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Sumac she/her | ace DandelionJedi on AO3 {speak of joy}

[dandelionjedi]

Hello everyone! Call me Sumac. You can find me here or on AO3 under DandelionJedi. I'm a sex-repulsed biromantic ace who uses she/her pronouns.

Asks are open please talk to me I want to make friends.

This is where I share random posts that bring me joy

Follow me @dandelion-dreaming for posts relating to my passions (a lot of fandom stuff, arts and crafts, and my own writing and creative projects)

Current brainrot: The Magnus Archives, Welcome to Nightvale, and The Mechanisms. Also Discworld. Because I can never do just one thing.

[lifes-pinata]

One of the compelling things about Project Hail Mary is that you can't fix it.

"What if Stratt didn't force Grace to go?" Then the Earth dies.

"What if Yao and Ilyukhina had survived?" Then they all would have died in space, not enough food to get to Earth or Erid

If the Taomoeba hadn't escaped then Grace would have never seen his best friend again. Returning to a world he loves but no longer recognizes.

If the stars weren't dying then Grace never would have met his best friend at all. Living content but alone.

Project Hail Mary is a hopeful story. It is a story of friendship and what it means to be brave. It's a story about saving the world.

But you can't remove the tragedy of the story without making it unrecognizable. It's written into the bones.

[whatisamildopinion]

'rocky learns to swear in english' is great and all but have we considered the equally hilarious alternative: rocky makes grace a little harmonica so he can use tone indicators in eridian, does not realize how terrible of a mistake this is until it's too late. grace catches onto tone indicators FAST and he is DEVASTATING with their application. grace does not use eridian swears but rocky gets to hear "are we choosing kind words" and "I'm not mad I'm just disappointed" in eridian roughly thirty times per day

[manyblinkinglights]

#grace figures out Disappointed Teacher tone indicators in less than twenty four hours#the first time he uses it rocky is suddenly shaking with flashbacks to being a 30yo eridian in school#pov you are stuck in deep space and your middle school teacher alien roommate has just figured out how to scold you in your native language#rocky is a mechanic. they are immune to being cussed out but the Teacher Voice works on them solidly seven times out of ten#when the beatles get back to earth stratt watches the hail mary footage and every time rocky cringes as grace harmonicas at him#she's like 'ahhhhhh the teacher voice <3 I do miss that'#because when he was still on earth stratt would sometimes sicc grace on members of the phm team#because sometimes the Disappointed Teacher Voice was more effective than the Angry Boss Voice

[elliespectacular]

Happy 24-6-01!

[fyodior]

a talking point i often see when defending the consumption of dark content is that it’s a coping mechanism for those with trauma which is very valid and true but i also want to make this abundantly clear: you can like dark content for no reason. you can enjoy fucked up shit in fiction because it’s enjoyable and entertaining. trauma is not required as a ticket for entry. enjoy your dark content bc it’s fun and sexy and don’t let anyone take that away from you

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

sometimes the reason is this

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

reblog if you love to see that shit that was fucking crazy

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[making-friendos]

Omg im obsessed i loved yout lgbtq doggos. Could you make a Cat version?? I honestly loved them. Would hang them in my house

Thank you! I love cats but I’m kind of clueless when it comes to cat breeds, so

LGBT (Leopard, Garfield, Bobcat, Tiger)

[ghstwht]

Had a thought that Grace technically never used reverse translation for Rocky, and Rocky understood him without a translator because he basically learned the language himself.

And you know all those jokes and headcanons about Rocky swearing every other word like any self-respecting engineer would, right? And Grace most likely did enter all those words into the translator, but replaced them with softer censored equivalents because he himself doesn’t really swear so the idea that someone might be talking to him in profanity every other sentence probably never even crossed his mind.

Now imagine this. They finally arrive to Erid. Grace desperately wants to make a good first impression, so he spends days hunched over his laptop, painstakingly assembling a greeting speech out of fragments from Rocky’s recordings.

