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AO3, YOU WONDERFUL THING. IT LEFT A SMILEY. IT LEFT A SMILEY.

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it's me, i'm bitches

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do you have any katara x azula hcs??

Oh boy oh boy DO I. I have a lot! Buckle up because this'll be a long one. I'll start with typical couples questions then share headcanons that don't exactly fit anywhere else.

The most affectionate: Katara, by a landslide. She's generally more in tune with her emotions and not as easily flustered as Azula is, so she's more comfortable showing her love. In private, however, Azula is very lovey dovey.

Who said I love you first: Azula. Katara was ready to say it for ages but didn't want to pressure Azula into saying it back if she wasn't ready, so she waited for Azula to tell her on her own time.

Favorite physical feature about the other: Katara loves Azula's hands. Azula loves Katara's hair and is constantly playing with it. (But her actual favorite of Katara's features is the way her mind works. She's captivated by the way Katara thinks through problems.)

Who is most likely to carry the other to bed: Azula. She's taller and more muscular so she can actually bridal carry her and make it all romantic. Katara can only lift Azula up by her legs— Azula's muscle weight makes her kind of heavy otherwise.

Big spoon and little spoon: They switch, but usually Katara is big and Azula is little.

Who initiates kisses: Katara.

Who kisses the hardest: Azula. She's so touch deprived she can't help it.

Miscellaneous headcanons:

• Azula only allows Katara to touch and do her hair. Hair is sacred in Fire Nation culture and only direct family members (or servants in more noble households) are permitted to touch an individual's hair. It's viewed as an immense sign of disrespect when any part of the body is touched unprompted, but especially hair— such a bold act may be considered so ungracious that Agni Kais may be called to settle the matter of dishonor. This especially applies as rank increases. For example, members of the royal family are considered untouchable.

Katara is never explicitly given Azula's permission to handle her hair; she probably isn't even aware of this aspect of Fire Nation culture. She just kind of starts doing it for her out of love, because Azula's still not very good at it. Azula never once rejects her advances, despite the implications that Katara must be equivalent to family if she's been given hair touching privileges.

• Azula has never actually killed anyone, despite what some may believe about her, but she is still incredibly protective over Katara and will take any lengths necessary to keep her from harm. This is especially the case during the resurgence of the New Ozai Society, when the Gaang is residing in the capital to help Zuko handle the rebellions. Katara becomes a major political target given she's the princess's outsider girlfriend, and sometimes Azula will come back to the palace late at night caked in blood that isn't her own. No matter how big or small the threat is, if Katara's name is mentioned, Azula handles it. She earns the nickname The Red Spirit for her vigilantism.

• During the early stages of their relationship, Katara flinches whenever Azula uses her firebending. She tries to play it off, but Azula notices every time. To combat this as gently as she possibly could, Azula made it a point to use her bending solely in very specific contexts, like warming Katara's hands for her on colder days. They're small steps, and it takes a very long time, but Azula is patient. She understands that Katara grew up associating fire with destruction.

• Jumping off of that, Katara does eventually grow to find peace with fire. Her favorite aspect of Azula becomes her fingers— she kisses them all the time. Individually, all at once, over her knuckles, on her palms, she can't get enough.

• The first time Katara uses her bloodbending in front of Azula is also the first time Azula ever remembers feeling genuine fear over anyone's power that wasn't Ozai's.

• Azula loves Katara very deeply, but when they spar (which isn't often), she refuses to let Katara win. She's too competitive for that, even when it comes to the love of her life.

• After Aang and Zuko, Azula and Katara are said to have the best offensive chemistry. They developed a combo move that incorporates Katara's water and Azula's lightning (low charged) to stun multiple rebels at once. It really helps get fights sorted out faster.

• Azula is beyond possessive and gets jealous very easily. She's also incredibly clingy, probably from a lack of childhood affection. Her biggest fear is Katara leaving her.

• Before they even began dating, they were tentative friends. During this time, their fights and arguments were intense. Never physical, but Azula could be pretty mean— she had to be, growing up. Being ruthless is what kept her alive. It took her a long time to realize that talking to Katara that way wasn't going to keep her around. Like Katara's journey with fire, Azula's journey with keeping tabs on her emotions and expressing herself properly was a long one, but Katara was patient.

• Katara is bisexual, and Azula is lesbian. Katara only ever semi-dated Aang before settling down with Azula, whereas Katara is Azula's one and only.

• Azula struggled a lot with internalized homophobia, even after Zuko abolished the ban on same-sex relationships that Sozin put into place. She projected a lot because of it, but one night out at the Fire Festival with Katara and seeing two girls kiss under the decorative lights was enough for her to realize that that's exactly what she wanted with Katara.

