#lifechanging field trips

[oddlittlestories]

Notre Dame Visit

Wrote up a little fic to go with this WIP fanart! This is inspired by @greghatecrimes elaborating on my life changing field trips post, and is currently brought to you by Anya’s prompt re my Halloween fic ask game.

Fic under the cut.

Chase & Thirteen as found family siblings. They're backpacking through Europe. Late s6 AU, probably consistent w/HH:Reprise. Trans masc bi Chase as a treat.

CW: mild travel danger, religious irreverence, religious homophobia reference

“Are you sure? Are you sure you’re sure?” Chase whispered. Not that whispering was gonna help him. She was loud enough for the both of them.

“Yes, we’re fine," Thirteen cackled, "now take the damn photo.” She raised her middle finger to the ceiling of the cathedral. He supposed it was her way of sticking it to all that religious homophobia. They were a hell of a pair to be anywhere near a cathedral—a failed novice divorced bi trans guy with blood on his hands, and a deliberately-irreverent bi woman after House's own heart. But as Thirteen liked to say every time she dragged him into a cathedral, which seemed to be as often as possible, they hadn't spontaneously burst into flames even once.

That said, Chase could just imagine a priest clamping his hand firmly down on his arm… Chase hunched his shoulders, trying desperately to look over his shoulder and take the photo as fast as he could at the same time. Maybe no one would notice. If he could’ve melted into the Notre Dame floor he would have. It was mortifying.

He took the photo and lowered the phone as quickly as he could. Still, it came out pretty cool.

“Okay, let me see,” Thirteen said, scrambling for his iPhone.

“It’s fine,” Chase insisted, trying to tuck the phone back in his jacket pocket.

“I want to be sure! What if it’s blurry?” Thirteen made grabby hands, struggling with him over the device.

“It’s not blurry!” he insisted.

“Then show me!”

“Fine!” Chase heaved a sigh and let her have the phone.

She snickered. “Yeah that’s really good, you were right.” She sent the photo to House before he could even try to stop her. Chase rolled his eyes. As soon as House got it, he’d do what he’d done with the rest: print it out and tape it to the ddx whiteboard. Foreman would text him to complain about how hard it was to ddx “now that it was a scrapbook instead.” Kutner would use the red sharpie he bought to draw horns on Thirteen and Chase in the photos.

It was a group activity, apparently.

Later that night, Chase and Thirteen crammed shoulder to shoulder at the bar of a centuries-old pub. It wasn’t far from the hostel, and around them spilled French and English and a bunch more languages Chase probably could pick out if he tried.

“Mm, this is delicious,” Thirteen said. “Here, try.”

She didn’t have to tell him twice. He leaned in and took a crunchy bite. It was the best toasted cheese on bread Chase had ever had in his life. “Wow,” he mumbled, mouth full.

“I know, right?”

On their walk back to the hostel, the lights of Paris were glittering. It wasn’t nearly as quiet here as it was in rural Spain, and Chase thought they were both dazzled by the city after that. Paris was definitely a tourist town though. They cut down a side street for a shortcut to their hostel.

Thirteen got distracted by something in a shop window. He wasn’t sure what, because by the time he noticed she was just behind him, a guy was cutting between them. He was a street hawker, with “I heart Paris” lanyards hung all up one arm. And he was getting in Chase’s face, trying to grab him.

“Woah, there, buddy,” Chase said. “Hands to yourself.” But the guy would not lay off. He wasn’t sure what to do. He was probably gonna get pickpocketed if he did nothing. Or worse, he thought darkly, noticing how the guy was subtly directing him towards a dark alley.

And suddenly Thirteen was there.

She slipped her arm around Chase’s shoulders and said, “My brother and I have to go now.” It was just surprising enough that she scooped him away from the hawker and out into the busy cross-street.

“Thanks.” His voice was breathless with relief.

“Yeah, I did not like where that was going. You okay?”

Chase patted himself down, trying to ignore the way “brother” was rotating around in his head. Even if it didn't last… He frowned appraisingly. “Yeah. I’m great.”

