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bookgeekgrrl · 8 months

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My media this week (17-23 Sep 2023)

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📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Once a Rogue (Roaring Twenties Magic #2) (Allie Therin, author; Joel Froomkin, narrator) - satisfying 2nd adventure of Lord Fine & Sebastian de Leon keeping both the mundane & magical worlds safe from evil magic relics, featuring antimagic fanatics, missing friends, bootleggers, and, since Sebastian is involved, happy endings for stray kittens.

😍 A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books #2) (KJ Charles) - another stellar KJC histrom with inheiritance chicanery, dealing with bad dad trauma and other horrible family members and hidden treasure! Delighted to back at Romney Marsh (or as near as).

😊 Unwanted Celebrity (Kryptaria, zooeyscigar) - 72K, stucky no-powers AU; "Fifteen years ago, a skinny kid from Brooklyn went to an arts summer camp, where he met child movie star Jimmy Barnes. Their unlikely friendship faded as the years passed. But now, a threat to Barnes' career brings Steve back into his life, in the most unexpected of ways. Or, the one where Bucky is a smooth celebrity, right up until Steve the snarky photographer shows up, and Bucky's whole world gets blown to pieces."

💖💖 +54K of shorter fic 💖💖

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Maine Cabin Masters - s6, e9-10

Only Murders In The Building - s3, e8

D20: The Unsleeping City - "Start Spreading The News" (s3, e1)

D20: The Unsleeping City - "Mutant Santa Melee" (s3, e2)

D20: The Unsleeping City - "Pigeon Plus Ones" (s3, e3)

D20: The Unsleeping City - "Scramble in the Sewers" (s3, e4)

D20: The Unsleeping City - "A New York Wedding" (s3, e5)

D20: The Unsleeping City - "The War of Bugs and Rats" (s3, e6)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Re: Dracula - September 17: The Blood is the Life

Re: Dracula - September 18: All the More For It

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Italy’s Bomb Squad

Re: Dracula - September 19: The Best was Made of Everything

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Getting lost in Golden Gate Park

Into It - How to Game the Billboard Hot 100

Switched on Pop - Doja Cat’s Satanic Suite

Cytochrome Hear Presents: The Tiger and the Dragon

⭐ 99% Invisible #553 - Cautionary Tales of the Sydney Opera House

Re: Dracula - September 20: Not For Your Living Soul

Vibe Check - Richard Pryor in the Morning? That’s a Sex Act

Outward - Mercury Stardust Helps Queer People Feel Safe and Sound at Home

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Ark of Citrus

Song Exploder - Laufey - From The Start

⭐ Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Subtitles: On

⭐ One Year - 1955: Siberia, USA

Today, Explained - The six D-words of climate change

Re: Dracula - September 22: Sadly and Without Hope

Dear Prudence - I Don't Want My Dad to Give Me Away at My Wedding. Help!

Into It - Hasan Minhaj’s Broken Truths, and Taylor Swift’s Broken Google

What Next: TBD - Did AirBnB Need to Go?

Endless Thread - The online legacy of 'To Catch a Predator'

Re: Dracula - September 23: After a Bad Night

⭐ ICYMI - Is “Algospeak” D@ngerous?

Today, Explained - Blame Capitalism: The 99%

⭐ Cautionary Tales - A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor

Welcome to Night Vale - Bonus Episode: Behind the Scenes (September 2023)

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

my Liked Music playlist

Hard Rock Headbangers

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

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olderthannetfic · 30 days

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Started watching older shows now ( not VERY old, just not very recent) and DAMN, that's some good storytelling

True blood is hella problematic w its depiction of Black characters. They're also the BEST characters, i love them, i want to see what they're doing. It has good pacing ( the first few seasons)

AoT was memed yo death, but you know what? That first scene w the titan over the wall? It was GOOD. it was TERRIFYING.

the show has good pacing, good tension, it has many deaths and makes it feel like a gutpunch. The first episode had the " Titans never attacked in 100 yrs abd ppl got complacent" exposition and jt felt natural!

Meanwhile, Netflix ATLA can't be bothered to let the actors ACT lest the viewer has to THINK about what's going on on screen instead of eating the CGI

Look, i know there's good shows, that there's good popular shows that kept the art of storytelling even today but still....

So many stopped seeing it as a priority

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theduckeminence · 11 months

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Y’all ever just think about how characters from atla would sound and be viewed as from a historical standpoint? Can you imagine how freaking hilarious yet interesting that would be?

Like imagine you’re reading a textbook and you get to the era of the 100 Year War and you read about notable figures from the dynasties between Firelord Sozin, to Azulon, and then to Ozai, only to see a photo in the textbook depicting the theatrical and hella dramatic armor Ozai wore when he attempted to burn down the Earth Kingdom?

Or the fact that King Bumi is probably known to be the most longest living and insane kings to ever rule in the world and the more you learn about this guy, the more crazier and out of pocket you can imagine him being?

