#things were so different when lok came out

[awakefor48hours]

The Legend Of Korra: *spent years fighting an uphill battle of misogynoir and queeephobia*

Korra and Asami: *kiss and announce they’re a couple before gay marriage was even legalized in the United States*

Fans: Korrasami is a bad and underdeveloped relationship. Why do people even like it?

[linnorabeifong]

DVD commentary from She'll Surprise You:

 For once he accepted her offer. This was his first time smoking. It wasn’t pleasant. He found himself choking from the stench and the dry feeling in the back of his throat. Agni, he couldn’t understand why anyone liked this. Yasuko just laughed and retrieved her cigarette. 

         “You okay there, Mr.Lightning ?” she said, fighting to hold back laughter. She looked like a dog does after finding a turtle-duck to chase. Entirely too pleased with herself.

         She was chewing on her nails as she spoke, another habit of hers he found absolutely disgusting. How Sayuri and the others tolerated her he never knew. She reeked of nicotine and sweat. She was all business, no pleasantries, no small talk, not an ounce of friendliness in sight. 

         Well, unless she was flirting with a client of course. Then there would be a whole show of sweetness put on. A spectacle of the saccharine. Agni, she made him want to gag. 

         She was cold. A ruthless, runty little thing. Eager to make a yuan however she could. Terribly jealous if the rumors were to be trusted. 

         She was never one to accept a nicety either. He’d made the mistake of trying to do her a favor once. She was beyond confused by his actions. As if all friendship was foreign to her. The Agni Kai’s were a family, why wouldn’t she just accept his care ? He was one of them after all. Instead of accepting his generosity she was all too eager to attempt to repay him…in ways he did not request. 

Oh this was fun to write and I need to get off my ass and finish this story. I have this whole elaborate plot in my drafts if anyone’s still interested. Hope you liked it ! This fic I really wanted to look at class differences ? Not super deep as I’m not the most informed. Throughout LoK there’s this clash of lifestyles that’s never really handled. Season one it’s Asami vs the brothers. Season two Bolin’s movie star life compared to his old one. Seasons three and four Suyin’s lifestyle vs the austere conditions across the Earth Kingdom. 👀

I wanted to make Zolt’s gritty world slam into Lin’s. They both have more things in common than not though…

( adult themes ahead)

So it’s a mix of things going on in this passage. Usually I write as ideas and moods come. On a Friday or Sunday I will carve out and edit a chapter to the best of my abilities in a span of an hour or so and then a week or two later when the mood comes again I will write more and maybe the next chapter too and I’ll reread it with fresh eyes, text it to my friends for feedback etc. I don’t just sit and write on a schedule.

Let’s get into the characterization going on…

In general I like female characters with a temper. Korra, Katara, Margaret ( Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Azula, Rarity (MLP) , America ( the selection ) . So why not give Yasuko one as well ?

I loved your idea of Yasuko not being the soft tragic Disney mother. Again also enjoyed the thought of her being in a seedy environment and gang affiliated.

I also thought well what if she was still a non bender and still at least partially earth kingdom ? That would completely change her experience. What if she was disgruntled with the discrimination against non-benders ? Then folks it came to me that could generate so much tension between her and Zolt because even if they’re both at the bottom of society he’s better off than her. It gives her a reason to be a cold bitch. So even though she’s not the protagonist this is setting up room for me to write more about her. I wanted to establish her life as a mixed woman, without any bending.

As a mixed woman she’s rejected by both other EK people ( gets called a colonizer) and by other Fire Nationals ( she can’t actually be a member of Kai’s since she’s only half but Zolt doesn’t know that) . She doesn’t have the option of joining them or working at the power plant etc. She’s an impoverished immigrant whose dreams have been crushed . She went from the rural Fire Nation to the big city. From bright engineering student to prostitution when her money ran out.

“ Well, unless she was flirting with a client of course,” in reference to her line of work.

“Instead of accepting his generosity she was all too eager to attempt to repay him…in ways he did not request,” so one time Yasuko offered him a bj and he clutched his pearls like a grandmother seeing her granddaughter in a crop top ….😭. He was so scandalized, a hand on his heart like she had punched him with her words. “Yasuko, you don’t have to do that…,”

4. I envision Yasuko as southern Belle-like in her charms but also a villainess… or at least appearing to be a villain. Like how Asami wears originally written as a villain and is coded as an antagonist with the red and black clothing and sharp features.

5. Appearance is very important to me it communicates a lot. Yasuko’s bone thin, and dressed in dark clothing since the stains would show less. She’s frightening. She’s desperate to survive and that’s made her harsh. Her appearance reflects that.

6. Scent. Very important to me. Really helps with characterization and setting. Creates a mood in a way visuals and dialogue just can’t. Scent is the strongest trigger of memory. It’s an almost animalistic sense.

Really though this scene says more about Zolt than it does about her. He’s observant and caring but also judgmental. He’s making assumptions about Yasuko. It’s also hypocritical of him to frown on her being a prostitute while he himself is a gang member…

He’s also generous when he’s trying to play nice by taking that damn cigarette. That generosity makes him vulnerable. He falls right into her little game when he chokes on that thing… hmm.

Plot Shenanigans

She definitely knows more than she’s letting on and she’s pissed about it. Yasuko is jealous of Zolt… so she takes pleasure in watching him cough while trying the cigarette.

“Agni, she made him want to gag,” Zolt hates insincerity which is going to make his love life exceedingly difficult in a few chapters…

“She reeked of nicotine and sweat,” - He’s absolutely disgusted by her. They’re very reluctant allies. My little frenemies. Also like let women be gross on occasion. Wanted something less than pristine.

Enter my mind

I wanted to contrast her fierceness with just how sad she was.  “She was chewing on her nails as she spoke,”-poor thing is an anxious wreck

saccharine- have you ever had a dessert that was too sweet and gagged ? Or tasted something synthetic like cough syrup ? That feeling exactly.

Conclusion

I just love Yasuko so much. I will have to get started on resuming that story soon. I have so much more Yasuko back story if anyone wants it.

💗 I love bitchy prostitute Yasuko. 💗

Here’s a snippet of a bit further on in the story.

“Zoltan hated seeing women cry. Now seeing her cry he feels a unique kind of pain. A twinge in his chest he hasn’t felt since his mother died. 

Her pretty green eyes are glassy with unshed tears, and the ones she has shed have left tracks down her face and a puffiness in her cheeks. With her face all red like that she looks like one of those imported porcelain dolls. 

Her mascara has run down her face. Making a rough picture. A beautiful face like that should never be covered in makeup ruined by tears.

“Miss Beifong if you don’t mind my intrusion a man should ruin your lipstick, not your mascara”

If anyone wants to read it it’s posted on Ao3 you have to be signed in to Ao3 as it’s only available to registered users. My username is the same there as it is here.

Who’s the title referring to ? mmm you pick….

[bleachbleachbleach]

Hello there! Idk have you ever talk about this or not, but I just found out a translation of an interview with Kubo called 'Bleach Jet' from local Bleach fanbase. One of the question said 'are the captains married? Since the only confirmed married one is Byakuya and he's actually younger than other captains'. Then Kubo answered 'well, tbh I never thought about it. But when I think it over, it would be sad if somebody as old as Yamajii is not married. So let's assume that they could be married, but it's just not necessary to be included in the story so I never write about it'. You know, I was so excited when I read it lok. In your opinion, which captains are apparently married? I only could imagine Ukitake since he's a perfect husband/daddy material (well I also want to know who's that lucky woman). But the others, seems kinda impossible lol. I'll be happy if you responded to my question. Thanks!

OH MAN. I’m interested in this in a couple of ways. The first way I am interested in this question is that neither of us had ever once wondered this. It did not even occur to us to wonder this, LOL. Too busy fixating on WHEELS, apparently. 

Because of this, it feels like a magic trick, where the source material has asked you to look in a particular direction at a particular thing and sleight of hand (spouses) might occur before your eyes without you ever seeing it. I truly just took for granted that everyone would be single unless explicitly noted otherwise--Byakuya continues to be married to Hisana in his heart as the only married captain, until eventually Rukia joins him.

But it’s exciting to me that there could already be secret spouses who never came up simply because the narrative was never pointed in their direction. I’ve experienced this with people IRL before, and I think there’s plenty of precedent for this in Bleach itself, given that there are a fair number of shinigami with relatives whom we know to be alive and well and never meet.

For instance, Yoruichi’s brother seems really young, which suggests that their married parents might…? still be alive?? Unless they died tragically in the decades immediately preceding TBTP when Yuushirou was a baby, which I guess is equally possible and probably further justifies Soi Fon’s distaste for Urahara/her being high-strung about the kind of company Yoruichi keeps/depends on. Maybe the Shihouin Parents died when all of Soi Fon’s brothers did. 😬 (Speaking of family members it never occurred to me would have existed until we were told they existed…)

As for our currently or were-recently serving Gotei officers: In my mind, Yamamoto and Sasakibe were together. Not romantically—in a different universe, maybe, but in theirs the fact that Yamamoto is Captain Commander and Sasakibe is his VC precludes all else. Because this relationship exists, it forecloses all notion of other romantic partners, even as they themselves are not romantic partners.

I’ve always imagined Kyouraku and Ukitake having a different but kinda similar thing going on, though I’d be more willing to imagine that Ukitake also has a spouse out there somewhere than Yamamoto having one, re: your suggestion in the original ask. It makes me think about all of Ukitake’s siblings. I assume they’re all well into adulthood at this point but… how much do they know? About how Ukitake died? How much were they depending on his care (financially, family leadership-wise, family mediation-wise, etc.)? :(

One other person I could imagine having a spouse is Rose. Specifically, I could imagine him having had a spouse, past tense—pre-exile. If he were Seireitei-born to some middling noble house. Imagine with me a wife, and a noble marriage put together on the expectation that the line should continue by the birthing of children. It was arranged; they’re well-matched and get on quite famously. They have similar interests and pedigrees and if their marriage is not driven by fiery all-consuming PASSION, well, many marriages aren’t and they always have music to turn to if they’re in need of that kind of enchantment. When Rose was sentenced to death/exiled, his marriage was annulled and his wife was re-married to a different Outoribashi or related clan. I don’t think Rose would have wanted otherwise—it’s been 100 years now, and she and her new husband are quite happy; heirs were produced, etc.—but it’s still sad. The Vizard exile had more consequences than many in the Gotei will ever know, and more still that will never be written.

—

The second way I am interested in this question is that I actually really enjoy Soul Society as a place where social roles—specifically as they relate to romance, marriage, and children, in any case—are a lot less circumscribed than they are often understood to be in the mainstream of the Living World. If the prototypical narrative in the Living World is, say, "by age 20 you will be married to a spouse of the opposite sex and children will follow thereafter," that doesn’t seem like the case within the Gotei, at least from what we see, and I love thinking through potential factors.

Some baseline examples:

A billionty of the people in Soul Society weren’t born in the first place, and instead arrived. 

Shinigami lifespans differ from humans and life milestones may not function in the same way (even as it seems like shinigami spend a LOT of time in what are optimal child-bearing years for us). 

Shinigami biology also differs from ours, potentially in ways that matter--who knows what fertility is like for them.

It seems like shinigami are dying just like, all the time, which I can imagine genuinely altering baseline assumptions around what interpersonal relationships are like and what they mean. 

I feel like there’s a lot of opportunity here for a lot of different types of relationships being much more normalized and understood alongside the marriage/children route. (And, additionally, the marriage/children route being more naturally understood as itself quite individual and rife with complexities that the boilerplate version of the Living World’s Notion of Marriage tends to leave out.) So that’s all very exciting to me.

What is the prototypical sexuality in Soul Society? Idk, all of them? What is the prototypical formal relationship arrangement? Idk, all of them? With probably more heterosexual coupling (or at least heterosexual-reading coupling), and more monogamy/marriage in noble circles, proportionally-speaking. I mean, I don’t think people getting married and having kids would be exceedingly rare, in the sense that Renji and Rukia probably weren’t making scandalous tabloid splash pages (though maybe on slow news days Hisagi has threatened this—idk I’ve never read WDKALY); but it feels like it would be one option among many, rather than the norm to which all other potentials are compared. I’m very enamored by the idea that D. All of the Above is Soul Society’s default in this one regard. 

They might live under ridiculous authoritarian hierarchical military whatnot, but AT LEAST LOVE IS FREE.

[ezrisdax-archive]

fic ideas I had for things but never finished or started properly (also a lot of these I came up with with other people):

b7

fake dating au

accidentally got married au

 mutual pining whoops we're sleeping together anyway

ace attorney au

 seven as the one in shattered instead of chakotay au with maquis!b'elanna in janeways spot

future fic from naomi point of view about her gay aunts

dragon age au with warden!b'elanna and morrigan!seven

kes stays and is sick of them flirting and locks them in a closet au

 the coffee shop au I never finished which became a whole world anyway

 help desk support b'elanna dealing with ext 709 on the phone every day

hades game au

stuck on the holodeck and have to act the parts out to get out

utena au

xena au

troisha

expanding on the au I had where alternate reality tasha ended up in prime timeline instead of going to the past

xena au

roommates at starfleet au which I think I may have also done? so like...a different better one

 tasha didn’t die but ended up in some limbo form and deanna keeps seeing her as a ghost

kiradax (either dax)

reverse au with ezri as the dax host before jadzia and jadzia in season seven

mass effect au with asari!jadzia and human!kira

dragon age au with hawke!jadzia and mage!kira

au where kira stays on ds9 at the end of season six and is able to get to jadzia in time to save her but jadzia has to leave for trill for healing for a while and they write each other

chlodine

time loop au where they're looking for atlantis and whoops its got a funky artifact that has nadine looping

au where they meet much much sooner

office au where nadine is night security and chloe works late and keeps forgetting her badge and breaking in

wilenko

the au where one of them gets the beacon instead of shep

winter soldier cerberus au where they show up instead of sheps clone in ME3 or take kai lengs place in ME3

tim hortons vs starbucks au in niagra falls listen I'm canadian

stargate au

grissom academy instructor kaidan but ash on the normandy still

 pacific rim au

star wars au with clone soldier ash and jedi kaidan

vetryder

never went to andromeda au and ryders dig site needs supplies and she finds vetra

the typical au where sara isn't the pathfinder but calls dibs when she wakes up and meets vetra anyway

were dating pre andromeda but vetra thought ryder died when the hyperion didn't show up

misc star trek

seven/ezri where seven ends up on ds9 by the borg attacking the defiant and them getting seven from it look it wasn't fully fleshed out

divided we fall rewrite (ezri/lenara)

on an away mission together leading to fake dating (joann/keyla)

the kes stays on voyager, tom leaves au with kes, harry, b’elanna, and seven shenanigans (gen)

ezri and harry bffs serving on captain geordi's ship (gen)

misc

 ichiban time loop au (yakuza, gen)

au where korra doesn't fully get her memory back in season two but thinks her and asami are dating (lok, korrasami)

seong-hui keeps texting saeko and this leads to a relationship (yakuza, seong-hui/saeko)

tifa finds aerith at shinra hq where she’s been locked up for a while (ffvii, aerith/tifa)

tifa dead all along based on the latest trailer and technically a ghost but aerith drags her back to living anyway (ffvii, aerith/tifa)

rei begs susato to dress up again to get out of dating other guys (ace attorney, susahao)

franmaya star trek au with romulan/vulcan fran and trill maya (ace attorney, franmaya)

[klkbass]

What Happened to Mako? (My Legend of Korra story)

I realized the other day that the Legend of Korra has been over for nearly a decade. Although many believe it is the inferior of the two Avatar shows, I have watched the entire series at least five times (maybe six). The biggest reason: Mako. Here was this handsome, cool, Firebender. I was a stan almost instantly.

After the series ended, I was disappointed with his outcome. I thought for sure he should be with Korra. So, I did what any good fan would do when they are displeased--I started writing my own version of events. The more common nomenclature: fanfiction.

It started as a Makorra story, but it wasn't NSFW or anything of that nature as many fan stories tend to rise. I wanted something that stayed true to the nature of the original cartoon. Something that could be shared with any audience similar to what "The Legend of Genji" was doing. Also, after reading the graphic novels, I wanted to further explore the ramifications of having humans and spirits living so close together. Thus, the question became, "What if Mako got cursed?" With his position as a detective, it could happen. It would also put him opposite of Tokuga. So, I wrote several thousand, thousand, words and, as things tend to do, eventually the story drifted out of my purview. It was fun while it lasted...but the seeds had been sown.

Fast-forward to San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) 2022. Avatar studios announce two new graphic novels. One to feature Azula, and the other--Mako; both to be released in the summer of 2023. I was ecstatic. After so many years we were finally going to get more LoK content and, more specifically, Mako content. That's when I decided to revisit my own story. Maybe it would have some similarities to what was to come. I rewrote the entire thing to be more canon. No longer was it Makorra. Korra could be there, but this was going to be his adventure. What started as a few chapters, evolved into what is currently around two-hundred thousand words of what happened to Mako after Korra.

When SDCC 2023 came around, I waited with baited breath for news of the aforementioned graphic novels. Azula's story was being pushed back to fall (fine), there was going to be a new story featuring Iroh and June (who asked for that?)--and that was it. No mention of the Mako graphic novel. Not even if it was officially canceled. It was simply non-existent. I was disappointed to say the least.

Alas, at least I had my own nonsense.

Then, a thought slowly began to build. I could share my nonsense. There are still fans out there who want to see more of Mako. Maybe I could find someone that might appreciate what I've done. No sense putting in all this work and keeping it to myself. I was hesitant of course. I've never shared any of my stories before. I'm hardly a wordsmith though I pretend to be one on the internet. After several months of waffling, I decided "what difference would it make?" I could keep it to myself where no one else would read it, or I could share it and maybe find someone else who might enjoy it. There was very little risk short of the wrath of the internet. Keyboard warriors are never shy about sharing their displeasure of things they don't like.

I guess, at this point in my life, I'm too old to care. (Don't ask my age!)

So, if you've made it this far, let me add my shameless plug. If any of this sounds interesting to you, you can find my story here.

Please enjoy, and here's to hoping we get something official.

[santmat]

Finding Spiritual Awakening in a World of Slumber and Illusion -- Kal Niranjan Desired to Have His Own Creation to Rule Over, Satsang Discourse by Baba Ram Singh

THERE WAS A TIME when none of this Creation was there. This And, Pind, Brahmand was not there. These physical, astral, causal planes were not there. There was God Almighty alone, and all the souls were with God Almighty. And they were all very happy being there.

Then, God Almighty decided to have different planes, different worlds created. And, from God Almighty, He took out Sound Currents. These were powers that would be ruling each of these worlds. And then, God Almighty came down from Anaami, Alakh, and in Sat Lok, He resided there then.

These Sound Currents, which came out of God Almighty, They formed these three planes, and then They sat as Sat Purush in Sach Khand. And then, God Almighty again took out some more Sound Currents, and further planes were created. So, sixteen such Sound Currents, these emanated from God Almighty. And then, God Almighty instructed Them to go and create different planes. And, that way, each of these powers, each of these Sound Currents, one by one, They set these sixteen planes. And that is how there are sixteen planes in us.

When all these planes were created, Niranjan was the creator of the last, final plane. He was unhappy with that creation. He wanted to create more. So, he prayed to God Almighty, and he meditated about God Almighty. And, God Almighty, being the father of Kal Niranjan, granted him the wish. He asked it from God Almighty. He wanted to have his own creation. He was unhappy with the creation that was present at that time.

So, God Almighty granted him that wish. He was His son. And He said, “Okay. You can do further creations.” And the things required for making those creations, he asked God Almighty where he would get that. And God Almighty instructed him to take it from Kurma, his elder brother. So, then Kal Niranjan took these things from Maha Kal, who is the ruler of Maha Sunn, and he made these creations below.

Thereafter, Kal Niranjan created these three planes below. But then, he still remained unhappy in this creation. And, standing on one foot, he meditated for seventy Mahayugas. Each Mahayuga would be like four yugas that we have. He wanted souls in these creations, and God Almighty gave him a few souls.

Then, God Almighty told him, “You will not be able to use these souls, or use them properly in your creation.” So, he took out one more power, which was Maya, from Himself. And God Almighty said, “You create with the help of Maya.”

So, thereafter, both Kal Niranjan and Maya took those souls and came back to their plane. And there, Kal Niranjan instructed Maya on how that creation was going to happen.

He told Maya, “Once all this is created, the secret of my presence will not be known to anybody.” And then, he went and sat for meditation in Sweth Sunya. And he's meditating there even now.

So, thereafter, Maya came down to Jhanjari Dweep, and there, she first created three powers; that is Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh. Then, thereafter, with these three powers of Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh, and Maya, the four of them, created 8.4 million life forms using five elements.

So, these souls were put into each of these life forms. And Maya contributed the five elements to these life forms, and Kal Niranjan sat within these life forms in the form of the mind.

Thereafter, Maya put the greed, attachment, anger, lust, and ego and got all these souls entangled in all of these outwardly pursuits. The souls, which were put into these life forms, got entangled in all of these outwardly things that Maya had created. And, as a result, they forgot about God Almighty.

Therefore, Mahatmas come and They awaken the soul, and remind the soul, “This world that you are living in is not your world. What you are thinking and identifying yourself with is not yours. You belong to God Almighty, and you belong to that world, and you have to go back there.” So, They tell us that you are an element of God Almighty. You are the son of God Almighty, and you should prepare to go back to God Almighty.

Saints, in their Satsangs, always try to awaken the souls and remind them of this. And They come to help the soul, to take it back to God Almighty.

So, therefore, even we should make our efforts. And, every day, we should do our Bhajan Simran. And, by doing that, we are also helping the cause of the Masters.

So, it is morning time and the mind is quiet. We should make the most of this time and close our eyes and sit for meditation.

-- Baba Ram Singh, Satsang Discourse, Meditation Talk, Morning, January 2nd, 2017 – Niranjan, Unhappy With God Almighty’s Creation, Asks For His Own

[loop-loremaster]

im typing this while im in the middle of a fortnite match but

I was on Reddit earlier (terrible, I know) and there were two hot posts regarding;

"What's up with those drones that turn you into a bunch of pixels when you die?"

&

"What are those weird arm things on most skins from Chapter 1 to 2?"

And I thought I'd share the answer with you guys as well! [The two people seated in the audience clap awkwardly.]

(Mainly so I have another excuse to talk about Fortnite lore, and most of this information is referenced/copied from u/All_Skulls_On and the Fortnite Wiki + my private lore doc so I don't have to directly rewrite it ^^)

The drones and arm gear have to do with the original Fortnite story - which was centered around Save the World before they branched to create a Battle Royale.

The premise in STW is that you are a Commander, safe at Homebase, sitting in a control room while hooked up to a Vindertech interface. The little robots; Ray, Lok, Pop, and Kevin are all Vindertech "robot friends" and "assistants". You're sent to assist/control a hero - who is a real person - that is stationed out in the real world fighting the husks/storm. (Apart from when you are required to do a Storm Shield defense, I believe. That's you directly engaging in the mission.)

The hero has a Vindertech module equipped to their right forearm, and since most of the skins in the first chapter came from STW, most of the early outfits have this piece of gear. The module combined with your assistance is what allows for the interface to facilitate building, storing of materials, ammo, weapons, etcetera.

The idea was originally translated to Battle Royale, making the Island's at-first little lore at first seem like a giant war game where Commanders would all battle against each other for training and recreation. The hero, which is you, would be transported to the island by the bot, and then retrieved when defeated or when the game is over.

That was the original lore/premise of the game before what they built upon was scrapped and altered for the Zero Point and the Island that was controlled by the Imagined Order - and anyway, the two game modes were split into two different realities. (BR being Reality Zero, STW residing in a different one.)

In the Save The World reality, Vindertech's original goal was to prevent The Storm from ever happening, but the goal ultimately failed. Leading the little robot, Ray, to take leadership and forming Homebase to rescue Survivors from the Storm. And then Vindertech created the Storm Shield and ATLAS to fight against it the best they could.

But now, the drones are used to transport the Looper in and out of the loop so they can continuously fight, with the arm gear likely to be used just as before; an interface to facilitate building, the storing of materials, ammo, weapons, and so on. And still in STW, the drones are used to "respawn" and pull out your hero in case of emergencies.

RIP the remnants of STW lore in BR, I suppose. 😭

Bonus Fun Fact: V-BUCKS is short for Vindertech-Bucks.

[ilearnedthistodaysblog]

#1077 What is fool’s gold?

What is fool’s gold? It is most commonly pyrite, which has a similar appearance to gold. The expression “fool’s gold” came into existence in the 1820s. The knowledge that there were other metals that looked like gold has probably been around for centuries, but it was only in the 1820s that gold rushes became a thing. Gold prospectors would come looking for gold and they would find pyrite, which looks like gold, and think they had found gold. After a while, it became known as “fool’s gold” because only a fool would think that it was gold. Gold has been mined for thousands of years, but the concept of a gold rush is fairly recent. The very first gold rush was in 1799 in America, but gold rushes didn’t really become a common thing until the 19th century. That is because communications and transportation had to evolve to a point where people could hear about a gold find and travel to it in a reasonable amount of time. Before the telegraph, the railway, and steamships, by the time people heard about a gold find, the gold would probably all have gone, and even if it hadn’t, they couldn’t get there in time. There is a story that Fool’s Gold was named after Queen Elizabeth I of England, but I can’t find any actual proof of it. A British explorer called Martin Frobisher and his acquaintance Michael Lok sailed to North America. They wanted to found a settlement and mine for gold, but they couldn’t find any real gold. They believed it was there, they just needed money. They found fool’s gold, a form of pyrite, and took it back to Queen Elizabeth in England. She was convinced they had found gold and funded their voyages. I cannot find if this is true and most dictionaries list the 1820s as the first use of the expression. There are three minerals that are called fool’s gold. They are pyrite, chalcopyrite, and weathered mica. The most commonly found of these three is pyrite, so let’s concentrate on that. Pyrite is iron sulfide. It is formed at the bottom of the oceans and therefore found in sedimentary rock. Iron comes out of rocks when they are weathered and forms iron salts. These are dissolved in water and flow into the sea where they settle at the bottom. The deposits are covered by organic matter and the bacteria that feed off the decaying matter create sulphide, which joins to the iron and forms crystals of iron sulphide. When the oceans dry up, or the sea beds are raised up by the tectonic plates, the sedimentary rock and the pyrite are brought to the surface. Pyrite is a Greek name and it comes from pyrites lithos, which means “the stone that strikes fire”. When it is struck, it produces sparks and was used as a fire lighter by ancient people. In more recent times, it was used in early firearms, before a better substitute was found. Pyrite is a very hard mineral and has a wide range of uses. It is a semiconductor and has been used in lithium batteries. It is used to produce sulphur dioxide for the paper industry. It has been used as solar panels, and it has been used to make cheap jewelry, amongst other things. We are looking at it because of its resemblance to gold. If it is sunny, pyrite can reflect the sunlight and look vaguely golden and sparkly, just like real gold. Pyrite is very common, far more common than gold, and someone who came across some pyrite might believe they had found a huge amount of gold. However, despite its initial resemblance to gold, pyrite has a lot of differences to gold. Here are some of the differences. Gold is very durable, but pyrite is very brittle. Pyrite turns green when oxidized, gold doesn’t change color. When you poke pyrite with a knife, it will flake or crumble. When you poke gold with a knife, it will indent because it is soft. Pyrite may not be real gold, but it is certainly not worthless. Because of its many and varied uses, there is a big market in pyrite mining. China is the biggest exporter of pyrite at the moment. In September 2024, 1 kg of pyrite is roughly $95. For comparison, 1 kg of gold would be $83,228. And this is what I learned today. Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-stone-56030/ Sources http://www.newworldexploration.com/explorers-tales-blog/explorer-martin-frobisher-infects-the-queen-with-gold-fever-part-1 https://uwaterloo.ca/earth-sciences-museum/resources/detailed-rocks-and-minerals-articles/pyrite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite https://arts.onehowto.com/article/why-is-pyrite-called-fool-s-gold-13388.html https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-fools-gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_rush https://www.thermofisher.com/blog/mining/pyrite-the-real-story-behind-fools-gold https://www.gemworld.com.au/products/moreInfo/401/4762/pyrite_rough_per_kilo https://goldprice.org/gold-price-per-kilo.html Read the full article

[masterkirby]

I had the same feelings when I first finished ATLA and those feelings only got worse with time cause I really believe they sabotaged not only Katara but the coherence of the story

And I get that Aang is just a boy, but boy oh boy is he annoying and entitled -- and instead of growing out of that entitlement, he gets to keep it

I'm doing a rewatch now and I noticed that Aang never really had to deal with any consequences of hiding the letter with the location of Katara and Sokka's dad; he hardly said sorry! And then the siblings just have his back again. It's great that he gets this unconditional support and love but I don't feel he gives that back. He has a conditional crush on Katara that has the condition that it has to be reciprocated

He probably says sorry for burning Katara when he's to learn fire bending, I don't remember that moment well but I kinda expect to be disappointed by how he handles it... But yeah, he burns Katara, action action, and he doesn't really say sorry, he makes it about himself

He just gets to be a powerful man in a man's world without giving due credit to the people who brought him there, especially if Katara is treated as she is in LoK...

My heart actually hurts because of this, I just feel such a sense of injustice.

It isn't even about Zutara for me, tho I really enjoyed the writing that gave them chemistry, it's about the fatal mistake of making Kataang canon (Especially since the same natural chemistry that arises from showing not telling didn't really arise for Katara and Aang...)

And yeah, the biggest thing for the plot is that he doesn't have to give up on attachment to save the world. He gets to keep his attachment and save the world. A deus ex machina saves him as usual. And when I wrote this in some comment sb said that he gave up on the attachment and was able to go into the avatar state because of that -- but really? The further writing dispels that since he does get to have a romantic relationship with the girl he was pursuing; the girl who suddenly reciprocates despite not feeling it earlier

I came across the "argument" that these were different times so (teenage) romance could've been written differently in a kind of "girl denies but actually likes" way -- yuck, yuck, yuck! Why do we get a clear crush on Jet then? And that's just so misogynistic.

The whole Kataang thing is misogynistic... Katara cares for him like a younger brother, is there to support him, to fix his mistakes and Aang wants even more, he wants her romantic love and intimate closeness as well. He does not support her (other than when fighting together) and she does not become the awesome warrior and diplomat she was to be. It hurts.

*Edit: Ofc being a mother and healer is awesome but it just doesn't fit the Katara we get to know, the Katara moments that hit hardest (like getting the prisoners to riot or fighting a waterbending master (!) to prove that she is a fighter or even getting to be rageful and gosh, the bloodbending thing, and finally getting to work through her traumas)

And Aang just doesn't seem to grow much. He gets to stay the way he is -- self-righteous and favouring and getting-to-do-whatever-he-wants-cause-he's-the-avatar-after-all

During my rewatch I'm gathering a catalogue of moments where Aang behaves shittingly and gets away with it

Ok so i just finished watching ATLA and I'm deeply troubled now

Genuine question, why did the showrunners decided to make Aang and Katara a thing in the end?

Her and Zuko's paralels are so beautiful, their story is so nice, she was the first to kinda trust him in Ba Sing Se, she offered to heal his scar, she was so gentle so WHY THE FUCK

I love Aang, he's amazing but what the fuuuck

[the-missann]

Bad situations with good intentions.

The silence in the room was beyond deafening, but for one person, they were aimlessly looking around spending their minutes in silence thinking about nothing. This almost dazed appearance made the other occupant of the room worried and he approached the dazed member and waved a hand, getting their attention.

“Are… you okay?”

Her brow rose. “I’m just peachy. You know, aside from the whole kidnapping thing.”

“Look, is it really kidnapping when you came to me?”

“Pretty much, because you were going to do it one way or another, I just sped up the process.”

“Which could be seen as you wanting to be here.”

“I don’t want to be here, but better me just show up to you then you do something illegal.”

“I would never do anything illegal to you, Cassie.”

“Right.” She looked off. “What is this room anyways? Why do you just have this bedroom in this place.”

“Because this is my home.”

Her gaze shot back to him. “What? No way is this huge place a house. I thought it was some kind of event center.”

“N-no, this is a home. The family home of Armando.”

“Wow, I really didn’t think that. You’re family must be beyond rich.”

“We are. We come from a family that’s owned many businesses for centuries now. I’m sure that’s the only reason you even know me.”

Her head shook. “While Lok Armando is a name I would find in a research paper, I know you because we went to school together.”

Lok’s eyes went a bit wide. “You… actually remember that?”

“Duh. Not to be rude, but you were always staring at me. Some of my friends thought you had a crush on me. Look how right they were.”

“I do not have a crush on you. I happen to be enamored with you.”

“While I can appreciate the difference, it means the same thing. At the end of the day you wanted me to be your girlfriend and I can safely say I never assumed you would go to this extent just to get it.”

“I didn’t mean to do something so drastic, but that fool you were with made it impossible for me to know you personally.”

“How? You could have just approached me as an old classmate and maybe we could have gotten to know each other.”

“Trust me, if it was that easy I would have done it. No, that red-head would prevent anyone they didn’t know from becoming your friend. If they couldn’t find ever bit of information attached to someone, they would run them away from you.”

“Seriously? I guess that explains why I had no friends.”

“Oh no, that was just because people found you intimidating.”

Her brow rose. “And you know that because?”

“Because I used to listen to people who would make fun of you. Most of their comments were juvenile like about your appearance, but some of them were insightful. One of which being that most people found you difficult to approach.”

Cassie let out a sigh. “Then why would you think any different.”

“Because I knew you weren't like that. I told you, when we had to peer review each other’s work, I would pray I got yours—or really ask the person who did for yours—and I enjoyed learning about you in small snippets.”

“You really are weird, you know.”

“I can understand why you would say that, but think of it like this: I’m not weird, I’m dedicated.”

Cassie found herself laughing. “You sound like a crazy person trying to justify why they’re not crazy. Look, you’re not all that bad so can’t you just admit you’re a little off?”

“No, because I’m not. I just have resources to combat the seemingly impossible task of being by your side.”

“I don’t wanna burst your bubble, but you do know I don’t exactly like you right now.”

“I know, trust me. I don’t think anyone would in your situation, but there is a such thing known as Stockholm syndrome.”

“Oh my God, are you serious right now?”

“Very much. While I didn’t exactly kidnap you in a way that would allow for such thing to occur, once the helicopter arrives and we’re taken to my estate elsewhere, you’ll soon realize you can’t get away from me. Besides, I do intend to let you live whatever life you want to, just in the confines of my vicinity.”

“And you think now I’m going to fall for that?”

“I told you, it is possible.”

“You’re insane.” Cassie shook her head. “I don’t really wanna be with anyone. Life is kind of annoying right now and having some other person sounds like an even bigger headache.”

“Oh? I can provide you assurance. You won’t ever be penniless in your life with me.”

“Okay, but I mean just in general. I… guess I don’t like myself very much so how could I like anyone right now?”

“You don’t like yourself?”

“Pretty much. Maybe that’s a byproduct of how my family “protected” me until now, but I really don’t understand much about myself or those around me.”

“Perhaps that’s true. You weren’t exactly allowed to develop any normal relationships with most people…”

“Yeah and the few I did always ended for one reason or another.” She sighed. “Honestly, I think I’m just doomed to be alone forever. Even as a forced bride, I’ll never really be a good partner to you.”

“Besides that being as far from the truth as possible. I want to help you a bit.”

“Huh?”

“Well, I intend on you being in my life for good. So, if you don’t feel good about yourself, how about I give you that?”

Confused as she was, she said, “how can you do that?”

“Well, like I said. We’re leaving to one of my estates in a new place. With that, you can start a new life, be a new person and learn about the various things you’ve always wanted to. The only restriction will be yourself.”

Cassie said nothing after he finished. Her eyes drifted off and it seemed she was deep in thought for a moment. Lok allowed her to think and before long, she spoke up.

“You still sound super crazy, but…” She shook her head. “I would really like something like that. This life of mines is pretty much over. Ruined by the idea that any harm to me shall never happen.”

“So you see the benefit I can bring you.”

“I’m not saying that, I’m saying I want what you suggested. Now how I’m going to get that has several solutions.”

“You were always so quick to turn down people’s help. I can give you exactly what you’re looking for and yet, you decline me?”

“Pretty much. I like to do things on my own and if you think I want someone’s help, then maybe you don’t know me as well as you thought.” She had a smirk on her face.

Lok felt his own smile peak at hers and he moved to sit down beside her. “I guess you got me there. Then, in this time we have together, would you allow me to learn more about you?”

“Shouldn’t that be saved for when we’re living together?”

“I guess you’re right. The best relationships need time to develop.”

“Exactly, nothing a few hours is going to replace.”

“You know, here I thought you wouldn’t be this calm under these circumstances. I had a few things prepared in case you were frazzled and panicked.”

“Like what?”

“Nothing bad, just some incense, a white noise machine, and a weighted blanket.”

“You really thought of everything.”

“As I always do.”

“Then, question—if you thought of all that, why couldn’t have you have thought of some other way to go about this? There had to be some way you could have convinced my dad to let us be friends.”

Lok sat in silence after her question. He didn’t fully know how to answer that and ended up opening and closing his mouth several times.

“I, uh… I’m unsure of how to answer that.”

“Well, let me help you. Instead of all this, you could have just approached my dad during his work hours and told him you were the one sending all those strange people after me. Then, you would explain why, because you wanted to get to know me after we met in middle school. My dad probably wouldn’t have been happy about you trying to date me, but knowing the kind of money and resources you have, it’d be better to let you be my friend then reject you and make this happen.”

“And you thought of this just now?”

“No, I thought of this when I decided to let you kidnap me. I was thinking about it and my dad might be the most anxious man ever about his daughter, but he’s not stupid. He would have seen that it was easier to let us be friends than try and keep you away from me.”

Lok pondered that. “Is that so…? I-I just didn’t assume that because of the hot-head.”

Cassie smiled. “Shugi, he has a name you know.”

“I’m sure he does, but I didn’t think people named brainless creatures.”

She stifled a laugh. “You know, it’s comments like that, that remind me you actually are a pretty normal person.”

“I don’t usually?”

“Of course not. Besides having all this money, the way you talk and act reminds me of a movie character. I don’t typically see you as just a normal guy who’s just a bit older than me.”

“Well, you can teach me. I’ll keep it in mind that insults are a way to appear as normal.”

“That’s not what I meant, but I guess it’s a start.”

Just as soon as she said that, a chime ran through the room. Lok’s phone was ringing and he quickly went to answer it.

“Yes?”

Cassie couldn't hear nearly anything—just the muffled sounds of a voice on the other end—but she still tried to pay attention.

“How did he even find this place?” Lok paused with a sigh. “Fine, keep an eye on him. I’ll be down to deal with it myself.” Lok hung up as he got to his feet and went to the door. “Cassie, please remain here. I’ll be back for you after I deal with something.”

“Should I be worried?” She tried to glean any information.

“No, you shouldn’t. However, if you get board, feel free to explore the room. Everything in here was bought in your interest.”

Cassie sighed. “Alright…”

Lok then made his way out of the room and Cassie heard the doors lock once they closed. She sighed and slouched forward.

“So much for this being the easy way out.”

[liyawritesss]

For my first request, based on LOK, can you write a oneshot featuring Mako and a male reader in an Aladdin AU please? I imagine Mako as a street rat who ends up attracting the attention of the reader who's a prince with his antics. So when he's arrested, the reader orders him to be brought to his palace so he can get to know him better. what do you think?

ᴊᴜꜱᴛ ᴀɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴀʀᴀʙɪᴀɴ ɴɪɢʜᴛ

Pairing: Peasant!Mako x Prince!Black!Reader

Genre: Fic

Synopsis: In which a prince tired of hiding away in his castle takes his life into his own hands, and meets a troublesome peasant along the way who’s presence isn’t as bad as his appearance.

Warnings: mentions of violence

A/N: I hope you don’t mind, the original plotline you gave me I found a little hard to write. However, i wanted to still keep it in the realm of Aladdin, so I decided to write the scene where jasmine and aladdin meet in the street market. I hope this suits your fancy

Perhaps you had taken on more than you could handle with this little rendezvous of yours.

However, could anyone blame you if they knew who you were? Covered in peasant garbs to blend into the crowd, you simply followed the flow of the people to avoid bringing attention to yourself. It wouldn't be long before the entire city was on alert for their prince, missing without a trace in the middle of the night. It would be best to keep low and be quiet for now.

It was a shame really, that even after escaping your so-called home, you still had to remain quiet and demure. You were expected to hold a silent presence next to your father - an obedient and filial son who didn’t question anything, and obeyed his father’s every command.

And originally, you were okay with that. It was all you ever knew, after all. Until the day you were told that you were to marry a noblewoman of another province of the country.

How could your father simply force you to be with someone who you had no knowledge of, and had never even met before? Despite your please with him, your wishes fell on deaf ears. And so, to take back what little freedom you had left, you decided to sneak out for the night and enjoy the city you would be ruling one day - the city that you had never once stepped foot onto, until tonight.

It was different from what you thought you would see. You were always told tales of lush street markets, beautiful women, and children dancing in the streets. However, the reality was quite the opposite. Poverty was what the majority of the city was ridden with. The street markets from the stories you fell in love with as a child were a breeding ground for bribes and brokery. Any children you could see were homeless, starved, begging for a piece of bread to hold them over til the next morning. Your heart was sick with disbelief and guilt.

One child in particular had caught your attention after what seemed like hours of following the crowd. There was very little life left in her eyes, and she was too frail and small to reach the stand for a piece of bread. The merchant in charge of said stand was too busy talking to someone else to notice the poor thing. Your heart sank deep into your stomach, and without much thinking, your feet moved on your own to aid the helpless girl.

From the time that your hand went for the bread, to when you handed the bread to the child, to when she struggled to run away from the unfamiliar aid, the merchant of the stand noticed your figure, and started bellowing about your ignorance and how he would make you pay. Despite your pleads and attempts to reason, the merchant reached for your arm with one hand, the other holding a short machete. Through his yells of ‘teaching you a lesson’, you braced yourself for the indescribable pain of the cold metal splitting into your warm, tan flesh.

The blow never came, however. In the space that would have been your stub, lay a new hand - calloused, but gentle and firm.

“You’ll have to excuse him, sir, he doesn’t know any better.” The new stranger's voice echoed, smooth like honey on a warm day. It made you open your eyes to see the situation before you - a tall, raven haired man in peasants clothes, bargaining with the merchant. Although you could only see the back of his head, you could tell from the merchant's face that the negotiation wasn’t going well.

The next thing you know, you’re running with this new stranger, his hand still clasped onto your arm tightly. Through the mass of bodies, several alleyways and eventually landing on a rooftop, you were able to lose the merchant in his angered frenzy.

You never thought you’d find yourself indebted to a peasant, and yet here you are, standing in front of this oddly attractive stranger, tongue tied in what you want to say to express your gratitude.

“Thank you-”

“You’re not from around here, are you?”

You were taken aback by his question. The straight forwardness was something you weren’t used to, and quite frankly, how do you answer such a question without giving away your identity?

“It would be smart of you to not do that again. You’re lucky I was there to save you, otherwise, that merchant probably would have taken more than your hand.”

Unconsciously, your untouched hand went to sooth the area in question on your other arm. The light bruising that was starting to form would be a reminder that the streets of your city were not, in fact, lush and vibrant as you had been led to believe.

“So, are you gonna tell me why you’re out of the palace, prince?”

Your jaw dropped slightly, confused as to how the stranger was able to see through your disguise. “H-How did you-?”

“If you’re going to sneak out, next time don’t wear jewelry that’s only worm by the royal family.” Says the raven haired man, gesturing to the necklace that was peeking from behind your head wrap. IN a swift motion, your hand went to hide the necklace, as if you hadn’t just been caught in your lie. With your cover blown, there was nothing left but to come clean.

“You’re right. I am the prince. For certain reasons…I’ve come out tonight to experience what life is really like in the city.”

“Is the palace life not enough for you?”

“It’s too much, to be exact.”

“Never heard royalty say something like that.” And as much as you wanted to retort to such an accusation, the calmer spirit on your shoulder advised you on the opposite. There was a period of silence, before you spoke once again.

“I have little time left,” you began, “and while I may be royalty, I’ve never once been granted the luxury of being myself. That is why I've taken the risk to sneak out tonight - because I’m not sure if tomorrow is guaranteed to be my own.”

There was another period of silence, where the stranger who was once facing you head on, turned to face the setting sun on the horizon. You took a step forward to him, testing the waters for your next words.

“You’ve saved me tonight, and for that I am eternally grateful. If i am not too much of a burden, would you allow me to accompany you for the rest of the evening?”

The stranger looked at you, deep in thought. His face showed conflict, and for a moment, you believed he would tell you no. That you were not his responsibility, and that he had every right to turn you back to your palace, and let you waste away in a home you’ve never felt as home. And yet, all he did, was turn his head back to the sunset.

“Does the prince have a name to go by?”

Slightly taken aback, you said “[Y/N].”

“Mako.” The stranger replied. “There’s nothing special out here. But if you can keep up, maybe you’ll see something worth your while.”

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[numberonehere2008]

Since when I was doing asks and it said there was an error I'm gunna reblog it

I forgot Legend's Zelda name but I'm gunna call her truth.

Legend and Truth are half siblings as Truth is the younger sibling I'm gunna explain it. Truth's mom married Legend's dad first having legend for a while it was just the three Legend's dad mom and uncle that visited time to time to see his nephew. But things didn't work out so well for the couple as they divorced when Legend was little having him stay with his dad tho legend doesn't remember if his relationship with his father was good or bad tho. Truth's mom met her father so having her born Legend was allowed to visit his in some weeks causing to meet his little sister with those times they got close and the two got attached. Since legend often got bad nightmares his mom made a small pink stuffed bunny so he could coddle it when they were gone. Sadly one night His dad was drunk driving crashing into Legend's mom car killing them both this brought sadness to both families the only people legend had to comfort him was his uncle and sister since Truth's father didn't like legend out of him being a reminder that his wife was with someone before him and now that she was dead. Tho legend and Truth went to the same school keeping them close especially when they visited each other more when they got older when legend was ten and Truth was nine, Truth put permanent hot pink dye on few loks of Legend's hair for a prank because of feeling bad she dyed some of her hair too against the displeasure of her father. Because the hot pink sticked out like a sore thumb around his blonde hair so he dyed all of his hair the same color with something less permanent. When Legend was a teen he had an emo phase wear he dressed like the stereotypical emo kid and Truth got chances to get many pictures of him in that phase for memories to laugh over that she shows them to reader tho if he ask him about it he will deny it while blushing if it's reader that ask him that. He went to some sewing class in high school cause his Stuff bunny kept getting ripped because he kept squeezing it when he gets bad nightmares tho the only one that knows that is reader and Truth. I solely believe legend is that one person who wears shorts in 15 degree weather and no one knows why tho he always wears short pants because there more comfortable for him. In early college his uncle dies leaving him with his sister to connect with as he had no other alive relatives. In high school he had that one art teacher who was into her weird taste of fashion and you would not be able to escape from her grasp and when she got you had a in tire different look on fashion which caught his interest causing him to go to a art college there he meet Ravio who scamed people. He had a pet bird who kept stealing his stuff to Ravio so he could try to sell it tho it failed as either him or Truth founded out about it. Truth came to visit legend multiple times which got her to become the person he used to be the person he styled the clothes to fit tho most of the time he made her dresses. When Legend first became yandere for reader Truth gut to meet them she was slightly worried that this one might end like the last one as Legend and his ex girlfriend Marine broke up badly so Truth was nice but watched Reader but she soon realized that reader was perfect and so attached her self to reader constantly having gossip about the boys making legend look like the perfect boyfriend while making the other links look bad and destroying any chances the other links trying to get reader on a date and spying on the unfortunate two while giving legend tips on how to flirt since he is gunna need it.

new au idea?

I kinda wanna start writing headcanons and small fics for a modern au with the chain. I’m thinking it’ll take place after the Whispers From the Sky fic, but it won’t mention any major plot points that will happen, because i don’t want to spoil my story! It might be a mixture of a college and domestic life au, but obviously with some juicy drama, other characters, character’s pasts, spice, angst, the whole shebang. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or ideas, I would love to hear them! <3

[klkbass]

Compiling a Character

Mind you, this isn't advice or anything. This is simply my experience when I was creating characters for my own fanfic.

I read somewhere that writers aren't "creating" a story, they are simply documenting what they see in their head.

That's how I work. I don't create an outline or anything (if I do, the story doesn't get written). I write whatever pops into my brain and flesh it out later. It makes my work a little...haphazard, but this is a hobby for me. I do try to improve my writing, but this will never be a career.

That being said, I want to go into my latest character: Seiko.

Seiko came about while I was writing a short side story about Mako meeting Shizuku's family (I have a pile of such things that will likely never see the light of day). I had decided early on that Shizuku would be the youngest of five children and the only girl. Something I realized after watchin LOK for the umpteenth time, was the same as Opal. Honestly, it was a coincidence. I ignored the fact and pressed on.

As I wrote, the brothers' personalities came to the fore. Bihn was the oldest and thus the responsible one. Liang was next and, in order to get out of Bihn's shadow, moved away from home as soon as he was able. Phoe was the youngest between Seiko and Shizuku and takes everything way too seriously. He also doesn't like Mako because of "what" he is. Then we have Seiko; the middle child. He always needs to be the center of attention, has to be the clown, and does his best to throw people off guard.

These were traits on wanted to amplify as Seiko got older. Thus, in my "The Lost Avatar", he's all these things and more. Flamboyant, flirty, mischievous, and still likes to throw curve balls. He was essentially Ayame from Fruits Basket which was another coincidence. Even so, I enjoyed writing him.

So, that's just a little insight about how I write. Everyone has a different approach.

[multiqts]

Perfect

Pairing: Loki x gn!afab!reader

Warnings: Explicit themes, dom/sub themes, smut, pwp, softdom!reader, sub!Loki, vv fluffy

Word Count: 795

Description: After saying something to George the day before, you fear you had offended him. But when you meet in the room of requirement you find out the truth.

A/N: Ahhh okay this one is super short but it came to me while I was making breakfast and I love soft!loki sm.

smut under cut!

You were different. 

"That's a good boy," You praised. You squeezed his hand as you rode him slowly. His head was thrown back and all he could give in response were hungry moans. All he could think about was the mounting presser in his abdomen and you both reached your orgasm. You had similar things in mind. 

You took care of him, not to mold him into a tool for you to use, but for his own good. 

His eyes fluttered open and he took in every bit of you. Your body was so perfect to him. He loved you. He needed you, and in this moment, he felt like a part of you. His body shook and you got down to where your chests were touching. You released his hands and you held him. This embrace was nothing new from you but for him the time, the place. It was all too much. 

"So perfect for me, Loki. God, you make me feel so good. 'Love you so much," His ears grew hot. He didn't think he was perfect. He felt so far from it. But if you told him he was, it was all he needed to know. He cherished being perfect for you, just for you. You made him feel like you were lucky to have him instead of the other way around. He couldn't remember a time before you when he felt like this, a time when he wasn't always trying to meet someone else's standard, a time when he was just good enough as himself. 

But, why? What did you see in him? He would never know, but he didn't need to know. You kept rolling your hips against his with praises flying from your mouth. Loki gripped the sheets with such strength he thought he might rip them. 

"Gonna come, Y/N! Can I cum?" 

"Cum for me, love. Cum for me," and he did just that. You crashed your lips into his as he came so deep inside you. The sorcerer's powers meant that you didn't have to worry about the consequences of no barrier. But even if you did, you relished in the idea of bearing Loki's child. You rolled off of him and stayed by his side for a moment. Before you could catch your breath, your lover had his head between your thighs. 

"My Y/N, you didn't cum?" 

"No, but I-" you cut yourself off with a groans as Loki attacked your cunt. His tongue working marvelous tricks on your sensitive clit. His nimble fingers worked their way into your open hole. You put your hands in his raven locks and tangled your fingers in his sweaty hair. You were already so close, and loki could tell. 

"Give me your cum, Y/N. I want you all over my face. I want to never be able to forget your scent," his tongue and fingers worked faster than ever. And soon enough, you popped. A scream ripped through you as you released all over Lok. He lapped all your juices. Never relenting until you pulled away from the overstimulation. He crawled back up to you, and you warmly took him in with a soft embrace. 

"What did I do to deserve you?" You sighed. Your eyes had been calmly shut but they opened to the sound of sniffles. You opened them to see Loki buried deep in your neck. "My sweet, are you alright?" that seemed to make him want to answer less. He couldn't even tell you what was wrong. It just became all so much at some point. 

"I don't deserve this," he whimpered. 

