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lynne-monstr · 4 months
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the first few post-match interviews at worlds must be wild. yu wenzhou gives his interview as captain (situation normal) while being asked about the mistakes that were made because team hasn't fully integrated. and he starts talking about how it's because his leadership isn't strong enough (taking the responsibility as captain, again situation normal).
but yu wenzhou forgets one crucial thing. he is a captain in a team of captains, all of them used to taking responsibility. he's barely a sentence into his answer when every single other captain on the team interrupts all at once to explain why, actually, the mistakes are *their* fault. chaos erupts.
meanwhile, huang shaotian is (quietly, for once) watching all this mayhem unfold in real time. he is very very pleased. he has had this argument, and lost this argument, many times with yu wenzhou over the years. let your the team share the burden, captain. don't take all the blame for yourself. and now he gets to watch yu wenzhou get beaten into submission by all the other team captains who refuse to let yu wenzhou stand on the chopping block all by himself.
yu wenzhou eventually comes to an agreement with his new teammates. it doesn't stop them from trying to protect him in interviews, but they get themselves to a point where at least the interviews aren't pure chaos.
(a whole new enemies to lovers ship is launched during that first interview when wang jiexi physically steps in front of yu wenzhou to says "captain yu is mistaken. it was my fault for not following the plan adequately." to which yu wenzhou gives him the most "wtf" look ever seen from mild-mannered captain yu wenzhou.
for the next six months, huang shaotain gleefully sends yuwang fanart to both yu wenzhou and wang jiexi in their private group chat)
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prisiidon · 10 months
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Avatar!Sidon headcanon 👀 angst
May I present: Sidon can feel what the Avatar!Sidon companion feels. Avatar!Sidon also being a personification of Sidon’s soul and true feelings. The avatar cannot speak therefore simply shows what Sidon wishes to do through small gestures (and as protector in general). Meanwhile, King Sidon in the Domain feels a strange tingle in his hand as the avatar traces a hand over Link's cheek...
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solomiracle · 4 months
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how does the celestial realm know of satan's existence a year after the war? i know nightbringer screwed the whole "the devildom and celestial realm didn't contact each other for centuries or smth" thing but you would think that satan wouldn't be known to them for a while
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greenhorn-art · 8 months
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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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thescribblerqueen · 7 months
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I've been thinking about ATLA for awhile because my sister was rewatching it during the summer and of course once she was done obssessing over it my brain kicked in and said my turn. Because of that I remembered a post from way back that was questioning why there was two earth kings and I don't really remember any other deep discussion about it and it just seemed like a continuity thing at first and I hadn't seen any other discussion on it...
But now it makes total sense.
First off, Bumi is a bender and then there's Kuei who's not a bender. It seems entirely reasonable that they have separate kings to represent benders and non-benders separately. But then I thought about it a little more and easily just as plausible that it's because of the war. Ba sing se is isolated from the rest of the Earth Kingdom, denying that the war exists, and Kuei is essentially a puppet king who also knows nothing about the war. It's not practical for a King who doesn't know about the war to be leading the Earth Kingdom. Having their capital and king isolate itself from the rest of the would have forced the rest of the Earth Kingdom to look for other leadership for the war which would've forced Bumi, as the most powerful earth bender at the time, to decide he needed to step up and take that role making Omashu the new capital and king.
Anyway, idk if this was discussed in the fandom or not.
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musing-and-music · 3 months
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Because of a post about Iroh earlier today, I'm now wondering if many people thought his first name was Uncle for a long time before they realized it was his relationship with Zuko
That also makes me think about how many English people thought King Bradley was a real king and that wasn't his first name (chosen by Father and the scientists who created Wrath). After President and Fuhrer, King would only be
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strongheartneteyam · 11 months
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MY PUSSY IS WET AND IT BELONGS TO NETEYAM ‼️💘🥵
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Yes, DK and NK genuinely had no clue that Irene was a teen when she was chosen for Destiny. They feel bad about it every day, especially after the whole adventure is over, and they both agree that next time, they'll try harder to figure out problems like these on their own.
Meanwhile Irene is just happy that she has a family that loves her, bless her soul
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mimi123meg · 1 year
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I really do just see and esports drama and blackout huh
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gingersnapwolves · 2 years
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just finished rewatching The King’s Avatar, this time with my wife. she immediately went to AO3 and found out there are only 574 fanfics in English, and now I’m fearing for my life
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ruanbaijie · 2 years
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book 16 is officially the book with the best art so far I MEAN LOOK AT THESE
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AN WENYI
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YE XIU VS YU WENZHOU (I’ve said this before but I’LL SAY IT AGAIN ywz character design in book and in donghua is just ✨ chef’s kiss ✨)
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FANG RUI (BELOVED) ((bonus scratch across cheek and flying blood for Dramatic Effect)) VS LU HANWEN
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SU MUQIU AND TANG ROU HIGH FIVE
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YU WENZHOU AND HUANG SHAOTIAN
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lynne-monstr · 2 months
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once again thinking about the sun xiang time travel fic where he (now a mature team player) goes back to excellent era trashfire dumpster days and (1) gets a much clearer view about hard xiao shiqin truly worked to try to get him to see reason (2) develops a whole new appreciation for xsq (3) rediscovers his raging crush on xsq that he never acted on because he was laser focused on crushing his enemies.
anyway in my head this is a comedy fic where sun xiang both gets the guy AND has so much fun messing with everyone in his time travel shenanigans. (yes he messes with xsq too. that's part his flirting strategy).
featuring xsq tactician friendgenda where he talks to his smart tactics buddies about what the heck is happening with sun xiang's sudden personality change.
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unforth · 2 years
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I don't even know this dumbasses name yet but I already love him.
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arytha · 1 year
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alright i have combed through 5 rec lists and have gathered a paltry sum of. 23 novels to look at. i think i know what im reading first though
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ifriqiyyah · 1 year
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been binge-rewatching avatar & honestly i have to say, i know the common consensus among fans is that the puppetmaster is the spookiest episode, & it makes sense since it is the halloween one, but personally i find city of walls and secrets & lake laogai creepier; the dai li are so shadowy & weird, & i've always found the idea of brainwashing disturbing. the whole concept of long feng disappearing people & making them do his bidding without any bending or magic, just through conditioning & manipulation, is creepy as all hell. that + the idea of a century-long war being concealed from everyone? imagine literally all the residents in your huge city (except the refugees who aren't even allowed to talk about what brought them there) living in total ignorance that there's been a major war raging outside the walls all that time. people have been dying in huge numbers & you just have zero clue. that is sca-ry. so yeah my unpopular opinion is that those two share the spot for most chilling episodes in the series lol
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