#electroniccollectiondonut

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is getting so fucking tired of people using the fact that there's a queer romance in something as a reason you should watch it. like haven't allos had enough of romance? queer or otherwise? I'm not saying queer representation is bad, of course, I'm just fed up with asking what a book is about and in response all I get is "oh it has queer people in it" cool! what is it about? having queer representation is not the be all end all of media can we please have ONE thing without romance in it. please.

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#electroniccollectiondonut #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod phoenix #yeah... it's like. this is a bad metaphor but it's all i got right now: #i'm vegetarian. it's not uncommon that if an event is hosted 'with food' that every single main dish contains a fair amount of meat #and most of the side dishes too #maybe the salad has chicken. the soup is a meat broth soup. the main course is steak. i literally cannot tell you how often this happens. #and if you're lucky there's like... bread rolls and butter. sometimes there's the Cheap Salad that's just tossed lettuce #and i promise you from experience: if i ask beforehand i am always told there will be something for me to eat #but like. believe it or not 1) that's not filling 2) it's usually the two poorest quality items on the line 3) i prefer salads as SIDES #i see similar stuff on the occasion i'm told there's any sort of 'rep' for aro folks #it's like... okay but the vast majority of the media is still very romance focused and the elements that aren't are usually... hm #not comparably interesting in how they're executed? #or it's like. kids media. which can be good - but i'd like to be allowed to have content that can be both for an adult audience #and NOT romance

[ashleybenlove]

Married life ask meme: the ot6 of course!

Whoo!

leaves their dirty clothes on the floor: I feel like this is a thing that the twins, Snotlout, and Hiccup might do. They all need reminders. 

forgets to run the dish washer: Snotlout. Hiccup. 

pumps gas for the car: Astrid and Snotlout. They seem like would be good at it. 

drives when they’re going somewhere: Astrid. She seems like she’d pay attention to the road. She’s unlikely to get distracted. Hiccup’s that character in tv shows that’s looking at their passenger to talk to them. (I hate it when that happens in fiction. Please stop.) Plus, Astrid’s less likely to have driving anxiety. 

rearranges the furniture: Astrid. It seems like something she’d put herself in charge of. Also the twins because I’m pretty sure they bring up feng shui in DOB. 

falls asleep with the TV on: Snotlout. He has the vibes. 

gets to use the bathroom first: [Home Alone face] Please gods I hope they live in a house with multiple bathrooms. Let’s go with the twins, since they’re kind of... less inclined to spend much time in bathrooms. 

decides the temperature for the ac/heater: Facepalms. Oh gods. This is worst than the bathroom one. I feel like Astrid would take control of that. 

sets up holiday decorations: Fishlegs, Astrid. The twins.

leaves the lights on: Hiccup. Snotlout. The Twins.

uses the bathroom with the door open: Hiccup because Toothless doesn’t let him be alone, even for the toilet. (Plus, I’m sure there are times on the Edge where Hiccup doesn’t get much privacy from the gang.) The twins because they’re like that. Snotlout because he’s also like that. 

fixes the plumbing (or calls the plumber): Hiccup. He’s mechanically inclined. 

Married Life Meme

#askbox #electroniccollectiondonut #Married Life Meme #Hiccup and the Gang #hiccup #astrid #fishlegs #snotlout #ruffnut #tuffnut #ot6: we’re fast we’re fearless and we ride dragons #ot6: where hiccup goes we go #how to train your dragon

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @electroniccollectiondonut

ahh shangai noon. on the list of movies I still need to watch

text: You said wet shirt won't break, not piss shirt bends bars!

#calligraphy #shitpost #theshitpostcalligrapher

[yellow-faerie]

Avari Headcanons

(I believe @electroniccollectiondonut @adhd-edward-teach and @someoneinthestars showed interest :))

So, this is somewhere between a meta and me being entirely self indulgent - however, I want to share with you all my Headcanons for how the six tribes of the Avari function (and also how I write them when I do)!

(Everything underneath because it did get rather long)

So firstly, I looked at good old Tolkien Gateway page for the Avari. Most of the page describes things that are in the published silm, that the Avari were the elves who refused the Valar's summons and went their own way. I don't have all the relevant HoME books that are referenced in regards to Nurwë and Morwë and a few other bits, but I shall trust that Tolkien Gateway is reputable. (I'll link any character pages, if you wanted to check out anything for yourself).

So from what I gather, Nurwë was of the Nelyar and Morwë was of the Tatyar before the Great March. And there were two particular groups of Avari - those who refused the summons and those who lived far enough away from Cuiviénen that they did not truly believe the summons to be real/not a ploy by the Enemy.

Now with the Nelyar being greater in number than the Tatyar, I'd imagine spreading out would be more likely for them and so how I imagine the initial split of the Avari to go is like this:

Morwë is vehement and stubborn (a trait of the Nelyar in particular) that they do not need the Valar and he and Finwë, being respected members of their clan (and possibly even cousins), end up splitting the Tatyar (who love much closer together than the Nelyar due to being a smaller clan) in two - those who are willing to go and those who aren't.