"Hey," your tone became more stern as you took his face in your hands to make him face you. "You deserve all this and more," His eyes shut as he tried to bar the tears from coming out. "Loki, look at me," He took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes. Those very same tears he was trying to hold back came flooding, but he had given up trying to fight them. 

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm ruining the mood," You shook your head. 

"You didn't ruin anything. I'm glad that you are letting all this out. I we want to be able to be open around me Loki. Do you want to talk about it?" he wasn't sure he did. Right now, he was tired. He wanted to tell you how he felt, but this didn't feel like the time. 

"I think I just want to be near you right now," he sniffled. "Perhaps in the morning we can discuss this?" you smiled and nodded. He rested his head sleepy in the crook on your neck once again and you held him like this until you both fell

asleep.

[sokkastyles]

Reading ATLA: The Promise pp159-End

I do get why Zuko might think he’s bothering Iroh by asking for help. That’s also sadly realistic for an abused kid. The problem is that it feels like artificially prolonging the conflict to NOT get Iroh involved. Which is also the reason Aang and Katara got sidetracked when they originally were headed towards Iroh in Ba Sing Se. It also makes sense that Zuko would want to protect the families living in Yu Dao, although if Zuko didn’t feel so isolated he also wouldn’t be projecting his own issues like this. This comic is definitely setting up for Zuko wanting to find his mom, although I have my own issues with how that is portrayed as well.

Okay, this time I actually think Katara is being reductive and I agree with Aang. Not on the “nations should be separate” thing, but I get where he’s coming from. There’s a difference between equality and sameness. I don’t think he’s right that interracial relationships are always oppressive, but I do get why he feels that way after seeing the “fan club.” But then that also applies to his relationship with Katara. When you’re in a relationship, you have to decide what parts of yourself you’re willing to share with someone else.

And he already should have been collecting and preserving what was left of Air Nomad culture! This shouldn’t be something that just came up now that Aang has a fan club. And preserving his culture shouldn’t mean Aang has to live like a hermit, either. In my headcanon, Zuko and Aang work together to find and save what is left of Air Nomad culture, just as Zuko isn’t left to rule the FN by himself. I think what has annoyed me so much about this comic is that it doesn’t have the same found family dynamic between the gaang that is a big motif in ATLA. They barely seem like they like each other. No matter how many times Katara and Aang call each other “sweetie.”

Katara and Zuko having literally the same thought about family. #zutara

Given the amount of times Toph makes earth slides in this comic, can I assume that Bumi/Toph friendship is canon?

Toph in ATLA: Considering his messed up family and how he was raised, [Zuko] could have turned out a lot worse. I think you’re all letting your hurt feelings get in the way.

Toph in this comic: No time for talk! He’s turning evil and screwy in the head!

So then there’s a big battle and Aang almost goes into the Avatar state and almost kills Zuko again, and Katara has to snap him out of it again.

That’s not selfish at all, Katara, it’s common sense. The thing that bothers me about this is knowing how things turn out with their future in LoK, it seems like maybe they should have broken up here, if Aang really doesn’t trust her that much.

Also, again, Katara’s like “it’s fine if you have to kill Zuko, you just have to be calm about it.” Like Katara didn’t risk her entire life to save Zuko’s life in the series.

Also, again, not be zutara on main, but Katara and Zuko want the same things, while Aang and Katara don’t.

So Aang goes off to have a spirit conversation with Roku right in the middle of the battle apparently. Roku tells Aang that he has to kill Zuko, because the Avatar must put the world above himself, his family, and his own nation. But by that logic, Aang also shouldn’t be prioritizing his own culture, right? To be fair, Roku isn’t even following his own advice, and is projecting his own issues with Sozin onto Zuko.

There’s some more fighting, and then Aang bursts onto the scene in the Avatar State, and it looks like he’s about to fulfill his promise, except I already know he severs his connection with Roku instead because I’ve been spoiled. Not that I would have believed Aang would have done it anyway, and therein lies the problem with this conflict.

Zuko starts to tell Aang it’s not what it looks like, but then he says it doesn’t matter because his father would have done the same thing, and takes off his helmet. Then he trips and falls through a huge crack in the ground.

It seems like Zuko was going to say “I don’t want to die” when he called out for Aang. Which is as important for Zuko to realize as it for Aang to realize he won’t kill Zuko.

“You mean this whole comic was a stupid, manufactured conflict that could have been solved very easily if any of the characters would have just talked to each other???” *passes out from the stupid*

“I don’t know how to contemplate the world without first thinking of the people I care about.” I kind of feel like this part of the whole “being the Avatar vs being a person” conflict that should have been addressed better in the series proper. Aang shouldn’t have to choose between some spiritual vision of the world and actual people. It was always a false choice.

It’s not surprising that Zuko is actually able to sleep when he’s in Iroh’s house, since being with Iroh is a place of safety. It’s not just the pressures of the palace or agonizing over his decisions, it’s being away from Ozai.

Other people have pointed out the flaws in Zuko and Aang’s conversation at the end here. Aang says that he’s a flawed Avatar because he didn’t blindly kill his friend, when like, that’s not what the moral of the story should be. Zuko also says that he shouldn’t have asked Aang to kill him as an “escape hatch” as if the problem is that Zuko was being irresponsible and not that he needs to actually believe in himself. I also feel like it’s hard to blame Zuko for that specifically when nobody else seems to believe in him, either, and is ready to believe he’s turning into his dad at a moment’s notice.

Zuko saying he wants to go find his mother because it will “connect him to a part of his past that isn’t so murky and confusing” also is not what the answer should be, because it was never Roku’s bloodline that made Zuko know right from wrong. I want Zuko to find his mom but not because he’s a little boy who needs her to tell him what to do. I might read the Search even though I’ve already been spoiled for that as well, and I’m equally annoyed by it, but I’m mostly reading these for fanfic research purposes and I’m not above taking the parts I like and leaving the rest.

[the-sprog]

LAST 3 EPISODES OF SEASON 1

Ep 6:

-So we're back at New Yolk and back to the purple one that loks like a persian(the pokemon) and oooh they got Rusty Rose back! I bet those plasma weapons were a Nine original

-oh fuck no ok Nine disapperared

-fuck they can triangulate his position via his energy readings shit fuck

-oh ffs Nine what cmon man I liked you. I should've figured though, I DID point out that he prioritized saving himself than helping them when it came to escaping.

-Also cool Knucks (or Knux?) activated his superspeed I'm assuming?

-Sonic you're putting too much faith on Nine...

-WHO'S THE PURPLE ONE

-Also Rebel cmon you're expecting Sonic NOT to make jokes?

-OOOOOOHHH THE PALM TREE!! It keeps coming back. C'mon Sonic I'm sure you can figure out what the connection is.

-Also Also, again, I love Nine, I really do, but man you're putting too much trust on him

-Big the Cat fights with a pipe. fair enough I guess

-OOOH he got a PLANE!! he's making teleportation stuff cool cool makes sense. Could've... told someone though lmao

-Something tells me Nine is more on a "I'm here to help Sonic and Sonic only"- yeah ok see there lmao. I fucking love Mangey

-Shadow is stuck somewhere here right? in the shatterzone.

-NINE DOESN'T HAVE THE ROBOT TAILS! Nvm he does it jsut didn't look like it when he was flying.

-Nine... that's a sweet sentiment but...

-Sonic completely forgot Shadow was stuck there. man had the oppportunity to look for him and jsut stright up forgot about him sob if I were shadow I would punch him as soon as we see each other

-I'm thinking about the different universes and they kinda confuse me because I feel like the reason why there aren't alternate Sonics is because he's the one that touched the... prism? emerald? when it shattered, but then why is Shadow nowhere to be found? and I don't know Shadow's backstoy so for all I know he could be a sonic clone so if there's no Sonic in a universe, there's no shadow. but it's alternative universes so there's no reason why his backstory should follow the same logic. but he DID find a chaos emerald before--

-heyyy nine to the rescue!

---before the whole thing started, but I don't know what a chaos emerald does so I can't tell if that's what's protecting him or something else. Maybe he IS clone of sonic and their... universal signatures are so similar that he's excluded just like Sonic is? I really hope they explain because i've been thinking about it a lot. Also I've been promised a Shadow explaination and it hasn't happened yet so I'm waiting here

-I'm really sad that Rusty is back with the bad guys, but also I'm happy she's not being forced to be one of the good guys by Nine

-Shit he's getting abducted...

-Alolan persian is getting more lines but still no introduction

EP 7

-OOh finally are we getting Shadow's POV?

-ok yeah that answers none of my questions about the chaos emeralds

-AH! "Sonic >:("

-Sonic's gettin back to the future-ed

-ahah is he bemusing a water level or can soic not swim in his games?

-also makes sense tgat he can use speed to travel since he has the same energy signature

-ok yeah assuming water=game over

-Who's the captain? Knuckles? aldo love that Tails still has some mechanical stuff

-landLUBBER not landLOVER! Gosh these subtitles suck

-i don't think that's their- it is ok ok. is eggman their captain?