Thirteen grinned and they headed into the hostel together, where their room with its two twin beds was waiting.

They had it down to a routine now, so it only took a moment for them to change and crawl into bed. Thirteen turned out the light, and Chase pulled his soft blanket up to his chest. In the darkness, it felt safe to say things. He played the word brother over and over in his head. He knew it was true. But how often do you get that kind of thing confirmed? “I’m glad we made this trip. Me and you.”

“Me, too.” Her voice was warm.

It had been a hard year, but right here and right now, Chase was so, so happy.

#Chase and Thirteen as siblings #lifechanging field trips #house md #remy thirteen hadley #robert chase #Chase & Thirteen #Thirteen & Chase #found family #fanfic #fanfiction #my fanfiction #fanart #my fanart #house md fanart #notre dame cathedral #Catholic cathedral #irreverence #Europe #Paris #France

[burglar-bird]

Okay but hear me out.

Blue Spirit AU where Zuko runs away from the Wani (he found out about the white lotus, Iroh's lies, and decided he wasn't dealing with that). He takes up the vigilante mantle fulltime, parkouring his way into being an earth kingdom folktale. When he's not in the mask though, he still goes by Zuko and doesn't try to hide his identity. It's giving the finger to the Fire Nation and White Lotus, who both want the prince for political reasons. He figures that if he keeps popping up, reminding them that he's still out there and NOT cooperating with their agendas, that he can at least cause them some misery.

What he does not expect is people connecting the dots that a young, scarred Zuko is frequently sighted in the same towns as the notorious Blue Spirit. Because people refuse to admit they're being robbed by a child, reports of the vigilante almost always exaggerate his height and body type to be huge and strong. Because of that, nobody thinks Zuko is the vigilante.

Three years pass, and both the Fire Nation and Earth kingdom are convinced that the Blue Spirit kidnapped the crown prince and is holding him hostage for some unknown reason.

And Zuko is completely oblivious to this.

#Zuko kidnaps himself #zuko's lifechanging solo-field trip #Iroh messed up #this is why you don't keep political secrets from volatile teens #atla zuko #zuko #atla au #blue spirit #avatar the last airbender #atla headcanon

[ot3]

i think the single biggest mistake in the original a:tla was that toph never did get her lifechanging zuko field trip. that would have been so good

[pikapeppa]

15 questions for 15 friends

Tagged by @elveny and @johaerys-writes -- thank you, my loves!

ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? My mom. Apparently my dad really wanted to name me after my mom and she was like "ugh really fine" LOL. My dad is also named after his dad, who was named after his dad... REAL ORIGINAL. This is going to sound like a total humblebrag, but my mom and I are both published academic authors, so we have to use our middle initials to distinguish who published what 🙃

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? Probably in therapy last Thursday LOL. Though I got a little prickly-eyed earlier this week watching the episode of ATLA where Zuko and Aang go on their lifechanging field trip to the Sun Warriors' secret village 😂❤

DO YOU HAVE KIDS? Nope! Childless by choice.

WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED? I played T-ball when I was 5 or 6 (hated it, cried so much that my parents pulled me out LMAO) and I was on the volleyball team in Grade 6. I'm left-handed and I had a habit of serving into the wall, unfortunately, and the habit got worse when I was nervous. During one game, they took pity on me so much that they paused the game until I got the ball over the net. I was fucking humiliated and have never played a team sport since then. 🤣💀 Re: other physical activities, I like dancing! I've taken a ton of different kinds of dance classes including swing, salsa, bellydancing, and Bollywood dancing, and loved all of them!

DO YOU USE SARCASM? No. Me? Never. 🙃🤣 Forreal though yes. All the time.

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Uh...! I don't know if there's any one specific thing? I usually take in an "overall impression" of appearance. Vague, but that's all I've got. If the question was "what's the first thing you notice in people you're attracted to", that might be a different story 🤣

WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOUR? Brown.

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? I am going to copy Johaerys's answer and say it doesn't matter to me, as long as the story was good. But also, who says scary movies/horror media can't have happy endings?? 🤣Haunting of Hill House, anyone? (Bittersweet, maybe, but it counts as happy to me!)

