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Hi, I’m A.S. Wilder — welcome to my corner of Tumblr!
I’m a writer and template-maker, and this blog is where I share my work, and the behind-the-scenes chaos of building stories I can’t stop thinking about.
New oneshot brewing
Empty Mouth - Jeytiri Fanfiction idea - Avatar
They couldn't catch her. So they built something that could.
The RDA has Jake's face. His voice. His hands. They have footage of the way he moves, the way he fights, the way he holds a blade — and a recombinant body wired to do all of it. They taught it to speak Na'vi. They taught it to move like one of the People. They built a flawless copy of the one person Neytiri would never run from.
They just couldn't put anyone inside it.
In the rotting bones of an abandoned RDA facility — overgrown, flickering, almost dead — Neytiri comes face to face with her husband, and slowly realises the eyes looking back at her are bright, and empty, and wrong. The horror was never being hunted. It's being hunted by him. And by the time the real Jake reaches her, her body has already learned to flinch from the shape of the man she loves most.
Am sitting with this idea as a potential one-shot that plays with the horror of the re-combatant avatar concept, should I write it??
Small Enough - Jeytiri Fanfiction - Sneak Peek
This scene really broke my heart.
Jake constantly apologises when they fight, he even apologised after this, when he didn't even say anything wrong!
But I know when Neytiri said what she said, and then didn't take it back in this scene, that shit must've really hurt...
Imagine the person you love just told you that everything you can't help about yourself, is something they hate. That the characteristics you passed onto your children, are things they consider a flaw.
She should've had a moment where she apologised for this. He's always the one holding her while she breaks, but we've yet to see her holding him when he breaks.
I feel like I should alert everyone to my new favorite thing; Sam Worthington in Paper Planes (2014). He gives depressed dilf in the best way…
He’s giving Jake who never transitioned to his Avatar body.
This and the Shack, OMG! He makes the perfect sad boy.
PS. before the fandom gods come for me, I got these gifs from tenor! I'm not stealing them..
Happy pride month! And happy men's mental health awareness month!!!🫶🫶
Passing it on!!
Happy pride month!
Happy men's mental health awareness month!
BBBlue - Olivver the Kid - Nothing Has Changed Song Analysis
on "BBBlue" by Olivver the Kid, and what it does to Jake Sully
(no plot spoilers below — only the premise and Jake's interior. nothing past what's already on the page.)
I heard this song over the weekend and had to sit down. If you read Nothing Has Changed, this is the song. Let me show you why.
The warning he cannot give
"BBBlue" is structured around a narrator who has already walked through the thing his beloved is now walking toward, and who refuses, line by line, to be the one who corrupts her.
"I thought that I warned you about the woods / The pain they caused me, the life it took / Here you are, centered and stark / Sun shines through, lights you up."
That's the line my whole story can't quite speak aloud. Jake has been warned. The warning cost him the first life. He doesn't pass it to her — not the foreknowledge, not the bullet, not the woods. So when the song speaks the warning out loud, it does the same thing the prologue does for the reader: it puts a knowing in the air that the character isn't allowed to share.
Green woods, blue ocean
"I'm green just like the woods / You're blue just like the ocean / Your colors drown mine out in one fluid motion."
The colour logic of this song fits the chromatic facts of Pandora so cleanly it almost reads like it was written for the story. Green corrupter, blue beloved. The narrator believes he is the woods, and that his beloved is being drained by being near him.
That fear lives in my Jake. He carries it from the moment he opens his eyes in the young body and sees her again, alive and untouched by anything he has brought back with him.
"It claimed another, first it was my friends, now it's my lover"
This is the line I sat with longest. On the surface, it would mean I lost her before, and now it's happening again. That isn't the story I'm writing. There is one Neytiri. Not two to grieve in series.
But read with my Jake in the chair, the another isn't another beloved. The another is another version of him. The young man he was. The marine who walked into the forest the first time and met her. The younge man he handed her, that did not survive losing her. The woods didn't only take his friends and his lover. The woods took him first — the boy he was when she chose him, the man who didn't yet know what loving her would cost.
That boy died the night she did, in his arms, on the wrong end of a bullet that came from a direction he wasn't watching.
And then Eywa returned him to that boy's body. He is wearing the husk of the thing he gave her. He is being asked to walk into the woods a second time, in the same skin, knowing what it does.
That is the song's interior, the way my Jake holds it.
The butterfly in the palm
Picture this: every moment Neytiri is smiling, loving her world, loving her people. He is watching her, never anything else, loving her. Holding her in his palm like a butterfly he is terrified will be caught in the wind or crushed by his fingers.
