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attackfish · 1 year

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5hc prompt: dam projects in the Earth Kindom disrupt the Foggy Swamp's ecosystem, driving out the people living there

What I love about this prompt is that it's such a classic "this is the Avatar's job" scenario. The Avatar's job is to act as a bridge between the human and spirit worlds and communities, and also to balance competing human interests. The role fascinates me because the Avatar acts as a sort of extremely powerful global refferee, a situation that only works because the Avatar is a reincarnation of an always well meaning person, saving the role from the problems of other inhereted forms of power: [Link].

The Foggy Swamp, as seen in both Avatar and Korra, is not only full of people living a traditional life on the economic fringes of a more settled society, it's also full of spirits. And we all know what happens when the spaces that spirits are attached to are threatened by human action.

This makes things complicated, because let's be real, without powerful spirits causing havoc, it can be all too easy to ignore a small group of isolated, disconnected people being forced out of their homes. It happens all the time in our world. However, the spirits here act as a leveler.

This might not be something that is initially appreciated by the people of the Foggy Swamp, because I'm not sure the spirits would necessarily distinguish very well between the humans that have been living in the swamp for ages, and are just as distressed by their home disappearing as the spirits are, and the humans actually causing the problem. In fact, this sudden onslaught of attacks by spirits might be what actually drives the Foggy Swamp people to contact the Avatar. They send a single messenger who must brave the outside world, to find the Avatar and bring her's people suffering to his attention.

So of course Aang goes to the swamp. He has to discover the source of the spirits' displeasure, trace the water loss upstream, and find the dam. Distroy the dam, problem solved, right? But why was the dam built, and why now? Let's say that after the war there was a baby boom in the Earth Kingdom, that led to a rising population, so more marginal farmland needs to be put into production to feed these people in the earth Kingdom, leading to people moving into the arid plains around the foothills of Omashu, and they need water to irrigate so that they can grow crops, or they will starve. The dam stores water for that irrigation.

Aang ends up negotiating the amount of water the farmers can take, verses what the Foggy Swamp needs, and the farmers, moving into the plains from wetter regions in the Northern Earth Kingdom, need to learn how to farm less water intensive crops. This is a happy and meaningful solution to the kinds of problems we are facing more and more of in the real world as climate change accelerates, and I think this would make an excellent premise for a tie-in novel, or Avatar comic.

#avatar the last airbender #posts i created #foggy swamp #do you want to ask a question it doesn't have to be a question #aang #aang d'awww

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ginaisgaby · 2 years

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🕊”London Bridge Is Down”🕊 ✨ May Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II rest in peace in heaven 😇🙏🏻🤍🕊 Deeply saddened condolences to all the Royal Family of United Kindom 🙏🏻🤍 • • • #RestInPeace #RestInLove #HerMajesty #QueenElizabethII #Dead #96yearsold #70reigningyears #UnitedKingdom #September8th2022 (at Balmoral Castle & Estate) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiSqcMtPbRT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#restinpeace #restinlove #hermajesty #queenelizabethii #dead #96yearsold #70reigningyears #unitedkingdom #september8th2022

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magicalsprings · 3 years

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Classic T-Shirt

https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Journey-to-London-by-Magicalsprings/86279404.WFLAH

#london #united kindom #big ben #london bridge #t shirt #tank top #alinedress

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colgreen31 · 6 years

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The Abandoned Canal Wharf Mill, Hebden Bridge by Colin Green Via Flickr: View my blog at, www.colingreenphotography.co.uk

#Walkley #Clog #Mill #Mytholmroyd #Hebden #Bridge #Calderdale #Derelict #Disused #cgwalkclog #Canal Wharf Mill #Yorkshire #United Kindom #England #Abandoned

