All of my favorites are that long, too. I'm dividing them into volumes by the major arcs/plot progression acts. It keeps the story from feeling split awkwardly by taking advantage of its natural lulls!
Imagine getting your friend a hardcover of their favourite fanfic for their birthday. Imagine your friend getting you a hardcover of your favourite fanfic for your birthday.
Imagine someone one day in the future finding this in a thrift store and thinking “wow! This book is so old and interesting!” And they find out it’s a fanfic about minecraft block people but pirates. I love it.
imagine they dont know about those minecraft block people, end up enjoying the story and being like “this is good but why do they have such weird names??”
Any time a person says fanfic is bad just remember. Ullyses by James Joyce is a fanfic of the odyssey, Song of Achilles is a fanfic of the Illiad, interview with a vampire is a fanfic of Dracula, and the Arthurian legend is just a ridiculously long fanfic of the original story.
I think what people overlook is that a lot of fanfic _is_ bad because there's just so much of it. Anyone of any age, skill level, and maturity can write it and it _all_ gets grouped into _one_ category of "fanfic" It doesn't matter if it's a talented writer turning a bunch of well loved and multidimensional characters into a deep and relatable story about overcoming trauma and choosing your family (like Ad Astra by Hellenite, for ex) or some 12 y/o writing about two straight dudes making out - it's all considered fanfic.
Exactly !! So much works of literature are the results of fanfic thought process of 'what if'. One of the most important piece of French literature to this day is a literal fanfiction of The Odyssey with Odysseus’s son as the main character. Considerated as such an important piece of literature, it got integrated into the schooling curriculum of the, at the time, reigning family’s son (grandson of Louis the 14th).
@@February_arts_ I could have mispelled the name, but it's that infamous Harry Potter fanfic with the author's heavily goth OC. ColeyDoesThings has a whole video talking about it.
i turned a fanfic called 'More Like You' into a hardcover book as a gift for a friend and used a handmade cover with my art for the fanfic, my friend told the fanfic author about it. And the author loved it so much they commissioned me to design the cover for their original book! I wanted to come back and thankyou. It because of this video that i stumbled upon on a random day that these chain of events happened. Thank you so much @Jess Less
Tips: Remember to double check that you didn't lose any formatting when copying over: italics, different fonts, page breaks. If you want to avoid page trimming, measure what paper you have (should be 8 1/2" by 11") and look for books where the pages are around 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" (the big page folded in half). If you're using Word to add page numbers, check under Headers & Footers for an option called "Different Odd & Even Pages." If you check that box, you can make your odd pages have numbers on the bottom right and your even pages have numbers on the bottom left, so they'll always be in the outside corner (always good to double check with a test page or two). Addition to the last point: There should be a way to break your book into two sections: One for the title page and table of contents, and one for the rest of the book. If you do it correctly, you can have page numbers -start- at chapter 1, instead of the book plate. I do need to google this step every time though, as it's complicated. Control+f Is your friend! I use it to double check that the work is consistent (Nick names being capitalized, "six-year-old" being always hyphenated or never, redhead being always one word or always two, etc.) If you feel up to it, go ahead and do a run of editing over the work. I'm doing minimal changes; basically fixing typos I find and altering sentences that read weird to me. If you do not fear embarrassment, see if your school has free printing. I try to print only 20 pages at a time, so it doesn't look like I'm pirating a textbook or anything.
Copy editing/grammar fun fact: "six-year-old" should be hyphenated only when it's being used as a compound adjective! ("The six-year-old boy." vs. "The boy is six years old.") ☺️
This! I had to reprint almost my entire book because the italics didn't transfer, and I only noticed after revisiting this comment and actively looking for it :')
My first thought after seeing this video was also Passerine! That story deserves to be put into a book and probably even sold in actual book stores because that thing’s quality!
@@Charlottiepops Of course. I'm just saying that for example Passerine is in my opinion way better than some actually monetized books I've read and it's a shame that the author doesn't get the chance to monetize their hard work, if they wanted to. :)
I desperately need to do this with all of my AO3 bookmarks. I also think it'd be cool to combine a bunch of one-shots from the same fandom into one book - so it's a sort of collection of "short stories."
I thought the same. My favorite fics are only a few chapters so i printed them out and put in a mini three ring binder with custom cloth cover to make it look fancy.
Some of my favourite DSMP (mainly sbi) fics: - Tommyinnit’s Clinic for Supervillians by bonesandthebees (finished) - Ours Poetica by Zeeskeit (unfinished) - This is Not an Act of Spite by Alex_Wants_To_Die and ellabellachicketychella (unfinished) - Hush Now (You Were Lost but Now You’re Found) by CorpseArt (unfinished) Also I would recommend basically all of bonesandthebees fics, their writing style is so nice and fluid!
a few years ago I looked into "where can I get a book printed online" but realized having a 900k fic printed at an online store is a a pain in the ass so I gave up, never considered actually binding it myself....now I might give that a try some time HMMM
@@reliefmelody im reading one thats almost finished and is 900k roughly, except its only the first in a 2 part series, the second part hasnt even begun to be posted yet💀💀
I watched this and immediately begged my dad to take me to a second hand bookstore. The whole trip I was like “I’m gonna tear this book apart~” Two days of formatting and one day of folding and I’m almost done!! I’ve got some glueing left but by the end of today I hope to have a hardcover copy of Several Witches Are Typing by azhdarchidaen! It’s an Owl House fic and it’s reallyreallyreallyreally good!!!
I've been binding fanfic for years now, I have well over 200 different fanfics of varying sizes, and some with multiple volumes too. And I'm so glad to see other fans doing this as well! Thanks Jess for adding more fans to this niche craft! I cant wait to see what you do next :D
Any tips on where to buy good paper in bulk? I see a lot of sites, but I don't know which paper to get and I don't like printer paper because it's really thin. Any suggestions?
@@abbee_6557 it can be scary yeah. But sometimes it just takes trial and error to get into a good groove for making books. You got this, I believe in you! :)
I wish I could do this. I have many favorite fanfic authors but they're just gone now and their amazing wonderful stories. Only remembered by those who had read them. To counter this sadness, I always think they got picked by a publisher and their stories are being enjoyed and appreciated outside the fandom which this is the reason for some of them being gone.
My mother works in a library where she repairs books. Sometimes, the books are so old that they go to be recycled to be made into new books. But this time ahahah she saved me the hardcover shells of four (4) books. It is time for me to print out that PremingerxOC fanfic ahaha.
Man, if someone did this for my fanfic, my life would be complete. There is no reward that money can buy that could top this. The dedication it takes to do this project for the love of someone else's story is insane. The real MVPs are the fans that read these works and this is the reason why we write. And I think I can speak on behalf of others who write that If we can just make one person's day better by tapping into their imagination, it makes everything all worthwhile. Congrats to the fellow who had their story enshrined in physical history.
One day I just want a shelf on my fanfic like this so when someone comes over I can just see the confusion in their face when they open a book to see myct fight dragons for like 100 chapters-
remember kids, make sure the author of the fic is okay with their works being bound, and NEVER take commissions to bind fics or sell any physical copies you make of fics, that is illegal and jeopardizes the ability for fanfiction to exist in the future (that said if things were different i can definitely think of a few fics i would love to have as books)
I have this fanfiction that I've been meaning to turn into a book- It called "Drinks in new york city" in Ao3 AND HOLY HELL IS IT A MASTSRPIECE- I 100% recommend it if you want to read more heartbreaking fics besides Passerine! Btw, Thanks for the great tutorial Jess! I've been meaning to try doing this as project. Real helpful :]
Tips: (I love this so much and wanted to add some additional advice as someone who professionally learned bookbinding as well as editing! :)) 1. I'd personally run chunks of the text or the thing as a whole through a spelling program or re-read it and fix spelling mistakes just because I'm a perfectionist and not only want to honour the work but also do it justice to spell it the way it was meant to :) 2. I would set the text to full justification with the last row adjusted to the left, remove AO3's blank lines (which make sense for digital paragraphs) and instead create the analogue paragraph indentations. This would also save lots of paper. It does work best in InDesign for sure, which is what I'm working with and I know that non-professionals might struggle with these adjustments, I just wanted to recommend them anyway, because most of these are doable in word too! :) 3. I'd use a thinner thread so as not create large gaps between pages in the inner book, I think the thicker one totally works in this case though for the aesthetic! 4. Usually for a high quality hardcover bookbinders will add a piece of colourful fabric that is glued to the back of the inner book. It can be just at the top and bottom or all the way through. If there's supposed to be a bookmark this can simply be glued underneath that. (I sadly can't find the proper vocabulary to name these things in english cause it's not my first language) With the added fabric this makes for a more neat look when opening a hardcover, since the inner spine might get exposed and the fabric covers that up! 5. I'd account for additonal page length and cut the entire inner book with an electrical paper cutter after finishing to make the entire thing smooth. I don't know about your country but in mine we have access to these in copy-shops. This would also enable fore-edge painting!