How about the idea of how some of our beloved female characters being portrayed in history as being the most badass characters to exist—especially at a young age? Can you imagine what it would be like to read or watch a video on how Azula took over Ba Sing Sa? How Toph created metal bending? How Katara upstarted rebellions and movements in the name of justice and rights?

Yet can you imagine the idea of how some of these characters can be severely underrated and overlooked due to their lack of story? For instance, characters like Princess Yue, Jet, Hama—can you imagine how their stories would be told and framed? Yue being seen as a tragedy? Jet also being both a tragedy and a young war hero? Hama being seen as both a “bad guy” in history for hurting many, yet simultaneously sympathized for what she has gone through? Can y’all imagine that?

Can you also imagine how Zhao would be known as the biggest loser in Fire Nation history? So much so that chances are some schools in the FN may as well refuse to speak about him? That’s both sad and hilarious—

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #ozai #firelord ozai #bumi #king bumi #azula #toph #toph beifong #katara #yue #jet #atla jet #hama #zhao #atla zhao #admiral zhao

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scovilletwothousand · 2 months

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WARNING: OPINIONS BELOW

not to bring up old amd major fandom discourse but...

okay so watching the atla live action drove me back into my 2010 zutara era, and reading all that zutara fanfic made me think of klance (the other blue/red ship we should have had) so i was reading klance fic which made me realize i forgot most of the show and made me want to rewatch the show and im about to finish season 2 again and guys??? omg????

ok i was a klance girly thru and thru like everyone else but in the early seasons like 1 and 2 (and i realize what i'm about to say is blasphemous but bear with me) allura and keith had HELLA chemistry. like they had bonding moments and had like...a lot of deep talks and skinship (like the ep where they thought they were being tracked by zarkon, or the ep where allura gets over some of her galra hatred for keith's sake, etc etc) and were honestly more compelling than allura and lance or allura and shiro. maybe it's because i'm no longer a child/i'm looking at it through a more critical lens but the dynamics are totally different than what i remember in the early seasons.

OBVIOUSLY IT'S MEANT PLATONICALLY IN THE SHOW but the chemistry is real platonically or romantically. and for fandom that ships anything with a pulse, this ship really should have been more popular.

i think ppl were just so obsessed with wanting gay characters or characters with specific sexualities that they glossed over characters that had real chemistry. and only sticking to the skinny characters was whack. lance had hella chemistry with hunk and but i think y'all are too fatphobic to properly appreciate him. i blame the show for making hunk the least fleshed out of the main characters. hunk is more than comic relief!

also? y'all butchered my boy keith in fanon. he's got way more personality in the real show than in fanon, which like i understand that usually fanon characters have less personality but the difference is wild. canon keith is not nearly as withdrawn or moody as he is in fanon, he's just kind of a grumpy guy who knows what he wants and is incredibly determined to get it. he's not as emo or depressed (or repressed) as fanon makes him either

for the record, i'm still klance for LIFE but omg have a little fun sometimes. bi keith supremacy.

also, unrelated and completely off-topic sidenote, stop writing spanish into your fics if you can't speak it. i can't speak it even i can tell yall on some gringo shit. use italics or <brackets> like they do in comic books and webtoons. way less cringe.

#tell me how blasphemous is this post scale from 1-10 #klance #voltron #voltron legendary defender #i'm telling you we deserved one (1) kiss involving keith #could've been allura or lance idc #ALSO I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT IF YOU HATE ZUTARA OR KLANCE #IDGAF #FANDOM IS MEANT FOR FUN AND I LIKE MY PURPLE PAIRINGS #oh the yinyang of it all #anyways i still wont watch season 8 #no siree i value myself

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pikapeppa · 1 month

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15 questions for 15 friends

Tagged by @elveny and @johaerys-writes -- thank you, my loves!

ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? My mom. Apparently my dad really wanted to name me after my mom and she was like "ugh really fine" LOL. My dad is also named after his dad, who was named after his dad... REAL ORIGINAL. This is going to sound like a total humblebrag, but my mom and I are both published academic authors, so we have to use our middle initials to distinguish who published what 🙃

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? Probably in therapy last Thursday LOL. Though I got a little prickly-eyed earlier this week watching the episode of ATLA where Zuko and Aang go on their lifechanging field trip to the Sun Warriors' secret village 😂❤

DO YOU HAVE KIDS? Nope! Childless by choice.

WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED? I played T-ball when I was 5 or 6 (hated it, cried so much that my parents pulled me out LMAO) and I was on the volleyball team in Grade 6. I'm left-handed and I had a habit of serving into the wall, unfortunately, and the habit got worse when I was nervous. During one game, they took pity on me so much that they paused the game until I got the ball over the net. I was fucking humiliated and have never played a team sport since then. 🤣💀 Re: other physical activities, I like dancing! I've taken a ton of different kinds of dance classes including swing, salsa, bellydancing, and Bollywood dancing, and loved all of them!

DO YOU USE SARCASM? No. Me? Never. 🙃🤣 Forreal though yes. All the time.