Some NSFW-ish headcanons below:

• They switch, of course, but Azula's the tall bottom and Katara is the short top. This took a lot of time for Azula to accept since she's so used to being in control, but it was important for her to be fully vulnerable when getting intimate.

• Katara is a tongue kisser. Azula had no idea how to kiss until Katara taught her.

• Katara is reserved about PDA. She'll give her a peck or two but keeps it classy. Azula, once she gets really comfortable, is insane about it. She doesn't care in the slightest what anyone else thinks. As far as she's concerned, Katara is hers, and she's not going to hide that for the sake of anybody else's discomfort.

• Azula is about 95% of the time a pillow princess. Katara doesn't mind this at all— if she did, they wouldn't be together. They both find their dynamic perfect, and the bonus for Azula is that she gets to keep her nails long. When Azula does give, however, it's absolutely life changing.

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This is the magic lucky word count. Reblog for creativity juice. It might even work, who knows.

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in honor of the 7-year anniversary of reputation, put your top three tracks in the tags

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what should you do if there's a fire in your house

what commonly prescribed pills are deadly on overdose

college courses

herbal poisons

what knives are best in street fights

*these are all only for writing loll

recent dumb(?) google searches as a writer

can you flush the toilet if the power is out in an apartment building

does water flow from faucets during a power outage

how to describe a sinkhole

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NO FUNERALS

I need to see if the Six of Crows fandom is still alive so...

No mourners.

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okay so i have like a dozen otps for each fandom but am i the only one whose actual actual #1 otp is a random crackship between my friends fictional ocs that have never met in canon AM I THE ONLY ONE

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yEs

Listen I’m slightly sleep deprived and generally my thoughts are untrustworthy in this situation, but what if we, the grishaverse fandom, tried to find a hacker and convince them to hack and release the scripts for the soc spinnoff from Netflix’s archives… like. Just a thought

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omg this is soooo cool and interesting! amazing worldbuilding! please please keep writing your book and keep it alive

"an ask about the view of Vampires in the fictional world you created for the book you wrote/am kinda still working on (that may never be published but shush) wherein Vampirism is considered a chronic health condition caused by a blood-living parasite"

so curious to hear about this lol

Ahh thanks for the ask!!

Okay so for a smidgen of context it’s a modern fantasy setting with the key species living together in this particular society being: Humans, Witches, Seers, and Elves. There are more species globally and species that commonly migrate to the this society include Fae and Wizards, but the aforementioned 4 are all native to the focus country and make up the bulk of its population (Witches being the highest %, then Elves, Seers, Humans. Long story short the Elves were there first but the country is currently ruled by the Witches and their monarchy)

Vampirism is a blood-borne parasitic condition transmitted via skin-breaking bites causing cross contamination of blood and/or blood and saliva. The condition only affects Humans. An infected individual experiences pretty classic vampire traits but I think the best way to do this is to go through them in a list explaining how they happen in this world and what impact they have on the individual:

Elongated & sharpened canines. The infected individual loses their original teeth post infection, whether they are adult teeth or not, and replacement teeth that serve the parasite’s purposes of spreading between hosts are grown. This can be quite a traumatic experience for individuals particularly because of the associations with what this leads to, as well it being painful. The loss of teeth is sudden, with parasite activity causing quick severance of roots, but regrowth can take much longer. Mutated forms of the parasite can also lack the ability to differentiate between types of teeth, causing the loss and regrowth of multiplie or seemingly randomly placed teeth.

Aversion to sunlight. Infected individuals are unable to safely interact with UV rays and subsequently have to intake high supplementary doses of vitamin D. Movement throughout the day and through most public services is rendered far more difficult. Many individuals turn to protective clothing such as headscarves and gloves, whilst others choose to limit their movements to nocturnal hours - most are most likely to find the balance that works for them between these two options. Parasols are popular in summer, as are large sunglasses to protect eyes unused to bright sunlight. This also brings in the stereotypical paleness of vampires; their skin is paler than whatever their natural pigmentation should be bc they are severely vitamin D deficient.

