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symphonic-scream · 2 months
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Back when the Legend of Korra finale first aired, I was a little baby gay and had a different tumblr which I believe I deleted. On said tumblr, I think I mentioned vaguely that I had an idea for fankids for them
It's been 9 years since I deleted that tumblr. It's going to be 10 years since the finale this December. The release of the (underwhelming) live action Last Airbender has brought me back to a show that truly changed my life, and made me feel seen as a queer, mixed native kid (I'm a quarter, my grandpa was full)
So. Here's a little post about those ocs, who I found in my old seventh grade french notes (I never paid attention in that class lmao)
Anyways!y Korrasami kids. Let's go over them
Hiroto Sato (Ref age 16)
So I imagine that once their lives were stable, that they'd want to have a baby. Asami would carry in my mind, just because Korra would be all worried about how her body would handle it after the poisoning thing. However, their plans go, twisted. Cause they have twins
Their first born is their son, named after Hiroshi Sato, though Asami didn't want to directly name him after her father because her feelings would be still complicated. So, Hiroto. He goes by Hiro, mostly, and he's a fire bender
His eyes are a dark brown/grey, and he keeps his hair at a sort of medium length? It curls slightly around his ears, and he'd need glasses starting at age 14. He likes warm, comfy clothes
Hiro isn't very physically, well, talented. He's clumsy, trips over his own feet sometimes, the kind of person who's thinking so hard he smacks into polls and apologizes to them. He'd nervously chew on the skin of his thumb as he works. Hiro's an awkward guy, not great at conversation. He's always had a knack for art, and wants to become a city planner. He's not a great bender, but he does like helping out in the kitchen
Yasuko Sato (Ref age 16)
Their only daughter and youngest bio child, it's younger twin Yasuko! Korra chose her name. She knows how much Asami's mom meant to her, and honestly, the baby looked a lot like the old photos of Yasuko. As much as a baby can, at least. Like her brother, she's a fire bender
She's nearly a carbon copy of Asami. Green eyes, wavy black hair, though she smiles a little crooked. She keeps her hair up in a high pony, and even though she needs glasses like her brother, she rarely wears them. She forgets them more often then not, and just takes his to read momentarily. She's, like, "sleeves? Never heard of them"
Yasuko showed real promise in fire bending when Korra first started teaching her, so she decided to get both twins a proper teacher. Yasuko wanted to be a hero like her Moma, and grew up wanting to help people. Her goal is to be a fire fighter! She's the funny friend, always makes others smile, a jokester
Kova Sato (Ref age 19)
So, the next three are all adopted. There was a disaster type happening in the furthest parts of the Northern Water Tribe, and Korra went to help in the aftermath. After helping with search and rescue efforts, she goes to visit the injured to sort of, give them hope
That's where she meets Kova. He's 9 at the time, yet he was working hard to use his water bending to help heal alongside the elder women. She talks to him while handing out some food shipped in from Republic City, and finds out he lost his parents, and has been looking after his younger brother
Long story short, both boys return to the city with her, and Asami ends up understanding why her wife couldn't leave them behind
Kova is a big guy. He's mixed water tribe earth nation, so while he's got dark skin, his eyes are a dark green, and his hair is messy, dark brown. Quiet guy, but tall for his age. Real gentle, there's a reason he has an affinity for healing. He's got little sun freckles too!
He's great with words. He's a blooming poet, writing the stories people tell him during healing sessions. Incredibly kind, loves the idea of memories making someone immortal. The first poems he writes are of his birth parents, and the second? Of his mom's, and his siblings.
Haoyu Sato (Ref age 12)
He's Kova's younger brother, and was only 2 when Korra took them in and brought them to Republic City.