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Uh...! I don't know if there's any one specific thing? I usually take in an "overall impression" of appearance. Vague, but that's all I've got. If the question was "what's the first thing you notice in people you're attracted to", that might be a different story 🤣

WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOUR? Brown.

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? I am going to copy Johaerys's answer and say it doesn't matter to me, as long as the story was good. But also, who says scary movies/horror media can't have happy endings?? 🤣Haunting of Hill House, anyone? (Bittersweet, maybe, but it counts as happy to me!)

ANY TALENTS? Would it be wretched if I said I feel like writing might be a talent? Whatever, I'm saying it. 🤣😅

WHERE WERE YOU BORN? In a hospital in the same city where I currently live! Which I will chose not to reveal openly! 🤣

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES? Writing! It takes up a solid 75-90% of my free time. Also gaming (which I might count into the writing time since it often becomes Research™ for the writing 🤣). I also enjoy baking and cooking, though I don't know that I'd count those as hobbies since they're necessary ADLs?

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS? A cat named Meeko. She is my daemon. We can never be apart when I am home. Case in point, a photo taken in real-time while completing this quiz:

HOW TALL ARE YOU? 5'3".

FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL? Uhhh... what level of school are we talking here? In undergrad, I took an incredible linguistics/history course about writing systems, and that was probably my favourite class ever. I took a course during undergrad about different schools of psychotherapy that was pretty damned influential too.

DREAM JOB? I also loved Johaerys's answer here: "I don't think there's any sort of job anyone could do in this capitalist hellscape we're all currently living in that would be enjoyable enough to make up for, well... living in a capitalist hellscape." I'm lucky enough to work in the public healthcare system so I'm pretty safe from the worst of capitalism, I guess, though my job (speech-language pathologist) is one I chose more for practicality (certainty of employment) than because I was really passionate about it. If I could do something else and not have to worry about money, I would either want to be a fiction editor, or a sex therapist.

Tagging forward to @ranaspkillnarieth @iamcayc @heroofshield @fantasy-girl974 @hellas-himself @midnightacrobat @alyssalenko @vorchagirl @elinorbard @stuffforthestash @mwasaw @lordofthenerds97 @y0ureviltwin @ladyofthelake91 @perhapsrampancy @cha-mij and genuinely, anyone else who wants to share!!! Tag me so I can spy on your life! 🤣❤

#tag meme #about me #tumblr game

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zephyrrhiesfyrian · 1 year

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I have finally finished the first set of sixteen expression doodles/chat stickers! A thank you to @slugsjunk for indulging my nonsense and giving me characters to draw :3 This was fun for a lot of reasons, but a big one was that it gave me a reason to draw characters I never had before, which is always good for practice.

Here they are! :D (some of them I envisioned as having specific scenarios attached to them lol)

Ambulon: I imagine this was his expression when First Aid told him about jump-starting.

Swerve: he's nervous because he's not taken his visor off in front of anybody before, but don't worry, the person he's looking at thinks he's cute. (they're in my next set >:3)

You might notice he's missing his visor. @slugsjunk's sent an edit of a visorless Swerve to the "cursed-images" channel in our Discord server and then asked me to use him for one of the expressions. I deigned to make him a little less deeply upsetting.

Whirl: he's flirting with Cyclonus ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Cyclonus: oh shit he flirtin' bACK- (＃°Д°)

Getaway: I just wanted to make him cry. Is that so wrong? Kinda makes me angry how nice his highlights turned out.

Megatron: he just handed Minimus a poem he wrote about him and now he a lil nervous 👉👈

Thunderclash: (I already posted this one earlier) he's laughing at some silly joke Rodimus made because he's a himbo in love with his captain <3<3<3

He sparkle because that's the way @lush-specimen describes him in their fantastic fics :>

Rodimus: the opposite shot of the previous one; he's not happy about Thunderclash finding his joke funny. First the guy takes his quest, now he's like the only person who laughs at Roddy's jokes? This guy's GOTTA be hiding something! (spoiler alert: he's not, Thunderclash is just a massive dork :D)

Trailbreaker/Trailcutter: he angy >:(

Lyzack: Black Shadow cannot tell her and Leo apart nor does he care to, and she's getting tired of being called the wrong name. That man better be glad he's made out of ununtrium or he'd be dead metal.

I've never understood why she looks like a recolored Starscream in canon, nor am I particularly a fan of how blocky and unmoving Leozack's helm is, so I made my own design. Fight me.

Black Shadow: speak of the devil He's lookin' at Blue Bacchus and being hella gay for him :>

Blue Bacchus: he was not prepared to deal with a genuine Shady smile this early in the cycle. Please, Shadow, he's trying to fuel. Let the man drink his energon before you make him swoon.

Perceptor: he blushi blushi 'cause he watching Brainstorm do marginally safer science than usual. He is very proud that his constant nagging is paying off.

