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J, O, and T for the ask game?

J- a fandom that tumblr made me aware of but I’m not part of…

Arcane! I’ve never seen it, I don’t know what it’s about, and I still don’t know any of the characters names but thanks to Tumblr and fanart I’m very aware that it exists. It does look interesting though, so I might watch it eventually.

O- Choose a song at random. Which character or ship does it remind me of…

I asked Siri to play me a random song off of my Apple Music and of course the first time she picked Son of Poseidon which *for some reason* makes me think of Percy Jackson. And after having to skip past other already designated to an obvious fandom music, I landed on Lost & Found by Darren Kiely.

I get major Freedom Fighter vibes from this. It’s easy to imagine Smellerbee taking Longshot’s hand and them running through the alleys in BaSingSe together.

T- hard and fast headcanons that I’ll die defending…

1. Azula is a nerd. She’s strong and ruthless enough to brute force any situation she wants, but she’s also smart enough to research and analyze things with more finesse. It’s more satisfying that way too. It also gets her these little areas of expertise that she’s not necessarily going to share with just anyone but will happily go on about when she’s in company she feels like she can trust. Airships—of course. But the one she’s really not going to let just anyone know about is that she is a Kyoshi warrior fan girl. She’s read every book and scroll she can find. That’s the real reason Suki was Azula’s favorite prisoner and no one is ever going to change my mind.

2. Post-war Piandao opens up his castle for young people from all nations who want to learn about swordsmanship. He’s not very age discriminating either, so his castle just becomes this melting pot of very interesting people who come and go and train together.

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X Y and Z

X- a trope that I’m certain to love no matter the fandom…

Give me all the adoption, found family, and mentor fics.

I especially love it when it’s an antagonist character who develops a soft spot for the hero and feels a need to look out for them. Like let me pause trying to rob this bank because you look cold and need to borrow my jacket. Or after we’re done here you’re coming over for dinner because you’re looking pale and it’s not going to be fun to try and beat you if you’re wasting away. That sort of thing with grey areas and possible redemption arcs is *chef kiss* to me.

Y- Second hand fandoms…

Those would probably be most of the DC/marvel universe, the Dragon Prince, TLOK, the blue people Avatar, Wheel of Time, and Horizon Zero Dawn. There’s without a doubt more but we’ll leave it at that.

Z- Ramble…

Off camera whispering lead to a rambling prompt of Platonic Relationships, so I’ll choose one to ramble about.

While I fully support the idea of a romantic Yuten, something I’d really love to see someone explore is an afterlife platonic bond form between Yue, Lu Ten, and Jet. They’re all around the same age and made the same sort of sacrifices for their own parts of the war. They’d get to watch the gang’s adventures from the other side, whatever that would look like—rooting for them or occasionally wanting to throw things at them.

They all came from different backgrounds, especially Jet and it would take time but I think they could find some peace and comfort in each other’s presence after a while. Especially once Jet figures out that they both got along well with Zuko. Maybe he’d start to forgive him. Being dead might soften a little of his fire, or at least give him new people to hate more than Zuko.

Even if they all only barely tolerate each other’s presence in the beginning, it has to be better than than being alone. And besides, they’re mutual interest in what’s going on with the gaang and Zuko keep drawing them back together no matter how much they think they’d like to keep their distances. They might as well give in and start to be friends.

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Hey Cryptid!

A B C, please?

Hi!

A. Ships I currently like a lot…

I don’t usually mind whether ships are platonic or romantic (and sometimes the grey areas between are the most interesting to me).

June pairings—with Azula or Mai

Tyzula

Zukka

Jetko

Jet and Piandao

Sokka pairings—with Yue, Suki, or Azula

Yuten

B. A pairing I never considered but someone changed my mind…

Honestly that’s like 99 percent of my ships 😂 I was not much of a shipper at all and then tumblr and discord have slowly managed to changed my mind. But since I love blaming her for things we’ll go ahead and blame @sooz-again specifically for changing my mind about Jetko and especially Jet and Piandao. Her art gets to live in my brain rent free.

