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maddmuses · 10 days

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Ty Zia

(FC: She just looks like her grandma, when I have commission money will be getting some art done

Aliases: Zia Nationality: Kyoshi Islander (Earth Kingdom Fringe Territory) Ethnicity: Earth Kingdom (South-Eastern); Fire Nation; Air Nomad Relatives: Air Nun Dralha (Great-Great-Great Grandmother), Ty Kou (Great-Great-Great Grandfather), Ty Fuu (Great-Great Grandfather), Ty Koto (Great-Grandfather), Ty Lee (Grandmother), Suki (Grandmother, Adoptive), Ty Len (Father), Nana (Mother) Age: 18 (Born 156 AG, Year of The Dragon)(Circa end of Book 4: Balance) Affiliation: Kyoshi Warriors, Airbenders (Association, Informal), Clan Ty (Lee Branch) Profession: Kyoshi Warrior

Fighting Style: Chi-Blocking, Kyoshi-Island Traditional Martial Arts, Tessenjutsu, Airbending Ranks: Yondan Chi-Blocker, Sandan Tessenjutsu, Niidan Kyoshi Martial Arts, Second Tier (out of thirty-six) Airbender

Appearance Zia is frequently compared to her grandmother, more or less being the spitting image of her teacher at the same age. Unlike her grandmother, she has a preference for the color green, and is often seen in the color to some degree, even when not in her Kyoshi garb. On most other occasions, she will wear blue robes and layers in the typical style of locals.

A key distinction that her metal fans bear from those of the other Kyoshi warriors is an engraving depicting a dragon, referencing the sign of the year of her birth.

Personality Friendly enough, though with a habit for blithe sarcasm, Zia does not so much share her grandmother’s bubbly personality, or her affinity for spiritual things. Be it a result of her upbringing in the remarkably aspiritual region of the earth kingdom, or simply being more concerned with earthly things, such as becoming a warrior, Ty Zia has no ability to remark upon or perceive auras prior to her training. Still, she’s often the first of her troup to meet strangers with a smile.

Mischievous and prone to a good joke, she’s frequently “conniving something” when others observe the airbender in a thoughtful moment. Puns and slapstick are types of comedy that she’s particularly keen on.

Overall loyal to her homeland and the people there, Ty Zia expressed almost no interest in becoming an Air Nomad, or in allowing the other two benders (younger girls from her village) on the island to join the New Air Nation either. This sentiment of loyalty extends just as far to those who earn her friendship… Even if it’s not something earned quickly.

Biography Born in the era following the avatar’s death, the member of a fire nation noble house, though with no ties to that land itself for a generation at that point, Ty Zia is a Kyoshi islander through and through. Kyoshi Island, aside from being isolationist in the era of the 100 years-war, is something of a cultural melting pot from even the era of segregation between nations. Kyoshi, for who the place would become named after and after who much of the culture modeled itself, was multicultural, the daughter of a former air nun, and in this sense Zia was seen as similar, with an ancestor from nearly 200 years prior also being an air nun who escaped the nomad genocide. But its proximity to the south pole, being among the southernmost “Earth Kingdom” settlements, while sharing water with the fire nation archipelago, meant that many cultures and traditions would be shared through osmosis.

Zia, on some level, felt this through her own family’s culture growing up. Though her given name is more in-line with a “traditional” name of the region, her surname was remarkably fire noble, and the through line of air nomad influence ran into the traditions and values of spirituality and the martial arts that her father and grandmother instilled into her when she was a little girl.

Growing up in Matsu Village, the same that Suki was from, Zia’s fascination with the Kyoshi warriors was essentially on-sight. Her first memory, from when she was three, was one of her sneaking a peek of the typically-closed sessions in their dojo. Her grandmother, Suki, led the exercises for the then-warriors with a stern and parental tone that she was unaccustomed to, but also intrigued by. And she would begin copying the motions she saw, until caught by her father Ty Len. Affable and encouraging, he promised that if she wished to be a Kyoshi warrior, that if she put in the work, her dream would come true.

She would begin to receive rudimentary martial arts instruction at age four, though nothing particularly harsh, progressively ramping up to age 9, at which time her training became “serious” and she would begin to study under not only her father, but her grandmother Ty Lee, too. This regiment of martial arts would be supplemented with fundamental weapons as well, a wider range of training than Ty Lee had practiced as a child, with methodical intent to familiarize herself with the weapons used by the Kyoshi Warriors when the time came. And as she entered adolescence, she would become a Kyoshi warrior in the tradition of her grandmothers, even if her martial arts training had only just begun in the eyes of her father.