Haoyu is just paler than his older brother, with darker, messier hair, and blue eyes. His smile is bright, pure joy and energy. He's an endless ball of energy, and reminds his mom's and grandparents of a young Korra; he knows he's hot shit. He's an earth bender, starting at age 6
He's obsessed with pro bending. But, he doesn't dream of being an athlete, but an announcer. Reading is tough for him, and he struggles a bit in school, but when he comes home each day, he's surrounded by love, and care. Asami is always happy to sit with him and help him make sense of his school work, gentle, kind, and patient
I imagine he'd wear someone like a hoodie and soft puffy pants, the kind that end above the ankle.
Gyaltsen Sato (Ref age 5)
The youngest, and again, not exactly a planned adoption. His mother was a newer air acolyte, and she didn't make it through the birth. Tenzin asked Korra and Asami to look after baby Gyaltsen away from the busy temple until someone could take him in, but, the mom's got attached
Just barely darker than Asami and the twins, Gyaltsen has the lightest hair in the family, and the darkest eyes. He's an airbender who shows extreme potential, and is one of Jinora's most promising young students
He's got this spark for life. Everything is so cool to him, so amazing, it's rare for him to be disappointed by something. He feels things strongly, and his Moma Korra sits with him to meditate and talk about his big feelings
He's still very young and growing up, so he's got time to become himself
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ANYWAYS. THERE THEY ARE. TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!
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aphantpoet · 1 year
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Queer rep is not a vacuum
There is so much debate over what is and is not queer rep and it seems to change with each new show. For this I’m going to explore four series that I’m personally a fan of and break down their rep individually ;LOK, SPOP, TOH and Arcane. I will do it this way because Queer rep is not a vacuum.
It is first important to understand the perspective I’m coming at from this: so Yaama, if you don’t know me I’m a queer [Enby and Demi sexual lesbian]and indigenous [Australian] writer; I mainly write about queer people for queer people. I also want to say that I am not bashing any of these series, I love them all.
1. Korrasami
Korra and Asami have a slightly rocky relationship when they first meet but they become fast friends. Both characters are confirmed Bisexual and their relationship is far more obvious from a  queer perspective. They are far less explicit than other shows on this list but that is due to studio censorship.
The ship itself is really sweet. Both women are close and support each other with Korra writing to only Asami at one of the roughest times of her life.
This ship, being the first queer rep in Avatar, followed by Kya being confirmed as a lesbian, gets a lot of flack for being too subtle and not built up enough. As much as I do not like Some writers on the Avatar team, I do genuinely believe they were trying their best here.
The ship itself isn’t problematic and came at a time when there was little rep in mainstream media, let alone kids media. While it has it’s issues, it is some of the first rep kids in my generation saw. Sue me, I’ve got nostalgia.
2.SPOP
This is a contentious one but it cannot be denied that SPOP was full of Queer rep. Spinetossa, catradora, None of the princesses were straight and Double Trouble.
SPOP is unashamed of it’s queer rep and as world where no one is straight, no one is homophobic. This provides escapism that we as queer people sometimes need.
While Catradora has it’s criticisms, it’s a beautiful ship that underpins the narrative  and drives the plot. to call it “toxic” or “abusive” ignores the nuance of the story.
Spinetossa is a solid relationship that provides fluff and comedic relief in the darker episodes. they’re background characters but the nature of their relationship is clear from the start. they’re always together, they wear chokers with each other's colours . From the get go, before we even hear the cute nicknames we know they are a unit. 
Double Trouble , while  stemming from a problematic trope, is a solid character with complexities and comedy gold to spare. While the trope of making nonbinary characters non human is dodgy at best in a show where cis characters are also not human they don’t stand out too much so they can have a pass.
3. TOH
TOH is also unashamedly queer, Eda, Raine, Willow’s dads, Lumity, Edric.I’ve also seen commendations on the Neurodivergent rep  but that’s not my place.
Disney was obviously trying to censor things earlier on but around late season two A Dana stopped giving a shit and good for her. We got Edric having a partner, to quote his sister Emira “ After he accidentally sent  a love poem to THEIR mum”. Love that for him. The first Lumity kiss and them getting together and everything after it.
Willows dads’, minor and cliched as they may be do not come of a tokenistic, a nice change from other shows there the Mc’s best friend’s queer parents is often some of the only rep.
