人间月儿圆又圆

Rui/芮 · 26 · Chinese Malaysian · Art (nsfw blogs DNI)

[kinoselynn]

[turnipoddity]

I’m so sorry for being greedy but can we please just get more gavries kissing 😭

never apologize for wanting to see gavries kissing bro

[kinoselynn]

pick your fighter

[turnipoddity]

i can’t believe i haven’t drawn them dancing… anyways

[chaosroid1]

Heya fellas, I'm opening up commissions for I've got mouths to feed, my own mouth.

If you're interested in a commission, please read the TOS and fill in the google form both linked below:

TOS and options: https://chaoticcommish.carrd.co/#

Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2sq5r0CQtN_aV-6uWiAASsKITE8ioihIh-r37BTEsFRRbdw/viewform

This'll be me first time doing commissions so go a lil easy on me aye

[try-set-me-on-fire]

Eccentricity, or sentimentality, or appreciation of the abstract, or perhaps even real joy.

[jingjuejing]

happy opjazz new year

[chiptrillino-art]

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listen there are more doodles. but i am agonizingly slow and well...overthinking things. big shoutout to @/atlaculture for the analysis on my last post honestly simply amazing because i went through it like 'oh gosh i am so glad i got it right!' so big thank you to them and their amazing work!

oh hi you kicked on the keep reading button! not much surprise here. they drawing above are next to each other on my drawing file. and my brain thought "oh could be nice to have a spread illu of them!" but...well this is why you plan drawings kids!!! it kinda works but i think its awkward that they look in different directions haha and i couldn't make the lighting work somehow. it was a test, kinda like some things, others less.

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[atlaculture]

Such a cool piece!

[mamalazzer]

KCD1 vs KCD2 - Hans has always looked at Henry like 😏

[sondu]

[jingjuejing]

I hate (love) these three

[jingjuejing]

shakes my bootayyyy

[turnipoddity]

showing off his knitting skills mkay

[fishfud]

character sheet for madame decay aka the most demonic turnaround I’ve ever had to do

[turnipoddity]

ray with a beard… that is all

[e-e-e-s-the-avatar]

The Blue Spirit putting out firebending with a bucket of water is the absolute funniest thing ever done in avatar combat. It just is.

[thequantumqueer]

katara: *kicks zuko’s ass without even blinking* zuko:

[finding-flight]

I literally just watched this episode, and I’m sorry, but there’s one thing funnier:

Zuko couldn’t speak during this whole fight/escape in case someone recognized his voice. Can you imagine the frustration he must have felt having to go through an entire fight without yelling? Zuko???

[sweetiepie08]

Especially while dealing with Aang’s shenanigans?!?!?!

One of my favorite parts of rewatching the episode is imagining everything that must have been going through Zuko’s head during that escape.

Aang: Wait! My friends need to suck on those frogs!

Zuko, trying not yell out of anger and confusion:

[art-and-writing-knox-me-down]

It gets funnier when you think that he could absolutely, no problem go through a battle without yelling once, as seen here and yet chooses to be a dramatic gay and holler at the top of his lungs at every opportunity. 

That says a lot about how he firebends vs how he fights with the dao blades.

He actually can’t, at this point, fight without yelling if he’s using firebending. In The Firebending Masters, he says he’s been relying on anger and rage to fuel his bending, so yeah, in every firebending fight, he’s drawing on rage and hyping that up by yelling. Someone has pointed out that after he finds the original source of firebending, he stops yelling all the time - I haven’t checked that personally but it does seem accurate.

But he doesn’t need to draw on fury to firebend when he’s the Blue Spirit. He can fight in total silence when he’s working with a weapon he’s more in touch with, when he doesn’t need to draw on hate or anger to fuel it.

[flameraven]

I am SO curious where he learned to fight with the swords. I can’t imagine he got much training in martial weapons as a kid – he’s ROYALTY, he’s a firebender, and the focus we see on them practicing forms from a young age (and Zuko being expected to do an Agni Kai at 13!) make me think it’s likely there would have been a lot of disdain for something as pedestrian as swords. Also– @atlaculture didn’t you do something on how the split swords are a peasant weapon?

Seems like something he must have picked up after his exile, but he’s so prideful and so obsessed with “proving himself” to Ozai, I can’t imagine he’d dare to experiment with that on his own. Maybe Iroh introduced it to him? Practicing sword forms or sparring would have been a good way for him to build back muscle after what had to be a long convalescence from the burn, but without the trauma of firebending again so soon.

