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Here’s something I’d love to see you write:
Aang & Katara taking their child/children to the southern air temple so they can learn more about that side of their heritage.
Old Halls, New Life (rated G)
The air was eerily still as they climbed down off of Appa, setting foot on the stone balcony of the Southern Air Temple for the first time since the war. Katara hardly dared to breathe, lest she disturb the quiet. Aang’s face was unreadable. He stood still as the statue of Gyatso that she knew was just out of sight, staring blankly ahead. Katara bent the sweat off her palms and wondered if he was trying to mentally prepare himself for the carnage that was still to come. She wasn’t sure either of them would ever be ready.
A lifetime later, Aang finally turned his face to her, and her heart broke at the sadness and guilt that were heavy in his eyes. He offered a small smile and held his hand out to her. She took it, walking towards the front door of the temple, hoping he couldn’t feel her own nerves. He had put off his own healing for so long, for the sake of healing the whole world. He needed her to be the strong one, right now.
The moment seemed too heavy for words, so she squeezed his hand as they approached Gyatso’s statue. He returned the squeeze just before releasing her hand to bow to his old master. Katara mirrored his action, offering her own respects to the man who had been Aang’s biggest support in his old life. When he moved forward to airbend the lock and pushed open the heavy wooden door, it looked just like it had the last time they were there.
Katara had always felt a sense of awe at the Avatar, but now, knowing Aang the way she did, having spent the better part of a year fighting a war alongside him and another year trying to restore peace�� Now the Hall of Avatars hit her even harder. Each of these men and women had had a life. They had loved, and been loved. They had fought battles and kept the balance of the world, but they had also been human and felt the full depth of that human experience. They had laughed and felt loss and suffered illness…
Thinking of Aang’s statue in this very hall—sometime hopefully long, long in the future—she wondered what future generations would say about him. She wondered who had loved and lost these Avatars of old. How they had reconciled the Avatar’s humanity and their Spiritual duty.
After a moment of respect, and, Katara suspected, seeking wisdom from his past lives, Aang led Katara through the curtains he had found Gyatso’s body behind the first time they were there. She struggled not to gasp at the number of Fire Nation skeletons that littered the ground around Gyatso, shocking red armor still firmly in place, and she squeezed Aang’s hand again to remind him that he wasn’t alone. No matter how hard the task that lay ahead of them, she was always and forever by his side.
She saw Aang press his eyes shut. He squeezed her hand back in thanks, but tears still leaked down his cheeks and his chin was trembling. A year or two ago, she might have feared him slipping into the Avatar State, but now she just pulled him into a hug and they fell to their knees on the ground together.
“I miss them,” Aang croaked out some time later, once the wracking sobs subsided. “I miss them so much.”
Katara rubbed his back and kissed the tip of the arrow on his head, completely lost for words. What could she even say? She knew how deep the pain of missing her mother was, and she was just one person. Aang had lost everyone and everything.
“Thank you for coming here with me,” he mumbled into her shoulder. “I don’t know if I could have done this alone. The temple is so full of memories.”
“Share them with me?” she asked, hesitant but hopeful. Aang had shared many things about his people, but they were all more general ideals, histories, ceremonies, and occasional anecdotes. He didn’t often share his personal memories. It was like talking about them would force him to remember. That they had been real—that they had lived and that they had died horrible, unfair deaths.
But this time, Aang did share. Over the next days and weeks as he and Katara cleaned the temple to prepare it for the Acolytes, he shared many memories. When they carefully removed the skeletons near the airball court, he told Katara about a particularly competitive game of airball which had caused multiple injuries to him and his friends. When they cleaned the kitchens, he told her about the time he and his friends had stolen a bunch of fruit pies and hid them in the elder monk’s beds, earning them all extra chores for a month. When they scrubbed ash stains out of the classrooms, he told her how hard it had been to be the youngest in his levels; how he missed his friends when they’d advanced him over and over again.
As they carried skeleton after skeleton out of the tallest towers, he told her how bittersweet his tattoo ceremony had been. How excited he was to see his parents and his friends from the other temples and how proud he had been, but also how different he felt and how it was the beginning of him being ostracized from his friends. How much weight he already felt on his shoulders after that ceremony. How much heavier it had gotten since.
Aang shared his memories, and it brought so much life back to these empty halls. Katara smiled every time she walked into the kitchen now, picturing a small gaggle of seven-year-old boys sneaking out with their arms full of pie when the bakers weren’t looking.