Two terrors in one hand. The wind is everything outside his control. The fingers are him as the corruption — the song's whole thesis. The hand stays open and unmoving because closing it is one fear and opening it is the other. He cannot touch her, and he cannot stop watching her, and she does not know she is in a hand at all, because she is busy loving her world.
That is the shape of him, right now, in every scene you've read.
"I guess"
The verb that runs the song's whole emotional engine is "I guess." Not I know. Not I was told.I guess. The narrator is interpreting himself into a role. Making meaning out of an unbearable situation, because standing still inside it isn't survivable.
That is my Jake's posture exactly. Eywa never told him why she sent him back. No voice in the wind. No instruction at the rite-fire. No verdict given. He wakes in the young body and he is left to decide what that means. He can only guess. And whatever he chooses to make of it, he is choosing — because the version where it means nothing isn't a version he can live inside.
That's faith. Not certainty.
It's also, I think, what the song is really about: a person who has been handed a situation they weren't given a reason for, and who has to choose what meaning to act on.
The song says it in three and a half minutes. My novel is taking a bit longer.
Pin "BBBlue" to the spine of Nothing Has Changed. It's the unsayable interior, said.
It is such a deplorable and revolting thought to believe that Neytiri doesn’t hate humans anymore for the sole reason that she accepted Spider, or that, even worse, accepting Spider healed her and made her let go of her (absolutely legitimate) hatred of her colonizers.
Just so you know: you can hate and be angry at your oppressors and still have a happy, peaceful life. Neytiri didn’t magically let go of her hatred and rage when she accepted Spider (which is something she did NOT owe him or need to do in order to heal). Assuming the opposite is absurd and insulting.
Adding onto this because you've articulated something the fandom dances around but rarely says directly.
I'm gonna have a pretty controversial take here, and might get some people disagreeing with me, which is totally fine, but lets keep it civil please.
Spoilers Ahead!
Small fic update for Nothing Has Changed!
Chapter 9 is kicking my ass! There's so much happening in the chapter, so many emotional moments that I want to get perfect, so writing and editing is taking longer than expected!
I am hoping to have the chapter done and posted by Thursday, sorry for the delay!!
Nothing Has Changed - Chapter 9 - Sneak Peek Excerpt
She had set her own work down on the mat beside her and was now reaching across the weave to the arrow he had just laid down. His body stilled, and his hands began their trembling. He had not noticed that they had stopped until now, when they returned. Turning the arrow slowly in her hand, she inspected it from feather to tip. She brought the fletch close to her face. Her eyes narrowed and she slowly brought one of her own arrows up into her other hand, and held his arrow beside one of her own. The two arrows were identical. The same wrap. The same angle. The same closing of the binding over the quill. The same bite at the knot. She turned both arrows once more in her fingers. Then she set her own down. She kept his. "Who taught you?" she said. His jaw worked. "Your hands cannot draw a bow. Yet they can craft an arrow perfectly." She turned his arrow over once more "They craft like mine." He drew a breath in. Another question too small for the answer it required. He looked at the arrow in her hand, and swallowed against the words lodged in his throat. "My wife taught me." Her face did not move. "She must be a great warrior." Her voice had softened — not greatly, but he knew the edges of her voice from years of marriage. They softened now. He looked down. "She was."
Quaritch is a Maniplative shit
I see so many people talking about how Quaritch cares about Spider. How he's actually a good father, But I'm gonna be so honest, I agreed until this scene.
This scene just showed how manipulative he is... He doesn't care about spider, if he did, he would want him somewhere safe, not being prodded by scientists and kept in a cell.
And Quaritch uses Spider's need for a family to manipulate him. Bringing up his mother like he cared about the woman. There is no mention of him loving her in the comics or the previous film, and I'm going to go so far as to say, I don't think there was any feelings involved, it was probably just sex for him... I don't think Quaritch cared about anyone.
He brought her up just to gain an edge with Spider.
Luckily my boy is too smart for that and used it to his own advantage!
Holis!!!! Es Marilyn jejeje lo mío es la angustia de Jake.
Pareja: Jake x Neytiri ❤️
Siempre me pareció interesante la escena cuando Jake es herido en la pierna con la flecha en Avatar 3, mi premisa sería si esa herida fuera aún más grave de lo que fue en el canon con infección o posible envenenamiento (no descarto daño permanente) tanto así que requiera asistencia médica inmediata bien sea por Norm y su equipo médico en el campamento alto, con tecnología, respirador, y demás implementos médicos mientras Neytiri y sus hijos velan por el. También me gustaría que se retratara la desesperación de Neytiri y ver ese lado protector/posesivo, al no entender la tecnología humana, o ver a Jake con un respirador, siendo un shock para ella, pero sabe que eso lo va ayudar a mejorar. También una visión de los niños no acostumbrados a ver a su padre en tal estado de vulnerabilidad al ser dependiente de alguna máquina para sobrevivir. Nada de muerte por supuesto pero si un buen susto y momentos de Neytiri y Jake en la recuperación de Jake (que puede estar atontado por la anestesia) , bien sea tomándole la mano, hablarle, besarlo atenderlo, después de un susto una buena pelusa ❤️☺️.
