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Comm for @betterweirdo; their OC Dai Yu in a modern AU. I went for Maximum Cute here and I feel like I achieved it. 👍

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@betterweirdo replied to your text post: I would definitely support this! Only I'm not sure I could choose between avamorphs and clay kids...

Haha, yeah, I'm not sure what the best option would be? But ty! ❤

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Headcanons for @betterweirdo: random ATLA characters’ love languages.

Zuko: acts of service. Oh you want to rob these greedy bastards’ galley together? Oh can I light that fountain for you? Oh did you need help breaking out your dad and girlfriend from that maximum security prison? Wanna learn how to firebend? Want violent and justifiable revenge for your mom? Need someone to make tea for everybody? Zuko’s here! Zuko’s got you!

Aang: quality time. Wanna go penguin-sledding? Wanna ride the unagi? Wanna abandon the Avatar State and the free world to be there for somebody? Aang is prepared for this. Aang is prepared for this and he is gonna rock it. He may also get electrocuted, admittedly, but then you get to hang out undercover in the Fire Nation together, so it’s fine, let’s all go dancing!

Iroh: words of affirmation. Iroh wants to tell you what a good and important person you are and how much he cares about you at literally every given opportunity. Does he think you’ll listen? Fifty-fifty shot, probably, but damned if he isn’t gonna tell you one way or the other. Drink your tea, he’s got a lot to say. He’ll make another pot if he has to.

Toph: physical touch. Did she punch you and laugh about it? As long as said punch wasn’t wrapped in spiky metal gloves you’re good, you’re besties. Just, uh, watch out for the punches anyway because they are PAINFUL punches. Just . . . so painful. This is her love language but it is also her Toph language and some things are just unavoidable.

Mai: Treason.

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Some Bruno and Camilo headcanons for @betterweirdo. Did they even speak on-screen or so much as exist in the same frame for longer than two seconds? No, no they did not, but since when have I ever let that stop me.

Camilo was definitely messing with Mirabel during his share of “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” but he also DEFINITELY remembered Bruno as being bigger than he actually is. Like, very definitely. The fact that they are basically eye-to-eye is so baffling to him. Also, due to said not talking about Bruno, ninety-nine percent of Camilo’s original impression/opinion of him came from random townspeople accidentally saying something around him while he looked like someone else. That is the SOLE reason he had any more idea what to expect from him than Mirabel, and obviously said ideas were still all warped and wrong.

When Camilo was five, Bruno mostly avoided him and the other kids because he’d already semi-unwillingly dumped prophecies on preteen Isabela and Dolores and didn’t want Luisa/Camilo/Mirabel asking for any of their own anytime soon, especially after Dolores’s was depressing. This would have worked better if Camilo had not been SUPER FASCINATED by all the creepy stories everyone in town was telling and had not been constantly demanding to know whose goldfish was gonna die next. Bruno s u f f e r e d. And also hid from the whims of small children, because of course he did. Of course.

Bruno really does not understand how Camilo got such a creepy mental image of him, but it was definitely not from him being a normal and well-adjusted person around the kid. Like, literally nothing he did when Camilo was five made Camilo think that he was not exactly as weird and creepy and doomsaying as the townspeople thought. Literally NOTHING. Bruno was, actually, kind of a terrible uncle but not on purpose whatsoever, he just had no idea how to handle kids. He continues to have no idea how to handle kids but now Camilo is old enough to be like “oh you’re just very, very bad at this, aren’t you”.

Bruno likes rats and bizarre little stageplays. Camilo likes not being the only performer in the family anymore. Yes, yes, everyone Performed to certain expectations, but Camilo PERFORMS. He is delighted to find out that Bruno has similar interests and very happily watches all the rat plays. The rat plays are weird and nonsensical and his new favorite thing. He absolutely and entirely shamelessly recruits Antonio to help Bruno with them, because now they are his STORIES and he MUST know what happens next.

Bruno’s favorite is Mirabel, because of course it is, but he does appreciate Camilo’s overall interest in him. Really of all the grandkids Camilo is probably the most interested in Bruno save Mirabel, because again the acting/performer thing and also he delights in the weird and creepy of him and the big epic myth the townspeople built up around him. Bruno wishes Camilo thought he was SLIGHTLY less weird and creepy, probably, but isn’t going to look the gift horse of a family member enjoying his presence in the mouth. Also, again, he really does appreciate the interest. He is not used to people being interested in him or his hobbies, people being interested in him and his hobbies is a real novelty in his life.

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Thank-you Ko-fi pic for @betterweirdo, little Jet and Zuko. Probably they would get in a scrap in about .00001 seconds but here’s the calm before the storm, lol.

