#or its beginnings at least

[purrincesskittens]

@muffinlance I see your Zuko gets adopted by old sweepy and propose to you Zuko gets adopted by a random scholar at the Ba Sing Se University.

Look in Yuka's defense she has a lot of siblings, and Zuko at a quick glance could pass as her youngest brother. Yes, he should be at home still nowhere near Ba Sing Se, but her siblings end up in the strangest of places so she wouldn't put it past him to show up randomly. Doesn't help she already wears thick lens glasses, and her eyesight is just getting worse from all the reading in the dark she does. Also, she was deep in her research for the paper, and the kid she mistook as her brother was really useful at finding her just what she needed for her paper. He was also apparently an expert on Avatar research, able to spout off all kinds of facts and quotes where he got that research from. By the time she realizes this kid isn't her little brother, she's decided to adopt him anyway, and she will absolutely fight the Di Lee for him. He is her new research partner, and she'll list him as one of her sources if she has to. Then they can't take him as he is an integral part of the development of the culture of Ba Sing Se. Besides, the kid sucks at hiding the fact that he is a fire bender and needs someone to take him under their wing. Half her family are firebenders anyway. She may be small and mousy, but she can be mighty when it comes to her research. She is totally willing to throw hands with the Di Lee if it comes down to it.

Zuko isn't sure what to make of the small mousy scholar he accidentally stumbled upon while trying to find more research on the Avatar. Nor is he sure how he became her research assistant. All he knows is she started calling him Koji and talking to him like she knew him or rather knew this Koji and handing him scrolls to put away and requesting more works on the Avatar some he hadn't read before as Ba Sing Se was the one place he hadn't been able to break into until now. Then he starts spouting off his Avatar knowledge between what he knows of the current Avatar and what he read in old books and scrolls she just jots down what he said without ever once looking up at him. By the time she realizes he isn't this Koji person, she has apparently decided she is keeping him. She escorts him home or to the tea shop when she is done picking his brain for the day or treats him to good food and makes sure he gets enough to not only fill his belly but also to bring home to Uncle. When he gets fired from the tea shop for fighting Jet, she hires him permanently. She even argues that Jet is clearly delusional and needs help not to be carted off by the Culural Police. He is clearly scared so badly he can't see he is safe and that there is no war in Ba Sing Se. So Jet gets an involuntary stay in one of Ba Sing Se's finest mental hospitals with his own personal Joo Dee to look after him. It's around this time that Uncle realizes he may have to fight this young lady for custody of his nephew. At least he is staying out of trouble and expanding his intellectual knowledge.

[choccy-milky]

💖🎊the end, & thank you for reading!!🎊💖

im so thankful for all the support i got on this story, and i wouldn't have finished it if not for all of you, and for the love i got for seb and clora. so thank you again for giving me the motivation to write this 600k+ monster, and to see it through to the very end. LOVE YALL💖🫶 (ao3/wattpad)

[wanyinchen]

jiang cheng's cloud recesses arc lets gooooooooo

wherein teenage hormones, shenanigans, and exams run rampant. also wherein jiang cheng's sanity, wei wuxian's undiagnosed hyperactive adhd, nie huaisang's grades, and poor lan qiren's blood pressure go absolutely haywire.

ft. the too handsome and sparkly lan xichen, who was everyone's queer awakening. (lxc's gay awakening was nmj lmao. nmj thought it was a cute puppy crush, and then they became tight ride-and-die besties/bros)

JC, of course, just HAD to have his sexual awakening during his first week in xianxia high school aiyoo rip it happens to the best of us babygirl

[cptnbeefheart]

this old world may never change and sometimes i wonder: do you ever think of me?

[black-and-yellow]

[dennisboobs]

standing in front of a firing squad would have been easier than reading this script i need to be shot

[mossymandibles]

Unlike the Albatross, Kymagryphs are definitely not good omens for mariners.

[salarymanwaka]

joseon king x scheming advisor.....

[youve-always-had-me-cas]

On a semi related note the more I am subjected to Microsoft products the more I become convinced that the reason so many people these days believe themselves to be “bad with computers” is that the programs they are forced to use in their professional life are utterly incomprehensible to ANY rational human being and they are (rightfully enough) extrapolating out that this is just how computers are. They aren't!!! In their quest to remove all the “scary” details from their poor fragile end users Microsoft have created an ecosystem that behaves completely erratically and unpredictably and is by definition unknowable. Things just happen. Then they stop happening. Nothing ever announces why or how. Just a thousand vague and useless popups that may or may not be there tomorrow. I PROMISE computers are actually extremely simple and logical beasts.

