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Time to share some of my results from Binderary, the month-long challenge from the Renegade Publishing fanbinding collective. (It's like NaNoWriMo! For bookmaking!)

This was a great opportunity for some nostalgia revisiting a fandom. Freedom’s Just Another Word (For Nothing Left to Lose) will be familiar to some people around these parts still, I'm sure, and is a Stargate: Atlantis canon-divergent future fic where Rodney comes back to earth alone, and is about grief, regret, and coming to terms. I love the nuance of the world in this fic, the depth to Rodney's character, and the profound effect his time in Atlantis and the related trauma has had on him

Blobby little flower on the spine is to cover a paint smudge. Endpapers are scavenged from Barb’s gel plate printing experiments, and the cover and spine are stenciled on with acrylic paint. Cover pattern is on cotton cloth sent through the printer and is left over from another project.

The gate symbol text dividers read “hope.”

I did the typeset for this one as part of the @renegadepublishing 2022 exchange, and made two versions for my recipient, @rhipidurafan. This little quarto (quarter of a letter-size sheet of paper) is the full text of the story, and a full half-letter version includes a second copy with Synedochic’s DVD commentary version. (So many text boxes… so many…) You can see a screencap of that below here.

True fact: I dropped it on the floor right after taking pictures, and now I need to glue it back into the case on one side. I cut the cloth the wrong way when making the case, and the pull on the covers from the grain direction is definitely visible. I am pretty happy with it regardless!

A few more pictures on Tumblr, including a couple of in-progress shots.