“I know they’d be proud of you,” she said one morning while she was cooking breakfast. Aang had been silently chopping up moonpeaches beside her to make a pie of his own, still trying to perfect the “gooey center” Gyatso was always so good at. He looked up at her, startled, and almost dropped the knife.
“I know I’ve told you before,” she went on, “but the way you were able to end the war without taking Ozai’s life, and the way you’ve been bringing peace to all the nations over the years since the war ended… sharing your culture with the Air Acolytes and helping the world restore balance… I just know they would be so proud of you.”
Aang smiled sadly.
“I know you’ll always miss them too, but… they’re not gone. They live on in your stories. In this place. In the mischief you and Toph and Sokka get into all the time…” Aang looked affronted and she shoved his shoulder playfully. “Yes, I know you’re not just ‘going to the market’ when the three of you are gone for hours and only come home with a handful of vegetables and some mysterious sacks that clank.”
Aang full-on laughed then, possibly his first real laugh since they had arrived at the temple. He set the knife down and hid his face sheepishly behind his hands, leaning on his elbows on the counter.
“And one day,” Katara continued, blushing vibrantly, “they’ll live on in the next generation. In our kids. In the lessons you’ll teach them and the trouble you’ll get into together and the values you instill. Your people aren’t gone forever, Aang. I promise you that.”
Aang’s head snapped up to look at her so fast, and his face was filled with so many different emotions, but before she could truly look at him and figure out what he was thinking, he surged forward and kissed her.
Kissing Aang had always been one of her favorite things to do, but she had held back from kissing him on this trip, unsure of whether he wanted that sort of intimacy during such a difficult time. She had offered many kisses to his head or his cheek, and innumerable hugs where she had clung to him, and he to her, but hadn’t kissed his lips since before they left Cranefish Town.
Now, though, as his lips moved fervently against hers, it seemed obvious that this was exactly what he needed, and she melted into him. He wove his hands into her hair—it always made her smile that he seemed to love her hair so much when he had none—and she clung to his back, eliciting a happy sigh from him.
The smell of their breakfast beginning to burn to the bottom of the pot startled them away from each other. Katara nervously tucked her hair back behind her ears as she stirred the rice mixture, but she could feel Aang still staring at her. When she scooped their breakfast into bowls and offered one to him, he was grinning besottedly. She couldn’t help but smile back.
“Thank you, Katara,” he said, pecking her on the cheek. “Thank you for helping me keep my people alive, and for reminding me that they never really left. I know their love lives on, but now their memory will, too, every time I tell their story.”
“I love you, Aang,” she said. “I hope that wasn’t too much… I just…”
“It was perfect,” Aang interrupted, placing a warm hand on hers and smiling. “It was exactly what I needed to hear.”
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So, this turned out to be a doozy. What you see here is just the first of four ficlets which I combined into one fic, because I couldn't help myself. And this doesn't even cover what you actually asked for yet haha, but the rest will :) It's too long for tumblr so you can read the whole thing on ao3. I didn't do as much research as I probably should have for this, but there's a lot packed in here. I hope you enjoy the parenting segments, friend!
#mixed race cloudbabies#though this isn't THE mixed race fic I still want to write#aang is a good daddy!#parenting mixed-kids#exploring heritage#aanglove#southern air temple#if anyone wants to fight me on whether or not bumi or kya visited the SAT I have my gloves on already
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#Malana Diaries#Himalayan Traditions#Malana Culture#Kullu Diaries#Village Life#Himalayan Journey#Cannabis Cultivation#Unique Community#Kasol Vibes#Cultural Diversity#Village Exploration#Shorts Content#KulluValleyAdventures#Hidden Himalayas#Mountain Village#Exploring Heritage#Travel Inspiration#Incredible India#Off The Beaten Path#Village Hospitality
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E. Pluribus Unum: From Many, One by Marvin V. Blake
Set against the backdrop of 1861-1876, "E. Pluribus Unum: From Many, One" by Marvin V. Blake follows the intertwined lives of Jason Ruth, a former slave, and Rebecca Billings, a Southern aristocrat's daughter, as they navigate the challenges of a nation torn by Civil War. This novel illuminates a story about the culture and the exploitation of Native Americans.
Experience the past come alive. Grab a copy at www.booksbymarvinblake2.com.
#Marvin V. Blake#E. Pluribus Unum#ReadersMagnet#Historical Fiction#American History#Cultural Narratives#Civil War Era#Diversity in Literature#Exploring Heritage
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Barns in the Yorkshire Dales, England.