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Five headcanons for @betterweirdo, who wanted something about Zuko’s crew/ship culture.

I kind of assume that most of Zuko’s crew was not, shall we say, the cream of the crop? Like, no offense to the characters or anything, I just seriously doubt anyone with actual prospects got drafted onto that particular mission. Like, several of those dudes were probably banished themselves, actually? Or just really, REALLY did not do well in the Fire Nation military structure in general.

Also I find it SUPER interesting that as far as I remember the whole crew was male, too, given that AtLA was pretty good about gender equality in the Fire Nation. I don’t know if it’s just that the writers didn’t really consider it much before season two or what (honestly it probably was), but it does leave one wondering what would’ve caused a situation like that in actual canon justification. Like, what’s going on there, gentlemen? What’s good?

I feel like the crew probably did not take Zuko too seriously a lot of the time, given that he was a literal baby compared to most of them, and also originally nobody apparently knew what the fuck actually went down with his banishment. Like, what, an angsty thirteen year-old is suddenly your boss and you’re maybe never allowed to go home again? KINDA SUCKS, KINDA HARD TO NOT RESENT THE KID, KINDA HARD TO LISTEN TO HIM.

Music Night was maybe not something everybody was initially into, given the borderline illegality aspect, but eventually given Zuko’s total lack of “let’s take some shore leave, gang” mindset I bet it got REAL popular. Also, like, gotta socialize with each other one way or another, it might as well be the way that’s definitely not allowed back home and also annoys the fuck out of your annoying boss.

And I have no memory of seeing anything about them after S1 in canon but IN MY HEART, the crew survived the Siege of the North and Koizilla and eventually all retired with great pensions from Fire Lord Zuko and probably half of them were roommates/got Fire Nation married because fuck yeah they did. Probably Zuko had some incredibly awkward conversations with some of them at their weddings while trying to apologize for being a brat while they were completely bemused by his lack of brattiness and the amazingly thoughtful wedding present he brought. Seriously, they only invited him to be polite, they did not expect him to actually show UP.

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Requested by @betterweirdo, some White Lotus headcanons. And these are some slightly IMPASSIONED White Lotus headcanons, because I am extra and not ashamed of it. Also I am mad at canon and if I am mad at canon I am gonna make it everyone else’s problem.

I’m gonna be honest, I do not understand why Pakku was a member of the White Lotus. Like, okay, I can do some quickie mental gymnastics and justify letting the incredibly difficult to work with sexist who only cares about his own personal ethics into the save the world club, fine, but also Yugoda was RIGHT THERE and WAY more useful than just a dude who can fight. They already had plenty of dudes who could fight!! They had Iroh and Jeong Jeong and Bumi and PIANDAO, Mr. Beat A Hundred Dudes At Once! Or, god forbid, we could’ve had BOTH Yugoda and Pakku, but that I guess would’ve been crazy. AND WHAT WOULD’VE HAPPENED IF AANG HAD BEEN A GIRL, HUH. WHAT WOULD’VE HAPPENED. Aang would’ve had to go all the way back to the damn SWAMPS and the Northern Water Tribe would’ve gotten crushed and the moon would’ve probably died for good and there goes the entire balance of the world, that’s what.

No, I mean it, Yugoda, Aunt Wu, and Miyuki’s herbalist all should’ve been White Lotus members, at LEAST. It made me insane that it was canonically an all-male organization for no apparent reason in a show that was otherwise SO GOOD about gender shit, at least by that point. I guess in Korra there’s at least one or two female members, according to screenshots, but as far as I know they don’t, like . . . do anything. Admittedly I barely watched Korra after season one, but we’re focusing on the canon I actually did consume here because that is the canon that I know stuff about. So there should’ve been female members in AtLA. There were options! They had options! THEY TOOK PAKKU, FOR FUCK’S SAKE. And look I don’t even hate Pakku or anything, I’m fine with Pakku, he serves his narrative purpose, I’m just salty.

Relatedly: the White Lotus was never gonna succeed at anything without Aang. They were too insular, too devoted to secrecy, and too outnumbered. And they knew that, obviously, so they were also smart enough to know when to strike. I don’t know if they would’ve actually done anything during Sozin’s Comet otherwise, though maybe they would’ve decided to go famous last stand about things. But it seems like the thing to actually do would be stay under the radar and help people survive and resist later, though, given that Ozai was probably gonna roll up with the rest of the Fire Nation army at any moment without Aang in the way. Also Iroh was clearly already ready to hide in Ba Sing Se with Zuko forever and not do jack shit about Ozai sooooo . . . like, in general Iroh clearly did not want to do jack shit about Ozai, I REFUSE to believe Ozai was more popular at court than he was and that he couldn’t have challenged him after Azulon died, that makes NO sense to me. And obviously he was too busy grieving for that and I don’t blame him, but I’m just saying, he NEVER did SHIT. Ozai subbed in for his general in that damn Agni Kai, Iroh could’ve subbed in for Zuko! That’s a thing he could’ve done, at the very least!