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mashkaroom · 3 years

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This isn’t related to anything, but frozen 2 was actually...pretty good of a movie, and you can literally see the disney profit model holding it back. firstly, the music was really good -- i was really impressed with the writing team and with the vocal performances, especially by idina menzel. the songs that didn’t make it in because the plot was rearranged were also excellent. wrt to the visuals, i’m not the biggest fan of this specific animation style, but it’s clear it’s very well done -- i’ve no choice but to be impressed. the plot was whatever (also they fully put a couple of trolls in charge of the kindom for a bit -- is there no fucking line of succession in this goddamn kingdom?? maybe the plot of the movie should have been establishing a functional bureaucracy) and they really yada-yada-ed the magic system, which was basically of the central conceit of the movie so...why did they not put more effort into it? the explanation, such as it was, of the magic system was both confusing and ultimately pretty meaningless -- it added next to nothing of value to the lore or theme or worldbuilding. the themes were clearly meant for a more mature audience (which is i guess what you get for waiting 7 years to make a sequel [which btw just wrenched out a memory out of me that frozen 1 came up literally constantly in my 7th grade latin class -- i cannot emphasize enough how bizarre of an experience learning a dead language throughout the entirety of your teenage years along with 400 more of your cohort is]) -- but anyway, they establish all these themes and then don’t commit to them. Like, the central plot conflict of the movie is literally colonialism lmao. it’s such a strange place to discuss it. My suspicion is that they decided right away to go with a “connecting with mother” storyline, since the “women in the same family connecting with each other” bit worked so well in the first movie; then they were like “is this too basic?” and decided that they should wrap that into a “reckoning with ancestry” thread to cash into that “young leftist with white guilt” market. Then they had somebody on the writing staff who was like “what if we made this about colonialism?” So re: those elements, first of all the mother plotline is boring as shit. Like it doesn’t ring true even to losing a loved one early, but it especially rings soooo hollow wrt the actual relationship that is portrayed in the first movie between elsa and her parents. like we see the parents be so misguided it borders on abusive. and that’s a really interesting dynamic, story-wise, bc the parents are dead and can’t redeem themselves but the baggage they left behind is still there, so the burden of processing that falls exclusively on the daughters. i dare say this is something probably relatable to many of us, bc it’s my sense that most people grow up with pretty misguided parents! (lowkey i feel like the best parenting i’ve seen in my circle are parents who basically went off of vibes rather than idk a philosophy or whatever) i actually would have loved to see a children’s movie address dealing with parents in a nuanced way that isn’t just “one of us is right and the other is wrong” but rather addresses what responsibilities parents and children have to each other, how to navigate intent versus effect, what the value (or lack thereof) of forgiveness is, how to uncover your identity when your entire life was shaped by societal and parental expectations, etc. And the Frozen premise is ideally suited for this! Moreover, a lot of these beats actually DO happen in the movie! Into the unknown is basically elsa trying and failing to convince herself that she wants the life she has and any thoughts to the contrary should be dismissed (and it’s gay as hell, but we’ll get to that later). The climax of show yourself literally says that it was the truth about herself rather than her mother that will bring her peace. But all of these beats are facilitated supernaturally rather than by the very fitting preexisting character background, which makes it lack the satisfaction you’d expect in such a resolution. it never features any reckoning with what made her feel the way she did in the first place -- a projection of the mother’s face singing the climactic realization literally undercuts the entire plotline. like here you can see how basically being propaganda for the american lifestyle (in this case the nuclear family e.g.) undercuts their message. this predictably only gets more egregious when they attempt to tackle colonialism. so quick summary of this plotline: anna and elsa’s grandfather basically genocided an indigenous people -- the northuldra -- after tricking them into building a dam that stifles the power of the forest or something. also their mother was actually northuldra. also magic comes from the northuldra forest? it would probably be pretty problematic re: the magical native stereotype if it was clearer what was going on lmao. at the end, anna breaks the dam even though it’ll flood Arendelle; however, elsa (who was literally frozen because of the sins of the past) swoops in at the last moment and freezes the wave so it causes no damage. However, in an earlier version of the story, the wave actually DOES destroy Arendelle and then they rebuild it with a mix of Arendellian and Northuldran architectural styles. this version actually proposed a genuine vision for how to deal with the impacts of colonialism instead of the final movie where sisterly love absolves everyone of consequences.

