#mine: swts

[angeltk]

[whatshadeisthat]

[riddlerosehearts]

i've gotta admit, it confuses me how some people who are so against zutara and insist that firelady katara is an inherently problematic headcanon don't seem to understand that katara becoming fire lady literally does not mean she has to give up all of her water tribe culture and just stay permanently glued to the fire nation after marrying zuko, like?? would you automatically give up all of your cultural traditions if you moved to another country from your birthplace that you loved and felt deeply connected to, or would you not carry those traditions, and that culture and history with you, and share them with the friends you make and with your children if you have them? would you willingly just stay in the other country forever and ever, or would you not visit your original home as often as you had the means and desire to? let your children visit, let them know the other half of their own heritage? would your heart, and your family, not belong to both places as much as possible?

and then they act like they don't understand why firelady katara is such a popular trope and (sometimes) say zutara is okay as long as you don't hc it, when like... it's literally just because it's the single most logical and realistic progression of canon, that zuko is going to become firelord and whoever marries him will be his consort. that's why zutara shippers want katara to be firelady and like to write headcanons and fics about her grappling with her love of and canonical--watch the painted lady!--desire to help a nation whose people hurt hers so badly, and with the thought of holding such a position while remaining in touch with her water tribe culture. because it's what would be most likely to happen if zutara were canon. some people don't even call her fire lady, or if they do they make it clear that she is also master katara of the southern water tribe. i've seen a lot of people simply call her the princess/queen consort or even have the title "lady of the moon" invented just for her, which i'm not sure who originally came up with that but it is absolutely lovely. i kinda think that if you believe "firelady katara" = "katara stripped of all of her water tribe heritage and culture" you are really not being imaginative enough, though i'm also not saying nobody has ever written it that way before. i just know i've seen countless fanworks where it isn't.

also tbh lately i'm starting to wonder if people with other zuko/person-from-another-nation ships tend to headcanon that he never marries, spends his entire life somehow juggling being firelord and hiding a secret relationship with the other person in the ship, and ends the royal line by being unable to openly provide an heir to the throne. or if they headcanon that he abdicates the throne to iroh and moves to their nation in order to be with them. i've never cared strongly enough about other zuko ships to know what their popular tropes and headcanons are, but if not then i can't imagine why it's only zutara that gets hate for this lol.

[seashel1]

Eid Mubarak !! 💕💖💗💗💞

[allgremlinart]

Sokka + Yue pre-unification designs cus I haaad to get some more water tribe ones out there.. .. tangentially related, personal hc of mine is that the SWT used to have settlements on islands farther north/closer to Yakoya/Southern Air Temple and well.. technically there's no lore DISproving that sooo yeah

[tired-teddybear]

ummm okay so i’m gonna do a different post for each ship that i have a lot of recs for and then combine the rest basically

zukka/a:tla fic recs

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45209725/chapters/113734768 not zukka centered but it’s there, suki & zuko friendship, a personal fav of mine

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40467657/chapters/101379753 zukka, private investigator sokka, tea shop zuko

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38624070/chapters/96555618 zukka, young firelord zuko, zuko finds aang first, sokka & katara were imprisoned at the boiling rock, ambassador sokka

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36554995/chapters/91165651 iroh fakes zuko’s death and he is taken in/raised by the SWT, azula redemption, basically a zukka childhood friends to lovers au

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28206249/chapters/69118440 zukka, (temporary) ghost zuko, sokka gets haunted, marriage of convenience

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27547486/chapters/67374928 zuko saves sokka at the north pole, they travel the earth kingdom together and accidentally fall in love

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26098987/chapters/63484135 zukka, moon spirit blessed sokka, political delegate zuko

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22884811/chapters/54697360 zukka, zuko and yue arranged marriage, sokka teaches zuko abt the water tribe, slow burn

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25629370/chapters/62213413 zukka, zuko escapes after being burned, azula redemption, zuko joins the gaang early

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29683659 zukka soulmate au, insecurities on each others skin

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17637347/chapters/41588558 zukka soulmate au, boomerang & scar tattoo

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16593572/chapters/38887565 zukka soulmate au, first touch mark burns

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28124265/chapters/68909811 zukka, guy in the chair sokka and blue spirit zuko (vigilante au)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33894868/chapters/84278719 zukka vigilante au, hellhound and aero

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27234958 zukka superhero and journalist au

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24376396/chapters/58792420 zukka, early redemption, ba sing se, blue spirit zuko (be warned this is a rough one for angst and miscommunication/lying)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25260145 zukka, modern au, college, vampire au, fluff and humor

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28662066 zukka, hockey player sokka x figure skater zuko au, the olympics

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25097560 zukka, FBI agent zuko, engineer sokka, goofy, a fav of mine, crack and humor

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25414438 zuko!hades x sokka!persephone au

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19255837 zukka, trans ftm zuko, canon time period

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21116591/chapters/50249441 zuko gets thrown overboard and saved by the SWT fleet, dadkoda, the crew adopts zuko

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23832139/chapters/57268093 slow burn zuko adoption

[kaktus-tajam]

I wrote this in July 2023. When a friend of mine said: daftar LPDP nggak, Hab?

