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Angel In the Alleyway

After Gabi left him, Nigel started over in New York and swore off love altogether. It's harder to resist when he meets a beautiful starry-eyed angel outside the club. Problem is, he's got a girl who doesn't seem to get how good she's got it.

12,000 words / 128 pages

By @sourweather

Cover art by @beatricenius

My first Spacedogs bind is complete!! Angel in the Alleyway by Sourweather is so sweet and I loved how tenderly Nigel fit Adam into his life. 😭😭 I knew a few pages in that I needed to bind this into a lil quarto book.

This tiny book is covered in blue book cloth with clay colored details. The character art on the cover is by the incredibly talented @beatricenius and I’m so excited to be able to use it!!

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Commission for @witchyficbindery and @ladyinbooks

Thank you 🙏💖

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Path to Paradise

Dan shivers, can't help himself. Dumb, animal fear, and he wants to bare his throat to it. “What are you – ”

“I promised,” Hess whispers. “I promised. But just this, alright? It'll be like it never happened.” He slides a step nearer, the pressure of his fingers hard and greedy. “It won't matter.”

After the apocalypse doesn't quite happen, Daniel Waters is just trying to return to his nice, quiet life. What he gets instead is a new neighbour. Hess is friendly, charming and working with demons. He's also strangely familiar.

There are gaps in Dan's memory, but that doesn't seem to matter. They say the devil always looks after his own, and apparently?

Well, apparently Dan belongs to the devil.

72,552 words / 348 pages

Original work by @ladyinbooks

Cover art commissioned from @pangolin2b-commissionopen

It is FINALLY time to share my bind of Path to Paradise by @ladyinbooks! This is an original work on AO3 about the man who fought the Beast and his demons at the apocalypse and the gaps in his memory after. This was the first original work I read on AO3 and I NEEDED to bind it! The typeset is inspired by illuminated manuscripts because I wanted to be dramatic and biblical with this antichrist story. The case is covered in brown faux leather with gold foil details. I also tried speckled (sprinkled ?) edges for the first time for the vibes. I’d definitely like to give it another try sometime! The cover art of Dan and Hess was commissioned from the incredible @pangolin2b-commissionopen!

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Decided to give Snape the “Pitch Black” treatment. I approached Pitch in a very blocky painterly fashion, all on one layer, grayscale, then color after. Pitch himself is monochrome anyways so it worked. I decided to approach Severus in a slightly identical manner. Pitch would of had much smoother shading. Didn’t want that for Severus.

Shout if you want the speed paint.

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Servant to all, but not himself. 

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I just wanted to say that ive been a follower of yours on AO3 for quite some time. I fell in love with your works from the first chapters. Now you've probably been asked this a hundred times by now. However, I'm going to ask for myself. Your stories you have binded, are you selling copies? I would love to buy them for a collection.

And as always love your work, please never stop writing.

Omg I only just saw this, but I love this, thank you! My fanfic commissions are currently closed, but they may reopen in the future!

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DOSHU!!! I’d been reading @vdoshu fic long before I’d met Doshu, and meeting Doshu felt like meeting a tomarrymort celebrity! But they’re so very down-to-earth, always willing to offer writing input, and so friendly and kind! (except to their characters, who they put through the wringer with lots and lots of angst!)

Doshu has SO MUCH INCREDIBLE range as a writer — covering every genre from split-your-sides crackfic to bawling-your-eyes-out angst, and everything in between. And the range of ships they cover is also insane! From every flavor of Blackcest, to Drarry and nextgen, and of course, Tomarrymort. (For a taste of Doshu’s non-tomarry pairings, check out @broomsticks's mutuals march post on Doshu, as I’m planning on focusing on their Voldemort-centric recs here!)