¡Holis, Marilyn! 🥹❤️
¡Me ENCANTÓ esta premisa, te lo juro! Es justo, justísimo mi estilo: angustia de Jake, hurt/comfort pesado, todo el caos médico humano chocando con Pandora, y al fondo una Neytiri desesperada que no entiende qué es un respirador pero sí entiende que ese aparato es lo único que está manteniendo a su compañero respirando. Eso es ORO.
Lo que más me está dando vueltas en la cabeza: Ver a Neytiri intentar leer el ritmo del pecho de Jake y darse cuenta de que no es el suyo, que la máquina le impone otra cadencia — ese “esto está mal pero lo necesita” lo quiero escribir ya. Los niños viéndolo así, dependiente, tan pequeño de repente — sobre todo me imagino a Lo’ak callándose de una forma que asusta más que cualquier máquina. Y el primer despertar de Jake, atontado por la anestesia, encontrando su mano antes que las palabras. Me muero.
Lo añado YA a mi lista. 📒 Quiero sentarme un rato con él para encontrarle el tono justo (close third alternando entre los dos, porque me lo pediste y porque encaja perfecto), pero te aviso por aquí cuando lo empiece y otra vez cuando lo publique. También se llevará su propio moodboard, como prometí en el post de askbox abierto. 🎨
Gracias por confiarme una idea tan tuya. Esto va a doler bonito. 💛
— A.S. Wilder
Hi! I've read a lot of your fanfiction on AO3 and I really, really liked it. I'm a huge Jake/Neytiri shipper too, and I was wondering if you could write a fanfiction in both Jake and Neytiri's POV about his RDA arrest and her rescue, along with some fluff afterwards? Thanks!
I would love to write something like that! I've been wanting to write a short fic exploring what they would've been feeling during those scenes! Leave it with me, I'll tag you as soon as its written!
📫 my askbox is open!
📫My askbox is open!
Hi, loves — I'm officially opening up for fic requests! Send me a premise, a pairing, a scenario, a "what if," a tropey little disaster — anything. I'll pick the ones that hook me and write them as oneshots, drabbles, or whatever they grow into.
🎥 Current focus fandoms
Avatar (James Cameron)
The Lion King
I'm open to other fandoms too — if you've got something else you think I'd vibe with, send it. The worst I can do is gently pass.
🧑🎨 Every accepted request comes with its own moodboard I'll make a little visual moodboard for each fic I write from your ask to go alongside the writing, nothing fancy, just a 4-picture board that inspired me✨
✍️ What I write
Hurt/comfort
Dark romance with consent-conscious framing
Disability, body retraining, and recovery arcs
Trauma-informed close-POV character work
Emotionally ties Smut
Always written in close third
🌸 Pairings
I'll write most pairings, but a couple of personal rules:
Jake → only with Neytiri
Lo'ak → only with Tsireya Everyone else, throw ideas at me!
I am a pro-shipper, so don't be afraid to send me your ship, even if its taboo!
🚫 Hard limits (I won't write these)
Real-person fics
Abuse depicted approvingly or for titillation (trauma-informed exploration of it is welcome — the line is framing)
Male pregnancy - Sorry, not my thing
Gay ships — and this one needs a note: it's not a values stance. I care a lot about getting things right on the page, and I'd want to do extensive research before writing queer relationships so I don't misrepresent the community. Until I've done that work properly, I'm holding off.
No crack or comedy-only premises
📥 How to send
Drop it in my askbox — link in bio. Include the fandom, the pairing (if any), and any vibes or tone you're hoping for. I read everything, even if I don't write everything. 🌿
Here is another one.
Jakes a shifter, one of those very few, very rare, magical beings left on Earth.
Whether born or turned depends entirely on the story being told.
If born, then Tommy was too, and there is a natural pathway grown in the Avatar that allows Jake’s other self to hich a ride through the link. This Jake was never human to begin with, and he views his other form as just an extension of himself.
