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#fanfiction

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I had to cut the pages at a printing shop because without a hydraulic guillotine, neatly cutting so much paper is just not possible. I've tried many methods but ended up with just uneven and ragged pages.

For binding, i chose the "perfect binding" technique with a softcover. It seems to be the easiest and least labour intensive. Binding the pages was actually easier than i thought.

I've designed the cover around a stunning artwork by Suzuka Youraku. Here is her pixiv page: pixiv.net/en/users/53055517
Full cover can be accessed here: drive.proton.me/urls/4ZWBW7ZHH

In the end, I'm happy with the result. It cost me very little. In total the 400 pages book came at around maybe 5€ to make :blob_rave:

(part 4 of my bookbinding project)

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Before printing the book, I had to learn how to format text and design the pages. I opted for printing four pages per A4 sheet, which was not all that easy when printing about 400 pages which then need to be flipped and printed over again.

I'm using Scribus for the layouts. It's clunky and annoying but it's opensource and free. I've included the source file here: drive.proton.me/urls/4DQVGYRVY if anyone wants to try and print this book by themselves :blob_nom_cookie:

(part 3 of my bookbinding project)

If I wrote a fix-it (1) #fanfiction for every dramatic, jealousy-ridden story about an unhappy love triangle which isn't working because of mononormativity (2) ... I would need another lifetime, because there would be too many. 🤔

Footnotes:
(1) fix-it fanfiction: A fanfiction in which a problem gets addressed and fixed which isn't resolved in the original story.

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I have ideas again for a #fanfiction, for #Dracula by Bram Stoker, but make it queer and with #polyamory. 😊 As you can imagine, I am not the first who came up with that idea. There are over 200 fanfics about Dracula with more or less polyamory, on AO3, some including his brides, others pairing up most of the male characters, including Arthur Holmwood and Dr. Seward.
Writing such a fanfic would give me an excuse to return to one of my favourite historical eras, the late Victorian.
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Book crafting has been living in head non stop ever since i've read my first fanfiction novel. I just had to have certain works on my bookshelf and so i did :blob_rave: This project began with scoring a second-hand inkjet printer for just 8€. The Epson stylus SX235W is old but it still works just fine. I have working ink cartridges for it too, so it is just a matter of refilling them with ink and resetting the chips, and i saw many offers on local marketplace where people sell old ink cartridges for pennies so the whole operation should be inexpensive at worse

(part 1 of my bookbinding project)

Wenn man auf deine deutschsprachige Fanfictions, über eine japanische Metalband, einen russischen Kommentar bekommt, dann ist das irgendwie anders wild :D

Schade dass ich dieses "Spam oder Bot" Gefühl einfach nicht mehr abschütteln kann, obwohl sich nur zur FF geäußert wurde. Man sieht "ah, russischer Kommentar" und geht sofort vom schlimmsten aus.

Ist bislang aber der einzige Review auf die Story.