

yes i CAN elaborate

[queerestqueertoeverqueer]

GO WHITE BOY GO

[bookholichany]

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.

Men were deceivers ever,

One foot in sea, and one on shore,

To one thing constant never.

Then sigh not so, but let them go,

And be you blithe and bonny,

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no more

Of dumps so dull and heavy.

The fraud of men was ever so

Since summer first was leafy.

Then sigh not so, but let them go,

And be you blithe and bonny,

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into hey, nonny, nonny.

- William Shakespeare

[hamletthedane]

I just realized that Shakespeare’s Sigh No More can be sung to the tune of “What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor?” and I can’t decide if that would ruin Much Ado or make it even better.

[khruschevshoe]

I construct my music tastes out of YouTube lyrics videos recommendations, the soundtracks of TV shows, musicals my friends rec, and whatever fanfic series I just recently read. Needless to say, my recently listened to is a strange mash up of Mumford & Sons, The Killers, Legally Blonde: the Musical, and Lil Nas X

[lilaccatholic]

The way that the Sigh No More album has more depth in its exploration of faith and spirituality than any praise and worship album I've heard in the past decade

[finalfrontierpublishing]

Been holding onto some books - simple designs mostly, as my goal has been to get my backlog of textblocks from binderary completed.

Some new things were done - I made my first quarto and first cut-out. I bound Sigh No More by @dhampir72 - which was an exercise in persistence (and frustration).

Statistics:

20,231 words || 84 pages

Body text: Liberation Serif, 9 point

Accents: Lemon Milk

I was inspired by the themes of the fic - about loneliness and welcome homes and the setting of the fic partly taking place in planes and airports, and wanted to make a cutout reminiscent of a plane window. the fic ends on such a bittersweet, pensive note that i tried to emulate that in the bind.

However, i was stymied so many times by the frigging cutout- the bind was so cursed because i tore the cut out so many times. i don't have a colour printer and was forced to make two trips to do my printing on a colour printer. i used handmade (and by that, i mean by me) marbled paper that I made in a marbling class as my endpapers. they don't necessarily match, but i love the non-pareil pattern and i so badly wanted to use it.

I also used french double core endbands - matching the insert's colours - had some good fun with it - though i have been very rusty and don't quite remember the steps for endbands. I also used some lovely duo elster supplied by @pleasantboatpress when we did a bind trade, we also traded bookcloth and resources and i love this colour of duo!

My other bind, a bind i did post binderary before i took a long break was the traceability series by @blackidyll.

Statistics:

73,221 words || 223 pages

Body text: Georgia, 10.5 point

Accents: Alien League II

I had some issues with over-pressing hence the distortion of some of the finer lines of the cover. i had been playing with heat-reactive HTV over the font title (inspired by @nodeadfandoms who used heat-reactive HTV in their binds in such a cool way), but unfortunately the silver and grey doesn't have much contrast when i run my finger along the HTV.

Made with Japanese bookcloth - blue from hollanders, this bookcloth is quite a favourite of mine though it's really backed so thinly with paper.

For my last book bound during Binderary - I bound Quriosity by @drgrlfriend.

Statistics:

93,121 words || 345 pages

Body text: Georgia, 11 point

Accents: Sigana Condensed

As mentioned I kinda fumbled the HTV as I decided to use a different brand of HTV (Cricut Foil vs Siser), which had some issues adhering. It's definitely not perfect, but I had some fun with the original Bond design on the cover and using lines as a theme for the design aspects of the fic. I've also discovered my near unhealthy obsession with tall vertical looking fonts - i am not sorry.

I used purple silk moire cloth, which has a lovely sheen, though i think that colibri will always hold my heart.

I still have 9 more text blocks to go - am working towards trying out some marbled edges or foil edges in the future - have two flatbacks ready for some experimental 'fuck around and find out' treatment.

Life has been a little ridiculous recently, so it's likely my binding for the next couple of months will proceed at a glacial and erratic pace - a good deal of apologies to the people i've promised author copies, it might take a while.

[martyr0l0gy]

'Love, it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free.'

-'Sigh No More', Mumford and Sons

[uncertain-cucumber]

[poprocklyrics]

I really fucked it up this time didn't I, my dear?

Little Lion Man, Mumford & Sons

[athenashaw]

Sigh no more: Benedick edit from Much ado about nothing

Pls enjoy!

Sorry about any weird glitches or anything -its my first edit and I had to grapple with YouTube to upload. Feedback much appreciated!

