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Cultural Calendars: Water Tribe

As we all know, the Water Tribe is primarily inspired by Inuit peoples. However, there is no one standard Inuit calendar, as their traditional timekeeping systems are inextricable from the specific areas where they live. For example, the names of their months typically take inspiration from the different life stages of animals and natural phenomenon in their particular environment. Similarly, Inuit is a language family, so the vocabulary varies quite a bit from region to region. So instead of replicating one specific Inuit group or village's calendar for the Water Tribe, I thought I'd share some interesting details and commonalities I've noticed across the calendars I've looked at; from there, you can decide what to incorporate for your Water Tribe calendar.

Seasons

Inuit/Inupiat/Yupik seasons vary between 5-8 seasons, depending on the weather cycle of the particular area. The most well documented seasonal cycles (shown above) are from Nunavut, Canada in the Inuktitut language and King Island, Alaska in the Inupiatun language. Keeping track of the seasons is vital for hunter-gatherer societies.

Years & Months

I've written about the celebration of Quviasukvik aka Arctic New Year before, so I won't go too in-depth about it. The New Year for many circumpolar people is defined by the first sunrise after the Winter Solstice, as it marks the end of the polar nights, a period when the sun remains below the horizon for multiple months. Meaning that from Katara and Sokka's point of view, Aang first met Roku on New Year's Eve. ^_^

Since the ATLAverse uses a 12-month system, I figured I would use the names that Inuit groups have assigned to the months of the Gregorian calendar. Below is a graph I made of month names (translated into English) from different Inuit, Inupiat, and Yupik regions. If you click on the underlined names, you'll get a link to the sources:

(The months called "miscarriage" are in reference to February and March bring common months for seal miscarriages.)

Based off this research, here are the month names I came up with for the Water Tribe:

I didn't want to choose a specific dialect group, so I just went with English "translations". I tried to make the meanings clear, while also giving the months names that sound like month names (to an English-fluent ear).

Days of the Week

The unit of time known as a "week" wasn't really relevant to arctic peoples as they primarily tracked time based on the seasons and lunar cycles, as that's what's most important to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. As such, I think the Water Tribes just adopted the "international" days of weeks that I mentioned here. East-day, North-day, West-day, South-day, and Center-day would be their day names; whether they'd take a break on Center-day would depend on the month/season they were in.

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I created the booklet to make people aware of TOH! Today I was able to give out about 80 books.

This is the front cover, back cover, and a little comic haha

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Here's a thing that I think about on the rare occasion it occurs...

Sometimes I make NSFW and get tempted to share them or....maybe even sell them somewhere because I do it pretty decently and I am proud of it......but then my asexual ass Schrödinger's libido blips off and I change my mind.

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I'm tired of depression and grieving

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Ugh, I love this face so much

Gus with a genderfluid expression never crossed my mind, but I dig it!

template by @/neferpitov

i almost cried - all sourced from toh wiki

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Hey! I followed your blog a while ago :D are you still a centrist?

Does everyone still suck? Yes.

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Joined Bluesky. Not sure how much I'll put into it but why not have one.

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I feel like they'd have a better dynamic as a mentor/big sib

Poll: Would Raine from the Owl house be a good parent?

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Created a family specifically to suck up some drama after reading someone talk about their cult family game on Reddit. For once in my life, I want to try leading perfection to chaos but already the worst I'm thinking is "Dad Russ is gay and remarries and lives happily ever after again."

Meant to make him look like a modern chad but he's just deep in the closet and I love him.

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Funny how far I've come in drawing Raeda. Here are some bits from the very first Raeda post versus some recent ones.

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Wuko confirmed in “Ruins of the Empire"!

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More Wuko text memes

Bonus Bolin and Korra:

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Have some more memes

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I lowkey ship Wuko but never created content for it. Maybe I should start.

Wuko Week 2025 Prompts

Thank you everyone for your submissions and your votes! Here is the official prompt list for Wuko Week 2025:

Day • 1 Feb 23:

Wedding • Carry Me? • Domestic

Day 2 • Feb 24:

Vacation • Clothes Switch • Growing Old

Day 3 • Feb 25:

Longing/Pining • Angst • Comfort

Day 4 • Feb 26:

Childhood • Your Favorite Book/Show/Movie AU • Modern AU

Day 5 • Feb 27:

Love Language • Smut • Unholy Bedroom Tango

Day 6 • Feb 28:

Double/Triple Date • Genuine Laugh • Smoothies

Day 7 • March 1:

Crime Solving Duo • Sparring • Wu Saves Mako

Day 8 • March 2:

Pride • Firsts • FREE DAY

INSTRUCTIONS AND RULES

Instructions

Create some fanwork based on the prompts. Remember, the prompts are meant to inspire, not limit! Feel free to combine prompts, or use the final day to post a work that doesn't quite fit the prompts.

Post and share on the designated prompt day. Be sure to use the #Wukoweek2025 tag or mention @wukoweek2025 in your post, or submit the post directly to the blog.

Reblog, comment on, and like other people's work. Give the creators the praise and credit they deserve for their contributions!

Rules:

Posts must depict Wuko. Feel free to include other pairings as background, but it should feature our beloved Wu and Mako. It doesn’t necessarily have to be romantic but it should have both of them and depict their relationship somehow!

Follow Tumblr’s Community Guidelines. If you have explicit content to share, make sure it either follows Tumblr’s rules or link to an appropriate outside source. If you have explicit writing please be sure to link it to Ao3 or hide the spicy parts under a cut.

Use Content warnings. Tags and community labels are helpful if your work will depict things that could be triggering. Use your best judgment but I may ask you to add warnings if I feel it is needed.

No bigotry, including but not limited to racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, whitewashing, misogyny, etc. Works can depict or explore those themes but must not justify/endorse them, and must be be tagged/labeled with content warnings.

Be kind. No criticism unless asked for. If you are concerned about someone’s content breaking the rules, do not engage directly with the creator. Message @kingwuko and I will address/remove problematic content.

Have fun! See you in February!

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