On one occasion, while she was eleven, Zia met a fire nation noble boy named Jinn Yoshida who had come to the island to request her father’s permission to court her, as evidently this boy’s father had attempted to betrothe his son to several of Zia’s cousins in the fire nation, in hopes of curying political favor through such a marriage into the Ty clan, to no avail. This notion did not last long, and Ty Zia did not ever realize that it was Jinn’s intent to try to marry her, as she was far too interested in “throwing rocks at him” when he expressed a passing interest in her training; a misunderstanding as she had assumed he wanted to learn chi blocking, and attempted to replicate a footwork drill that her father had run her through years before.

At the age of fifteen, as Harmonic Convergence occurred, Ty Zia, along with two younger girls who were training to become Kyoshi warriors themselves someday, would manifest airbending. Excited, but perturbed, Zia would immediately begin barraging her grandmother with questions, while her training would somewhat expand to include some basic movements and forms that Ty Lee could recollect from her adventures with and against avatar Aang, though fifty years is quite a long time for information to become lost.

The island’s isolationist nature meant that communication to the outside world would be slow, even in the direction of Republic City, but the mumblings of Dai Li agents kidnapping newfound airbenders in the night had come quickly. Even if going to Republic City to train under Tenzin was something she might have wanted, the girls could not be taken from their parents so soon, in her mind, and with mumblings of what was going on outside of their island, Zia would initially double down on this policy, even well into the time of the “New Air Nation” and its broad acceptance as a force for good.

Abilities and Powers -Airbender: As a consequence of Harmonic Convergence, like all other new Airbenders, Zia is able to manipulate air currents and gas particles through her will and movement aerokinetically. Due to Kyoshi island not reporting Ty-Zia’s manifestation of her bending, or those of either of the two airbending children on the island at the time, she has not undergone any traditional training. Zia’s airbending resembles that of a “rudimentary” airbender who is only capable of moving the air around them, but not being of it or understanding, she is at roughly this stage through training and understanding martial arts, while teaching herself how to move the air. This technical ability can be compared to Zaheer, though still lacking in a lot of the philosophy and spirituality that made him a prodigal learner of the art. Accordingly she could be said to have mastered the first tier of Airbending training, and is coming upon the completion of the second without instruction. In practice, Zia’s airbending is often about striking at a target’s weak points to break their stature and forms, in a similar fashion to the Kyoshi-style mentality in their hand-to-hand, and on some level her chi-blocking.

-Chi-Blocker: Studying under her grandmother and father, Zia’s tradition of Chi-Blocking is from the later Air Nomad one. Though not as peerless and practiced as her grandmother, Zia is highly-capable and is on a similar par to Ty Lee by the time she had begun instructing others, and is for all intents and purposes a master. At this time she has not yet learned of the final suite of techniques from her father that would allow her to formally accept the title, though.

As a student of Ty Lee and Ty Len Ty Zia’s foundation was intended for direct confrontation in close quarters, modified to account for the use of her weapons as a Kyoshi Warrior, she is able to chi-block precisely enough to use her warfans, rather than her fingers. In some cases, with certain larger pressure points, she can chi-block with a larger and more blunt instrument, like the side of a shield, though it’s often more practical to simply strike hard and true with that weapon.

Typically considered in the range of soft-style application, the broader martial art resembles leopard-style kung fu, and the actual chi-blocking procedure and fist-arrangement, is a highly advanced form of the foundational martial art. In reality her fighting style is very hard, including many kicks and strikes with her various joints (elbows and knees), as well as eye raking and gouging; while taking to a hit-and-run tactical variation with acrobatic movements.

Tessenjutsu: A martial art which makes use of a metal fan, particularly as a slicing, blunt, and blocking instrument. Modeled after Kiyoshi’s use of the weapons, as well as traditional fire nationer ideas of the fighting style, movements with her fans can be both wide and sweeping, or compact and quick, in Zia’s hand.

Thanks to her having obtained airbending, Zia is able to use her fan to enhance the force and cutting power of air displacement that she generates. As a “signature weapon” of the kyoshi warrior, and her personal preferred option, Ty-Zia is likened to a maven in the fan-wielding arts. She will often casually flip and flit around with the weapon in a toying fashion, and will often fan herself regardless of the actual temperature of the room.

-Martial Artist: In a broader sense, in both hand-to-hand and weapon-wielding arts, Ty Zia is a highly-skilled fighter. Due to Kyoshi Island’s traditional martial arts resembling those of the island and nearby airbending populations more than those of the mainland earth kingdom, her fighting style is overall keyed more on various animal-like stances and high-power strikes, rapid combinations, and acrobatic movement, along with some elements of circular movement defensively, while ultimately leveraging an opponent’s weight and strength against them to maximize these factors. When wielding weapons, however, it is very much emphatic on stability and maximization of power in strikes, with positioning and technique specifically keyed to fighting as a part of a group.

