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the fact that you had zuko saying the ‘i heard’ ‘i have spoken’ from his watertribe lessons in his trial- *slams head on desk fervently and passes put*

Hahahaha, I loved writing that. The quiet rebellion of references that won't be picked up.

#while mighty oaks do fall #fire sage zuko

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OooOOOoooh I see that the first song is called "Rules" and I immediately think you 100% understand Fire Sage Zuko

1. Funny Hat · Playlist · 28 songs · 1 likes

I’ve got a playlist in the works for some songs that reminded me of While Mighty Oaks do Fall Zuko, which I hope you like :D?

#while mighty oaks do fall #playlist submission #thank you!!!!

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1. Funny Hat · Playlist · 28 songs · 1 likes

I've got a playlist in the works for some songs that reminded me of While Mighty Oaks do Fall Zuko, which I hope you like :D?

#submission

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hey! for my own personal use, i’ve been chipping away at a podfic of your fic “where the stars do not take sides” (i am deeply obsessed with it and must listen to it 24/7.) currently i’m only in chapter 2, but when i finish it, would u be willing to give me permission to share it? 👉👈

Hi! Yes, blanket permission for art/podfic/anything else. :-)

I'm glad you like the story!

#where the stars do not take sides #atla

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Chapters: 19/30 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Gaang & Zuko (Avatar), Zuko & the Fire Sages, Sokka/Zuko (Avatar), Yue & Zuko (Avatar), Azula & Zuko (Avatar) Characters: Zuko (Avatar), The Gaang (Avatar), Yue (Avatar), Azula (Avatar), Zuko's Hat Additional Tags: Funny Hat Zuko AU, Fire Sage Zuko AU, Ozai (Avatar) Being a Terrible Parent, Found Family, Fire Hazard Siblings, canon-typical child abuse, Zuko is the Temple's Baby Nerd, Worldbuilding, Zuko Joins The Gaang Early (Avatar), Zuko has never met a hill he wasn't ready to die on, Autism Summary:

High Sage Kenji blesses Fire Prince Zuko with the resilience of the reed, who bends in the wind and never breaks. When he is done, Fire Prince Ozai narrows his eyes, seemingly displeased by this blessing. But Kenji does not speak for himself; he is only a vessel. 

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The newly-crowned Fire Lord Ozai offers his firstborn son to service in the temple.

This turns out to be a catastrophic mistake.

#while mighty oaks do fall #funny hat au #fire sage zuko #sorry for the long disappearance #life got hard #have a 14k chapter because - as always - I wrote way more than I expected to #“It’s hardly like there’s some kind of trouble we could get into by succumbing to Zuko’s passion for paperwork.” #welcome to ba sing se #joo dee 4ever

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i LOVED the autistic Representation in the form of Zuko in ur Funny Hat au!!! it didn’t feel forced, or like what a nt person thinks an autistic person is like (only making me think they’ve never even met one…)- it just was so refreshing to not have it feel like ‘Autistic character- who’s name is zuko’ but instead ‘Zuko- cool fire sage who’s super smart and funny and interesting and also autistic and-‘!!!

And i KNOW that one scene where Azula tells Zuko ‘something’s wrong with him’ and he says ‘what if there’s something wrong with you too but you’re just better at hiding it?’ was supposed to be super dramatic and everything- IT WAS!! it literally had me open mouthed gaping… AND all i could think when he said that was ‘Autism sees Autism’ LMAOO

Feel free to ignore this if it makes u uncomfortable tho!! i myself am not Autistic, just your regular neurodivergent, but a lot of people in my life and a lot of my loved ones are on the spectrum, so i really appreciate and love good representation (and good characterization in general!!!) like what i saw in this fic. just, thank you so much for writing this wonderful story, i can’t wait to check out your other fics!!!!!

I'm really happy you liked the representation! Thank you for your lovely note. :)

That Azula scene was a favourite of mine to write!

#while mighty oaks do fall #sorry for the delay yall I got a migraine #new chapter coming soon #fire sage zuko #autistic zuko #I mean #is there any other kind of Zuko

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New MO chapter is on its way in the next 24 hours or so (I just need to double-check that it makes sense). I've had to split the Ba Sing Se narrative into 3 chapters instead of 2. Why am I unable to predict how much I will write???

#signs you're a bad writer #btw #this chapter is 13.8k words #and didn't get CLOSE to where I thought the chapter would end #while mighty oaks do fall #fire sage zuko #joo dee #mesopotamian (theoretical) temple strucutres are so much fun

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hey fun fact a lot of Sephardim don't have a kos shel Eliyahu! some do (iirc Moroccans) but some don't (iirc Spanish & Portuguese)!

This IS a fun fact! Do y'all fulfil the "is it four or five cups" makhloket in a different way, or is it just not considered an issue?

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Wow, I am not sure I have ever sounded more antisemitic. But Jewish math is saying "40 minus 1" instead of 39 categories of forbidden labour. It's having four cups of wine at the Seder, but really five, but you can't drink the fifth so uhhh that's for Elijah. It's having a set calendar with a leap year every 7/19 years, but not really! Also, we have an extra month in a leap year, but does it have another name? Of course not, it's also just called Adar. Oh, yeah, the extra month is Adar I and the regular month is Adar II!

Hey all. Just wanted to give my non-Jewish followers who might be curious about our calendar a little note.

I had a friend ask about Passover this morning, because they thought it always overlapped with Good Friday and Easter.

