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Castles in the Sky by Shadaras @shadaras

Fandom: 全职高手 | The King's Avatar

Rating: General Audiences

Category: Gen

Relationships: Chu Yunxiu/Ye Xiu

Words: 36 613

Here are two truths and a lie: Chu Yunxiu is Misty Rain’s captain. Chu Yunxiu is dating Ye Qiu. Chu Yunxiu is happy to have the Shu twins on her team. Of course, a lie can become true if you believe in it enough… (A Chu Yunxiu character study.)

About the book:

FONTS: Alegreya [Google Fonts], Raleway [Google Fonts], Catchy Mager [purchased from MyFonts], Segoe UI Emoji

IMAGES: Clouds from Rawpixel (ID: 9581058); Misty Rain logo from The King's Avatar Wiki (stretched slightly horizontally and traced)

MATERIALS: Domtar Earthchoice multipurpose copy paper, cream, 11"x17" cut in half to form short-grained letter size paper; Recollections' Gilded Ink paper pad; Cialux bookcloth, black; heat transfer foil, gold; 2mm binder board; waxed linen thread, 30/3 size; wheat paste (this time I used 1:4 flour to water ratio, and heated until conditioner-like consistency. An improvement over last attempt.)

PROGRAMS USED: typeset in LibreOffice Writer; title page mocked-up in Procreate then designed in GIMP; imposed with Renegade's Community Imposer.

I spied this fic towards the top of the kudos and kept it in the back of my mind while trawling for more HanYe fics. Thought, well it's gotta be there for a reason so should be good! ooh look aroace queerplatonic relationship 👀👀 Definitely bumping up to top of Read Next!

The amazing thing I've found about The King's Avatar is that the CP possibilities are endless! The characters are both friends and rivals, there's respect and history and it all mixes and clashes creating more possibilities and chemistries than I've ever seen in a fandom before. The fact that AllYe is so popular (and not just in an NSFW way) is testament to it, and also, in part, what drew me to this fic. Asexual representation is scant, aromantic even more so — especially in fandom (in my experience of it at least).

If I were to add a tag to describe Castles in the Sky it would be 'heartwarming'. Shadaras' writing and characterization is wonderful, and I really enjoyed the both the story and the aroace representation. They took a character with relatively little content (in comparison to others in fandom. I have not read the source material) and gave her a voice, dreams, and made me really care about her. I was touched, and after finishing it I jumped to my laptop and set about turning it into a physical book.

So, onto the details.

The thing that stuck out and stayed with me the most about the story was the aroace aspect (Shadaras fed my smol aroace heart so well), so that's what I focused on design-wise.

The title page features a large black ring, referencing the black ring worn usually on the middle finger of the right hand as a symbol of asexuality. The colours of the asexual pride flag are also represented: the text is purple; the clouds colour the page in shades of white and grey; and the ring is black. For the endpapers/cover backing I chose paper that mixes green, purple, and blue: green for the aromantic pride flag; purple for the ace. I also found the green-blue mix of colours to be rather fitting, inspired by the description of Misty Rain's HQ with the "cool blues and greens of Misty Rain's walls" (chapter 5: Transformations). While I personally find CYX's relationship with YX significant, her relationship with her team is just as important.

When choosing which cover each endpaper goes on, I thought about how the story begins with CYX and YX's relationship, and about how after it's established we see her team and it's future at the forefront of her mind. Following that line of thought I put the paper with more purple on the front cover (purple for aroace CYX), and the more green-blue paper on the back (Misty Rain's colours).

The process of foiling the cover took me 3 hours (the length of the movie RRR — good movie actually, would recommend. Which is surprising because I usually find Oscar movies rather boring). The foiling was done with a heat pen. Three hours is not the norm: first, I had the foil backwards and foiled my template instead of the cover; then, my power banks kept dying, so I had to take charging breaks, and I also went over everything again just to make sure that I didn't miss a spot; and of course I was also watching a movie while working, so that ate up some time too.

I had initially planned to bind it as a casebound book, but I didn't have enough time to do it (I was about to go on vacation and wanted to read the book in my downtime). Instead, I did a Coptic binding. The covers were pulled from the press and foiled leaving me 5 hours of sleep to spare.

I went simple on the outer covers to contrast the fun paper on the inside of the covers. I used black Cialux bookcloth instead of my green-blue 'petrol' Iris bookcloth for the contrast, and because it picks up the black from the title page. The text foiled onto the cover is a simple sans serif (Raleway, the same as used inside), and the image is Misty Rain's logo from the donghua. (Image came from The King's Avatar Wiki. It was stretched slightly horizontally because it seemed a bit squished compared to other versions seen on Google, and then traced). Using the colourful paper inside was a practical choice: I couldn't get two covers out of one sheet of paper, but one sheet would do the inner covers with some material leftover.

The sewing and construction of the book was done while camping — I'd packed up what I needed and brought it with me: the signatures (folded and punched); the finished covers; thread; a needle; and an awl. As for the actual sewing, it's supposed to be Coptic but don't look too closely. This was the second time I've tried Coptic stitching and I didn't have any instructions with me. (My first Coptic binding was a thin 2-signature notebook I did a few weeks ago. It was for taking notes at the event I was at, Pennsic War 50).