Finwë obviously leads the newly named Ñoldor West and, almost to be contrary and also because Morwë accepts that Cuiviénen is becoming more dangerous to live at as time goes on, Morwë's people move East, walking until they come upon a shore far beyond the control of Morgoth.

This group of people would later be known as the Hwenti. It says on the Gateway page, quoting from HoME, that the Avari were distrustful of the Eldar - which I headcanon mostly to be because of their distrust of the Valar in general - but the Tatyarin Avari (under Morwë) were said to dislike the Noldor most, which stems a lot from this argument and rather eventful severing on the banks of Cuiviénen.

Now the names of the Avari tribes is interesting (and there's a link here to an interesting short article on the linguistics of them) because they appear to be variations on the Primitive Elvish word Kwendî which means 'the Speakers' - which is the way that elves refer to themselves.

So the question I've asked myself is - do the Avari refer to their tribes using their words for the Elvish collective (which seems strange) or is this a misinterpretation by another elvish scholar - as Watsonian reasoning, of course - which lead to the Elvish tribes being referred to by these names in Valinorean records?

I think it's more likely to be the latter as elves - even back in Cuiviénen - seem to have a distinct interest in having names that describe who they are in some way.

But back to Morwë: his people are called the Hwenti by Valinorean records but they called themselves Alacínos. Better linguists than me could develop this using the rules that the word Hwenti would bring to the Tribe's language, but it is meant to vaguely mean People of Protection (which is a bit of a fuck you to the Tatyar who left for Valinor, a way of saying they are perfectly fine without the Valar's protection.

On a note about the Avari languages: due to the fact that I am not at all a linguist, I'm just vaguely interested in it's development, and due to the fact that I have No Time in my life right now, I am using some of Tolkien's much older languages that he didn't develop too much.

For Morwë's tribe, I am using the Solosimpi language as it is a bit less developed than Gnomish - which I use for Nurwë's tribe - and I write less for Morwë's Avari. It's a purely practical use and not the most ideal solution but I don't know enough about linguistics to even think about starting to conlang the Avari languages.

Now Morwë's tribe is pretty much happy where it is: they grow their settlements all along that Eastern coast until they're a fairly large tribe as they are relatively undisturbed by Morgoth (who is either captured by this point or else, too distracted by the West) and don't have many other worries.

They are by no means experts on the sea but they become very good at glass making and farming mussels and other shellfish and other beach-like things, as well as getting to know the terrain close to the coast as well.

They are very much crafters, like the rest of the Tatyar though, so a lot of their interest springs from there (hence the glass-making: later on, they will be renowned for their glassmaking skills throughout all the Quendi). Not yet worked out all the ins and outs of the coastal crafts, but they definitely happen!

The Alacínos end up living by the coast for pretty much the rest of the world. They partly integrate with Men when they come (there are a lot of peredhil on the East Coast) but for the most part, they live separately in their small settlements quite happily. Some may fade or succumb to injury but for the most part, they are content.

However, some of the younger elves - lead by an elf by the name Aiwala, and Morwë's granddaughter-in-law - are curious about the West and grew restless in their haven on the coast sometime after the sun rose. So Aiwala - a very good public speaker - took a group of the younger elves (a fairly sizeable portion of the Alacínos) and started the journey West.

Now travelling was inherently a lot more dangerous than staying on the coast. They are aiming for Cuiviénen, hoping to follow their ancient kinsmen to the land in the West but they never make it - instead, they find themselves near the southern end of a mountain range.

At the north of this mountain range is where the Stonefoots reside and to the south is where the Blacklocks, and it is the Blacklocks that end up finding the bedraggled group of elves at their front doorstep.

The elves were taken in for the winter and then they just...didn't leave. The dwarves were an entirely new people and the Avari got rather interested in them - they lived in the land around the mountains, providing food and other natural things the dwarves were uninclined to producing and they created a sort of symbiotic relationship that's unaffected by the issues the West have.

I like to think that due to this inclination towards the dwarves, which Eöl is said to have, that this is a tribe Eöl originated from somehow. Not that he is a good example of any group of people, and this also would not explain how he is a kinsman of Thingol.

Aiwala's tribe is the Penni and I imagine that their language is both influenced by the Alacínos, Khuzdul and also general linguistic drift. As for their collective name, I think it would be something along the lines of dwarf-friends - I'm tempted by a name that means Mountain Friends or Mountain People - but as their language is so far non-existent to me, I shall have to continue to refer to them as the Penni.

The Penni continue to live there well into the third and fourth ages but with how much time they had spent around mortals, and as their dwarven neighbours started to spend more and more time beneath ground, the Penni started to fade.

Some found themselves wandering West towards the call of Mandos and the heart of Elvendom (or something), others found themselves wandering back to the East from whence they came and the rest stayed put until they had all but faded from memory.