When you make it into a book, you can see just how many pages they are. It's astonishing just how much love and time fanfic writers put into work. I'm always so grateful that they provide quality books that could have won prizes to read for free.
Wait you just saying that is genius, I can finally read it at school since we’re not allowed phones or digital books omg I NEED to do this sometime to aytd or some other super good fanfics 😊
A nicely done tutorial for DIY bookbinding. A couple of tips for you: Elmer's "school glue" is PVA glue. Also, when doing the pressing of the signatures, a low to medium clothing iron can do in a matter of moments what a can of fruit salad can't do in 8 hours. Optionally, you could add a ribbon for a book marker glued to the spine of the signatures before setting the cover.
This has given me a perfect idea for my best friend's birthday present. They're a fanfic writer and artist but mostly write one-shots, this makes me want to make a hardcover collection of their fics for them
I wish I had downloaded one that was in progress, I think the author's account ended up hacked. The Viking's Throne by BlueBlaze77 was really getting good and it's just...gone. I can't find it archived anywhere.
@@MakoKitten no, it's actually still there on the AO3. I looked it up and it has full 11 chapters. Not sure if there is supposed to be a sequel cuz I haven't read it before
@@WhatTheFlo No, it's actually not there. The Viking's Throne is over 80 chapters long, it's a Hermione Granger/Oliver Wood/Charlie Weasley fanfiction by BlueBlade77. There is nothing matching it on AO3 when I look it on AO3. You can find some of the chapters on some scammy sites like novelww, but they're ripped from AO3 with no mention of the author at all. Their account is gone, their works are gone, and all that's really left is a reddit post.
@@sofilupi It is, but somehow it worked. It takes place post war and Hermione ends up working in Romania with Charlie and they co-parent a small brood of baby dragons, it was a really well told story and honestly it could have been a novel in its own right.
@@Livebunny86 if your book is too thick, use string and bee wax, but MAKE SURE ITS WAXED ENOUGH!!! There’s a chance that you get the wax off with every pass through the holes, wax it when you feel like “yeah, I should do that) or it’ll start knotting on itself and you’ll cry… again…
I just found out my comfort fanfic, that i've read at least 15 times so far, has nearly 400k (398 842 to be exact) words thanks to this video and I am shooketh. edit: it is also nowhere near finished
The only fanfic I've listened to is Passerine. If there's an audio book of this one I think I'll check it out too. Seriously cool to be bringing these works of art to life!
ua-cam.com/play/PLwNLJ1kXYZoSWYCDiEeN_YDb0pIpEbjsp.html I posted this a moment ago with no context and have now realised how that seems weird or scam-y. It's a link to the passerine podcast UA-cam channel, they have readings of a couple mcyt first and fortunately for you this is one of them.
Wow that's really cool ! If you are looking for some reading, I recommend "Change fate by being aggressively kind" by sircantus on ao3, where it is literally Philza who adopts "monsters of the apocalypse" turning out to be the rest of the sbi, as per usual. And also "Fanmail to an Immortal" by PiperTheViper also on ao3. This fic is not finished and "quite" short for the moment, but it makes me laugh so here it is. And finally, "RacoonInnit is Pog at Villainy" by AJ_the_BreadKing on ao3, which is a complete story and just exceptionally funny :D
As long as they don’t sell them it’s fine unless it’s like completely their own characters and their everything is theirs but if it’s someone else’s work likes a Harry Potter fanfic and then you print it and sell it without the writers consent or J. K. Rowling‘s consent that’s illegal
Some of my favorite and recommended dsmp fics (mostly tommy-centric and sbi): - Into the Night by Interjection - Passerine by thcscus / blujama - His Curse of Binding by bari_astralis - Blood Magic by Amilia_Farem - Black Bird Fly by MolyPollyKinz - three months of letters by IDONTWRITELEMONS (wedontwritelemons) - TommyInnit's unbeatable method of avoiding sudden death by eneli - tommyinnit's clinic for supervillains by bonesandthebees - Ad Astra and De Terra by Hellenite - oh dear, can you see me? by findingkairos - Hush Now (You Were Lost but Now You’re Found) by CorpseArt - We've taken different paths but I know we'll always end up on the same one by Alexander_Wesker i find a lot of them as hidden gems
tommys unbeatale method of avoiding sudden death (tumosad) is really funny! i fell out of my chair laughing once. ive read through the *whole* thing, its just vibes
If you don't want to tear apart an old book there's a great video by sea lemon on how to make a hard book cover! And nerdforge have a lot of videos showing how to make the cover look more vintage. It will take more effort but I'm putting this here in hopes people who feel very uncomfortable with using actual old books (like myself) will see!! hope it helps
Me: yeah I’m going to do that with flowers from the 1970’s Also me: * realises that I have exams in three weeks * Nevermind I’ll do that during summerbreak Thank you so much for the amazing video and project. Your Karl Jacobs memory book tutorial really helped me to finish the cosplay. I want to thank you for the amazing content you give us!!!
Flowers From 1970 is easily one of the BEST dsmp fan-fics! I sobbed during that story, if u do do this with ff1970 hope u have fun! "Take Care of those flowers wrong numbers"
I would love to do this with Tommyinnit's Clinic for Supervillians by bonesandthebees. It's one of, if not, the best fanfics I've ever read. If anyone out there is looking for dsmp or superhero content, or just likes stories that have a way of questioning or flipping moral dilemmas on their heads, I would highly recommend!
Okay, this is COOL AS CRAP. Not me freaking out over my favorite fic and Wolfy's art printed in color and how flipping cool the cover is. Everything about this is amazing and I'd love to do it myself, hopefully with some of my own writing someday?? Which also means I'll need to actually write so I'd better get doing that more consistently *nervous laughter* but AMAZING JOB
@@Tsoos I honestly think no author would mind another hobbyist doing that. Of course, they would have to ask the authors. I imagine the problem would be with the original work's Copyright holder.
As a Fanfiction writer myself, this is something amazing, this brings our stories to life more so then how we first thought would go, and this is also inspires me to maybe do this with some of my own stories as well
"All the young dudes" definitely deserves all the hype it's been getting recently, definitely my favourite fanfiction. other than that "Ukiyo" by Sharleena and "The Brightest Stars Shine Here" by strawberrysummers.
Yes omg I actually came to this video bc I was considering binding ATYD- now I’m thinking binding a shorter fic sounds like a good present for my friend who’s in a lot of similar fandoms :P The fanfic I’m referring to is “Habits of a Lifetime” by out_there if anyone was wondering~ it’s legitimately the best mycroft/lestrade fic ive ever read
This video inspired me to bind a fanfic for my mom, over 300,000 words, it took months, i even had to split it into 4 separate books. But she said it was the best gift she had ever gotten! So, thank you Jess, for this wonderful video.
I've commented before and I'll comment again, but this time to tell you I have finally attempted to do the thing! I have friends birthday coming up and as fanfiction is something we have bonded tremendously over, I decided this would be the perfect gift. I've got everything printed out and now my signatures are folded and being pressed for stitching. I'm very excited about how this is turning out and now that I've tried it once, I foresee a lot more in my future...
13:38 that mid video rant... that is truth and we do write because we love our favourite characters (a little too much in some cases) and go on to write like what an eternal fic about it! As someone who is going through it myself, with writing something I never thought I'd write... (yes a literal book.. :) ) I really appreciate people like this in the fandom culture! You go Jess!
This is officially my new favourite youtube video of all time. I'm not even joking. I am TOTALLY doing this, my only problem NOW is to choose just one fanfic!!! (and get supplies lmao!) Also love how it was next to Heartstopper on your bookshelf HAHA thank you so much for taking the time to make this video! I've barely ever been this excited about a potential project, but as an avid reader, mcyt fan and artist, it's something I know I'll enjoy :D
0:10 Yes!! A whole series was on AO3, genuinely some of, if not THE best literature I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading! And then! It was deleted off of the site!!! I die a little every time I remember it. Now I know to always download my favorite fics to hold onto them forever!
@@woodenkat8971 I tried to, it took me to the sign-in because it was only available to account holders, and ever time I signed in, it reset to the original page. I don’t know if it will work, but I’ll try again!
One of my favorite fanfics, Symphonious Solitude on Ao3, is about Fundy escaping the DSMP and finding a home in Hermitcraft, I am still reading it, and its already one of my favorites ^^
I actually have one where Tommy escaped the smp to hermit craft and got the help he needed plus there’s a bunch of drama at the end “Shells In The Foam” I forget the author
SO PROUD OF YOU AND YOUR PROGRESS JESS!!! Also, if you haven’t read it, “the little children raise their open filthy palms” by thanotaphobia (blue000jay) is a good SBI Zombie AU on AO3. Obviously Passerine by Thcscus is also incredible and I’ve been meaning to make that one into a hardcover so this will be a great tutorial for starting that project!