ANY TALENTS? Would it be wretched if I said I feel like writing might be a talent? Whatever, I'm saying it. 🤣😅

WHERE WERE YOU BORN? In a hospital in the same city where I currently live! Which I will chose not to reveal openly! 🤣

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES? Writing! It takes up a solid 75-90% of my free time. Also gaming (which I might count into the writing time since it often becomes Research™ for the writing 🤣). I also enjoy baking and cooking, though I don't know that I'd count those as hobbies since they're necessary ADLs?

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS? A cat named Meeko. She is my daemon. We can never be apart when I am home. Case in point, a photo taken in real-time while completing this quiz:

HOW TALL ARE YOU? 5'3".

FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL? Uhhh... what level of school are we talking here? In undergrad, I took an incredible linguistics/history course about writing systems, and that was probably my favourite class ever. I took a course during undergrad about different schools of psychotherapy that was pretty damned influential too.

DREAM JOB? I also loved Johaerys's answer here: "I don't think there's any sort of job anyone could do in this capitalist hellscape we're all currently living in that would be enjoyable enough to make up for, well... living in a capitalist hellscape." I'm lucky enough to work in the public healthcare system so I'm pretty safe from the worst of capitalism, I guess, though my job (speech-language pathologist) is one I chose more for practicality (certainty of employment) than because I was really passionate about it. If I could do something else and not have to worry about money, I would either want to be a fiction editor, or a sex therapist.

Tagging forward to @ranaspkillnarieth @iamcayc @heroofshield @fantasy-girl974 @hellas-himself @midnightacrobat @alyssalenko @vorchagirl @elinorbard @stuffforthestash @mwasaw @lordofthenerds97 @y0ureviltwin @ladyofthelake91 @perhapsrampancy @cha-mij and genuinely, anyone else who wants to share!!! Tag me so I can spy on your life! 🤣❤

#tag meme #about me #tumblr game

[ghostlycorvid]

2023 Introspective

This year started with cutting off a toxic person who had already shut me out of mutual friend spaces but kept stringing me along with "maybe in a few more months I'll let you back in". 2022 was rough on its own, especially pre-antidepressants, but a huge part of it was stuff involving this person. Blocking them and finally accepting that it was not worth trying to repair what little relationship was left was the most freeing thing I've ever done and helped me to continue that with any other rude unpleasant individual I've had to share spaces with. It's been genuinely wonderful to realize I don't have to sit there and listen to bad takes or people who are needlessly mean, so I'm glad something came out of that friendship nightmare scenario.

It still took a lot of time to not sit there in anger and frustration spirals over the way things ended up, but in February I got permission from my bosses to bring my dog Chili to work with me due to needing to keep him and our other dog from playing while she was recovering from her spay. I ended up realizing that even though Chili is a huge anxiety baby, having him with me legitimately was helping distract me from negative thoughts spirals and gave me something positive to focus on when I was getting frustrated by work-related stuff in the moment. He ended up helping a couple coworkers come down from panic attacks later in the year too. My boss likes how "calm" he is enough that he gave me permission to bring Chili to work all the time (within reason), so he's come with me on most non-event days. His progress has been slow, but he's also been improving from the regular socialization!

I finally started to really focus on my own art and developing my own products and designs, both for my personal shop and for the shop at work. I've come out the other side of this year with 9 new enamel pin designs between the two! (A couple I haven't shared yet! ;D)

I was finally given an Adderall prescription which magically solved my problem where I couldn't stay awake during the day no matter how much sleep I'd gotten! And also it started helping me focus a little better too, but genuinely the non-sleepy thing was the most lifechanging part of the medication for me. The pit in my stomach when I was told that person felt like I was stalking and surveilling them if I was quiet in a call or stream despite years of me communicating that I was constantly struggling to even stay conscious was... HOO BOY. After years of fighting for my life to stay awake in college and sometimes even while DRIVING TO AND FROM WORK,,,,,,,, I really thought something was seriously wrong with me (besides the ADHD since I didn't realize it was a symptom of that)

With toxic people removed from my social spaces and general perception, I've finally started to join group calls with my friends again without anxiety or fear of not being welcome. It's helped me start to get back into playing games again, and I've been able to get into a few that either have built in accessibility features to avoid hand strain, or I've been able to modify my hardware setup to help with issues I was running into before. I've finally managed to pick up Warframe again, and I'm bouncing between that and Path of Titans without being hopelessly deep in a hyperfocus.