It is said by the Men who dwell in the area in the modern day that the place is haunted by laughing spirits who will guide you on the safest path through the mountains and will lead dangerous animals from your path, but only if you're respectful of the land.

Again, this is kind of playing off the idea of fading, and dying for elves in general. If fading is like what Míriel Therindë did, then it is much more like dying than what this seems like, but as the Avari are so tied to the land, I like to believe that a lot of them choose to ignore the Call of Mandos for quite a while (if not forever) to dwell as ghosts.

Anyway, that's pretty much the host of Morwë. As for Nurwë, she ends up spawning the other four clans.

Initially, after the Eldar had gone West and Morwë had gone East, Nurwë and the rest of the Avari stay on the banks of Cuiviénen. It's quite dangerous as Morgoth's still sort of out there hunting them - at least, even if Morgoth is captured, he still has lackeys doing his job on the downlow - but they make do until there is a proper all-out fight and they are forced to leave.

Nurwë leads them north with her sons Nunë and Nuin, and their sister Niwen and once they finally settle in these very northern forests, the people scatter again into small groups, only occasionally coming back to Nurwë's forest stronghold when they are in need of something.

These are the Kindi, who refer to themselves as Parnoth in their own tongue. It means People Who Speak to Trees or something similar (and I used Tolkien's old language of Gnomish to get the words). The Tree Speak is important as this is how the very spread out Parnoth communicate with each other - they are very close with the Ents of this forest who are all Evergreen Ents as the forest is something like the forests you might find in Alaska or one of the poles.

Anyway, it turns out that while this new forest hideout is good at hiding from Morgoth, it's not the ideal for hiding from the elements and so there are two definite drifts away from Nurwë in the time after they settle in the forest.

The first, before the sun rose, was one led by Nunë after Niwen was killed by a small group of orcs who had found their forest and her daughter, Idralas, was taken by them into thralldom.

(By the way, Idralas is what spawned this whole series of headcanons because I wanted a cultural background for the thralls of Angband so I could develop her relationship with Maedhros as his right hand)

Nunë takes this small group West for two reasons: one, to search for safety among their kin and perhaps even take the Valar's protection (as they do not yet know of what occurred with the Eldar); and two, to perhaps be able to rescue their stolen kin from Morgoth's hands.

This group of Avari is the Cuind, although I think their name for themselves would be West Wanderers or West Wandering People (although, again, not sure what sort of word that'd look like).

It should be noted that the Gateway page for the Tatyar says that it is Avari of Tatyarin descent who arrive in Beleriand during the First Age, not those of Nelyarin descent. However, I have elected to ignore this because it developed differently in my head - I did want to point this out though, in case someone wanted to argue with me over this.

They don't have a set place where they live and drift in and out of other Elven society in the search for a way to rescue their kin. They are only a small group and they end up - for the most part - integrating into other parts of society. For example, Nunë's daughters Crinthammos and Lindwil, end up married to Caranthir and Orodreth respectively.

However, they do have a language! It's a disgusting amalgamation of Quenya, their mother tongue of Parthin and Sindarin which they use for communications between each other (mostly in letter form) as they can no longe rely on the trees for communication as they don't all live in the same forest anymore.

Later on, a fair few of them who remained end up travelling East again to join up with the remains of the Parnoth, who had moved to join the Nandor in the Greenwood.

However, before the Parnoth moved, there was another split that occurred. The people known as the Kinn-Lai, led by Nuin, moved South-East, hoping to find Morwë and their kin out there (in a similar fashion to Nunë's decision to move). I like the idea of them being called Hisildi (Twilight Elves) as that is what Nuin and Tû's people were called in the BoLT.

There are quite a lot more of them following Nuin than followed Nunë as there is not a lot of trust in the Valar/west in most of the Avari and so they are slower going (and also remain spread out - it is apparently custom for the Nelyar to meander and split up on a regular basis).

Nuin is in some sort of relationship with the wayward Maia Tû, which is also gives him a bit more political clout over his brother.

Nuin is the one who wakes the first of the Men up (despite Tû's warning) and so, for a while, the Hisildi stay with the Men. Due to this close proximity to Men, their (initial) language is very closely linked with the early Mannish ones.

There is a definite drift away though as the Men drift off in their different directions. Most of the Hisildi go off in their own family groups, becoming the wanderers that a lot of Valinorean scholars say all Avari are, particularly as Morgoth's influence picks up and he sends his darkness out past the Blue Mountains.

A small subsect of the elves (later called the Windan), led by Tinfang (Tû and Nuin's child), goes together to hide in the small valleys from Morgoth's influence. They called themselves Banathin, which meant Half Burrow, for their houses where made partly in the ground, almost like a rabbit's burrow. They find themselves there with the remaining petty dwarves and with wayward men and over the years, they all rather disappear.

With the exception of Tinfang and a few of the older elves who had died early on due to misfortune or bad luck, no-one knows what happened to them and their language, one that developed a lot with Mannish and a few Dwarven loans added in, is known to very few.

