#a tale of spirits

[beanstalk-nicholas]

more art inspired by @unorthodoxx-page ‘s rottmnt atla crossover fic, “A Tale of Spirits”. I keep imagining Donnie lounging around in fancy (and more importantly soft) fire nation robes

[cokowiii]

Working a 12 hr and used some time to draw this lil comic from the newest chapter!!!

A tale of spirits by @unorthodoxx-page

[melissarthomson]

Finally, I present my favorite fic right now by @unorthodoxx-page , A Tale of Spirits!

This is my favorite scene tbh 👀 with my two favorite characters

[unorthodoxx-page]

A Tale of Spirits Status and Other Updates (Long Post)

I've gotten a lot of questions about A Tale of Spirits and its hiatus status over the past few days (months lol). I've been mulling over this post for a while now, avoiding it if I'm honest, but I've gotten to a point where even I can't avoid the writing on the wall.

So, let's start with what's holding me up. Over the last ten-eleven months, I've been dealing with a nerve issue in my wrists and hands (both, if you can believe it). Now it's nothing super serious (we haven't had any surgery talks, thank God), but it bothers me constantly throughout the day, and having an office job doesn't really help. It's crazy to go through some of these older Tumblr posts because my hands were bothering me even then, but I didn't want to admit it.

Long story short, I feel like I'm caught in this...loop of trying to heal. I'll have really good, consecutive days, and when I think I'm on the right track, something happens, and I'm pulled right back into it. It's frustrating, demoralizing, and terrifying all at once. I try not to spiral into worst-case scenarios with this whole thing, but my hands are numbing while I'm typing this. So....yeah, it's slowed my writing practically to a halt. I can bang out a couple hundred words here and there and focus on one-offs since they don't feel so...daunting, but chaptered anything mentally makes my hands twitch. My long sessions are gone at the moment and this leads me to that writing on the wall I mentioned earlier.

I don't know when A Tale of Spirit will return.

Man, that hurts to type. ATOS has been a part of my life for almost two years now. I've grown so much from this story, and my writing has evolved so much from this story. I have so much fun with ATOS. I mean, that's the point of fanfic, but I have fun with ATOS. I go back and reread parts, and I laminate past narrative choices as if those words are written in stone. I snicker while working out dialogue and really (and I mean really) let loose with action choices and experiment.

Hell, I have AUs of this AU on my drive lol. I owe a lot of my growth and confidence to ATOS. I mean, I read every comment and every Tumblr message (and I mean every comment). The support and love this story has received makes me believe that I'm not as terrible of a writer as I thought, that I might actually hack it in the literary world, so it's devastating that I can't put all my energy into this or my personal work.

To be honest, I'm still halfway in denial. I know I'm going to finish this story eventually. I love it too much, but I can finally admit that I'm not sure when that 'eventually' will be. Geez, I should've written this a while ago, but denial is a blinding thing.

I tackle writing when I can, but the nerve thing has thoroughly pulled me into a slump.

I'm going to update ATOS to say indefinite hiatus and put this same message on AO3.

I'm not saying goodbye to ATOS. I was deep in my unposted arcs before all of...this reached a peak even I couldn't ignore. I was really doing something with April, Zuko, and Suki (fun dynamic, by the way). Azula's been fun to play with, and angry, fed-up turtles have been a challenge in a half, so I want you guys to see that one day.

So, there it is. I know this is closure for some of you, and you all deserve to know what's going on with ATOS. I know this update will be a relief for some of you because now, there's no more guessing. The dreaded 'indefinite' has been typed and sealed in digital ink (dramatic, I know).

I'm going to leave it here because I don't know how to end this post. I'll be around, lurking in possible (short) one-shots and slowly chipping away at ATOS. So, until then, rest, rehabilitation, and copious amounts of books and music to listen to.

See you soon.

[cupcakeslushie]

Scene from chapter one of @unorthodoxx-page’s story “A Tale of Spirits”

Donnie ending up in the Fire Nation palace, surrounded by extravagance and then acting like he couldn’t care less, lives rent free in my head. I had to draw it.

[ryelleart]

Hey Joo Dee, a word of advice: when a massive talking turtle with mystic powers tells you he doesn’t want to change his mask, maybe don’t insist that he change his mask. Just saying 🤷🏽‍♀️

I honestly wasn’t planning on making more fan art for @unorthodoxx-page’s A Tale of Spirits, but this concept has been living in my head rent free ever since I read chapter 18, and it wouldn’t leave me alone until I drew it. Go read this fic if you haven’t done so yet!

(P.S. there’s a bonus version of this piece on my Instagram, if you wanna check it out 👀)

[bananaman-mp3]

the crossover friends ever :]

[happyfoxx-art]

@unorthodoxx-page​ is out here making me scream every time they update so UHHH here was my favorite bit from the last chapter of A Tale of Spirits ;;u;; yall should read it its GREAT

[purplepixel]

Raph and Toph from @unorthodoxx-page ‘s fic A Tale of Spirits. I love this duo so much. I tried to style match Avatar the last airbender since the fic takes place in that universe. Quite possibly my favorite cross over fic of all time. It just works! I never cared for episode rewrites, but this fic is the exception. Everything is just done so well!

Reposting to tumblr bc I left twitter

This fic is so good please read!!!

[beanstalk-nicholas]

WE FINALLY GOT LEO IN WATER TRIBE CLOTHES YAYYYY (once again fanart based on @unorthodoxx-page ‘s atla crossover fic, “A Tale of Spirits”)

[cokowiii]

Last thing I drew at work. The thought of Donnie basically being alone with no one to really talk to got me thinking homie gunna break down at some point

[eateth-thy-words]

audibly howled and had to start pacing my room when april was revealed in tale of spirits bu @unorthodoxx-page, HAD to draw her in her kyoshi makeup, shes gonna get her brothers back no matter what

[unorthodoxx-page]

Please give an update on a tale of spirits!

anything but this endless waiting.

*breaks down into tears*

I didn't realize how long it's been. I'm feeling a bit better and actually typing again. I'm dropping this chapter since I feel so bad about the cliffhanger I left you all on. This isn't the start of the total post (yes, I know. I don't keep my word lol) but this is a taste to thank you for waiting.

Chapter 21 - Collision is LIVE

[confetti-furby]

Ty Lee and Donnie would 100% do yoga and stretches with each other.

Based off @unorthodoxx-page ‘s ROTTMNT x ATLA fanfic! It’s super good go check it out!

[ryelleart]

This is how that one scene from @unorthodoxx-page’s fic “A Tale of Spirits” went, right?

I don’t normally read crossover fics like this, but this one is SO good, I just had to draw something for it! If you’re a fan of these shows and somehow haven’t read this fic on ao3 yet, I highly recommend you do so ASAP

[mccoyquialisms]

some drawings of various quality of few of my favorite scenes from @unorthodoxx-page‘s A Tale Of Spirits. this fic has been living rent free in my mind for weeks