autumn

21 | he/him | i write fanfiction

[abrillustrated]

hi guy. hello. once again im posting avatar but all i have are sketches so thats what ur gonna get haah. um. ive had a good amount of wine on this night so. lol. i will reblog this w id later translating my handwriting yayyyyyyy

my boyfriend has never seen avatar!! a crime i know. im forcing him to watch it but also i just wanted to rewatch. so far sokka is his fav! these doodles r from the train so they're a lil goofy dont wory abt it

also some mom katara + my oc kallik as her daughter bc no hate to lok but they did my girl so dirty. ive rewritten her whole part in that in my head

[thecollectibles]

Art by Alariko

[medievalthymes]

not to sound like a medieval peasant but, cheese and bread. garlic and butter. a menagerie of spices. potatoes. that’s what life is all about right there.

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

any time i hear the insufferable transphobic athlete arguments i think of that one time in middle school when my boys lacrosse team did a full-contact scrimmage against the girls team (who typically play with limited contact) and i, a six-foot, 180lb defender, got utterly laid-out by this 5-foot-nothing girl experiencing the newly-unleashed animosity accompanied by violent sport and as i looked up at my assailant from flat on my back i experienced a brief bout of heterosexuality and fell wildly in love and then had to be taken to the ER because i had a concussion

[rwoh]

“from flat on my back i experienced a brief bout of heterosexuality” took me out

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That was the concussion

[dickpuncherdraws]

what da dog doin

[zukoshotleafjuice]

should not have rewatched atla during finals because now all i'm thinking of is sokka and the concept of return. sokka, who is emotionally defined by the fact that his dad chose to go away and leave him in charge. sokka, whose weapon of choice is a boomerang because he knows he can trust it to return to him. sokka, who barely trusted that the return of the avatar meant that the world could ever be set right. sokka who left his home without the kind of hope that katara did, without real faith that he'd get back. sokka who lost yue and sees his first love every time he looks at the night sky, even though he knows he will never see him again.

and then sokka, who in the finale looked death in the eye and said I don' t think boomerang is coming back this time. he threw his boomerang and he dropped his sword and he knew that he was right the whole time, because at the end of the day things leave him and so do people.

except suki, though. suki came back.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Hey, here's an interesting question.

What's your favourite shark?

Thresher shark

Greenland shark

Whale shark

Nurse shark

Goblin shark

Blue shark

Cookiecutter shark

Lemon shark

Epaulette shark (to be fair, bamboo sharks in general)

Bonnethead shark

Great white shark

Wobbegong sharks

Voting ended onDec 22, 2023

As I'm evil, there is no "Other" option because I know people will answer with "all sharks/all of the above" — and, well, I wanted to fit as many sharks as I could. Shark candidates gathered very scientifically (what I see most often on tumblr dot com webbed site). No answer is the "right" answer — except YOUR fave, of course — I'm just curious to see which shark will get the most votes! All sharks is good sharks :>

[orcboxer]

👆 Thresher Shark

👆 Whale Shark

👆 Greenland Shark

👆 Nurse Shark

👆 Blue Shark

👆 Cookiecutter Shark

👆 Lemon Shark

👆 Epaulette Shark

👆 Bonnethead Shark

👆 Wobbegong Shark

[orcboxer]

👆 Great White

👆 Goblin Shark

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Ooh! Thank you for the shark images friend!

[dduane]

Ed.

[academicssay]

[zukoshotleafjuice]

i think a big reason why i enjoy the zukka fanbase significantly more than any other atla shipping-specific fanbase is because nobody in there is wasting time trying to convince anyone why it was secretly canon. like, this is a ship that is pretty much exclusively limited to unpacking these two characters, exploring how their personalities complement one another, and talking about what the post-war universe would look like. nobody is sitting here trying to tell you why, like, suki was secretly toxic and sokka was in love with zuko the whole time. idk. y'all are vibing and chilling and that's why it works

[zukkaflowers]

forever pining and forever alone firelord zuko and councilman sokka will never know that modern day zuko and modern day sokka spent the morning folding laundry on their bed and drinking tea

[littlegayteaboy]

i cannot state enough how much i adore that the entire zukka fandom is just OBSESSED with the characters clothes. like every time an artist posts a cool super detailed design! with real cultural inspiration! and pretty colours!! we all go wild

[3cosmicfrogs]

I wanted to go a bit more in-depth with this piece that I did for zukka week 2023 because i got inspired to do more insane clothing details. ID in ALT.