It should be noted that around the mid to late second age, nearly an age after the Banathin went missing, the first few rare sightings of the people known as Hobbits was recorded. There language, Westron, closely resembled something that might have once been the language of the Banathin. There houses, too, had a tendency to burrow in the ground.

Anyway! That's the six clans for you! If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask, I am always happy to answer questions about the things I love!

#I have found that I actually really love the Avari #Many many thoughts that are mostly: I'm about to be so annoying and make so many OCs #Also that I wish there was more pre-existing language for me to use #also me while writing this: challenge - how many times can you say you *aren't* a linguist #anyway! #I hope you enjoyed this foray into my headcanons! #Avari #Avari Culture #Avarin #Penni #Kinn-Lai #Cuind #Kindi #Hwenti #Windan #Fae's Stuff #Fae's Headcanon #Silmarillion #Tolkien #Nurwë #Morwë #Headcanon #also it is midnight I should be going to bed now

[esmeblaze]

icon commission for @electroniccollectiondonut!! Thank you for giving me the opportunity to draw Orodreth again :D

id: a square portrait of orodreth, an elf with fair skin, silver eyes, and off-white hair cut in a fluffy bob. he looks dissatisfied or perhaps mildly judgmental. 

#orodreth #silmarillion #my art

[paradoxspaceheater]

thanks to @electroniccollectiondonut for the tag!

Last Song: przezroczysty świat by kwiat jabłoni

Favorite Color: cyan

Last Movie/TV Show: dungeon meshi iirc although i am NOT caught up

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: spicy my beloved (but savory is close second!!)

Relationship Status: taken :p

Last Thing I Googled: 'kwiat jabłoni' because i did not know how to spell the name of the song i last listened to ^^"

Current Obsession: zhongxiao <333

Last Book: it has been a longass time since i read a book, might have been elric of melnibone? tho i didn't finish it idk if that counts

Looking Forward To: the end of this godawful semester :,)

i will tag @esmeraldablazingsky @aromanticduck @psychopomparia and @helianthusaster :3

#tag game

[electroniccollectiondonut]

My second fill for @theterrorbingo is up! Well, the first chapter is, at least. The prompt was The Butterfly Effect

Summary:

Sir John stands.

“Men,” he declares, with the familiar sort of zeal that means he’s about to bluster religiously through any protests. “In another lifetime we were frozen into the pack, but today The Lord has seen fit to bless us. He has granted me the certainty that one week hence, we will find the Northwest Passage, and we will sail through it and return to England victorious!”

The crews of Terror and Erebus get a warning. Or perhaps it's a threat. But either way, it is certainly an opportunity.

Multichapter, 1/?

Rating: T

Warnings: Chose Not To Warn

Relationships: Francis Crozier/James Fitzjames

Tags: Time Travel Fix-It, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Written in conjunction with my sister @lunarsquidstuff!

#the terror #theterrorbingo #my writing

[stuckinberk]

HTTYD FIC REC

Some nice fics I've read recently :)

*His Only Death - AHeartForStories

3k, 1/1, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Toothless, Whump, No MCD

After all of Hiccup's close encounters, after all the times Hiccup survived that which should've killed him, that he would live a long life despite everything seemed like a given.

*Dragon Child - electroniccollectiondonut

2k, 1/1, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Toothless, Astrid Hofferson, Stoick the Vast, Snotlout Jorgenson, Fluff & Humor

Sometimes, Hiccup Haddock seems to fit more with dragons than humans. The humans around him get used to it. Eventually.

*The New Prosthetic - AHeartForStories

3k, 1/1, Whump, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Toothless

iccup built himself a new prosthetic leg and he wanted to try it out. Naturally, new creations are bound to have some kinks.

*With Love - AHeartForStories

973, 1/1, Hiccup Horrendus Haddock III, Toothless

Hiccup has seen dragons touch foreheads with each other before, but didn't quite know what it meant. One day Toothless does it to him and he finds out.

*Dragon Claims and Human Change - semlin_nagisokrov

2 works, 72k, Toothcup; but this pretty much a completely original work, so the relationship between the two and the characters are their own story all together. Very well written. Romance, War, Mpreg.

Hiccup didn't know it, but he's been chosen as a Dragon Mate. The world as he knows it changes, leaving him to decide – does he stay with humans or move on with dragons?

#httyd movies #httyd #how to train your dragon #toothless #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #hiccup haddock #race to the edge #snotlout jorgenson #httyd rtte #astrid hofferson #stoick the vast #httyd fanfiction

[theleakypen]

10 Questions

Tagged by @electroniccollectiondonut​, thank you!

