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Commissions are back on!

After two years Jorts is opening their commissions back up cause i need to pay for uni travel somehow y'know.

Available listings

Full piece £50

A full piece including background at least two characters (more characters have an extra additional cost of £5 each), and full shading to your specifications.

Sketchpage £15

For the price of £15 you too can have a sketchpage drawn of your favourite sillies, including specified shitposts and character interactions. Colouring and shading are an extra paid bonus.

Last but not least, we have a new listing:

Character designs £40

Whilst I have no example to give just yet, for the price of £40 you will get a character design turn around with full colouring to meet your requirements.

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right, expansion of my "bolin is an insanely good earthbender"

bolin is an earthbender of legendary skill and the thing is-- he doesn't even realise it because for some reason no one in the show points it out??

lets start with his earthbending education or rather his lack there of. there is very little indication that bolin is anything but a self-taught earthbender, he and mako grew up on the streets which never really gave them the opportunity or money to have a formal education in such things, meaning bolin had to create his own way of bending, a way to help him on the streets and in the pro-bending arena-- even toph was taught by the badgermoles but living in the city, bolin didn't have that.

look at those flips!! i've never seen earthbending like it before!! bolin's way of bending is uniquely his and i don't see anyone else move like him.

quickly looking at metalbending, i think it's his lack of formal training that makes it so hard for bolin.

his entire life, bolin has had to be adaptable. this completely goes against earthbending in its traditional sense. everyone we know to be a metalbender, even the nameless republic city policemen, have been trained in traditional earthbending. as stated before, bolin never had that and i don't think it detracts at all from his skills as a whole. i do like reading fics where he learns how to metalbend but i liked that he didn't in the actual series.

onto the next point, bolin has also managed to teach himself how to earthbend without touching the ground. watching atla and lok this seems to be quite a rare talent but this just tells us that bolin is incredibly sensitive to his element which is!! amazing!!

you can see this elemental intuition in other scenes as well, particularly in fights, but for bolin the earth just seems to jump to his command

he's an incredibly fast bender, able to pull earth from the ground and form barriers in seconds-- and not just pebbles, these are boulders and huge slabs of earth

the only time we see bolin have to take a moment before bending is when he topples the skyscraper in the finale of season 4

and when it comes to lavabending??

bolin is a way better lavabender than ghazan and that is the hill i will die on

ghazan seems to have this "start-up" stance that he does before bending large quantities of lava which slows him down a few seconds. bolin? he can lavabend pretty much instantaneously

here, ghazan only lavabends enough to weaken the bottom of the wall of ba sing se which you could argue is all he needed to do but if we look at bolin, he can lavabend more lava and do it much quicker-- even without his hands!! as shown in the first gif below

and this is a talent that very, very few people have. it's not like bolin had a teacher to help him, he had to master a very volatile and dangerous skill by himself, and he did!! in just 3 years!! can you imagine?!?!?

and not only is he an incredibly skilled bender, he also has a heart of gold

given the opportunity to escape, bolin instead goes back to save the people who threatened him into helping them (granted they were well within their rights to do so but ya know) and bends the lava with ease. its not hard to find more examples of his loyalty and devotion to his friends and even strangers. he's compassionate, optimistic and a veritable badass!!

i just wish he'd gotten more recognition for his talents instead of constantly playing the role of comic relief.

also @polyglottishthings yes to everything you said!!

tldr; bolin is an earthbender of legendary skill and no one in the show seems to notice.

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like 4 or 5 years apart

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My sons tupid and failure....

I have returned after what 3 years? (more? I was in year 10 and now I'm... not)

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topher

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Mako comic to release February 26, 2025

Darkhorse website has updated:

Mako and Bolin set off towards Penquan Island in the Fire Nation to find answers to a case—and maybe a little bit of their past along the way.