Dai Atlas: oop priestman with the big sword is not pleased. I wonder who's the cause...*looks at star saber*

Fulcrum: I bet Misfire took his drink or something. Or maybe he's just regretting that he didn't detonate and now he's stuck with these idiots.

Tarn: I choose to believe this is the face Tarn is always making behind his mask. *blep*

Reminder that I still have at least sixteen more of these still to complete; you are never safe. >:D

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somewhereincairparavel · 4 hours

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Atla, a first time watcher's episode reaction part 5: at this point, this has just become a series lmao. Anyways, today, I watched episode 4-7 from season 3 for the first time! I'd say the most memorable out of them all was "The avatar and the firelord" where we get the revelation that Roku is Zukos great grandfather. Tbh?? I kinda predicted that?? I really don't know how, but I had a feeling that they were related in the episode where roku destroyed his temple in season 1. That was a lucky guess that ended up actually being the truth-

Anyways I LOVE that we discover that both of zukos great grandfathers were best friends. Zuko realising that he has been chasing his great grandfather's reincarnation this whole time is so priceless to me LOL. Also, uncle iroh is finally talking!!! I hate that he got treated so badly by the prison gaurd :(( it breaks my heart.

The beach episode, for me was hilarious lol. Just teenage drama. Azula flirting with the admiral's son had me cackling and cringing at the same time (also when she laughed, it sounded psychotic) Zuko and Mai are such a mess together aswell 💀

but I do think its super super cute that Zuko got hella angry on mai's behalf when ty lee called her aura "dingy" and told mai to stand up for herself instead of letting that behaviour slip. Like ain't no one insults his gf and gets away with it 😤

I like how we got some minor azula and Zuko bonding. Yknow her telling him to come to the beach with him and stuff. Zukos flashbacks of the beachouse was sad as well.

I'll just take the time to say that out of all the members of the gaang, tophs powers and skills have impressed me the most?? Girly can metal bend, earthbend, can tell if someone's lying, can tell if someone's approaching from far away ALL when she's blind????? OMG

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griffin-wood · 5 months

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family christmas. || kaia.

a/n: (probably) final fic for the year, happy holidays everyone. 💕

well a year ago, who would've thought that there's a new addition to their circle, but as it reaches christmas eve, maia sits by the couch with a small bundle in her arms, atlas while kent is prepping their mini christmas tree.

“do we need more ornaments?" She asks giving somewhat of a helpful hand, as she rocks the little boy gently in her arms.

"no, I don't think so." he adds as they gaze upon the decorations, it's simple but it's theirs.

and at the sound of Kent's voice, atlas begins to coo for his daddy. The sound of it alone makes her smile, "hey, someone misses his dad."

Kent places the boxes aside and hold atlas gently, despite almost being 1 year old; he still feels the fragility and often gets nervous when he was asked to hold him. he never told anybody that, but the smile that atlas gave him was enough to calm his nerves down.

"hey kiddo." he whispers gently and rocks the little guy in his arms gently. Atlas opens his eyes gently and coos happily at the sight of his dad, making Kent smiles too. The crooked teeth of his visible to the peripheral vision, and those who know - that's when you made the kent zarneki smile.

"anyone called for uncle nick and gray, because we got presents from the north pole!" The one and only nick wiseman begins to shrike as she sighs.

"hey nick-nack." She says as she pulls nick into an embrace. "You're all early, we're supposed to meet at mom and dad's tomorrow no?"

Nick nods at the statement, "well, I'm playing Santa and I wanted to surprise my nephew. Right gray?"

The nudge nick gives to gray as he gives a polite smile pulling Maia into a hug. "Merry Christmas eve maia."

"thanks gray, forgive my brother for dragging you into his ideas." She adds with a playful smile, as gray just shrugs.

"so, where's the little guy?" Nick asks excitedly, wanting to see his nephew. he already planned in advance all the cooking lessons, and everything he wanted to teach atlas as he grows up and despite her chuckle hearing those, she wouldn't have it any other way.

And on cue, Kent steps into the room with atlas in his arms. A small smile before nick and gray coos over the child, "do you wanna hold him?"

gray shakes his head at that before nick tried to convince him, "hey, it's okay, you can do it. C'mon, hold out your arms."

And gray did as told, and atlas is safely tucked against the arms of Grayson black. "See, you can do it." Nick says in a positive light, smiling.

Kent and maia stands back and then, watches as the two of them coos over atlas.

"atlas already got everyone wrapped around his finger, he's gonna steal Christmas this year." She says with a smile, as she lays her head against his shoulder feeling his arms wrapped over her waist.

"it's his first Christmas out of many, he's gonna steal the show." He says straight to the point and there's truth in them, as she watches how gray and Nick is interacting with him, made her heart flutter with gentleness and love.

Her eyes fall onto gray and nick together, as maia looks at him. "Well, it's gonna be one hell of a Christmas party then."

Kent chuckles, the sound feels like symphony to her in agreement. It's gonna be one hella of a Christmas party tomorrow, and she can't wait.

The next day; the day of the christmas dinner.

