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Interior pages and spines for A World Apart.

A bit of trivia, each of the books has this rainbow foil on the inside with either a quote from the summary or a listing of the short stories contained in it - this was meant for the back of the books but it was too busy with the rest, so they’re inside!

Interior front endpaper for The Epilogues volume, the paper is a green watercolor print, and on the left is a rainbow foil listing of the stories contained inside: top to bottom - Lucky, I like all the parts of you, the best sound in the world, like Hugh Hefner but in Gucci slides, Lethally Blonde, Gold Medal Makeouts, Three

Table of contents for the Epilogues volume, with rainbow accents on the edges of the paper

Interior art for Volume Three, with a red to yellow to green gradient background with halftone dots. Duotone red and green photo edits of Wang Yibo (left & front, green) and Xiao Zhan (right & behind, red)

Spines of the four volumes of A World Apart. The titles and volume numbers are in gold foil, and the ten rings styling is at the head of the spine.

January 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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A World Apart series by Sparkly

This one was my first multi-volume set! I tried to keep the styling cohesive with the color palette of red, yellow, and green (naturally 🥰) and used WYB’s job on a superhero movie as the inspo for the overall design of the covers and typeset.

Red cover of A World Apart by sparkly, showing a duotone photo edit of Xiao Zhan in red and a duotone edit of Wang Yibo in green over a gold foil representation of the ten rings from the movie Shang-Chi, legend of the ten rings, as he stars in the fictional sequel in this work. A World Apart: Volume One is in red foil over the pictures.

Yellow cover of A World Apart Volume two by sparkly, showing a duotone photo edit of Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo in yellow and black over a pink foil representation of halftone dots used for shading in comic books. A World Apart: Volume Two is in red foil over the pictures.

Light green cover of A World Apart Volume three by sparkly, showing a duotone photo edit of Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo in red and green and black over a red foil comic symbol with four sharp points and accent marks. A World Apart: Volume three is in red foil over the pictures.

Green cover of A World Apart: the epilogues by sparkly, showing a duotone photo edit of Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo in red and green and black over a red and gold foil comic art inspired star with seven sharp points. A World Apart: The Epilogues is in red foil over the pictures.

January 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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Talk to Me by Overthinkingthis (gifted to Tee)

This was such a fun bind, it’s sunflower themed, so lots of yellow and warm tones on the photo edits.

Cover of Talk to Me, a warm toned photo edit of Wang Yibo (back) and Xiao Zhan (front) on top of a gold foil sunflower, overlaid by the title in gold foil. All are on a black cloth background.

Back cover of Talk to Me. Printed sunflowers are overlaid with gold foil sunflower shapes. The summary reads in yellow vinyl: “Wang Yibo is the most sought-after rented companion in Beijing, hired to just be there for people who don’t want to be alone. He’s perfectly content with being Rental-ge and avoiding all the messiness of human connection… until the day that Xiao Zhan hires Yibo to listen to him talk about a boyfriend who keeps breaking his heart.”

Interior of Talk to Me, the front endpaper is a yellow marbled paper with tones ranging from butter yellow to a deep mustard tone.

Interior title page of Talk to Me featuring a warm toned photo of Wang Yibo (back) and Xiao Zhan (front) on a yellow solid background. The title “Talk to Me” is in white text overlaid on the photo edit.

December 22, 2024 at 2:51 AM

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Printed and bound this tabletop game for my husband, my first large format bind (each page is a full letter size instead of half)

Cover and text block for Warbirds. Left is the front cover, style inspired by Top Gun. Yes, the stripes are crooked but that happens sometimes. The right is the endpaper of the text block, a Thai marble with shades of green and blue and purple plus some gold veining

The back cover describing the game universe. Again, the stripes are crooked

December 12, 2024 at 8:33 PM

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Non-fic bind of The Odyssey in Ancient Greek (a present for my dear friend). Probably my favorite design ever, made a copy for myself. I typeset the work from the ebook on Project Gutenberg.

The cover of the odyssey without the text block. The left shows half of a statue of Odysseus with a quote in Ancient Greek, the spine is a block of gold foil vinyl with cut out text reading Odyssey Homer, the right side is the front cover with the text “Odyessy Homer” in Ancient Greek and the remaining half of the statue of Odysseus in marble

End paper featuring Penelope and the Suitors by John William Waterhouse. Penelope is weaving in the center surrounded by men trying to give her flowers.

