I Made My Oc For The Picrew Lol

Just give me a fandom for my own ocs and my life has purpose

good morning everyone i need y’all to stop what you’re doing and appreciate some yangvik art:

commission done for me by my incredibly talented friend @spoonatic , everyone should go commission him right now because i’ve just been staring in awe at this wonderful piece 🥹💕

When you’re so obsessed with your atla ocs that you make a modern au for them…..long story short they are collage roommates

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Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

Dirt

gaang redraw as my hand fan <3

I think you’ll get kindness probably because your really sweet, now let’s see if you where right

Turns out I did get determined first try, I tried again and got justice. I don’t think either of those fit me very well though

Take this quiz, then tag a friend (or many) and say what you think they’ll get.

@b-r-a-i-n-v-o-m-i-t (Justice) @artyboidoesstuff (Kindness) @qhostpi22 (Bravery) @maurmondz38 (Perseverance) @klutzytomb (Perseverance) @moldieecheese (Kindness)

Thanks to that anon too because I absolutely love this fic. Also the snippets are so good I love toph and her badgermole family!

Hello! I’m the person who left a comment of your fic “Avatar: Journey of the Blind Bandit” under the name annabel and I wanted to first of all thank you for that awesome au and ask for maybe a snippet or an update?? The ending was such a cliffhanger it’s been driving me insane.

This……is the nicest thing I’ve ever seen—

Thank you so much, Anon!!

Truth be told, I haven’t thought about this fic seriously for a while. And whenever I did, I just wanted to dig a hole for myself to hide in. I started plotting out and writing a new version—which is the reason why the summary of the fic says it’s being rewritten—of this, and I haven’t had the grit to continue but you might have just given me that hah!!

I can offer you a snippet of the newly-created prologue of the new version of Journey—which I will probably retitle if I’m being honest LOL—and I really hope you like it. I want to fix the fic in a way that it reflects my improvement in writing throughout the years. What you’ve read in the published version will likely change quite a bit, but the skeleton of the story itself will remain, so I’m very nervous and excited about the new version.

Hope you enjoy and thank you SO much for reading and being so nice 😭

On a particularly dull day, Toph waited for her parents to fall asleep after they had their nightly tea, and she took off to the only place she knew was her sanctuary.

In her cave that evening, she beat on a rock that deserved none of her anger to make herself feel better. It wasn’t working as well as she’d hoped, judging by the burning-hot resentment she was feeling in her chest.

Toph had discovered the cave around three years ago, after a particularly painful fight with her parents. She’d found a way to slip out of the house’s basement, aimlessly stumble out of the estate, and notice a cave she never had after some time walking. She’d counted thirty-six paces from the Beifong estate.

Then, she met three monstrosities she now called friends.

Friends, in fact, who were judging her harshly at this very moment in time as she beat the pulp out of an innocent rock.

“Shut up,” she muttered breathlessly at the scrutinizing snort of one of them. She looped off the side of the boulder and sent it flying who knew where. “I wouldn’t know how to do this if it weren’t for you, so you don’t get to talk.”

The badgermole snorted again and bent the rock she was working on into the ground as if to tell her that it was enough.

Grumbling unhappily, she wiped her dirty hands off her silk nightgown. “You’d want to hit something, too, if you weren’t allowed to live.”

Thanks again, seriously. I don’t think people understand what it means to fic authors to get feedback and commentary on their works, and for me, this came at a time when I’ve been doubting everything I write or put out lol. Imposter syndrome for the win 😔✊🏻

I’m going to get going on this fic, I promise!!

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ugh that ssktyles screenshot they're so miserable. anyways bumi, kya and tenzin are all kataang's children and those bitter zk shippers can die mad about it 🤪

i agree that aang wasn't the terrible father certain fandom corners makes him out to be, he was flawed but ultimately he loved his children and they loved him back. writing-wise though i think the concept of airbending being so synonymous with air nomad culture warrants criticism. i hate the way the narrative painted bumi and kya as less than for not being airbenders even though they had just as much air nomad heritage as tenzin. i can't recall which episode it was but there's a scene where bumi says he finally feels like he's part of the air nation after becoming an airbender and tenzin agrees like ugh no! he was always part of the air nation regardless of bending!

ironically enough bumi and kya embodied their air nomad side more effortlessly than tenzin given how free-spirited they were and picked upon on spiritual matters quicker than he did. i'm also thinking about the ways tenzin embodied his water tribe side but that's a ramble for another day. i just think tlok's writers really dropped the ball in depicting the nuances of the kataang kids' mixed race heritage but yeah i'd love to hear your thoughts on this

Frankly, I don't want to talk about them if I can help it. I've learnt my lesson on interacting with that side of the fandom or thinking one can reason with them. Never again. Block them. For your own good.

I'm just really tired of the 'Aang was an awful dad' thing. He's no worse a father than Hakoda, who also couldn't spend as much time with his children as he wished due to external responsibilities. But Aang didn't get the change to speak to his children about this, because, unlike Hakoda, he was deader than a doornail by the time complaints began to arise.

I'm 50/50 on the airbending question. In a vaccum it's a solid concept. To ye ole air nomads, airbending was a matter of spirituality, to the point that if an airbender list their spirituality, their airbending could weaken, or dissapear. This is a very cool concept, and ties in nicely to the Air Nomad's ties with buddhist monks.

However, when set in a world where, to the other nations, bending is more up to the genetic lottery, it sets some very obvious hurdles for mixed families. Which isn't an entirely bad thing, it would be interesting to be fleshed out. It is a shame, but it's also not the only potentially amazing storyline to not be explored in the show.

I think the fact that Tenzin is our main window into tlok's Air Nomads is also what sorta drags their characterisation down. As nicely as I can put this, Tenzin can be a bit of a stiff prick, especially to his siblings. Granted, he's under A LOT of stress and pressure (plenty of it self inflicted), but still...

Shifting more into perspectives of a less baggage-ridden character like Jinora, or newer airbenders like Opal and Kai (here is Quill's very sneaky attempt at begging for more Opal content) might have given us a newer, less local-man-convinced-he's-the-single-person-upholding-the-legacy-of-a-genocided-nation flavoured viewpoints.

Tenzin feeling the pressure more than his siblings was, frankly, unavoidable. Even if Aang and Katara didn't encourage him taking on the air nomads legacy at all, he would still be expected to participate in it by outsiders, being what he is. It's certainly a case of someone's identity becoming political, and being burdened with great responsibility for something you can't change about yourself, a phenomenon many minorities irl are intimately aware of.

I do like how Aang handled this aspect of raising Tenzin, wven if it seemingly did not stick lol

Tenzin internalising the importance of his airbender heritage is also not improbable. The issue, to me, is that he is never challenged on this.

Don't get me wrong, I adore the moment in the Fog of Lost souls when he speaks to Aang's spirit and realises he doesn't have to try to be Aang to carry on the air nomads legacy. It's great start, but it could go further, with him mending rhe bridge between him and his siblings, and realising that they are also part of the Air Nomads.

B3 would be a good place for that arc, but it doesn't happen. I hate the "well you're part of the nation now 😌" scene between Bumi and Tenzin, because it feels so artificial. Wouldn't surprise me if it existed because people felt bad for Bumi in B2, and it were an attempt at quickly patching that up. But that's purely speculation, as B3 just feels like it's full of useless fanservice in general.

I can actually get behind Tenzin's mildly condescending attitude towards his siblings. If I had to get into his head, Kya and Bumi both shirked whatever responsibility they had to the Air Temples, even if it was smaller than the one Tenzin was saddled with. Bumi joined the military, which is not very pacifist-monk of him and Kya left the fold to wander the world. Leaving Tenzin alone to carry the weight of the Air Nomads. Of course, from their perspective, they were already excluded, but Tenzin didn't seem aware of their feelings.

I think multiple people have pointed out the hypocrisy of Tenzin, leader of the Air Nomads, criticising his sister's nomadic lifestyle, but I'll do it again. It is very funny, how Kya and Bumi seem to more effortlessly embody select Air Nomad values, and certain of Aang's personality traits, than Tenzin ever could.

Kya, of course, spent a lot of her time as a nomad and seems to genuinely take to meditating and spirituality. Similarly, Bumi seems to naturally gravitate to spirits, even befriending one.

I'd actually argue that Tenzin is the most similar to Katara personalitywise. People have joked about how he got her temper, but I think it's more than that. They have other similarities in personality, as well as their deep and fierce love of family and need for a community. I also like that they're both not natural bending prodigies. Katara was shown struggling with waterbending, but became a master through perseverance and passion. Similarly, Tenzin didn't get his arrows until he was over 16, a far cry of Aang and Jinora who were both around 12 for it.

Honestly, Tenzin trying to be so much like his father, when he's obviously a mama's boy is one of my favourite parts of his character.

I honestly wish we had more between these two, and perhaps an arc of Tenzin reconnecting with his Water Tribe roots. He clearly does have some care for them, visiting for festivals, and with a lot of the furniture around Air Temple island having some callbacks to water tribe furnishings weve seen before. But it's obvious he's cut himself off from that aspect of himself to focus on the duty of rebuilding the Air Nomads.

So, I think my ultimate opinion on the cloudbabies and their relation to their Air Nomad heritage is, like with many aspects of tlok: excellent potential, great setup, fascinating characters- not enough time and fumbled execution.

a stupid comic based on this meme thingy. Ft my amazing art block

Ooooh so pretty 🤩 love some good yue art

Princess Yue of the Northern Water Tribe

Finally in the Northern Water Tribe at the end of Book 1! We meet the wonderful Princess Yue and shenanigans ensue. I wanted the Northern and Southern Water Tribes to have related yet distinct tastes in fashion. Yue is still wearing a fantasy combination of Inuit/Yakut/Mongolian clothing but with a little bit of Great Plains Indigenous Regalia. Oh and her very important hair reference to Chinese "fairy maidens" (It's a Tang* Dynasty hairstyle associated with minor deities).

(Reoccurring disclaimer for this art series: This is for fun, they are inspired by the show's costume designs and then extrapolated out with historical fashion or things I think will be fun to draw. These are not meant to be accurate, only inspired. I hope you like them!)

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