#Barn#Building#Architecture#Thatch#Heritage#Wanderlust#Explore#Landscape#Scenery#Country#Countrycore#English Countryside#Farm#Farmcore#Cottagecore#Cottageblr#Field#Fieldcore#Hills#Green#Stone Wall#Aesthetic#Photography#Warmcore#Cozy#Grandmacore
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thinking about paul saying "we're harkonnens. so this is how we'll survive. by being harkonnens" and about jessica saying "your father didn't believe in revenge" and paul replying "yeah well i do" and how things can die even as they continue to draw breath and how the harkonnens really did kill off all three of the atreides that night not just leto
#dune really explores every possible way someone can die without actually dying#paul's childhood self dying the night his father did#his atreides heritage dying when he seeks revenge#paul himself dying when he drinks the water of life#jessica the wife dying the night leto did#jessica the mother dying when she drinks the water of life#the girl alia could have been dying in the womb#stilgar and the other fremen dying when they become followers#it's all connected y'all#dune#dune part 1#dune part one#dune 1#dune 2021#dune 2024#dune part 2#dune part two#dune 2#dune movie#dune series#paul atreides#paul#jessica atreides#jessica#lady jessica#muad'dib
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HAUT FOURNEAU 4
I adore visiting blast furnaces. They are the most spectacular sights I've ever got to witness. The intricacy of the engineering is quite simply astonishing. This particular specimen in Belgium, which has been under close surveilance since it was shut down in 2008, has been preserved in a remarkably good condition. Almost immediately after the closure, an interest group was established that wanted to preserve the blast furnace as an industrial landmark.
This blast furnace company, which is a defining feature of the city of Charleroi, was founded in 1836, during the heyday of the European steel industry. Like all other steel companies in the region, this blast furnace was also the subject of numerous takeovers and mergers. These mainly took place in the 1960s and 70s. It always remained a flourishing company, competitive on a global scale. However, the takeover by the Duferco group in 2001 heralded the beginning of the end…
The site was then operated under the name Carsid. After a fire in 2007, the furnace was temporarily shut down to carry out the necessary repairs. At the same time, capacity was increased and a number of environmental investments were made. The installation would now be operational for another ten years. Barely a year later, the blast furnace was shut down again, due to “poor prospects”. Due to the economic crisis and the declining demand for steel, the operation of the blast furnace company was no longer deemed profitable.
A “temporary” closure and the search for a buyer should bring relief. After more than three years of uncertainty and economic unemployment, the curtain finally fell for the blast furnace. Since HF4 is one of the best preserved blast furnaces in Europe, the Walloon government is striving to preserve the furnace as industrial heritage. Although a ministerial decree has been published to this effect, the demolition work on the site is progressing steadily…
Unfortunately Charleroi is one of the poorest cities in Belgium. There is no budget for the necessary sanitation and preservation works, which would run in the millions of euros. The futures is looking bleak for this beautiful piece of industrial heritage...
#urban exploration#urbex#abandoned#urban relics#decay#derelict#abandoned places#ue#photography#urbanexploration#HF4#blast furnace#abandoned addiction#industrial heritage#steel industry#urbexpeople#urbexworld#urbexphotography#belgium
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Walls of Palace of the Governor in Ҳулбук / Hulbuk / Khulbuk ( Tajikistan )
#photooftheday#travelphotography#adventure#aroundtheworld#silk road#marco polo#pickoftheday#explore#palace#travel#discovertajikistan#tajikistanculture#history#ancient#fortress#heritage#architecture#pamir highway#castle#tajikistantravel#tajikistan#old castle#hulbuk#tajikistanhistory#central asia
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Phandom: obviously there's child endangerment at the Fenton household, so let's write/draw content about Danny getting X ghostly parent
Me: but uh - hey guys, what about jazz?
Phandom: who?
Me: *long sigh* Danny's older sister
Phandom: oh her! Lol, she's 16, practically an adult! She's fiiiine :)
#danny phantom#jazz fenton#phandom#okay I hear you phandom#stories where ghosts adopt danny are cute#are we ignoring the minor who is also living in the same household????#yes. she acts mature.#because she HAS to.#playing the responsible adult who has a clue#except she's not. and she doesn't know what fuckery is going on because suddenly the parents she thought were insane are right about ghosts#and now her little brother is a ghost#*grabs phandom by shoulders and violently shakes*#GET. THIS GIRL. A STABLE ADULT.#y'all are sleeping on the potential here.#they did an ENTIRE cannon episode about how jazz is still a minor in a tough adult situation#and y'all missed the realization#yes it won't be the same dynamic as danny exploring his supernatural heritage through a ghost parent(s)#but come on! jazz and a ghost#almost any mentally stable ghost#EVEN BOX GHOST AND LUNCH LADY COULD ADOPT HER#Jazz would get cookies and a lifetime supply of bubble wrap#but more importantly: she wouldn't be forced to play the adult#jack and Maddie are walking out there in clown shoes ;-;#where is Jazz's found family dynamics?
