#The Girl in the Iceberg

[dynamic8ball]

"The Girl in the Iceberg" synopsis/trailer

Before I introduce to the world of Tumblr and possibly beyond of what I'm about to write, I just wanna say what this "synopsis/trailer" thing is. You all know what a movie or TV show trailer is, right? Well I'm about to (sort of, maybe?) do it for a fanfic that I've been adoring for the past several months. A Legend of Korra fic titled "The Girl in the Iceberg" by RainbowRosieS (I'm not them by the way. I'm just promoting it because I love it so much as a reader) on AO3. Here's a link to it if you just want to skip my ramblings, but I just want to get this out because 1) I love this ongoing fic to death and 2) I could use the exercise for writing 3) I want to do it for fun. https://archiveofourown.org/works/44664853/chapters/112368748

Republic City, present day.

The hustle and bustle of Republic City is alive and well. Motor vehicles deafen the streets and boulevards; brands such as Satomobile and Cabbage Car making up the majority of the automobile market. Airships float high above the metropolis overseeing the urban landscape. The inner-city's ship yards teem with union dockworkers mooring ships to shore, lifting and transporting crates by hand off incoming ships, evaluating inventory and inspecting ships that prepare for yet another journey.

All this with the ever-growing city skyline sitting still yet tall in the background, unsuspecting of what a mere anthropology major has brought to these shores. She was no ordinary anthropology student: for one she was regarded as an outlier to the profession. Many regard Asami Sato with wariness and skepticism as an up and coming anthropologist, a field, like many others during this time, dominated by the male demographic. Many already know who she is - or better yet, who she is related to. The daughter to automobile magnate, Hiroshi Sato, Asami has grown to develop a passion for the field she studies at Republic City University. A passion, like many other things, she shares with her late mother, Yasuko.

It was unfortunate - tragic, Asami thought - that her mother couldn't be here to share this breakthrough with her. Asami, reservedly, has never been much of a religious person; her beliefs more or less relied on the laws of physics and what has been proven to be possible. But she could only pray that her mother could somehow see this. Her biggest discovery thus far in her young career and still in university.

On the surface, it just looked like a giant iceberg had been dragged all the way from one of the poles from the ship's stern. Asami's calculations proved to have been mostly accurate with how much the ice would melt over the course of their month-long voyage back home from the Southern Water Tribe without losing any precious cargo still frozen within the ice. This trek had been a long time coming; adversity from her skeptical colleagues and university staff, along with many sleepless nights studying numerous sites and artifacts for her expedition as the basis for her master's thesis had all been worth it thus far.

More work was to be done, for sure. The iceberg was to be craned and shipped to a nearby warehouse that her father owned by the docks. Then it would be a matter of time before her team chipped away at the melting ice and discovered more of what lay inside. Back at the South Pole, Asami could already tell roughly what sat inside was a woman in heavy furs surrounded by clubs and spears suspended within the ice along with a canoe and some unidentifiable white form that lay next to the woman.

Asami kept her excitement in check and expectations tempered as she should show respect for the dead and expect mild results and let the subjects of her studies surprise her. Little did Asami know that she was in for a surprise the likes of which hadn't been seen in recorded history and was long forgotten by the world at large. A generational being frozen for millennia and more, lost to time and history. The myth that turned true.

The girl in the iceberg had waited long enough.

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The Avatar is a myth. A tale of bygone eras where people possessed the power to control and bend the elements around them like it was an extension of themselves. The Avatar, born with the power to bend the four elements, was thought of as the bridging spirit between the material world and the spirit world.

Today, spirits are nowhere to be found. Bending has become extinct. The Avatar has long since disappeared.

History roughly remembers who some of the few Avatars were, or at least just by name. The last of these Avatars mysteriously vanished off the face of the Earth over 9,000 years ago, leading many through the annals of time to speculate: Was the Avatar cycle broken? Where could they might've gone? Did the Avatar even exist at all?