Istikharah: A Facility from Allah

I had set an alarm for myself to start planning ahead on the life after internship upon entering stase puskesmas.

But I had been slacking off and making my chronic disease as my excuse. So alhamdulillah Allah guided me to start the self-rediscovery journey.

I am not as intelligent nor do I have all the privileges, but I know my identity as a Muslim is my biggest Why.

This one month of caveman period was full of discussions, readings, writings. But it was also full of tears.

It was full of questions and prayers to Allah swt. Uncertainty can be scary, right?

Uncertainty can be unimaginably dark. It eats you up eventually, if you have no Guidance.

I have so many aspirations and ambitions. But I asked Allah, with all the potentials He has given me, the knowledge He bestowed upon me, the people He surrounded me with and the life story He had decreed:

To what specific purpose I shall contribute?

We are fortunate as muslims to have the end goal: His acceptance, and mercy, to be able to finally see Him in His paradise.

So I asked and asked. The beauty of Islam, is how comprehensive this deen is. You see, there is even a specific prayer to ask for guidance in making choices!

To be protected from making “false” choices:

Choices that are khaiir leads to preservation of eeman, of deen, of family, of the good in this world and the hereafter.

“Wrong” choices, on the other hand, leads to turmoil.

I asked myself as simple as, what if I were to be involved in a research unknowingly utilized for the corruption of people, of environment and of this deen. How shall I ever repent?

Hence duaa of istikharah in this world full of hidden agendas, is a gift from Allah. A facility that Allah prepared for His servants to return in times of doubts and anxiety.

O Allah. How I longed for our meeting. I have sinned endless times to which You decreed a repentance that follows. How grateful am I to be your servant.

O Allah.. in this period of waiting that is full of uncertainty please grant upon me the tranquility of heart, the strength to practice husnudzan billah, to continuously have faith in your Plans. Guide me. Don’t let me be astray.

[peaceishim]

I will wait for you for as long it takes

I will have patience till we are reunited again

I will wait till the day I could pray behind you

I will wait till we can go on endless walks together

I will wait to hold your hand tightly and to never let it go

I will wait to spend all my life with you

I will wait to go through everything with you

I will wait till the days come where i can share your burdens with you

I will wait till we are together and laugh under the moon

I will pray until Allah swt make you mine

-A.S

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Hi there, you've shared that you've been dealing with a lot in your personal life, so I want to be clear that this question is not urgent. Take your time or don't get to it at all—totally fine. Take care of yourself and your loved ones first. But if/when you have a moment of free time and energy, and would like to devote those resources to answering questions, here's mine: did and form of hieroglyphs have something like italics? Or some other style to indicate emphasis?

I've got some time this morning, so I'll answer it now.

There's no form of italics or stylised emphasis (like bold/underlined) etc that exists within the Hieroglyphic script. Hieroglyphs just don't work like that! You have to look for other things to indicate emphasis.

Two of those things are visual: the adding of .wy to the end of a verb or a noun to indicate 'doubling' or emphasis (on what's known grammatically as a Stative where something is in 'a state' of something). This is usually context dependent as you can get words like pH.wy 'buttocks' where the .wy ending is simply telling you there's two of them, but in other instances the 'doubling' tells the reader that emphasis has been placed on the word they're looking at.

The same goes for sp-sn or sp.2 which is a series of signs that usually come at the end of a statement and mean 'to double/twice' but you don't translate it that way, you read it as an emphasis on the statement. Like this:

Essentially, it's a way of avoiding writing the adjective twice, but also showing that it's emphasised.

Then you have the more complex grammar, which is where I guess my specialism comes in. These you have to actually translate in order to show the emphasis as it would be present in speech. These are the Pseudo-Cleft sentence, Cleft Sentence (aka a Participial Statement), and what's known as a Second Tense. All these constructions place emphasis on a particular part of a sentence. So...

The Pseudo Cleft is constructed from a noun phrase + a defined relative clause, which agrees with the first term. An example of this can be found in the testimony of a man named Sekhahatyamun:

wA r=i wA r Ha=i nA swt aAyt inn iw.tw Xdb=i Hr nA aHayt n iw-m-itr mntw nA wn=i im

‘Far from me, far from my body were the Great Places! If I am to be put to death because of the tombs of Iumiteru, then they are the ones which I was in.'