Rules: answer 10 questions and tag 10 people you want to know better

Relationship status: solo poly; one long distance Captain; one long distance Frubble; 2 long distance queerplatonic partners; no I will not elaborate

Favorite color: how to choose? i like purples and greens, mainly

Three favorite foods: my mom’s carrot cake; tea smoked duck; sandwiches made from homemade bread + evreiskaya kolbasa from the international food store

Song stuck in my head: I keep getting “That Unwanted Animal” by The Amazing Devil stuck in my head but then transposing lyrics from “Dawson’s Christian” into it, “and a gash along one side, and we knew that when it happened every soul aboard had died...”

Last thing I listened to: Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango album on the record player.

Last thing I googled: "Dawson’s Christian” lyrics so I could put them in here two questions ago XD

Time: 22:41

Dream trip: I have too many! I want to go to everywhere! I would love to travel around the US by train, and go back to Argentina but go to the south of it this time because I never went farther south than Malargüe on the west side or Buenos Aires on the east, and go back to Japan and go somewhere outside of Honshu, and go to all the countries I have never been to and and and

Anything I really want: for my room to magically become clean and to figure out where to put all the things that are currently cluttering up my floor ;-;

Currently reading: several things: The Water Margin 水浒传 by Shi Naian (tr. J. H. Jackson); Uptown Thief by Aya de León; listening to Tide of Tricks by Ariana Nash (read by Cornell Collins)

Last song: “Tristango” by Astor Piazzolla (the last song on the aforementioned album)

Last movie: Glass Onion

Last series: Sand Sea 沙海

Sweet, savory, or spicy: savory

Craving: sleep

Tea or coffee: tea

Currently working on: catching up on these tumblr tag games, archiving my twitterfics on AO3, and there’s a few WIPs currently under construction as well.

Tagging: @iamwestiec, @bladedweaponsandswishycoats, @shadaras, @vyther15, @heyholmesletsgo, @ssaarboretem, @peridot-tears, @vivisextion, @sputnikcentury, @shuflypie

#tumblr tag games #about me #personal shit

[kittyotakunoir666]

Strength to my Soul

AO3

Masterlist

Strength To My Soul by electroniccollectiondonut

I was given permission to build upon electroniccollectiondonut  fanfic.

The first few chapters will be world developing like the show before the whole being soulmates changes the plot. 

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Snippet

Chapter 1: The boy in the iceberg is our soulmate

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. It allowed for many people to have soul marks between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked. People were afraid to travel the world because of the war and little by little those with a soul mark with an airbender as their soulmates felt the pain through the massacre. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could put an end to the war, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years have passed and the Fire Nation is nearing victory in the war. Some people believe that the Avatar was never reborn into the Air Nomads and that the cycle is broken. But if he had died, A small boy’s mark would have turned black, and so with hope and knowledge, he hid as much as he could and committed treason in hopes of the Avatar reappearing again.

Everyone is born with at least one soul mark somewhere on their body, to represent the piece of their soul that they carry within themselves. Most people have more than one, with each mark beyond their own indicating the person or people who share their soul, either platonically or romantically. Soul marks that belong to a person’s soulmates are grey until they first introduce themselves and the marks fill with color. Soulmate marks turn black when a soulmate dies. It’s typical for soulmates not to match the number of marks.

In the Water Tribe, most people have two or three soul marks on their body, and rarely more than four. Sokka is born with seven soul marks.

One is a wolf’s head, tilted upward like it’s howling, and it’s deep ocean blue with the tips of the wolf’s ears being white, colors that are fairly common among the Water Tribe. That’s the one that represents him. The rest are grey, because he hasn’t met them yet, lined up neatly on his right forearm nearly to his elbow. There’s a wave with a hidden crescent moon, an arrow with unknown swirls, a koi fish with the moon behind it, a silhouette of a mountain range with an eye, a fan, and two swords crossed to form an X. (I will be drawing these to show you what I mean.)

Sokka is only two when his sister is born, too young to entirely understand about soul marks yet. Gran-Gran calls him and his father back into their igloo. His mother looks tired but happy, the baby curled up on her chest contentedly. Sokka loves her right away, even though tradition says to wait for a full cycle of the moon before becoming attached to a child lest they die early.

His little sister makes it through her first month in the full polar night, and his mother calls her Katara at the naming ceremony. The first time Sokka hears the name, it’s accompanied by a burning sensation on his arm, and he whines and scratches at it insistently. His father notices and pushes his sleeve up, then grins. The wave mark with the moon has turned from grey to blue, lighter and brighter than Sokka’s wolf head, and white but the moon remains hidden.

“Quick,” Hakoda tells him, “Introduce yourself to Katara.”

Gran-Gran and his mother and the rest of the tribe are watching the exchange. It’s not unheard of for siblings to be bonded, though it’s not entirely common either. He walks up to his mother, cradling Katara in her arms. His mother shifts the blankets to reveal Katara’s left arm.

The wave is there on Katara’s tiny wrist, already a vibrant blue and white. Five other marks range up her arm, and Sokka spots his own among them. Giddily, he says, “Hi, Katara. I’m Sokka, and I’m going to be the best big brother ever.”