"do we really have to wear it?" Kent asks quietly, staring at the matching sweaters that's splattered over their bed.

"it's Christmas, kenzie." Maia says softly as atlas is sleeping quietly in his baby bed.

She begins to slip into the sweaters, as Kent just watches; both intrigue and amusement.

"see, proper christmas energy." She poses and then passes him the sweater.

Kent just cocks an eyebrow his way, a protest of some sort. But, deep down he knows he'll wear it. He just likes seeing her try.

"or do you want me to put it on for you, love?" She proposes which cause him to smirk at the suggestion. He just nods, as Maia returns the gesture with a smile.

She pulls off Kent's black t-shirt off and toss it to the side, her eyes trying to not stare at his chest. But, failed anyways; which brings out a chuckle from him. Her hands slowly gesture over her chest, slightly; enjoying the view. The quietness drown over them, as the slight intimacy was captured between them. It's Christmas, she shouldn't be thinking of unholy thoughts this early morning - but, she's human. She feels his hand tips her chin upwards, as she stares into his eyes.

The smile he has can be compared to a Cheshire cat, knowing and playful. He closes the gap between them, as their lips met. Every kisses that Kent gives, it wasn't the sloppy kind. But it ranges from the feeling of melting into a puddle to the feeling of wanting to be [redacted].

Their tongues battle slightly from the kiss, until she pulls away remembering their itinerary for the day. "We have to go to my parents, love."

Kent cradles her face gently in his hold and chuckles, "I know." But neither of them move truly, and that's the thing. They can be fashionably late and they wouldn't mind.

She breaks into a chuckle at that, and puts his sweater on. "Keep the sweater on, and you might get to redeem your gift."

And that is enough for him to nod in obedience. As Maia grins at his behavior, the sound of small cries break their moment.

"our little boy has awaken, let's get him ready for his first Christmas." The words bring a new excitement, it's atlas's first Christmas with the family too.

Nick's home has become the venue for the Christmas dinner, as everyone has arrived. The place is decorated with fake snow, and a large Christmas tree with presents surrounding it. The smell of food filled the place and chatter, everyone is prepared for the festivities.

"the party has arrived!" Maia says excitedly as the family was greeted by the rest. Kent follows behind with bags of gifts ready, which they wrapped beforehand. Greetings were exchanged while atlas has been kidnapped by the Wiseman's family members.

John is holding his grandchild with a wide smile, blowing raspberries. Hope is sitting by the side, in awe at the little baby. Gray is there chatting quietly with Daphne by the corner, his arm wraps gently over Daphne's waist a subtle move. Maia notices the matching sweaters and the sight of it make her smile, a reindeer matching ones. Adorable.

Nick is still prepping the food, as she squeezes into the kitchen. Kent is talking to the phone with Ferro, who's back at his mom's home, but promises to be back by new year to celebrate it together.

"need any help, nick-nack?" She muses with a smile as she glances at the trays of food.

"ah, button. Can you help me with the dessert?"

She nods in command and helps to pour the cream on top of the cake, as it ends up spectacular. "Done, as always."

Nick returns with a smile, as he takes off his apron. "Where's the little guy?"

"no, hello and how are you my amazing little sister?"

He chuckles and then holds her hands up, "fine, so how is my amazing little sister?"

That brings a smile to her face, "she's doing good, mother duties and graduation. It's a hassle, but..I'm feeling good."

Nicholas observes her sister for a moment and then nods. The voices out there in glee chatting and catching up, as the kitchen is contrasting.

"I know..it's been a difficult year button. But, I'm always proud of you, for everything. I know I told you this a lot, and well I'll tell you until the end of time if I could. I'm happy to see you glow again." Nick says quietly, and then turns to look at her.

Maia tries to hold back her tears by groaning instead, "nick..don't make me cry on Christmas!"

He breaks into laughter, and then raises his hands up. "That's my job since you were born, button. I got the extra cookies to cheer you up, and I can pack some specially for you and Kent later if you want?"

She gives him a smile at that, and hugs him. "Thank you, nick-nack."

Nick returns the hug too, "anytime."

And they both returned back to the living room, as dinner has commence.

Kent and Maia took turns in holding Atlas as dinner begins, and fortunately, the little guy loves the attention. Everyone keeps giving atlas funny faces and love the whole day, making him feel welcome.

Maia watches for a moment as Kent holds atlas in his arms gently, making funny faces. She fell in love with him much much harder, and it's impossible not to fall in love with him at this very moment. She takes a sip of her glass of wine before taking a picture of them both together, it definitely will make it's way to the Christmas dump of the year.

"now, dessert courtesy of miss maia wiseman." Nick announced her name as all eyes on her, the cake was presented and everyone begins to dig in.

"and now..presents!" Nick says once more as everyone get their own slice.

After unwrapping it, the record holder of the most presents fall upon the main character of the dinner. Atlas himself, a variety of toys, books, clothes, and many baby stuff were given to him.