And Raine, a nonbinary person, who while not quite human isn’t an alien/robot/demon/spirit. They’re also a prominent character and their relationship with Eda is just a delight.
Cool Aunt Lilith, AroAce queen and all the flags in season three and it’s only the first episode.
there are some issues with Luz dating her friends ex bully but they address it and smooth it over.
4.Arcane
The biggest thing to come out of Arcane was CatVi/Violyn. I’ve seen some people ship Caitlyn and Jayce but that’s a small group.
Both character’s are confirmed as lesbians.While I love Luz I do find that lesbians do often get left behind in representation or claimed as Bi when they aren’t.
there’s not much else in terms of queer rep for Arcane but it’s very clearly a world where homophobia isn’t an issue.
The CatVi relationship is also important to the story and builds up over the first season. the show isn’t concerned with it but it’s nice to see.
All this to say, Queer rep isn’t a vacum, just because one series shows wholesome queer people and another shows messy,complicated queer love does not make either superior to the other. To put wholesome queer relationships over messy ones perpetuates respectability politics. Both can be good queer rep, both can be bad queer rep.
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sterlingarcher23 · 1 year
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Elumax will happen...
Elmax will happen. Lumax will happen. Elumax will happen... Just not the way most imagine or would like.
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They showed us how it will be made reality or better where: ElMax will happen in the mind. Lumax in reality.
El fought the monsters in the mind and revived her - Lucas fought the monsters in reality and caught her.
Elmax isn't one sided nor fan fiction, it's real believed to be fan fiction... Korrasami was fan fiction made reality:
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Korrasami... (Or better: Korraava?) - They flipped the concept and made it look like ElMax is just a fan fiction thing.
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On her heart. That description alone is telling. El revived her and then sent her mind into another dimension over a rainbow bridge. The script does not leave much room for interpretation here. Body goes to body (the UD is technically one huge organism), mind goes to mind. So this is a dimension of mind, of dreams and thought - the antithesis to the UD.
This is where Max's consciousness is now and needs to be send back/replaced and a connection to a healthy mind guarantees that she can feel and see. (see also links at the end of this post)
El and Max are made as exact mirrors, connected through their accessories and hearts.
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But they are never alone.
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There's always space for a third person, the lover who isn't there.
"Without heart we'd all fall apart. Even El. Especially El."
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Max is the heart. She is literally the answer to a neverending story. And the very life of Lucas. Both are focus points in Max's heart and she does love both of them.
There were love confessions in Season 4 without using "ILY" at all.
Elumax will happen. They even made a poem consistent of two separate ones for them:
It's not a matter of chances but of what's there in the show. It will be unusual, it will be heart wrenching and heartbreaking but it will happen. It will be "quite moving and beautiful." as David Harbor put it, who pieced together what's gonna happen because he knows his characters arc, having a theoretical idea about this. (He stated this in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel recently). And Hopper's story is about El. So, it's about Max too.
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My advice is to forget thinking of Elumax as a "traditional" relationship even for a poly: it won't be.
If you would have asked me months ago, I wouldn't even have seen Elmax as a real thing, not to speak of Elumax. I wasn't even a hardcore fan of the show. Weeks and months of looking at the pure evidence itself, thinking about it, coming from the point of view of the general audience because that's what I was, just GA (important imo because you tend to look at things from a different perspective).
As someone who didn't ship them then, even when I found Elmax I rejected them because it was to painful as my findings how they would solve that coma problem hurt to much but then I can't denie them either because it would be a lie... for all those reasons I can tell you: Elmax will happen. Lumax will happen. Both are set in stone. It will hurt, it will make you cry but it will happen.
I started with a simple question: How they would solve the Max problem because that's what this is about. I basically solved this after a few days. Then I found Elmax as a romantic couple and the rest is history.
They intended this to be: they can make it happen. They will make it work. And it will blow your mind.