I turned "Not easily conquered" into a book! It's a trilogy, so I made three books and I'm in love with them 😭😭 I've loved this fic for years and it's amazing to read it in print, and knowing that I made it myself makes it even better (I even like the mistakes I made along the way lol). Thank you for this video! ❤❤
I have a little trick for if you want to create a very old looking book, maybe even going towards a wheathered kinda treasure-mappy way (if you know what kinda look I mean lol): Just use cold coffee and spill a tiny amount on every page, dap it off with a kitchen towel and let it dry. It's gonna "wrinkle" a bit, you can leave it like this or press it down. When you want the discolouring to be fainter, mix the coffee with water and dillute it down a bit. You can propably build the colour up a tiny bit too by doing this twice for example, so if you're unsure about the amount of water you want to use, then put a bit more in and maybe do this a second time if it's fainter than you want it to be. I wouldn't do that process more times than that though. And remember to always let the pages first dry completely before continuing!
Passarine is amazing. If you ship Dnf, Flowers from 1970 if just **chefs kiss** but sad. There is also a really nice finished SBI one called “pleasing a storm” on Wattpad, it’s amazing.
"George, I just wanted to say one thing, and thats Thank You." Clays voice was so broken and George found something off-putting about it, "Thank You for all the late night talks, the stories you'd tell, everything. You changed my life, thats for sure. I just cant have my heart in 2020 when it belongs to 1970. I'll fall for you more, and if i go deeper i might not get out of it. Mabye, in another life, you and I were together happily, the way i want it to be. The way it should be. But it was just bad timing"- ff1970
my favourite author picked up DIY sewing/binding book (idk what it's called in english) as a hobby recently so she asked readers if there's anyone interested in printed version of her story. it turns out good, the binding is not perfect but neat enough. the bind is very strong compared to other mass printed book and I love it🥰
Me at past: I'm going to translate "Bones in the ocean" on my native language just because there are no translation Also me: you know what? I will make an entire translated book >:)
I’m a paid author and personally yes, writing actually gives me tranquility, seeing the image that is playing in my head turn into words is extremely satisfying that I got carried away, once I am done with writing a book, I ended up surprised myself on how much words I have written and also at the success of making a whole novel! Your book binding skills deserve a huge applause, the determination and effort you put is just mind blowing itself and I love to see more of it!😍❤️
Passerine on Ao3. It’s amazing and sad. That, or Butterfly Reign. Or Tommyinnit’s clinic for supervillains. They are my favourites and are also really popular.
Jess, I think that the thumbnail should not have been changed, why? Because it feels like doing so, people are "deleting" him from the fandom if I can put it that way. I understand that people might be doing that out of respect for his family or others still grieving, but it feels wrong? He's worked so hard to get where he is right now and I think that removing him from videos and such is simply erasing his memory. I don't want that to happen and I don't think others would either. I'm not hating on you. I'm simply stating my feelings toward the thumbnail change. Thank you for reading this whole comment and if anyone reading this disagrees, please express it respectfully, I don't want this comment to be the source of a comment war.
You make some valid points, and I agree that we should keep honoring him and all he did for the community. I am by no means trying to erase him from the video. Just at this time, I don't want it to come across that I'm capitalizing on his image. For this thumbnail in particular, since Phil is just as important of a character in the story, I thought it would be the most respectful thing to do. And if I'm being honest, it made me really emotional to see his character in the thumbnail every time I looked at my channel. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts. We are all going through a tough time grieving his passing and figuring out how to manage.
@@JessLess Of course. You too are correct on many things. I think Philza should stay on the thumbnail not only for the time being because he truly is just as important as Techno is in the story. I should have clarified that in the original comment. I have just been seeing videos and such removing him as of late so I guess I was just scared (not that you would do such a thing). That's not the point though. What I'm trying to say is you have many good reasons for changing the thumbnail and you should keep it as it is currently. However, once time passes and we come to terms with our feelings towards the situation and the situation itself no less. Could you have Philza and Techno both on the thumbnail? It would be reminiscent of the original thumbnail and emphasize that they are both equally important to the story. Of course, you don't have to do any of this if you don't want to, it's more of a personal preference really. I just want to thank you for talking to me about this during such a tragic yet new situation at not all of us have fully grasped.
YES I love “Bones in the Ocean” so much, it made me cry so many times but it’s so cute 😭💕 And it’s also so well written, I can only dream to reach that level of writing 😔✨
My best friend and I have a fic that I will not disclose here that we call "the cursed fic" because it's s just the worst possible thing you could ever imagine reading with your own two eyes. I thank you for the wonderful Christmas present idea
Very cool, will definitely be doing it with a fanfic. I also have some recommendations though. “Miserably failing at faerie kidnapping after getting too attached to the kid you’re trying to kidnap” by pomcaa. “Broken rhythms” by AreusWritesFanfic. “That’s like a hundred miles” by No_one_you_know. “Scaled schemes” by Flustered. “Kings to You” by Flustered. “Cold Prayer” by LittleCloud_Ao3. And lastly “The case of fire inside” by trying_to_spell_both_our_names_at_once
I literally love you. I have been trying to print a fan fiction for about two weeks and could not for the life of me figure out how to print it. You are a blessing you have saved Christmas. Thank you.
This was so cool! I really wanna bind Ad Astra and De Terra, both by Hellenite, but the word count is very daunting and idk if I can fit the both of them in one book lol
You can get the page order in word, no Adobe required. Just go into page layout, it should be in the advance margins menu. There, you can also select how many pages are in the signature. This also lets you print the whole book all at once instead of one signature at a time, you just have to pay attention to your page numbers. The advance setting also has a feature for mirrored margins that are wider on the inside to account for lost space in the binding. Very handy if you want to use Japanese stab stitching instead, but also to minimize the outside margin to fit more on a single page. Or just give yourself a little wiggle room for a little wobbliness. My first book is diffidently on the looser side. It's The Colony of Gotham by Crzyfun and the spine is duck tape. Currently working on Embers by Vathara.
I'm doing this with Passerine! I decided to handwrite it, so it's taking a long time, I currently have 4 of an estimated 22 signatures. I aged the pages with tea as well, I think it's going to turn out really well.
But seriously, imagine.... years from now, maybe your grandchildren or even great grandchildren are gonna find that book and ask you about it. Oh I'm just thinking of another plot to finish a story I'm working on. Thank you for this. Really appreciate it. I was thinking of making a fantasy love story, but based on my parents Anniversary. I'm planning on turning it to a book and giving it to them as a present.
literally thank you SO MUCH! i've been having an issue with page design and you helped me solve it so THANKS!! I would have gone mad if i didn't fix it soon so just yeah tysm!!!
I don’t go here but here are some fics I love haha (all on AO3): - Doing the Work (Naruto Fic, finished) - City of Strays (Naruto Fic, finished) - Nothing Gold Can Stay (LoTR Fic, ongoing) - oh, how far you are from home (Lotr & GoT Fic, finished) - When Alliances Fell (LoTR Fic, ongoing) - Precipice (Star Wars Prequels Fic, finished) - Back From the Future: Episode VI The Clone Wars (Star Wars Fic, finished) - It Happened Quiet (Star Wars Fic, finished) I love this video! It’s clear so much effort was put into it. I really love the detail put into the professional camera angles and the lighting is so nice, (pretend I know what I’m talking abt), and packaged evenly into 18 minutes solid (which makes me illogically happy) and OOH the effort into making sure the video was clear and comprehensive. Even tho I don’t have the time to actually bind books, I still watched anyways bc it’s such a lovely video and it’s kinda like a nice mini documentary. Watching the entire thing was like dumping serotonin on my brain. But who knows, maybe I’ll try it out bc you made it look so fun. Congrats on your first sponsor! It’s well deserved and I wish you many sponsorships to come
OMG Back from the Future almost broke me. I was enjoying the fic and their relationship so dang much, and then got to the end and IT happened. Read the tags carefully, friends. It's still one of my favorites, but my heart still flinches when I see it. I'm hoping the sequel gives Vader some much-needed happiness 😭😭😭
I have a lot of fanfictions I really love but the Zuko-centric ones are always my favorite. From the Ashes, Salvage, While Mighty Oaks Do Fall... All of those are worthy of being made into books a thousand times over
8:10, you can use an exacto knife or super sharp knife and a ruler to cut the pages instead of a paper trimmer. It just probably won't be completely exact.
wonderful job! i love the idea of placing the signatures within an old repurposed book. i hope to bind all of "all the young dudes" someday- a mere 526,969 words lol
I really wanna bind The Lost Prince, but it's currently unfinished with slow updates >.< Once it is actually finished though I'll see if I can find an existing book big enough to fit all 309,501 (plus however more get added) words xD
Tommyinnit's Clinic for Supervillians and Tommyinnit's Unbeatable Method of Avoiding Sudden Death are both really good! I could go on and on about over 100 fics that I have read and love in the MCYT community but then I would be here for hours so I'm just gonna leave you with those two absolutely iconic fics.
I have a few. the My Hero ones are "Type Two Hero", "Quirkless Reject'" and "UA Ranger" this one has been redone so I recommend the revamped version. The mcyt one is "Ascension of the Dragon God". The original is "Never Wake a Sleeping Dragon" and both have more adult themes but the Ascension is the kinder one of the two
Didn't break only Ao3, but the entire internet Glass Animals may have become famous only thanks to the fix, as Heatwaves (the song) after the big boom in ao3, got... Suspiciously Popular. Here we are now with Heatwaves on the radio and me crying.