As he says his name, the wolf on Katara’s arm changes from grey to dark blue and white, and Katara wails for a moment before quieting. His parents smile approvingly.

Most people in the Southern Water Tribe meet their soulmates young because the population is so small unless the soulmates aren’t from the Southern Water Tribe. That doesn’t happen often in recent years, though there are a few people who’ve met their soulmates in the rare Earth Kingdom trade ships that come this far south and there’s even one tale of a young woman meeting a nonbender Fire soldier drifting in the sea and running off with him which no one can agree on the truth of.

Still, even if all a person’s soulmates are Water Tribe, most people are a little older than two before they meet one another.

Katara and Sokka grow up on legends about soulmates told around the fire in their igloo, and they often speculate on who the rest of their soulmates are. They also grow up listening to rebukes about how Katara has to get her waterbending under control because even in a sling on their mother’s chest, the little movements of her arms make the snow on the ground slide around.

Sokka has seven marks and Katara only has six: she’s missing Koi Fish with the Moon, and she supposes that this must be the person Sokka will marry one day. The rest of their soulmates, Arrow with unknown Swirls, Fan with the Eye, Mountains with the Eye, Swords with the unknown shape, and each other, match up perfectly.

They imagine that Fan must be a noble Earth Kingdom lady since that’s the only place they can think of where fans are used. They tell each other stories about how she’s gentle and kind and wonder how they meet her. Will they end up in the Earth Kingdom, or will she come here?

Sokka likes to go on about how Swords with the unknown shape is a great warrior who could take down a whole Fire Nation warship by himself. Katara thinks that’s crazy, and also reminds him that Swords could just as well be a girl as a boy. Sokka just shakes his head, every time. He doesn’t know why, but he’s dead certain that Swords is a boy.

They can’t figure out who Arrow with the unknown Swirls might be. They don’t know what the arrow could mean and neither of them has the sort of feeling Sokka has about Swords to tell them whether Arrow is a girl or a boy. An arrow can’t tell them nationality either, since the Air Nomads are all a hundred years dead. Occasionally, they suggest that Arrow is a descendant of an Airbender who escaped the massacre, but only at night when no one is awake to listen to such wild things.

Mountains with an Eye, they decide, are a master earthbender. Both Katara and Sokka are sure she’s a girl, and they guess that she must be as patient and steady as the earth she bends. They imagine that she must be her parents’ pride and joy, with all the talent she has for her element. Katara is glad that there will be another bender in their soul group because being the only waterbender in the Water Tribe gets lonely and she can’t imagine sharing a soul with five people who don’t understand what it’s like to call the water and feel it do as she wants it to.

~

In the Fire Nation, a lot of people only have one soul mark, their own. Zuko’s parents only have one each, a little cream-colored scroll for his mother and an image of the imperial crown for his father. Uncle has two, a pale green teapot for himself and an equally pale violet feather for his wife Namiyo. Lu Ten only has one, a curling flame of pretty red-purple, a color flame doesn’t naturally burn.

Zuko has seven across his collar bone. Uncle and Lu Ten and his mother are proud and excited that he has so many people who will care for him all his life. His father only scoffs, but he doesn’t say anything against it.

His father does say something about the fact that Zuko’s mark is a pair of red swords with a weirdly shaped golden flame in the center, especially when Azula is born with a light blue flame with blue-white lightning circling the flame soul mark for herself. Azula also has a pair of Knives and a Tent on her wrist, both grey.

Azula bends fire when she’s four, and their father becomes more unhappy with Zuko’s persistent lack of bending even as he sends Azula off to school. Azula meets her soulmates when she’s five, excitedly dragging them to the palace to show off their matching marks. One of them is Zuko’s age. Her name is Mai and she has dark burgundy knives. The other is Azula’s age, Ty Lee, the bright pink tent.

Zuko is proud of his little sister, and he quashes down the jealousy that his marks are all still grey. Most people in the Fire Nation are adults or at least in their late teens before they meet their soulmates. Uncle Iroh didn’t meet Aunt Namiyo until they were both in their forties, Zuko reminds himself, so he still has time.

Aunt Namiyo gets sick and dies not long after, and Zuko and Azula and their parents and grandfather are all there to watch Uncle Iroh’s feather become black. Uncle doesn’t make a sound or flinch, but everyone has heard stories about how it hurts to lose a soulmate.

Uncle and Lu Ten throw themselves into the war, and everything seems to go downhill from there. In the moments when Zuko isn’t avoiding his father or Azula, he wonders about his five soulmates.

The sword with a cat’s tail must be a warrior with stealth as their strength. He thinks Wave must live on a beach and love the water with all her heart. Arrow is not a soul mark that’s safe to have in the Fire Nation, because it could be interpreted as having a connection to the Air Nomads, so Zuko hopes he can keep Arrow safe. He can’t figure out who Wolf could be. Perhaps a wise warrior? Mountains and Fan must live in the Earth Kingdom, which means he’ll likely travel one day, which is good because he doesn’t want his Soulmates to have to live around his father because he can’t protect them like Azula protects Mai and Ty Lee.