Doshu’s AO3 page is a treasure trove of rarepairs and Black family-centric fic that I definitely recommend checking out. Here are 5 Tomarrymort fics that stand out in my mind and will haunt me (in a good way!) forever:

Everything We Dream Can Be Real (harry / tom, 52k, E) – Oh my god, I’m still screaming about this fic more than a year after I’ve first read it. Not your traditional time-travel do-over fic – Harry redoes his life (or is it his life?), but with no magic, and eventually cracks and becomes a serial killer. The non-linear narrative was so skillfully done, and the build-up kind of felt like a casefic, as you're trying to put together all the pieces of the puzzle. Highly recommend if you like serial killer Tomarry fics! (A bonus! Look at this gorgeous bookbinding that @witchyficbindery did for this novel-length fic!)

Three Turns Should Do It (harry / tom, 284k, M) – Harry gets sent back in time and grows up alongside Tom Riddle in the 1940s — but with a twist. Tom is such a darling little bean in this fic (his inner dialogue from his sorting: “I want to be happy. I want to matter.” – Isn’t that gorgeous?) This longfic is sooo extensively researched and written with so much historical accuracy – you can tell the labor of love and hours and hours of research Doshu must have poured into this. A must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand the conditions under which Tom grew up under the spectre of WW2.

No More (harry / voldemort, 34k, T) – I think about this fic all the time as well. Another time travel do-over premise, but one in which Harry decides to make the prudent decision to just say... fuck it. I love fics where Harry decides to fuck off from the war and go his own way and create his own fucking happy ending. (Sorry I’m cursing so much in this post, I just feel really strongly about this!!)

The Other Path (harry / voldemort, 23k, T) – God, I love this set-up – I love fics where Harry goes a little bit insane after the war and seeks out a different path for himself. In this case, he willingly goes to a reality where Voldemort’s won, and this—precisely this—is the excitement both of them have been looking for.

Anniversary (harry / voldemort, 4k, E) – This was a MINDFUCK. Voldemort fucking Harry in the cupboard at Privet Drive as an anniversary gift!! YES, THAT’S RIGHT. So deliciously twisted.

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for an explanation about Mutuals March, check out these posts & the ‘mutuals march’ tag below!

previous mutuals march posts | 1 (Divida) | 2 (Chiocchi) | 3 (Limonium) | 4 (MrMxLemons) | 5 (youknowmevj) | 6 (funky_at_heart) | 7 (papermonkey) | 8 (itsevanffs) | 9 (crowthing) |

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not me being an absolute simp for this dragon boy

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Draco seeing all the Weasleys for the first time at the Quidditch World Cup!

Everybody had a thing for Bill ✨😂

Hey! So long time no see guys :0

Thank you all so much for all of the well wishes 💚💚💚 My Tendonitis is much better and I‘m as good as new :)

I’m trying to get back into the game as soon as possible and post a comic each week again :) but maybe not right away

So I really hope you enjoyed this one ✨😂

Much love and Have a nice week 💚🌻

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A Great and Gruesome Height

In his mind, the fall lasts a small eternity. In reality, it's maybe two seconds. Will and Hannibal go over the cliff, just like they planned.

115,559 words / 462 pages

Fic by @moku-youbi

Cover character art & endpapers by @miasmatik

Dust jacket designed by @bambiispots

Okay, here it is: my favorite bind to date! A Great and Gruesome Height by mokuyoubi wasn’t my first Hannigram fic, but it is my favorite so far, and I knew this book deserved something special! This bind needed drama, so I reached out to a fellow binder to collaborate and was THRILLED that the incredibly talented @/ferns.and.fables on Instagram agreed to design this stunning dust jacket with character art by @miasmatik! The case is covered in maroon book cloth with multi layered HTV details. The endpapers are also by miasmatik and I love how macabre and gorgeous they are! I am really obsessed with how this turned out! It truly is this bright—it’s not just the editing! 🤣

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commission

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My best of 2022 reading bracket is complete! I discovered so many incredible stories this year, but these were my top twelve! (In no particular order besides the winner!)