I officially got promoted at my job to Retail & Visitor Services manager (and got a $3 raise in Nov!!). While I'm struggling with finding help to ease my increased workload, I'm definitely way better off than before we hired on extra staff. It's given me a lot of networking opportunities (and excuses to go on field trips on the clock for ~*networking*~) and I've been juuuust starting to poke my head into local groups. One is a monthly artists crafting meetup right by work that starts right when I clock out! :D

I had the energy and free time to start branching out and trying other arts and crafts hobbies that had been interesting me! Ended up getting a serger machine to help really tidy up clothes that I make! I got into linocut & block printing, and have been having a lot of fun working on designs for that kind of printing. I even made a few printed shirts! And of course there was Andromeda, the first puppet I've ever made, and pretty much my proudest achievement in all my years of art so far.

I've honestly been spending less time on social media proper, usually forgetting to check tumblr for days or weeks at a time. Which has been good and bad, but overall better for me to stop feeling like I HAVE to fully backlog everything ever.

I got my first tattoo this year after wanting one for years and years! And that opened up a whole new can of worms and now I'm ending the year with 5 tattoos and 2 more scheduled in the next couple months oops! My first tattoo was Joltik, with my first ever pet spide!

I started keeping spiders this year after years of being too concerned about keeping pets that required live feeding! That also was a slippery slope. I picked up Indrid my red-backed jumper and Autumn my pumpkin patch t at the end of January, and now I have them, a regal jumper, a red-knee t, and a togo starburst t. You'd never guess that less than a decade ago I was scared shitless of all spiders. :> Especially now that I will occasionally free-handle wild spiders that need relocation to someplace safer. (Mostly still just jumpers tho)

Things aren't perfect by any means and I still have a lot of areas I want to personally improve myself in, but I feel like overall this has been a really really good year for me and I want to keep that momentum going into 2024! More art! More projects just for me! More time with friends! More enjoying games! More tidying my space literally and metaphorically!

#in fairness re: driving it only was a danger when i was seriously sleep deprived on top of the adhd understimulation #i am fine now if i am seriously sleep deprived but taking my medicine. that's normal levels of sleepy

[duckulamoved]

wasted jamack potential. wasted. brief kipo spoiler int ags.

#diary of a count #literally the one segment with him and dave getting the keys. whack dynamic. i was deprived. #wheres my lifechanging field trip with zuko esque shenanigans #its what fanfic is for. if i must write i must write #using. ocs and expanding world and characters based on my own headcanons kipo and co need a break man let them nap

[comradekatara]

toph & zuko and the highwayman & fred the horse? simply two iconic Be Gay Do Crimes duos

#'no. freds a talking horse he can do what he wants' 'i wanna steal' #toph&zuko #i wish we'd gotten a toph & zuko lifechanging field trip i wanna watch them do crimes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hitomishiga]

oh and while we're here lets talk about yohamari mari fucking fascinates me conceptually bc she's like, essentially this inward, kinda reclusive introverted kid who grew up to be screamo meme queen 2000 over the course of like two years especially (what the FUCK happened in america). you still get glimpses of her (underlying? old? true?) nature from time to time, where she has a tendency to set herself apart from the group even when she involves herself, to brood angstily at the edge of a pier on the other side of the shot to the rest of aqours, and if u look in many emotionally charged group shots she and sometimes kanan or dia, are off centre slightly. she's a really great senpai like that. looking out for her kids. anyway mari glorification rant aside, id love to see more soft yohamaris. meme team supreme is fun it's really fucking fun, but yohane and mari are both,, outsiders putting on airs in order to fit in. they both have a tendency for solitude, though i get the feeling in yoshikos case it was more bc of how other ppl treated her than of her own volition. But. ill bet that mari didnt have many friends in america, if any. (coincidentally that lines up with yoshikos middle school years. its a miracle). just. let them be soft. let them have a moment. let's everyone have a lifechanging field trip with mari ohara.

