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[lesbian-trash-panda]

✨Q Rated: The Rise of Kyoshi

A✨Q - Amazing & Queer, Recommended

Welcome to Lesbian Trash Panda, where I recommend the finest treasures and the best trash a gay raccoon can find. Today’s entry is the first book in the duology about everyone’s favourite Earthbender Avatar - The Rise of Kyoshi!

Summary: If you watched Avatar: The Last Airbender, you’ll be familiar with Kyoshi, the intimidating 300-year-old badass who brought balance to the world two cycles before Avatar Aang.

Kyoshi has a fandom reputation as a merciless killer, but this book — you really see why!

Haha, just kidding, she’s a bisexual simp. The murder is only a side quest.

“The Rise of Kyoshi” follows the longest-lived Avatar from humble beginnings as an orphan to her youth as a servant girl to discovering her gifts, joining a bandit gang, fighting pirates, and taking on some of the most brutal villains in the Avatar universe. Also, she is a huuuuuuuge dork for Rangi, her Firebender bodyguard/friend-who-is-girl/maybe more??? This book is 60% revenge fantasy, 40% pining teenager in love. Kyoshi is part Batman part Sappho and we love her for it

Why you should read it: Did the Batman/Sappho comparison not do it for you? Ok, here’s some more convincing.

Avatar the Last Airbender is one of the best-loved animated shows of all time. It blends the best of eastern and western animation & storytelling conventions to create a universe that is rich in beauty, lore, character, and heart. “The Rise of Kyoshi” adds new historical context and intrigue to the Avatar world while remaining exciting and engaged in its own narrative.

Kyoshi is adorable, and that’s not something you would guess based on appearances in the show. She’s complex and has a lot on her plate and she is frequently put in no-win situations, in a way we’ve never quite seen before in this world. I appreciate when a story is willing to set up a dilemma and follow through on it, instead of pulling a last minute fake-out (cough cough Legend of Korea S1). There are still surprises, but she is forced to make tough decisions and those decisions have consequences.

Rangi is also a great addition to the Avatar universe. Fans of KorraxAsami who were disappointed by how the relationship was censored in the animated show will delighted by how open and honest Kyoshi is about her feelings for Rangi, and I love her for it. I am impressed by the complexity of queer relationships in the Avatar universe - the Legend of Korea tie-in comic Turf Wars gave a brief history lesson on how the four nations feel about it traditionally, and it’s clear the creators put thought and attention into the development of that element of this universe. I am glad they get to explore this part of their world more here, in an avenue where they didn’t have to bind themselves according to homophobic advertising standards.

The book is also funny. It has that classic Avatar humour with some added, “Oh, Kyoshi, you gay sad sack!” Lots of fun characters, exciting moments, and surprising depth.

I just finished reading it to my partner and she loved it. Hopefully you will too! Get it at your local library or buy it, I dunno.

Content Warnings: Surprisingly grim violence, including war crimes - more so than the animated series; for teen readers

Recommended for: Fans of Avatar the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, fans of historical fantasy, people who wish Bruce Wayne was a gangly teenage girl and Alfred was a badass teenage girl

[roselites]

feeling sick, so i stayed in bed and watched dept q and i just have to say.... the most unrealistic thing about it isn't the office by the showers or that the scottish government would approve a "substantial" budget for a cold case department, it's the fact that everyone hates carl. like, yes, objectively he is a bastard, but he also spends the entire series with unkempt floppy hair and dressed in shades of blue that match the repressed sadness in his eyes. also, he has a sweaty panic attack in the middle of the road and gets clocked for it in front of the entire country. i REFUSE to believe there isn't a small-to-medium sized pool of women in his vicinity who don't think "i could fix him" or "he's fucked but i'd do it anyway."

[futuristicdoormats789]

fucking fascinated by the fact hodgson's first thought upon seeing a decent plate of meat infront of him (neptune) is to ask 'who is that?' what is wrong with him. like you might think i'm joking. no. seriously. even hickey is bewildered by this. HICKEY.

[eobe]

Crosshatch 💀 CROSSHAIR. The result. I had so much fun with that grumpy clone, Croissant-snacking and cat call… ahem, cat coding him, so his dark badass dangerous sniper side absolutely deserved urgently a stage again 🖤✨

And during drawing, concepting, thoughts and doing stuff for a timelapse take to show the process, I looped „Deliver Us“ from In Flames 🖤 It has wild dark Crosshair vibes, so me and this artwork got absolutely influenced 🙈 not sorry 😎

Here‘s the Procreate timelapse fun chaos drawing process video that deserved an own post to enjoy because laughter 😂

So my hatching also got way more messy and wilder than usual, but I like it 🤩

Crosshair‘s glance en detail:

Taglist: @eclec-tech @lonewolflupe @bixlasagna @returnofthepineapple @sunshinesdaydream @covert1ntrovert @general-ida-raven @vrycurious @dystopicjumpsuit @chaicilatte @groguandthebadbatch @justanotherdikutsimp @ladylucksrogue @spaceyjessa @morerandombullshit

Vod, look at the final result with wild coloring for thecwild hatching 🫶 @wings-and-beskargam

Tahny, snack your man before he breaks something 🖤✨ @crosshairs-dumb-pimp-gf

(OP note: the sniper wrote the ALT text)

[chanstopher]

©️hwaya ♾️🐺

[pikafaawork]

🥰🌺✨

[agirlwithglam]

How do I stop comparing myself to others and how can I feel fulfilled on my own without needing anyone else's validation?

hiii<3 i feel what you're going through, trust me i do. here are some of my tips that specifically worked for me + at the end i'll include some more recommended things to read/ watch.

how to stop comparing & feel fulfilled without needing anyone else's validation

how to stop comparing yourself:

start focussing and thinking about yourself more. lol ok i realise that may sound like "become self absorbed" but i suppose, to some extent, that is what im saying. you're becoming too interested in others' life around you if you find yourself comparing. its time to focus on you and up levelling yourself to the best version possible.

comparison = wanting their life style, yes? so when you find yourself comparing to others in your life, realise that its because you envy something that they have. maybe its money, popularity, prettiness, intelligence, etc. so its like a signal in your brain which is telling you: "i want this. but i dont have it." so now what can you do, work hard to get it.

focus on what you have. i read a quote once (i think its by Oprah Winfrey) and it goes: "if you focus on what you don't have, you'll always have less. but if you focus on what you do have, you'll always have more." instead of looking at other's lives and thinking "i dont have this, i dont have that", look at your own life and think "i have this, i have that."

feeling fulfilled without needing anyone else's validation:

self love. self love. SELF LOVE. self love will ALWAYS be the answer to this. learn to LOVE yourself. and if you dont, ask why!! i have a whole guide on how to develop self love HERE. Stop looking for love in others, GIVE YOURSELF THE LOVE FIRST!!

It’s you over them. Always. Always always always. Always choose you over them. If they want you to do something but you don’t, then you say “no. I will not do that” it’s scary? Oh boohoohoo, suck it up. Because if you are constantly doing stuff that others ask you to just for the sake of pleasing them, you are disrespecting yourself in the worst way. You are basically saying that what they want is more important than what i want and need. Ew. Don’t do that.

extra resources:

a guide to develop self love & confidence (by me)

vanilla's opinion🍰 edition 1: dealing with hate & not caring about what others think. (by me)

ways to stay unbothered (by @pastel-charm-14)

Self validation (by @prettieinpink )

Tam Kaur's youtube channel

Thewizardliz youtube channel

[linolinoing]

★ lino linoing moments: 11/∞ → 👁_👁

[kankuroplease]

December ko-if supporter request 🖤

[permo2003]

This fandom should draw more this badass twink gay boy, look at him, he is so beautiful.💖💕

[acecroft]

NIKITA 3.13

[tohruies]

post-lament anthropocene: stars intertwined

“there’s never a shortage of tasks to be completed at the academy. i may not be the one making discoveries, but if i can make life even the slightest bit easier for those who do, then it’s all worth it!” — coco

☆☆☆☆ attribute: spectro weapon: sword

art by ruiaes!! 🌟 / some extra lore notes below; there is not much currently but i will add to it over time ٩(^‿^)۶

archive>> huaxu academy’s lab technician and secretary to xiangli yao, who works diligently to brighten up the space in ways too subtle to be named—always helping, always working—though she never seems to mind.

much like the researchers at the academy, she too once sought to ease the burden of the lament through discovery, but those days are now simply dreams of the past, ones that she buries beneath kind hands and reassuring words. though she may not create a better future as she had once envisioned, to be able to lift some of the stress off another, or to be able to make them smile—perhaps to make the present easier for others is enough to keep the floods of guilt she feels at bay.

resonance power:

resonance evaluation report:

overclock diagnostic report:

[sunflower-eddiediaz]

Bobby & Eddie + having seemingly superficial conversations

[livarts]

Tubbo and Sunny !!

Not in love w how I drew sunny but it’s cute I’ll go back and actually make a design later 💫

[eobe]

The Bad Batch ARCANE‘d 😎✨ Two of my favorite universes collide and so this is Crosshair/Silco – lean, sly and dangerous. Enjoy!

Normally I use frames directly out of the series, but this time I just loved this ref for what I had in mind.

Taglist, it‘s Arcane again – no one complained last time: @eclec-tech @lonewolflupe @bixlasagna @returnofthepineapple @sunshinesdaydream @covert1ntrovert @general-ida-raven @vrycurious @dystopicjumpsuit @chaicilatte @groguandthebadbatch @justanotherdikutsimp @ladylucksrogue @spaceyjessa

[chanstopher]

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