@@Doubl3_Black I heard heatwaves on the speakers at a Main Event and immediately texted my friend about it. I have not read the fic yet because everyone says it makes them cry and I don’t want to cry yet.
Quick remark and tips for making a fanfic book look as professional as possible: 1. Often in published books, chapter titles (or story titles for a collection of written pieces) are set on uneven page number (1-3-177 etc.) which results in the title being on the right side of when reading. 2. You can Google which font are commonly used in books. There’s Time new Roman, Gamond, Palatino or Georgia etc. 3. Indented paragraphs for me is a must. It makes everything more readable, coupled with the paragraph spacing. 4. About pages being upside down when printed: Idk if it’s my computer, the printer I’m using or Adobe Reader but when I print tested the first booklet of the fic I wanted to bookbinding, all the back side of the pages are upside down. I tried changing the settings on Adobe but nothing works and I can’t access the printer settings so what I did is download a pdf reader app from Apple Store (I’m on Mac) I hope it will fix the issue.
i was printing some pages to check if adobe set the offsetting right, and like for you, it printed upside down, but mostly the main problem was that it printed the pages that were supposed to be on opposite sides of the same paper on two different ones T-T. i don't think my printer is sophisticated enough to print on both sides of a single sheet of paper in one go but not even this,,, did you have this problem as well? i don't want to print every page one by one lol
@@letizia2827 I went to my school printer and accessed the file I wanted to print directly on it. In the settings of the file, I switched the F/B printing to F/B (short side). I also downloaded a different PdF reader than Adobe, ticked the automatic rotation. But depending on your printer, you need to find to find the print on short side option directly on the PDF reader.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality! It will always not only be one of the best fan fic I've ever experienced, but also one of the best Harry Potter books, canon or otherwise. It's long, it's wordy, and it makes you feel smart when you can keep up with it!
As a fanfic writer, it's great to print these for yourself or as gifts for friends, but PLEASE do NOT try and sell binded fics!!! Unless, of course, you have the author's direct permission:)
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I now have a Google Doc template for formatting fanfiction available on Patreon!
www.patreon.com/JessLess
oh hooray!!
What was the app/website you were referring to when you said "I will use word instead"
imagine a full library full of nothing but fanfic
I want that -ᄒᴥᄒ-
Ao3 IRL
I wanna do This. If only I was rich..
I have found home...
I literally dreamed of this last night wtf
"I mean, I knew this fic was 80 thousand words but-"
Me, slowly closing the tab with the 500K+ word fic I was contemplating to print: oh
All of my favorites are that long, too. I'm dividing them into volumes by the major arcs/plot progression acts. It keeps the story from feeling split awkwardly by taking advantage of its natural lulls!
Don’t worry, you can use multiple books.
I was just finishing reading one with over 700K+ hahaha
@@Livebunny86 bloody hell I’m impressed- mind sharing the name or link?
@@reliefmelody the debt of time by shayalonnie I'm in love with the writing
Imagine getting your friend a hardcover of their favourite fanfic for their birthday.
Imagine your friend getting you a hardcover of your favourite fanfic for your birthday.
Imagine having friends...
Omg, ima make my favorite fic now!!! Birds in Paradise
im about to gift one to my girlfriend explains why im here
That would be the best BORTH ever
Imma be my own friend
Imagine someone one day in the future finding this in a thrift store and thinking “wow! This book is so old and interesting!” And they find out it’s a fanfic about minecraft block people but pirates. I love it.
imagine they dont know about those minecraft block people, end up enjoying the story and being like “this is good but why do they have such weird names??”
@@shsl_fanficer2305 and then they google it and find out they were Minecraft UA-cam’s in 2020 during the pandemic 😷
@@Liv0nlin3-alt that would be pure gold
I pity the historians who r gonna try and crack this generation lmao
Then again all our exploits are detailed out on the wonderful internet
The thought of physically holding a fan fiction that I love makes my tiny little lizard brain vibrate 😩
May our little Lizard brains vibrate together
@@growlsatyouepically 😊are brains are the same.
omfg same
What
same,
The font she used for the title ''Bones in the ocean'' is called Castellar, in case someone needs it!!
lol thanks
You're welcome
Really thank you! Most fonts in GDocs are so ugly. I mean, they’re alright on their own, but they’re not pleasing to the eyes most of the time.
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH
@@Bills_kaulitz Haha my pleasure ☺️❤️
Any time a person says fanfic is bad just remember. Ullyses by James Joyce is a fanfic of the odyssey, Song of Achilles is a fanfic of the Illiad, interview with a vampire is a fanfic of Dracula, and the Arthurian legend is just a ridiculously long fanfic of the original story.
And a lot of Shakespeare, who also wrote RPF.
Don’t forget Dante’s Divine Comedy
I think what people overlook is that a lot of fanfic _is_ bad because there's just so much of it. Anyone of any age, skill level, and maturity can write it and it _all_ gets grouped into _one_ category of "fanfic"
It doesn't matter if it's a talented writer turning a bunch of well loved and multidimensional characters into a deep and relatable story about overcoming trauma and choosing your family (like Ad Astra by Hellenite, for ex) or some 12 y/o writing about two straight dudes making out - it's all considered fanfic.
Exactly !! So much works of literature are the results of fanfic thought process of 'what if'. One of the most important piece of French literature to this day is a literal fanfiction of The Odyssey with Odysseus’s son as the main character. Considerated as such an important piece of literature, it got integrated into the schooling curriculum of the, at the time, reigning family’s son (grandson of Louis the 14th).
and dante's inferno is a self-insert fanfic of the bible/famous figures
Alright, who's brave enough to turn "My Immortal" into a book?
What’s that story about ,I feel like I’ve read it ?
@@February_arts_ I could have mispelled the name, but it's that infamous Harry Potter fanfic with the author's heavily goth OC. ColeyDoesThings has a whole video talking about it.
Oh god-
Never please never ;-;
Oh god the horror if that happens
@@February_arts_ it is the worst thing that you will ever enjoy reading it's so bad you can't tell if it's a troll or a serious attempt at writing
i turned a fanfic called 'More Like You' into a hardcover book as a gift for a friend and used a handmade cover with my art for the fanfic, my friend told the fanfic author about it. And the author loved it so much they commissioned me to design the cover for their original book! I wanted to come back and thankyou. It because of this video that i stumbled upon on a random day that these chain of events happened. Thank you so much @Jess Less
Oh my gosh that’s so cool
That’s amazing.
That's really cool
Amazing I am amazed you are amazing keep going and you will continue to succeed! God bless!!!
How did you do the cover with art on it?!
Tips:
Remember to double check that you didn't lose any formatting when copying over: italics, different fonts, page breaks.
If you want to avoid page trimming, measure what paper you have (should be 8 1/2" by 11") and look for books where the pages are around 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" (the big page folded in half).
If you're using Word to add page numbers, check under Headers & Footers for an option called "Different Odd & Even Pages." If you check that box, you can make your odd pages have numbers on the bottom right and your even pages have numbers on the bottom left, so they'll always be in the outside corner (always good to double check with a test page or two).
Addition to the last point: There should be a way to break your book into two sections: One for the title page and table of contents, and one for the rest of the book. If you do it correctly, you can have page numbers -start- at chapter 1, instead of the book plate. I do need to google this step every time though, as it's complicated.
Control+f Is your friend! I use it to double check that the work is consistent (Nick names being capitalized, "six-year-old" being always hyphenated or never, redhead being always one word or always two, etc.)
If you feel up to it, go ahead and do a run of editing over the work. I'm doing minimal changes; basically fixing typos I find and altering sentences that read weird to me.
If you do not fear embarrassment, see if your school has free printing. I try to print only 20 pages at a time, so it doesn't look like I'm pirating a textbook or anything.
This all comes from my current work in progress: binding the batman fic Jason Todd: the Not So Outlaw by GoAwayOlivia. 10/10
^^^^^^^^^
These are all really good tips!
Copy editing/grammar fun fact: "six-year-old" should be hyphenated only when it's being used as a compound adjective! ("The six-year-old boy." vs. "The boy is six years old.") ☺️
This! I had to reprint almost my entire book because the italics didn't transfer, and I only noticed after revisiting this comment and actively looking for it :')
I've been thinking about doing this with Passerine but I didn't know where to get started, Jess my saviour 🙌
Also this counts as a recommendation which is great for me cause I never know what to read
My first thought after seeing this video was also Passerine! That story deserves to be put into a book and probably even sold in actual book stores because that thing’s quality!
@@karamelalb2328 sadly making profit from fanfic can put the writers and fan work in general in legal danger😪
@@Charlottiepops Of course. I'm just saying that for example Passerine is in my opinion way better than some actually monetized books I've read and it's a shame that the author doesn't get the chance to monetize their hard work, if they wanted to. :)
I'm doing that right now but I'm writing it by hand so it's talking a while.