The pseudo cleft emphasises the independent pronoun mntw, anaphorically referring to the tombs of Iumiteriu, by placing it in conjunction with the defined relative clause (nA wn=i im ‘the ones which I was in’). By doing so, he equates the tombs at Iumiteriu as being the only tombs that he was in and therefore seeks to use contrastive supplementation to subvert the Tribunal’s presupposition with his ‘truth.’ Basically, he's emphasising that 'ok if you want to punish me with death for tomb robbery, then punish me for *these tombs* because *I* actually robbed those ones, and not the ones you're currently accusing me of.'

Like the pseudo-cleft construction, the cleft construction is a construction in which one part of the sentence is separated (or ‘cleaved’) out from the remainder and placed into prominence/emphasis for the reader or hearer to notice. The cleft construction, or participial statement, is comprised of (in + noun phrase/ntf)+(participle/prospective sDm=f). An example of this is as follows from a letter between Butehamon and General Piankh talking about various tasks that needed to have been carried out and recounts the speech of the mistress of the house:

(i)n bn tw=k m nat i-r-m(=w) nA-Hbsw xr ntk i-ir=k swD(=w) n pAy=k nb

‘Are you not going with the clothes? And it is you who will deliver (them) to your lord.’

Here the mistress is using the Cleft sentence construction to emphasise that it is Dhutmose (Tjaroy) who should be the one to deliver the clothes personally to Piankh, and not to her, as Piankh has requested them. We see the cleft sentence make use of the independent personal pronoun, in this case ntk ‘you’, to cleft out who is responsible for the delivery and where they are supposed to be delivered to. The mistress who is speaking is implying to Dhutmose that if he wants to be seen as obeying Piankh’s commands then he will do as commanded. Indeed, we see evidence of this in Butehamon’s following lines ‘Even if there are some ten thousand servants belonging to our lord, would they obey him like us?’. It would seem that Butehamon is attempting to keep the emphatic force of the mistresses’ statement in his own letter to possibly further imply that the commands of both Piankh and the mistress were met and he is a competent servant. In simplistic terms, the emphasis is placed on the pronoun so 'it is you who is supposed to do this task', with the 'not me' implicitly emphasised.

The second tense construction is well-known to put focus/emphasis on the circumstantial (=adverbial) component of the sentence, with the verb and its dependents providing presuppositional material, thus similar to the pseudo-cleft and cleft constructions. It's a nightmare of a construction (sorry Mark) because it masks itself as a relative form in most cases and is really only definable if you notice the circumstantial element (something I do not always do, again sorry Mark). Here's an example from the testimony of Bukhaaf:

Dd=w ir tA st i-Hnw rs i-iri=k gmt=s mi ix Dd=f i-iri=i gmt=s wn.tw an

‘He was asked, “Now the tomb you went to, in what state did you find it?” He said, “I found it was already open.”’

This question can be seen as implicitly loaded, as the Tribunal presupposes that Bukhaaf was the one who opened the tomb. Bukhaaf’s answer contains the second tense of this example that attempts to dissuade the Tribunal from their presupposition, that he was the one who broke into the tombs, as he has seemingly noticed the implicit cue from the Tribunal that suggests they already believe he broke into it. Emphasis therefore has been placed on wn.tw an ‘already open’ thus allowing Bukhaaf to make it clear that he wishes to protest his innocence in so far as he was not the one who originally opened the tomb, but that it was already open when he robbed it, thus giving the construction a temporal element. This temporal element allows him to contest when the tomb was opened, as though Bukhaaf does admit to robbing the tomb, he seems to strongly deny ever having opened it, indicating that it must have been opened by someone else. Basically, a Second Tense gives an emphasised 'but/however/because of' to a construction like 'yes I did let the cat out BUT I was told to by Dad'.

I think this may have answered your question, but it's entirely possible that I may have caused further confusion :)

[eminsunnytoons123]

(not guilt tripping or for comfort, this is an serious vent And I need to get it off my chest for only my besties/Sisters And brothers/pen pals.. they need to know what I have been going through... And im fucking tired of my former besties telling me what to do.)

Im honestly becoming tired of my former besties I had telling me that I did some actions to my blue haired auntie, half of them I did, but I was never aware of it... And i decided to block mish And anons crew because I wanna step out of the situation And im always becoming worried And scared whenever someone mentions blue haired auntie of mine... And I SWEAR TO ALLAH SWT i'll change my behaviour And actions, I nearly did, but then they decided to tell me those stuff again like im a little Baby that doesnt know nothing...

And I told mish And a few others a million Times that i'll change my behaviour.

And again, I dont care if blue haired auntie of mine And other few besties of mine that I had dont forgive me right now. I wanna Calm down, recover And take a break from this shit too, not only danni.

