#fabdante

[zutaracoloringbook]

They drew with the moon… now you’ll color with the sun!

We’re excited to announce that @fabdante is one of the artists featured in the upcoming Contrast: A Zutara Coloring Book!

This coloring book celebrates the gorgeous lineart of Zutara fanartists. Available for FREE download on June 2.

[fabdante]

Because the other one was getting kinda long, new post for this picrew game @neighborhoodlum tagged me in!! thank you my friend!

Make yourself in this picrew and add the last song you listened to

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter by Nirvana

Tagging: All of you so I can see new music

[destroyyaa]

7, 26, and 29 for the weird asks meme!

7 - What animal do you look forward to seeing when you visit an aquarium?

They used to have sharks at the melbourne aquarium! You could watch feeding shows but they haven't had the sharks in a very long time.

Otherwise i'd be really excited to see the sting rays, they're so pretty when they swim over the walk through tunnels!

26 - hows your spice tolerance?

pretty decent actually! i havent tried anything too crazy but i do love me some sriracha and tabsco sauce. I also always get jalapenos in my burritos and on my HSPs if its an option.

the only time i cant handle spice is when mum puts chillis in her pasta sauce. idk where on earth this woman got these chillis but fuck me i cant taste anything after that.

29 - preferred pasta noodle?

penne are god tier pasta i fucking love it so much!!! if im having pastina though (which is chicken broth with small pasta in it) i go for the little shells!

Thank you so much for the ask!!! :D

[thevampireauthoress]

for the wip game i would like to know about 'Skyrim Fanfic ;)' and/or 'Zombie Horse Story'

The 'Skyrim Fanfic ;)' is a wedding night nsfw fic (including the wedding bit) between my dragonborn and her orc wife :3

For obvious reasons I will not be giving a sample of that one XD

The 'Zombie Horse Story' is the product of being a horse girl that grew into a horror nut. Horses are herbivores, but if given the opportunity and the need they will scavenge eggs and meat. It happens.

What if a horse got sick? What if this sickness drove them to crave meat? What if it drove them to ignore broken fragile limbs and torn ligaments in pursuit of flesh?

I feel comfortable giving you a sample of this one (it's the first draft atm)

"A horrific screeching cut through the syrupy air like a storm and then came the ripping and snapping of feathers and a sound that was evidently tearing skin. I ran to the paddock, pony nuts flying out of the bucket.

A jackdaw or a magpie, maybe, had gotten too close to Mitzi, black plumage and red blood were smeared across her sweet face. I stood there, stunned, watching her as the still struggling bird’s head disappeared into her mouth. I didn’t start to panic until I heard the sick grinding sounds of lightweight, hollow bone between flat grazing teeth."

[blackthorn-curse]

13, 15, and 24!!

13. witches, vampires or ghosts?

Why must we pit so many bad bitches against one another?

15. is halloween your favorite holiday?

fuck yes

24. how would you react to a toothbrush in your candy bag?

This actually happaned to me once! When I was 13 or so we flew back over to America during October half term to visit my grandparents. Apparently, one of their neighbours was a dentist. I got a toothbrush, a mini toothpaste tube and some dinosaur flossers instead of candy. Not only that, but the man was dressed as Santa Claus. For Halloween.

I didn't kick up a fuss because I knew better but I felt like everything about it just kinda went against the spirit of the holiday. I understand being worried about kids' dental hygeine when they're swimming in processed sugar but like. Nobody wants Santa to leave them toothpaste on Christmas, let alone Halloween.

Still used my dinosaur flossers though. Those were fun.

[thevampireauthoress]

@fabdante

gotham is exactly the right amounts of wet and socioeconomically unstable to have spawned an INSANE grunge scene you just know their local shit is like the sonic equivalent of getting hit over the head with a car battery

[veltroxx]

Anyone else have a partner who's surprisingly good with a knife? I'm honestly impressed and a little bit nervous! 🎃🎃

While many celebrate fantasy and fun, let’s not forget those who suffer in Palestine. 🎃🎃

Please take a moment to read @falesten-iw Falastin’s story and consider supporting her family. Even the smallest donation can help rescue them and give them a chance to survive in Gaza. Together, we can make a real difference in their lives.

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[cindyrex]

@zutaracoloringbook

here's my take on fabdante's coloring page from the new zutara coloring book : lost and found

i'm a forever lurker on the zutara tag, but felt like dusting off the post button to add my little colored version

find my art at makeanotherday on insta

[shamelessliarkickapow]

Arrvatarr! The Last Arrbender!

Just a little WIP

Zutara pirate AU inspired by THIS FUN ART by singswan-springswan and also THIS SWEET PIECE from the Zutara coloring book by fabdante

I have this whole story outlined at about 8 chapters. (*desperate promises to self* This definitely won't be another 100k word story, definitely. I'm aiming for 40k this time. Max.) I'm gonna try a new thing and post parts of chapters here as I go - no backward glances. Chapters will go on AO3 and ffn as they're completed.