C. A pairing I don’t like and probably never will…

Katara pairings 🫣 Sorry y’all, I’ve tried but she’s just not my girl. Every once in a while I find a fic where I’m pleasantly surprised but it doesn’t happen often.

Thanks for asking! 💚

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A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?

F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?

G - Have you ever had an OTP? If so, do you remember your first one? Who was in it?

H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?

I - Has Tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?

J - Name a fandom you didn’t think about until you saw it all over Tumblr. (You don’t have to care about it or follow it; it just has to be something that Tumblr made you aware of.)

K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you merely dislike. Characters that you absolutely loathe with the fire of ten thousand suns are exempt, as there is no point in giving yourself an aneurysm over a character that you hate.)

M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).

Q - A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.

R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending? 

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

V - Which character do you relate to most?

W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

X - A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go! (Prompts optional but encouraged.)

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rb to give a flower to the person you rb this from

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“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

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Reblog to give the person you reblogged it from the energy to do one (1) chore or maybe many

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Got bored and colored this in.

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There are three challenges. Who would win each?

Uncle Iroh vs. Jet - pie throwing

Toph vs. Azula - speed shopping

Zuko vs. Sokka - celebrity chef

Hmm, technically the pie throwing contest win goes to Jet. I think Iron would just forfeit because he’d see the whole things as kind of wasteful when you can just eat the pie and enjoy someone’s masterpiece instead. He totally could win, but I just don’t think he’d want to under the circumstances. He’d call himself the winner because he gets to have pie with his tea.

Speed shopping win would be Azula. She’d like shiny things and winning. Also she’d bring her secret weapon, Ty Lee who is the real champion of speed shopping, because no one said that she couldn’t have help in this contest. She’s not cheating, she’s just using her resources.

Zuko vs Sokka celebrity chef, I think would go to Sokka but I don’t think either of them are particularly good cooks. This would be for pure entertainment value. I want to see Sokka in his Wang Fire persona up against Zuko doing his Uncle impersonation during the contest.

These were tough, thanks Anon!

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Hello! Tell me about your favorite characters; why do you love then so much? What makes them so neat? What sort of hat should they wear?

Toph

I love her because she’s hilarious and ruthless, but she’s also just someone I can relate a lot to. She’s a girl with vision problems who doesn’t let it stop her from doing things she loves and figures out how to make things work for herself. And that’s been my journey too—minus the badgermoles, so her journey was much cooler.

Hat wise I see her with something pretty low fuss, but very tactile. I’m thinking a felt beret covered in metals pins. She has no idea what they say or what’s on them—and most of them are upside down (or entirely inappropriate) , but they jangle a little as she walks and she loves it.

Azula

She’s such a complicated and layered character, which is part of what makes her so neat to me. She’s a fun character to write because we don’t know that much about her, she’s private enough and the narrative is slanted enough against her that her interests and quirks are a blank slate to fill in. In my AUs she’s always a little bit of a nerd in some way whether she loves airships or the Kyoshi warriors, but also fiercely protective of what and who matters to her. It’s not usually directed in positive ways but she completely embodies the idea of being fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

Azula doesn’t consider herself to be a hat person. She just isn’t. That being said when she was staying with Master Piandao for a while when she was around 11, she forged herself a metal circlet crown—loosely inspired by the Kyoshi Warriors (because she’s a Kyoshi fangirl, pun intended). It’s one of her most prized possessions because she made it herself and she’s very proud of it. She doesn’t wear in front other people, but she might put it on now and then in the privacy of her own room.

Thanks for the asks! This was fun 😊

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Hiiii

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#1 girl

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@sooz-art offered to let people use her incredible art as line work for coloring, so I did some coloring via collage!

Thanks for letting me use it, it was such a fun challenge to figure out how to represent your incredible level of detail in this medium!

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As an alternative to 'sugar, spice, and everything nice'

I present: 'salt, vinegar, and everything sinister'

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it would've been easier had i not known you

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“I will find new followers. A new place to rule. I always do.”

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Azula looking up at a starry night sky after her adventure in the Spirit Temple. I wonder where the continuation of her story will take her next.