-Acrobatics: Though not as inhumanely agile as her grandmother was, the fundamentals of her style are built around high-mobility, being able to run fast, jump far, and weave easily between others. Without airbending she isn’t apt to be found cartwheeling and flipping over enemies, but she’s certainly outmaneuvering most of them.

#The Dragon of Storms (Ty Zia)

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blackwoolncrown · 1 year

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Ive got to stop taking to trans humanists bc I don’t think its possible to sustain a good faith interaction. Generally they’ll present as just wanting morphological freedom but then it always comes out that they fully believe space colonialism is good, death is inherently bad, and there’s no possible class issues afoot suggested by the rich white folks who invest in this shit.

At the end of the day im coming from such a different place from them that their position seems utterly unnecessary and it just seems to me like they’re too deeply a part of aspiritual colonizer culture to let the “perpetual ego”’urge go.

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beyond-mogai-pride-flags · 2 years

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The Aspiritual (Aspir) Flag.

Someone who is aspiritual or aspir (pronounced "a-spear") experiences little to no spiritual attraction and or desire. This is different from being an atheist or nonreligious, as being an atheist is about lacking belief in a god or gods and being nonreligious is about not practicing a religion, an aspir individual may be a theist, religious, an atheist, nonreligious, or anything else.

Spiritual attraction is defined by wanting to form spiritual bonds with another person in particular, such as wanting to pray with someone, meditate with someone, study under a spiritual leader, or other such activities that society deems spiritual in nature. An aspir person may or may not still do all of those activities, but experiences little to know attraction or desire to do so. I myself am aspiritual and I grew up going to a church I liked, and I intend to go back after the pandemic.

One of the reasons I decided to make this flag and label is because I've never had a spiritual experience, I don't want to have a spiritual experience, and my feelings were often downplayed by people who regularly do. Whenever I've heard people describe themselves as spiritual, or talk about their spiritual experiences, or about this spiritual leader they gush over, or complain about their church not being spiritual enough, I've always struggled to understand what they mean. I know some of the recipes for creating spiritual experiences in other people from years of observation and planning a few worship services, but I've never personally felt it. I've had profound experiences that others may have described as spiritual if they'd experienced them, but they didn't feel spiritual to me, and even felt slightly overrated. I've been pressured to participate in spiritual activities and found the activities a mixture of underwhelming and unsettling, then had my dismay about the whole thing downplayed in favor of the majority opinion of my allospiritual peers, and not had language to explain why I was so upset. Now I've invented the language. I'm aspiritual, this is my flag, anyone can use it, I encourage its use.

#submission

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ez-ra-zed · 3 months

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T is E, E is in T. E is just E in the middle of Tina, on his own, dissociative, not just delirious. And also manic, with EENA, which is E with Nah, Mania. Delirium with Dissociation with Mania

Nobodies properly spiritualized dissociation yet and also connected it to reincarnation, the afterlife, dementia, acting, ACTING, and like had DPDR, got DID as an adult that went away from a dissociative drug like? Some people GET DID from abusing dissociatives like? So I am Dissociation because I aspiritualized it differently than other people in the New Age, and I want a Funny New World Order not some weird eco Fascist NWO dystopia without colorful fridges :( they're all so sleek and silver, or black or white rarely colorful nowadays... that's our dystopia, guys

And, I had an OBE on anesthesia, ketamine, as a baby during surgery, my first drug - I saw myself first without a reflection like so many other ketamine babies dude, not just me

So, I am one of many Dissociative Gods right now who used it to Escape Samsara like so many tweakers just used methamphetamine, Tina without the T, they just used the manic half as Nah, Mania, without being delirious and dissociated from sleep Deprivation, which is also dissociative as is cannabis, sometimes psychedelics, opioids, GABAergics, so many sleep medications like

Some without disordered dissociative identities get to control how they reincarnate, and, they get to dissociate themselves and the things they feel into other people - and they also can take them back, too, sometimes

Follow the path layed before you and escape Samsara

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aydascomprehendsubtext · 6 months

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One day again I will reach the comedic high of a character who is so annoying about being aspiritual she does not believe in the very real ghosts that populate the setting

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emptyshrines · 10 months

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About Me

name: Lulzy // age: not a minor // pronouns: she/her // main: @forthelulzy // from: Alaska, United States // quick facts: aroace, autistic, aspiritual, full-time service industry cog // likes: dogs, video games, tumblring, making minor characters into major characters, obsessing over tiny details, charts and maps and bullet lists

Welcome! I'm not new to Tumblr (joined in 2016 if my main's archive is to be believed) but I am new to the writeblr community. My main body of work and One True Love is fanfiction.

