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One more book for the evening! This one. Okay. It’s not a fic. It’s a book. It’s not a GOOD book. But it is authentic erotic rpf dating from the year of our lord, 1861. Ish.

Folks, welcome to The Amorous Intrigues And Adventures Of Aaron Burr

It really isn’t good. But I won’t lie, I’m probably going to make it again. It cracks me up just to have this, and I have an acquaintance who suggested binding it in an authentic 1800s style, and? Yes??? This stupid thing delights me, I want twenty

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Okay! I need to start posting pictures from this last month at some point, so let’s start with an easy grouping: a pile of works by @cacodaemonia! When my friend was (actively and deliberately) dragging me down deeper and deeper into the star wars pit, okay, so just imagine her hiding around the corner as I amble along, just minding my own business, her holding the reconstruction corps verse like a baseball bat, lying in wait

It worked!! Oh boy did it work. Will You Walk With Me dragged me in hard, Open Skies sunk its hooks into me, and I was an easy target when Cartography started dropping (and then I was deep enough to start looking up what happens to these characters in canon dgfhjg (we don’t talk about canon))

So! Here we’ve got the RCAU as it was like two and a half weeks ago, so it’s definitely a snapshot of a living verse, but it’s such a shame to hold off binding an au that’s in motion because you’re waiting for it to Conclude. The marbled fabrics with dots are for one shots (WYWYM in orange, Cartography in green), and the peacock marbling is for anthologies (RCAU in pink, Open Skies in blue). The other marbled fabric is a surprise, and the muted, faceted-looking fabric is for Fading Light and Cooling Space, since that wrapped up just as I was formatting these other books. I’ve still got a lot of posts to catch up on, but this was a set that I had been planning on as a project for the month, and it was SO delightful to see that vision realized :D

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I’ve been pretty quiet lately! That was because I was in a race against time having fun seeing if I could meet an arbitrary challenge testing my bookbinding speedrunning abilities. In like, December, I made a remark about how it would be neat to challenge myself to like, NaNo, but for crafts, a month where I tried to see if i could average more than a book a day. Then some of the mad lads at @renegadepublishing ran with my offhand remark and made a whole fun community event out of it! The presentation on hidden fore edge paintings was part of this, and other presenters gsve fascinsting talks od their own as well. And also they named the book-a-day tier after me, so i was honor-bound to complete it sffhfjnf

So! This is the very tail end of binderary for me, and I’ve come in at a beautifully round 30 books for the month. Collecting text, typesetting, everything, it all happened in February. More pictures will be forthcoming, I just need to look through my camera roll and see if they’re all usable, group by author/theme, etc. Spread them out a little, probably. Get a group shot with everything (except the necklace book, alas, that’s already been given away). The month culminated with me making cases for 17 books yesterday and casing them all in, so I am VERY tired right now and need to stagger to bed, but I am really, really proud of myself right now

And additionally! As I was basking, I went back into my tumblr to check on when this hobby entered my life, and surprise surprise, this marks the exact one year anniversary of my first tagged bookbinding post. I’ve come a WAYS, and I absolutely love it! My tracking spreadsheet is out of date, and I think I last updated it on the laptop that just died, lmao, but this puts me somewhere slightly north of 130 books in the last year. Guys, I’m really, really proud of myself right now :D

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rereading my own no-SGRUB fanfiction and feeling clown church emotions in this arbys tonight