#fog children

[the-badger-mole]

Your new fic is awesome! How do you think the rest of the Gaang react to the fog babies thing?

All of Aang's friends try to be there for him. They know better than anyone how he would be affected by finding out such a horrible thing about his people. Aang's denial and later justification and distancing puts them off, but they do still try.

Sokka is disgusted, but his reaction has more to do with how Aang treats his niece and nephews than with the actual horrors of what the Air Nomads did (after all, he was able to be friends with Zuko despite everything). He's always felt deep down that Aang looked down on people for not meeting his standards (meat eaters, hunters, non-benders), and this incident doesn't help. By the time Katara leaves him, Sokka is as fed up with Aang as his sister. Maybe even more. Suki never fully bought Aang's nice guy act, so this whole thing hurt her less than their other friends.

Toph is furious and goes on periodic rants about how people who think they're better than everyone else need to be shot into space from a canon. She tries to comfort Aang by telling him that she doesn't think he's awful like the Air Nomads who did all those horrific things, but she's very hard line about it. She doesn't go as far as to say the Air Nomads had what the Fire Nation did coming, but she is a lot less sympathetic to their loss. It takes her a long time to be able to be more nuanced in her thinking.

Zuko is the one who understands what Aang is going through the most. He knows what it's like to love your people despite knowing what horrors they're capable of. He tells Aang that while no one should judge all of the Air Nomads by their treatment of the fog children, it's not helpful to ignore that this is part of their legacy. Aang is angriest at him because of all his friends, Zuko won't just let Aang distance himself from the issue in peace. That anger...ah...does not cool after Zuko's second wedding.

[qwertyprophecy]

The Finnish edition of my picture book Sumuväki (The Fog Folk) is out in the world! Feels rather unreal—I must've been maybe five years old when I stapled together my first "book" of crayon doodles and curious spellings, just to play at being an author-illustrator.

Suomessa asujille: Sumuväen voi tilata kirjastoista ja kirjakaupoista (esim. Adlibris, Suomalainen). Tarina on oodi mielikuvitusmaailmoille ja lapsenmieliselle uteliaisuudelle, mikäli sellainen kiinnostaa. Suurkiitokset, jos etsitte sen käsiinne!

[stayuntilthefoglifts]

Heal before having children, so your children don't have to heal from having you as a parent.

Unknown

[sovietpostcards]

Lidia Shulgina. Illustration for Sergey Kozlov's book "Hedgehog in the Fog" (1989).

[m0e-ru]

you're quick on your feet!... do you have any?

[azalearanger]

The freaking. Nirnaeth Arnoediad. man. the UGH

I just, Turgon breaking the leaguer and the sons of Fingolfin fighting to each other's side and the glad meeting of Turgon and Húrin and then AHHHHHHhhdkhskdfghsdlg freaKING FINGONNNNNN DYING and his banner being trod in his own blood and sacrifice of the men of Dor-lómin and UGGHhHggGg the f the freaking last stand of Húrin and the Haudh-en-Nirnaeth IM FINE IM FINE I JUST NEED AMINUTE

[mumblelard]

this particular fog, obscuring the lake and the hills beyond, may be the one that slowly consumes the tattered fragments of this world but probably it will just burn off soon or i used to be somewhere but now i am somebody else

since the last time, i dreamt about an empty pool covered in translucent rafts that had been filled with the glitter from snow globes

clarice has lot's to say this week, i wish ruth would decide to bloom again

yesterday, i had to throw away a half bag of spinach that went bad before i could eat it, and i feel a manageable but real amount of grief about it

soon, i'm going to walk to the library in the rain

[anielina13]

The death of the High Confessor

[molkolsdal]

Gurez Valley

Iqbal Farooz

[bonemaggotsludge]

Second commission for today, this time it's @economy-wonderglue's OC Celeste as an Oracle of Atom <3

[ew0512]

[qwertyprophecy]

The first pages of a children's book I wrote and illustrated, The Fog Folk.

It's about curiosity (or imagination, depending on how you interpret it). The illustrations are designed around cut-out holes through which the reader can peek into the next spread.

[colorisbyshe]

i know we mostly talk/joke about media literacy/reading comprehension in regards to like... Posts and Fandom... so it doesn't seem that serious but it really is so bleak out there. just people wholly unable to parse blatant propaganda, unable to follow like... simple conversations about history, frazzled by anything that's more than two sentences long.

i'm genuinely concerned.

[fanofspooky]

Cheap Chills II

[bubbasbubblebutt]

WOE FATHERHOOD BE UPON YE

[harpyco]

Dead village.

It’s time to revive it.

Bonus:

Hopeful Steward: is distraught by the state of the village

Me: ooo photo taking time