[variksel]

playing kcd1, thinking Very Hard about the fact that while hans has lived in a castle surrounded by nobility and glamor, henry has just survived a literal massacre when they meet eachother.............. thinking about the line "innocence is beautiful to see, would you lock it up for me......".................. thinking about henry running from skalitz after directly seeing his parents killed, shouting at other villagers to run faster when he knows its useless, theyre going to get killed anyway, and when he gets to rattau he meets this prickly cunt waiting for his uncle to let him be a real boy with real responsibilities, with his biggest problem being that he likes hanging out with poor people too much. thinking about how relieving that must be yk? at least i like to think so tbh

[serpentface]

Hibrides and Kagnomara, who was a trainee hittlatlamii physician she briefly had an affair (in a very loose sense of the word) with.

Hittlatlamii are highly specialized midwives considered uniquely equipped to address women's medical needs, predominantly in terms of pregnancy/childbirth/postpartum care. They are distinct from the much broader practice of midwifery in general, being formally educated in medicine and recognized as a minor subdivision of the priesthood of Ganmache, representing the cult of anmir-Ganmache (God as the hearth). Teachings specific to their art pass directly from mentor to mentee in a very long training process, lasting from the age of 15 to 30.

Kagnomara was an apprentice to a hittlatlamii who was hired to oversee the latter two thirds of Hibrides' first pregnancy. She's Hibrides' type in general and immediately struck her as charismatic. Kind of liked to hear herself talk but was very friendly, and her chattiness was welcome in dispelling the discomfort of these medical visits. As an older apprentice in the last couple years of her mentoring period, she was given a lot of free reign to do the more routine work solo.

This was a particularly difficult time in Hibrides' life and getting to be alone with a friendly, attractive woman who had a vocational excuse to be massaging her with various oils was welcome. Hibrides tends to be nervous about people who show any immediate and pronounced interest in her and that applied here as well, but they struck up a genuine rapport and this became a relationship on the downlow within a couple months. This got to the point of making loose future plans- hittlatlamii provide some generalized medical care as well and have significant freedom of movement even when married, so they could probably see each other on a routine basis even after the pregnancy was over.

Unfortunately for this whole thing, Kagnomara dealt with the low pay of hittlatlamii training and funding her unwed lifestyle via a habit of stealing from the homes she visited, and Hibrides caught her in the practice of lifting a handful of silver spoons. Even more unfortunately in some respects, Kagnomara genuinely liked her and had not merely been taking advantage of her to lift easily missed valuables (in fact, had convinced herself that Hibrides probably wouldn't be That upset if she found out given it was her husband's stuff and she didn't like him all that much). This was a missed call and Hibrides did not react well to the absurdity of the situation, made the judgment call that she was being taken advantage of and felt extremely betrayed. She snitched on her to Janeys and he caught her with the contraband and reported it. Hibrides never actually saw the end result but Kagnomara would have lost her job at the very least. She hasn't seen her since.

Hibrides has had plenty of reason to question whether she made the right call there and whether Kagnomara had Really just intended to steal from behind her back and then ditch her (though would have been mad about the theft either way, frankly) and has been a little haunted by this ever since.

[sisaloofafump]

I know that possession is ranked third most likely canon superbat kiss but it is first in my heart… solely because of Lois’s hypothetical reaction.

[saturnniidae]

People give Valka a lot of shit which makes me sad bc her flaws are what make her interesting, and I LOVE thinking about her character.

Like, Have we considered how she had Hiccup at 20 and was married before that? Have we considered that, though she was in love with Stoick, marrying the Chief (or soon-to-be-chief) is a lot of responsibility? Have we considered how young 20 is and Hiccup takes after her in so many ways, not feeling ready for responsibility or wanting to settle down could be one of them? Have we considered she deliberately didn't come back because she maybe felt she wasn't ready to be a mother? Have we considered she loves Hiccup and Stoick so dearly but needed to live her own life? Have we considered how bittersweet the reunion really was because she realized she missed her chance to actually be a mother and how much the guilt of not coming back must've weighed on her?

I LOVE YOU VALKA HTTYD!!!!!!!

[aroaceleovaldez]

i think a lot about how early-series, demigods are referred to pretty equally as "demigods," "half-bloods," and "godlings," - the last used particularly by gods at demigods - but after that "godlings" is almost exclusively used to refer to minor gods.

something something i am literally always chewing on the concept of the line between immortals/demigods/monsters/etc being thinner than it appears

[hyakunana]

Let's just say I got hit by them once again 🐮🦝

[cconfusedkat]

IDK IF I POSTED THESE AGAHSGAJD just filler doodles \o/ mainly kallalamb ,,,, It did plague (Lol) me for a Bit ,

The bishops all marry allure for status while shamura 1. Cant marry her and 2. Is the only bishop to actually settle down with allure (plus me giving them both an extra sidestory just because 💟)