Endpaper featuring Odysseus and Polyphemus by Arnold Böcklin. Polyphemus is throwing a boulder at the ship of Odysseus

December 12, 2024 at 8:33 PM

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You Can’t Rush the River by me (TheDevilandMrsRen), sent to Elisa. This is my Witcher AU, and the photo edit on the cover with yellow eyes is mine.

The front cover for You Can’t Rush the River, the blue cloth blends into the photo edit, top Wang Yibo edited to have yellow eyes with almond pupils, bottom Xiao Zhan edited to have yellow eyes with almond pupils and a hint of silver gray hair in the right upper corner. The title of the book in gold foil vinyl splits the photo.

The back cover is a blue cloth background with slightly darker blue vinyl with the Witcher universe magic sigils around the border, surrounding a pair of crossed swords with a lion above the cross and a rabbit underneath the cross.

Interior page of the book, with a black and white lion and rabbit in the bottom right corner of the text.

The front endpaper is a repeating set of the Witcher Sigils

December 12, 2024 at 8:33 PM

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What They Want and Would You Think I’m Crazy by PurdueLiz. This was an ambitious bind because it was a flip bind, with one half upside down in relation to the other half. You can see this best in the photo of the cover without the text block in it.

Cover without the text block, left side is the upside down cover for What they Want in gold foil, over a yellow duotone edit of Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, the spine in yellow text on a blue background reading would you think I’m crazy and cut out of a yellow background what they want and the right is a red/blue duotone of Xiao Zhan with a green/blue duotone and the title in gold foil

What they Want in Golf Foil over a yellow and black duotone photo edit of Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo on a light blue cloth background. My hand again

Would you think I’m crazy in gold foil over a red/blue duotone photo of Xiao Zhan overlayed with a green/blue duotone photo of Wang Yibo

Interior page reading “flip over for” in black text and “What they want” in large red letters, overlayed on the grayscale outline of a peony.

December 12, 2024 at 8:05 PM

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Non-fic rebinds: Killing Floor by Lee Child (as a gift), the Iliad by Homer (mine), and Romancing Mr Bridgerton by Julia Quinn (as a gift), just the covers.

Hardback cover for a rebind of the Iliad with Ancient Greek text reading “Iliad Homer” in black vinyl over a copper foil vinyl representation of the Trojan Horse. There are two Greek Keys on the head and tail of the spine with the title text between, and the back cover has a Greek style helmet surrounded by Greek Key pattern, reading “the rage of Achilles, sing it now, goddess, singe through me the deadly rage that caused the Achaeans such grief” in Ancient Greek and English

Book cover for Killing Floor with stylized lettering reading Killing Floor on the front cover, and a representation of the fictional city of Margrave inside an outline of the state of Georgia (US)

Front cover of Romancing Mr Bridgerton with the title in gold foil vinyl, Penelope & Colin’s story in yellow vinyl, the bottom of the cover has yellow flowers with a cut out filled by a yellow silhouette of a Regency styled couple.

Text in yellow reads exactly two days before her sixteenth birthday Miss Penelope Featherington fell desperately irrevocably in love with Colin Bridgerton

December 12, 2024 at 8:05 PM

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Interior pages of Tangled Up in You All Night

Title page for where the land meets the sea (come looking for me) featuring a black and white octopus styled to look like an ink drawing

Title page for so see on my tongue (so soft in my mouth) featuring a black and white octopus styled to look like a pencil drawing

Title page for tangled up in you all night featuring a black and white octopus styled to look like an ink drawing.

The end papers for the volume, a black and gray pattern that looks like an ink spill.

December 12, 2024 at 8:05 PM

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Tangled Up In You All Night by Jalpari, gifted to Jal

Front cover of Tangled Up In You All Night in white lettering with the You in holographic pink vinyl, Wang Yibo and Xiao Zhan are sitting on white peonies and pink holographic tentacles

Back cover, with seashells, a starfish, and white and yellow flowers surrounded by a thin pink holographic rectangle. Text is in pink holographic vinyl and reads “what happens when the shipwrecked Prince is rescued by the sea monster?”

