renegadepublishing | Share Your Binderary 2023 Thoughts!

28 Days of Binderary questions laid out in calendar view

Binderary 2023 is officially here, and we'd love to hear from you! We've prepared a list of daily prompts to get you thinking about all things fanbinding this month - inspiration, materials, process - you name it, we got it.

Feel free to reply to this post with the date and an answer to the following prompts:

What does Renegade mean to you?
Favorite Fic
One thing you'd like to learn more about
Paper!
Cloth!
The Glue War
Machines (Printers, Cricut, etc.)
Favorite binding technique
Your Best Tip/Trick
Favorite Detail
Spines
Mistakes/Fails
Process
Storage Solutions
Your Workspace
Dust jackets and covers
Published inspiration
Illustrations
Favorite Tool
Favorite part of the binding process
Inspo: The binder that inspired you!
Inspo: The fic that inspired you!
Author spotlight: Someone you've bound
Author spotlight: Someone you'd like to bind
Favorite bind by you!
Favorite bind by someone else!
First bind
Latest bind

Answer every day or just on the days that strike your fancy! Either way, we look forward to hearing all about your binding adventures~

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1. What does Renegade mean to you?
Renegade has, in all honesty, probably changed the course of my life! That's not hyperbole--it's had such a huge influence on my hobbies, my friendships, my academic trajectory, even my career. I was still in undergrad when I found ASH's post on fanbinding, and I was very lost as to what the next steps would be. And like so many others experienced, the pandemic only made things even murkier and more isolating. Then I found ASH's manifesto in June 2020, worked up the courage to join the Discord in July 2020, and found a community of like-minded weirdos who were just as passionate (if not even more so!) about their favorite stories, and a craft that I fall a little bit more in love with every day (well, most days. fuckin printers man XD). I wrote my honors thesis thanks to Renegade; I've made lifelong friends thanks to Renegade; I have my current job, in a field I love, thanks to Renegade. (My first Rocky Horror Picture show at Havencon 2022? All thanks to Renegade :D) This really feels like my forever fandom home-- even when I jump around from fandom to fandom, there's always a wonderful and supportive community to fall back on. In short, I really love it here, I'm so pleased with what we've done so far, and I can't wait to see where we go! ❤️

2. Favorite Fic
As everyone else who answered this, this question is IMPOSSIBLE. However, if you put a gun to my head and told me to answer right now, I'd have to say Tell Me About the Big Bang (my binding of it here!) It's one of the fics that has touched me most deeply and which has probably had the greatest influence on my writing. It was one of the first fics I'd ever bound, and I really wanted to rebind it to see how far I've come!

3. One thing you'd like to learn more about
GOD SO MANY THINGS. Backing! Headband techniques. Chisel trimming. Edge gilding. Tiny books. More advanced Cricut techniques. More cohesive and professional-looking graphic design. This hobby is really a dozen hobbies in a trench coat, and there's so much to explore.

4. Paper!
For my textblocks, I use 20 lb. cream Hammermill paper! I order it in 11"x 17" and get it cut in half for short grain, like a lot of other folks at Renegade. Recently I've started experimenting with quarto-sized Legal (8.5"x 14")and fell in love. I also want to try a bunch of the other paper that folks have suggested (looking at

robinseggbindery's Mohawk Via o.o). For my endpapers, I usually use scrapbook paper from those scrapbook paper packs you can get at Michaels and Joann's (and when they're on sale...WOOF)

5. Cloth!
DUO BOOKCLOTH MY BELOVED. God I wish I'd gotten in on the Renegade group order - but ah well. Big fan of making my own though! There are just so many options to choose from, so it really expands what you can do (again: a dozen hobbies and crafts in a trench coat)

"This hobby is really a dozen hobbies in a trench coat, and there's so much to explore"

Oh, yes! And that's what I love from this too.

FOREVER FANDOM HOME!! I honestly feel the same way. There's fandoms for specific media, but Renegade is the fandom for fandom, the celebration of the art of fandom itself <3

A dozen hobbies in a trenchcoat I can't xD that's so accurate its painful askdfjhdg

TALAS STILL HAS SOME DUO RUN RUN RUN

OOOOOOH RUNNING!!! mayhaps on the next paycheck cycle fufu...

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