Renegade Publishing

Renegade Publishing is a not-for-profit guild of artists engaged in fanbinding—publishing in extremely limited edition fannish works, including fanfiction, meta, original fic, zines and other works. Most works are made in handmade editions of one or two copies.

Members work self-directed, selecting works to bind individually, and may or may not offer commissions for binding services. We consider publishing to be a political act of resistance and self-determination, that makes an unequivocal statement about the value we see in these endangered, underground works. We refer to our work as fanbinding.

@armoredsuperheavy started fanbinding independently in 2018. After their guerrilla bookbinding manifestos went viral in 2020, they created the fanbinding Discord server. The community grew and so began Renegade Binding.

Our Bindery is on Discord. Send an off-anon ask for an invitation if you are interested in joining the movement. The discord is +18 only.

Our site is maintained by members of the Renegade Binding group. Our site and Renegade Publishing formally established August 17th, 2020.

Starlight and Sunrise, by Sacrificethemtothesquid

The book finally arrived in the post so I can post about it! This is Starlight and Sunrise by @sacrificethemtothesquid​, who is a dear friend - all the reason I needed to really go ham on the design and decoration. The fics are The Hobbit fandom, Tauriel/Kili, so I played with Dwarven and Elven visuals and landed on these Dwarven feeling frames.

The cover is Duo bookcloth in Dusk with silver coloured foil iron-on frames & titles, cut on my Cricut. The edge decoration was done with the masking marker I bought for aquarel painting, and fountain pen ink (don’t be like me, use acryllic ink instead - fountain pen ink is not remotely waterproof).

Unfortunately the board grain wasn’t quite right and I did not manage to balance the pull correctly, so they’re not completely properly flat. One lives and learns.

Wow, this is stunning, and reminds me I want to get my own stories printed and bound.

What better way to practice drawing then drawing Kili and Tauriel. Definitely not perfect but, I’m kinda proud of it.

After "I could have anything down my trousers" moment

Commissioned by @averil-of-fairlea , Kili and Tauriel's happy family. This was an absolute joy to work on, and I always get excited when she reaches out for a commission because I KNOW it's going to be a blast! Thank you again 😊

Tolkientober 2021

day 26 - stars

Tauriel/Kili walking amongst the stars

request from @nhydrxl Can I get beebo braiding Kíli's hair or something like that ejdjsks Like im sure he'd let uncle beebo practice braiding with his nest of a hair

kili’s face was meant to be a placeholder till i figured out what i wanted to do, but the lil dumb :^> face is funny and i got attached to it whoops

I’ve always wanted more content in Laketown focusing on Thorin’s company!!!! So I’m making it myself… ✍️

Recently I've sketched for the first time Tauriel. I had need to draw her (bc she's really cute)

Sketchdump : Dwarf woman of Erebor | Tauriel | Melian

when the braincells finally come together and ur helping your brother court his newfound elven love but ur both dumbasses

based on this post:

their dynamic in a nutshell

So this is very unfinished, but just so everyone knows: short haired Rapunzel is beautiful, and I will always prefer it most 💕

Short-haired Rapunzel looks like Michelle Pfeiffer’s character in Ladyhawke and that is wonderful. :)

mermaid in love with the local fisherman

messy redraw ‘cause I’m on a Tangled high ♡

Details on Kíli’s armor From The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Chronicles: The Art of War