"I have a special gift for my nephew!" Nick announces excitedly as he brings a box to the pair, Kent holds atlas gently in his grasp as Maia unbox it. It's a soft kitchen set.

Maia chuckles at the sight of it, "is this early training for him to he a chef, nick-nack?"

"indeed it is, he'll grow up to be my assistant in the kitchen. A fellow family member of mine must be splendid at the kitchen." Nick smiles proudly at his own words, as Maia rolls her eyes earning a bunch of laughter in the room.

"maia is quite a cook, Nicholas." John pipes in between the conversation.

"dad..she almost destroyed my kitchen." Nick retorts as Maia hides herself behind the couch pillows, while Kent just chuckles. He remembers Maia telling him that.

"dad.. nick..don't embarrassed me on Christmas please?" She groans as the rest laughs in amusement.

"that's Christmas in the Wiseman's for you." Nick winks before pulling her into a hug.

She turns to look outside the window, snow on Christmas day. Perfect. Everyone's attention fall upon the view.

"Merry Christmas everyone." John says in enthusiasm, as Maia smiles in awe at the sight of it. Everyone else is hugging each other, she saw from the corner of her eye; gray, daphne, Sally and Kent in conversation, smiles together.

She pulls away from Nick and hugs the girls, their bond. The year comes to an end, and she's grateful for this year. The hardest but..she got everyone she needed.

They said their final goodbyes for the night, before stuffing the gifts in Kent's mustang. And they finally went home.

Baby atlas slept on the way home, as she rests her head against Kent's shoulder on the way home. The intimacy feels familiar, but this time around there's a new addition in their small family.

As they arrived, he helped her out of the car before carrying the gifts for them all. It was filled from everyone, from her mom and dad, nick, gray and daphne together, sally. but the star of the day receive the most gifts.

She carries atlas and place him in his baby cot and turns in the baby monitor before returning back to help Kent with the rest of the presents. As everything is done and dusted, the snow thankfully is not too heavy on the road. They manage to arrive safe and sound.

She plops herself against the couch of their home, and sighs. "That was a fun dinner, don't you think?"

Kent takes a seat beside her and nods, "it's quite a Christmas."

She heard the solemn tone in his words, and then takes his hand giving it a squeeze. Christmas can be hard for some families, and she hopes her family and friends can give him the comfort of a good Christmas to him.

His gaze softens at her hold, and when words failed them both. The actions speaks louder, thousand times louder; when he leans closer, his lips land against her forehead pulling her close.

"we did it, together as a family." She whispered softly and then caress his face gently. And the word family feels..new to him, a foreign concept. One where he wasn't expected to be perfect, to fit a certain narrative. And this Christmas was just that, a whole lot of love that he couldn't express properly through his words, but deep down his heart is full. She always calls him a part of her family, and her parents already accepted him as their family too. And with atlas, they're definitely a new family.

He'll try his best to keep his family protected in his own way, love and cherished. As she pulls away, they we're greeted by enthusiastic shih tzus.

"oh! I forgot my present for our little furry kiddos. Both of you girls aren't forgotten." Maia says excitedly pulling a box passing it to Kenzie.

He opens it to reveal a bunch of doggie sweaters custom made. "It will boost their petpix account! They almost reached 500 followers no?"

And that's it - the little things. As his love for her grows more and more everyday. The pups jump excitedly and licks maia's cheeks in excitement, despite not understanding of the situation. He smiles, crooked teeth and all on display for them. This is...what Christmas is all about to him, he got a new meaning to this. Something to look forward to.

"Kenzie?" She calls our for him.

His attention swift's back to her, "you alright? You seemed to be out of the loop tonight, love."

He squeezes her hands gently and kisses her knuckles. The words, when you know..you'll know hits different now. Because he knows now. But he changes the topic right away, "I kept the sweater on, what's my gift?"

Her cheeks grow red at that, and then she smiles. "Indeed you have."

She stares at the baby monitor, and atlas is sound asleep. Her enthusiasm betrays her, as she pulls his hand as they disappear to their room for the night to fulfill her promise, apparently one of their many many festivities of the day.

"merry Christmas kenzie." She whispers lovingly before her eyes begin to close, slumber land calls for her.

As he holds her close his lips hover over her forehead, everything feels perfect for their first family Christmas.

It was indeed merry.

THE END.

( tags for kaia lovers out there heehee: @wayhavenots , @yakov-vasilyev , @ambrosykim , @thedeadthree happy holidays guys mwah!)

