#dry elemental

[heedra]

I think my canvas work jacket is genuinely one of the most precious items of clothing I own and when it gives out in another decade or whatever I'm going to have to hold a funeral. debating buying another of the same exact kind just so I'll have one if they stop making them.

[the-ninja-legacy-whip]

so can the masters of the derivatives also have a connection/understanding with the main guardians like they will never be as close as they are with the EMs of the main 4 but do they still feel fond for them at some level (same question for the outliers mainly time and amber)

From a general level yeah they can feel some affinity for particular Guardians (see: Jesse and Ruamoko or Skylor and Vulcanell) but in the soul-deep, actual elemental-connection way? Nope, not really

[marypsue]

>checks care tag >"hand wash cold or dry clean ONLY!!!" >checks fibre content tag >"100% plastic! :) :) :)"

[silentkimiya]

Before I continue with Vulpera's fluffy companions, I want to stop and show you my personal project.

These four have a long story. I started working on them a few years ago. For me, these were some of the first sculptures I made entirely out of air-dry clay. It was supposed to be a simple project both in style and in concept (four dragons representing the four elements). But… something went wrong.

The sculpting process went well; the painting was also successful. And then, according to my plan, there was the stage with epoxy resin… and this stage did not go as planned for two of the four dragons. Looking back now, I realize that the problem with the epoxy resin was easily solved. But I did not have the right tool, so sadly the dragons were put in a closet and locked there for a couple of years.

And then… I got the very tool that could save the situation. It took me a while to get the hang of it and gain confidence that I wouldn't make it worse with my corrections. And then I spent as much as two hours to correct that small mistake, which a couple of years ago seemed to me the final verdict for the sculptures.

And here we are. These dragons are finally ready to show themselves! You can't imagine how happy I am about this - and I can't wait to show you the final pics <3

[btheleaf]

As a Pema fan and expert, I'm curious your opinion on how Pema takes so many people becoming airbenders but not her. I imagine her relationship to bending and particularly airbending is rather complicated. Thoughts?

First of all, thank you 😂 my obsession has granted me a new title it seems. Pema Expert :)

Answer under the cut

When Pema was a child, of course she wished we was born with an element. What kid doesn't? She was born in the Earth Kingdom and throwing rocks around is COOL.

As she got older, she saw the pressure that all the benders were under to try and master their elements or use them in their daily lives for work. She was born into a family of non benders and primarily surrounded herself with non benders. She harbored no resentment for benders but was glad she wasn't one. She just wanted to be herself and was content to be how she was.

Pema becomes an acolyte because she falls in love with the teachings of the air nation and their way of life. In the acolytes, she finds herself as a person, she finds freedom, she finds joy and happiness, and she finds Tenzin. Never once did she wish for an element when she was getting everything she ever wanted without one.

The only time she ever truly wished she was born with an element (as an adult) was once after Book 2. A spirit pulled Oogi into the ocean mid-flight, and she had to pull Tenzin from the water after he exhausted himself from rescuing the kids and trying to save Oogi. He wasn't responding to CPR, and in that moment she never wanted anything more in her entire life to be a waterbender. He coughed up the water eventually and didn't die, don't worry.

When Bumi first shows his element in Book 3, Pema is shocked at first and then very disturbed by the development. Bumi and her were the only nonbenders in the entire group, and now it's just her and the acolytes again. To her, he basically left her alone with all these damn benders.

She jokingly tells Bumi how uncool it is that they can't bond over being nonbenders anymore and Bumi just,, fully starts crying. Pema is shocked and confused as he breaks down and tells her that she deserves it more than him, that she should have been an airbender because she spent her life studying the culture. He's afraid that she'll resent him now because of it.

Pema smiles and hugs him and tells him that she doesn't want an element, even if it's air. She hardly has time to raise four young children and support Tenzin when he's nearly dying all the damn time running around on Avatar business. She doesn't have the desire or time to learn an element.

She tells him that she doesn't want that responsibility, and she's actually sorry the element fell to him because she knows that he's proud of his illustrious career in the UF as a nonbender. He cries even more when she says that, and that solidifies the fact that she doesn't want an element.

She's glad the harmonic convergence skipped over her.

[elliasnovember]

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[mochrincrunch]

drinks that are blue

[knightedgales]

An element of Henry's anger is his need for control. It isn't control in the way tyrants need control, however, but more a hunger born from knowing full well what it's like to be at the mercy of others. After all, on the day Skalitz was sacked, it had began just as any normal day -- warm sunshine, a few sweet words with his girl, a tussle with the village nuisance, and some good ol' fooling about with the boys. Though Henry had always known about the dangers of the world and adventuring from the periphery, seeing Sigismund and the Cumans descend on his home from over the horizon truly put the reality of a peasant's helplessness into stark reality. He couldn't do anything. Dad told him to run, and so he had. And when he'd came back, it was only to watch this greedy war machine claim everything he knew and loved in repeated merciless strokes. After Skalitz, Henry, feeling sufficiently weak, cowardly, and an outright failure, has that desperate need to feel like he can control something, anything in his life. His trauma leads him to vent that toward control, a pure and violent domination of those that have stolen from him, and even puffing his chest out just a bit too much to men of far, far higher social standing. Granted, he'd always been a hothead, and perhaps one could say he'd always had a fantastic lean toward foolhardiness, but besting Sir Hans in duels and commanding the lordling out of his own tavern? It's all helplessness that's made him bold -- and of course, that Hans was a twit only helped pave the way. Point is, if Henry has an opportunity to go against the grain, to rebel, to help people in ways he damn well wishes he'd been able to help himself all those days ago, then he will. He doesn't want to bow to other men again. He refuses to be another nameless peasant made to suffer at anyone's, anything's hands -- nobles, fate, God or otherwise.

