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[darika-chan]

I love his facial expressions here, just look at his face: he moves his jaw from side to side.

what it means in body language meaning?

I think it's some kind of abuser's sign. Jaw motion in animal world means expression of aggression and wishing of dominance, and it fits well to Quaritch's personality.

yes, he's absolutely abuser and immoral person, and I like it so much 😈

#miles quaritch #avatar 2 #avatar the way of water #avatar movie #recombinant #avatar recoms #recom group #recom squad #recom quaritch #atwow #quaritch #avatar quaritch #avatar miles quaritch #navi quaritch #quaritch recom #gif #colonel quaritch #colonel miles quaritch

[darika-chan]

this fandom is so fucking problematic.

similar things happen to me before: my edits have been stolen too and now I see this awful case when thieves make artist leave the fandom

I just have no words...

Announcement

A quick announcement from me, a disappointing one for those who have excitedly followed along with my stories in the Avatar fandom. After some upsetting experiences with plagiarism, I won’t be posting any more works in the Avatar fandom on Tumblr or AO3.

This is because my one shot “Stolen Laughs” about Spider and Quaritch was plagiarised by another person on Tumblr. My original ideas and writing were copied word for word, butchered, then reposted by someone else. This person knows who they are, and has been called out by my friends and followers in this community.

What made it worse is after this person was rightfully called out, instead of doing the responsible, respectful thing by apologising and deleting my stolen work (and stolen works from other creators they plagiarised) they decided to harass me on Tumblr by sending me anons and messages and deflecting the blame.

I, and other creators in this fandom are the victims, but this person has wrongfully painted themselves out to be the innocent person. They hurt me and others deeply by stealing art and writing that take a lot of time, energy, and creativity to make.

Then, they wanted ME to forgive them for stealing said writing, and asked me to stop telling people to be mad at them. I did not make the call out post or ask my friends to send them polite messages to take down the stolen works from their blog. But I am so, so grateful to my friends for standing by me and supporting me through this difficult time. It’s very appreciated.

It’s incredibly disheartening to see that this person is antagonising the creators they have stolen works from and won’t accept responsibility by admitting their blame and righting their wrongs. This could have easily been fixed by an apology and deleting the stolen content and refraining from reposting stolen works again. But no, they chose not to do that.

I know this because the original account who stole my writing actually blocked me instead of apologising, and as mentioned above, chose to send my anonymous messages to harass me into making me feel guilty for their faults.

For the people waiting for the next chapters of “Live And Let Die”, I am sorry but I won’t be continuing the story or writing any new works in the Avatar fandom. Otherwise, I am done sharing my work here. English is not my first language. I put a lot of hard work, time, and effort into writing something good and improving myself as a writer.

I won’t be going anywhere and I’m still writing because I’m passionate about it and not going to let this experience put me off what I’m passionate about. In the future though, I won’t be posting any Avatar related works on my blog.

I’m very excited for the next thing I will be creating, only the future will tell what that is, and for those of you who have supported me as a friend and as a creator, I cannot wait to show you what it is.

Thank you for reading and understanding❤️

#STOP FUCKING STEALING CONTENT

[darika-chan]

MY BLUE SPHYNX CAAAT 💙💙

Render and lineart practice with Lyle Wainfleet

Notes: I thought drawing Lyle would be fun and a good rendering challenge, I had a little panic because I underestimated him (his facial features were difficult for me, even using exact references), but I don't regret it. 😂

I also have some other lineart of my babygirl Quaritch in progress, I hope to show them to you soon.

My mood last week:

[darika-chan]

Andrew suits him well

pragr

No cause I thought bro's name was Andrew but it's actually Antonio?!

[darika-chan]

piece of art 🤌

Big, blue and armed (cat)

[darika-chan]

I love your blog!!! I think you are really cool and the wallpaper you make of the recoms is to die for!!!

thank you 😭❣️glad that you like wallpapers ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

[darika-chan]

I believe that they realised that in 100% way that they're just slaves of RDA, but some of them are hoping for better live after the end of the mission, and other are just feels so... frustrated and doomed?

like, look at the Mansk, he looks so sad before the last battle:

my boy looks like he absolutely don't really want to participate in this mission, BUT HE HAS NO CHOICE? he so sickening tired of it, but if he or some of recoms will try to turn against their slave owners RDA, humans will just turn off them and restructure all the squad, isn't it obvious?