Book spine, with a rectangle of pink holographic vinyl (looks blue at this angle) with cut out letters reading Tangled Up In You All Night Jalpari. My hand again

Interior page of the book, the table of contents showing the works. surrounding the words “table of contents” in dark pink are black tentacles.

December 12, 2024 at 8:05 PM

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Interior pages of the Inevitable series book

Photo edit of the profiles of Wang Yibo (left) and Xiao Zhan (right) on a gray background with white stylized block letters spelling Inevitable.

Left page is the fic information page with QR code leading to the AO3 pages, right page is the table of contents for the two works contained in the volume. My hand again.

Title page for Pushing Back the Tide, block letters filled with a beach sunset, Xiao Zhan is resting his head on the B of Back and Wang Yibo is leaning against the E of tide. My hand again

Title page for Carving Down a Mountain with stylized block letters with a mountain scene filling them. Xiao Zhan is sitting on the A and Yibo is on the right side of the A looking up at Xiao Zhan.

December 12, 2024 at 8:05 PM

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The Inevitable Series by emused85, gifted to Elisa

Front cover of Inevitable Series volume with stylized silver block letters spelling Inevitable over a photo edit of Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo with flowers on a black cloth background.

Spine of the book showing the words Inevitable and emused85 in silver foil vinyl on a black cloth background.

The back cover of the Inevitable series with a thin silver foil open rectangle surrounding yellow and white flowers with the words “better to try to push back the tide, better to try to carve a mountain to pieces” in silver foil vinyl on a black cloth background.

The front end paper of the inevitable book, with yellow green and blue watercolor layers.

December 12, 2024 at 8:05 PM

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Volumes of my own works: Houseboat of Love, Citrus Cream Pie, Fireworks in the Stars, Peacock Thursday, My Heart Will Keep You Warm and ad astra

Three hand bound books on a wooden table. The spines are black, the left book has pink and green water color swirled paper, the center has purple blue and green watercolor swirled paper, and the right has pink and orange water color swirled paper.

Three hand bound books stacked on top of each other in a stair step arrangement. The titles are in black vinyl, and top to bottom are: houseboat of love, citrus cream pie, fireworks in the stars, peacock Thursday, my heart will keep you warm, and ad astra.

Title page for houseboat of love and citrus cream pie, with a heart and a lemon as decorative elements behind the text.

The title two page spread for peacock Thursday featuring stylized peacocks with white and yellow flowers. Also my hand is on the left.

December 12, 2024 at 8:05 PM

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Happy 9/5 everyone! 💚💛❤️

Digital watercolor painting of two mushrooms with emoji faces. Left side mushroom (representing Xiao Zhan) has a red cap and right side mushroom (representing Wang Yibo) has a brown cap. Background contains yellow canola blooms and a blue sky with white clouds. “Happy 9/5” is hand written in the upper right corner.

September 5, 2023 at 4:28 PM

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WANG YIBO WEDNESDAY!!!!

Repost with pictures of Yibo wearing jewelry!

Wang Yibo on the set of Street Dance of China season 3, wearing a red and black pattern Chanel jacket, white tank and jeans. He’s wearing many layered necklaces, including the beloved Ox head necklace. He has his hands on his hips, looking up at the audience stands.

August 23, 2023 at 3:17 PM

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Repost with a banger pic of #XiaoZhan

Actor Xiao Zhan in costume as Wei Wuxian from The Untamed, holding white and yellow flowers, making a “rock on” gesture with his left hand with an intense look on his face that makes this poster’s head swim.

August 18, 2023 at 8:05 PM

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Wang Yibo Wednesday!

This week’s theme is something on, near, or in his mouth!

Actor Wang Yibo in a light blue and white varsity style jacket with an M and an embroidered yellow flower, his hair artfully ruffled, bronze eyeshadow on his eyelids and similar color on his perfect lips as he prepares to sip from a champagne flute.

August 16, 2023 at 11:20 PM

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Wang Yibo Wednesday!!!

This week’s theme is Yibo smiling 🥰

Actor Wang Yibo smiling on the beach while water from his previous outdoor shower runs off his face and beads on his shoulders and makes this poster weak at the knees.

August 9, 2023 at 1:22 PM

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💚🥳 Yibo, the Sunset is Very Beautiful🥳💚

Bo-shroom and Zhan-shroom celebrate Bo-shroom’s birthday at sunset.

Also on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49109815