Rating: M for violence and sexual content

Summary:

Set four years later than the show in an AU where the Avatar never returned. Instead of finding Aang, Katara and Sokka went looking for Hakoda and had lots of adventures. Fast forward to now, they’ve gathered a few motley friends into their life of piracy. Hey, it’s a living! After seven years circling the globe in search of the Avatar, Prince Zuko finds himself beset by weird pirates. They mean to ransom him, but the waterbender is distracting and Uncle Iroh seems to have some kind of plan so, if Zuko's lucky, this could all turn out okay... But when is Zuko ever lucky? A silly but pretty grown-up story with real swears and some sex stuff. Here be knavish pirate jokes and most ignoble puns - avast ye bilge-rat-vipers! yarrr

Chapter 1, part 1/3:

It was a junky little steamer, but beggars couldn’t be choosers and pirates loved junk.

They struck when the fat waning moon was still high, sparkling off the sea. Katara brought their little ship up from the depths alongside and raised it up on a mighty platform of ice to put their decks at a level for boarding. The wave of their emergence shook the steamer like a can of bees - but that hardly mattered when Sokka swung aboard and Toph dropped off his back. All the soldiers who came running half-dressed onto the deck wound up trapped, bound with strips of steel torn from the very vessel they sought to defend.

“Surrender, ya scabby seal-dogs!” Toph cried, striking a pose and really hamming up the drama. “Or I’ll paint this tub with yer stinkin’ guts before I sink ‘er!”

Most of the time, as soon as Toph broke out the metalbending, the fight was pretty much over. Suki was quick, so she could usually knock out a couple of soldiers before they realized how incredibly out-classed they were. Sokka had drawn his sword and found himself without an opponent so many times now that he usually just posed with it while he demanded surrender. Which was a shame - because it was such a nice sword.

Katara, always watching everybody’s backs, locked the ships together with thick bonds of ice and boarded last to come down hard on any remaining resistance. Tonight, though, she was still on the deck of their vessel, reassuring their new swab that nobody was going to get seriously hurt.

“She doesn’t mean it about the guts, Aang,” she said with a shrug and a crooked smile. “Toph just misses those earthbender tournaments she was telling you about. Remember, we do this to feed our villages through the winter. The Fire Nation can afford to be plundered a little after everything they’ve taken from us.”

This last she said with the faintest measure more steel. But the little monk didn’t notice. He only smiled trustingly up at her, his lemur clinging to his head with a grip on his bandanna.

“Aye aye, Cap’n,” he growled, a kid fully sold on the game.

“And what’s the rule?”

“No airbending - yarr!”

Katara grinned. “Great, now let’s go loot the boots off these guys.”

She took a few running steps and surfed the short distance up to the other ship’s deck, landing in a ready crouch with a tight stream of water looped through the air around her. There was no sound as Aang alighted behind her, but even if there had been, she would not have noticed.

Most of the time, these fights ended quickly. Firebenders weren’t at their best at night to start with. Soldiers rushed out, found themselves overwhelmed, and surrendered. The captain made an appearance and perhaps fought briefly, perhaps tried to rally his subordinates, but ultimately admitted defeat and gave up the goods.

But tonight was apparently a special night, because when Katara landed aboard the steamer, there was one firebender shouting and persistently unleashing all manner of fury in a three-on-one match against her friends.

He didn’t wear a uniform or even a shirt, just a pair of loose sleep pants as if he’d fallen from his bed into battle. And he seemed entirely ready for that battle, based on the way he spun and leapt and kicked unrelentingly in the air, dodging a chunk of metal from Toph even as he kept Suki and Sokka back with athletic moves and bright crests of flame.

Katara noticed at once that he didn’t look like a regular Fire Nation officer. His bared torso was all taut muscle - not that that was unusual, as many officers maintained their conditioning, it was more just… interesting. Drew the eye. No, it was his hair that marked him as peculiar. It was grown long past his shoulders and it fell loose and very straight around his scarred, snarling face. Most officers only kept their hair long enough for their military topknot. It might have occurred to Katara to wonder just what kind of captain this was, but presently, she was more interested in putting a stop to him.

Her water whip cut the air with only a chilling hiss for warning.

.

.

Zuko woke when he flopped hard off the edge of his bed onto the floor. A floor, he quickly realized through the fading disorientation of sleep, that was still swaying from some massive disturbance. He scrambled to his feet and craned his head to get a look out the wide, high window.

On the deck below, something was going on in the dark - but the strange ice that jutted up around his ship shone brilliant and deadly in the moonlight.

“Uncle!” he shouted as he slammed through his door into the hallway. “Uncle Iroh! We’re under attack!”