I desperately need to do this with all of my AO3 bookmarks. I also think it'd be cool to combine a bunch of one-shots from the same fandom into one book - so it's a sort of collection of "short stories."
omg your brain works in amazing ways
I thought the same. My favorite fics are only a few chapters so i printed them out and put in a mini three ring binder with custom cloth cover to make it look fancy.
@@zestracoon1552lol was thinking of it but i think imma cram alot more in bcause they’e all about 1000 words and one measly chapter so-
YEA
I actually do this. I combine one shots that share similarities like Fandom, ship, tags etc. Love it
Some of my favourite DSMP (mainly sbi) fics:
- Tommyinnit’s Clinic for Supervillians by bonesandthebees (finished)
- Ours Poetica by Zeeskeit (unfinished)
- This is Not an Act of Spite by Alex_Wants_To_Die and ellabellachicketychella (unfinished)
- Hush Now (You Were Lost but Now You’re Found) by CorpseArt (unfinished)
Also I would recommend basically all of bonesandthebees fics, their writing style is so nice and fluid!
I’ve read all of those, I agree. They’re all amazing.
'This is Not an Act of Spite' is my favorite fic, when/if it gets finished im making it into a hard cover
Yessss vouch for Ours Poetica when it’s finished, it’s one of my favorite fics
OHMYGOSHH YASS! I LOVE THE CLINIC STORY!!
I have read all of these and I can agree they are such cool fics
a few years ago I looked into "where can I get a book printed online" but realized having a 900k fic printed at an online store is a a pain in the ass so I gave up, never considered actually binding it myself....now I might give that a try some time HMMM
Also its better to bind it yourself because paying to get it binded can cause legal trouble for the fanfic author :(
900k oh my- where do you guys even find these things😭
@@reliefmelody im reading one thats almost finished and is 900k roughly, except its only the first in a 2 part series, the second part hasnt even begun to be posted yet💀💀
@@reliefmelody I’m going to guess AO3 (Archive Of Our Own)
I watched this and immediately begged my dad to take me to a second hand bookstore. The whole trip I was like “I’m gonna tear this book apart~”
Two days of formatting and one day of folding and I’m almost done!! I’ve got some glueing left but by the end of today I hope to have a hardcover copy of Several Witches Are Typing by azhdarchidaen!
It’s an Owl House fic and it’s reallyreallyreallyreally good!!!
I've been binding fanfic for years now, I have well over 200 different fanfics of varying sizes, and some with multiple volumes too. And I'm so glad to see other fans doing this as well! Thanks Jess for adding more fans to this niche craft! I cant wait to see what you do next :D
That is so cool! That must have been lot of work
Any tips on where to buy good paper in bulk? I see a lot of sites, but I don't know which paper to get and I don't like printer paper because it's really thin. Any suggestions?
Printing all the pages is so daunting for me 😭😭 but I really want to do what you've been doing
@@abbee_6557 it can be scary yeah. But sometimes it just takes trial and error to get into a good groove for making books. You got this, I believe in you! :)
I wish I could do this. I have many favorite fanfic authors but they're just gone now and their amazing wonderful stories. Only remembered by those who had read them. To counter this sadness, I always think they got picked by a publisher and their stories are being enjoyed and appreciated outside the fandom which this is the reason for some of them being gone.
My mother works in a library where she repairs books. Sometimes, the books are so old that they go to be recycled to be made into new books. But this time ahahah she saved me the hardcover shells of four (4) books. It is time for me to print out that PremingerxOC fanfic ahaha.
FREAKING I LOST IT AT PREMINGER!!!! Everyone else go home we found the best fan fiction.
Preminger... as in... the barbie villain?
@@fangurks I don't make 'em. I just find 'em. You'd be surprised at the Preminger (yes the barbie villain) fandom.
Omg that's iconic!
I- wow
Man, if someone did this for my fanfic, my life would be complete. There is no reward that money can buy that could top this. The dedication it takes to do this project for the love of someone else's story is insane. The real MVPs are the fans that read these works and this is the reason why we write. And I think I can speak on behalf of others who write that If we can just make one person's day better by tapping into their imagination, it makes everything all worthwhile. Congrats to the fellow who had their story enshrined in physical history.
Ikk I wish someone bound my fanfic as well so that I can just hug it and kiss it and see someone's eyes light up as they receive it
You could probably get it commissioned on like fivver or smt
Me too!!! If anyone wants to please bind a book for me I’ll pay
@@moonchildstudio8259 I really wish i could help, but if your fanfiction is of a copyrighted fandom, then i don't know if it's allowed to be sold-
What fandom is it from? :^
As soon as “This is Not an Act of Spite” is finished it is becoming a book, thank you for the tutorial!
so true so true. truly a masterpiece of a fic, it deserves it.
I LOVE THAT FIC! also the childrens rebellion-
AS IT SHOULD >:D
SO TRUEEEE
@@nickelpickel5648 oh my god i have been dreaming of a TCR book since chapter 2. I NEED TO DO THIS NOW ????
One day I just want a shelf on my fanfic like this so when someone comes over I can just see the confusion in their face when they open a book to see myct fight dragons for like 100 chapters-
yes
do it
Update:I have a hard cover book,im atleast doing one book ;w;
remember kids, make sure the author of the fic is okay with their works being bound, and NEVER take commissions to bind fics or sell any physical copies you make of fics, that is illegal and jeopardizes the ability for fanfiction to exist in the future
(that said if things were different i can definitely think of a few fics i would love to have as books)
I have this fanfiction that I've been meaning to turn into a book- It called "Drinks in new york city" in Ao3 AND HOLY HELL IS IT A MASTSRPIECE- I 100% recommend it if you want to read more heartbreaking fics besides Passerine! Btw, Thanks for the great tutorial Jess! I've been meaning to try doing this as project. Real helpful :]
link? 👀
Link??? Link?????
YESSS- ITS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE FICSX-
I believe that the author is Moonlightmist!
Yes!!!
I'm so thankful that some one commented this fanfic it's a new favorite for me
If I were to do this with every fanfic I love, I'd have an entire libraries' worth of fics
Tips:
(I love this so much and wanted to add some additional advice as someone who professionally learned bookbinding as well as editing! :))
1. I'd personally run chunks of the text or the thing as a whole through a spelling program or re-read it and fix spelling mistakes just because I'm a perfectionist and not only want to honour the work but also do it justice to spell it the way it was meant to :)
2. I would set the text to full justification with the last row adjusted to the left, remove AO3's blank lines (which make sense for digital paragraphs) and instead create the analogue paragraph indentations. This would also save lots of paper. It does work best in InDesign for sure, which is what I'm working with and I know that non-professionals might struggle with these adjustments, I just wanted to recommend them anyway, because most of these are doable in word too! :)
3. I'd use a thinner thread so as not create large gaps between pages in the inner book, I think the thicker one totally works in this case though for the aesthetic!
4. Usually for a high quality hardcover bookbinders will add a piece of colourful fabric that is glued to the back of the inner book. It can be just at the top and bottom or all the way through. If there's supposed to be a bookmark this can simply be glued underneath that. (I sadly can't find the proper vocabulary to name these things in english cause it's not my first language) With the added fabric this makes for a more neat look when opening a hardcover, since the inner spine might get exposed and the fabric covers that up!
5. I'd account for additonal page length and cut the entire inner book with an electrical paper cutter after finishing to make the entire thing smooth. I don't know about your country but in mine we have access to these in copy-shops. This would also enable fore-edge painting!
When you make it into a book, you can see just how many pages they are. It's astonishing just how much love and time fanfic writers put into work. I'm always so grateful that they provide quality books that could have won prizes to read for free.
Bones deserves to be an actual book form, I love that fic so much
This is amazing because now you can read fanfics in public without judgement 😩
TRUE
You can look all sophisticated and academic while secretly being like _hehehe fanfic-_
Wait you just saying that is genius, I can finally read it at school since we’re not allowed phones or digital books omg I NEED to do this sometime to aytd or some other super good fanfics 😊
17:32 (Salesman voice) “Now you too can read fan fiction in public & claim to be reading a thrilling novel from the 1800s!”
A nicely done tutorial for DIY bookbinding. A couple of tips for you: Elmer's "school glue" is PVA glue. Also, when doing the pressing of the signatures, a low to medium clothing iron can do in a matter of moments what a can of fruit salad can't do in 8 hours. Optionally, you could add a ribbon for a book marker glued to the spine of the signatures before setting the cover.
saving this :)
I was thinking of just using two scrap boards from my dad's workshop and four of my brother's C-clamps. But an Iron could work 🤔
This has given me a perfect idea for my best friend's birthday present. They're a fanfic writer and artist but mostly write one-shots, this makes me want to make a hardcover collection of their fics for them
Thats such a good idea!
thats so sweet omg! as a fanfic author i would genuinely cry if someone did this for me
What’s so good about AO3 is that you can really bookmark the gems. “The Changeling” by Annerb is my favourite in the Harry Potter community
I wish I had downloaded one that was in progress, I think the author's account ended up hacked. The Viking's Throne by BlueBlaze77 was really getting good and it's just...gone. I can't find it archived anywhere.
