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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I emerge from the void with a book. This is "All-Consuming" by ratbones, a Guardian zombie apocalypse au, typeset by @helle-bored, and it was an excuse to get a little bit experimental in design and technique.

A handbound book sewn on linen cords with the pages and sewing exposed at the spine the cover boards are dark gray weathered wood with the title stenciled vertically in red. The ends of the linen cords are laced through the board, then held down with furniture staples and the loose ends are frayed.

A close up shot showing the cord laced to the boards. A little bit of the board is chiseled out at the edge to help the cord stay in place.

A view of the spine with all the folded pages stacked up and sewn together.

The book open flat showing the front and back cover together. The back is about the same as the front, without the title.

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Calad/Tansou Tsukai/Satsumaki🏳️‍⚧️ @calad.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Happy birthday Xi Ping!!!! If this gift seems instead like torture, blame pipi for the horrors she put him through. I will never recover. #TaiSui #太岁 #priest

Xi Ping looking at the destroyed mirror Zhou Ying wrote “I was here” on. His devastated expression is reflected in a mirror shard that he’s looking for traces of san-ge on, below Zhou Ying’s writing. His eyes are glowing gold, the sky is in inverted colours, and his field of vision is dark outside of his immediate focus as he’s using his spiritual sense to look for those traces, which are highlighted in gold when he finds them. He’s wearing a bracelet on his right hand that looks like a headband san-ge used to wear and green robes. (Head-canon) More mirror shards are visible on the ground below the one he’s holding.

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priest cafe sg @priestcafesg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Happy birthday Xi Ping! He has come to celebrate his birthday at the maid cafe 🥳 Surprise sticker inclusion for all attendees and orders. Thank you @mimicha.bsky.social for the art! #pipicafe26 #priest太岁

HAPPY BIRTHDAY XI PING!
"He was the only son of the Marquis of Yongning, born on the ninth day of the third month in the ninth year of Taiming, on an evening when gentle spring rain was falling." — Tai Sui, Chapter 233, quote from E. Danglars Translations.
Art by @hv_micha.

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

5yo is working on perfecting his "GLaDOS and also the turrets from Portal" voice and he's very good at it

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terry:) | lamorak scholar @alfheimr.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

gradation, ch2 art for my fanfiction ^_~ #mdzs

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A look at how I made Force of Will for MTG Strixhaven Mystical Archives ✨

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xin-aeryn @xinaeryn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

My babygirl Zhuoming 🥰 #太岁 #taisui

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

unexpected side effect of reading mo du: getting a josh groban song stuck in my head in the year 2026

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Juno @junodoom.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

wen ning showcasing his strength! 💪😘 #mdzs #WeiWuxian #LanWangji #wangningxian

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fluxxxxx @fluxxxxx.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My first A3 format painting :) The first one that worked out. It is much harder to work on larger formats. #art #bskyart #painting #watercolor #SciArt #mountains #mist

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

(I just noticed a shift towards stop-suggesting-books in the discourse and we can't, we have to remind the adults who buy books that there are other books kids in their lives can and should be reading)

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kat (rainisfallingdown)🐀 @rainisfallingdown.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I spend enough time in bookmaking spaces that I keep thinking "Ugh yes, fuck that brand of printers especially." before forgetting that it can refer to other things.

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My daughter recently enjoyed "The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents" if anyone happens to be looking for a middle grade magic school book right now.

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The thing about having kids is they will introduce their own memes into decade-old games for instance there is a thing you can do with portals that they're calling "6-7-ing"

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I'm reading Mo Du now! Not sure I'll manage much of a liveblog but I suspect I'll post the occasional reaction

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

A belated huge thank you for recommending this series! We're on book 3 now and all the kids love them, 7yo especially. He is dressed up as Marnie today for "dress as your favorite book character" day at school

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Latest bookbinding project: the fan translation of Mo Du by priest, using a typeset made by @rainisfallingdown.bsky.social

A book bound in black, brown, and beige plaid, with a light brown leather spine, and small paper labels on both the spine and the outer edge of the cover. The label reads "Mo Du / priest / vol. 1"

Three volumes in a line side by side. Each book has a small label with the title and author at the fore-edge of the cover. Volume 1's label is towards the top of the book, volume 2's label is in the center, and volume 3's label is closer to the bottom.

The top edges of the three books. The page edges are painted gold, and the headbands are made of the same plaid fabric as the covers.

The endpapers are a repeating pattern of letterpress-printed black cats, with gold pawprints inbetween.

