#the sandman text post

[dailydreamling]

The Sandman + textposts

[valiantstarlights]

[hauntedbythenarrative]

[bruciemilf]

Miles needs his own Sinister Six and I NEED them to be so goddam silly. Half of them are like "I'm not fighting a child are you insane" and the others are "finally, an excuse to punch a teenager"

Specifically:

Adrian, on 10 Monster energy drinks: Hey, your web shooters aren't as fast as last week, everything okay?

Miles: no, I stayed up all night and couldn't figure out what's wrong with them :(

Adrian: alright, let's take a look. Your design is so good!

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Felicia: Hey Junior, wanna annoy Peter B as much as humanly possible?

Miles: Y E S

Felicia: good kid

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Miles: Did you just. Apologize for existing

Harry: I'm sorry I try not to do it

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Spot: You're so petty, honestly. I'm trying to change

Miles: YOU TRIED TO DESINTEGRATE MY UNIVERSE??

Spot: That was 2 hours ago

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Miles: You know I'm 15, right? You punched a 15 year old. A child. As a father.

Flint: Don't.

Miles: Ow. My minor bones are broken. My child self is hurting. I got sand in my teenager baby eyes.

Flint: [sigh]

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Miles:

Kraven, with the creepiest golden eyes: You're Amazing :) The Best Spider-Man :) Fine Trophy, Indeed :)

Miles: MIGUEL. MIGUEEEEEEEL-

[ambiently-80s-gay]

sandman text posts ft my mates unhinged reminder

sorry @academicblorbo for stealing your schtick but it was far too tempting >:)

[kulapti]

Aug 2023, bookbinding of The Silent Isle Imbowers by Tharkuun.

I’m sooo so so pleased to finally share this! I have been actively working on this for many months and waited until Tharkuun received her copy before posting so the final result would be a surprise.

-----------About this bookbinding under the cut

This binding has been one of the more elaborate pieces I have attempted so far. This has been my first binding where I (1) made three copies of a piece at once, (2) used a modified a historical illustration, (3) collaborated directly with another artist on the decorative elements, (4) finished matching art for the cover and title page, and (5) layered paint and heat-transfer vinyl for the covers. These are also (6) the first non-tiny books I have made with this style of hinge and cover attachment.

Pretty much immediately after I first read this story I felt I had to make myself a copy of this. I had a strong mental image of a vintage-looking cover for a fairy tale, with a deceptively simple design of flowers on the cover, probably with fancy metallic accents, the kind of thing you’d find in an interesting used bookstore with no summary, no text on the back, no dust jacket, just the flowers and maybe a title. I’m going to make a separate post about making this cover design a reality because oh man has it been a journey lol! I designed and drew the digital art for the cover (digital because of the cut and application method), as well as the corresponding title page illustration (pencil and dip pen, scanned, title added digitally).

When I asked Tharkuun about it she was excited to suggest I get in touch with quillingwords, who generously agreed to collaborate with me! Among her talents quilling writes calligraphy, and hand wrote both the book title and chapter headers for me to incorporate into my plans. Check OUT those chapter headers! So fancy! A font could never!! Quilling has also been very encouraging and let me yell about this project in dms for months so the final result could be a surprise for Tharkuun. Thank u so much quillingwords, your calligraphy adds invaluable amounts of swag to this project.

I was going to do some kinda neat font for the chapter headers, but quilling’s work is too cool for that and I decided to use a modified piece of a historical illustration instead. The illustration also happens to be cool as heck: I was browsing the Artstor database (an academic quality resource available for free via Jstor, my beloved) and found E. N. Neureuther's 1836 gorgeous etching for etching of the fairy tale Briar Rose, an illustration made for a printing of a Brothers Grimm recorded German fairy tale with Sleeping Beauty elements. Much to my delight this illustration not only matches the general look I wanted but is actually relevant to the story, itself a Sleeping Beauty spinoff.

Slightly less stylistically consistent are the endpapers, which are prints of two different paintings by Arnold Böcklin: Isle of the Dead (1883) in the front and Isle of Life (1888). The first painting had occurred to me as an excellent visual to go with the story, and Tharkuun and I discussed this and agreed that pairing it with the related later, more optimistic piece was too thematically appropriate to resist.

I had fun and learned a lot making these books and I am very pleased with the result!!

Materials: Archival bookboard, cardstock, cotton cheesecloth mull, archival PVA glue, linen thread coated in beeswax, paper cord, red cotton embroidery floss. Blue cotton backed with archival paper, acrylic paint, machine cut black and gold heat-transfer vinyl. Laser printed text and illustrations. Metallic scrapbooking paper.

[honeyteacakes]

The Sandman + Text Posts (feat. Morpheus)

[theoryofwhatnow]

the sandman text post

[notallsandmen]

[deliriiuumm]

poor dream

[dailydreamling]

The Sandman + textposts

[valiantstarlights]

1489 Hob to his colleagues at the printing business, before going to the White Horse Tavern for his first centennial date:

[pragmaticjedi]

Has this been done yet?

Inspired by https://www.tumblr.com/wanderingwriter87/701241191659929600/a-collaboration-with-ectogeo-rebubbles

[no-te-lo-voy-a-dar]

some Hob Gadling with posts that made me think heavily of him (here's a Dream one i made earlier)

[honeyteacakes]

The Sandman + Text Posts (feat. Desire)

[theoryofwhatnow]

sandman text post #3