So, here’s the thing: The Jewish/Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar. It doesn’t follow the Gregorian/English calendar, which follows the sun. Each of our months is 29 or 30 days long, following the lunar cycle, and the holidays fall on different says of the English calendar every year because of that. Also because of that difference, a leap year adds an entire month for us, rather than just a day, so that the seasons in which our holidays occur don’t change, since our holidays are mainly based around the seasons and not just the calendar dates.

So, because it’s a leap year—and, yes, it’s pretty much the same schedule with leap years in the Hebrew calendar as the English calendar—we’re currently towards the end of Adar 1, and Purim, the holiday we celebrate during Adar, will be celebrated during Adar 2. This also moves Passover out to late April this year.

This isn’t a very comprehensive explanation, but I thought it might be helpful or interesting to those of you who might be curious about the difference between our calendars.

#why are we like this #seriously the Adar II thing is messed up #THE LEAP MONTH SHOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT NAME #I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

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Hey all. Just wanted to give my non-Jewish followers who might be curious about our calendar a little note.

I had a friend ask about Passover this morning, because they thought it always overlapped with Good Friday and Easter.

So, here’s the thing: The Jewish/Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar. It doesn’t follow the Gregorian/English calendar, which follows the sun. Each of our months is 29 or 30 days long, following the lunar cycle, and the holidays fall on different says of the English calendar every year because of that. Also because of that difference, a leap year adds an entire month for us, rather than just a day, so that the seasons in which our holidays occur don’t change, since our holidays are mainly based around the seasons and not just the calendar dates.

So, because it’s a leap year—and, yes, it’s pretty much the same schedule with leap years in the Hebrew calendar as the English calendar—we’re currently towards the end of Adar 1, and Purim, the holiday we celebrate during Adar, will be celebrated during Adar 2. This also moves Passover out to late April this year.

This isn’t a very comprehensive explanation, but I thought it might be helpful or interesting to those of you who might be curious about the difference between our calendars.

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The only thing I hate more than math is Jewish math

Hey all. Just wanted to give my non-Jewish followers who might be curious about our calendar a little note.

I had a friend ask about Passover this morning, because they thought it always overlapped with Good Friday and Easter.

So, here’s the thing: The Jewish/Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar. It doesn’t follow the Gregorian/English calendar, which follows the sun. Each of our months is 29 or 30 days long, following the lunar cycle, and the holidays fall on different says of the English calendar every year because of that. Also because of that difference, a leap year adds an entire month for us, rather than just a day, so that the seasons in which our holidays occur don’t change, since our holidays are mainly based around the seasons and not just the calendar dates.

So, because it’s a leap year—and, yes, it’s pretty much the same schedule with leap years in the Hebrew calendar as the English calendar—we’re currently towards the end of Adar 1, and Purim, the holiday we celebrate during Adar, will be celebrated during Adar 2. This also moves Passover out to late April this year.

This isn’t a very comprehensive explanation, but I thought it might be helpful or interesting to those of you who might be curious about the difference between our calendars.

#jew on main

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Bosco is the physical representation of the Earth Kingdom spirit which has been keeping the Earth King alive for so long, despite repeated (increasingly unsubtle) assassination attempts.

So while rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender recently, I noticed a trend

A number of spirits we see have an animal form, specifically animals we recognize as "normal" for us. For example:

- Wan Shi Tong is an owl and his knowledge seekers are foxes

- Tui and La are koi fish

- Hei Bai is a panda

-The guardian of the mother of faces is a wolf (The Search)

Heck there's even the talking Baboon spirit and the monkey missing its face that we see in the Spirit World at the end of Season 1.

Basically every time we've seen a "normal" animal, they've been a spirit.

My point? I argue that Bosco is a spirit bear that's chilling and living the good life in the mortal world just because he can.

#Miyuki vs the Fire Nation is much more perilous in this reading

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oh……..oh i’m light headed

#atla YouTube channel accidentally canonises Zukka

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it is not on you to complete the dishes; neither are you free to desist from them.

- the talmud, probably

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Every time I reread Mighty Oaks, I revisit the temptation of law school. Obviously MO isn't what modern legal practice looks like, but Zuko's legal analysis and defense of people's rights is really encouraging to read.

Sokka and Zuko are, of course, always entertaining.

On my most recent reread (as of today, when I really should have been working 😩), the scene that I really loved was the process of getting Pakku to listen to Katara and teach her. Katara's such a good character and your depiction of her is so enjoyable - I'll be making time this weekend to reread the rest of your ATLA fics!

I initially misread this (on my phone, early in the morning) as: "Every time I reread Mighty Oaks, I revisit the temptation of law."

Thank you for a lovely comment and a slightly less lovely (albeit likely healthy) minor existential crisis!

#repeating my apology for not responding to all asks #they make me happy but I can't keep up #while mighty oaks do fall #fire sage zuko #the temptation of law #and also #the temptation of law school

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I recently read one of your ATLA fics and enjoyed it immensely. Sad to come here and see you defend Israel, especially in light of the genocide they’ve been committing. It’s astounding to me how some people can know what’s right in fiction but not in real life. You can shout “antisemitism” but that won’t justify the Palestinian lives taken because of that excuse to defend zionism. Disappointed in you.

It's astounding to me that turning off anon didn't stop people deciding "being Jewish" means "defending Israel".

(FYI for anyone reading who doesn't know: literally the only things I have posted about Israel are that I knew a hostage, on Oct 8, and was upset about it, and that I am not interested in defending Israel's actions. Your guess is as good as mine which of those has piqued edensguard's righteous anger.)

#Antisemitism

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Weird news: I am over 10k into this MO chapter and the end is not near.

#sobbing into a pillow #while mighty oaks do fall #life has been hard recently sorry for disappearing