something stranger and more wonderful

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my art for @faux-fires (ao3 Link) fic "something stranger and more wonderful"

beta red by @ranilla-bean (ao3 Link) for this years @zukkabigbang2024 event. its truly a beautiful fic. Keeping you on your toes while reading. making you worry about sokka exposed to the whims of nature and zuko, all alone.

big thank you to reikah and rana for all the handholding during this project! And stoping me form overthinking details.

what i've been up to the past 20 minutes

An Alternative to a Roast

So I watched Netflix's live-action Avatar and, frankly, I didn't like it. I was considering writing an in-depth review tearing it apart. However, after taking in reactions that ranged from one-line Twitter hot takes to in-depth video essays to paid industry reviews from big name media brands, I realized there wasn't much I could add to the discourse that someone else couldn't articulate better.

All that really needs to be said is that it was inferior to its source material in every aspect and incapable of standing on its own merits.

With that out of the way, I'd like to bring attention to a show that more people should watch: Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, known as The Apothecary Diaries in English. To be honest, aside from being strongly inspired by Chinese culture, it's not very similar to ATLA. It's about a commoner girl named Maomao who solves mysteries within the emperor's palace with her knowledge of poisons and medicines. It's a beautifully animated and deeply empathetic series that explores the struggles of living within a rigidly hierarchical society, with special attention paid to the social complexities of being a woman. If you like traditional Chinese fashion, murder mysteries, holistic medicine, well-developed characters, or class consciousness in your stories, give this series a shot!

Season 2 is shaping up to be even better than Season 1! ^_^

I'm a fandom oldie and a strong proponent of "ship and let ship", and I defend everyone else's right to ship what they love... But I think that gives people the idea that I like, automatically love every single ship??? Or every single trope?

I don't though!

There are a lot of fandom tropes that are on my "absolutely fuck no" list. There are a lot of irk kinks that are also on my "nope absolutely not" list, too. Personally, this is healthy. I'm able to look at something and go "Yep, I hate it, but it's not harming anyone, so continue to do as you please."

I think this is where the rubber meets the road for actually having principles. It’s easy to defend the things we like, just like it’s easy to fight for our own rights and those of people just like us. When you have to use logic to extend your sense of justice to people you can’t relate to, that actually takes effort.

His hair is cute but it makes him look like he's 12 so I edited it with some panels showcasing him with different hairstyles

I love making art its never hurt me

it's so funny how tumblr rolls out updates because i keep seeing a slowly growing number of posts about how terrible it is but your tumblr is the same. it's like a slow going zombie apocalypse. there is no escape but for now you're alive

kyoshi and avatar katara (swapped au) dancing together (not literally but in a spiritual connection way)! I increased the saturation a lot to hide mistakes because I’m too lazy to finish it all !! (2 versions)

Kyoshi has Ainu inspired clothing (attush ruunpe coat I believe) performing an Ainu Crane Dance. Katara has Yup’ik inspired clothing (kuspuk with decorations) and dances with fans (tegumiak).

Please correct me on any of the terms/clothing, etc!!

the separate designs for my pleasure 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

I love these illustrations so much! The colors are so vibrant yet complimentary and @glue-bubbles has such a talent for making baggy clothing look so stylish and dynamic. Here's what the crane dance looks like by the way:

reposting old art saga continues: something something no war au?? politically relevant lifechanging field trip?? that inevitably turned in my Let Yue Say Fuck agenda

An Ivory Okimono Of a Dragon Having His Teeth Examined. Meiji Period, Signed Nimin/Futsumin.

the new atla comic that came out had things i liked & really really didn’t like BUT we also got a lot of new mai content in return soooo they are partially forgiven

so here’s more some maizula for cope 😇

actually can't really forgive them for maizula erasure but i will accept the cute mai panels we got

Seven years she’s kept you trapped out of your control.

uhhhh new hyper fixation? Time will tell. Got obsessed with how Teopyon on bsky renders AND their rendition of zelink, so I decided to try it out. Happy with the results! I'll probably do more pieces in this painterly style going forward.

Zelda wants to kiss her champion and her champion is surprised by this turn of events.

the greatest earthbender of all time has a message for you

(Image Description: An animation of Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender, earthbending to make the words ‘Trans Rights’ form out of the earth.)

hello! I'm opening my shop again :)

adding some haikyuu stickers sheets, and there is still some atla merch left over!

Caught off guard