(You can’t convince me Zuko didn’t have some pyrophobia after the Agni Kai, and probably a heaping dose of shame along with it, because he’s the prince of the Fire Nation, he’s a fire bender, how pathetic is it for him to be afraid of fire? And yet he has to suppress a flinch every time fire gets too close, especially near his face)

[atlaculture]

Yup! Zuko’s dual swords are for civilian use and called niuweidao, meaning “oxtail sabers”. Historically, these sword were relatively cheap to acquire, due to their thin blades typically being made of low-quality metal that was easy to mass produce:

https://www.tumblr.com/atlaculture/718240438095593472/cultural-weapons-fire-nation-swords-pt-2?source=share

The consequence of them basically being the McDonalds of swords is that they were popular with all different kinds of poor people. The most interesting ones being… theatre troupes! Because these swords were relatively affordable, they were often used for stage and street performances. (And because the tropes of theatre carry into modern cinema and TV, you also see the niuweidao overrepresented in most kung fu-inspired media as well.)

Anyways, I bring this up because Zuko is very much a theatre kid, so maybe his sword skills actually come from observing actors using the sword and imitating them? Better yet, maybe his mother secretly taught him to use the niuweidao to boost his self-esteem? After all, she is a former theatre actress, according to the comics. It would certainly explain why it’s a skill he possesses but not Azula/Ozai/Iroh.

It would also explain why Zuko thought he could get away with hanging them on his wall as decorations. It would be like decorating your room with a Phantom of the Opera mask.

[flameraven]

I don’t read the comics, so now I’m wondering how on Earth Ozai married an actress! Someone so obsessed with lineage and legacy is not someone I would expect to marry down like that. Maybe Nobility were allowed to have hobbies like that in the Fire Nation? Although it seems like entertainers don’t have the best reputation given what we see of Ty Lee and the circus…

[atlaculture]

Without spoiling too much, Azulon forced Ursa to marry Ozai, because she’s the granddaughter of Roku and he believed she would give the royal family powerful heirs. Before that, she was just a local actress in her small town.

[lizardlicks]

The comics also revealed that Zuko did in fact train with Piandao himself

When exactly he started or how long he trained is never with Piandao is never addressed. Fanon theorizes that Zuko may have started his training pretty early in, on assumption that he was a non-bender since the sages predicted he wouldn’t be a firebender, and he was presumably a late bloomer (at least when compared to the expectations of the royal family).

[atlaculture]

For anyone wondering where the “Zuko was trained by Piandao” trivia came from. This short comic, called “Swordbending”, was published in Nickelodeon Comics Club and was later compiled into “The Lost Adventures” Avatar books.

I’m on the fence over whether I take this as canon or not. For one, It wasn’t written by any of the series’ main writers. I don’t mind Piandao being Zuko’s teacher, but I really like the idea of Ursa being the one to have taught her son. It would tie back to Zuko’s ongoing duality theming. For most of the series, his firebending is fueled by anger because everything about it goes back to his feelings of inadequacy and his father’s abuse. But when he’s dual wielding, he’s incredibly cool headed. Maybe it’s because he relates it back to time spent with his mother and her positive encouragement. Plus, it would match the rest of his Blue Spirit design, which has other references to his mother.

[atlaculture]

#zuko could have two teachers tbh#stage combat and actual combat have different priorities and techniques#learning one can absolutely give you an edge for the other but they aren’t 1:1#and i can’t call to mind any evidence that ursa was an assassin or anything—imo she could defend herself but her real skill is showmanship#tbh i feel like it fits the themes of the narrative—ursa trains zuko as much as she knows how to#but it’s mostly a showy style that doesn’t hold up to more intense combat situations so he builds on it without her

@falconfate

I agree. While I think Ursa taught Zuko the basics and showed him some really flashy moves, I think his combat abilities were really refined during his banishment. Like I mentioned earlier, Zuko’s swords were historically popular among the lower levels of society, such as actors and criminals/rebels. Zuko spent three years on a ship full of sailors and probably spent a lot of time docked in seedy port cities where pirates hung out. He basically got to experience the full spectrum of what dual broadswords (niuweidao) were capable of.

Anyways, enjoy Michelle Yeoh rocking the dual broadswords (niuweidao) against Zhang Ziyi’s single straight blade (jian).

[turnipoddity]

sleep deprived as hell but we got time for yaoi