Book is primarily set in Alegreya. It's currently my favourite body font, and has a matching sans serif family. The fonts used in the title page are Raleway and Catchy Mager. Raleway is also used for titles, headings, etc. Segoe UI Emoji was used for any emojis that cropped up throughout the text (Pretty sure they're the same emojis as seen while reading on my phone and laptop). Catchy Mager was purchased from MyFont. (The first and only font I have ever bought, but I saw it used in a fic's title art and fell in love.)

Lastly, onto The Comedy of Errors, or: When-You-Finally-See-All-the-Typos-and-Mistakes-Once-You're-Done-and-Can-Only-Laugh-While-You-Cry-Inside.

Appendix's footer says 'Epilogue', so I must have missed something with the paragraph style for the Appendix heading.

Forgot about using Segoe UI Emoji font and did not include it in the About the Book.

Missed fixing the archive info for gnomen in the Author's Notes — the copy/paste of metadata into Notebook to remove formatting also removed the commas and spaces between tags.

Because I hadn't planned cover materials/design before printing, there isn't a section for that in the About the Book. Also the reason why the artwork on the cover is not credited in it, as I had not planned to use it.

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Gadgets to use if you can't take your laptop on a plane

As if tensions were not walking high sufficient on flights already, quickly you may now not be capable of carrying on your laptop to binge watch your favored series or capture up on paintings. The Department of Homeland Security is thinking about a plan that would prohibit passengers from bringing massive electronics into the cabin on flights from Europe to the U.S. Here’s a machine manual so you can keep running even in case your laptop is checked into the hull.

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Keyboards

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There also are slimmer, but greater steeply-priced, alternatives like LG’s $34 rollable keyboard. The four rows of keys on the keyboard can actually be folded up, which makes it a fourth of the size and is less complicated to save to your deliver on. It also has a built-in dock, which you may set your telephone or tablet into. Cordless Headphones

History of Gadgets

The records of devices spans as some distance lower back as humanity itself – seeing that hominids commenced creating equipment to make their lives less complicated. Humans have always created gadgets and appliances with particular sensible functions that were initially concept of as novelties, due to unfamiliarity with and initial unwillingness to simply accept the technology. Today, industry has augmented the advent of new devices, while sure outlets, along with Brookstone and Richard Thalheimer’s RichardSolo.Com, focus on popularizing them.

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Perhaps one of the earliest, maximum widely recognized gadgets created is the wheel

Many millennia in the past. Take a ride to your car and witness how absolutely progressive any such gadget have become and what sort of we now rely on it for transportation. An extra current system, the Apple iPhone, seems to be the start stages of yet every other machine-became-necessity in order to reshape communications.

“The iPhone may also at some point be looked upon as the device that started a second revolution in computing. Desktop computing turned into the primary revolution. Hand-held computing will one day be seemed as the second one revolution, and the iPhone is the product that commenced it.” -Richard Thalheimer, RichardSolo.Com

All devices were not created same. In fact maximum inventions are constructed on the most recent technology. The global of gadgets is tiered; gadgets fall into one in all 4 categories: mechanical, digital, programmable, and alertness. Mechanical devices consist of the wheel, as well as later tendencies which includes the pulley, the bicycle, the sail boat, the thermometer and the sort. Following the arrival of electricity, gadgets have been taken to a new level as inventors began to discover distinct makes use of for the newly harnessed strength. The television, radio and quartz watch are examples of digital gadgets. After energy, inventors toyed round with electronic records via microprocessor, starting an age of programmable gadgets such as computers, and later, MP3 players and the iPhone. Application devices consist of iTunes, Microsoft Office and other pc packages that personalize our experience with programmable devices.

How To Build An Autopilot Income System From Your Laptop

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Automated Income

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Liquid and Gel Regulations on a Plane

When you’re packing for a experience you are going to be flying on is tons one of a kind than if you’re packing for a experience you’re not. Most of the reasons ought to be apparent, but having flown regularly, I’ve come to find a whole lot of human beings have either never flown earlier than or don’t know precisely what they can and cannot convey. The largest one which got me when I started to fly is the liquid regulations, which is probably the equal one which gets most of the people.

I had long night and an extended flight, so I added numerous espresso beverages, electricity liquids, and sports liquids. No, I wasn’t making plans on consuming all of them at the flight, a few have been for the subsequent couple days too. Upon checking my bag found out I needed to throw all of them away! Why? Well I do not know exactly, but not one of the airlines assist you to have greater than three.Four ounce boxes (100ml) of liquid or gel on a carry on. You may also but positioned larger ones on checked luggage; in case you do that make certain you wrap them in a few form of plastic sack simply in case they appear to pop open.

You are permitted to bring as many 3.4 ounce or smaller bins that you could

Suit in a 1 clean quart size plastic zip top bag, but you are best allowed to have one quart disheveled in line with the person. There is one exception where you can bring a bigger length liquid or gel container on a convey, and that may be an if it is a prescription. So when you have a prescription you’re planning on taking in a carry on, ensure you have got it inside the prescription container that will see the prescription label.

This is the final liquid law that were given me. Some of it makes experience consistent with the preceding law I just referred to however the different half would not. Not simply wondering I changed into ingesting a soda and hadn’t finished it by the point I were given to the safety test factor. I went all the manner even though the whole safety check, had the whole thing unpacked, then the security guard instructed me he’d either need to throw the soda away, or if I wanted to finish it I could need to undergo the entire method again, inclusive of my baggage! I thought it changed into absolutely bizarre my luggage would should undergo the complete technique again and now not simply have me move walk via the scanner once more.