printing and binding slash

[cimorene]

i gave in to the temptation of the new printer yesterday and printed out enough slash to fill a book - specifically, a pre-bound A6 notebook, which is just the right size to have a folded piece of paper taped to each of its sheets. (so 158 half-sized pages... is a lot of ink. now our new printer cartridge is slightly less than half full. :/ but on the plus side, the new printer cartridges cost about 15 bucks a pop instead of 50.)

there's something really satisfying about holding a nice, book-sized book full of slash you've chosen yourself in your hands. ♥

for the single fandom of your choice, for a printed and bound comfort-reading (or awesome!reading - i won't restrict you!) anthology, what ≈158 pages' worth of stories would [Poll #930015]

the book i made was of the professionals stories, with the focus on the light-hearted, and i didn't actually pick my very favourite stories because i've found in my reading of wax's old bound slash (she made a ton of it about six years ago) that it's annoying to have the stuff by a single author scattered between different books. i wanted to put my favourites by m. fae glasgow - who is both unusually prolific and quite pleasing - all in one place, so my table of contents looks

by m fae glasgow:

• Sticky Wickets (pdf format): Pre-canon, B & D's young partnership is suffering because they hate each other. Until a cricket game makes D realise how hot B is. This is shameless, fun, and funny.


• On Thin Ice, or Skate Expectations (pdf format): A decidedly silly story in which D dares B to go ice-skating with him.


• (as Edi N Burgh) A Hole in One (pdf format): B & D, forced to serve as golf caddies, engage in innuendo and make a lot of bad puns. Very funny.


• (as Cally Donia) DIY: A Slow Swedish Screw (pdf format): B & D get themselves turned on via exchange of a lot of rather silly innuendoes while assembling some shelving. Then they have sex. Fun and a little silly, and rather hot.


• Beating Around The Bush (pdf format): D's new neighbours are extremely loud. The author's narration is a bit intrusive as usual, but it works especially well for this type of humour.

christmas stories

• The High Road (pdf format): B & D spend Christmas in Scotland at Cowley's mother's. The adventures with Cowley and his mother are highly memorable and frequently hilarious; the tension between B and D is engaging but rather melodramatic.


• (as Gael X Ile) I Saw Three Ships (pdf format): B runs away from his family Christmas early and shows up on D's doorstep to celebrate with him. Romance, strongly sweet, but perhaps not quite sickeningly fluffy.


• Jingle Balls, or Hard Times (pdf format): D has to get extremely drunk before he has the courage to try it on with B, so he makes a habit of getting extremely drunk. Mainly a comedy of misunderstanding, with some other comedy thrown in too.


• Screwged, or Nanny's Christmas Carol (pdf format): A twist on Dickens wherein D is visited by spirits of Bodies past and present in the form of wet dreams, and then a rather portentous Cowley as the ghost of the future. A bit crackish, as A Christmas Carol-inspired pieces tend to be, but genuinely moving.

by courtney gray

Object of Desire: This is a newly-established story. And it's an unusually good, but not at all heavy, kink [bdsm] story - a brush with kink, as it were, but not B & D being kinky per se - just B having a bit of experience of it.

this is what our big crate'o'slash looks like: .  now i'm rather excited about making more of these, and my excitement seems like it may be catching, because wax mentioned making one for supernatural.

Comments

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is indeed a big crate'o'slash! ♥♥♥

And if wax makes a Supernatural slash book, I totally want to borrow it. :D

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I know, so do I! Although she prefers smarm and gen, and the longest possible, whereas I prefer romances and short-stories and often skip long stories on the basis of length alone. I don't mind reading novels that are books though so maybe with bound slash it would be the same. But I've been planning to watch the back run of Spn, or most of it, so that I'll be able to read along with what appears to be the biggest fandom trend since SGA.

[creativepseudo.livejournal.com]

I envy your crate. <33333 That's a pretty good idea; I wish there were bookstores that sold slash anthologies already bound, or I would totally do it myself.

there's something really satisfying about holding a nice, book-sized book full of slash you've chosen yourself in your hands. ♥

I imagine so. <3

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I used to think there was this whole thing involved with like, using MS Word and the page setup to put the page in landscape, and in two "columns" with margins between, and all, because the last time I did something like this it was. But it appears tech has now come so far that the printer can do it itself!

There's now an option to print two pages per sheet in the printer options dialogue; and it shrank them for me and even left an extra margin of about an inch and a half to the left, which turned out to be useful because the pages fit better in the notebooks if you trim that amount off first. (Also, of course, the new printer is faster. At the draft setting it spits sheets out so fast they literally go flying out into the room and, in this case, kept landing on top of the dog, who was sleeping next to my chair.) Probably the rest of the world has been used to sonic-speed printers for years, but to me, yesterday, it felt like magic. ♥

[jain]

For the single fandom of your choice, for a printed and bound comfort-reading (or awesome!reading - i won't restrict you!) anthology, what ≈158 pages' worth of stories would you include?

A Whole New Apocalypse, Cats in a Cradle, Claiming Territory, Drunk, Games Two Can PlayHomecoming, Just Desserts, Kibitz, Love in an Elevator, One Thing, Some Design, Two by Four, Weird

There are several longer stories that I would include if there were room, but I've probably already gone a bit over the limit with just these stories. :-)

[jain]

And the code for Homecoming got a bit eaten, apparently.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Interesting choices! I read everything in hikaru no go in the space of a couple of weeks last summer so some of it has kind of blurred together for me, but I remember a couple of those specifically and I see many of these are in my delicious bookmarks. I'd definitely include All Strides Lengthen In A Race (http://www.geocities.com/redacanthus/fanfics/hng-strides), Blossoming (http://thehoyden.livejournal.com/141375.html), Gentle Invasion (http://community.livejournal.com/igo_yaoi/65038.html#cutid1), and possibly Exchanging Territories (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2391450/1/) and After The Cup (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2275355/1/). Maybe the Sam Shindou, Private Five (http://mooncalf.org/library/fanfic/) series, except I think it could make like half of a book by itself, probably.

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

*bookmarks liek woah* I wonder what's going on with my brain. I haven't read any fic at all in ages and ages, but these past few days I've had a huge craving for horrible anime fic.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Those are only my favourites, so I haven't included any of the horrible ones. For that you'd have to look at my del.icio.us yourself