#i haven't figured that out yet

[the-badger-mole]

AU Bot Plots: QUIET! THIS IS A LIBRARY!

While searching for the Avatar, Zuko stumbles upon the Spirit Library. He and Iroh go inside to explore. As he is apt to do, Zuko ends up offending Wan Shi Tong who sinks the library into the sand, trapping Zuko and Iroh. Instead of making a meal out of them, like Zuko believes is about to happen, Wan Shi Tong employs them, making them clean, organize and update the reference section. Iroh is immediately thrilled because he gets to read about everything he's ever wanted to read. Zuko is less thrilled. He tries to burn the library down, but nothing catches fire. His flames don't get anywhere near the scrolls. Finally, he reluctantly accepts his fate, and then decides to make the best of it. He reads everything he can about firebending and learns styles that had been lost to time for centuries. When he's done that, he moves on to other things that catch his interest. he learns about the origins of the Avatar, and how important they are to the world, even the terrible ones. He realizes how stupid his mission was, and vows that if he ever escapes the library, he would do whatever he could to end the war. One day, Zuko gets his chance.

The library surfaces again, and three new comers arrive, looking for information about the Fire Nation. Sokka, Katara and Aang are surprised when Wan Shi Tong introduces his assistants to help them navigate the library, but their reaction is nothing compared to the shock Iroh and Zuko receive. First, they discover that they have been in the library for a century. Then, they find that the war is still going on and the Fire Nation is on the verge of winning. Then they discover that one of the trio is the very Avatar Zuko had been sent to capture a century earlier. Sokka never gets to find the scroll he was looking for. The group almost immediately breaks a rule, and Iroh and Zuko get fired right on the spot and are thrown out with the three newcomers. It's fine, though. Between Zuko and Iroh, they have read enough to supply the Gaang with all the information they need to destroy the Fire Nation.

[monty-glasses-roxy]

I keep forgetting that Meteors shrinks the animatronics when they change. I believe the generally accepted canon heights are close to and sometimes beyond seven foot so uh... Yeah Roxy was on the shorter end I believe? I think she was the only one estimated at an average tall human height so she gets to be extra salty about being shrunk lmao

[herbatahleb]

Jason needs glasses to read😫💕

[failyaoi]

I have thoughts about them

[wildflowercryptid]

some miscellaneous kieflo doodles i've done recently

[mozzaremi]

wipwipwip

[cute-brainz]

samuel collins and his weird wolf pardner (i care them )

[citrusbugz]

Even MORE sketches, y'all.

[tofixtheshadows]

Hot take: Laios wouldn't actually mind an arranged marriage. Obviously "reluctant royal being pressured into marriage" is very fun for shipping purposes. But I have harlequin blood, so bear with me. Join me on this journey of character theorizing/shipping nonsense that makes it abundantly clear I have a Scrivener document I'm neglecting.

Laios was promised to someone from a young age. He and Falin both were; it's probably how their parents ended up together. They both broke it off by leaving their village, but it didn't seem to be a factor in Laios's own decision. And when Marcille, presumably, asks about his hypothetical love life (bicorn chapter), he not only brings it up readily, but actually seems kind of flattered? lmao

I love when smug Laios comes out. Underrated factor of Laios's personality for me is how much he enjoys being seen as cool. I think you'd expect Laios to be embarrassed or uneasy over this line of questioning, and the fact that he isn't is fun to me.

So when Yaad and his other old advisors bring up his need for a wife, Laios is ready to go along with it. Not necessarily thrilled by the prospect, but he was raised to think of marriage as a business arrangement you do because it's beneficial for your household/bloodline (as was often the case historically). He's already made the big step to claim a throne, and the idea of becoming village chief after his father seemed to have been vaguely in the back of his head all his life. Besides, if he has to do it anyway, I think he'd take comfort that there was a formalized process for an otherwise socially messy undertaking.

