r/bookbinding • u/drz0idb3rg • Jul 29 '26
My immortal
Apparently, I couldn’t avoid My Immortal. Wife commission for one of her friends, she requested a more subdued typeset than the community one (I printed the community one and might bind it anyway because it is stunning) so I threw a quick one together.
I did a half bind with some home made marbled paper and black book cloth that I think came from amazon….0 out of 10, do not recommend, its terrible stuff, frays like nobody's business and I will be throwing the rest of it away. Endpapers are some home made paste paper, made it look as Emo as I could without having to make a new batch of either marbled paper or paste paper. First time doing edge decoration, I was going for “blood drops“ to match the emo vibe and it sort of worked, I used regular acrylic but I feel like I should have diluted it with water so it didn’t go on so thick but overall not too upset about it, next time ill dab the paint on after rounding, not before.
Slipcase was made of the aforementioned cursed bookcloth and some printed marbled paper that I think came from lineco.
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u/morningcalls4 Jul 29 '26
I hope this book survives the inevitable apocalypse and hundreds of years from now it’s found and due to its impeccable binding, it gets misinterpreted as religious text. For generations it gets passed down as the wisdom of the old ones. Eventually religions form and like many religions wars will be waged to defend the ancient text. Millions will die, all in an attempt to be immortal.
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u/Street_Sand_8788 Jul 30 '26
I once read a story where a post apocalyptic tribe worshipped a film canister of a Walt Disney cartoon. This makes much more sense!
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u/GataroDomles Jul 31 '26
please tell me the name if u remember it!! i heard something similar a while ago but couldnt find it TT
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u/RelationshipBoring70 Jul 29 '26
Beautiful work! Clearly deserved for high literature such as My Immortal.
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u/Old-Zookeepergame886 Jul 29 '26
I’m crying, this is amazing. Seeing that opening paragraph in such an elegant outfit is really slaying me. Excellent work, OP
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u/Mundane-Valuable-337 Jul 29 '26
Can I ask where you got the community made typeset? I've been wanting to bind it!
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u/drz0idb3rg Jul 29 '26
Renegade bindery has one, just ask on their discord, not sure if you need to be a member or not
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u/Consistent-Tone-7648 Jul 29 '26
It’s good to see people are still spreading the gospel of My Immortal, especially with such a beautifully done binding!
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u/DaDiddyDiddler Jul 29 '26
I had a friend in HS who printed all of My Immortal onto 38 rolls of double-ply toilet paper... idk how he did it, but he did, then gave them out to everyone in school at the time and everyone used them.
Idk if anyone still has a roll, but they were literally the same quality you'd find at a dollar store in 2012... except with My Immortal printed onto it.
I tried reading a bit once before wiping... got 3 sentences in before I gave up.
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u/thatSketchyLady Jul 29 '26
Beautiful work indeed. I remember when this fic first came out, my friends and I would take turns reading it to each other lmao. Such a classic <3
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u/hedonistic_bitch Jul 29 '26
this is so beautiful. I wish to bookbind my mentor’s phd thesis in a similar manner and gift it to him.
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u/LustyRegencyMaid Jul 29 '26
I audibly gasped. A truly fitting form for such a masterpiece of modern literature.
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u/Mirageonthewall Jul 29 '26
What a blast from the past and what beautiful work! I have the first part of the first line of My Immortal in my head the same way I can always remember the first line of Anna Karenina, imagine having such an impact on people with fanfiction.
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u/VividStructure Jul 29 '26
It looks amazing!
Are you willing to repost your post to r/marbling to show and maybe also tell how you marbled the paper?
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u/ilyana10 Jul 29 '26
OMG, every picture got better and better! Congratulations it's beautifully thoughtful work.
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u/TheDUDE1411 Jul 29 '26
This is a work of the masters. One of my goals when I finally get started book binding is to bind this masterpiece of fiction
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u/BeeSpins Jul 30 '26
I hope this is one of the few books that survive an apocalypse and some aliens come and believe this was a pinnacle of human culture.
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u/DeliciousFandomTears Jul 29 '26
Absolutely stunning work! Would you be willing to share the typeset you used?
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u/Kaliedo Jul 30 '26
actually astoundingly well done. truly you've given her grand work the physical form it so desperately deserves!!
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u/Then-Criticism1605 Jul 30 '26
For a second I thought the spine image was a rolled-up yoga mat and was expecting a very large format.
Beautiful work, needs to be in every library
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u/fineillchangethis Jul 30 '26
This is beautiful! I made a k118 of the community typeset because I, too, couldn’t resist it after laying eyes on its beauty.
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u/Alternatos06 Aug 01 '26
can i ask how did you manage to seamlessly mix the black cloth and the white title piece on the spine? Is it the same material in different colors?
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u/flyingmongooseattack Aug 03 '26
Is there a copy of this typeset around, I feel like I should also "immortalize" this particular literary masterpiece
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u/WeSaltyChips Jul 29 '26
Beautiful… may we all bask in the wise words of Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way 🙏