#I'M NOT DEAD YET!

[sculkshrieking]

[lynn voice] what do you mean? what do you mean by that?

[ist-das-kunst-oder-kann-das-weg]

[ablackonyxz]

Life Update /pos

Hello hello. Fuck, it has been way too long. But here I am, I'm alive! I felt like I needed to make some sort of update post to reassure all my friends that I am not dead yet. You won't get rid of me that easily!

I am currently completely swamped with college work, I am drowning in work. I have two weeks to finish up the current project and I still have so much to do. An essay, a website, my work book, portfolio art and writing pieces, applying for university... And that's all without accounting for the swarm of small things that need to be done.

I will be back to being more active online and talking to people once the new year rolls around as I'll have much less work and stress until late March.

For those who may be wondering about my mental health, I am doing quite alright. The burnout is finally starting to leave and I'm able to work on my personal projects again! And my social battery is finally gaining charge again, it has been perpetually dead for a while now. Still not enough yet for me to directly talk to anyone, but enough to make posts like this.

There has been a fun positive that's come from all my recent workload though! I have a lot of art to share and you'll be seeing it throughout this evening. :)

[martinsblackwood]

I can really be... anything you like.

[aangarchy]

Ok now we're just taking the piss right? Right?

Once again this sort of thinking is removing a fundamental character arc that makes this story what it is. A big part of Aang's journey, especially in season 1, but tbh it does return in later seasons too, is accepting that he is the Avatar, and that he's the only one who can end this war. During the whole first season he is in complete denial about who he is and what he's supposed to do, which is why in most of this season there's no sense of urgency, and then once Aang gets faced with a very real, very close deadline he panics. This makes it even more brutal when in season 3, after accepting this responsibility, he gets faced with the reality of failure. He runs away again, this time not because he doesn't want responsibility, but because he knows how heavy his responsibility is and he doesn't want to burden anyone else with it. Removing the first aspect, aka running away and denying responsibility, it in turn also removes the heavy emotion from his later arc.

It keeps surprising me that people who claim to be such fans of the original seem to completely miss the point of most of this story? Like how could you look at Sokka learning about women's rights, Aang learning to accept responsibility, and Katara's motherly warmth which happened because how young she was when she had to step into a motherly role, and think "well we should remove that." You're taking out all of character development and going purely off of plot (which isn't gonna be nearly as good without the character development!)

Atla is probably one of the most analyzed and picked apart story, has one of the most long running loyal fanbases, people are STILL making thinkpieces about this show, and you manage to still misunderstand so much???

[lotus-pear]

mourning black and the death of ideals

[poirott]

COLUMBO SEASON 1 Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo

[deadrlngers]

Separation can be a...terrifying thing.

Dead Ringers (1988) | dir. David Cronenberg

[benevolenterrancy]

honestly. if you decided to create giant fucking corpse-head-spiders to populate your world with then this is exactly what you deserve.

[micamone]

hewwo

[bylerpining]

BOYFRIENDS🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻😭😭😭

[technically-human]

Enter the Crow King, merry wanderer of the night.

He's a little charmer, even when your best mate has captured and jailed one of his crows! He wants you to stick around for a bit longer, though...

@i-am-as-normal-as-you-are commissioned this one, of course! You guys have been waiting for Monty for so long that I feel like I would never have gotten around to drawing him without some help lol

(@m0scorner I stole your gloves. They're just perfect)

Bonus dreamling, because you know the Crow King is stealing that aesthetic:

[gaytommykinard]

911 writers: we have created a breakup/makeup arc :)

me: you've fucked up a perfectly good canon queer relationship is what you've done. look at it. it's got biphobia.

[schemelin]

Palmer and Altairus

[shevr]

workout mix

[spacebubblehomebase]

"Applemedia only happens because Alastor's in the middle." 😤

Okay. But have you ever considered: "Cartoons are THE BEST???"✨��

Some would even say: "It scrambles the brain!" 😉

This IS how they started, right???

-Bubbly💙