Ficbinding: Thirty-Three Lashes

[ehyde]

I finished and sent off the book I made for the Renegade Bindery Exchange! The fic is Thirty-three Lashes by Wingless, as requested by Jenny Linsky. It's a modern reincarnation AU ... sort of? Basically it's immortal LWJ, and WWX who comes back in MXY's body as he does in canon, except that rather than thirteen years later, it's a couple thousand.

The fic isn't a pure horror fic but it has a lot of horror elements and I decided to lean into those in the binding, using rough layered paper cutouts to reflect the scars of LWJ's curse. It's a three piece bradel binding with a dark red leather spine (I learned that if I tape it down to paper, I can run thin leather through my printer! neat!) The endpapers are suminagashi marbling on the same red paper as the innermost layer of the cover.

This one took a while to make, especially since all my kids got colds in the middle of the project and I lost my evening worktime for a week, but I'm really happy with how it came out!

Comments

[brownbetty]

this is so evocative that I find it a bit unsettling. Like, I realize scars are raised and not recessed, but this really evokes scars with its texture. It's so effective.