Not going to put everything about how El and Max will happen in this post, only the links. But to give you an idea:
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ladysunamireads · 2 years
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Never Fall in Love with the Sun
Never Fall in Love with the Sun by Fantasyfreak11
After saying goodbye to everyone on the docks of Republic City's harbor, Korra is reluctant to leave. She finds herself returning to Future Industries where she secretly follows Asami to a tea shop. To her surprise, Asami is there for more than just tea- she recites a poem she wrote, and something tells Korra that the beautiful, yet sad poem just might be about a certain someone...
Words: 2185, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/F
Characters: Korra, Asami Sato
Relationships: Korra/Asami Sato
Additional Tags: Romance, Feelings Realization, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Canon Universe, Korrasami is Canon, Sad and Sweet, Angst and Feels, Hopeful Ending, Poetry, Goodbyes, korrasami shipper's Elemental Fever August Challenge
Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40828725
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thewillowtree3 · 7 years
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You Are Home
You are home
You are light
And sound
And touch
And see
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You are breath
Calm beauty
Flowing beneath my lungs
Filling me with life
Restoring
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You are comfort
Arms to melt into
Divine, essence
Warm, resonating
You are such warmth
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You are light
You smile
And I am saved
You smile
And I wonder
Just how
How have I gotten so lucky
As to have you
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You are being
You are here
You are now
You are with me
Constantly
You never leave
Always stay
Always, day
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You are belonging
You make me feel
As if I am okay
As if I have strength
You make me feel
As if I have life
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But most of all,
You are home
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You are where I belong.
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And you are where I shall be.
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crownprincessofevil · 3 years
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My romantic sweet spot is where a third person cannot tell whether they're fighting or flirting.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head) - Sylvia Plath
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selkielore · 4 years
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Asami Writes to Korra for Three Years by Natalie Wee 
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orphic oceans - a korrasami poem
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asami's pov
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scientificwordsmith · 5 years
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New note book for all my new writing / ideas.
PSA: all these stickers are from red bubble, and they’re made by some great artists. Message me if you want to know how to get them.
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natalieweepoetry · 3 years
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Here’s an exclusive cover reveal of Beast At Every Threshold, which will be out with Arsenal Pulp Press in March 2022!! A huge THANK YOU to @litarnes​ for the stunning cover!
An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultural histories, intimate hungers and broader griefs. Memories become malleable, pop culture provides a backdrop to glittery queer love, and folklore speaks back as a radical tool of survival. With unapologetic precision, Natalie Wee unravels constructs of “otherness” and names language our most familiar weapon, illuminating the intersections of queerness, diaspora, and loss with obsessive, inexhaustible ferocity—and in resurrecting the self rendered a site of violence, makes visible the "Beast at Every Threshold."
Ft the Korrasami poems and other diasporic/queer work about Phoebe Bridgers, Rina Sawayama, Chihiro from Spirited Away, Wei Ying from The Untamed, and the meme of Patrick Starr shovelling dirt in his mouth, I’m so excited for you to read this collection about existing when one’s existence is rendered unbearable. Beast At Every Threshold is available for preorder now.
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steveyockey · 3 years
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the fact that we textually got the same or more than korrasami but bc of fandom politics korrasami is perceived as undoubtedly canon and destiel is perceived as “only canon if ur a shipper” is so sad sjdjdjdmd sorry this is random but i was just thinking about it
this is deeply embarrassing because talking about the legend of korra finale makes me cry so you should know I’m powering through this response in an emotional state. 
the surface reading here is correct but when it comes to specifics I think korrasami deserves substantially more credit that this estimation gives it. korrasami was never queerbait — quite honestly, as someone who shipped it at the time, there was NO possibility in my mind we would ever “win.” it was just cute! it was enough that we knew they would make a good couple and we felt kind of superior that we “cracked” the show with a reading that amicably resolved the stilted love triangle hoisted upon us all the way back at the season 1 finale (it’s important to remember that legend of korra was CONSTANTLY in danger of being canceled throughout its run; the makorra season 1 finale kiss was pushed through despite the lack of build-up because the animators weren’t sure they were getting a season 2). up until the series finale, even noting the deepening relationship depicted between korra and asami throughout book 4 and mako’s disavowal of intentions to pursue a future relationship with korra as made clear in “remembrances,” it was simply not a consideration that korrasami could go canon — there were no lgbt characters on children’s cartoons! gay marriage wasn’t legal! though atla may have ended by confirming kataang, they weren’t required to end the show by canonizing any sort of pairing. and they didn’t need to! it’s korra’s story.