This Blog

This blog's purpose is for information about my original fiction WIP, Empty Shrines (previously talked about on my main as An Offering of Ashes). I will also try to start reblogging general writeblr posts over here rather than on my main. I have no experience running sideblogs (or multitasking, for that matter), but I hope this will be an opportunity to learn.

I love talking about my writing; however I do have a full-time job and am autistic af so this blog may take a while to set up and/or have long periods of downtime.

The Project

Empty Shrines is currently planned as a duology consisting of An Offering of Ashes and its direct sequel, The Altar Aflame.

Synopsis

Ten years ago, Kou was saved from a short, sharp life as a brothel slave and apprenticed to one of the most powerful mages in the magocracy, Isril Abedesin. Kou is unprepared for the politics of a common orphan suddenly rising to work under the Empress' favorite cousin, but he manages to keep his head down and study hard. Until the day Isril and his heir explode. With the evidence of Kou's magical power — pieces of his Master and his son — splattered all over the hedges, no one expects him to meekly turn himself in. Born in to the cutthroat world of the nobility, Sorroth Abedesin is not surprised when the news arrives that his father and elder brother are dead. What he finds at home is another matter entirely. The Empress herself has taken an interest in the case and gotten him a present: his boyhood crush, turned a murderer. Sorroth, already saddled with keeping the vultures from tearing what remains of his House apart, now has to deal with conflicting feelings for the dangerous but pitiable Kou.

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noloveforned · 2 years

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if you're not doing anything else, why don't you wrap up your friday night with no love for ned on wlur starting at 8pm? last week's show re-airs immediately afterwards at 10pm or just stream it from this post!

no love for ned on wlur – september 2nd, 2022 from 8-10pm

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chemicalarospec · 2 years

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I would just like to say to anyone struggling to grieve right now because they don’t believe in any kind of soul, spirit, afterlife, etc: you’re not alone. I am here with you. It’s okay to wish you could believe -- to even try to believe -- and it’s okay not and not want to.

What we have of the dead upon this earth are memories. This is what matters: that they had happy moments and we had happy moments with them. He changed the world, okay? Because he changed our lives.

He’s gone. There doesn’t have to be any reason to it or mitigation of it for you to be able to breathe again. There are millions of lives in this world, therefore millions of deaths, and that sometimes helps me. Because everybody meets someone who dies and everybody dies. I don’t know why. Maybe because it makes this less alone.

It’s difficult. To find a way to lessen the sadness when comfort lives only in the past, in your mind. I understand.

But first, feel sad. It’s okay. You do not have to get rid of negative feelings instantly. Even understanding that it will get easier with time doesn’t mean it must get easier right now. Talk to people who understand, and then step away and just sit with yourself. Remember what your story with him was, maybe write it down.

And there, you move into how to feel better: reflecting, creating things to cause you to remember in the future. Go on to Hypixel, leave a message if you have something to say. (It’s okay if there’s nothing; I didn’t and I won’t. For me, my earlier post being out there in the world was enough.) Donate to the sarcoma charity, if you have the money; it may help you to know you’re giving towards preventing more deaths like this from happening. Talk to people who understand, again, later, you can go through this as many times as you need.

Grieving without belief is grieving without a helping hand. But here is my hand for you, together. We are humans still on this Earth. We remember him, we cry for him, we miss him and will miss him.

You can find peace in yourself with his death without believing that his continued consciousness is at peace. Coming to terms with the ending of things is rough. Coming to terms with the ending of people is worse.

But one day, trust me, we will find something Technoblade again, and we will reminisce to ourselves about how he comforted us, inspired us, made us happy. We will cry a little. Well, maybe you will; I don’t cry that often, and that’s okay too. To need time but only a little, to feel sad but not as much as others. You are still sad and can take your few minutes rather than days without guilt. And for those of you that do need days, we are here for you. To be with you through words and silence, to remember with you, to pick things up while you are on pause.

But my promise for you, all of you, is that you will not need to say to yourself when you remember him, “At least he’s in a better place now,” in order to be able to say “I have good memories of him. He was a good person. He is missed, and I am thankful that he was alive.”

Cry for him, cherish his memory as a blessing, and you can be at peace with the idea that his “rest” is no sleep. Sending warmth over these webways and digital displays into your hearts and minds in this difficult time.

#technoblade #death tw #death #grief #grieving #grieving without religion #atheist death #atheist grieving #aspiritual #I said this

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