The old man was already emerging from his quarters, rubbing his bleary eyes. “What, did we hit something?”

“They have a waterbender,” Zuko snarled on his way to the stairs. “It must be pirates.”

“Pirates!” Iroh exclaimed, following at a sedate trot. “How terribly exciting!”

Zuko had leapt far enough down the stairs that he could pretend not to hear that last bit. Uncle had grown increasingly… whiny in recent years. He complained largely of the boredom of their life at sea, constantly trying to get Zuko to do something - anything else.

Hey, maybe we take a little break from searching for the Avatar and visit the colonies! I know a most pleasant spa where the masseuses could work the tension out of a stone. I think it might really change your perspective on things, my nephew. A man needs to release his tension every now and then, you know?

It was insufferable and uncomfortable and Zuko always dismissed the notion and stormed off to scan the horizon… but the old man had a point about the tedium. Zuko had circled the globe in his hunt for the Avatar - and then did it again, and again, until what he was doing was less hunting for the Avatar and more hunting for any kind of purpose or meaning in his life.

Because the Avatar was never going to return. That much had become obvious over the course of seven years spent searching ruins and sniffing out half-baked stories. What had not become obvious was what Zuko could possibly do instead, what other path to honor might remain open to him.

He was confident, however, that such a path would not be found in some thinly-veiled whorehouse in the colonies.

In truth, Zuko was no longer entirely sure he wanted to capture the Avatar even if one did appear. The chance to return home to his scheming, ruthless family no longer inspired in him the driving desperation he had felt when his banishment began. His sister was set to inherit the crown, presumably in half a century when Ozai succumbed to the inevitable fate of the terminally evil-and-wealthy and died peacefully in his sleep.

Meanwhile, Zuko had grown into a man in exile. A bitter and angry yet philosophical man deeply schooled in the arts of firebending, Pai Sho, and longing. Because what else was there to do?

Except, thankfully, finally, thrash a pack of pirates?

The only warning Zuko had about what awaited him on the deck was Lieutenant Jee, hanging by a strap of steel that had certainly not been affixed to the exterior door last night. “Prince Zuko,” he gasped against the pressure of the band, “it’s a metalbender.”

“Impossible,” Zuko managed - but the evidence was there before his eyes.

Beyond the open door, a girlish voice was cackling.

Zuko hurriedly kicked the restraint off his Lieutenant so the man fell free to the deck, then sent him off to rally the rest of the crew. “And get my uncle down here. Now!”

Then, bold and furious, Prince Zuko leapt out the door and reignited the lost fight.

The cackler turned out to be the metalbender, a muscular but petite girl - a teenager - whose smirk and hard postures bespoke unshakable confidence. At the instant of his appearance - almost as if she had sensed him coming and was waiting to do it - she moved through a sequence and ripped a sheet of the deck out from under Zuko’s bare feet. Or she would have, if he hadn’t hurled himself forward into a flip and come down in a roaring kick that crashed down a huge gout of flames. The metalbender blocked with another chunk of the deck.

“Stop tearing holes in my ship!” Zuko shouted, punching more blasts at her to try and flush her out of her shelter. While she was under cover, he blasted the restraints off a couple of his firebenders, then quickly went back on the offensive to cover their rise and return to combat.

“Get a real ship!” the little brat shouted from behind her shield. She shot a chunk of steel at him and he was forced to dodge even though she couldn’t possibly have seen him to aim. “This clunker’s more rust and barnacles than metal anyways!”

“Rrah!”

“Finally!” A lean man with a sword darted in to beset one of the freed firebenders. Zuko didn’t see the fight, but he saw the moment his soldier toppled over the gunwale with a cry. The swordsman grinned and shouted back toward the rigging of the pirate vessel Zuko only then realized was locked in alongside - that’s what all the ice was for. “Katara, you’re missing it! Captain’s out-! Woah!”

He went staggering back from the low arc of flame Zuko kicked in his direction. Zuko turned his whole attention back to bearing down with a sustained blaze on his first opponent. The metalbender was strong, but her technique was a little slow and, if Zuko hit her shield with enough heat, he suspected she might-

“Ow!” She tumbled out of the way, holding one hand close to her chest. “Why you bilge-sucking biscuit-burner! I’m gonna mash you good for that one!”

It happened as if in slow motion. Zuko had drawn back for a knock-out blow and was initiating the punch, but from the corner of his eye, he saw a golden flash and another figure moving rapidly toward him. He redirected his punch but was too late to do more than block the fan that had been about to strike him in the side of the head. The pale, painted face of a Kyoshi Warrior was suddenly there, looming like a specter out of the night.

