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Here’s my piece for Fire Nation @recovery-zine! It's been held back for quite a while and I'm excited to finally reveal it ❤️

The inspiration comes from the Lantern Festival in China's Anhui Province and the performance with those fish lanterns at night is really fantastic!

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Why is Zuko romantically interested in Mai? What does he like about her as a person? Does he understand her personal desires and struggles?

"Why is Zuko romantically interested in Mai?"

He's a moody, angsty, grumpy teenage boy, she's a moody, angsty, grumpy teenage girl. She hates everything, but she doesn't hate him, and he appreciates that. He practically brags to a guard at the boiling rock that his (ex) girlfriend doesn't need anyone to protect her because she can handle herself.

They find each other physically attractive, enjoy making out and bitching about things they don't like, and they genuinely have a lot in common (troubled family life, struggling with the idea of who they should be VS who they actually are, don't like it when people try to control them, want a comfortable life where they are free to do whatever they want, and experts at using cool weapons that they're not allowed to kill people with because it's a kid's show).

Also Mai knows how to be understanding, caring and supportive without babying him, something Zuko desperately needs and actively seems to want in his life. And while her "aloof", more detached personality sometimes clashes with his need to shout about every single emotion he feels, it sometimes has the very healthy effect of making him chill a bit (and makes her come out of her shell a bit more).

"What does he like about her as a person?"

Like I said, he likes that she genuinely cares for him, but doesn't put with his bullshit, AND he likes that's just as much as an angsty teen as he is. He literally makes a move on her when she finally had enough with their friend group and yells at everyone, including him, to leave her alone. He looks like a lovesick fool when thinking back to "that gloomy girl that sighs a lot." Boy literally said "You're so beautiful when you hate the world" and was being 1000% sincere.

He likes how bold she can be, how she doesn't put on an act for him and how he doesn't have to put on an act for her, and how she literally risked it all to save him and is willing to be by his side now that he's about to start a new era for their nation even though she didn't fully understand why he changed sides.

Mai is, before anything, her own damn self and won't let anyone dictate her life for her, and Zuko really admires her for it because he can relate to that - which leads us to:

"Does he understand her personal desires and struggles?"

Does Zuko, the banished prince that rebelled against his abusive father, his nation's cruel and violent ways, and even against the father figure that he loved dearly but that wasn't listening when he said he wanted more in life than just a job and a roof over his head, understand what's like to only get conditional affection, be told that he needs to shut up and let himself be bossed around if he wants literally anything in life/not to be harmed, to not be listened to even by well-meaning people that just don't get it, and eventually risking everything to carve his own path in life with people he believes actually vallue and understand him?

I'd say yes.

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Here's the full artwork I did for the upcoming Avatar concert! Thank you for having me🎶

Tour dates and info: https://avatarinconcert.com

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Do arrows make good backup weapons?

I know it’s a little late for Ides of Marchposting, but my poor target did a good Caesar impression today!

Please consider supporting me on Patreon if you like this stuff!

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A colourful rounding

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"Not everything's changed" -Mai, Going Home Again

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I just needed some Maiko in my life 🤧

#atla #maiko #love op!

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really been enjoying re-reading some of my original stories lately. gods, I write such good pieces that are exactly what I want to read. one of the pieces I read had such a good action scene, low-key inspired by myself lol.

#anna.txt

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Choose your weapon!

With my apologies to the Cabbages Guy…

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#archery #video #I'm always partial to option 1 - the knife for my characters

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save me characters who are still hated and mischaracterized in 2024 for the sake of a fanon ship save meeeee

#save me indeed #how these two are still suffering all that after over a decade #anyway I love them #atla

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do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.

#00:20 #my writing session I'm about to get into

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my scanner apparently hates light blueish colours, specifically purplish and whiteish, which isn't great since apparently that's what I keep painting with

#did some scanning today and it's all come out a little muddy #unsure rn how I'll edit to fix that. be easier once I've installed my wacom tablet to my newer laptop #so I can select areas and whatever #but the colour shades my scanner hates are beautiful so I'm not going to stop using it #anna.txt

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Whether fate be foul or fair, Why falter I or fear? What should man do but dare?

march to camelot #1: quest

#art #love the colour pallete

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i got nostalgic

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top 10 atla fight scenes (as voted by my followers) ↳ #2: katara vs azula

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hiiii lovelies i didn’t die i swear so here’s a yuetara wip as proof <3

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KATARA VS AZULA Sozin’s Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang

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