This dovetails neatly with my personal headcanon that Laios is gay but unaware of it. He comes from kind of a repressed culture- or at least I can imagine he does based on context clues- and has spent most of his life being ostracized in one way or another, feeling like he's on the outside of humanity. So he doesn't realize that his lack of attraction to women is unusual- he assumes that nobody really enjoys romance that much. It's not like his own parents married for love. It's just something people play up for stories, right?

It's all tangled up with his fraught desire for human connection and platonic companionship anyway. Meanwhile he's blithely unaware that the things he says about Toshiro are not normal bro things. Oh you'd totally marry Toshiro, Laios? Tell me more.

I see this in Marcille too. Firstly due to her unstable development, which has only recently allowed her to reach maturity (I headcanon her as somewhere between 20-22) and secondly due to her being a half-elf (infertile+a too-long lifespan), I think she has the expectation that she's simply not destined for love. The half-elf character she relates to in her favorite books says as much. So she, too, confuses a genuine lack of heterosexual attraction with the belief that this is just because of her half-elf status distancing her from it. Plus, she spent over a decade as a student/researcher in a nice little sheltered academic bubble, at an all-girls academy populated by adolescents. She's the most sheltered of all the characters: she's only spent the past year in the "real world", and she still focuses all her romantic attention on living vicariously through her favorite characters or her friends (except for Falin, conveniently!).

And Marcille would absolutely want to live vicariously through Laios and his future wife. She would not want him to go through a dispassionate formalized process: she wants her bestie to have a fairytale romance! What is the point of being a heroic king in a mythic castle if you can't even get a love story for the ages out of it?

This would result in a lot of Laios meeting with eligible bachelorettes at Marcille's urging, looking to Kabru for help the entire time and being grilled by Marcille afterwards about what he liked best about each girl. "She had nice, um, teeth?" They're both so close to getting it.

Kabru, meanwhile, is agitating for Yaad and the other advisors not lock the country into a hereditary monarchy, they have the chance to do something radical here, to break away from the systems that the elves and dwarves uphold. At the very least, let Laios marry for love, or formally adopt an heir and name them his successor if he wants, he's already sacrificed enough for the sake of Melini. Don't make him jump through these circus hoops for the chance of some trade agreements, we can get those without a royal marriage. And even if Laios was willing to go along with it, he does look at Kabru like he's his hero for sticking up for him.

The vague unhappiness Kabru feels at the idea of Laios being married off is easy for him to ignore. Kabru didn't actually get better at honoring or even recognizing his own wants just because he's moved past the dungeon. And Laios hasn't gotten the hint about his crush on Toshiro and is still 50/50 on saying casually shocking things, so when he remarks that he doesn't need a wife anyway when he has Kabru, he has no idea why that gets him the looks it does. After all, where he's from, men marry women to run their households, but Laios has castle staff for that, and Kabru is handling the rest?

That comment alone ticks one month off their collective gay awakening countdown.

Anyway. How many repressed gays in their twenties does it take to run a country?

Answer: Yaad can tell you.

[didderd]

when u kiss his chipped eyebrow <333

[chiropteracupola]

"Are you finished with my portrait yet? Show me!" "Cipacton, I can't draw you if you keep moving!"

[stergeon]

enbarr, sometime in 1186:

ok so @frozenartscapes made this addition to my post about byleth and edelgard writing each other letters all the time, right:

well i kind of lost my mind and now we're here.

i'm sure this meeting is salvageable :0) hubert's sanity, however,

[shevr]

whats down there

[syntiment]

Everything I have ever loved has claw marks in it.

A friend of mine got me into this ship a bit ago and I think the opposites attract aspect of it is pretty nifty. Good and bad, soft and sharp, selfless and selfish.

[khaotunq]

Khaotung Thanawat as Ray (Only Friends, 2023)

[westwing19]

Do you do requests? Because if you do id like to See More DMKdad

Technically I do but I'm planning to phase out posting original art here, so the last requests I'm taking on this blog will be what's left in my inbox :]

In any case, excellent suggestion, have some sketchy dametadad doodles: