#shreya beifong

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4, 7, 11 for your Baavira kids?

4. Having this/these character/s as their parents, how did it affect them?

Some of Tai's earliest memories were of sitting on Kuvira's lap as a toddler while she drafted legislation in Ba Sing Se and read each document to him in a voice so steady it was calming, so pursuing a career in law and politics felt as natural as breathing for him.

As Kuvira and Baatar's eldest daughter, Avani felt the pressure of the Beifong legacy and wanted to become the greatest metalbender there was. She also saw the way her mother dedicated the whole of herself to her work and internalized the same priorities. This is partly why she ultimately decided to prioritize her position as an Earth Kingdom general over relationships with both of her great loves.

Priya (ever the middle child) had a rebellious streak that often clashed with her mother's military discipline. She ended up leaving home at a relatively young age to pursue a career as a professional dancer and going no-contact with her parents for a while.

As the first nonbender of the siblings and a young engineer, Jae felt stifled growing up in a city that Baatar had rebuilt. He felt like his father's legacy was everywhere and there was no room for him to make a name for himself in Ba Sing Se. So he decided to go to university in Republic City and took a job at Varrick's company as soon as he graduated.

Shreya often felt like Kuvira infantilized her because she was the youngest and a nonbender, so she was always closer to Baatar. She grew up learning from her father in his workshop and watching him lecture at Ba Sing Se University, and he was the one who inspired her to become a civil engineer.

7. Which parent do they most resemble look-wise?

Tai and Shreya look more like Baatar (they also both wear glasses), while Avani and Jae look more like Kuvira. People say Priya looks more like Suyin than either of them.

11. How are their relationships with other relatives (grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles etc.)?

Tai is closest to Opal and Baatar Sr. He shares his aunt's love of reading, and they were always able to connect over old books and their shared project of preserving the family's history. He also enjoyed looking through his grandfather's sketchbooks.

Avani is closest to Wei and Wing. They always spoiled her and played with her as a child, and they were the ones who got her involved in youth earthbending tournaments. She also has an affinity for her Great Aunt Lin, whose style of metalbending she preferred to her grandmother's.

Priya is Suyin's darling. Growing up, she spent most of her summers in Zaofu, dancing in her grandmother's troupe and training in the meteorite garden. It was no surprise to anyone that Priya was the one who ultimately inherited the title of Metal Clan Matriarch from Suyin. She also adores her Uncle Huan and often joined him on his travels around the world.

Jae and Bolin always had a good relationship, and it got even stronger after he moved to Republic City for college. It was even Bolin who recommended he apply for the internship at Varrick Global Industries.

Shreya is also really close to Opal. As a non-metalbending Beifong woman, she sometimes felt like Aunt Opal was the only one who understood her.

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#legend of korra #baavira #kuvira #baatar jr #my ocs #tai beifong #avani beifong #priya beifong #jae beifong #shreya beifong

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“A rich Earth Kingdom kid—who has no real problems, but feels stifled in the city his father built—leaves home to make a name for himself. Now where have I seen this one before?”

Jae felt the blood drain from his face. “Uh...I’m sorry?”

“I’m not!” Varrick said, smirking. “It probably drives Baatar crazy that you work here!”

OR

Kuvira and Baatar's son ends up taking a job at Varrick Global Industries.

(Written for Baatar Jr Week: Day 7 - Legacy)

#baavira #baatar jr #zhurrick #baatarjrweek #jae beifong #shreya beifong #lily moon varrick #if your name is baatar it is your fate to have a complicated relationship with the child that's most like you

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Just a tender moment between Kuvira and her youngest daughter (an expanded version of something I posted here a while ago).

#kuvira #baavira #baatar jr #shreya beifong #domestic fluff on a monday night

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(Self-Indulgent Domestic Fluff Alert) 

It was well after midnight when Kuvira got back to the Ba Sing Se estate. She entered quietly, nodding at the extra guards she always had posted around the residence when she knew she’d be away. The idea of one of her enemies—and there were honestly too many to count these days—might try and hurt her family, her children always haunted her to some degree, but it became that much worse whenever she had to leave.

Korra had suggested they share a hotel room and a bottle of soju after they settled the land dispute between the northwestern states, and then remarked that Kuvira must be getting old when she decided to head home instead. As she entered the darkened foyer, stepping over a small obstacle course of robots, building blocks, and dancing shoes through instinct alone, she figured the avatar must have been right.

As she drew closer to the living room, she spotted Baatar on one of the couches, staring at a set of blueprints with a familiar expression that fell on the cusp of focus and exasperation. Their youngest daughter, Shreya, was fast asleep next to her father, with a pillow propped up against his leg and her favorite Avatar Kyoshi doll tucked securely under her arm. How in the name of Oma and Shu had that angelic thing come out of her?

Kuvira hovered in the doorway for a moment, watching father and daughter and wishing she had bought one of those stupid Varri-cams when she had the chance.

“What’s she doing out of bed?” she asked in voice just above a whisper, when she finally felt like making her presence known. “Another nightmare?”

If Baatar was at all surprised by her arrival, it didn’t show. He merely regarded her with a smile and then glanced back down at Shreya. “I think so. She came down a few hours ago saying she wanted to wait up for you.”

Kuvira bent down and ran a hand over the five-year-old’s head, admiring the silver fire-butterfly and dream daisy ornaments woven into her long fishtail braid. It had been some of her finest metal artistry thus far. “Her sisters couldn’t bend these out for her?”

“They tried, but this one was having none of it,” Baatar said, shooting an amused glance her way. “She wanted mommy to do it.”

Kuvira laughed a little, imagining vividly how that exchange must have gone down. “This girl always gets what she wants.”

“Reminds me of someone I know.”

Kuvira made a small, self-satisfied sound and then straightened. “Let me go find a comb–”

Before she could move, Baatar seemed to draw one out of thin air. Kuvira smiled at him and sat down on the couch, only then fully realizing how tired she’d been. She watched her husband shift Shreya—Kyoshi doll and all—from his lap to hers, ever careful not to wake her. 

Kuvira began the intricate work of unbraiding and extracting, bending with one hand and combing with the other, watching closely all the while to make sure her daughter’s hair didn’t get caught on any of the ornaments. 

“Did you eat?” Baatar asked after watching her work for a few minutes.

She hadn’t, now that he mentioned it. Between the meetings, reconnaissance, and airship rides, there hadn’t been much time. “It’s late and the staff are all gone. I’m not going to ask you to cook at this hour.”

“Good thing you don’t have to ask.” Baatar leaned over to kiss her forehead. “What kind of noodles do you want?”

Kuvira sighed, gazing at him fondly. “The wide ones, with prawns.”

“Say no more.”

#baavira #kuvira #baatar jr #legend of korra #lok #tlok #my second attempt at fulfilling this prompt #and missing the mark #and writing some self-indulgent mess instead #i'm sorry #but also #manifesting a happy family life for kuvira #because our girl deserves it #shreya beifong #oc #baavira fan-child

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(No title, no plot, just three generations of Beifong women chilling on a spring afternoon b/c the world needs more Kuvira family fluff)

For most of her adult life, Kuvira's seismic sense had been decent at best, but it was amazing what the presence of a young grandchild did to sharpen the skill.

"Samara, be careful!" her daughter, Shreya, yelled when her three year old disappeared beneath the surface of the garden.

"Don't worry. She's fine." Kuvira took a sip of her tea as she tracked the toddler's tunneling through the soles of her feet, discreetly pushing aside any rocks too large for her to bend on her own. "I remember when your sisters tunneled their way down into the crystal catacombs."

"They always got into so much trouble," Shreya said, shaking her head.

"It wasn't just them," Kuvira told her, earning an incredulous look in return. "Remember when you and your brother decided to play laser tag with actual mech canons?"

Shreya winced at the memory of blasting a new sunroof through the ceiling. "Alright, point taken."

In retrospect, it was a miracle that she and Baatar managed to raise all five of them without any nervous breakdowns or serious injuries.

Just then, Samara emerged from the ground right in front of them, arms raised in a victory pose and thoroughly coated in dirt. "Ta-da!"

"Good job, baby," Kuvira said as she proceeded to bend all the soil and grass out of her hair. "You're like a little badgermole. Now, spin around for me?"

"Okay!" As the child twirled, Kuvira bent the rest of the dust and dirt off her, all the debris swirling into a little cyclone before she cast it aside. Korra had taught her that one a few decades ago, and it always saved so much time. She couldn't help but think her late friend would have found this wild child particularly entertaining.

"All clean," Samara declared and then climbed up onto Kuvira's lap. "Can I have a snack, please?"

"Of course." Kuvira plucked a coconut milk cake off the tea tray and handed it to her.

"Thanks, grandma." Samara nuzzled her face into Kuvira's stomach.

"You are going to spoil her so much," Shreya said, smiling despite her words. "I can see it already."

"That's the objective." Kuvira ran her hand over her granddaughter's hair. "We should start her earthbending training soon."

"Are you sure that's a good idea, mom?" Shreya asked as she cracked open a lychee.

"I know she just turned three, but if she's already tunneling underground—"

"No, not that. This child needs lessons immediately," she said. "I mean, are you up for taking on another student? Daddy said your back has been bothering you."

Kuvira sighed. Of course Baatar would mention that. "Your father is exaggerating, as usual."

"He exaggerates; you minimize," Shreya replied after she finished another lychee. "I just want to make sure you don't end up hurting yourself."

Samara glanced up at Kuvira then, her emerald eyes wide with concern. "It hurts?"

"No, baby, it doesn't hurt," she said, much to the toddler's relief. "We're going to make you an earthbending master soon."

#kuvira #legend of korra #baavira #ba sing se beifongs #shreya beifong #samara beifong #ocs

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I need u to drop which toxic behaviors Kuvira would pass on for science 🤧

Hey! Thanks for the ask! 

I think the one that pretty much all of her kids would end up with is shutting off their emotions at will. When things go wrong, they don’t stop to feel or reflect; they have to act in order to exert control over the situation. For example, after Kuvira dies, they sort of throw themselves into a bunch of tasks instead of actually taking time to grieve. Jae and Shreya are trying to save the city’s infrastructure after the attack on Ba Sing Se, Avani and Priya are rallying their forces to go after the attackers, and Tai is trying to maintain the family’s political influence in the region. They’re all super high-functioning, but like at what cost? 

Aside from that one: 

Tai is deeply involved with Earth Kingdom politics, which may be a toxic trait in and of itself. (Most of his toxic traits are from Baatar, tbh)

Avani is overconfident to the point where it sometimes puts her (and others) in unnecessary danger. 

Priya always expects to get her way, and is all too willing to choose violence when she doesn’t. 

Jae makes morally questionable decisions in the pursuit of influence and reputation. 

Shreya believes that she’s always right and that her individual sense of justice is infallible. 

#kuvira #baavira #ocs #ba sing se beifongs #tai beifong #avani beifong #priya beifong #jae beifong #shreya beifong

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I ship Baavira and I like your headcannons of their kids. Just to clarify if I'm following right, I hope you don't mind me asking these questions.

What is the birth order of their kids, age gap and finally who are the benders and non benders.

That's it keep up the good headcannons I love reading them ❤️

Hi!!! Thanks so much! I don't mind questions at all (please talk to me about baavira at any time)!

The birth order from oldest to youngest goes as follows: Tai, Avani, Priya, Jae, Shreya.

I’ve gone back and forth on the age gaps a few times, but I can tell you what I think I’ve settled on. Tai is three years older than Avani. Avani is about a year and a half older than Priya (at one point I wanted them to be twins, but I decided against it in the end). Priya is four years older than Jae, and Jae is two years older than Shreya. 

The older siblings (Tai, Avani, and Priya) are all earthbenders, and the younger ones (Jae and Shreya) are both nonbenders. There is a running joke between Jae and Shreya about how their mom ran out of bending to give them. Avani’s style of metalbending is the most similar to Kuvira’s, while Priya’s is more like Suyin’s. Tai is more of a traditional earthbender; he struggled with metalbending, but can yeet mountains on top of people with ease. 

#baavira #ocs #the children! #tai beifong #avani beifong #priya beifong #jae beifong #shreya beifong #ba sing se beifongs

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I really loved your headcanons about Jae Beifong (and the Baavira kids in general)! Do you have any other headcanons?

Hi! Thanks so much! Here are a few more. 

Tai

Tai, the oldest, spends a lot of time holed up in his room studying for his law school entrance exams. Because of this, all of his younger siblings and cousins (the Bopal babies) constantly hit him up to ask whether the wild stunts they’re planing will get them a criminal record.

 He eventually creates a flowchart outlining the jurisdictions in which they’re most likely to get away with gambling, dueling, brawling, parkour, getting high on cactus juice and whatever else they feel like doing that week. 

Avani

Avani enters a range of Earth Rumble style tournaments as a child and becomes a nationally ranked bender by the time she’s like ten. One year, Grandma Su and Grandpa Baatar come up to Ba Sing Se to see one of her competitions, and Baatar Sr.—who doesn’t quite understand the ranking system (bless his heart)—is like, “Why do they have my little granddaughter going up against all these grown men?” 

When she’s being interviewed before the tournament starts, Avani is asked whether there are any benders in the stadium she thinks she might have trouble beating, and she responds with, “Only my mom and my grandma, but they’re not competing today, so I think I’ll win.” (And naturally she does)

Priya

Priya is very invested in using her bending for artistic pursuits, so she ends up incredibly close to Grandma Su and Uncle Huan. When she’s little, Huan has this whole heart to heart with her about how it’s okay if she doesn’t like fighting and just wants to be a dancer, and Priya is basically like, “Fighting for sport is dumb, but if someone gives me a reason to choose violence, it’s getting chosen.” And Huan is like...okay, murder niece.

When she’s around fifteen, Huan takes her to the Northern Water Tribe (where he has a standing position as Eska and Desna’s court artist) so she can study how other nations incorporate bending into dance. At some point, she unwittingly accepts a betrothal necklace from one of her admirers and is suddenly engaged, and the whole thing nearly causes an international incident. 

Jae

While he’s in Republic City, Jae does a pretty good job at keeping his identity a secret (though Uncle Bolin almost blew his cover once or twice) but after they’ve worked together for a few months, Lily starts collecting clues. When she ‘introduces’ him to Asami and Korra Sato (who have known Jae since he was basically a fetus), she goes, “This is Jae from Ba Sing Se, who has a strong mother who spoils him rotten and is too rich not to have a last name because his family pays for him to study in Republic City when his hometown has free college.” After this, Korra and Asami are both like, “Yeah, just tell her.”

After it becomes common knowledge (at least within Varrick Industries) that Jae from Ba Sing Se is actually Jae Beifong, Varrick decides to take Jae on as his protege for the sole purpose of getting under Baatar’s skin from afar (aaaaaaaaaand it works).

Shreya

Shreya has always been especially close to her Aunt Opal because she’s the only one who fully understood the specific struggle of being a Beifong woman who isn’t a metalbender. She felt like Avani and Priya had a special bond with their mom because of their bending, and even though they loved her, she’d always be on the outside of it. Sometimes Opal would just know that Shreya’s siblings were driving her up a wall, and just fly over on Juicy to pick her up. 

For a short time in her early twenties, Shreya, who is also an engineer, will take a position at Future Industries for the sole purpose of giving Jae and the Varricks a run for their money (aaaaaaaand it works). Asami wants to keep her on, but she ultimately decides to leave because she realizes that her real passion is in the nonprofit sector. A few years later, when she’s working on getting electricity to some of the more remote Earth Republic provinces, she meets her husband, a young doctor who’s out there doing free clinic work. 

#baavira #bopal #zhurrick #sutar #kuvira #baatar jr #huan beifong #opal beifong #suyin beifong #baatar sr #legend of korra

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Questions for the ship Baavira Pre-relationship 4 General 5 Love 4 Domestic Life 3

4. Who felt romantic feelings first? (pre-relationship)

Baatar caught feelings first, back when they were kids. Within two years of Kuvira’s arrival at Zaofu, he was 100% wrapped around her finger. She remained oblivious to this fact through most of their adolescence, but in the years leading up to Book 3, there was something like a mutual crush between them. 

5. What’s their height difference? Age difference? (general) 

For most of their young lives, they were basically the same height. But then Baatar went away to study in Ba Sing Se and came back a few inches taller than her. He only grew more during the unification campaign, and by the time they get engaged, he has to bend down in order to kiss her (Kuvira refuses to stand on her tip-toes, but will occasionally earthbend herself up to his height). 

As for age, I think Baatar is about a year older than Kuvira. (My headcanon is that Kuvira is two years older than Korra, making her 20 when she left to stabilize Ba Sing Se and 23 during Book 4).

 4. What are their favorite things to do together? (love)

During the unification campaign, they did a lot of stargazing together, trying to make up for all the nights they spent under the domes back at Zaofu. The night sky is especially beautiful in the Si Wong Desert and the northernmost parts of the Earth Kingdom, where they can see the lights from the spirit portal at the North Pole. Sometimes, when they didn’t have too much administrative work to do, they would stay out past midnight, just watching the celestial bodies. Kuvira has all the constellations and their myths memorized (because independent study at Zaofu). Sometimes Baatar would point to a random one to see if she knew it, and he never caught her lacking. 

They also listen to music together. When they were teenagers, Baatar would try to rewire her radio so it could pick up the stations in Republic City and the Fire Nation instead of sticking to the local ones. Kuvira is the only force in the entire cosmos that can convince Baatar to dance, but he’s acquiesced every single time she’s asked, and will probably never stop. 

I also have a headcanon that they get kinda competitive over pai sho. Being the tactician she is, Kuvira is the better player on the whole, but Baatar can often eek out a win because he knows her so well. 

3. How many kids do they have, if any? What are they like?

Ironically enough, I see them having five children. (I initially wanted it to be three, but all five personalities kind of stuck with me. I’ve mostly imagined them as adults in the Avatar Jade headcanons, so please bear with me). Character descriptions are under the cut because there’s a lot lol. 

The eldest, Tai, was very dutiful and mild mannered as a child. He never gave his parents any trouble, and understood what was expected of him as the child of the governor of Ba Sing Se (more on Kuvira’s political comeback later lol). He’s a strong eartbender, but he never truly masters metalbending the way his sisters do. He decides to study law and go into politics, and by the time Avatar Jade is discovered, he’s the governor of Gaoling. 

Avani (two years younger than Tai) always loved fighting and threw all of her energy into her metalbending training. She learned a lot about matters of state and security from Kuvira (as the career peak baby, national security briefings were basically her lullabies). As an older teenager, she accompanied her mother on a number of high-risk missions. She decided to join the United Forces instead of going to university, and becomes “General Beifong” before she turns 30. 

Priya (two years younger than Avani) was the wild child. She was a talented metalbender like her older sister, but she built her reputation as a dancer rather than a fighter. As a teenager, she liked to party and stay out late. Priya argued with her mom and older sister A LOT, and she once ran away from home and hid in Zaofu with her Grandma Su. Even though they don’t always see eye to eye, Priya adores her mother and would fight anyone for her. After dancing professionally for years, she goes on to found the Bending Arts Academy (a performing arts school she had talked about with Grandma Su and Uncle Huan for years) in Zaofu, and is known as Headmistress Beifong as an adult. 

Jae (four years younger than Priya) was the first nonbender among the siblings, and he definitely compensated for it with his personality. Charming and charismatic, he could always talk his way out of trouble (and there was always trouble where Jae was concerned). When he was a teenager, he was designing race cars and drag racing on the outskirts of Ba Sing Se. Kuvira was always so entertained by him that she basically let him get away with murder. Baatar tried to lecture him on using his talent for engineering wisely (because parental hypocrisy is unavoidable). He goes to university in Republic City and ends up interning at Varrick Industries, where he meets and becomes involved with Lily Moon Varrick. As an adult, he becomes a wealthy capitalist, best known for developing resorts in the Si Wong Desert. 

Shreya (two years younger than Jae) is also a nonbender. As a child, she was quite upset about not being a metalbender like her sisters (especially when Kuvira would leave on some world saving mission and take Avani and Priya with her). She is a talented engineer, even more so than her brother, but is more drawn towards city planning and public works than the showy projects Jae tended to take on. She is the only Beifong child who is definitively closer to Baatar than Kuvira. She goes to the University of Ba Sing Se, and later becomes head of the National Electric Company. She is largely responsible for bringing electricity and phone service to even the most remote parts of the Earth Republic. 

#baavira #legend of korra #baatar jr #baatar x kuvira #headcanons #ocs #avatar jade verse

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25!

25. Have you ever daydreamed about side adventures/spin-offs from your fic? Tell us about them!

I spend an embarrassing amount of time thinking about spin-offs lol. I've been thinking a lot lately about certain episodes in the lives of my baavira fanchildren:

-Tai ends up married to a princess of Omashu (they met in law school) and raising a family on the fault-line of his own family's anti-monarchist attitudes and a royal line that had outlasted three dynasties, a short-lived empire, and the transition to democracy.

-After becoming the champion of a nationwide earthbending tournament at 16, Avani is left feeling unfulfilled and unsure what to do with her life. She finds herself occupying a liminal space—the heir to an empire that did not exist, training for a role she would never occupy. So when she is approached by Avatar Korra and asked to join a global peacekeeping force—a small, elite branch of the White Lotus charged with the world's protection in the time between avatars—she immediately agrees.

-Priya leaves home relatively young and travels the world, learning about artistic traditions of four nations. After a successful career as a dancer, she settles in Zaofu and partners with Grandma Su and Uncle Huan (also soliciting help from Ikki and Kya) to found an academy dedicated to applying bending disciplines to the fine arts.

-Jae becomes the assistant—and later the romantic partner—of Lily Moon Varrick. His work with the Varricks leads him into the world of weapons developing—the one thing his father didn't want him to do with his engineering skills. This—along with a series of other questionable moral choices he and Lily make with their businesses over the years—causes a rift between Jae and his younger sister, Shreya, which their relationship never truly moves past.

-While she's in her twenties, traveling to more remote parts of the Earth Republic to complete civil engineering projects, Shreya ends up meeting her maternal grandfather and they have a long conversation over a pot of tea. She never tells her family about this meeting—as that was her grandfather's wish—but she understood her mom a lot better after that day.

I've also been dreaming up a story about the next Earth avatar, who grows up in a modernized Ba Sing Se. She ends up being mentored by Kuvira and befriending the former leader's youngest granddaughter. Much of her journey would be centered on finding the right balance between tradition and progress. Her two main companions— Kazuo, a young fire sage apprentice who grew up steeped in history and spirituality, and Samara, a metalbending prodigy and heiress of the Ba Sing Se Beifongs—are constantly pulling her in opposite directions on the major issues of the day.

#baavira #baavira babies #fanfic writer ask #so many unwritten fics

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Hey I was wondering what perfumes would Sumire, Akane, Bella and the girls at the polar star dorms would wear?

If you have time could you do that for some of your avatar OC's as well?

Hi! Thanks for the ask! I'm actually pretty into fragrances, so this is really fun to think about! Here's what I think each of them would go with:

Akane - Mon Paris by YSL

Bella - Hypnotic Poison by Dior

Sumire - Coco Mademoiselle by Chanel

Maria - Daisy by Marc Jacobs

Yuna - Chance by Chanel

Utau - Decadence by Marc Jacobs

For some of my Avatar/LOK OCs...

(Zaofu People)

Peony Park - Black Opium by YSL

Lian Park - Fucking Fabulous by Tom Ford

Lieutenant Shan - J'adore by Dior

(Next Gen OCs)

Avani Beifong - Tobacco Vanille by Tom Ford

Priya Beifong - Flowerbomb by Viktor & Rolf

Shreya Beifong - Perfect by Marc Jacobs

#honestly priya gives me mon paris vibes too but i didnt want to repeat any lol #utau could have also had lady million by paco rabanne (which i loved when i was in high school but no one seems to sell it anymore)