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[eywaseclipse]

This was probably the first time I thought they looked so much alike.

[samtamdan]

[muffinlance]

Wait, what’s going on with Embers???? That fic has been on my read later list since 2021, what’s happened with it???

Brief overview, then I'm likely never touching this topic again, because this is not a Drama Blog:

Context: Embers is a super old AtLA fic that was written during the early fandom days, read widely at the time, and was the origin of the widely-used fanon name of "Wani" for Zuko's ship (kind of by default that it was one of the first popular fics to give his ship a name, I think?), even though most fic writers don't seem to realize it's from there anymore.

"What's Going On": I used to include a link in all my stories to it, because I believe in crediting other writers for borrowed elements, and I was using "Wani" in all my fics. But BOY did I not want to be sending readers that way anymore, so I've adopted a new name for Zuko's ship, and removed all Embers links.

None of the criticisms about Embers itself are new; I'm assuming they date back to when the fic was being written, because this isn't an "it aged badly" thing, this is an "actually yeah this gets worse the longer you think about it and I shouldn't have ignored my bad feelings just because some of the worldbuilding was interesting" thing.

An Incomplete List of Why I Made the Change:

I don't actually like the story that much anymore, and don't want to rec it

I tried to re-read it recently to see if some things were as bad as I remembered and it turns out they were So Much Worse Oh Yikes. More specifically, the treatment of Katara and Aang and their respective cultures has... rather a lot going on. One example: The Fire Nation and Air Nomads are both given multiple backstory elements in an attempt to make the average Fire Nation soldier's participation in the genocide/war in large part the fault of the Avatar and the Air Nomads themselves, and also fully justified from the Fire Nation perspective. And I do mean fully. One of its core tenants is "People from the Fire Nation (and only people from the Fire Nation) who don't follow orders Literally Die, therefore murdering pacifists and babies and continuing the war (and their regularly scheduled war crimes) is the only thing it is physically possible for them to do". I cannot emphasize enough how literal that is.

Also the name "Wani" means "Alligator" and is... objectively a pretty lame name for Zuko's ship? Where's the personality, where's the deeper meaning, where's the resonance with Zuko's themes? @tuktukpodfics initially thought I was calling the ship "Wanyi", and that's what I've switched to, because it is Objectively So Much Better. In their words: “Wànyī (萬一): Literally ‘one in ten thousand,’ ‘perchance.’ Used grammatically in Chinese to mean ‘what if’ or ‘just in case.’ I think a ship called ‘The Perchance’ is perfect for a boy clinging to false hope.”

TL:DR; I don't rec Embers anymore, because I don't actually like the story anymore, and there are things about it that get worse the more I think on them. I've removed links to it and renamed Zuko's ship to "Wanyi" ("The Perchance") because our boy deserves a ship name that reflects his character arc.

[somewhereincairparavel]

aang going "baby you're my forever girl" will live in my head rent free

[zeldabecameaqueen]

i may have done something terrible just now

it didn't go as plan

here's a preview :

i mean ... he looks like Grandma Richas

the plan was to make the eggs as Duolingo avatars........

here's the results :

it doesn't look great, and I'm sure that for some of them you won't even be able to recognize them

[ginnmann]

im normal about them

[ebonynightwriter]

waava month (2023) // day 2 · detour

what may at first appear as an obstacle a detour a meander in life can often be the most direct ground-breaking enriching and enlightened path

[annasellheim]

Next part- this is how autobio works

[prodineonblue]

New edit!! My 4th edit ever! This one was a quick (and a little bit rushed) AMV for Ming Hua/ghazan.

Enjoy!

[jordankennedy]

opens the tma wiki navigates to the “avatars” page looks at it lovingly for a while without clicking any hyperlinks and then closes the tab

[eywaseclipse]

Date night 🦋

[therearenothoughtshere]

Roblox liminal places are either whimsical or funky:

[fangomango]

Am I posting a random edit so I don't do my work I need done in 5 hours

Maybe

(Yes I made this, the text is a random overlay I found on tiktok if I find it I'll credit it)

(Also to my one friend, a "random friend" didn't make this, I just didn't want to slap my name on it in case you thought it sucked :3 xoxo yeah...)

[nerdy-talks]

Me :

Uh-huh... Okay.

Whatever you say, Levi~ 💜

[guardiandua]

Looking for betareaders! <3

So I've finally built the courage to get a betareader but does anyone here betaread at all? I write longer stories which do contain themes of homophobia and it being portrayed in a positive light because I write for my faith now. You can be of any religion or just spiritual as long as you are not pro-LGBTQ+ or can respect that I'm not. My fandoms are Voltron: Legendary Defender, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Digimon mostly but occasionally others however you are not required to know my fandoms. 18 + would be good as I'm 30+ so working with minors would be a little weird.

[jazzedpunk]

bonus pictures of my editor model! wasn’t sure if i should post these ones too or not, but i decided i’d give y’all just feeew more pics of him :)

(1st one is like those videos that are like “POV: *grabs you*”; 2nd one is Editor getting tired of pictures; and the 3rd is just a pleasant selfie in the moonlight :3)