Ramble about the influences/inspirations below:

Design inspirations for Sokka's clothing are mainly Inuvialuit and Yup'ik, with Nenets, Tlingit, and Chukchi inspiration for the tassels, patterns, belt and beadwork. I mixed these with the ornaments canon shows us used by the Northern Water Tribe, and also in Legend of Korra. I got particularly excited about drawing from Inuvialuit sources since the tassels we see in canon look like they could be inspired by this. Going beyond canon's animation-friendly colour scheme, I drew from Nenets patterns/embroidery/sashes and Yup'ik beadwork for accent colours. I think in the future I'd like to find ways to incorporate more Tlingit-style patterns since I rarely see them in fanart (which is a shame - they're stunning), but since they tend to be very big I ultimately decided to only include them as a nod in order to keep the regalia recognisable as 'Water Tribe'. I wonder if I could start using Polynesian influences as well?

Zuko's headdress and particularly the shoulder garment and beaded embroidery draw heavily from women's clothing styles of Lê Dynasty Vietnam. The other main influence is men's royal clothing in Tang Dynasty China, and patterns worn by Mongolian Khatun. Since we have a bit more to go on in canon as to what fire nation regalia looks like, I blended that in as well. I got particularly excited about the embellishments on Lê Dynasty clothes because I could give a little nod to Zuko's dragon-fire by adding more colours to the embroidery. In the future I think I'd want to make the Mongolian influence a bit more obvious... perhaps even push the envelope by incorporating some Bashkir designs, though I'm not sure how well that will go.

[comradekatara]

2 kinds of grad students (both massive nerds)

[butchyena]

dude.

[falseficus]

i knew a surgeon and he once told me “nobodys insides look like how the textbooks say they will. you never know what you’re going to find in there once you open them up” and that was easily the most ominous thing anyone’s ever said to me

[brownheadedcowbird]

when i was taking my first year anatomy lab, we’d occasionally find a cadaver where things would branch off or attach in the wrong order, and when we’d ask our prof about it, he’d just shrug and say “they must not have read the book”

[ryannorth]

When my friend was in med school one of the cadavers donated for them to autopsy didn't have a belly button, just smooth skin.

[dandelion-stuff-and-fluff]

In the past 10 years of teaching in an anatomy lab, I have seen:

- A donor with a scrotum the size of my head. When we opened it up, we discovered it was a MASSIVE inguinal hernia and a good 1.5 ft of intestine were trapped down there.

- A donor with situs inversus totalis, whose organs were a mirror image of what we normally see (ie their heart pointed right and their liver was on the left, just for starters)

- A donor whose right common carotid artery branched off the aorta waaay over on the left hand side of the body and crossed alllll the way back across the thorax to get where it needed to be.

- A donor with 4 lobes for their right lung (should only be 3). We named the 4th lobe the Lisa Loeb, but all of the students were too young to appreciate our sparkling wit.

- A shocking variety of penile and breast implants. Y'all would not believe the number of different ways science has come up to counteract gravity.

- A couple of cases of ectopic kidneys, where a kidney didn't rise to its typical position just deep to the lowest ribs and instead stayed in the pelvis.

There is probably some other stuff that I am forgetting. Take home point is: the human body is weird and wonderful and you should learn more about yours!

[brightlotusmoon]

....duuude.

[naamahdarling]

Spleens Georg

[stele3]

14???????

My contribution: client co pinched nerve in L side of neck. I asked about health hx; she said, “I've got some extra ribs on that side.”

me: “some?” (!!!!!??!?!??!???)

Some was 2, but that’s crazy enough.

[cactusspatz]

Yeah, I don't discover the anatomical weirdness but I've had clients come in with extra ribs, missing ribs, extra vertebra, accessory muscles (that's when you have duplicates - sometimes fine, sometimes not), bones connected where they shouldn't be (spoiler: if your lumbar spine is connected to your hip, it Causes Problems), all sorts of stuff. Bodies are weird!

[insomniac-arrest]

“Modernity has stopped the natural evolutionary process” actually, mutations are all over the place, you’re just not cutting up enough dead bodies

[engulfes]

Growing up is actually all about realizing people don’t inherently dislike you and it’s a bit odd to assume they do

[existentialdruid]

This

[jelliebeanbitch]

there are more tweets in this thread

fucking SLAY

[cherryboyriot2-deactivated20251]

One thing I really love about seedy anime websites and YouTube mp3 converters is like. They actually do what they say they’re doing. But they WILL try to trick you into downloading a virus. Like it’s almost just a greeting at this point. I try to extract a song from a YouTube video and it says free VPN installer tonight perhaps? Free VPN installer tonight queen? And I say YouTube-mp3 converter you sly dog, you know what I’m here for. Show me the goods. And YouTube-mp3 converter says ahhh you got me, no getting one over on you. Thought it was worth a try tho. Here you go king x

[writeyourdarlings]

sammy😊