[the-pen-pot]

For the WIP game, I would love to hear about Sigh No More (Merlin)! :) Or anything that you wished someone asked for haha!

*Gasps* Sigh No More, my beloved. Normally, I don't lean into intense AUs, but this fic is basically a fantasy mash up of Merlin and the Age of Sail. It's probably partly inspired by some Robin Hobb books I read decades ago and remember very little about except talking fingerheads? Maybe? I went feral on world-building (I love world-building) and I want more of this fic SO BAD but don't have as much time to write it as I would like.

Summary: Prince Arthur Pendragon, Captain of the Llamrei, would far rather spend his days patrolling Camelot's Waters than assume his place on the throne. Yet when he finds the wreckage of a vast ship and one lone survivor on board, nothing can prepare him for the path his life will lead.

Nor the demands his heart will make.

You can actually find all of chapter one here on tumblr at https://www.tumblr.com/the-pen-pot/728815629419888640/

and here's a lil' snippet of chapter two 😁

For the first time, the weight of the captain's eyes scoured his skin, assessing. 'So, some fool gave the order to flee in a Stables ship. Ealdor is not large. You must have been undermanned. Even if the whole population were on board and strong enough to work, it wouldn't have been enough to manage her.' 'There were no orders! There was no choice!' He did not say his magic had helped set and fill those massive sails. Funny, how the people who had reviled him on land suddenly looked the other way when their lives were at stake. Not that it had done them any good. 'I could not have captained such a ship, and I've been trained to sail since birth!' 'And how long have you been training to be a prat?' The words bolted free of him, and Merlin practically felt every man within earshot freeze. The bronze-haired companion didn't seem to know how to react, and Lancelot had snatched in a quiet sip of air. Over by the rail, a man with wavy brown hair that brushed his shoulders was staring at Merlin with wide eyes, his lips spreading in a slow grin of delight that he did not bother to hide. The captain's hand slipped off the wheel as he turned to face Merlin fully, looking at him as if he couldn't believe what he had just heard. He wore the expression of someone who had never been insulted in his whole life, and a scoff caught in his throat. 'You can't speak to me like that!' Merlin rolled his eyes. 'Sorry. How long have you been training to be a prat, My Lord?' A choked laugh, hastily stifled, came from the grinning man. He looked like he was trying to stuff his whole fist in his mouth to stop himself from guffawing. At least someone was finding this whole disaster funny. The captain's bootsteps echoed on the deck as he approached Merlin, pinning him beneath the weight of eyes that matched the vault of the sky above their heads. The bronze-haired man took the wheel, keeping their course steady while also keeping one eye on the scene unfolding before him. Not that Merlin paid him much mind. He could protest all he wanted, but the captain had a presence. He was also younger than Merlin had first assumed. A year or two older than him, maybe, his face weathered by the elements, but handsome all the same. He stopped in front of Merlin, close enough that he could smell the faint tang of healthy, sun-warmed sweat over the brine in the air. Without thinking, Merlin straightened out of his habitual slouch, noting with some satisfaction that he was half an inch taller than the captain, and he did not have the advantage of boots. He looked like just the kind of man that would find that small fact endlessly aggravating, and Merlin could not bring himself to be sorry about it. 'Do you see that?' The captain pointed up, beyond the pregnant swell of the sails to the flags flying high at the top of the mast. Camelot's dragon was a splash of gold on an obnoxious crimson background, yet it was what fluttered in the breeze at the very peak of the flagpole that told its own story. 'Do you know what it means?' He wished he didn't. The Oriflamme was the twin-pointed, crimson banner of the royal houses. It was only flown in the presence of royalty. This man was of Camelot and too young to be Uther, which left only one possibility. The captain was none other than Prince Arthur Pendragon, heir to the throne.

[cha-mij]

Sigh no More - Tennant and Tate - Much Ado About Nothing

[claire-drinks-lovely-lemonade]

It is absolutely wild that Mumford & Sons wrote the entire 'Sigh No More' album about BBC's 'Merlin'

[wormwoodandhoney]

happy 2 year anniversary, sigh no more! 

told through text messages, social media posts, and blog articles, sigh no more is a modern day retelling of shakespeare's much ado about nothing. when two local california bands are chosen to go on tour with a rock superstar, love stories and music become intwined. a queer, musical rom com.

start from the beginning. 

[noneofusareverno]

LMAOOO It’s almost 2024. When am I gonna stop letting these first two Mumford & Sons albums fuck me up??????