here we go, first completed project in a good while: the knuckles of skinnybone tree, by @hansbekhart ! it's a classic-era spn fic (wincest) set in new mexico, with lots of eerie spirit world moments and blazing desert sun. i picked a rusty, dried blood-colored bookcloth and aged leather-patterned case papers, and for the endpapers i used a distressed burlap pattern.

this book was in part an experiment, as i used 0.60 bookboard instead of my usual 0.80; i'm still trying to get the dimensions of smaller fics to look right. here's a comparison:

it would be a good size for bradel-bound oneshots, but i don't think i'll use it for much over 20k. (this was also the smallest handsewn headband i've ever done, which you can also see in the above pic. i don't think i'll be sewing them this small for future projects—the knots keep the textblock from lying flush with the spine.)

Holy shit!! This is so beautiful!!!

Wei Ying blinks and says, smiling, “You’re starting to grow roots, aren’t you?”

To say that Lan Zhan freezes would make it sound like a metaphor. His hand, already on the back of his neck, itching away unnoticed, clenches so quickly that his fingernails bite into his skin. He can’t say anything. The words have caught in his throat like needles. He stares at Wei Ying, wordless, thoughtless, afraid.

-the Roots Grow Riotous by hansbekhart on Ao3. Chapter 13.

Where in the span of 10 paragraphs I have the best time and then the absolute worst time. I had to vomit this out because this fic destroys me consistently and I couldn’t stop thinking about chapter 17.

I didn’t know hans was on tumblr! @hansbekhart​ Go follow them!!!!! read this fic!! its so good!!! 

Relationship: Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen/Lan Wangji

Characters: Lan Wangji, Song Lan, Xiao Xingchen

Additional Tags: Threesome (M/M/M), Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Spitroasting, Anal Fingering, Switching, Touch-Starved, Grief/Mourning, Sexual Healing, The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known, A Deep and Human Desperation for Queer Companionship, That Escalated Quickly, Emotional Noodle Eating, Lift Lan Wangji’s Skirts Challenge 2020

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He’d thought, in Yueyang, that they’d seen something in each other, something familiar. That maybe they’d recognized something in him. But it’s been many years, and many things have happened since, and he’s guessed wrongly at other people’s hearts before. Lan Wangji looks back down at the table, at his steaming, bitter tea. He’ll beg if he has to.

Hey so in my house we have two trained cooks, one who is an executive chef at an organic farm to table restaurant who also has a chemistry degree, as well as a former confectioner/chocolatier/pastry person. I know a lot of people are stress/comfort cooking right now & id be happy to troubleshoot or answer any questions. Just ask @hansbekhart I’m her guru

This is true, she is my cooking guru

NFWMB - the untamed

you know a show really hits the spot when you find yourself taking up vidding again for the first time in like 10 years holy shit. anyway, watch the untamed, listen to the bog man’s music, be gay and do cultivation.

(this was the vid i made to procrastinate on the vid i really wanted to make lol)

It is very rude of my girlfriend to make this video and cause FEELINGS.

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Gathered Herbs & Sweet Grasses by hansbekhart

Gathered Herbs & Sweet Grasses

by hansbekhart

20 k, No Rating (I’d give it a G, maybe a T for grief and recovery topics), wangxian

grief/mourning, injury recovery, recovery, hurt lan wangji, discipline whip, sick a-yuan, heartbreaking, happy ending, growing up, 13 years, healing, love, parenting, lan wangji is a good dad, lan xichen loves his family, protective lan wangji, lan sizhui’s intriguing cultivation, @hansbekhart​

Thank you so much for the rec!! <3

A Manifesto, by The Horrible Goose Who Lives in Town

IT GOT CAUGHT IN THE SPAM FILTER LOLLL

Fandom will bend over backwards to paint Chris Evans as a progressive hero when all he does is make fun of Trump on twitter.

Meanwhile, Don Cheadle has BEEN fighting white supremacists on twitter and shows up on SNL supporting trans kids AND throwing shade at Trump

Hi everyone, this is my personal campaign to help fund my partner’s legal defense against his former employer. 

My partner is a dog-walker, has been for years. He agreed to join his business of about 20 clients with his former employer’s because she planed to open a dog daycare last year. He resigned a last month over professional differences, and the fact that her daycare STILL doesn’t have an opening date. 

His former employer had him sign an “non-compete” clause that says he can’t work within a certain radius of the daycare for 2 years. According to the lawyer my partner is working with, that clause shouldn’t apply to clients he personally brought into the company. We’re hoping his former employer doesn’t have much of a case. But it’s gonna take at least $8,000 to prove that. 

Please give this a click and a share, even if you can’t donate. I promise I included lots of cute pictures of dogs. 

Hey friends! This is a really stupid and unjust situation that my friends have found themselves in. I’d really appreciate any support or signal boost you can give.