She was much faster than the metalbender, and came at him with a lightning-quick sequence of jabs and slashes with her fans. For a moment, Zuko was hard-pressed to evade her attacks. She drove him a few steps until he stumbled over one of the torn places in the deck and went sprawling on his back. The warrior darted in-

-but Zuko wheeled his legs around in a dazzling circle of fire that sent her leaping back, blocking with those fans. He rode the kick to his feet and took the offensive, laying down a hard, quick series of blasts that had her backing up toward the pirate vessel, where the metalbender was one-handedly locking the last of his firebenders back down.

Zuko might have been annoyed, had he not been so busy almost getting skewered. The lean guy with the sword came up from his flank. If he had led with a stab, he might have ended the fight right there, but he tried to brain his enemy with the flat of his blade instead.

Zuko didn’t give it much thought as he ducked, darted in close to grab the guy’s sword-hand, and, with a grip on the front of his vaguely Water Tribey pirate jacket, pitched him bodily at the warrior. She was charging him with her fans out to either side and barely managed to dodge out of the way as the lean guy came hurtling past.

“Waugh-!”

Zuko kicked fire to keep her diverted and simultaneously ducked out of the way of another chunk of his ship that came hurtling toward him. He was about to press the advantage when a hissing sound cut the air, he felt a hard jolt of impact, and pain bloomed from his left pectoral like he’d been stung by a buzzard-wasp. He fell a couple steps back and took in this new opponent.

“The waterbender,” he growled, momentarily stunned.

TBC

[fabdante-sparda]

im so bad at blog management lately i am so sorry sdfghjkl

it took me 18 hours to realize i reblogged that last post here by mistake djfkdksdksjd we all deserve a break though

[robinainthood]

Make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone’s favorite.

Thank you for tagging me, @lanxyuu !

My god, it's unreal how much these characters have in common actually lmfao. Identify the common theme for 600:

No pressure tags: @fabdante @booksandpaperss + anyone who feels like it!

[zutaracoloringbook]

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[fabdante]

I saw your tag about cannoli day I AM JEALOUSSSS I would have spent all my money at school on cannolis

cannoli day was the best day!!! i think people should just do that like there should just be a designated day where people bring in cannolis carts to work and what not like the people demand cannolis

[destroyyaa]

🏠🌃🌅 for the song asks!!

🏠 A song you could live inside

Spirit Breaker Lo-fi remix - Alpha Wolf, Mik

Honestly all the Alpha Wolf Lo-fi remixes slap and are v nice and chill to listen to! It’s a nice take on their heavy music.

🌃A song for night time

Raw - Thornhill

Once again this whole album could work but also I’m being sensible and picking one song! (But also Lily and the Moon by Thornhill because it’s about the lead singer’s dog!! And how they would go for walks at night and look at the moon!)

🌅A song for sunrise

Vietnam - Crystal Castles

I just like the beeps and boops and a lot more of my music is probs more night themed but idk this song makes me think of a futuristic city sitting on the top of a building with this playing in the background.

[thevampireauthoress]

for the fic asks! 4, 5, 10, and 33!!

Heyo fren 💖 thank you for the questions!!!

4. What detail in [insert fic] are you really proud of?

In my Dead Poets Society vampire au I'm really pleased with both my bird and religious symbolism, it can be a bit heavy handed at times but it hasn't been properly edited by me or beta read yet so of course it is XD

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [insert fic]? Answer it now!

Ooooooh, (spoiler alert) I wish people would ask why I chose to make Charlie the descendant of a monster hunter, not the snitch most of us love to hate, Cameron.

The answer to that is very simple, in DPS Cameron is very black and white in his worldview. He is very much a Rational Mind (after all it is rational to want to save your own skin even if it involves a completely dick move) and the Rational Mind has little space for monsters to exist except in stories.

Charlie's worldview is so much more grey scale, I could see Charlie as a child, eyes huge, listening with rapt attention to tales of his family member fighting ghouls and vampires, and that informing his actions and opinions when he finds out it's all real.

10. How do you decide what to write?

Oh boy... under my own steam I will definitely be influenced by the media I am consuming. My first long-form story was basically an amalgamation of St Trinian's and Twilight. It's not good but I worked on that story for... Six years? To actually answer your question, if left to my own devices I will write fanfic, I generally will add vampires if none are provided and I will make it queer!!!

When I actually finish one of my wips I'm going to work on a world inspired by a dream I had, so uh... Stay tuned for something about that in about 100 years I guess XD

33. If you write chaptered fics, what is your ideal chapter length to write? Is it different from your ideal chapter length to read?

I do write chaptered fics, however the way I write is an editor's nightmare haha, I cannot give you a chapter to read because I am simply working on every chapter at once and they will be the length they end up being I cannot tell you <3

I enjoy reading fic, I will take whatever comes I am not fussy XD

Thanks again fren, some kitty cuddles for you :3

[dastardlynerd]

@fabdante tagged my main for this but I post my nerd shit here so. Four characters that make me say "That's my man!!!" when they appear on screen:

one of these men is not like the others.....