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With the reveal that Aduo didn’t actually want to be the mother of the nation, looks like we now have a concrete path to a happy ending for Jinshi.
Though I actually really want to see him as the Emperor one day (at least for a time), it would be thematically appropriate if Jinshi takes not after the Emperor, but after Gaoshun and becomes the retainer of the future Emperor.
#knh spoilers#kusuriya no hitorigoto#the apothecary diaries#jinshi#aduo#maomao#looking at gaoshun and taomei#it does solve everything#jinshi would still be able to be close to the seat of power#and do good for the nation#in guiding the future emperor the same way gaoshun guided him#since he’s not power hungry he would have the emperor’s interests (not just as the leader of the nation) but as a family member at heart#and at the same time he wouldn’t be pressured to take in more than one spouse#maomao would be free to explore the nation as she pleases#the history of the owner of the jade plaque with the favored son of a former emperor#abdicating and eventually being given a name#seems to be foreshadowing for what will happen even if Jinshi’s true heritage does get out#I’m sure factions will try to use him as a piece#but in the same vein that maomao decided her own fate herself#it would make sense for Jinshi to achieve what he wants to do regardless of the circumstances of his birth#and it would be sweet if he took after his foster father#win win solution for everyone really#yeah ok I’ll be fine even if jinshi doesn’t become emperor as long as he becomes retainer#maomao would be better leading medical reforms rather than be an empress too#it would also be subversion of the usual chosen one will lead tropes#yeah no how about the secret prince becomes the mentor instead
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speaking of racism in dm (both fantasy & regular), this exchange has haunted me since the first time i read this chapter
and regardless of actual origin within the eastern continent/archipelago, ofc she wouldn't recognize the name shuro bc it's not even his real name 😭
#dungeon meshi#rinsha fana#kabru#mickbell tomas#while this is a remark that seems consistent with mickbell's personality#it's killing me that he belongs to the second most oppressed group in this party#(the first being kobolds (kuro))#and the relationship between the two of them is unclear to me#sort of like a han solo & chewbacca situation but with a meaner han#idk i think i'd like to see rin explore her heritage at some point#milsiril did a number on her & kabru#calemonsito notes#edit: milsiril did not adopt rin! however it's still assumed she stayed w elves until she joined kabru's party
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Can you explain how preening works on bots? For someone who new to the idea of it.
Preening is a real-life bird grooming behavior that extends the life of their feathers as well as waterproof them using an oil secretion from a gland and a bonding activity, too. Transformers fandom likens the Seekers to birds, so I'm doing my duty and expanding on it lol
For Seekerkin, preening is a grooming behavior that satisfies multiple functions: a social activity for the trine and flock, a necessary and vital part of maintenance to check out the responsiveness and state of their flight systems, and trains the very young or very new on how to handle environmental influx, both passive and active. It's typically guided by the more experienced hand: mentor to student, parent/guardian to child or newbuild, elder to newcomer, trainer to trainee. A pair of hands skims and go over the expanse and edges before using their talons to pick out the slag in the fine seams as they test out various sites and sensor response.
It's an activity that actively builds social cohesion as it takes a lot of trust to allow someone else around appendages packed with a variety of sensors. It feels good as well. Not a sexual pleasure. It's more akin to good massage or very nice body scrub. A great source of stress relief under an at-home health check. Of course, that also fosters relationships between kin, trines, cohorts, and flocks.
Arcee and Bumblebee have their own sensory panels to care for, and it's a job for a second pair of hands. Ratchet has similarities with his own servos.
Miko is too much of a young menace to realize others don't have her own War-Forged physiology, so she's allowed to go ham on the heavier armored Autobots because she's mimicking the care she's receiving.
