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shoutout to the horny freaks in fandom. this is a freaks please do interact zone

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World’s Worst Man unfortunately knows how to accessorize

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thinking... contemplating... how katara being 'maternal' is so much more complex in canon than people seem to take it as

the first time we meet this girl, this 14 year old girl, she's so pissed at her brother that she explodes an iceberg. she's yelling about how he's a sexist nutbrain and she's embarrassed to be related to him, because he thinks domestic labour is, like, a woman's Purpose, or something. and that's most likely connected to how katara has taken over their mother's domestic and emotional duties since she died. this is just a fact of katara's character - she HAD to become like this because their actual mother DIED. if the desert episode is anything to go by, everyone else in her family was falling apart, and katara had the strength to keep everyone together. so she did, but that's still a sacrifice on her part. it's one of the easiest ways you see her trauma impact her personality. I wonder if katara never really had the time to process her grief the way sokka and hakoda did, and that's why she brings it up so often (although it's still selfless in nature, because 9 times out of 10 it's katara attempting to connect with people by expressing how they've both been hurt by the war and she understands what it's like)

so there's this idea of katara as a mother figure, but even within canon, there's pushback. because she's FOURTEEN. this girl stole from pirates and made a complete mess of things and showed no remorse at the end of the episode. she picked a fight with a master waterbender when she had no training. she's YOUNG, she's so young and passionate and full of fire. and that isn't actually at odds with her caring about people. some of her traits may come from the wisdom of experiencing trauma at an early age, but it's all still HER

katara's conflict with toph is the most interesting part of how all of this is explored, if you ask me. because toph was rich and sheltered, she grew up with her parents hiding her from the world, in a town relatively untouched by the war. toph doesn't get it. she hates feeling coddled, feeling like people think she's incapable and needs to be protected because of her disability, so of course the two of them clash. katara's trauma includes needing to take care of people, and toph's includes being taken care of even though she doesn't need it. it's a recipe for disaster

I'm just thinking about the scene in the runaway where toph tells katara to stop trying to mother everyone, because she's just a kid like them, and sokka has to be the one to explain their family history to toph. how sokka, despite being older than katara, can't remember their mother's face and when he tries all he sees is his younger sister. I just love it. there's so much going on here. katara snapping that sokka didn't love their mother the way she did, almost at the very end of the show, was a long time coming

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"live every day like it's your last": scary. weirdly foreboding. not a good thought process if you get anxious easily. stressful. so much pressure that it loops back around to making you do nothing. "live every day like it's your FIRST": everything becomes fascinating. renews the excitement of discovering things for the first time again. makes you feel like exploring stuff. #mywisdom

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Thinking about making some fic art when I get home. But what fic? And what art?

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Princess Mononoke AU

by sumiretsu

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Brainwashed Jetko au where both Jet and Zuko get taken by the Dai Li and are displaced in the big city.

Jet and Li find each other anyways.

(That luck however did not extend to their family and friends)

Its all good...then it catches up to them :D

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Gyatso has also mastered the kickflip

based on the pic under the cut teehee

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i wish azulon had a more haunting the narrative vibe so azula cld be tormented by the expectations set by naming her after the late firelord

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if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

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people who write fics. how do you feel about comments on super old ones you wrote like 2+ years ago

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Some au stuff I’ve always seen of Aang waking up before. Ozai is such a cute angry potato.

Hakoda, Kanna and Iroh would be the avatar’s companion

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I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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so on the one hand tommow is my last day of school (at least until I start again in the fall because I signed up for the 24 week course instead of the 12) so in theory I should have more free time for writing and drawing tomfoolery.

On the other hand, I'm going to be trying to get an apprenticeship over the summer so I'm probably going to actually have way way less time. Which I am. Very bummed about.

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Hello!!

I really like your fic on ao3. Welcome to atla tumblr ig?? Love your work<33

Aww thank you! I'm glad you've enjoyed it.

It's been a lot of fun so far. Kinda bummed I didn't get into this fandom sooner but eh, I'm here now!

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Yes there's a typo in the first option but I am not redoing the whole thing