Allergy to silver. The reason that vampires are said not to appear in mirrors is because mirrors were originally made with silver, which folklore dictates is too pure a metal to interact with anything ‘demonic’ (eg vampires, werewolves, etc). However, our modern mirrors (and because I see no reason for it to be otherwise, the modern mirrors of this fantasy world) are now made with aluminium and therefore vampires would be visible in a looking glass unless it were a silver antique. The silver allergy is still present, with direct contact to the metal causing hive outbreaks and potential throat closure depending on the individual. Long periods of exposure to large amounts of silver can be massively energy draining, and in the past were used to construct illegal containment chambers to imprison innocent but infected individuals. Whilst the use of such measure is now massively reduced and restricted by law, they do still exist for the event of absolutely necessary protection of others from an infected individual attempting to attack them (note - the individual may not be able to control their actions, as I’ll cover shortly, and so it is avoided to all desperate measures not to harm them unless they regain full consciousness and still express illegal violent actions, hence these prison chambers being preferred over use of weapons like silver bullets)

Immortality/Undead. I’m also going to use this one to explain unnatural/faster-than-human healing abilities. The classic vampire is a form of the undead (usually killed by the bite of another vampire but can also be formed by sorcery or, fun fact, according to Britannica some sources suggest that a vampire can be created if a cat jumps over a corpse) and has a particular type of immortality wherein they can be killed but cannot die of any natural cause. In my fictional world, what we’re looking at here is essentially parasitic immortality; the parasite will live for as long as it bas a host, and its evolution perfectly predisposes it to this because it’s very actions cause an unnaturally elongated life span in the individual it has infected. It’s important to acknowledge that Human and parasite are not living in symbiosis - ie they are not gaining something from each other and giving each other something in return, instead one thing is taking from the other for its own benefit without providing anything as a trade offer. Immediately post-infection, there are two species battling for control of the same body and eventually one of them (the parasite) will win. With proper medication, support, and care, an infected individual can maintain majority control of their body until their natural Human life cycle comes to an end. Control is not perfect and there are likely to be periods, the length and frequency of which are dependent on the individual, where they have little control over their actions whatsoever and are driven entirely by the parasite’s control and its drive to consume blood for energy and reproduce inside other hosts. Eventually, the Human will no longer have the strength or capacity to fight off the parasite; they will effectively become an undead creature, their otherwise lifeless body existing purely as a puppet host for the parasite to live, feed, and reproduce. From infection onwards, the presence of the parasite prevents death from natural causes so unless actively killed the host is forced to play their role for the rest of their existence. Once they have their puppets the parasites generally prevent the body from decaying, but in some events this will happen and the parasite will either die of move in its entirety into a new host instead of just reproducing inside it.

Thus far, there is no known cure to Vampirism. Infected individuals tend to go through many rounds of medication, because the parasite will quickly learn to fight off anything it can. The exact origins of the condition are unknown, but the suspicion is that it was an ancient attempt at Human immortality gone awry - after all, if the Human were able to live in symbiosis with a creature that resided in their blood to fight off any and all life-threatening infection and prevent physical aging or eventual decay the result would be revolutionary. But the impossibility of containing the condition without causing significant harm to afflicted individuals makes it a constant threat, and there is also consistent fear of it eventually crossing the species barrier and infecting others as well.

My book features one main/kinda main character with Vampirism, a fourteen-year-old who was bitten at 12. Whilst laws are a complex area to handle in terms of protecting the wider population and protecting vampires, there is no ambiguity whatsoever in the illegality of biting and subsequently turning a child or any Human under the age of 26.

Okay I think that’s everything I have off top of my head but thank you so much for the ask bc I love talking about this and if anyone has any questions about vampires in this world or anything if else about the world please feel free to ask bc I love talking about it and even though I’ve kind of shelved this book atm I love the world so much and I really want to keep it alive enough to go back to it in writing one day!

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y'all there's a weird white rabbit statue on the counter behind me that kinda just stares at my back and istg it jumpscared me for the fifth time today...

what, go sit on the other side of the couch so i don't have to get scared by the inanimate object? me, no, never

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Y'ALL I JUST FOUND OUT AHAHAHAHAHAHA SIX OF CROWS SORT OF NOVELLA WHOOOOOOOO **dying noises**

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hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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"In my day, witch was the word that men used for women they should steer clear of." (probably not 100% correct quote sorry) - King of Scars, Leigh Bardugo

Witch?

—The Girl in the Tower, Katherine Arden

—Circe, Madeline Miller

—Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

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nina: words that end in ‘i e’ sound so adorable.

jesper: yeah! like cookie, sweetie, cutie!

kaz: die.

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this is basically the entire plot of painted devils except the god is freaking murderous, someone read it~!

You started a scam religion for a quick buck. You begin to panic when your fake god was actually a real forgotten one awakened from new worshippers, declared you it's high priest, and granted you the power of healing.

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Reader : Aww, I love this character

Writer : Oh, do you ?

Reader:….

Reader: You’re gonna kill them, aren’t you ?

Writer: Oh, you’re gonna wish I did