#maris one on ones are LEGENDARY bc that's when the guard comes down #or rather. that's when she fucking reads you to hell and back #new.txt #on another note: mari is the eldest and also an only child and from experience. only children Be Like That #yoshiko has a bit of that too but she's also 15 and had no friends so she had to become more self sufficient #anyway #kanan and you had lifechanging solo field trips with mari #dia DESPERATELY needs one #but yoshiko and chika deserve one too. let them

[mellowzukodeer]

Sometimes what you need isn't a dramatic declaration or a lifechanging field trip or even a kiss.

Sometimes it's just a hug.

And Sokka is there for Zuko, even while he's fast asleep.

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Thanks once again to @onmyliteraturebullshitagain for this beautifully written relationship ♥️

#unconscious dedication #the sleep situation #onmyliteraturebullshitagain #midwest bi disaster #zukka #midwest bi disaster zukka #atla #podfic #atla podfic #that feeling when you wake up and you're still being cuddled

[mistystarshine]

So here's an idea that has haunted me for years now. AU where an encounter with a powerful spirit replaces Azula's firebending with airbending, forcing her to switch sides whether she likes it or not. After all, airbenders are ~ enemies of the fire nation ~ and we know Ozai wouldn't be above pulling out that old extermination order, even against his own daughter. That leaves two options for what happens next.

1.) Forced to join the gaang, where everyone is highly suspicious of her, but also not about to miss this opportunity or condemn her to death. Also, while Aang is trying not to be happy about someone else's unhappiness, he is highkey elated not to be the only airbender anymore. (even if the other one is Azula)

2.) Lifechanging field-trip with Zuko (and Iroh)

#Avatar #AtLA #Azula #Princess Azula #Zuko #Prince Zuko #Aang #Avatar Aang #let's face it. Of all characters in the series #Azula could serve to benefit from the philosophy of air most #This isn't just spirits being a dick #This is spirits trying to start returning balance to the world and also her

[evienyx]

Just started Fractures, and well I guess technically, Zuko Had a Lifechanging staycation with Ozai 0_0

A life-changing field trip with himself in a cell for three years.

#fractures atla #ask #ask away #some field trips are day trips #some field trips are a week #zuko's field trips are three year long journeys of self discovery and general life pain

[oddlittlestories]

So I totally forgot that CHASE believes in aliens??

Anyways in light of this information I have decided Chase must join the Roswell road trip

#house md #Robert Chase #lawrence kutner #lifechanging field trips

[captainkirkk]

Zuko going over to the bnha world and giving his au classmates lifechanging field trips: :) toph: >:(

Toph is going to fight Class 1A for the right to the next field trip. And that’s not a fight Class 1A would win.

#ask #anon #atla bnha swap

[aangfanclub]

sozin’s comet (finale) reaction!!!

ok here’s like part 1 of our reactions to the finale!! I’ll write out the rest and add our audio reactions later but for now uh. catch me sobbing about iroh and zuko for literally the rest of my life ??

Zuko getting mad that they’re wasting time and just throwing hands with aang himself,, every time zuko is faced with a choice he simply chooses the most dramatic option and i couldn’t respect him more for that

But like?? I can’t believe zuko was sleeping on the info that the firelord was gonna BURN DOWN the entire earth kingdom????? No wonder baby’s so stressed??