Ab Extra by @arrisha-ao3 (Snarry)

Everything We Dream Can Be Real by @vdoshu (Tomarry)

Lain Low by @nolikereally (Thorinduil)

we’re on a highway to hell (with a little bit of heaven) by @dabblingwithdaisies (Spideypool)

A Sign of the Morning by @toedenandbackagain (Steddie)

This Thing of Darkness by @maggieandthedragon (Gradence)

In Between Days by @atratum (Snarry)

The Weather Inside by @earlybloomingparentheses (Wolfstar)

Psalm 40:2 by unicornpoe (Destiel)

Far From the Tree by aideomai (Drarry)

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2022 Standouts - Yet Another Rec List

Okay, LISTEN. There was lots of greatness to be had in 2022. This is not my fault. This is all of your faults. This is what you all get for having so much talent and passion for fandom!! Some of us are overly excitable and chatty and can't shut up!!

In fairness, one can never spread too much goodness and positivity. If I talk about the same fics, the same creators, and make new lists every other day, it's all born out of love and appreciation, which the world could use plenty of! And with that said, these are all my own opinions and preferences so please keep that in mind!

So...here we go?? Should I do a Top 22???? That seems fitting.

1.) Post Mortem [fic, Snarry, E, 17k] by @inarticulateimbecile. I'm still dying over how fabulous this is. The characterizations, the dynamic, the descriptions...chef's kiss, truly. This might be one of my new favorites. (Also this Snarry art they did as a runner up, though all of their art just does things to me.) (I really would have thought art would have been their mention on this list, but no, they had to go be a great writer, as well!! Rude of them, really.)

2.) Slipping [fic, Snarry, 11k] by @bluesundaycake are you kidding me???? This is fabulous. Gritty postwar story that is too real with our hero, Harry, not "living up" to his potential, and not having the happily ever after he so deserves with a bittersweet, hopeful ending. Just lovely.

3.) The Lover and the Boytoy [fic, Drucius, Snaco, Draco/Snape/Lucius, E, 10k] by @fleetingdesires. Why the heck are my friends so talented?? This is offensive. And like...I clicked it for the Malfoycest?? And I left with Snucius feels?? What the heck. Just ??? Brain melted, all I can say.

4.) Clip, Ravel, Cleave [fic, Andromeda/Bellatrix, Andromeda/Ted, E, 15k] by @vdoshu. It was hard to narrow it down to one doshu work because wow they've done the dang thing this year!!!! So much great variety, but this one really blew me away. However toxic and dark the sisters' relationship was, I was rooting for them and heartbroken for them. What a beautiful, dark, sad story.

5.) Wind and Cardamom [podfic, Angelina/Hermione, G, 5 minutes] by JocundaSykes (fic by Arsenic). All of Joc's podfics are truly so, so good. Her voice work is always amazing and I easily can (and have!) listened to her read all day. Nothing like having a good fic read to you while doing chores, let me tell you!

6.) Lover's Flight [poem, Snarry, T, 200] by PinaNaponi (@vulnerasanenturmyprince.) My dear Nina is another case of "stupidly talented friends" and "hard to narrow down", but since I've waxed poetic about some of her other works recently, and in other lists, I figured I'd shed some light on this lovely thing. It's an adaptation of Goethe's "Elf King."

7.) Compulsory Figures [fic, Snarry, 6] by @liladiurne. Listen, my lovely Lila has arguably "better" works, and more "literary" works, but...her smut speaks to me, okay? I read this and was like "Ooooh, Lila can be FILTHY." I'm obsessed with it. Even back when it was just an idea and she was brainstorming it, I was obsessed. In fact, I was grocery shopping with my partner and being useless because I couldn't stay away from our DMs talking about said idea! Then she actually wrote and posted the dang thing and !!!! Obsessed.

8.) Some morning cuddles and coffee [art, Linny] by @luendland. Lu's snarry art is great, but they also do other ships (and characters) too and equally as lovely!! This Linny one speaks to my heart. It's so warm and lovely and gives me all the feels. I do digging for it to fawn over fairly often!

9.) Alphard's Favourite [fic, Sirius/Peter, Sirius/Alphard, M, 4k] by @thistlecatfics. Another top tier fic from Blackcest Fest! Not a ship I ever had interest in but oh gosh. The complicated characterization of Peter, the screwy interactions between him and Sirius, the way Sirius acts out as a way of dealing with trauma. It's such difficult subject matter treated in such a realistic manner. Not "good", not "easy", not "romantic", just that gritty, awful realness of how trauma impacts us, and how we don't always handle it in perfect, ideal ways.