ok, so about the gay: i know people read a coming out into let it go, and maybe this is just cause i watched frozen 1 when i was still straight, but i didn’t really see it. but the lyrics in frozen 2 elsa’s songs match up so well with the coming out experience, i have difficulty imagining the song-writers weren’t aware of it, especially since people were already calling for elsa to be gay. Like let’s take a look at these songs -- into the unknown first. She sings

“Everyone I've ever loved is here within these walls I'm sorry, secret siren, but I'm blocking out your calls I've had my adventure, I don't need something new I'm afraid of what I'm risking if I follow you”

This idea of having being afraid of ruining relationships even (and especially) with the people you love most by coming out is something that a lot of queer people can relate to. Then she sings:

“Are you here to distract me so I make a big mistake? Or are you someone out there who's a little bit like me? Who knows deep down I'm not where I'm meant to be? Every day's a little harder as I feel your power grow Don't you know there's part of me that longs to go”

How much do i need to explain this? (like all my 7 followers are some form of queer anyway lol) But again this battle of trying to hide but knowing deep down that you can’t, longing for “someone a little bit like me” -- it’s classic queer. Then she sings a bridge-type thing:

“Are you out there? Do you know me? Can you feel me? Can you show me?”

I mean, again, what is this but longing for community. Then in the climactic song “show yourself”, she sings this:

“Something is familiar Like a dream, I can reach but not quite hold I can sense you there Like a friend I've always known”

this is literally just about reading stone butch blues.

The climactic lyric is “You are the one you've been waiting for all your life” (sung to her rather than by her) and i mean again, this is about finally giving yourself permission to live as your true self. And not gonna lie, i dug that shit. it felt quite authentic. obviously they didn’t actually make her gay, bc of course, but she is gay in my heart!

Ok, so what would have made the movie live up to its full potential?

1) fixing that stuff i already said about the parents; it felt like such bs that anna and elsa were dealing with ancestral sins but also their parents were saints whose love fixed everything? how much more interesting would it have been if reckoning with their parents’ impacts on them led them to reckoning with the impacts of their entire ancestry and in turn their society? if reckoning with their personal responsibilities to each other led them to consider their society’s responsibility to fix the past wrongs that allowed it to flourish? this wouldn’t even be counter to disney’s individualism, but it allows for a slight reconceptualization of it that i think would feel fresh.

2) having actual consequences for the colonialism and genocide

3) either cutting all the new magic system stuff or developing it in a way that in turn helps develop the themes. frankly, the “sometimes people are born with magic” that was implied in movie one was enough.

4) making elsa gay, and i say this not just because i want gay characters but because that genuinely makes sense within the story

5) basically, the central theme should have been “i have all this baggage and i can’t resolve it by looking for answers only within my society; in order to be fully at peace with myself, i must work to right the wrongs of my society that obscured the different ways of knowledge that could help people like me; sometimes you must go into the unknown in order to understand the known” which is a message i think very well suited for the united states!

#In general Disney has created this really cowardly mold for children’s media #where the messages rarely go beyond the individual and are universally basic as shit #and that comes from a fundamental lack of respect for the audience #people keep telling me that pixar has deep multidimensional messages #and i’m sorry to say that your standards are just low #like people keep citing inside out to me and the message of that was literally “it’s okay to be sad sometimes”#cheburashka had a more complex message than that.#i know nobody asked for this long-ass analysis #and i myself watched frozen 2 in like may so idek why i started thinking about it again now #but it's just such a weird yet revealing movie #frozen 2 should have been abolishing prisons #but like seriously idk where they pulled colonialism from #but if they wanted to address a serious issue #prisons would have been perfect #because elsa basically spent half her life in a form of incarceration for being a perceived societal menace #i guess that's more difficult to weave into a story arc #oh holy fuck this reminds me that when i was 16 i was paid (very little might i say but nevertheless)#to 'ghostwrite' a witch cozy #whatever the fuck that is #but literally 'witch cozy' was the entirety of the prompt #no plot or characters or anything #there were 3 novellas #in the first one they made me changed the gay love story to a het one lmaoooo #in book 2 she busts a crime ring or sth and then realizes that social determinants made them commit crimes #and then in book 3 she becomes a prison abolitionist lmaooo #she starts running a rehabilitation program in the local prison using theater #this character was so self-insert it was ridiculous #no offense at whoever's writing the flash but 16-yo disaster child me had 15x more social consciousness than yall #sorry to analyze a different piece of media in the tags for another long-ass media analysis #but in s1 of the flash the local prison can't handle the new metahumans