#alya writes #oc: maia wiseman #k zarneki #x: kent x maia #FINALLY ITS DONE </3 #also its the baby boy's bday! happy bday atlas <3 #i adore writing them. ITS CLICHE I KNOW #ending the fic realm in 2023 with my roots mwah #happy holidays everyone <333 #might poof again bcs of peak uni szn but; i hope everyone is well <333

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hella1975 · 3 months

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im gonna watch the atla live action so you dont have to someone pray for me

#LETS FUCKING GOOOO #oh all the episodes are already out. idk what i was expecting but that's already a mark against it #AN HOUR EPISODE??????? okayyyyyyyy. watch me take three weeks to get through this #atla live action #tempted to put this in the 'hella watches atla' tag but that will desecrate the actual show

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light-miracles · 1 year

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Give me 5 or your atla hc’s

Lol, hello Promy! Most of them are influenced by the 37492 telenovelas I watched as a kid 😂

1) Animals have their own cycles of reincarnation (based on that discarded idea of Momo being Gyatso's reincarnation). Either the Avatar's only reincarnates in humans or it's not actually an special case and no human can reincarnate in an animal. But since I don't like the idea of animals being soulless beings, guess I go with 'they have other cycles'.

2) There are 27473938292 statues of Katara in the Fire Nation. I'm still hella pissed my Katarita didn't get an statue (or, like, some basic respect) in LoK.

3) Satoru is Suyin's father.

4) Ozai invented the technique of using firebending to fly and he teached Azula.

5) And okay this one is totally baseless 😂 but King Bumi is Poppy Beifong's biological father and Toph's grandfather.

#😛😛😛 I should actually do the normal thing and write something with all this #Atla #avatar the last airbender #Gyatso #Suyin #Satoru #Toph #Ozai #Azula #Katara #Bumi #king bumi #poppy beifong

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taikonaut-songhai · 9 months

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Almost done reading The Rise of Kyoshi and I've really loved it so far. Being a lover of ATLAs world seeing it further expanded on and especially learning more about the history of the four nations (mostly the earth nation in this book) is enough to keep me reading on their own, but the characters are also all very good. I think Kyoshi herself has quickly become my favorite character in this seriws and watching her work through her lack of self-worth and fear among other things was hella engaging. Her character has totally pulled me in, not to mention she's just cool as FUCK (and a lil silly). Also, this lesbian romance is life changing.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #the rise of kyoshi #avatar kyoshi #kyoshi novels #yuri #shadow wizard money gang we love dust stepping

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bookgeekgrrl · 1 year

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My media this week (19-25 Feb 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Or Be Nice (charlottemadison) - 151K, Good Omens human AU, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers/boyfrenemies; love the characterizations and the dialogue/banter is A+++

🥰👂‍ The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings #2) (J.R.R. Tolkien, author; Andy Serkis, narrator)

🥰👂‍ Lavender House (Lev AC Rosen, author; Vikas Adam, narrator) - '50s set historical mystery with noir vibes but hella queer. I quite enjoyed this; I liked the characters and the melodramatic noir-ness, and would happily read another of Evander Mills' adventures if any are forthcoming.

😊 Cinderfella (GoldenTruth813) - 43K, Sheith AU, Keith has a crush on YT'er Shiro, then there's a chance meeting, attraction, angst and finally getting together

💖💖 +195K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

The Ghost of You (min_T) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 15K - solidly good ghost/monsterfucking fic

(After)life (AidaRonan) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 4K - reread; my fave ghostfucking fic!

thats what i want series 1-3 (BelmotteTower) - Ted Lasso: Roy/Keeley/Jamie, 44K - fantastic TLot3 series

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Interview with Sarah Gailey (discussing American Hippo) [Romancing The Gothic]

Queering Heyer (My Poor Devil Panel with Rose Lerner, Olivia Waite, Cat Sebastian & KJ Charles) [Romancing The Gothic]

Queering Jane Eyre: Author Visit with Rose Lerner [Romancing The Gothic]

Hot Ones - Anna Kendrick

Hot Ones - Bryan Cranston

Hot Ones - Lenny Kravitz

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

⭐ Vibe Check - Welcome to the Deep End

⭐ ICYMI Plus - Tumblr Revived the Welcome to Night Vale Fandom

Ologies with Alie Ward - Environmental Toxicology (POISONS + TRAIN DERAILMENT) with Kimberly K. Garrett

Switched on Pop - Five years later, the legacy of Nipsey Hussle's "Victory Lap"

99% Invisible #526 - Orange Alternative

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Gankutsu Hotel

Shedunnit - The Death Of The Country House

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Jadeite Cabbage

Lost Women of Science - Of Chestnuts, Cherry Trees, and Mushroom Catsup: Flora Patterson, the Woman who Kept Devastating Blights from U.S. Shores

⭐ Into It - The Wave Returns to the Ocean (Plus: What Are Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos Into?)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Thomas Merton's Hermitage

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Golden

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Newtown Creek Nature Walk

You Must Remember This - 1986: 9 ½ Weeks, Mickey Rourke & Zalman King (Erotic 80s Part 9)

Endless Thread - Aftershocks Online

Hit Parade Plus - The Bridge: Losing Hootie’s Religion

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

'80s Rock Ballads

Tapestry: '70s Queens

Yacht Rock Classics

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thekidsarentalright · 8 months