Toph the firelord chucking flaming rocks at everyone was everything ive ever needed. Truly. I wish toph would throw a flaming rock at me

Okay okay I can’t BELIEVE aang got sent to the Island of Character Development like thats so funny,,,, sjdkfkjs the writers said lets physically remove u from the plot for a minute so u can have some personal/spiritual growth before the climax like what a POWER move. Aang needed some internal growth so they literally grounded him from the plot until he was ready. Legends only

Also i’m so happy momo was there with him!! I always feel better when momo’s there,, & i love that the gaang just assumed momo was with him and no one was worried ghdjsk

TOPH WAS ABSOLUTELY ROBBED OF HER LIFECHANGING FIELD TRIP WITH ZUKO like,,, they could’ve bonded over their lonely Rich Kid childhoods.. Their parents who didn’t understand/love them... their bangs in their faces all the time.... We could’ve had it all :(

Toph was so excited to have an emo big brother but zuko just didn’t have space in his brain for it (understandable, he’s shifted back into Find Aang mode) but i still think we were robbed

Sokka climbing into appa’s mouth to look for momo was peak comedy like fjjkdsakfjds remember that one time when he tried to sacrifice momo to that sea serpent thing??? Fellas that is Growth

Anyway suki really is out here being so cute constantly, serving looks in every single episode. We owe it all to her

That look on azula’s face when ozai said she couldn’t come with him :((( azula sucks but she’s really just a teenager trying to earn her father’s love the same way zuko was. Why is my heart BROKEN over AZULA

Sidenote firelord azula is truly a terrifying concept

June could kill me & id thank her

I cant. Believe. Zuko has been carrying around iroh’s sandal this whole time DJFKSDDSKJL THATS SO GROSS AND CUTE?? Also i love that zuko said “no avatar? Better get my uncle” like. Zuko’s love and respect for iroh knows no bounds and he’s right

All these other avatars suck for telling aang to stray from his morals. Hes TWELVE he doesnt need to COMMIT MURDER pls get a braincell!!!!!

king bumi’s return!!!! Also i’m so into the Society of Good Old Men jdfsjkfsjkds

ZUKO AND IROH’S REUNION. OKAY. OKAY. im not kidding when i tell u i was crying?? I couldn’t speak? It was so sweet and heartbreaking and it highlighted all of zuko’s growth in the most vulnerable way. He’s so used to trying to earn his father’s love that he’s afraid iroh won’t accept him, that he’s broken the bond they used to have, but iroh never gave up on him!!! Iroh always knew he was just a hurt kid who needed some love and their relationship is so so important!!!!! That hug BROKE me and i never want to talk about anything else except that moment excuse me i have to cry for 20 years

[nightmarishmomo]

toph! for the character ask ☺️

How I feel about this character: Toph is so cool, a total badass, love her

All the people I ship with her romantically: I actually don’t ship her with anyone. That won’t stop me from reblogging cute fan art of course, but I just can’t see her with anyone

My non romantic OTP for this character: Aang and Katara, and I really wish they would have expanded on her friendship with Katara a lot more instead of having them butt heads most of the time

My unpopular opinion: I don’t like how she became a cop in the Legend of Korra, I don’t think it fits her character at all. She was definitely not known to be a lawful citizen and I love the idea of her being Bumi’s successor 

One thing I wish had happened: I absolutely wish she had her lifechanging field trip with Zuko, that would have been so great because they would have made such a chaotic duo

[doyoubelieveinwhateverr]

An idea to ruin your day

The Dragon Prince season 4.

Runaan is found and released from his coin, his binding is removed by Zym and he's filled in on everything that's happened thus far. After most of an episode of conflicting feelings of guilt, anger and sadness towards everything, he and Rayla reconcile and hug it out.

He discovers her relationship with Callum and there's a whole episode of just the two of them hanging out á la Zuko & Sokka emotional lifechanging field trip of shovel talks, puns and all round awkwardness that ends with them saving each other and Callum pretty much getting adopted into the fam by Runaan and Runaan adopted into the gang by everyone and everything is okay.

It's time to go back to the village and Runaan is dying to see his husband again, especially since Rayla told him how his flower had seemingly sank, leading Ethari to believe he's dead and how she had been ghosted.

He does the unveiling ritual, determined to clear Rayla's name and return to his beloved.

Then the illusion falls away to reveal the village ravaged, some parts burnt, some frozen and others levelled. Viren had gotten there first. Only a few of the elves managed to escape falling into his hands by hiding. Ethari isn't among them.

It's the last episode of the season.

#the dragon prince #tdp #runaan #ethari #rayla #angst