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chrysanthemumpink · 5 years

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I’m going to be honest, Daenerys hasn’t really made herself seem like a queen. Why would the northern people like her? Why should the seven kingdoms like her? Does she care about them? She brought an army and dragons, but no real way to feed and sustain them. How will she sustain an entire kingdom? Do we need Dany for the war? Fuck yea! Does that mean she deserves to be queen? Does it really?

Dany will be great for battle and for winning but what about survival? Actual people? She dismissed and threatened Sansa, the person who knows more about the north and the people’s needs more than anyone else. And because of Sam, I think she’s only recently realized that absolutism has consequences and can cause more discord than than unity. People are complex and black and white power resolves won’t work. Even Cersei, knows that. Dany says she’s not like her father, and we as the audience knows she isn’t, but her actions really don’t differentiate her enough from her father. Dany has yet to actually make people like her, she just gives ultimatums. She says she’s not like the mad king, but then says her dragons “eat whatever they want”?! Which is it?! Are you or are you not evil? She hasn’t actually given Sansa anything but flippant comments. She threatened Sansa to Jon before she had a real conversation with Sansa face to face. She says she “doesn’t need to be Sansa’s friend,” as if Sansa isn’t the eldest true born Stark and whose leadership garners the most confidence from northern people. Not everyone has to be Danny’s enemy. Queens build bridges, they don’t burn them . and every opportunity for building has been shunned by Dany.

Idk, ever since Dany joined the main cast it’s become clear that Dany wants a throne but knows little about kindoms. She wants the throne, but why? There’s a 99% chance that any reason that Dany could give has nothing to do with actual people.

#got spoilers #game of thrones #daenerys targaryen #sansa stark

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kittensartswriting · 5 years

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Writing Questions Tag

@shewhowalksbehindthewheels tagged me, thank you! :)

1. Describe the plot in one sentence.

The Empress tries to wipe out a noble family, but four of their children manage to survive and when 13 years later they are adults they fight back.

2. Pick one sight, smell, sound, feel, and taste to describe the aesthetic of your novel.

Weary castle behind a misty field, smell of gunpowder, accelerating pound of a steam locomotive, softness of a fine silk, taste of your own blood

3. Which 3+ songs would make up a playlist for the novel?

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata Erik Satie - Gnossienne, nro. 4 Hans Zimmer - “Mountains” from Interstellar Auri - Night 13 CMX - Kuoleman Risteyksestä Kolme Virstaa Pohjoiseen (English: “From the crossing of death three miles towards north”) Mokoma - Sydänjuuret (English: “The roots of hearth”)

Sorry, I couldn’t keep it shorter but I could have add a lot more songs :D

4. What’s the time period and location in which the novel takes place.

It takes place in a fantasy world that is inspired from several different times and places, but the world is going through industrialization. The main setting, Angusian Empire, is inspired mostly from Roman Empire and 19th century Europe, but it’s a very heterogeneous Empire, so different areas are inspired from different places. For example Cabalusia is inspired kinda from Scotland and Celts. Then there is the secondary setting, Dir’ahin, which is inspired from the Sami people, Japan and Ainu people who were from Japan too. And then there is Manoa, which is also a big kindom and has many influences. It’s mostly inspired by Imperial Russia, Mongolia and China. It’s a whole continent so a lot of different cultures fit there.

6. Are there any former titles you’ve considered but discarded?

Actually no. The whole thing didn’t have a title for the longest time. It could still change though if I come up with something better.

7. What’s the first line of your novel?

“In year 495 on the first autumn morning of frost begun the Fall of cor Mantgamias, who had ruled Cabalusia for a millennia.”

