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air 🍃

matching zuko, katara & toph:

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I drew this for Katara Week a couple years ago. It looks kinda cool :’ ) Wish I could still draw hands like that hmmm 

support me on patreon!! 

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my father is the worst man alive and i am his favorite daughter

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Learning to dance! It's banned in the Fire Nation, but little Zuko isn't there anymore.

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little abstract painting of dream in his realm

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I was today years old when I learned that when you type “otp: true” in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship

#ao3

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In case anyone wondered if I’m over “To Shape a Dragon’s Breath” yet, I’m currently at a bachelorette weekend with a bunch of book nerds and just expounded excitedly on it for a solid ten minutes to explain to everyone why it needs to go in their TBR list yesterday.

@moniquill your story and characters are living rent free in my brain and I never want them to leave.

#anequs lives to be a mood #seriously go read this book #to shape a dragons breath

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Okay but this is a phenomenal fic/short story idea. If it is okay I may steal the vibes.

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I think the faxt this is a well known accepted character fate to be dreaded says a lot about the way media is made.

Because its almost always the rebellious anti establishment/critical people that they make cops. Its also ridicolously common for it to be a person of colour!

The fact Dick Grayson, a Romani American who went into vigilantism as a direct result of police incompotence, would ever be a cop or pro cop is so wild.

It says a lot that it is common for anti establishment folks of the global Majority are made into cops. It assasinates their character and simultaneously tries to paint the police as sympathetic. It redirects rightful anger and critisism from the chadacter into something easily contained within the system of the 'correct way to protest'. E.g. have them as is so often the case, be 'reforming'.

#yes im still bitter #fandom

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Anequs, Kasaqua, Kasaqua's mother from To Shape A Dragon's Breath by @moniquill!

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Same towards anyone who tells queer ppl from countries its illegal to just mov3 away. Also moving is expensive and cant always be done. And ppl in conservative parts of countries. This place is our home.

people who tell queer southerners "just move away" ummm but i like it here. my friends are here and the cool antique stores are here and the amazing local food places are here and the creeks ive been playing in my whole life are here and the weird landmarks are here and its familiar and it may suck sometimes but its where i live!!!!!

#politics #real life shit

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Walking up the function like 🕺🏾

#genshin #ahhh i love the designn

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#genshin #theyre gay your honor #xiaoven #xiao #genshin impact #venti

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“Look, If I play bad- it’s because of the whole six fingers total situtation”

“Suuure.”

#rtmnt

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DDoS Attack Against AO3: Correcting Misinformation

Normally I don't make any posts like this, but I have an interest in cybersecurity and sadly I've seen people are being really ignorant about this recent DDoS attack against the site AO3 (Archive of Our Own), so I thought I'd remind people of a few things:

Anonymous Sudan appears to have no actual link to Sudan at all, or to any previous hacktivist groups that once operated there. This masquerade is probably based in anti-immigration and other racist sentiments, and utilizing those sentiments in other people to scare people and set up Muslims and Sudanese people as a target. This should be obvious from the language used in their note, but this was already known prior to this particular attack.

This so-called Anonymous Sudan has actually been very active recently—remember that they claimed to attack Reddit, Flickr, Riot Games, a huge number of Microsoft web portals like OneDrive and Outlook, etc. before AO3, so AO3 was totally a logical target for them since they've gone after smaller entities before. DDoS attacks like this are easy for any script kiddie to set up, so it's not weird that they'd go for a smaller target like this.

Honestly this group of posers probably just wants money, everybody. They sent AO3 a ransom note asking for Bitcoin (and just in case people don't know, do not pay a ransom if at all possible if this ever happens to you).

My advice to people who've noticed this attack is two-fold: calm down since this is part of a larger pattern that has literally resulted in basically no loss for the end-user of any of the sites, and... I don't really know a better way to put this, but don't believe everything you read. A religiously-motivated hate group wouldn't use terms like "LGBTQ+" and "smuts," and it's so blatantly obvious that the timing of every single one of these attacks is being used to smear Muslims and Sudanese people if you think about current events for like. One second. And if you look up Anonymous Sudan, you'll see their string of attacks and how all experts know that they have nothing to do with Sudan at all. Even AO3 itself told everybody that the group is lying about their motivations... though I think I'd go further than that personally because even their name itself is almost certainly a total sham.

To be clear: this post isn't targeted at anyone in particular. I've just seen a lot of people falling for this overall or not realizing this is part of a pattern, and I also wanted to remind everyone that this isn't anything to be concerned about. What is something to be concerned about is not doing research or thinking critically and then unwittingly spreading racist ideas.

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sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it

#i definitely write foe fiction #absolutely no questions about it.

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ok was it just me or were philo and kaine kinda. like was that anything or am i insane

#thank you! I thought I was the only one lmaoo #I am seeing a darius kaine philo vignette tourmaline polycule #tourmaline and darius are platonic and sip tea and complain about the dumbasses they love #ill draw the strands later #i fucking adore this ship omg #ill write the fanfic if i have to