@@MakoKitten no, it's actually still there on the AO3. I looked it up and it has full 11 chapters. Not sure if there is supposed to be a sequel cuz I haven't read it before
@@WhatTheFlo No, it's actually not there. The Viking's Throne is over 80 chapters long, it's a Hermione Granger/Oliver Wood/Charlie Weasley fanfiction by BlueBlade77. There is nothing matching it on AO3 when I look it on AO3. You can find some of the chapters on some scammy sites like novelww, but they're ripped from AO3 with no mention of the author at all. Their account is gone, their works are gone, and all that's really left is a reddit post.
@@MakoKitten hermione, oliver and charlie? what and odd mix
@@sofilupi It is, but somehow it worked. It takes place post war and Hermione ends up working in Romania with Charlie and they co-parent a small brood of baby dragons, it was a really well told story and honestly it could have been a novel in its own right.
I’m doing this with My Immortal (yes, THAT ONE). Since I can’t kill a book, I’ll be making the hardcover!
if you do... please share tips... i`m starting this journey and i´m in need of all the help and tips i can get
@@Livebunny86 if your book is too thick, use string and bee wax, but MAKE SURE ITS WAXED ENOUGH!!! There’s a chance that you get the wax off with every pass through the holes, wax it when you feel like “yeah, I should do that) or it’ll start knotting on itself and you’ll cry… again…
Link please? 🥺🙏
YEEEEES VERY BASED
@@novemberninth4392 what fic is it ? 😭
I just found out my comfort fanfic, that i've read at least 15 times so far, has nearly 400k (398 842 to be exact) words thanks to this video and I am shooketh. edit: it is also nowhere near finished
you like my hero academia i see
@@chihu9935 how did you know 😀
@@lucy-sw8vl well there is only one fic on ao3 with exactly 398 842 words
but lets just pretend im psychic
@@chihu9935 makes sense 🥲
can yall drop the link pls 👁
NOW. WHO IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO TURN PASSERINE INTO A BOOK?!
(Just imagine someone walks into your house and sees a bookshelf just full of fanfics)
I DID TURN IT INTO ONE AND I ALSO DID SHRIKE
Hey I did it too.
I READ THAT AND I SOBBED
My goal is to make my own library out of my favorite fanfics
My ultimate dream
The only fanfic I've listened to is Passerine. If there's an audio book of this one I think I'll check it out too.
Seriously cool to be bringing these works of art to life!
ua-cam.com/play/PLwNLJ1kXYZoSWYCDiEeN_YDb0pIpEbjsp.html I posted this a moment ago with no context and have now realised how that seems weird or scam-y. It's a link to the passerine podcast UA-cam channel, they have readings of a couple mcyt first and fortunately for you this is one of them.
you can try copy pasting a fic and putting it into text to speech!
@@godiloveyttd authentic reading is a lot more entertaining
@@blueblade6174 true, but if you have no other option, its there
There is an audio book off Bones In the Ocean also
Girl my current fav fic is over 100 000 words and it's not even finished yet, I'm low-key considering turning it into a book now
I mean you could do multiple tomes👀
My two all time favorite fanfics are “passerine” and “flowers from 1970” both of them made me cry 😬
same✊ those are the only fics i have read in ao3
Who is the author of “flowers from 1970”?
What fandom are they for?
@@hibiowo73 both dsmp fanfiction, passerine is about sbi and ff1970 is dteam i think, both are vv good
@@hibiowo73 mcyt
Wow that's really cool !
If you are looking for some reading, I recommend "Change fate by being aggressively kind" by sircantus on ao3, where it is literally Philza who adopts "monsters of the apocalypse" turning out to be the rest of the sbi, as per usual.
And also "Fanmail to an Immortal" by PiperTheViper also on ao3. This fic is not finished and "quite" short for the moment, but it makes me laugh so here it is.
And finally, "RacoonInnit is Pog at Villainy" by AJ_the_BreadKing on ao3, which is a complete story and just exceptionally funny :D
I was literally just about to suggest Change fate be being aggressively kind
@@Iloveanimals-gu9pp Yeaaaah
I ecommend Change fate, too. If it wasn't still work in progress I would want to print it into a book. It's literally my comfort fic.
Yessss, change fate is so good! Stay underneath my wing by sircantus is also a good read :)
I read the first one you mentioned. Will have to check out the other two!
Turning a Fanfiction into a physical book, this girl is a genius! Why did I never think about it before?
As long as they don’t sell them it’s fine unless it’s like completely their own characters and their everything is theirs but if it’s someone else’s work likes a Harry Potter fanfic and then you print it and sell it without the writers consent or J. K. Rowling‘s consent that’s illegal
Some of my favorite and recommended dsmp fics (mostly tommy-centric and sbi):
- Into the Night by Interjection
- Passerine by thcscus / blujama
- His Curse of Binding by bari_astralis
- Blood Magic by Amilia_Farem
- Black Bird Fly by MolyPollyKinz
- three months of letters by IDONTWRITELEMONS (wedontwritelemons)
- TommyInnit's unbeatable method of avoiding sudden death by eneli
- tommyinnit's clinic for supervillains by bonesandthebees
- Ad Astra and De Terra by Hellenite
- oh dear, can you see me? by findingkairos
- Hush Now (You Were Lost but Now You’re Found) by CorpseArt
- We've taken different paths but I know we'll always end up on
the same one by Alexander_Wesker
i find a lot of them as hidden gems
tommys unbeatale method of avoiding sudden death (tumosad) is really funny! i fell out of my chair laughing once. ive read through the *whole* thing, its just vibes
Same! So funny but then the end hit and I was NOT ready. Really got me there huh?
Event horizon!!! :D
These ones are really good, I'm actually reading De Terra and its so awesome!
oh dear, can you see me is incredible!!
Can you imagine having your favorite fanfic in physical form…?!?! You can smell it, feel it, you can annotate it!!! A genius idea, Thank you for this.
I love how perfectly you summarized fanfiction.
With the recent news, I imagine this is going to be a very precious book for anyone lucky enough to get it. :(
i'm not in fandom so I don't know, but did something happen?
@@blue889 Technoblade (real name Alex) passed away. :(
@@TheSylversword21 a real person or a character they are role playing?
@@JustJoe10 real person. He died recently of cancer.
He lives on through our memories and through the stories we tell now
If you don't want to tear apart an old book there's a great video by sea lemon on how to make a hard book cover! And nerdforge have a lot of videos showing how to make the cover look more vintage. It will take more effort but I'm putting this here in hopes people who feel very uncomfortable with using actual old books (like myself) will see!! hope it helps
This is why you're my favorite Jojo
THANK YOU!!
I have already made a list of about 20 fanfics and planned an area to put a bookshelf for them. Now to convince my parents to let me do this- 😂
Relatable lol
Me: yeah I’m going to do that with flowers from the 1970’s
Also me: * realises that I have exams in three weeks *
Nevermind I’ll do that during summerbreak
Thank you so much for the amazing video and project.
Your Karl Jacobs memory book tutorial really helped me to finish the cosplay.
I want to thank you for the amazing content you give us!!!
Flowers From 1970 is easily one of the BEST dsmp fan-fics! I sobbed during that story, if u do do this with ff1970 hope u have fun!
"Take Care of those flowers wrong numbers"
This is literally my exact thought process-
Flowers from 1970 is the best fanfic besides passer one that I’ve read so far
@@jibblejoobers hehe, Flowers From 1970 is a mixture of pure AMAZING and Heartbreak
@@rebekahtink4996 FOR REAL. i'm rereading it currently
The fact that people can write enough of one story to make a full book amazes me
My boyfriend and I are writing 8 books .
i didn't know someone could be so cultivated to make a video about this fine art of, not just fanfiction but binding the old art of fanficiton.
I would love to do this with Tommyinnit's Clinic for Supervillians by bonesandthebees. It's one of, if not, the best fanfics I've ever read. If anyone out there is looking for dsmp or superhero content, or just likes stories that have a way of questioning or flipping moral dilemmas on their heads, I would highly recommend!
New Deceit's an Old Design by Sundial_at_Night is a really good superhero au series too! Its mostly crimeboys centric but all of sbi are there
@@umythyst That sounds great, I'll be sure to check it out!
What website is it on??
@@azula_in_atophat8364 archive of our own
Okay, this is COOL AS CRAP. Not me freaking out over my favorite fic and Wolfy's art printed in color and how flipping cool the cover is. Everything about this is amazing and I'd love to do it myself, hopefully with some of my own writing someday?? Which also means I'll need to actually write so I'd better get doing that more consistently *nervous laughter* but AMAZING JOB
This can be an Etsy thing, I would literally pay people to make hardcover copies of my favorite fanfictions.