It seems that to meet his soulmates and keep them safe, he’ll have to leave the Fire Nation, which pushes him to keep going even when he wants to lay down and accept his father’s insistence that he was lucky to be born.

~

Air Nomads often have multiple soulmates from different nations. Lots of the boys Aang knows have four or five or even 10 marks on their bodies, though there are people with fewer. Monk Gyatso, he knows, only has two, and one of them was already black before Aang was ever born. 

Aang has 8 marks himself, all on his back in a circle with his own in the center. He has an arrow to represent him, which seems a little boring since every Airbender gets their arrows someday. Maybe he'll be the best airbender in the world and that's why his mark is an arrow!

Whenever he suggests it, Monk Gyatso swats him very lightly on the back of the head and gives him a lecture about humility. So instead of wondering about his own mark, he sets to trying to figure out the rest of the marks. Monk Gyatso was able to draw out his soul marks so that Aang could find them one day.

One of his marks is a red dragon wing, it belongs to his friend Kuzon. Kuzon only has two soul marks, his own and Aang’s. When they met they became fast friends but they had to keep their sorta relationship a secret because Fire Lord Sozin made it illegal in the Fire Nation to be together. Kuzon was fine with Aang having more than his soul mark for it meant Aang would be loved should they no longer be allowed to see each other.

The Wave with the hidden Moon is probably a waterbender and a powerful one for the wave to have the moon, and the howling Wolf head might also be Water Tribe, since wolves are a popular symbol, at least among the Southern Tribe. The Fan could be a noble lady from the Earth Kingdom or the Fire Nation or maybe even someone from Kyoshi Island. He bets the Mountain range is a great earthbender, like Oma and Shu but he can’t figure out why it has an eye.

He’s a little skeptical of someone with crossed swords for a mark, since airbenders don’t do violence, but he decides that if they’re his soulmate, then they can’t be a bad person and the shape in the center of the swords confuse him too.

Aang gets his mastery tattoos when he’s twelve. He’s the youngest airbending master recorded in all of their long histories. That must be why his soul mark is an Arrow. He still hasn’t met any of his other soulmates besides Kuzon, but that’s alright. He’s never even been to the Water Tribes, and the Earth Kingdom is huge. He’s sure he’ll find them eventually.

And then they tell him he’s the Avatar, all the other boys leave him out of things, and Kuzon stops sending letters. He leaves a note for Monk Gyatso and flies away on Appa, toward the Southern Water Tribe. Maybe he’ll run into one of his soulmates and he won’t have to be alone anymore.

~

Suki is born with seven soul marks on her leg, five silver-grey silhouettes for her soulmates, a bundle of purple orchids for her mom, and one rich forest green fan to represent her. People on Kyoshi Island don’t put a lot of stock in soul marks, due to their long isolation. Either you find your soulmate or you don’t, and that’s that. Suki agrees, for the most part. Oh, she hopes that one or all of her soulmates will come and sweep her off her feet one day, but it’s not as though she’s going to fall to pieces if they don’t.

Suki’s father isn’t alive, but her mother is a Kyoshi Warrior, and Suki decides very early that she’s going to be as well. Her mother has three soul marks, a net in grey for Suki’s father, a rich forest green fan for Suki, and a bundle of purple orchids for herself. Suki also has a baby sister who her mother took in when the other girl’s parents drowned in a storm, named An-Hui, who has three soulmates marked on her arm.

Suki throws herself into training to be a Kyoshi Warrior as soon as she’s old enough, and she gets good fast. An-Hui does not want to be a Warrior, but Suki teaches her the basic moves.

Suki is eleven and An-Hui is four when a strange ship docks in Kyoshi’s harbor during the night. The Unagi leaves it be, so it can’t be Fire Nation, and she doesn’t think the Fire Nation would put their soldiers on a wooden ship anyway. The sails are white, which doesn’t say anything about where the ship came from.

Several men and women come ashore. They all have dark hair and light skin and brown or grey eyes. They would be very inconspicuous if they were in the Earth Kingdom or even the Fire Nation, but on Kyoshi, where most everyone has brown or red hair and blue or green eyes, they stick out like a sore thumb. They wander the villages for a few days, then disappear at high tide a week later.

Following their departure, a plague sweeps through the village. Suki and An-Hui and their mother all get sick. Suki recovers, but An-Hui and their mother do not until An-Hui does and their mother dies and Suki feels it. Many of the older Kyoshi Warriors are lost as well.

The plague seems to be the start of a streak of bad luck because, after that, the Warriors who are left keep dying. A few are killed by pirates, two are caught in a freak accident involving a tame circus seal-goose, and one dies of old age. Suki ends up the leader of the Kyoshi Warriors when she’s only fourteen, her sister deciding to join too. 