If turned, aka made, than it’s more a question of ’where the mind goes, the spirit follows’, and the magic, the so called ‘curse’, is very much tied to his spirit as well - not just his flesh. This Jake knows what it is to be unmade and remade into something else. This Jake took years to find a balance with the animal inside him. Linking for the first time to Tommy’s avatar meant it was the first time in years he felt human again, ironically enough. There was none of the magical power that’s always huming under his human skin, none of the instincts that are always clamouring for attention and that he has to fight keep a lid on when amongst people.
But in this scenario he finds out it was just a temporary reprieve, a delay between his spirit occupying the Avatar and the new pathways to grow. He can never truly be free of the ‘curse’, this magical ‘gift’. He realises this because the night he is attacked by a pack of viper wolves, when his panic blanks his mind the magic surges through him and he shifts to his alternate form.
A shifter form is normally 2-3 times the size of the animal it mimics. It’s magic, it doesn’t take into account the conservation of mass.
So imagine it; Jakes form is that of a tiger, in his human form it is 2-3 times the size of a born tiger, in his Avatar? It’s half the size of a an adult palalukan.
He is lucky Eywa had already made it clear to Neytiri that Jake is meant to live, otherwise that encounter after the viper wolves attack would have gone very very differently following the shock of her life.
Oh, this one is doing things to my brain. 🐅✨
The duality you've built into it is what's pulling me hardest — the born version is almost soft in its way (Jake never having to grieve himself, Tommy in on it, the link as a natural extension), and the turned version is gutting. That image of him linking to the Avatar and finally, for the first time in years, just feeling human again — quiet, instincts off, no animal pressing against the inside of his skin — and then having that taken back? That's the kind of premise I want to write very, very carefully.
And the form details — magic not bothering with conservation of mass, an Avatar-scale tiger half the size of a palulukan, the viper wolf attack as the trigger — chef's kiss. The Eywa-already-warned-Neytiri save is also so good, because it means we get the shock without the tragedy.
I need a little time to sit with this one before I commit to a direction — there are a few different stories living inside this premise and I want to figure out which one is loudest before I start. But I've added it to my list and I'll come back to it. 💛
Thank you for sending another, genuinely. Keep them coming.
There is a premise I start from when I want to do a story idea that is not limited by the 3 month timeline of the first movie, nor the specific conflict of Jake initially working for Quaritch because of the reason for that 3 month deadline.
It is this one: because of the composition of Hometree, or the location where it grows, or Eywa’s intervention - whatever the reason; the RDA never managed to get a scan of the area. They don’t know of the deposit underneath the tree (if it even exists here). So no bulldozers, no ticking clock, it’s just business as usual. Quaritch has no reason to recruit Jake with the specific purpose of targeting Hometree.
The conflict is whatever suits the story idea at that time.
The above premise lends itself if you ever want to make a Jake-was-never-a-marine AU. This normally means he was either never paralysed, still paralysed the same way, or has a different disability - also depending on the needs of the story idea.
I have a head canon where he was a school teacher, a nurse, a search and rescue officer, a hunter (a la supernatural), a psychic, a social media influencer (this is a fun one, because he turned out to be much more of a threat to the RDA operations, than he’d be had he been a marine), an environmental restoration specialist, a disaster response resource management specialist (this one is about the RDA and Omatikaya having to learn to work together to survive and recover after a natural disaster, its about learning to coexist), ect… ect...
ohhh this is such a juicy premise — thank you for sending it. 🌿
i love how much room it gives you: stripping out the 3-month deadline and the recruitment angle means the conflict can be literally anything, and the alt-profession list reads like a buffet. social-media-influencer jake especially has me feral — the idea of him being a bigger thorn in the rda's side as a content creator than he ever was as a marine? incredible. disaster-response-coexistence jake is the other one tugging at me, that slow-burn forced-cooperation arc with the omatikaya basically writes itself.
i've added it to my list — i can already see a few different routes branching off this, so i want to sit with it for a bit before i pick the one that pulls me hardest. i'll tag you when something goes up. 💛
keep sending me things, this is exactly the kind of premise that makes my brain start spinning.
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Add your friends or feel free to join in even without a tag! Answer the following questions:
1) What's your favourite Avatar Movie? 2) Who's your favourite character? 3) Who's your least favourite character? 4) If you could change one thing about the movies, what would you change? 5) When and why did you join the fandom? 6) Which character is the best written in your opinion? 7) Any hot takes to share with us ;) 8) Which tribe/clan would you like to be a part of? 9) Human, Dreamwalker or Na'vi? 10) What's the weirdest theory you've got or have heard about the franchise? 11) Got a favourite piece of merch if you have any? 12) Something you wish would happen in A4: 13) Something you hope will NOT happen in A4: 14) Warrior, Hunter or Healer? 15) What would your chosen weapon look like if you were a Na'vi?