Same!!! I wish that was a thing 😭
I think that would count on profiting off someone else’s work, so if it’s not the author themselves selling them, I really wouldn’t consider it
@@Tsoos I honestly think no author would mind another hobbyist doing that. Of course, they would have to ask the authors. I imagine the problem would be with the original work's Copyright holder.
that is not legal by any means, you can't profit out of someone's else's copyrighted work
@@tearofgod You can pay for materials and labour, just not for the fanfic itself.
As a Fanfiction writer myself, this is something amazing, this brings our stories to life more so then how we first thought would go, and this is also inspires me to maybe do this with some of my own stories as well
"All the young dudes" definitely deserves all the hype it's been getting recently, definitely my favourite fanfiction. other than that "Ukiyo" by Sharleena and "The Brightest Stars Shine Here" by strawberrysummers.
I’ve actually already seen people bookbind ATYD lol, it was a while ago too, so you’re def not alone in bringing that one up
@@alexwalleman2470 yh, didn't it go viral on Tiktok a while back? But wow, bookbinding a 1800 page book? Hmm
@@Jojo-gf1el I think people made it a three book series, I’ve commonly seen people split them as Years 1-4, Years 5-7, War Years-Til the End.
@@name.1031 ‘war chapters-til the end’ it’s fine. Didn’t need a dry face anyway
Yes omg I actually came to this video bc I was considering binding ATYD- now I’m thinking binding a shorter fic sounds like a good present for my friend who’s in a lot of similar fandoms :P
The fanfic I’m referring to is “Habits of a Lifetime” by out_there if anyone was wondering~ it’s legitimately the best mycroft/lestrade fic ive ever read
This video inspired me to bind a fanfic for my mom, over 300,000 words, it took months, i even had to split it into 4 separate books.
But she said it was the best gift she had ever gotten!
So, thank you Jess, for this wonderful video.
Pls do Passerine, it’s literally good enough to be passed off as actual literature
imo passerine is better than most of the actual books ive read
Oh! What about "Tommyinnit's Clinic for Supervillains" I'm listening to a read of it and it's amazing!! Highly recommend!
is it completed? i thought it was still being made?
@@kenzie_snow It’s been completed. It is SOOO good; highly recommend! Hope this helps! :)
Agreed, That story is truly beautiful 🥲
I just read it all by pulling an all-nighter, and yes, it’s fucking amazing
@@sparklingdeath1730 it really is! I was so scared we where actually gonna lose Siren tho on chp.25!
I've commented before and I'll comment again, but this time to tell you I have finally attempted to do the thing! I have friends birthday coming up and as fanfiction is something we have bonded tremendously over, I decided this would be the perfect gift. I've got everything printed out and now my signatures are folded and being pressed for stitching. I'm very excited about how this is turning out and now that I've tried it once, I foresee a lot more in my future...
13:38
that mid video rant... that is truth and we do write because we love our favourite characters (a little too much in some cases) and go on to write like what an eternal fic about it! As someone who is going through it myself, with writing something I never thought I'd write... (yes a literal book.. :) ) I really appreciate people like this in the fandom culture! You go Jess!
This is officially my new favourite youtube video of all time.
I'm not even joking.
I am TOTALLY doing this, my only problem NOW is to choose just one fanfic!!! (and get supplies lmao!)
Also love how it was next to Heartstopper on your bookshelf HAHA
thank you so much for taking the time to make this video! I've barely ever been this excited about a potential project, but as an avid reader, mcyt fan and artist, it's something I know I'll enjoy :D
0:10 Yes!! A whole series was on AO3, genuinely some of, if not THE best literature I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading! And then! It was deleted off of the site!!! I die a little every time I remember it. Now I know to always download my favorite fics to hold onto them forever!
Can you find it on wayback?
@@woodenkat8971 I tried to, it took me to the sign-in because it was only available to account holders, and ever time I signed in, it reset to the original page. I don’t know if it will work, but I’ll try again!
One of my favorite fanfics, Symphonious Solitude on Ao3, is about Fundy escaping the DSMP and finding a home in Hermitcraft, I am still reading it, and its already one of my favorites ^^
Who’s the author?
i remember this :D
I actually have one where Tommy escaped the smp to hermit craft and got the help he needed plus there’s a bunch of drama at the end
“Shells In The Foam” I forget the author
A rift through worlds is a good one
SO PROUD OF YOU AND YOUR PROGRESS JESS!!!
Also, if you haven’t read it, “the little children raise their open filthy palms” by thanotaphobia (blue000jay) is a good SBI Zombie AU on AO3. Obviously Passerine by Thcscus is also incredible and I’ve been meaning to make that one into a hardcover so this will be a great tutorial for starting that project!
omg i loved that one!read it so many times
I turned "Not easily conquered" into a book! It's a trilogy, so I made three books and I'm in love with them 😭😭 I've loved this fic for years and it's amazing to read it in print, and knowing that I made it myself makes it even better (I even like the mistakes I made along the way lol). Thank you for this video! ❤❤
When i heard the word pirate techno, i cried its only been a few hour since the news he passed…may our king Rest In Peace
Blood for the Blood god
Legends never die
I would totally turn "Ad Astra" (by Hellenite on AO3) into a book but I have absolutely no time, lol.
Love that story
I completely agree its so amazing
I have a little trick for if you want to create a very old looking book, maybe even going towards a wheathered kinda treasure-mappy way (if you know what kinda look I mean lol):
Just use cold coffee and spill a tiny amount on every page, dap it off with a kitchen towel and let it dry. It's gonna "wrinkle" a bit, you can leave it like this or press it down.
When you want the discolouring to be fainter, mix the coffee with water and dillute it down a bit. You can propably build the colour up a tiny bit too by doing this twice for example, so if you're unsure about the amount of water you want to use, then put a bit more in and maybe do this a second time if it's fainter than you want it to be. I wouldn't do that process more times than that though.
And remember to always let the pages first dry completely before continuing!
Passarine is amazing. If you ship Dnf, Flowers from 1970 if just **chefs kiss** but sad. There is also a really nice finished SBI one called “pleasing a storm” on Wattpad, it’s amazing.
"George, I just wanted to say one thing, and thats Thank You." Clays voice was so broken and George found something off-putting about it, "Thank You for all the late night talks, the stories you'd tell, everything. You changed my life, thats for sure. I just cant have my heart in 2020 when it belongs to 1970. I'll fall for you more, and if i go deeper i might not get out of it. Mabye, in another life, you and I were together happily, the way i want it to be. The way it should be. But it was just bad timing"- ff1970
my favourite author picked up DIY sewing/binding book (idk what it's called in english) as a hobby recently so she asked readers if there's anyone interested in printed version of her story. it turns out good, the binding is not perfect but neat enough. the bind is very strong compared to other mass printed book and I love it🥰
Me at past: I'm going to translate "Bones in the ocean" on my native language just because there are no translation
Also me: you know what? I will make an entire translated book >:)
I’m a paid author and personally yes, writing actually gives me tranquility, seeing the image that is playing in my head turn into words is extremely satisfying that I got carried away, once I am done with writing a book, I ended up surprised myself on how much words I have written and also at the success of making a whole novel!
Your book binding skills deserve a huge applause, the determination and effort you put is just mind blowing itself and I love to see more of it!😍❤️
This is amazing. Maybe one day I will have my own bookshelf just full of fanfictions.
Passerine on Ao3. It’s amazing and sad. That, or Butterfly Reign. Or Tommyinnit’s clinic for supervillains. They are my favourites and are also really popular.
Jess, I think that the thumbnail should not have been changed, why? Because it feels like doing so, people are "deleting" him from the fandom if I can put it that way. I understand that people might be doing that out of respect for his family or others still grieving, but it feels wrong? He's worked so hard to get where he is right now and I think that removing him from videos and such is simply erasing his memory. I don't want that to happen and I don't think others would either. I'm not hating on you. I'm simply stating my feelings toward the thumbnail change. Thank you for reading this whole comment and if anyone reading this disagrees, please express it respectfully, I don't want this comment to be the source of a comment war.
You make some valid points, and I agree that we should keep honoring him and all he did for the community. I am by no means trying to erase him from the video. Just at this time, I don't want it to come across that I'm capitalizing on his image. For this thumbnail in particular, since Phil is just as important of a character in the story, I thought it would be the most respectful thing to do. And if I'm being honest, it made me really emotional to see his character in the thumbnail every time I looked at my channel. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts. We are all going through a tough time grieving his passing and figuring out how to manage.
@@JessLess Of course. You too are correct on many things. I think Philza should stay on the thumbnail not only for the time being because he truly is just as important as Techno is in the story. I should have clarified that in the original comment. I have just been seeing videos and such removing him as of late so I guess I was just scared (not that you would do such a thing). That's not the point though. What I'm trying to say is you have many good reasons for changing the thumbnail and you should keep it as it is currently. However, once time passes and we come to terms with our feelings towards the situation and the situation itself no less. Could you have Philza and Techno both on the thumbnail? It would be reminiscent of the original thumbnail and emphasize that they are both equally important to the story. Of course, you don't have to do any of this if you don't want to, it's more of a personal preference really. I just want to thank you for talking to me about this during such a tragic yet new situation at not all of us have fully grasped.