#ask#transformers#tfp#transformers prime#cybertronian biology#cybertronian culture#tf headcanons#miko nakadai#humanformers#humans into cybertronians#magic#creature#bumblebee#arcee#ratchet#maccadam#my thoughts#idk if arcee and bumblebee have seekerkin heritage but it would be fascinating to explore the concept#perhaps something along the lines of third generation Praxian or Poly? or even the kids of mixed heritage couplings?#bitlets#sparklings
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Alina is Shu attire, inspired by traditional Chinese hanfu dress💛
#alina starkov#shadow and bone#art#mine#darklina#alarkling#siege and storm#ruin and rising#sol koroleva#the sun summoner#I’m still made they promised Alina exploring her Shu heritage and that never happened#season 2 still makes me mad#I hate Alina’s whole wardrobe in season 2#anyways#procreate#digital art
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#curators on tumblr#wanderlust#li_destinations#travel#explore#hallstatt#austria#europe#village#world heritage
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A Pack Horse Bridge.
Found in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England. Built in Sandstone in 1672 with the aid of a £20 grant, which would barely by a brick nowadays!
#Stone#Bridge#Sandstone#Heritage#History#Wanderlust#Explore#Places#Adventure#Travel#Fairycore#Fae#Goblincore#Aesthetic#Landscape#Scenic#Green#Country#Countrycore#English Countryside#Warmcore#Cozy#Grandmacore#Photography
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You remember when dick was in space (for the first time with the new teen titans) because komand’r took Kory back and they needed to save her? And you remember how he understood it was a war they were fighting and that they needed to do what they had to in order to survive it? And how when Gar told him he needed to control Kory, dick wondered if he even should try to stop her from killing her sister? And how he literally killed to save her (there’s some deniability but he’s literally hitting them with lasers described as deadly right in the head)? I do.
#something about dick doing this and understanding it’s war and war doesn’t always give you the choice to follow a moral code if you want to#live through it and make sure the one you love make it through too#and something about the change when the scenario called for it being oh so#similar to how Kory tried to pause her own teachings and relationship with combat while on earth#then despite knowing this was the type of battle Kory was raised for#the series had dick talking about how she was becoming more barbaric#and uncontrolled at times#when I think it would have been a much more interesting if they#instead chose to explore dick and Kory’s relationship with this “switch” or coming of age discovery + assimilation side by side#kory learning the balance of her heritage (she is tamaranian no matter what ) and her new life (she’s on earth and the battle there is#not the same solar system wide war she was raised to fight. The things she was taught are true for her home and her people but this is a#new home for her. a new beginning. a new life with new family. She is tamaranian and always will be but for now she’s on earth)#dick leaning to balance his past ( Bruce was his mentor and guide. he taught morality and ethics and all but gave him a what should you do#Guide during their years working together) and who he wants to be#(he’s not Bruce and what Bruce needs or thinks necessary doesn’t always ring true for dick too#he’s stepping into being his own man and part of that is forming his own views and opinions separate from his parent/mentor. Bruce will#never kill or let someone die if he can stop it. but dick? should he step in front of a bullet for a murderer over insuring someone else’s#safety first? his teammates? his families? he doesn’t know if that’s the kind of man he wants to be)#dc#dickkory#anyway#:)#does this make sense to anyone but my 5am running on two hrs of sleep brain#something about both of them being taught something by strict instructors#(the war lords and the bat)#and them learning#as all people have to#that most things are situational#new scenarios call for new things
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KRAFTWERK V
This monumental power station, originally a former brown coal power station, but later converted into a gas turbine power station, was built in 1937. It was active for over 60 years and was closed in 1998. The four large chimneys of the now closed brown coal power station, which were characteristic of the area for decades, were blown up in 2001.
The first half of the brown coal plant (6 x 35 MW) was built between 1937 and 1940. After World War II, the power plant's systems and equipment were dismantled between 1945 and 1947 as reparations to the Soviet Union.
From 1953 to 1959, the power plant was rebuilt and expanded with the second half of the plant (12 x 32 MW) in the west and high bunkers in the north. Gradual recommissioning took place from 10 October 1954 with the first trial operation after dismantling and expansion.
The power plant was declared an industrial monument in 1996. In March 2006, the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archaeology removed the power plant from the list of monuments without the owner having submitted an application. The reason for this was that the characteristic chimneys were being demolished.
Despite the loss of its monument status, the power plant is still considered a monument.
#urban exploration#urbex#abandoned#urban relics#decay#derelict#abandoned places#ue#photography#urbanexploration#abandoned addiction#abandoned buildings#lost places#urbexpeople#urbexworld#urbexphotography#industrial heritage#power plant#kraftwerk#germany
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