I bind fanfic and other underground writing into real books.  I am a Guerilla publisher.

In a nutshell, the reasons why:

• A demonstrative statement on the validity of “fic” in general (and fanfic within that specifically) as a newborn genre of literature that has really only come into its own in the last 15-20 years.
• Disrupting preconceptions about what is valuable and worthy of being in print, much less published in a fine edition.
• An act of anti-capitalist resistance. Participation in the traditional gift economy of fandom. Most of my projects are volunteer and gifts.
• Preservation of fandom history and works for future generations. These books cannot blip out of existence by puritanical updates to a socmed terms of service. These books are acid-free, archive ready, made to survive for another century.
• Demonstration against censorship of fiction. Most of the books contain subject matter some people may find objectionable on various grounds.
• In summary, it’s a big Fuck You to power structures that silence people. Also it makes my friends so happy that they cry, so that’s nice too.

My book design is deliberately conservative because I am challenging ideas of what should be inside the book. The more a book looks like something a “real” publishing house would put out, the stronger and more subversive the statement it makes.

I am also doing a lot of research working on replicating the style of books from centuries past, and publishing historical fic set in whatever period, in an embodiment that matches. Colors, typography, even form factor as much as possible. I have done Victorian, Edwardian, Renaissance eras. 

Here are some various process pics. Books pictured:

WAR, CHILDREN by Nonymos (Captain America: Stucky)

AND THEN THERE WERE TWO by NymeriaKing (Star Wars / Kylux)

BLUTRUNST by IncurableNecromantic (Over the Garden Wall)

CHOSEN MAN by Sineala (Eagle of the Ninth)

the only people who understand literature are those who literally eat books. sorry. meaning does not exist until you devour it.

someone who doesn’t know shit about good omens please explain this image

okay but if you’re ever in london and you have the chance to see a shakespeare play performed at the globe theatre itself DO IT even if you don’t think you’d dig shakespeare

if you need convincing here are a few highlights from when my family and i went to see the official globe theatre production of a midsummer night’s dream:

• they cast helena as a guy (helenus), first of all. they took a straight love square between two girls and two guys and made it a love square between a girl and three guys, only one of which was white. both sets of couples get happy endings and it’s fuckin adorable
• it was reimagined with an indian setting
• puck had a water pistol and kept shooting at the audience
• historical accuracy?? who cares everyone’s gonna dress like a modern hipster teenager
• bottom and his acting troupe sung bon jovi
• oh yeah also the acting troupe were reimagined as globe theatre employees with delusions of acting skills
• hermia and helenus sung single ladies by beyonce
• innuendos. innuendoes everywhere
• oberon walked onstage for the fight between oberon and titania drunk with a half-empty bottle of schweppes
• lysander spent a significant length of time in the play wandering around in just boxers and a leather jacket
• oberon made out with puck
• demetrius dabbed
  

shakespeare’s character descriptions/stage directions/contexts are so vague it makes me so happy. wanna make Laertes hamlet’s ex boyfriend? doesn’t say HE’S NOT. wanna make juliet a trans girl? WHERE IN THE SCIRPT DOES IT SAY SHE ISN’T??? fucking put King Lear in SPACE set that shit on the enterprise THERE ARE NO RULES IN SHAKESPEARE 

do u guys collect stuff (irl)? tell me what u collect