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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

For those not familiar this isn't cute. Massachusetts officials only do this when they're extremely distressed.

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

if the drop shadow is doing this your book is haunted

Photo of a T with a drop shadow that is squiggly and tall as if it were a g-g-g-ghost!

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アケタ @akhth.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

ヨナリリ🪷

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

J has been wanting to try making homemade bagels for a while (after getting pretty good at pretzels) and today was the day! Delicious.

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I bound a copy of "How Dare You" for an exchange a few months ago and in honor of the drama coming out I pulled my own copy out of wip hell to finish it! The cover has a nested cutout design to go with the idea of transmigrating into a transmigration novel

The front cover: the innermost cutout is the actual title of the book, scrawled in green marker, the next layer is the "transmigration novel" with a floral background and fonts you might find on a romance novel, and the outermost cover is a traditional looking style with linen paper and a vertical paper label for the title.

The title page, with the title in english and chinese, and a floral border.

Two-sided endpapers, one side is a light pink and white floral pattern, the opposite side is a dark green background with pink flowers.

The book open showing the full cover. The leather spine has all three titles stamped in foil, with the first two titles crossed out.

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アケタ @akhth.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

こっちでもスウォンハピバ！！最終回後の雪解けをイメージ　穏やかに過ごしていってほしい🥹お部屋の窓、八角形なんだー！って思いながら描いた

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Drama!Shen Wei is so funny because he's got the professor aesthetic down, the costuming, the set dressing, everything says 100% Here Is An Academic and wait hold on he's an *engineering* professor?

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Me: after Wayside School, do you want to read another funny book or an adventure book? 7yo: adventure! Me: about people, or about animals? 7yo: animals! CUTE animals! Me: great! I know of a book about some mice and squirrels-- 7yo: THOSE AREN'T CUTE!

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tricky has a new old pfp @secretword.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Writers and publishers might want to know that there is a big gap in the shape of middle grade hard science fiction. My 8 year old is reading Andy Weir to get his fix.

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Our 3d printer has introduced 9yo to a new hobby: painting minis.

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🌸butchinelle🌸 @butchinelle.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Really happy with how this drawing turned out ! Li Yu from The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish 🐠 #DTBPF

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Can anyone point me towards a tool for making text-based choose your own adventure stories?

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"Record of the Missing Sect Master" is doing some *fun* things with the intersection of amnesia and identity porn.

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The book was amazing! I'm hoping the drama does it justice

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I've been reading the Wayside School books out loud to all three kids and they're all enjoying them! I lucked into this; in the past when I tried to pick a book to read aloud to all 3 they never stuck, but I was reading the first one to the youngest and the others decided they wanted to listen too.

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

3d printing is NOT going to be my new hobby, I tell myself while teaching myself to build a shape in OpenSCAD because the version I tried to make in tinkercad didn't go through with accurate measurements

A piece of blue plastic 100x30mm with a triangular cutout to assist in trimming the margins off of corners when covering cardboard with paper/cloth.

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hi, I'm postpartum hemorrhage

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

A final (?) update: pecan crescents, formerly the least appealing of the family's traditional christmas cookies, have suddenly become the favorite because they look like packing peanuts.

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

What the kids wanted to do with packing peanuts: form an assembly line wherein they crush them flat, then roll them as thin as they can, then pass them through the hole in a play-money coin to make sure they're small enough. The product of this factory is called "noodles of justice."

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"Packing peanuts!" --things you really don't want to hear your five year old joyfully exclaim when you're on the opposite end of the house.

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Three comments in the past two days from different users on my mdzs fics from 2018, is there some sort of event happening?

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Best thing about rainy days: I get to use my wangxian umbrella!

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10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

My biggest accomplishment of the day: acquired Pokemon booster packs for stocking stuffers! (after many sold out attempts at other stores). Shoutout to Omar's World of Comics in Lexington!

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Seeking recs: beginner cross stitch patterns (individual patterns or books) for a 9yo who likes cats, dragons, fantasy. I don't cross stitch and the market seems flooded with AI, so I'd appreciate if someone could point me to designers or publishers you've been happy with!

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I think it's more than a little fair for trans folks in the book community to be wary of readers who still love HP in 2025 and/or read HP-inspired romantasy novels.

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E. Hyde @ehyde.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I've seen people joke that Priest made Tai Sui gen so she wouldn't have to write BL with a "bad" ending but I'm actually convinced that along with xianxia tropes, Tai Sui is knowingly responding to romance tropes too.

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