10.) Untitled Harrymort Art [art, Harrymort] by @mrviran. I have no words. This isn't even my ship. But good golly is this spicy hot!! The corset! The sweat! Voldemort's smug, amused, mischievous little grin! Those red eyes and the red string!!!! Wooooo boy.

11.) Death and the Snarry [art, Snarry] by @necromanticnoir. This is another case of "I expected one thing from this creator, but my top choice for them is another??" Great writer is Noir, but also artist???? Multi-talented folk are killing me, I stg. And like...I need more Snarry versions of Klimt works, truly. So gorgeous!

12.) even the stars admire you [art, Snarry] by @acydpop. Speaking of Snarry versions of Klimt, THIS GORGEOUS THING. I'm so obsessed. Look at those colors!! Look at that embrace!!! Oh geez, I'm having feelings.

13.) Tom Riddle: interview with @phantomato [podcast] by @fanficmaverickpodcast. ChaosBlue is a great host and listening to writer interviews is always such a treat! And hearing what Phantomato had to say here was super fascinating, and made me much more intrigued by the Tom Riddle/Voldemort character!

14.) Snape's Hungry for a Snaco...[podcast, Snaco] by @careofmagicalshippers. Every episode of this podcast is great. Megs and Nathan are charismatic, hilarious, passionate hosts and listening to them chat is always such a fun time. Even guest episodes, even when Megs or Nathan is out, they have such interesting people to talk to and such interesting ships to talk about. This Snaco episode in particular spoke to me! (Especially since they went into it intending to cover Snack, but moved onto Snaco fairly quickly...I don't blame them!)

15.) When the Rose and the Fire Are One [ficbinding, Snarry] by @witchyficbindery. The fic by perverse_idyll is just stunning, as all of her works are! I believe earlier this year I was chatting about how I'd love to have fics on my shelf and what I imagined they might look like. And I thought "this fic would have to be STUNNING, just visually stunning." And midway through this year, I saw this post about an actual ficbinding of this fic! And...I was correct. And completely blown away. This cover is more gorgeous than I could have imagined. All of witchyficbindery's bindings are so, so outstanding. I can't imagine how they do it! But this one is the clear standout to me.

16.) 22 femslash recs from 22 years [rec list] by @consistentsquash. Squash always has the best recs, I stg!! Writer crushes I've had, but reccer crushes?? Such good taste, and always such good things to say. And this list especially is great with lots of gems for wlw content!

17.) Traid/Threesome recs [rec list] by @sitp-recs. Liv is a Queen Reccer, truly! This one is especially nice with options for Drarry+ ships, and non-Drarry ships, and a few bonus moresome fics! Lots of good stuff on this list, and more for me to check out! (RIP my TBR, fr.)

18.) The Bravest Man [fan-comic, Snarry, T] by @ac1d6urn. Acid is such a very skilled creator, both as a writer and an artist! The story, the characterizations, the art...all so stunning and perfect!

19.) Snitches and Songs [fic, Snarry, E, 50k] by @lizzy0305. When I tell you how PUMPED I was to see when this story was posted. Lizzy fic? Check. Severus sings? Color me intrigued. 'Magical tattoos'? Sign me UP. Then...I spent ages waiting to read it because I'm weird and like to "save" things that I know are going to be good. And I was right to save it! (Also: I should have read it sooner!) (Please don't expect my brain to do logic, because it will not.) What a gorgeous and enjoyable love story this was! My plan is to give this one a reread soon, actually; with luck, in January! (And I'll have the time and energy to do so!)