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HELLO ATLAS! I’m sorry there has been a bit of a hiatus of me being delusional in your inbox (school started) BUT! 1. I need someone to talk to about Patrick in the 2ourdust announcement video? I am going to dissolve if I watch it again what the fuck. The beard the shirt the JACKET? I feel dizzy no one ask me the color of anything in that video

2. 2OURDUST?????? WE’RE GETTING FUCKING 2OURDUST? I’m honest to god just so fucking relieved they’re doing another leg so soon and I ACTUALLY HAVE MONEY FOR THE TICKETS. I was convinced I’d have to wait YEARS to see the boys again once I missed getting tickets for leg 1 :’)

And 3 (or maybe like 2.5) everyone KNOCK ON WOOD but… my first fob show I got Patrick’s pick and when I saw them for Hella Mega I got Pete’s so… I’m just saying what if I get a stick from Andy or a pick from Joe. I don’t even have the tickets yet and I’m already scheming aaaghghfjgj

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HIIIIIII BESTIE <3 hope school is going well for u as it's starting up but 1. OHHH my god yeah patrick in that video is so. its been a day and i'm still not over it, i will never be over it he looks so so so handsome and beautiful and hot and i need to be his trophy wife so bad. so glad i am not the only one feeling so insanely down bad about him

2. YEAHHHHH 2OURDUST!!!!!!!! i'm SOOOO excited that they're doing a second leg, makes me so happy to see that they're like. very clearly having sm fun with this tour that they wanna keep going? so so hope this is a sign that since they're gonna keep going they go to other places too, let the healing tour never end fr <3 and AHHHH i'm so glad them touring the US again means you can see them this time around!!!! that's sooooo exciting omg <3 i'm so excited to be getting to see them again too <3

3 (2.5 fksdjnf). omg i will so so so manifest that you get something from joe or andy this time around that would be so cool for you... or even if you get a setlist or something??? Hope you get something like that!!!!!

#i feel u tho im already scheming too and tickets dont even go on sale till next week fskdjnfsk it's just that exciting!!!#asks #🪸 anon

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joyful-soul-collector · 2 years

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I really like mermaids too. Fat guppies, flowing koi, traditional tail, orca mermaids, scary shark-maids, scary monster mermaids that want to drown you, disney princess mermaids that just want to swim and sing, mermaids in pearls and shells and gems and naked mermaids, mermaids with big books and mermaids that are more fish traditional anatomy. Male mermaids, female mermaids, a-gender maids?, Trans mermaids! (not enough of those omg I want those).

Gimme those mer people.

Did you watch that show "Siren" about the mermaids that was terrible but also stupid fun to watch?

What is your favorite kind of mermaid? I really like monster ones and also long flowing tails.

MERMAIDS

I have NOT seen the show Siren but I've wanted to watch it forever because Mermaids haha. I knew it was probably terrible based on the trailer but I like mermaids enough to watch anyway haha.

I love all those kinda mermaids too!! All of them!! They're all wonderful aaaa!!!

My favorite though?? My favorite kinda mermaids?? My favorite are MINE

Which are actually called Syreni, and are from my original story called Lungs and Gills (aka Pearl Thief, as I originally called it on this blog)

Syreni are merfolk with the tails of different ocean creatures, and depending on what species they are, they have different powers. Shark syreni have super smell, Dolphin syreni have echolocation, Stingray syreni can sting people, etc etc.

Syreni also have access to 4 different types of magic: Sand, Storm, Flesh, and Water.

Sand Magic is magic that can manipulate sand as well as things MADE FROM sand, like pearls and glass

Storm Magic is magic that can manipulate everything to do with a storm: wind, light/heat, and sound

Flesh is exactly how it sounds, it's a magic that can manipulate flesh. Usually it's used in a medical sense, manipulating flesh to heal it, but you can take it in the complete opposite direction too if you'd like

Water of course is the most straightforward, it's the manipulation of water and ice, much like waterbenders in ATLA, but it definitely looks different from that considering it's all UNDER water

Unfortunately for Syreni, they all live in a pretty dystopian world in the ocean after humans polluted it to hell. Pollution has made it impossible to eat without ingesting pollution, which has the effect of making Syreni go insane, almost a slow, zombie transformation. Only thing that can clean food is pearls and the spell done on them, but of course pearls are hella rare, so it's not going great down there.

Also what I like about the name Syreni (which is just latin for mermaid lol), is that it's used for all genders! No need to differentiate between mermaid, merman, and merfolk anymore, they're all just syreni!

Anyway yeah those are my favorite type of mermaids lol, the ones I made up myself. I have syreni characters if you'd like to hear about them specifically, I call em my Sea Kiddos. I would talk about them here but it would make this post MUCH much longer lol.

#syreni #sea kiddos #pearl thief #Lungs and Gills #c: I love mermaids #oh I should say that I really love monster mermaids and generally dark mermaids #hence why the story is a dystopian post apocalyptic type thing lol #love when a creature that's usually depicted as beautiful is shown as Fucking Terrifying #it's also why I quite enjoy demons and angels as a concept #anyway thank you for coming to my mermaid ted talk lol

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