8. What’s a dialogue you’re particularly proud of?

I’ve posted this earlier and it might not be the best dialogue I’ve written, but I think it’s funny :D For context Valeri and cor Faélin just had a drunken fight.

Valeri reeled of his feet, but cor Faélin took hold of his armpit before he fell on the ground.

“And you’re supposedly an heir to an ancient royal family?” Cor Faélin rolled his eyes.

“I still trashed you. I would mind you that”, Valeri said.

“Yes, yes. It was quite shameful.”

They headed towards the inn. Valeri’s stomach was unsettled. He hoped he could keep it’s insides where it belonged, inside. “You weren’t wrong though. My reasons for being here are pretty selfish. I joined the army was to escape jail. My little brother was a child back then, and I would have left him in the streets completely alone. He deserved better.” He leaned on a streetlight for a while. Dizziness come over him in waves and forced him to swallow down vomit. Damn, he hated vomiting. Please not now. Some pain too creeped down his hip, but he continued forward.

“My eldest brother died there too. At Bear Castle, that is. He had just graduated from the academy. The cor Faélin was there.”

“I know.” Before he could say anything else, penetrating pain paralyzed his side. He leaned on the railing of the bridge crossing the cove. Of course the knife had hit him in the burned side.

“As I said earlier, you shouldn’t reveal so easily your secrets to your enemies.” A crooked smile curled on cor Faélin’s lips. Or at least there was an attempt for that. His face didn’t seem to work properly.

“Oh, shut up”, Valeri hissed in pain. He brushed his side. It felt wet. He lifted the hand on the level of his eyes, but even in the glow of streetlights, it took him a while to focus his eyes on the hand. It was bloodied. “How deep did you stab me?”

“Clearly not deep enough.”

9. Which line from the novel most represents it as a whole?

I don’t really know, too many lines. Maybe this one: “Let’s just say it’s my sacrifice for the better future.”

10. Who are your character faceclaims?

I have only one faceclaim and it’s for Cassia. Faceclaims are hard to find especially as I’ve drawn them all. But Cassia’s faceclaim is Eva Green because even before I drew her, I thought about her as Eva Green.

11. Sort your characters into Harry Potter houses!

Valeri: Huffelpuff (The hat would give him opportunity to choose between Huffelpuff and Gryffindor and he would choose Huffelpuff) Faerathos: Ravenclaw Fiolew: Slytherin Cassia: Slytherin (The hat would give her opportunity to choose between Ravenclaw and Slytherin and she would choose Slytherin) Agrippa: Gryffindor

Some side characters (because this is fun) Marcus: Gryffindor Augustus: Huffelpuff cor Faélin: Ravenclaw Gid’alon: Ravenclaw Alexis: Slytherin Julie: Gryffindor

12. Which character’s name do you like the most?

I like most Agrippa’s given name, Gal’eivil. In Ahinian (for which I have come up with some dictionary) ‘gal’ is daughter or princess and ‘eivil’ is red. In the royal family of Dir’ahin the heir is named always named “Gal’(something)”. Colors are pretty common parts of names and Agrippa had bright red hair even when she was born so there comes the ‘eivil’.

13. Describe each character’s daily outfit.

Faerathos: Tail coat, vest, leather boots and scholar’s blue cloak. His clothes are usually dark and cold toned or light gray. They are provided him by the court so they are usually pretty good quality. In public he uses his silver beech laurel wreath, that is the sign of his doctorate. Cassia: Silk dresses with flowing cloths tied with ornate brooches, long gloves, jewelry, diadem and white fur coat. Her clothes are usually green or dark red. Fiolew: Tail coat, vest, leather boots and top hat. His clothes are usually blue or black and they are tailored but pretty modest and simple. Valeri: He has usually his uniform; black tail coat, breastplate, riding boots, leg plates and captain’s red cape. Other than that he uses quite standard male clothes usually in brow and red earthly colors. Agrippa: flowing silk dresses with puffy hem, not much jewelry, golden diadem, cloths tied and is barefooted when it’s possible. Her dresses are ornate and made from expensive materials, they sometimes have gems or glass stitched in them. She prefers red, orange, yellow, gold and light blue.