I really do like the White Lotus, actually, I’m not this negative about them in general, apparently this is just a Flaws In The Old Men post now. Iroh’s flaws are actually fascinating, in fact, and I would’ve loved to see them addressed more directly in canon. Understandably they only had so much screen time to go around, though. Although frankly Ozai is a really flat character, I feel like he could’ve been given a lot more depth if they’d acknowledged his and Iroh’s relationship and the other pockets of resistance against him a little bit more. That would’ve been really useful, imo. Not that Ozai really needs much depth to satisfy his part in the plot, AtLA is not his story, just it would’ve been cool.

THEY COULD’VE HAD YUGODA. WHO DOES NOT RECRUIT THE MASTER HEALERS AND THE SPIRITUAL PSYCHIC FOR THEIR SAVE THE WORLD CLUB?? WHO???? WHOSE DUMB-ASS PLAN WAS THAT??

Okay yeah so I got a little caught up here but look, when I am doing headcanons I get INVESTED. But I would actually love nothing like I would love to reread a series retelling from White Lotus Yugoda's PoV as she makes her way to Ba Sing Se, that would be AMAZING, somebody point me to that.

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@betterweirdo replied to your text post: Literally haven't been able to listen to anything else for DAYS

Yeah uh I basically woke up humming Surface Pressure this morning so I feel you, DEEPLY. Deeeeeply.

Also woke up in the middle of the night and wrote 600+ words of a fic concept instead of sleeping, so that's apparently happening, that's apparently gonna be a thing. Y'all like mentally unbalanced middle-aged men with family issues and no social skills, right? That's a thing you're all into??

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@betterweirdo replied to your ask post: yeees give us the deets on the original, or some fun hints, what are the tropes? the tags?? will there be lots of feelings??? I hope so

I'm gonna be honest, I don't have an elevator pitch for this story yet, but the basic concept as it currently stands is an excessively snarky/practical woman accidentally rescues a genetically enhanced guy from being a lab rat for dubiously ethical scientists, and then they attempt to road trip to safety from said scientists while developing Feelings. Probably-kinky sexytimes may or may not be involved. Either way there will definitely be Only One Bed at some point.

But ngl, so far this woman is basically written the way I write Darcy, just with the serial numbers scraped off and a few little tweaks, and the guy is pretty much a superhuman damsel in distress. Sooooo I dunno how interested everyone would be in the concept overall but it does contain stuff I know at least SOME of y'all are as into as I am, haha.

Other notable story inclusions: epitragic bromance, extremely competent ladies, working out past trauma through punching bad guys and kissing pretty people, and more!

I've got about . . . three and a half installments drafted right now? I wanna do it as a Ko-fi subscription bonus to start and then post it on Ao3 later on. Probably would update biweekly, with installments being about 2500 words a pop, so it'd be around 5k of story a month and we'd just go 'til I ran out of ideas, basically, haha.

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@betterweirdo replied to your text post: I'd love to draw you stuff but it would have to wait until after the holidays, and unfortunately i can only do traditional art right now

Hit me up when you're free, then! I have nothing against traditional art and I can be a patient creature. :3

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@betterweirdo: tbh I've been reluctant to interact with people online for a while. idk if it's just a weird social anxiety or what but I kind of just follow people really quietly

that, and I usually don't get a response when i do so eh

Mmm, yeah, I guess you have to be more prepared to get missed/ignored, which seems a LOT easier on Tumblr than it was on LJ, at least to me. I don't really try to engage people as much as I used to, either, if only because it's so easy to just be all . . . insular and contained, I guess? I kinda just stay on my own blog most of the time at this point, so I'm kinda part of the problem, now that I think of it! Whooooops, self, we should work on that.

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Danger, Clean, Bath, Sore

The collapsed ceiling makes a dangerous grinding noise above them, and they stiffen. 

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The Kandrona got blown up, Azula and Zuko got blown up with it, and he got away clean.

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[ No uses of bath, sorry! ]

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His education was sorely lacking in that respect. 

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purpose, lingerie

She’s not sure if she even did it on purpose or not, but . . .

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[ No uses of "lingerie", sorry! ]

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