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MISCELLANEA

@astranite / astranite.tumblr.com

Greetings.

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PINNED!!!!!!! POST!!!!!!

They/them (or anything interesting, I'd like to see some new ones, give them to me.)

:sparkles: I love asks and messages and being @ ed in posts and yapping and unhinged rambles and the power of friendship. I might or might not even bite. :sparkles:

The subject areas that fascinate me are too numerous to list. You can find out my lore though research.

Star Wars and such shenanigans sideblob: kara-knight (pun intentional)

How I tag things is something you can find out for yourself in the depths of this blog.

The Thunderbirds and every other past hyperfixation or special interest is not dead, merely dormant.

The fucks I have to give are steadily being defenestrated. I endeavour to continue to grow weirder; it is freeing.

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zukka au where aunt wu looks straight at sokka and instead of telling him that his future is full of pain and anguish caused by his own hand, she tells him that he’s going to marry the fire lord and sokka is like “EXCUSE ME?”

sokka, whispering to himself: omg my ability to making royalty fall in love with me has come too far

sokka, immediately writing a letter: dear firelord ozai, I am flattered, but since you are pretty old and super evil, I-

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azu1as

Sokka, while yelling insults at s1 Zuko: And tell your dad I’m not interested in having a jerk like you as a step-son!!

I need a whole plotline of Sokka wondering who this fire lord person is going to be

Season 2

Aang: I wish that Iroh guy was the Fire Lord, he seems pretty nice

Sokka: Yeah the Fire Nation would probably be better off with him as Fire Lord, but he’s so old and more of an uncle figure, you know? Not really my type.

Aang: What

Early season 3

Sokka, waking up in cold sweat: Oh no. What if… Azula is the future Fire Lord

Late season 3

Katara: Sokka what should we do? The invasion failed, we’ve been hiding in this temple for weeks and Sozin’s comet is almost here

Sokka, mumbling to himself: I hope Zuko becomes Fire Lord he’s pretty cool

Katara: what?

Sokka: I said we need to defeat the Fire Lord soon

Sokka internally having a Firelord tier list during the series is something that I never knew I wanted.

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*when zuko and katara arrive right before azula’s coronation during sozin’s comet*

Zuko: Sorry. But you’re not going to be the one marrying Sokka.

Azula: What.

[#they just didn’t mention it bc it wasnt relevant to aangs story]

Can’t do anymore remakes of Avatar without including this. Also, what’s Sokka’s Firelord tier list? Clearly Zuko is S-tier number one best Firelord, being neither old nor murder-ey but where would the others go?

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

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We are almost ready to publish our second volume, but ... We've gotten ZERO art submissions!

If you like frogs and want to help a little literature and art mag out, we would really appreciate any art you've made or photos you've taken of frogs!!

Please reblog to spread the word and send to any friends you know who might like to contribute :)

You can read our submission guidelines and submit here: https://croaklit.com/submit/

With your help, we can bring frog art to the world!

Help make frog art!

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god destroying the tower of babel

there really is nothing more charming or telling about humanity than the amount of time and effort we’ll put into something just to see how cool it will look when we make it fall down 

me: that’s a lot of….oh…OH

So this video is 40 seconds long. And it has 190,000 notes. Rounded up to 200K because I’m lazy. So if everyone who enjoyed it interacted with this post once, and they enjoyed all 40 seconds of the video(both of those are questionable, but bear with me), that’s 8,000,000 seconds of entertainment on this site alone. 133,333 minutes. 2,222 hours. Yes, it was a lot of work for a few seconds of chaotic pleasure. But that’s a lot of chaotic pleasure for a little bit of work. 

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How am I only just learning this!?

[ID: a cropped screenshot of the AO3 Exclude filter section, reading "Other tags to exclude". "*/reader" and "*/you" have been selected. End ID.]

Wait

[ID: cropped screenshot of the ao3 include filter, reading "Other tags to include:" with "*/James "Bucky" Barnes" selected. /end ID]

IT WORKS

Is this new???? I've been wanting wildcard relationship search for YEARS 😍😍😍

My multishipping ass is about to go ham...

helpful info for those who need it

Explanation of what this does for anyone confused!

Never occurred to me AO3 would be using Boolean…

Prefacing with an infinite wildcard (*) is intense on the database though… although I guess there are a fairly limited number of tags in the grand scheme of things.

Anyway - excellent!!! This will make things much quicker!

the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

PNG Opacity Tutorial! (Click on the images)

This art trick works really well on tumblr because transparent areas default to white until selected (except for dark mode, rip). Unfortunately this trick doesn’t work on Twitter >:/ Something I learned while making this was that .png’s hate hard edges! Putting a soft blur around text and hard lines will help prevent it from showing those little artifact borders and spoiling your surprise! 

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