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1) What's your favourite Avatar Movie?
ATWOW 🌊
2) Who's your favourite character?
Spider 🕷️
3) Who's your least favourite character?
In the movies? Scoresby. 😡 In the entire franchise including games? Mercer. 🤬
4) If you could change one thing about the movies, what would you change?
More scenes of Spider’s captivity in ATWOW and how the recoms adapted to the feral teen. That had to be a hell of an adjustment for everyone. 😆
5) When and why did you join the fandom?
I always liked the Avatar movies from day one, but I didn’t become obsessed until ATWOW. 💙
6) Which character is the best written in your opinion?
This is tough…and while I do think there are many characters written well, I’m actually going to say I was most surprised by how much I loved Payakan’s character in ATWOW. His story was very well fleshed out and his impact on major plot points in ATWOW are undeniable. 🐋 #payakanistherealhero
7) Any hot takes to share with us ;)
Not sure if this is a hot take, but I think AFAA would’ve done better with fans if it wasn’t advertised as “Lo’ak’s movie”. Interviews made it seem like this was Lo’ak’s coming of age moment but, while he was still important at times, AFAA was not about him. If anything, ATWOW was Lo’ak’s movie…AFAA was more about the relationships between Jake and Quaritch, Spider and Kiri, and a touch of Spider and Quaritch (but anything more from the minimal interactions we saw in ATWOW is awesome.) ❤️🔥
8) Which tribe/clan would you like to be a part of?
Ta’unui 🏝️
9) Human, Dreamwalker or Na'vi?
Na’vi 🩵
10) What's the weirdest theory you've got or have heard about the franchise?
I heard (and still do) that Spider will eventually betray the Na’vi and become a villain…I really just don’t see it happening… 🫣
11) Got a favourite piece of merch if you have any?
Hmmm…I’ve gotten more since AFAA came out but I’ll go with a wallet inspired by toruk. 🐦🔥
12) Something you wish would happen in A4:
Quaritch continues to be obsessed with getting his son back. 🦅 I know it’s not what Spider wants but it was fun to see the colonel thrown off so much by a teenager…
13) Something you hope will NOT happen in A4:
Varang gets pregnant…sorry, I don’t think her character arc needs that… 😑
14) Warrior, Hunter or Healer?
Healer ❤️🩹
15) What would your chosen weapon look like if you were a Na'vi?
Bow and Arrow 🏹
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1) The first one, absolutely!
2)Jake Sully, you know it!
3) Oof, thats a hard one! I'd have to go with Parker Selfridge
4) I'd definitely give Jake and Neytiri more scenes, developing their relationship, as well as many more scenes showing Jake with the people! He didn't just abandon humanity for one woman, he fell in love with the world and the people as well!
5) I've loved the movies since I saw the first one as a kid, but I officially joined the fandom as a writer, about 3-4 months ago.
6) They're all written very well, but I'm a bit baised, so either Jake or Neytiri! They have a lot of depth, and they're not perfect people, which makes them so much fun to write!
7) This is a hard one, I have so many head canons, but not a lot of hot takes... How about this? Jake is overly hated and criticised in the second and third movie for how he treats his kids, and how militarised he has become. But actually, it makes perfect sense when you consider how much PTSD he probably has from the battle of the Halleluiah mountains, and the fact that when the humans left, he was the only one who believed they would come back, which means when they did come back, no one was prepared except him... And then everyone expects him to be the one with the plan because he's Toruk Makto, so he has to lead his people against this new insurgence of humans that have landed and wiped out a lot of the land he loves, all while carrying the guilt of being human himself, and then trying to raise a group of kids who don't ever listen! Then, no matter what he does, he can never make anyone happy, everyone is always upset..
8) I'd be happy in the Ometikaya if we're talking the movies, but if we're talking games? I'd be happy as a part of the Aranahe - I LOVE BRIGHT COLOURS
9) Na'vi, without a doubt.
10) That Na'vi are actually not from Pandora either, they've just been there long enough to not remember landing on the planet. I don't believe it, but its definitely interesting. 11) Got a favourite piece of merch if you have any? I wish! I'm too poor, but I want the books, and I want the figure of Neytiri! One day that wish will come true!
12) I just want a kiss between Jake and Neytiri. I won't go so far as to ask for a sex scene, because I know James won't give me that, but just one kiss, please! Oh, and Tsireya and Lo'ak better get together in the next film as well.
13) I know its coming, but I don't want to see Spider and Kiri together, and please James, don't kill Neytiri or Jake, I beg!
14) Hunter, I could do dangerous things with a bow.
15) A bow, and a blade!