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A while ago I was invited to contribute to the Form the Ashes ATLA fan Zine for @recovery-zine!

I got to illustrate this double spread! (which was terrifying, thank you) Pretty sure this is where the thought "Jee survived the north" began to form for me! The theme was about the war ending, peace settling and people getting to come home and reunite with loved ones.

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Some thumbnail sketches for upcoming Fire Nation stuff. Will definitely finish the first one, and I’ll try to further explore other scenes of interest. As usual, inspired by Memento Mori (Thank you, @war-studies!) because it is imho the most well-crafted and plausibly canon ATLA post-war fic out there. 

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aang and his scary dog privilege

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a little toph series I did this month on Jo-fi

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Sisterrrr🔥

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(shes making fratricide legal)

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a little toph series I did this month on Jo-fi

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Reblog for a larger sample size!

No "show results", if you're not a fanfic writer just be patient.

I saw a post about an anon saying it was embarrasing to have an ao3 account in your 30s (it's absolutely not), so I want to do a poll and see what the age range actually is.

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In honor of the clickbait scarf scene and artist! Zuko, WE'RE BACK, BABYYY 😎

I'm a little rusty but yey! An art!

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Number one beauty for my artist's ask (31. Beautiful women) - Kya (the First) of the Southern Water Tribe

Sokka takes after her a lot, so I headcanon her as very beautiful and very emotional. I wish we could see more of her in the show.

Also nose piercing was common among women in some circumpolar cultures, so it's another headcanon of mine.

If you feel like it you can support me on Ko-fi. And your feedback will make the artist really happy!

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OK;

So I gave the Netflix, avatar the last Airbender a second try. I took off my judgment goggles and looked at it as a brand new work of fiction. Now mind you my opinion means nothing, but I do have a certain level of emotional attachment to this intellectual property.

The live action show is very pretty, I love the costumes and I actually enjoy some of the characters. Keep in mind I’m only 20 minutes into the second episode. I’m a little busy these days. But I plan to make some time. I took down my original post where I called the show trash so that I could collect more data for my opinion.

Some grumbles;

The special effects are kind of wonky in places. I don’t care for Appa‘s hair. 😁

Some of the fight scenes actually have good kung fu in them. Hats off to the choreographer. However the connected CGI animations of the characters performing bending imho lack the basic essences of bending. The Airbender staff fighting had no “bending” at all.

The work we did on the original show came from a certain type of process, and none of those processes seem to exist in this current offering from Netflix…

I think if Bryan and Mike had stuck around on the project you may have seen some differences, but we will never know will we?

I may write more about this after I’ve seen the entire affair. I’m still a little upset about what NF did to cowboy bebop. Both of these shows had a certain “soul“ in the original animations, but that is one more element missing in these current efforts.Heck I know people that worked on NFATLAB that won’t even watch it.

In closing someone brought to my attention that some clown on Reddit called me an asshole.

Meh, I may very well be.

But your opinions are just like assholes, everybody’s got one 😜

(((i’ve had a Reddit account since 2008))

🙃

#(context: sifu kisu was the martial artist who worked on avatar the last airbender to develop all of the forms of bending.) #(and i assume all the other martial arts in the show.) #< prev tags

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Azula without makeup/lipstick

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Comic by Vago_xd on Instagram

[Part 1/2/3]

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neither “that’s not canon” nor “fuck canon we made this all up” but a secret third thing (canon shouldn’t be taken as gospel but is useful as a reference point for building upon and recontextualizing characters and details. if you worship the source material as unchangeable then fandom in general probably isn’t for you. if you have complete disdain for the source material you would probably enjoy yourself more in a different fandom)

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I know (and understand) why it's such a contentious question, on whether or not its acceptable for other writers to finish an author's story if they die before completing it. So this is my post to say (not that I plan to ever die, bc I'm immortal) if something ever happens to me and I have stories unfinished, I can think of no greater legacy than different writers crafting any ending they want out of it. An infinite number of endings from an infinite number of writers. What a beautiful way to live on.

#this #in fact #I’m actually fine with people writing AUs of my work or taking certain ideas while it’s unfinished #so long as you ask first #but if you use AI… murder

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i want people to tell their children terrifying stories about the things we did for love.

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There's a little au that lives in my brain where Ursa took the kids after Azulon's death and fled to Ba Sing Se where Ozai couldn't reach her. She was surprised and terrified to find that Iroh was still there, blending into the crowd too. Except it turns out he didn't want to go back either.

So they all went and lived together in his tea shop and nothing overly dramatic happened -- until it did. :DD