Im very sorry, y'all... (⁠｡⁠•́⁠︿⁠•̀⁠｡⁠)

@splashy900 @kxllboii @cheezekennith @aquamarine-dream-queen @dayzsaclark @oscarandgrinchfan @moshywoosh @ilovescaredysquirrel2 @nuggetaubrey @sharkyy599 @nightkit92 @familyoffood @mysafespaceblog13 @thelazzyblogzz @sugar-miss1 @shrimpathizer @shypeachrunaway @iggyguyy @sophia-does-skits @typical-sophie @peaceforpeople @ben5569 @xxkurosakutisaxx @ducktoonz903707 @muppet-fan-real @artismeyou-12 @blackstar044 @acen402 @acen404 @walt-diego-rodriguez @goatsarecool1 @nia1sworld @rumplestiltsbear @s4gefr0g @beeware-of-lulu @leafith

Yet again, im NOT GUILT TRIPPING OR DOING THIS FOR COMFORT, IM TIRED OF PEOPLE TELLING ME THAT I GUILT TRIPPED.

And this will be the last time I mention them And my blue haired auntie, just after the situation ends... And DONT AND I MEAN DONT ATTACK THEM EITHER HERE ON TUMBLR OR DEVIANTART. AND DONT TELL THEM ABOUT THIS. I DONT WANT NO DRAMA ANYMORE. IM JUST VENTING THIS FOR ALL OF MY BESTIES/SISTERS AND BROTHERS/PEN PALS TO KNOW.

- Emin 💛🧡

[islam-reflections]

If somebody comes repenting to Allah we never close the door on them. Allah SWT says that tell those servants of mine who have transgressed against themselves don't lose hope in His mercy. So the doors of forgiveness are always open. All you've got to do is come back to Him.

[hella1975]

now that zukka is happening a friend of mine made a joke like "who's going to give the shovel talk because the swt loves both of them so much?" and even though none of them would actually give a shovel talk all I can think about is some of them (hakoda perhaps) agonising over who they give a gentle "pls be nice to them" to.. like none of them are going to hurt the other but what if they DO who do they talk to in this situation

hakoda won't even consider a shovel talk bc he's just so chuffed to bits that zukka is happening like he can't think of anyone better for sokka than zuko and he can't think of anyone better for zuko than sokka this is AMAZING for him. i think chena would shovel talk zuko and kanut would shovel talk sokka tho

[flowersofjannah]

What are all of your Ramadan goals this year? ^.^

Mine include:

forgive everyone wholeheartedly, purification of the heart

more Quran & sunnah salah

more tahajjud & duas

learn more knowledge & be consistent with studying; learn the names of Allah swt

work on self-confidence & stop being a watered down version of myself in front of others (this might be the hardest one honestly)

be more of a planner and organize my days - time management

[b-lessings]

Last night I saw you again in my dreams. It's been a while. It felt too real. She was also there, obviously. We didn't get a chance to talk. Tonight I went and stalked you a little on Facebook. What can a broken-hearted best friend do? A tear fell from my eye but I was smiling all along looking at your cute picture, you look very grown! I wonder what life is like for you now, what gets that crazy laugh out of you and what makes your eyes shine. I know deep down that this is for the best. Maybe Allah swt knew that I wouldn't handle having to choose between this and you at this point in my life that He swt took you out of my life early on. The less someone is in your life the less it hurts when they leave or something. But anyways, I, from the bottom of my heart hope you are happy, you are in good health, you are pleased with your life. I am forever pleased you were once a part of mine.

- Your best friend who never met anyone like you, nor will she ever forget about you.

[eponastory]

I remember that one of your first posts i've seen in the zutara tag what's about writing a fic that explores a bit of swt customs with hair more specifically about a katara haircut i'd love to read it bc i feel like the cartoon don't explore any of the cultures in depth and in fics i see a lo about fire nation culture i want to read about swt culture bc as many i headcannon it different than nwt culture

I will actually be covering those traditions in the current fic I'm writing. I haven't gotten to that point yet. But with Zuko and Katara's recent talks, I'll be sliding in some of those traditions.

I also feel that Zuko would embrace Katara's cultural traditions because he becomes much more open-minded about change post-war. I think Katara and the rest of the Gaang had that impact on him.

But as far as traditions go in indigenous cultures, they all view marriage differently. I know pre-christianization my Tribe saw it as you live in the same home as your partner. Therefore, you are bonded together in spirit. If you had sex with someone, it was for life. That kind of thing.

Some tribes have ceremonies, some didn't. I'll be reading up on Inuit traditions here in a bit.

Then there is the practice of tattoos. I really want to explore that as I do believe that Inuit's practice some sort of ritual with tattooing. I have to do my research on that.

Cutting the hair is a big no in most tribes. Mine is a bit more lax about it.

But anyway, that is the plan!

Thank you for asking.