I realize the final episode of legend of korra in the current media landscape might not look like much, but if you can imagine what it was like at the time! gratifying! boundary pushing! a dream come true! and if there was any remaining question about what the last scene implied, co-creators bryan konietzko and michael dimartino both confirmed that korrasami was canon, with the notable caveat (from bryan)
Was it a slam-dunk victory for queer representation? I think it falls short of that, but hopefully it is a somewhat significant inching forward.
it’s a little cringe but this pbs idea channel video (which I probably watched the week it came out) does a good job recapping the mechanics at play. and since the series made it to netflix there has been even more discussion of its impact and the ways in which other tv shows have benefitted from korrasami. the levee broke! mr. ratburn got married! catradora kissed! all in part because korra and asami walked hand in hand into their new life together. 
as far as comparisons to destiel go, this should be apparent, but the clear consequential difference to me is that the creators were willing to own and discuss their decisions. bryke were not obligated to address the stipulations of korra and asami’s relationship, but they chose to and they allowed for korrasami to become bigger than just the show. and both of the actresses have been relentlessly positive about the ship! this is not a matter of fandom politics, it’s really just that the authority on what supernatural means remains disputed territory even to the point that its own writers will not talk about the explicit canonical gay love confession of one of their characters after over a DECADE of malicious baiting! it would not have been hard for them to make themselves the hero here and yet they simply chose to sidestep all of it. for like the millionth time on this blog I have to say, again, that the way we win is just by continuing to insist we have the authority. because we do! we always do but especially in the show where authorgod visits a fanfic writer literally to discuss his shitty series finale.
all of that accounted for, the note I want to end on is that this poem remains one of my favorites,
    The beloved body that bore you across any distance wept, I wish the earth only moved when I let it.                                             My life, standing still despite this fact                        is, too, an act of defiance.                               It is not the moon’s light that demands our praise                                        but the distance it travels                                                                                to reach us.
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thewillowtree3 · 7 years
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Family
Broken, tossed, shattered, beat
You broke me
Threw away everything
A world of love, tossed away in a second
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Heart aching, heart rending, heart souling for a soul
What concept of family did I have
Until you turned it away
Ashes burning and burnt
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I have never known a family
All my life, I have been alone
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What once was, was not really
What once I thought, could not be
But then I met you
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I met you and suddenly
I had a person to laugh with
A person to be with
A person to be, with
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You are soul and light and sound
And family is one of blood
Of pure, insurmountable, unbreakable bond blood
But you have shown me other
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You have shown me
Belonging
And truth
And love
And light
And all the things of the world that I’ve been yearning to see
I see it with you
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You are family
You are where my laughs lie
And where my smiles live
And my troubles die
You are where I live
Where life is
Where life just brightens up that little bit and my worries are washed away and there’s nothing for me to do but love you-
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You are where home is
You are where life is
 And you,
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You are where I belong.