14. Do any characters have distinctive birthmarks/scars?

Agrippa has a lot, I mean A LOT, of freckles. Her face is packed with them and they are all over her body. Half of Valeri’s back is covered in burns. He also has a scar that reaches from the corner of his eye across his face to his upper lip and some minor scars too. Fiolew has long scars in his left arm.

15. Which character most fits a character trope?

I don’t think none of them fit perfectly any trope, but maybe Gid’alon fits best to the “eccentric scientist” trope.

16. Which character is the best writer? Worst?

Julie and Faerathos are probably best writers, though they have very different writing styles. Faerathos writes poetry and has that beautiful kind of style. Julie on the other hand writer prose and has very forward and very engaging writing style. Her novels are exiting and thrilling.

17. Which character is the best liar? Worst?

Fiolew and Alexis (Agrippa’s adoptive father) fight for the first place. Fiolew is compulsive liar and believes into his own lies. Alexis is more subtle. He doesn’t really lie, he just slightly manipulates truth very effectively.

18. Which character swears the most? Least?

Fiolew probably swears the most at least from the main cast. Julie doesn’t swear at all.

19. Which character has the best handwriting? Worst?

I think Cassia has very beautiful and elegant hand and even though Agrippa is the artist her handwriting is very sloppy in noble standards. But Fiolew has the worst handwriting. He learned to write as late as age 10, so he haven’t had a lot of practice.

20. Which character is most like you? Least like you?

Faerathos is probably most like me and I’d say that Valeri is the least like me.

21. Which character would you most like to be?

None of them :D Like pretty bad shit is happening to all of them and none of them are exactly the perfect role models. I do admire some aspects of them, but I wouldn’t want to be them really.

Tagging @madmoonink, @kainablue, @midnightstreetwanderings, @violet-clouds-and-skies and @hell-yeah-fantasy!

#tagged #tag game

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bellatrixobsessed1 · 5 years

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Wrought Iron Machine (Part 6)

Zuko pushes his chair in with a force that shook the table. "Careful with the equipment!" Azula snaps. Zuko has steadily

grown more and more irritable as their recording session went on. "What's going on with you?"

"What's going on with me!?" He asks. "What's going on with you?"

Azula rolls her eyes. They don't have time for this.

"I want a break Azula!" He declares. "We haven't had one since we began touring. I though that you left this next week

concert free so we could have one."

"I was kinda hoping for a day of too." TyLee mumbled softly.

Azula sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. Did they really need an on-tour recording session? Perhaps she is pushing

them too hard. She must admit that her throat hurts like hell. "Alright, fine." She caves. "We can have the week off..."

"You sound like you need it." Mai remarks off-handedly. She hopes that Mai is referring to her hoarse voice and not her demeanor.

"Oh, thank you Azula!" TyLee exclaims. "You're the best!" She throws her arms around Azula. "Now I can go and get my hair

done and give Haru a call."

"Haru?" Azula asks. "Why would you call Haru?"

"Because he's sooo cute." TyLee beams.

Azula begs to differ but she won't tell TyLee how to waste her time. She watches Zuko and Mai wander back to the tour bus, she could follow them but she knows what they have in mind. She has kept them deprived for a while. So that left her to decide how she wants to spend her day. She supposes that she can fill it with exploring the Earth Kingdom. Gaoling was a nice enough city, wedged within steep and craggy hills. It hosts an assortment of shops and traditional Earth Kingdom eateries. For awhile she and TyLee walk side by side making mundane conversation but then TyLee breaks off to step into the hair cutter’s building and Azula is alone.

She decides to give the closest restaurant a try. Azula had never been particularly fond of Earth Kindom cuisine, vastly preferring the spice and tang of the Fire Nation. By comparison the food here seems almost bland. She pushes it around with her chopsticks for a few minutes before actually eating it.

Eventually, she pushes her dishes aside and heads back to the tour bus. She doesn’t put any thought into her team of bodyguards, or lack thereof, until she feels a hand on her shoulder.