Do you guys think recoms ever get jealous of Quaritch? I mean, imagine being reborn, and having like…nothing. No social ties, nothing, and you have no choice but to hang with your squad, people who are just as miserable as you and do your job because there’s nothing else out there for you.

And then, some Mowgli looking kid appears outta nowhere, and now one of your squad suddenly has that piece of their identity you all desperately crave, and have to watch as this person slowly, painfully builds a bond with him, how he comes to life, becomes less of a corporate asset and more of an individual thanks to this sudden responsibility, a priority that is not the mission.

And you’re left behind with the rest. Still a nobody, still made for nothing more than to bark on command.

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..that must suck 😬

[darika-chan]

personally I don't see them as a ship, only like a bromance, but these headcanons are so cute ❣️

Ja & Lopez headcanons

This ship's had my friend @roxynmae and I in a chokehold for months, long before the pairing became a mainstay in our fics we're writing hehehe. 

Decided to share some of my favourite headcanons that I have for Japez based on how I write them in my longfic “Left For Dead” on AO3. 

If you’d like to see another awesome take on Ja x Lopez, go check out @roxynmae's fic “Live And Let Die” (we've collaborated on a couple of these headcanons together).

Very excited to talk about the boys. Let’s get into it!

Ja’s parents weren’t present during his childhood. He was raised by his paternal grandparents, a retired veteran and a nurse. He was a quiet kid who liked books, and only came out of shell after someone picked a fight with him. 

Lopez was raised by a single father, but belonged to a big family surrounded by lots of people. His family indulged and enabled him, especially when he got into trouble (which happened a lot).

Ja joined up with the army to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps. He also wanted to provide for them, the way they had for him. Lopez joined the marines out of necessity, and because he was out of options. But by then he’d developed an issue with authority.

Both signed up for employment with the RDA after different but similar experiences with grief. Ja’s grandparents passed away. Because they were all he had, he saw no reason to stick around on Earth. Lopez’s father was ill, and he took the contract to send back money to support him. Sadly, his father passed away during the six years he was in transit to Pandora. 

They rose through the SecOps ranks to be among the first candidates that Colonel Miles Quaritch selected for Project Phoenix. Before that, they were good friends, viewed as a dynamic duo when it came to giving assignments. 

Ja and Lopez were decanted as recombinant assets at the same time. Ja’s awakening was disorienting, but he was more level-headed. It was Lopez who became violent, thrashing on the table, damaging medical equipment. He only calmed once Ja pinned him down and spoke to him. 

They’d been dorm mates since their earlier days as humans. They become dorm mates again to maintain a sense of familiarity to their old lives. They also just prefer each other’s company, even if they have different ideas of house rules and cleanliness. 

Their feelings, unspoken in their former life, and only recently revealed in their present life, are built on a strong foundation of friendship. There’s a lot of trust between them and they balance each other very well with the other’s rationality or chaos. 

On the surface, a sort of “Lopez, No” “Lopez, yes” dynamic; one’s quiet, the other’s loud; one thinks things through, the other only has 1 brain cell and it’s barely functioning.

Below the surface, there’s a lot of grief and rage there. For both of them the other is a strong grounding force. In their new lives, they’re the most familiar thing. 

Lopez, more than Ja, is known for resource guarding and becoming very protective over his squad; namely Ja and the Colonel’s son, Spider. But like him, Ja can switch in an instant from the quiet-natured medic to a cutthroat soldier when it’s needed. 

Both are equally in denial about the feelings they have for each other. Inevitably, and only through a serious set of circumstances, will Ja be the one to express those feelings and act on them (very vague spoiler, I guess, sorry).

Though Lopez can be loud-mouthed and unhinged whenever Ja is around, he’s actually very private about his love life, and has to be persuaded into talking about it. 

It’s impossible to mention them without mentioning Spider Socorro. Kid’s gonna throw a b*tch fit when he finds out they’ve been secretly dating all along. 