[candiedwords]

I have decided to share with you all some of my Pinterest boards for my decade-old Magnum Opus... Elements!

I'm not sure how long I'll keep these boards public, so catch 'em while they're here!

Garnet. Corliss. Gode.

[silentkimiya]

Just because I absolutely love the atmosphere of these shots <3

[redbean-nom]

redesign of the Vespa Kids from book of boba fett

thoughts & closeups under cut

so i tried to keep their general appearances/colors intact while adding some actual personality (because i think the main problem with the original designs is that they feel like extras, not side characters).

Red: Zabrak orphan who grew up on Tatooine. 18 years old, was a member of the local insurgent group around the end of the empire era. Has a combo blaster/interrogation droid arm. Speeder is a repurposed version of Maul's speeder from phantom menace.

Blue: Human raised in the non-Tatooine parts of the Outer Rim. 23 years old, known assassin who worked for Jabba. Uses a scavenged magnaguard-type electrostaff. Has basically a version of the mandalorian helmet visors built into his face. Speeder is an abandoned scout trooper speeder.

Yellow: Tusken orphan from the clans around the podrace area. 19 years old, became a bounty hunter after his tribe (and bantha) were killed by the Pikes to expand spice routes. Has a Vader-style chest panel and rocket feet. Speeder is a custom pod attached to one of Sebulba's engines, with attached rancor teeth and horns from his late bantha.

Green: Human who grew up on Coruscant, but family fled the Empire to Tatooine around A New Hope. 21 years old, originally worked as a local enforcer for various Hutts. Has super battle droid arm & leg attachments. Speeder is stolen from local nikto gang.

original designs for reference:

[meirimerens]

going through pdfs and an autism moment the levels of which you've never seen and i'm reminded of the multiple buryat creation myths in which the lake (baikal) plays such an important role (because. they live here) and in which the buryats are descendants of swans... and thinking about how patho (inspired by this culture among others) completely lacks both A Lake and anything related to swans, with birds appearing as the muu shubuun "wicked birds" (another mongolic + turkic (mu shuvuu) folklore figure that is different in patho than it is irl)(i would say. yeah obviously), plague-bearers, etc. you got the Gorkhon which is river and not lake, which could be an equivalence, but rivers & lakes typically have different places in animist beliefs, often have different gender identifications as well, and the Kin does not have the same relationship to the river as the people of the region have with Baikal...

also the concept of sky-dwellers/sky-divers/generally Brother There's Something Up There with the head of the pantheon/all-progenitor being sky-bound ("the heavens" comes up often) is almost completely absent from the Kin's religious background, and most of the -dwelling is one in/within the Earth, with Bos Turokh literally being the land and Boddho being explicitely an earth-mother-goddess, and rather it being Suok associated with air.

that's fascinating how this like very prominent part of mongolic culture, whether attributed to Tengri or to Lama for the buddhist parts of it or Esege/Esege Malan is absent from the Kin's culture that's inspired by those and almost flipped on its head completely.

[cloud-somersault]

Sorry, I just feel like the prose should have a personality 🤷

[beeapocalypse]

stepping away from this bc of a fuckoff headache. very rough idea for river drake armor sans the gnarly bladed helmet that would act as primary weapon and maybe some bladed front feet gauntlets

[eldritchmochi]

it is absolutely wild the weird shit that throws me out of a fic like brain pls i would like something to do while i contort myself into Digestion Mode that ISNT daydream about writing my own fic because that is not conducive to staying in Digestion Mode

[somewhereincairparavel]

oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh despite me being the biggest jason fan and admirer of his humor i didn't remember MANY of these offhand remarks omg??? especially the google maps and the truck noises ones omg lmao thank you so much for compiling this I have to save this post for whenever I'm feeling down eeeek

So it is a common misconception on the interweb that Jason doesn’t have a sense of humor.  

Personally, I think his humor goes unnoticed by a lot of readers because it is relatively strange and uncommon (a side affect of possessing the INTP personality type).  

Also, a lot of his humor is not necessarily spoken.  A lot of the humor lies in the context of the situation or in his narration.  

Nevertheless, it is present and you just need to pay attention.  

For example, he is very sarcastic…

He also uses a lot of situational irony in his humor…

He is a smart-ass at times…

He is funny when he recognizes tactless or inappropriate topics…

Some of his quotes are hilarious out of context…

His humorous outlook on life is a bit dark sometimes…