Bending and the spirits, too, are questioned to have existed. Throughout the centuries, humans have relied more on practical tools instead of hokey superstition. Evolving technology from stone tools to eventually reaching the industrial age. Beliefs and religion have shifted significantly as well through millennia. The most notable religion, the Church of Raava, has followers spanning the globe in millions. Believing Raava is an all seeing and knowing deity, he supposedly grants access to the after life in the spirit world to those who were devout in the church's beliefs, escaping the cycle of reincarnation.

The world itself is mostly the same geographically. New nations have risen and fallen with varying connections to one of each of the four elements. Bloody wars have been waged with clubs, spears, swords up until the invention of the firearm, shaping combat to be more distanced and deadly. The most recent Great War saw the introduction of the machine gun along with chemical weaponry when the world's powers collided in ruthless trench warfare.

Even with that war over, conflict still ravages the Earth Empire in a gruesome civil war. While the United Republic is experiencing relative prosperity since their arms ceased, trouble looms for immigrants fleeing from the Earth Empire civil war as living conditions worsen in Republic City. Aid groups such as the Red Lotus try and offer help to those in need, even when faced with the threat of Amon's separatists. The separatists' focus is forcing anyone who's not a United Republican out, dismantling the concept of the UR as a melting pot of cultures to establish isolationist peace and prosperity between cultures.

Problems and conflicts continue to mount for Republic City and the rest of the world. Resolutions seem to be growing scarcer by the day as millions still suffer. Perhaps the Avatar, master of all four elements, could save them. So much time had past, though, that the world almost looked unrecognizable to Korra. Without an Avatar for the time she was frozen, the world fell out of balance. And though this brave new world looks very bleak, she hasn't lost hope. Especially when her new hope had discovered her frozen in the iceberg and set her free.

Asami Sato didn't know it yet, but the ancient Water Tribe girl she had released was more than a capable warrior, she held the last hope for balance to be restored. And although her bending skills were great, Korra has a lot more to learn about this world before she should reveal herself to anyone. When the time comes, those that have come to know her will believe that Korra can save the world.

Again, here's the link to the story. https://archiveofourown.org/works/44664853/chapters/112368748

20 chapters are already out with 166,284 words already typed. Updates have been steadily published every Tuesday. If you got an account on AO3, please read it and if you like it, give it a Kudos and leave a comment to the proper author. If no AO3 account, Kudos and comment anyways.

I might do another for other fanfics that I like and enjoy. I've read enough in over a year's time that I could probably rank them in tiers or something that people do, right? Got a ton of LoK fanfic recommendations so go ahead and ask if you want my opinion or whatever.

See yall whenever!

[eyestrain-addict]

[philcollinsenjoyer]

i'm going to go outside and set myself on fire

[wistfulwatcher]

The Girls on the Bus | 1.04 Two Americas

[thesillydoll]

I WANT TO RIDE OZ COBB'S LEG, NOT COLIN FARELL'S. IS THAT CLEAR? I WANT TO BE A FUCKING DRUG ADDICT OF MY FAT MOBSTER!

Hes like, "come here and sit in daddy's lap, doll" and im a really good girl

[usernamehastoomanylet]

You should draw iceberg making a contract and becomfong a magical girl :333

(If you’ve never watched Madoka Magica Puella Magi ignore this ask)

Magical Iceberg, here to save you with the power of friendship and heavy explosives ~☆

Thanks for the ask :))

[i-can-not-art]

Frozen Emotion

[Security Personnel—(彩虹劉)Caihong Liu’s personal recounting of her experience during the █ █ █ █ incident on █ █/█ █/█ █ █ █ at █ █ █ █ █, resulting in Dr. Iceberg’s average body temperature dropping to -7 degrees Celsius.]

This is like only my 3rd time making a comic so forgive me for bad composition/writing (also tips plz 😭)

[zirconie]

Kandi bracelet collection

My collection has been growing for quite a while so some of these are really old. I don’t make them very often because usually I have to really like something to award it a bracelet, but I thought I would share because its one of my favourite things ever lmao

Black - I made it, Red - my friends made it for me

Music/the ones I wear outside:

Characters:

Misc:

[huellitaa]

listening to love potions, doing makeup, gossiping and eating sweets with my girls at 4am on halloween

[bscgirl99]

All of this to say, I hope you're okay. But you're the reason.