When a strange missing persons case falls into his lap, Mako is forced to choose between his job and doing what he feels is right! An upturned room and an unhelpful witness aren’t promising starts to the investigation, but when his brother Bolin comes across a surprising clue that ties their own mother to the case, the pair embark on a journey to the small, rustic island of Penquan. The island’s inhabitants seem to have things to hide, and the brothers are determined to get to the bottom of it—even if it means uncovering uncomfortable parts of their family’s past.

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Might redraw this after how long? 4? 6 years?

had to contribute to the meme

also Opal’s twitter handle is: kuvira_stole_my_fruitsnacks

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twitter // ko-fi UNCLE send him to the principles office and have him EXPELLED!!!

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My RedBubble is open

Several designs are already up and I will be updating obviously.

and more

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MY COMMISSIONS ARE BACK OPEN!!!

So I turned off my commissions originally cause I got my tablet replaced and resorted to getting used to it and finishing some commissions and then promptly forgot to reopen them...

But they've been reopened YAY!

I am taking commissions only on Ko-fi right now (until I rework my fiverr storefront)

Here are some examples of my work:

Busts for £5:

[The above work is just an example of the work you would get not previously done commissions]

Sketch/Sketchpage for £10:

[The above work is just an example of the work you would get not previously done commissions]

Full Pieces for £35:

[Only one of the above works is a paid commission]

Below is the link to my Ko-fi page:

Please do not hesitate to ask any questions you may have (via tumblr dms, Ko-fi dms or even my tumblr ask box), I have not listed all of the information.

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67?

(ID in ALT text) i know technically this can't be considered a wip. but it is wip to me because to this day i can't still pick ONE to post and i keep going back and forth.. and so it got doomed to stay in my folders just like this?

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ATLA fandom: Aang tried to force his ideals on Katara and stop her from confronting her mother’s killer.

ATLA episode transcript:  Katara: Don’t try to stop us. Aang: I wasn’t planning to. This is a journey you need to take. You need to face this man. But when you do, please don’t choose revenge. Let your anger out, and then let it go. Forgive him.

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Just boys things! its a continuation of this illustration!

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Just boys things! its a continuation of this illustration!

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I like to think that at least once, the Avatar cycle seemed to skip the Water Tribe—like people knew it was the water tribe’s turn, everyone was looking for them, the tests are done on all the kids, but like 60-80 years go by and no avatar until some Earth Kingdom kid shows up. People wonder if the cycle skipped a generation or what, but nothing serious was going on at that time so they shrug and move on.

It’s only many many years later that someone is researching Swampbender oral history and someone tells the story of “Ol Stinky Jess, she was a funny one, could light the swamp on fire an’ all sorts o’ shenanigans! Best catfishgator catcher in the tribe, she was” and thats literally it, she just lived a totally chill life in the swamp and nobody knew what an avatar was at the time so they just rolled with that funny gal’s odd bending ways.

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When I was first in recovery for my brain injury, the physical therapist's office was incredibly mobility-friendly and the majority of people there used wheelchairs. I was paralyzed down my right side due to my neck and back injury from the same car accident so I also was in a wheelchair until I had recovered enough to use a cane instead.

The lights were so bright that I spent the first several weeks of exercises with a towel covering my face as I laid on the bench and my PT worked on me and then I would be driven home to cry for hours in the dark because even with that it was still Too Much Too Loud Too Bright Too Tactile Too Much. At some point, several weeks in, my PT suggested we move to a private room instead of the main exercise area where she could turn off the lights and we could work in the dark instead.

During that period I couldn't talk to advocate for myself so there was no way for me to communicate my needs besides through gestures and grunts and forcing single word sentences out. I couldn't hold a pencil long enough to write and I couldn't look at a screen long enough to type.

So yes actually I have been places where mobility needs are met but no one else's are, and I've also been places where other needs are met but not mobility. Funny enough ableism in society is a weapon used against any and all disabled people and having inadequate accomodations should be a uniting factor between us rather than a dividing point. It sucks to be disabled in ableist society. I think we all know that.

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OHHHHHHHHSFHDJFB GDARE YOU KIDDINGEMEEEEE