20.) A Life Worth Remembering [Snarco, E, 22k] by @writcraft. When Writ first reached out to me, I had to be like "okay, self, be cool. Don't fangirl and scare them off, okay?" Turns out, Writ is a lovely human and hearing they were coming back to Snarry had me just plain ecstatic!! And while Snarco isn't always my jam, I did know how invested they were in writing it, and couldn't resist checking it out! And I'm so glad I did!! One, because Writ's work is always fantastic. Two, because...I was sold on Snarco???? Maybe???? Or as close as I get to being sold. Geez Louise. It's such an interesting tale of de-aged Snape, the memories he lost, the established Drarry, and how they all come together. Their dynamic as a triad, and the individual pairs that make it up (Drarry, Snarry, and Snaco), and the individual people are all so lovely and well done!!

21.) Obedience Lessons [Snarry, E, 7k] by @likelightinglass. Um, how many times have I read this story this year? Too many, probably. (Is there such a thing as too many? Who knows.) ANYWAY. A/B/O with Alpha Harry and Omega Snape???? Yes please and thank you. All the kink and spiciness that I love. 100% did it for me (multiple times.)

22.) The Afterlight [Snarry, E, WIP] by @perverse-idyll. Good golly. Can I tell you how overjoyed I was when PI first posted this???? New PI Snarry???? All of my hopes and dreams coming true, awesome. And it's only 4 chapters in (out of ????) and so far, so GREAT. Postwar, death themes, gritty realism, A+++ characterizations, dark and spicy Snarry dynamic!!!! I don't often read WIPs (my patience is nonexistent, and not knowing how things end is bad for my anxiety (let's please not talk about my undying love and need of spoilers)), but this is totally worth it. I'll wait forever and a day for this fic if I have to. PI has been among my favorite authors for YEARS and for good reason. Characterization and relationships always so on point and exactly what I want and need. Not to mention gorgeous, stunning, unforgettable prose. The words that strike right through the heart, and burrow in to live there forever. Genuinely, PI's work is always stellar, and I already feel in my bones this will be a favorite. It's already the WIP I most look forward to update emails for! (Not that I have many, in fairness.) (Again, I generally steer clear of WIPs; no offense WIP writers. It's for my own good, I swear!) Side note: PI is another excellent human who I so appreciate knowing. Thanks for always taking time to listen to my babbling, especially knowing how busy you always are!

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Announcement Incoming 🎉

Very excited (and super proud) to announce my collab with @mrviran​ on a new snarry story I have been working on for a while now! I can’t say much about it yet, but it’s going to be a 100K long Snape/Harry thriller, with a Harry/Voldemort friendship of sorts on the side (it’s fucked up, don’t ask). I will begin posting on AO3 on the 4th of January, 2023 :)

For those who don’t already know Viran, they are an incredibly talented artist, and you should definitely check out their work! I literally can’t wait to show you the absolutely breathtaking illustrations they have been working on for my story.

Here is a small teaser from Chapter 2, and the story cover @mrviran​ has prepared: 

Harry handed Voldemort his wand and watched mesmerised as the skeletal fingers curled around the handle with impressive steadiness. Just for a moment, he imagined cold wind fluttering into the room, and thought he could hear a note of unearthly music filling his eardrums. Voldemort pushed the wand’s tip against Harry’s throat. Such moments came rarely and left Harry breathless with inexpressible dread and disturbing delight. Anticipation; eagerness to see whether it’d work. 

“Crucio,” Voldemort whispered. 

Disappointment washed over the both of them. Anger flashed in Voldemort’s eyes, and Harry laughed. “One would’ve started with Lumos or something.”

“Crucio,” Voldemort hissed again, the tip of the wand painfully prodding against Harry’s Adam’s apple. 

And every single time, when realisation hit, it came with grief unlike any other; it crashed on them with a flash of compassion, and the unbearable understanding that their pain was shared. It was the sort of discovery that could leave one heartbroken, even on the most wonderful and brilliant days. 

They missed magic. They both did. 

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I recently picked up bookbinding as a hobby and absolutely adore learning about it, and I happened to stumble across your blog today and I couldn't not drop in to say that your work is so gorgeous <3

I could spend literally all day just scrolling through your blog, it's so lovely.

Thank you so much!! 😭😭

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Hi there, not sure if this is okay to ask, but are you selling any of the beautifully bound fanfiction you are showing on your feed?

I open commissions (non-profit) occasionally and always post details on Instagram!