-ok no it is knuckles- THE DREAD I love him

-Knuckles backstory???? via game footage?? I gotta remember it's called a spin dash

-but yeah that does make sense- AHHAHA what is happening im so cunfused but also hilarious

-I don't know if Sonic is being dumb trusting these people... but like, I also don't know Knuckles enough to tell if he'd being manipulative or not

-SONIC STOP TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE SHARDS! YOU DON'T KNOW IF THIS KNUCKLES IS EVIL and the signs point to yes. Ok yeah I'm going with Dumbass. You owe Rebel and Knux so much.

-I really want to know The Dread's backstory

-he hasn't fiured he can just... go fast to travel? that he does not, in fact, need the shard to do that?

-I'm assuming the old crew is Eggman. What happened to Dread, he's a coward now

-I never noticed ho wlong his nose is

-ok so it IS water=game over

-we don't know what Tail's name is here

-Blak Rose was out for blood

-wait captain? nooooo poor Dread!

-YES Dread's backstory gooooo

-ok so he is still called knuckles

-SAILS

-I was wrong though, eggman has othing to do with this. I'm starting to think he's only in New Yolk

-mutiny moment!!

-what's the point of a map if everything is water? what marks does it use? not LAND marks for sure.

-so THIS ONE is eggman, but it's the one from New Yolk

-I love that basically every episode ends with a cliffhanger of an Amy trying to kill Sonic

EP 9

-hello Nine

-the fucking subs calling it New Yoke or New York annoy me greatly

-Rusty Rose is fucking amazing omg "I wish I was programmed to laugh"

-I don't have much to say about this fight scene other than it was kinda pathetic to watch

-OOOH RUSTY SAW BLACKROSE

-dude you can walk on water

-"You don't give up! It's your most annoying vertue!" LMAO

-appealing to his ego I see

-CATFISH I love the different name for wvery universe

-oooh Dread is 100% going to betray them isn't he? don't trust his attitude mmmhh

-Nine you fuckign traitor

-ok I'm joking he might be doing it to save Sonic, but like ... he sounds suspicious. just like Dread

-i like his little smile

-It's not the shoes that make him fast my dude. Ah no right they make him walk him water right right forgot

-SAILS?? COMING IN WITH THE LUTE!

-the SEADOGS???? I'm crying why

-Rusty noooooooo

-nvm she's fine

-it makes sense that these robots are easy for him to destroy, theyve made by an eggman that hasnt had to deal and compensate for Sonic's speed, so they have more numbers because they also had more resources to make them, but they're not as resistant to Sonic's specific brand of power

-I need BlackRose to show up and fight RustyRose

-that was a Crash Bandicoot ass sound effect

-SO YOU DO HAVE GIZMOS!

-I hate that the gold tooth isn't one of his canines but a random one to the side

-he's a little power hungry

-SONIC JUST KEEPS BASICALLY SAYING FUCK SHADOW HUH. GO GET HIM YOU ASSHOLE

-absolutely DESERVED

And that marks the end of season 1! I will say, I'm really intrigued now. I've been suggested to watch a Sonic Adventures 2 gameplay and Sonic Unleashed, but RN Prime has my attention. I'm a little confused on some details because I am lacking some fundamental Sonic lore, but, I can deal. It has been a lot of fun and I WILL continue watching it.

I'm watching Sonic prime because you can't give me multiverse and unlikely allies and think I won't watch it.

But this is the first piece of Sonic media I've ever consumed (sonic underground doesn't count cause I remember nothing of it, and neither do the films) so. Live blog lmao.

-"Shadow is... Complicated. More on that later" can't wait bro

-Ok rouge the bat is a good guy? I thought she was vaguely anti hero ish.

-what the fuck is a paradox emerald. I stopped at chaos emeralds. What's the difference? How are they created? This one was just... In a cave???

-"sonic boom of a headache" ah ah I see what you did there.

-whats with the knuckles slander!!!

-THATS NEW YORK??????

-so they're not allowed to talk to other people I guess?

-why are they making it seem like it's his shoes that make him fast????

-are rings currency? I was under the impression they were currency. Why is he looking for cash rn

-fickeis???

-he knows what smog is. How does he know what smog is. He lives in a forest.

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Does he live in a forest? It's like... All green.

OH ITS WHAT EGGMAN WANTED! A WORLD RESEMBLING HIM AND NOT SONIC.

-What is the prism shatter??? Do they mean the paradox emerald? So sure they called it the paradox emerald and not the paradox prism.

-WHATS WITH THE TAILS SLANDER!!!

-Yes I know he insulted sonic as well but I think sonic deserved it in that moment.

-ok shadow was just. There. Dudes not even helping. You live here you asshole! Do your part!

-"Tails never gets upset" that's unhealthy!

-is 1992 the year the first sonic game came out? Something tells me that's the year Sonic's first game came out.

-...what's the difference between a trap and a trick?

-why Rouge! The only thing I know is that you're a cat!

-WHY ARE THEY CALLINF IT A PARADOX PRISM NOW?

-the fact the place IS called "the loop-de-loop" and it's not just what Sonic calls it is. Priceless.

-ngl I thought sonic was gonna be more... Sassy? Clever? WITTY! but no. He's a lot more like how I imagined Knuckles to be. Knuckles is my favorite btw. I know nothing of him other than he's vaguely mean and dumb. But not like Shadow's angsty edgy mean. More like a jock kinda mean.

-also no one explained why it's called the paradox prism. Or why Rouge knows what it is/that that's what Eggman was looking for.

-oh there you go end of flashback. Also where the FUCK is shadow. How later sonic? How much later?

-Rusty Rose?? That's Amy isn't it? Like Evil alternate universe Amy.

-i don't know who Babbles is.

-IS THAT A BOP IT?

-Ok no it isn't.

- I don't understand what the shoes malfunctioning means. Is his speed artificial??? Are they like Spider-man's web-shooters?

-EGGMAN IS A FATHER? WHO'S THE MOM???

-Also Rose said there were other rebels. Wonder if it's the same squad- oh they answered my question. Rouge is not Rebel. And I guess Knuckles is also a rebel. Don't know if Tails is gonna be good or not. Cause I remember seeing something about a Tails with robot... Tails.

-YOURE IN AN ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE! WHY WOULD YOU THINK THINGS WOULD BE THE SAME.

-ok I was right. His name is... Nine? Also these episodes are really long.

-oh he still has the regular tails. It's more of a doc oc situation. I thought they were prosthetics.

-GEEZ "I was trained by the misery of life and this dark and heartless city" GEEZ

-gonna assume he's gonna be like "why'd you save me??? Why would you do this for me??"

-oh lord game footage that's cool as shit.

-sonic is not gonna pierce this together is he? And Nine is not gonna be like "yeah alright this guy is insane"

-MR.DR.EGGMAN. that's... Too much.

-Aww they're doing a little Tails bragging moment. Talking about how they're friends that's sweet.

-CHAOS COUNCIL? We're back to the chaos nomenclature??? what happened to the paradox shit? the hardest part of this is not that I don't have any sonic knowledge, it's that I have SOME sonic lore knowledge gained through osmosis and it's clashing with the lore that they're trying to establish in this cartoon.

-Nine is going for the full spider aesthetic huh?

-yeah. the tails are cool. I've always liked tails too, he's just too smart for me and i feel awkward when i don't understand him.

-COOL SHOES UPGRADE. Ok so the shoes are like... making it so that he doesn't explode due to the natural energy in his body, which i assume is what makes him fast. and that he'd be faster if he didn't have them, but also... more explode-y.

-HE ISN'T MISSING MEMORIES YOU IDIOT

-Oh the baby is back. I don't know how to feel about the baby.

-BLUE STREAK lol

-Ok that's an pixar's incredibles looking trap.

-OH SHIT SHE'S A ROBOT? oh not a robot. Rose is a cyborg and the way she talks about it amkes me sad.

-Nine??? is good or?? confused about his alliances.

-What. who. what. there's a whole family??? is... eggman their dad or?? who's the mom?

-of course he has hair in this "perfect" universe.

-are they like the chaos emeralds that can fuse to become the master emerald? and part of a whole??

-what's with casual dehumanization

-gosh he's such a dumbass but like an annoying one but also like indearingly so?

-I'm never gonna remember which eggaman is which. except babbles cause. yknow. toddler.

-omg the lasers effect is so ucking cool!! thay's a real nice scene ahhhh-

-they're like video games levels. alright. for now I'm really enying the visuals and the storytelling methods. on the story itself i'll see when it really gets going.

-oh no.

-ok I like the baby.

-OH THE PLOT THICKENS! the same energy as what powers the city? is the city powered by the emeralds? or by like- SHADOW??? IS THAT YOU-

-oh flashback 2. I don't know why but somethign about Tails' design looked... off. he felt naked. does he usually have like a scarf? goggles?

-Knuckled is just... hanging on the plane oh lord i'm dying.

-WHAT DO THE RINGS DO??? "in case eggeman gers in a lucky shot: rings" what??

-DOES SHADOW HAVE ROLLERBLADES?? ok he's raising on my list of favourite characters.