“You’re from Fire Of Agni aren’t you!”

She lets the fire die in her palm. “That’s correct.”

“Oh. My. Raava!” The boy squeals.

“Not so loud.” Azula hisses. She doesn’t particularly mean to be rude, not to a fan, but the last thing she wants to deal with is a swarm of camera wielding, question spouting, paparazzis. And, Agni, with the kiss scandal fresh out of the press, they would have a lot to ask.

“Oh...sorry.” His voice drops. “I’m just so excited! Where are the other three.”

“Enjoying their day off, I suppose.” Azula shrugged.

“I’m so glad I get to meet you!” He holds out a pen and paper.

Azula takes it and signs it. She supposes that she will either have to remember her bodyguards or get used to encounters like so. Not that being a princess hadn’t earned her plenty of attention. But subjects and fans were different breeds. She is still trying to get a feel for Fire Of Agni’s fandom. A good lot of them were as fierce and crude as the image Azula and the rest of her band try to craft.

.oOo.

As wonderful as this little waste of a week has been for her voice, it is horrid for her state of mind. She is growing restless. It leaves her too much time to think, dwell, and regret. She looks around the tour bus bedroom. It seems that, once again, she is the last one awake. She lies on her back with her hands clasped atop her middle, staring at the ceiling.

She is more than okay with Zuko slumbering, in fact she avoids him as much as she can. She rolls onto her side with a drawn out exhale. She has too much to think about. Mostly she thinks of home. For as many songs as she writes about it being broken and dreadful, she misses it. She misses her father. The very man who they regularly tear apart with vulgar lyrics and unkind shoutouts. She misses him so terribly. Misses when he would tuck her bangs behind her ear and tell her how much potential she has. She misses having not failed him.

Azula draws the covers more tightly around herself.

“You still awake?” Zuko’s voice cuts through her dismal thinking.

She pretends to be asleep.

“I know you’re awake. You used to do this when we were kids…” he trails off.

She shifts slightly.

“You’re going to have to talk about this some time.” He grumbles. “How long do you think we can avoid it before it starts to affect our music?”

Azula groans. “It was a kiss Zuzu.” She pauses. “That’s it.” And it served its purpose.

“If it was just a kiss then why have you been avoiding me?”

“I want to make sure others know, that it was just a kiss.” Azula replies. But that’s just the thing, as much as she wants to put that drunken publicity stunt behind her, she may need to exploit it again.

“Just admit that we were drunk.”

“And what, have the police squad handing us a fine? We need that money for our videos and equipment. How many cymbals has TyLee gone through already?” The girl isn’t exactly careful.

She doesn’t confess that she has every intention of bringing their scandal to a new peak if her voice can’t draw as much attention as she wants it to.

“Well...well…” Zuko trails off. “Well. Just stop making things weird.” She can practically see the pout on his face. “We were just starting to fix what our dad messed up. I want us to be real siblings…”

“Will you two go to bed.” Mai grumbles.

“You have one more day off.” Azula replies. “You can sleep in.” Even so, she doesn’t fancy Mai peeping on a touchy and borderline sappy conversation like this. And to Zuko she closes the discussion, “look, Zuzu, I’m not going to let it affect our music. Not now that we’ve been invited to S.A.S.”

“We were invited to…”

“We’ll talk about it tomorrow.”

“Or after our day off?” Mai asks.

Azula rolls her eyes. “Fine.” She needs to fine tune her attack plan anyhow. She knows that they will need a few new songs, she simply needs to decide if they want to go for quantity or quality. If she gets her way, they will have both. She knows that the thought will follow her to sleep.

She starts to drift into it when Zuko speaks again. “I’m not worried about the music.” He reiterates. “I’m worried about how it will affect us.”

“It won’t.” Azula vows. Yet, somehow, she isn’t quite convinced herself. Fire Of Agni seems to be revealing more uncertainty and instability than she had initially anticipated. She is no longer thinking of how to approach S.A.S. The image of she and Zuko won’t leave her mind. That is what follows her to sleep.