Special mention: those who know me personally here also know that my theme song for Ja and Lopez (that I wrote chapter 12 to lmao) is “Bom Bidi Bom” by Nick Jonas.

#avatar lopez #avatar twow #alexander ja #recom ja

[darika-chan]

HD wallpapers with my beautiful girl ❦

#zdinarsk #avatar 2 #avatar movie #avatar the way of water #recombinant #avatar recoms #recom group #recom squad #atwow #recom zdinarsk #avatar zdinarsk #zdinarsk recom #james cameron avatar #zdog #avatar zdog #recom zdog #z dog #wallpapers #lockscreen

[darika-chan]

oh my 😏

ik zdog’s kisses taste like that sugary sweet bubblegum 🫦

[darika-chan]

SAY IT LOUDER

Please Avatar 3 give us a scene where Spider just rips into Jake about how he left him with the RDA with no intention of ever rescuing him. Confront him about Jake’s complete lack of faith in him and how he expected Spider to give them up. Tell him about how he was his father figure growing up and how much it hurt to know that the man he wanted to be his dad left him to be tortured and how betrayed he felt. How he’s realised how badly he was treated growing up and that he deserved better than what the Sully’s ever offered him. Don’t let Spider be a pushover and welcome Jake and Neytiri as his parents with open arms when they’ve never shown any concern or care for him up until the very end. Neytiri was literally going to kill him, do we really expect Spider to just forget that? Let Spider defend himself

[darika-chan]

Sorry guys but I gotta say this. I’m a fan of the idea of Quaritch being a dad to Spider and getting redeemed and his arc as a father but I’m not a Quaritch stan so—

My biggest anti-Quaritch take is that I feel like he’s somewhat responsible for the sins his human counterpart committed, since he took full credit for them. What I mean is, he shows zero fear, sadness, guilt or remorse at the memories of his predecessor, which means that he embraced those actions as his own and they do not bother him. If they did, we’d see that on screen.

Now, I WILL say that he is, in my opinion, only responsible for those crimes as long as he embraces the identity of Miles Quaritch (which he does, despite saying the opposite, which we see very clearly through his actions), so if he diverges from that identity and becomes his own person, if he stops seeing his past life’s actions as his own, then I say he’s in the clear. Not from his current wrongdoings ofc, but from things human Q did. If recom Q doesn’t claim credit for those actions, when we can’t hold him responsible since his body was growing in a tube at the time.

That’s just my take at the moment tho, idk, maybe my opinion will change the more I reflect on this character, or as more movies come out, but rn this is how I see him. He’s a very curious father and I love that side of him but outside of that, he’s still the bad guy.

#absolutely agree #recom Quaritch are not the same to human Quaritch

[darika-chan]

ma handsome Alexander ╥﹏╥ 🤍

A simple Ja for old time's sake :> He will forever hold a coil in my heart

[darika-chan]

Lopeeeez 😭💕

A gift for @smoldoddles :>

#lopez recombinant #lopez recom #avatarthewayofwater #avatar2 #avatar #avatarmovie #avatarfanart #fanart #recomlopez #recoms #recombinants #lopezavatar #recomgroup #recomteam #recomsquad

[darika-chan]

I don't hear about any Geneva Convention in the Avatar world, sooo

“that character is a war criminal” that character is from a fictional fantasy world and did not attend the geneva convention

#he's innocent #miles quaritch #he's angel you know? #avatar 2 #recom quaritch

[darika-chan]

but mama. I'm in love with the crimimal 😭 and this type of love... Isn't rational, it's physical

#I WANT TO FUCK HIM SO MUCH PLEASE HELP #manskisalive #mansk #mansk avatar #recom mansk #avatar mansk #avatar 2 #avatar movie #avatar the way of water #recombinant #avatar recoms #recom group #recom squad #grillmaster mansk #wallpapers

[darika-chan]

just LOOK at my beautiful husband 🥰💙but don't stare, he's mine 😡

#mansk #mansk avatar #mansk recom #avatar mansk #avatar 2 #avatar movie #avatar the way of water #recombinant #avatar recoms #recom group #recom squad #mansk na'vi #oliver mansk #kevin mansk #kevin dorman #atwow #screenshot #wallpapers #lockcreens