And then, to top it all off, the Avatar and his party end up on Kyoshi, and she has to start thinking about her soul marks again. 

~

In the Earth Kingdom, soul marks are important. Not as important as they are in the Water Tribes, but still important. Toph has never seen her soul marks, but she knows she has them because her mother tells her about them all the time. She has six on her back shoulder to shoulder, which her parents are ecstatic about because five other people will take care of her all her life.

Toph’s soul mark, the only one in color, is a mountain range with a pale green eye. Her parents think it means she’ll live her life with the quiet dignity of a mountain and the eye was an obvious representation of her blindness. Toph thinks it means she’ll be able to move mountains despite her blindness.

Her other soul marks, as described to her by her mother, are an arrow, a wolf, a wave, a fan, and a pair of swords. They’re all black, and her mother tells her that she’ll know when they meet even if she can’t see the colors change because the marks will burn. Her parents keep bringing in people who they think fit the marks to introduce themselves to her, but the marks never burn.

The marks never burn when Toph sneaks out to Earth Rumbles, either. Not until one night when a kid jumps into the ring to challenge her and exclaims, “Hi, I’m Aang!”

#avatar the last airbender #Soulmates #Aang #Zuko #Sokka #Katara #OC-Nyx #Suki #STMS

[aro-culture-is]

loveless aro culture is seeing someone tag a post "love is the meaning" and wanting to fucking scream because NO ITS NOT STOP TELLING ME I HAVE TO FEEL LOVE TO BE A PERSON

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#electroniccollectiondonut #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod phoenix #loveless aro culture #ugh #loveless antagonism cw

[ashleybenlove]

6, fishlegs, snotlout, astrid

go clothes shopping with, go to ikea with, go grocery shopping with

go clothes shopping with: Astrid. She's a fellow lady. I would trust her judgment. Maybe we can go to Torrid, even though they don't carry her size. But they have a lot of skulls on their clothes, and she can appreciate that.

go to ikea with: Snotlout. Because that would be hilarious.

go grocery shopping with: Fishlegs. He would have lots of good food opinions

put three names & a number in my ask

#askbox #electroniccollectiondonut #three names ask meme

[cottencandyjellyfish]

I was tagged by @electroniccollectiondonut, sorry I forgot about it and took a nap.

Last Song: Favorite by Isabel LaRosa

Favorite color: Pink and green most of the time

Last Movie/show: The Hobbit

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Sweet, but I do like them all

Relationship Status: Delusional and in love with Jason Todd

Last thing I Googled: How to clean thrifted porcelain tea pot

Current obsession: Batman comics and DND

Last Book: The Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

Looking forward to: Finnish braiding my hair and cleaning my new tea pot

@mooskeetskeet @lunarsquidstuff

#tag game

[metalwarrior22]

Headlights &amp; Headlines

Read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/LeDpVOg by electroniccollectiondonut Asami holds just about every racing championship in her division, she's about to invite independent racers Mako and Bolin to join her team, and she just ran into a drop dead gorgeous woman in the pits. Her life is great. Words: 1070, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Asami Sato, Mako (Avatar), Bolin (Avatar) Relationships: Korra/Asami Sato Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Car Racing Read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/LeDpVOg

#Ao3KA

[ao3feed-tolkien]

And I'll Bloody Up My Hands (As Long As You Don't Have To) - Rework

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/AhpVBGk

by electroniccollectiondonut

Celegorm is injured during Dagor Bragollach. When he wakes up in Nargothrond, he remembers things that haven't happened yet.

Rework of one of my old fics!

Words: 2644, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Celegorm | Turcafinwë, Curufin | Curufinwë, Maedhros | Maitimo, Finrod Felagund | Findaráto, Fingon | Findekáno, Fingolfin | Ñolofinwë, Lúthien Tinúviel, Finduilas Faelivrin

Relationships: Celegorm | Turcafinwë & Curufin | Curufinwë, Celegorm | Turcafinwë & Maedhros | Maitimo, Celegorm | Turcafinwë & Finrod Felagund | Findaráto, Celegorm | Turcafinwë & Fingon | Findekáno, Fingolfin | Ñolofinwë & Fingon | Findekáno, Celegorm | Turcafinwë & Fingolfin | Ñolofinwë, Celegorm | Turcafinwë & Lúthien Tinúviel, Celegorm | Turcafinwë & Finduilas Faelivrin

Additional Tags: Dagor Bragollach, Time Travel Fix-It, Major Character Injury, Angst, Rewrite

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/AhpVBGk

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #Tolkien #JRR Tolkien #Tolkien works #ao3 #fan fiction

[onenicebugperday]

Very pretty striped moth found in Montrose County Colorado in August 2021. There were several other identical moths around, all seemingly enjoying the shade of the porch canopy. I see these a lot in the summer, especially in the last few years. ID?

Pretty little dude! It's a clio tiger moth :)

#electroniccollectiondonut #insects #bugs #submission #moth #tiger moth #clio tiger moth