[gothsuguru]

THANK YOU SM FOR THE WIP TAG LILY! @storiesoflilies <3 i have so many wips so i figured i’d make a whole other post abt it so it doesn’t clog up the dash omg 🙂‍↕️ also i have so many more wips (like SO many) but i’ll just show these for now :3

rules — list the names/titles of docs in your WIP folder + open your inbox to have people ask about them! feel free to ask about any of these if you want to! :D

geto suguru x reader

- quixotism (cult leader!geto x heavenly restriction!reader)

- premonition of love (prequel fic to “black is the color of my true love’s hair” — down bad & devoted tattooist/piercer!geto x down bad & devoted!reader -> strangers to friends to lovers)

- shadow chiaroscuro (art curator!geto x fashion designer!reader)

- my love builds coffins (harpist!geto x coffinmaker!reader)

- death by slaughter — made for consumption (recently defected!geto x non-sorcerer turned curse!reader)

- the shade always comes at the worst time (cult leader!geto x kenjaku!reader)

- i hope i don’t murder me; i hope i don’t burden you (sensei!geto x heavenly restriction!reader)

- with the snow, my hell is cold (king!geto x knight!reader)

- your rarest of flowers (dilf!geto x neighbor!reader)

toji fushiguro x reader

- kintsugi (dilf!toji x neighbor!reader)

- shining like gun metal, cold and unsure (assassin!toji x civilian!reader)

gojo satoru x reader

- we fell in love in the midst of spring (devoted!gojo x devoted!reader)

- you should let me ride shotgun (rich brat!gojo x bodyguard!reader)

ryomen sukuna x reader

- out of my league (uni crush!sukuna x down bad!reader -> best friends to lovers)

- dancing under red skies (heian era!sukuna x first recorded case of heavenly restriction!reader)

kenjaku x reader

- belladonna (corrupt dilfy therapist!kenjaku x patient!reader)

tagging: @teddybeartoji @mossmotif @staryukis @hayakawalove @connorsui @kentophilia @mikichko :3

[fluorescentbrains]

i should go to therapy to address certain issues. (goes to therapy and spends the entire 50 minutes bringing up literally anything besides certain issues) wait a minute

[vanillacoke25]

"i didn't know alex was a diva" -my friend after seeing a milex edit

[scaredshadowsswap]

Something that I’ve never seen talked about is how terrible it would be to be a woman at the SCP Foundation.

If you look at the Personnel docket, you’ll see it’s mostly men. That is not inherently a problem, but a lot of the characters written as masculine…are creepy.

Like, if you asked Clef for pronouns, you’d probably get a response like “My pronouns are daddy/[moan]”, and then you’re stuck in this weird position. You can call Clef by he or they pronouns since that’s less embarrassing and you know Clef was messing with you, but then you’ll be berated by Clef for not respecting pronouns. Or, you can call Clef daddy, which’ll get some weird reactions from whoever you’re talking to.

Or Strelnikov? If a woman was in Epsilon-5 “Red Dawn”, he’d probably be pretty vocal about his opinions of having women on the team. As shown in his Personnel File, he calls all male nurses “babies”, and I can imagine he has a very long rant prepared about that and this. As shown in his handbook, he is clueless about women. He also seems like a very traditional Russian, which brings with it the slavic gender roles. Women are expected to be subdued, which means you’d be dealing with a lot of sexism from this man, until you manage to prove to him that he’s wrong.

Iceberg too. He just seems very much like an incel, and you’d have to deal with that. Luckily, there’s no way for you to work under him like you would with Strelnikov or Clef since he’s already Gears’s assistant, but if you ever sit near him during lunch or something, it seems so uncomfortable. If you sit near him every day during lunch, he may eventually warm up to you and internalize you as “one of the good ones”, which…is still not good, but better I guess?

The others I usually write about seem better, but with these being some of the most well-known characters in the SCP Foundation, I can only imagine what craziness you’d deal with when interacting with some lesser-known personnel.

[gorrus]

[intersexbear]

im gonna blend her