I have a fanfic I want to do this with but it’s not finished yet, time to watch this over and over again until it’s finished
YES I love “Bones in the Ocean” so much, it made me cry so many times but it’s so cute 😭💕
And it’s also so well written, I can only dream to reach that level of writing 😔✨
My best friend and I have a fic that I will not disclose here that we call "the cursed fic" because it's s just the worst possible thing you could ever imagine reading with your own two eyes. I thank you for the wonderful Christmas present idea
That cork board and thumbtack tip is really neat, thank you
You could try this with Passerine next time! :"D
Very cool, will definitely be doing it with a fanfic. I also have some recommendations though. “Miserably failing at faerie kidnapping after getting too attached to the kid you’re trying to kidnap” by pomcaa. “Broken rhythms” by AreusWritesFanfic. “That’s like a hundred miles” by No_one_you_know. “Scaled schemes” by Flustered. “Kings to You” by Flustered. “Cold Prayer” by LittleCloud_Ao3. And lastly “The case of fire inside” by trying_to_spell_both_our_names_at_once
OH MY GOD I LOVE THE FAE KIDNAPPING FIC
“Kings to You” is one of my favorite
Case of the fire inside my beloved!!
I literally love you. I have been trying to print a fan fiction for about two weeks and could not for the life of me figure out how to print it. You are a blessing you have saved Christmas. Thank you.
This was so cool! I really wanna bind Ad Astra and De Terra, both by Hellenite, but the word count is very daunting and idk if I can fit the both of them in one book lol
I LOVE THAT SERIES SO MUCH
AAAA! I LOVE THOSE!! I REALLY WANNA DO THEM TOO!!
THIS
YES! I love that series!
Hell yeah, oh by the way have you seen casserole's animatic of this fanfic? Cuz u really should check it out!
You can get the page order in word, no Adobe required. Just go into page layout, it should be in the advance margins menu. There, you can also select how many pages are in the signature. This also lets you print the whole book all at once instead of one signature at a time, you just have to pay attention to your page numbers.
The advance setting also has a feature for mirrored margins that are wider on the inside to account for lost space in the binding. Very handy if you want to use Japanese stab stitching instead, but also to minimize the outside margin to fit more on a single page. Or just give yourself a little wiggle room for a little wobbliness. My first book is diffidently on the looser side. It's The Colony of Gotham by Crzyfun and the spine is duck tape. Currently working on Embers by Vathara.
I'm doing this with Passerine! I decided to handwrite it, so it's taking a long time, I currently have 4 of an estimated 22 signatures. I aged the pages with tea as well, I think it's going to turn out really well.
Oh wow! I wish u luck with that! Sounds like an awesome project ^-^
But seriously, imagine.... years from now, maybe your grandchildren or even great grandchildren are gonna find that book and ask you about it. Oh I'm just thinking of another plot to finish a story I'm working on. Thank you for this. Really appreciate it. I was thinking of making a fantasy love story, but based on my parents Anniversary. I'm planning on turning it to a book and giving it to them as a present.
literally thank you SO MUCH! i've been having an issue with page design and you helped me solve it so THANKS!! I would have gone mad if i didn't fix it soon so just yeah tysm!!!
I don’t go here but here are some fics I love haha (all on AO3):
- Doing the Work (Naruto Fic, finished)
- City of Strays (Naruto Fic, finished)
- Nothing Gold Can Stay (LoTR Fic, ongoing)
- oh, how far you are from home (Lotr & GoT Fic, finished)
- When Alliances Fell (LoTR Fic, ongoing)
- Precipice (Star Wars Prequels Fic, finished)
- Back From the Future: Episode VI The Clone Wars (Star Wars Fic, finished)
- It Happened Quiet (Star Wars Fic, finished)
I love this video! It’s clear so much effort was put into it. I really love the detail put into the professional camera angles and the lighting is so nice, (pretend I know what I’m talking abt), and packaged evenly into 18 minutes solid (which makes me illogically happy) and OOH the effort into making sure the video was clear and comprehensive. Even tho I don’t have the time to actually bind books, I still watched anyways bc it’s such a lovely video and it’s kinda like a nice mini documentary. Watching the entire thing was like dumping serotonin on my brain. But who knows, maybe I’ll try it out bc you made it look so fun. Congrats on your first sponsor! It’s well deserved and I wish you many sponsorships to come
OMG Back from the Future almost broke me. I was enjoying the fic and their relationship so dang much, and then got to the end and IT happened. Read the tags carefully, friends. It's still one of my favorites, but my heart still flinches when I see it. I'm hoping the sequel gives Vader some much-needed happiness 😭😭😭
I have a lot of fanfictions I really love but the Zuko-centric ones are always my favorite. From the Ashes, Salvage, While Mighty Oaks Do Fall... All of those are worthy of being made into books a thousand times over
my first thought watching this was "I should do this with Embers", which is a 720k zuko-centric fic, but uh,,, that's probably too long for this
@@honeydragon3909 I love Embers and yeah, that would be a lot of work !!!
8:10, you can use an exacto knife or super sharp knife and a ruler to cut the pages instead of a paper trimmer. It just probably won't be completely exact.
wonderful job! i love the idea of placing the signatures within an old repurposed book. i hope to bind all of "all the young dudes" someday- a mere 526,969 words lol
I really wanna bind The Lost Prince, but it's currently unfinished with slow updates >.<
Once it is actually finished though I'll see if I can find an existing book big enough to fit all 309,501 (plus however more get added) words xD
I started reading "Bones in the Ocean" and it is a really good one. I cried in chapter 13, it was super sad.
Tommyinnit's Clinic for Supervillians and Tommyinnit's Unbeatable Method of Avoiding Sudden Death are both really good! I could go on and on about over 100 fics that I have read and love in the MCYT community but then I would be here for hours so I'm just gonna leave you with those two absolutely iconic fics.
Omg I love those
I have a few. the My Hero ones are "Type Two Hero", "Quirkless Reject'" and "UA Ranger" this one has been redone so I recommend the revamped version. The mcyt one is "Ascension of the Dragon God". The original is "Never Wake a Sleeping Dragon" and both have more adult themes but the Ascension is the kinder one of the two
Okay, but we need to honor heatwaves as the legend it is. The fic literally broke Ao3; it deserves a hardcover.
Yes it does
Link?
@@cryptid_user5080 If youtube deletes my comment it's "Heat Waves" by "tbhyourelame"
Edit: It's also a dnf shipping fic
Didn't break only Ao3, but the entire internet Glass Animals may have become famous only thanks to the fix, as Heatwaves (the song) after the big boom in ao3, got... Suspiciously Popular.
Here we are now with Heatwaves on the radio and me crying.
@@Doubl3_Black I heard heatwaves on the speakers at a Main Event and immediately texted my friend about it. I have not read the fic yet because everyone says it makes them cry and I don’t want to cry yet.
Thank you so much ! I have so many fics I want to book bind like this so I can add them to my library. These stories deserve that much!
I love this! Just FYI! ALWAYS ask the author of the fic for permition to do this!
I think I'm going to do this with my own fanfic (Sunflowers and Sand if you're curious) just to see how long my story is! This is so cool
Quick remark and tips for making a fanfic book look as professional as possible:
1. Often in published books, chapter titles (or story titles for a collection of written pieces) are set on uneven page number (1-3-177 etc.) which results in the title being on the right side of when reading.
2. You can Google which font are commonly used in books. There’s Time new Roman, Gamond, Palatino or Georgia etc.
3. Indented paragraphs for me is a must. It makes everything more readable, coupled with the paragraph spacing.
4. About pages being upside down when printed:
Idk if it’s my computer, the printer I’m using or Adobe Reader but when I print tested the first booklet of the fic I wanted to bookbinding, all the back side of the pages are upside down. I tried changing the settings on Adobe but nothing works and I can’t access the printer settings so what I did is download a pdf reader app from Apple Store (I’m on Mac) I hope it will fix the issue.
i was printing some pages to check if adobe set the offsetting right, and like for you, it printed upside down, but mostly the main problem was that it printed the pages that were supposed to be on opposite sides of the same paper on two different ones T-T. i don't think my printer is sophisticated enough to print on both sides of a single sheet of paper in one go but not even this,,, did you have this problem as well? i don't want to print every page one by one lol
@@letizia2827 I went to my school printer and accessed the file I wanted to print directly on it. In the settings of the file, I switched the F/B printing to F/B (short side). I also downloaded a different PdF reader than Adobe, ticked the automatic rotation.
But depending on your printer, you need to find to find the print on short side option directly on the PDF reader.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality! It will always not only be one of the best fan fic I've ever experienced, but also one of the best Harry Potter books, canon or otherwise. It's long, it's wordy, and it makes you feel smart when you can keep up with it!
Harry potter and lack of lamb sauce 👀
@@noranizaazmi6523 YES YES YES
As a fanfic writer, it's great to print these for yourself or as gifts for friends, but PLEASE do NOT try and sell binded fics!!! Unless, of course, you have the author's direct permission:)