Kindling by @syncogon
He is, after all, a Pokemon Trainer. What do you think?
Fandom: 全职高手 (Quánzhí Gāoshǒu) | The King's Avatar
Alternate Universe - Pokémon Fusion
So this took a lot longer than expected, but it's finally done! 🎉 (Oh to have the energy to Make a Thing!)
August 2022: Typeset the fic.
September 2022: Sewed textblock, endbands, and cut boards for the cover.
July 2023: Made cover, cased in textblock, and added the title -- first time using the hot foil pen I got for my birthday!
Another first: this book was made quarto-style. I used regular copy paper so that it would be short-grained. Trimming was a exercise of patience: 'hmm maybe juuust a little bit more, oh shoot that looked rough maybe a bit more will fix it...' ad infinitum. (My printer has margins, and I wanted the images to go right to the edge.)
Fonts: primarily set in Alegreya, title in Catchy Mager. (Thought I'd changed all instances of Cinzel to Alegreya and updated my Print Details page to reflect that, but alas. Missed the Archive Info and Contents headings. Ah, the things you notice once a piece is done :/ )
For the cover and title page I leaned into the ideas of 'kindling'/fire and 'Tiny Herb'/grass. I chose green bookcloth and green floral endpapers because the story takes place at Tiny Herb Gym and in a forest. I chose flame coloured paper for the covers because of both Jun's quirk, and also the 'kindling' of QYF, TR, YX & Jun's Pokémon journeys. The smoke/flame and grass pics used in the title page are free images from Rawpixel.
The endbands' colours were chosen to match the green endpapers and the yellow of the mimikyu Acinonyx6 drew for the fic.
Since "Kindling" was part of QZGS Bang Bang 2022 I also included Acinonyx6's artwork. (My printer really can't do the art justice!)
[a.cinonyx's Instagram]
For the scene breaks I made a pokéball out of shapes, then pasted it in and anchored it as a character.
