Renegade Edible Book Day 2023

And that's a wrap!

(actually, it's more like a taco?)

While efforts to wrangle the first annual Edible Book Week may have been a bit half baked, some of us are calling it a success! Two baking classes, a number of WIP edible photos shared, and enough puns to choke on-- we're here. April 1st! Edible Book Day!

Members of Renegade did not disappoint! Behold the tasty treats offered for your viewing pleasure!  And if you'd like, feel free to vote in our joke poll -- it's all for fun because clearly every entry is a winner!

Sushi Book 

created by  rhipiduridae

i like sushi and normally it’s smol and round and quite おいしい but now it’s flat and tho i’m shook i pick it up i lik the book

The Breakfast Pages (Pancake, egg, green onion and cilantro)

created by Lauren

If I would attempt this again I would experiment with adding flavor to the pages and the pancakes. While edible unseasoned and basic, not the most tasty.

Renegade's Other Motto

created by Daemonluna 

Nori cover ornamented with tofu skin, corn tortilla pages and mushroom letters attached with umiboshi paste, bound with cilantro stems.

I Don't Actually Like Ham

created by Lark

I would not make this again

A Sweet Snack

created by six

Dehydrated mango covers, crepe pages, pamphlet stitch with Twizzler. Very tasty!

Gingerbread tablets

created by Rachel Kadel

Writing practice, some cuneiform and some roman alphabet.  The cuneiform is mostly gibberish but says "Ashurbanipal" at least once.

Dyptic

created by anonymous

dyptic made of shortcrust and salted caramel, text written in blue food colour

My naym is Dyptic  and when of old  the peeple were sick scrolls to hold They split in half  now don't be schook a piece of wood to make first book

I love how different they all are!

I was happy to participate in @renegadepublishing's first Edible Book Day, rendering one of the group's unofficial mottos* in rehydrated mushrooms on corn tortilla pages, affixed with umiboshi paste. the cover is nori with a vague stab at the group's book press logo rendered in rehydrated tofu skins, bound with knotted cilantro stems.

My theme was "what can I find in the fridge, freezer and cupboard at 9pm on Friday night with no planning in advance?"

I wish I could say it was delicious, but it was actually pretty bland because the corner I bit was all plain tortilla with a bit of nori. The pages and cover were pretty good diced, pan-fried, and mixed in with some leftover fried rice, though.

*Seriously though, show us all an arcane bit of book construction, and someone's already reverse engineering. An expensive piece of equipment, and somebody has DIY plans. A discontinued product, and there's a group order with multiple colour coded spreadsheets, and a participant base big enough to generate its own lore. "But... what if we did?" is the prevailing ethos and I love it.

Earlier this year I had the good fortune to craft in the company of @fantailpress. Of course used the opportunity to snap a bunch of macro shots of their books on hand and an in progress. Beautiful work!

Guys!  Check out the Utterly Gorgeous book @rhipidurafan made for me in the Renegade Bindery Exchange 2022.

The fic I requested and they chose was and so my heart beats wildly by lily_winterwood aka @omgkatsudonplease, a modern MDZS Wangxian au about competitive cultivation.

The case, paper, endpages are all gorgeous as well as how they tie into the title and section pages.

I may have partly included this fic from my to be bound list in my requests because I knew it would be a lot of work to typeset and I’m not particularly good at doing texts and social media stuff.   But omg the finished product is so far beyond my dreams. 

I’m honestly DYING to read this fic in this form, and so tempted to take it with me on my trip next week, but no, I can’t risk hurting it at all.  It’ll have to wait till I get back. 

Thanks again to @rhiphidurafan. 

IT IS HERE!!!

When we received our exchange assignments, we get a short list of works to potentially bind for our recipient. Even though I’m not in MDZS fandom (yet??), as soon as I saw all the social media in this fic I knew I HAD to do it!

@omgkatsudonplease​ used a number of US and Chinese-based social media; I’m very lucky they pointed out almost all the Chinese or more obscure media (like GoldenSkate!) and that the other ones were very clear based on their format. I was hit in the face with nostalgia as soon as I saw their ohnotheydidnt LJ post!

Since this is social media-based, I added a couple minor touches that I hope the author appreciates, like the Tumblr “Community Violation” images, or the YouTube “not available in your country” images.

I also had way too much fun making the author’s actual Spotify playlist look like Spotify!

This was so much fun to work on, and I learned a LOT of new formatting tricks in LaTeX. Again, even though I’m not in the fandom (…yet) I’m almost certainly going to bind a copy for myself!

I’m so glad you appreciate it @three–rings​ - thank you for requesting it and giving me the opportunity to work on it! And thank you @omgkatsudonplease​ for writing such a gorgeous and hilarious story. 😍

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Typeset by Lysae, stunning, period-appropriate embroidery and ramie cloth courtesy of @squeeful​.

This contained a LOT of firsts: First time with homemade bookcloth, first time with EMBROIDERED cloth, first time doing double core endbands, and first time where I had a very specific deadline (Christmas). 😂 While there are imperfections, I’m still pretty happy with it overall.

Thank you for working on this with me, @squeeful​!

Slowly but surely continuing with my ficbindings! This is The Witcher fic No Reason To Run by @yoursummerfrost​. I made two copies, one for the author and one for @ageorwizardry​. 

When I asked @ageorwizardry​ what color she associates with Jaskier, she said red, with blue as a close second. Very conveniently I had some two-toned bookcloth that was perfect for the job. :D

I also had some fancy paper that has a nice translucent effect on the title page.

The image is Geralt’s wolf (of course) and the actual soundhole for Jaskier’s lute! Fun fact, the technical term is in fact soundhole. Wow.

The fun part about ficbinding for friends is that I’m getting requests for fics I haven’t read! So thank you @ageorwizardry​ for the rec, and thank you @yoursummerfrost​ for writing a hilarious and lovely fic. :D

FanFiction Writer’s Appreciation Day!

In celebration of FanFiction Writer’s Appreciation Day, I participated in Renegade Loves Fic(writers) for the first time. And now I’m super happy to reveal the book!

Here is i walked and reached the sea, a soothing and lovely BTS fic by @poppyseedheart.

The photos don’t quite do it justice, but the I used a two-toned Duo bookcloth to match the fic’s Cheongsando Island Vibes™. It changes from green to yellow depending on the angle.

The title page graphic is a canola flower stalk, again as a reference to Cheongsando.

There was a fair amount of lyrics in Hangul, which ended up being super easy to typeset in LaTeX (phew).

While I made a copy for my dear friend @rhythmelia​, I’m thrilled I got to also make this for the author!

@poppyseedheart, thank you for writing such a beautiful story, and for the opportunity to bind and gift this to you. 💚💛

My first finished ficbinding! This is we have loved the stars too fondly, a Yuri!!! On Ice fic by the talented @handsingsweapon​, as a gift for @rhythmelia​. The fic is all about astronomy, and as soon as I saw this decorative paper I knew what I wanted to do with it.

This was a relatively small work for a cased-in binding (48 pages) but I was able to cut the spine board thin enough to make it work.

The end pages are a Dramatic wine color in approximate tribute to the costumes Yuuri and Viktor wear at the end. 💙💖

The typesetting was really fun - there are a number of beautiful space-related quotes throughout the fic, as well as a few text messages.

Many thanks to the awesome crew at @renegadepublishing for their help and encouragement!