My contribution for Korrasami Week 2017- Day 7: Family. :)
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myssyx · 4 years
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hey! i haven’t made a post abt who i am so here we go —
call me myssy! or anything rlly, as long as it’s not uncomfy for me
i’m a bi girl
IMPORTANT: i‘m not 18 yet. please don’t ask for my age, that’s private info
i’m asian australian, no i haven’t dyed my hair yet but i want to someday, yes i like boba but don’t care too much for it tbh
some of my likes!
my fave colour is red bc when i was 7 and on a walk with my dad, he asked if my fave colour was pink (it actually was) but i didn’t want him to be right so i said no. i told him i liked red and i’ve grown to love it ever since. i did not grow to love my dad, ironically enough.
i love mandarins bc they’re just so sweet and they’re literally the optimal fruit for sharing, which has to be some kind of poetic beauty. to add onto my 🍊 love my favourite poem is the orange by wendy cope.
i enjoy baking and writing a shit ton because they’re both things that can make me and others happy, i especially love writing about Love.
some of my dislikes!
when people tell me to hurry up... i’ll go slower just to piss them off bc you either get quality or nothing (lmao can u tell i’m a taurus... a whole 1/4 of my chart is taurus HAHA)
lactose intolerant but surprisingly i don’t like the taste of cheese so it worked out for me. cheese pizza doesn’t count bc it literally just tastes like... stretchy salt? on tomato bread? if that makes sense.
ppl who don’t put in the effort and then complain, especially if they are self proclaimed couch potatoes who can’t be bothered to do anything to improve their life. even being near them drains whatever low energy i had before.
okay this is prolly the bit that interests you the most lbr—
i currently like atla, kl, and bnha (def not caught up tho yikes)
my comfort ship is kl
i like kiribaku and momojirou the most in bnha but my fave character is kirishima ❤️
korrasami? yes zukka? hell yeah, and as a bi bitch I am legally obliged to love sokka
ok thanks for getting to know me better! i am always up for questions and making friends so litrally message/ask me something and i’m down most likely <3
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yeah i’m writing korrasami fic and a separate korrasami poem at the same time... what about it
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lankygeralt · 3 years
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Omg beanie boo that’s awful!! I’m so sorry about your pet, I’m sending all of my support rn. If a funny story helps, here is my assignment one: I finished my creative writing assignment in less than four hours and I was very proud of it, I went to hand it in and my vision just sort of... stopped?? Like I could see but my brain didn’t process anything but it was 11:44 and I needed to get this shit handed in, so I powered through and clicked on my “creative writing workshop” and submitted —
— and went to bed and got exactly 3hrs of sleep bc I had to leave my house before 5am to get to work the next day, and wait outside my store for an hour to be let in bc retail. Anyway I had snapped my friends all night bragging about my skill and speed, and my friend was particularly interested in a poem I wrote about my hero the Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (if you know you know) so I was like I’ll send you a screenshot of my poem from the submission page while I wait A FKN HOUR to start work —
— so then, beanie boo, i opened the submission site and opened my submission on my iPhone and was like “why is this submission so short?” And I was bamboozled for 5 minutes in my sleep deprived state as to why my submission did not look like what I had written the night before, and, seeing a K on it I was like fuck, I’ve handed in a legend of Korra fanfic I wrote 5 years ago instead of my assignment. I had no idea how I did this, beanie boo because my computer had been killed by my cat —
— the week prior and I lost pretty much everything and I had not touched the fanfic since mid 2015, so how did it end up on my desktop for me to click on, You ask? Well, Beanie boo, it didn’t, in my sleep deprived, not fed mess that I was that day, I had simply projected that I had handed in a fanfic when the reality was much worse, I wish I had handed in this fic, because in reality, I had handed in ANOTHER STUDENT’S WORK from the previous assignment that we had to peer review —
— and, beanie boo, this is a University assignment, so I was convinced I was gonna get done for plagiarism and expelled, so I stressfully wrote my prof a frantic email explaining what happened in much less detail than what I gave you, and she emailed me back saying it was fine and I could upload the real file when I got home, and that, beanie boo is the story of how I fucked up my assignment, I hope it was coherent enough to make you laugh - 👻
I completely forgot to reply to this when I was feeling sad but I read it and it made me chuckle so hey!
And oh lord, I would’ve have shat my pants no joke. Plagiarism is such a huge thing at my uni (i think at everyone’s lol) that if that happens they fucking EXPELL you. But I mean, I kinda wished you had sent your korra fanfic :’D was it at least korrasami?
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