#i didn't mean to disappear

[theidiotwhowritesthings]

um, hi?🥴

well, it has been a hot minute since i've been around. first thing first, i am super sorry about disappearing off the face of the planet with no warning of any kind.

second, i wanted to thank everyone who sent me a message checking in on me. i logged in today to an overwhelming amount of love and that really meant so much to me. y'all are literally the sweetest people ever. it would take me a full 24hrs to reply to them all so i'll spare y'all the flood of me being sappy, but the summary is I LOVE YOU (yes, i am talking to you, you beautiful soul and precious person). just know that if you sent me a message i read it more than once and it made me happy cry.

third, let's go over my excuses. i won't bore y'all with the details but life got tough. many of you know i was job searching, and the sort of good news is i got a job! and it's technically a great job. medicine has just burned me out to a degree where i looked forward to nothing. so then i felt disgustingly disrespectful and ungrateful for the opportunities i have. my brain was a vicious cycle for a bit there.

fourth, and the final portion of this rambling i promise, the topic of writing. this entire time i've been able to work on my original work which has been super rewarding. i think i'll be able to get some copies out to beta readers soon and hopefully get some ARCs ready for the summer. but in terms of what's going on here, i haven't had time to work on a lot but before i went MIA i was like 90% done with the next chapter of 'Take Care of You' so i'm hopeful to get that out at the very least. the good news is not only is that chapter decent in length but it also gives y'all all the answers you've been waiting oh so patiently for (: anyways, from here on out i'll try to be better about answering asks and i'll work on some stuff for y'all promise💜

[snekky-arts]

A Free Lothal

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hiiii did i ever mention i LOVE star wars rebels?

[pineapple-frenzy]

Book 2 au doodles

It's just a bunch of random moments with Zuko looking grumpy for most of them,,, he can be happy for at least one drawing tho

[martyryo]

"How long are you gonna pretend I'm the one tugging on your tie?"

[not-kat]

randomly got the urge to revisit an old flame

[egophiliac]

oh, uh, this...this isn't Silver's backstory after all.

[bogleech]

hey these little sea creature charms are so cute and what the hell is that

?????????

[joltrify]

bens... and 10s...

please schedule let me design more aliens //

Petrosapien piercings are inspired by this super cool take by @whatudottu

[ohitslen]

"My body's all beaten up.

But this love, I can't let you go"

"Love & Peace" by 6FU;

No text and the cover of the single that inspired this 🙌

[ducks-love-peas]

meanwhile, Crowley:

Good Omens 2 | ⭑favorite moments⭑ 2/?

[tapakah0]

I see you👁

[qstarhalo]

The Badgers (?) should honestly just move into the cathedral once it's done and literally be an old tale the subjects of the kingdom recall every gathering. Until something crazy happens and they come back or something like that

[countlessofvoids]

Haha Chief don't kys

[mgrace-art]

We're leaving the planet,

and you can't come!

[lizardlicks]

I've been having this thought that I haven't been able to really articulate? And I still don't think I'm going to do it right, but here goes my attempt anyway:

BROADLY SPEAKING, yes, the trope of everyone gets hetero married and has lots of kids at the end of the story is over done, and YES we absolutely badly need other versions of happily ever after because there is no one path to life fulfillment, and no one true way to find or build a family, or even one definition of family!

HOWEVER: it rings a bit hollow to me when I see other people taking this bit of generallized story crafting advise and applying that to katara and sokka specifically. Because they're not the ethnically dominant race or culture in the AtLA setting, not even close. They're based off circumpolar native populations. Their people have survived a century of genocide. Their story repeatedly echos themes of family, community, tradition, being forcefully stripped of it by imperialist colonizers, and the trauma there in. There's pieces of themselves they lost before they were even born, and both siblings are acutely aware of that, though they choose to deal with it in different ways.

I'm not saying that they DEFINITELY ABSOLUTELY must get hetero married and have a million babies to have a fulfilling ending, I hope no one reads this that way. I'm only saying that I think there has been a gap in the critical analysis responses of the broader fandom when they start reflectively sneering at stories that do have them content to stay home and raise the next generation, or whenever anyone laments about post show canon/LoK seems to neglect mentioning sokka having any family at some point it gets push back on with that exact argument.

Consider that it might be better applied to people for whom getting to raise the next generation in some way isn't itself an entire victory fanfare.

[cloudinterlude]

FUCK YES

I'M FINALLY BACK, PLEASE APPLAUD AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE

I was able to finally get a new laptop and phone (so now I can actually be on here consistently) and I also put my life back together. I know it was super hard and lonely without my presence, but no need to fear anymore, obviously <3

Now give me a few more days to get into my Discord....lol....I may have forgot the email I used.....Also, Imma be honest, I don't know the email I used for @cloudbells otherwise I would have posted this announcement on there lmaooo. If you see this reblogged there, then you know I figured it out <3