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Shenzhen C Future City Experience Center | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)

A cavern wonderland with marks of the former fishing village: Shangsha is a unique urban village located in the young city Shenzhen, China. It used to be a coastal fishing village, which has developed along with the renewal of the city, while now it is witnessing the rising of C Future City. Through reflecting on the values that rooted in the village, CCD finally decided to take “marks of the fishing village” as the starting point for the design.

Situated at the central area of Shenzhen, Shangsha witnessed the rapid and continuous development of the city over years and became a landmark that gathers numerous young people who are fighting for their future. With so many marks of the past left in this land, it’s a place which can give rise to people’s emotional resonance and provide sources for imagination. Designers drew inspirations from Li Bai’s most famous romantic poem “A Visit to Sky-Mother Mountain in a Dream”. The imaginary scene described in the poem “I would like to travel to the kindoms of Wu and Yue in the dream, and fly over the Mirror Lake in a night with moonlight” and “The stone gate of a great cavern, yawned open”, was what the designers tried to create in the space.

The poem described a wonderland that the poet explored with imagination. Designers intended to create similar scene and atmosphere in the C Future City Experience Center. The building acts as an apartment marketing center in the early stage, but also provides a space for the youth engaged in busy work in CBD of Futian district (Shenzhen) to get out of the workplace and explore the inner self.

The Experience of The C Future City:

Stepping into the sunken experience space from the first floor, visitors are able to catch the sight of courtyard, sky, and water at a different time, angles and perspectives. Such design borrowed the style of Chinese classical gardens, which is simple and unadorned, leaving room for imagination. A scale of different spaces in the building also varies in accordance with the design concept of Chinese classical gardens. Narrow aisles going through the 1st floor, B1 and B2 reproduced the sight-seeing lounge bridges in Chinese gardens to some extent. Transitional belts between aisles, aisles and outdoor gardens as well as aisles and indoor functional areas, are acting like “lines” that provide perfect perspective to enjoy the view of the garden, cloud, sky and the interior settings. The sunken courtyard, outdoor pond, staircase, interior partitions, floor-lamps in the karesansui landscape area, bamboo-made sofa chairs and spherical artworks made from various materials, all take on the shape of “arch”. The facade constructed with gray-white stone walls, bamboo grilles, and white glass, perfectly manifests the spirit of Zen and a quiet and elegant flavor. The tall bamboo-grilled door at the entrance of the first floor, the screen wall in B1 separating the outdoor pond and the indoor area, and the indoor white-gray stone wall, are “planes” of soft and hard textures, which endow the building with a tranquil atmosphere and rich connotations. Under the natural light at day and warm indoor lamplight at night, the combination of “lines”, “arches” and “planes” creates dynamic scenes in the space.

The designer left a space between B1 and B2 for growing plants, which are regarded as embodiments of an old banyan tree. The banyan tree is the totem that carries the history and memories of the village. New green plants sprout out at B2 and grow upwards, bringing a natural feeling into the artificial structure and connecting spaces of different functions at distinct floors. Meanwhile, pine trees, bamboos, stones, and the pond inject vitality and fun into the three-story experience space and once again respond to the oriental characteristics of the whole design and the attribution of the village itself.

Various distinctive artworks were used to decorate the experience center, such as the wooden structure in the corridor and spherical pieces in the transitional zones, which were all made of warm-toned woods, injecting vitality to space. Lighting in the space was designed with the appropriate color temperature, which created a friendly atmosphere for habitation. Based on the concept of inheriting the natural charm of the former fishing village, designers chose to use sandstone, granite, gray burls, and crushed stones, etc. as major materials. Besides, artworks in the space, such as the boat-shaped solid wood table, white beaded installation in the form of fishing net and water wave and karesansui landscape composed of moss balls, rocks, and gray crushed stones, also retained the marks of the past.

Used as a temporary sales center in the early stage and then a commercial facility supporting the residential area, C Future City Experience Center is expecting young people in Shenzhen to pay a visit. Walking around the peaceful, elegant and multifunctional space, you will catch different view in every movement and find pleasure in exploring and integrating with the changeable space.

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