And the resulting first contact speech sounds… bad. Like really bad. He turns the laptop toward the delegation looking unbelievably proud of himself. Presses play. And the computer proceeds to unleash a magnificent torrent of multilayered alien profanity stitched together from fragments of Rocky’s voice. Grace has absolutely no idea.

Rocky watched all of these preparations in silence the entire time, making those sly whistling noises that could absolutely be interpreted as laughter. Rocky's proud.

Meanwhile the Eridians are just thinking: "Yep. Okay. This leaky space blob really did spend years with our Rocky."

[ghstwht]

This highlight ☝️ should be here as well so everyone could see.

[ghstwht]

I’m collecting your brilliant tags like a magpie gathering shiny trinkets.

[atlaculture]

Hi, I've seen the view that each nation was based on a specific country, and I think it's what most people think. The fire nation = japan, earth = china, water tribes - inuit, and air nomads = tibet. I wanted to hear your take on it.

It's a pretty common take, and one that I actually used to believe during the show's original run (I was age 13-16 during that period). People like simple and straightforward answers and non-European history/anthropology isn't a very common interest in the English-speaking world. Actually, one of the reasons I started this blog was noticing that even content creators that I consider to be more generally knowledgeable than me were getting some basic cultural details wrong when discussing aspects of ATLA that they liked.

To be honest, I think "the common take" is a good enough framework for the needs of most fan works. Most fan creations focus on fun interactions between our favorite characters, romance, or character studies. Culture is usually secondary in these stories; it doesn't really matter if the creator thinks the Blue Spirit is wearing a noh mask or if Zuko chooses to marry his story's love interest in a Japanese-style wedding. Obviously, I'd prefer if the nuances of show's worldbuilding were taken into consideration, but it's not a requirement for a fanwork's enjoyability or quality.

I don't like nitpicking or policing how other people engage with media. The way a work speaks to a person is so unique to that individual's experiences, that I don't want to be that one guy who goes "Actually, you're doing it wrong..." Now if you ask me for my perspective or analysis of something, then you will get a whole ass essay, as is my style. And, if someone gives you guff over your own fanwork not sticking to "the common take", then feel free to send them my way.

However, my main goal with this blog is to make learning about different cultures enjoyable/approachable and using ATLA as the conduit for that. It's also a really great outlet for my impulse to deep dive and research various topics. Looking at the material "reality" of ATLA and coaxing out these small character details or unseen side stories that may have happened is incredibly fun. If other people end up incorporating my posts into their own headcanons or fanworks, then that's the cherry-on-top.

[stivaktis]

An oldie, but a favourite.

Happy Glorious 25th of May.

[orcarriagesthatwork]

I think about this cake every day

[tizzymcwizzy]

sorry for exposing your tags but this is hilarious

[microsuedemouse]

OP, I hope you don’t mind me making an addition:

When I turned 17, we ordered a cake at the grocery store for my party, as we’d done many times before. If you wanted something written on the cake you’d write it into a section of the order form. We requested, very simply, “Happy Birthday Courtney”. When we went to pick it up the day of the party, this is what we got.

The bakery employees had absolutely no explanation for this. The order form, attached to the box, very clearly did not contain any of those extra names. Whomever had done the writing was no longer in, so there was no one to ask how this had happened. The fact that the name ‘Juan’ is misspelled bewilders me to this day. (I’ve never seen ‘Miley’ without the E, either, but it’s believable that someone might spell it that way.) Did this cake slip in from an alternate universe where I’m one quarter of a set of Hispanic quadruplets? Dyslexic Hispanic quadruplets, maybe?

This cake became the focal point of my party. At least two of my friends regularly called me ‘Courtney Mily Jaun Pablo’ for years to come. My siblings and I still reference it sometimes, eleven years later. It is probably the funniest thing ever to occur at any birthday celebration of my life, and may well remain so for the rest of my days.

I love a botched cake.

[helenarth]

one time me and some pals spotted one of those big cookie cakes in a store. it was done up with red icing and little X's for kisses and in the middle it said

No One Like You

now, it took us a while to realise it meant "(there is) no one like you". at first, we all parsed it as a botched "no one like(s) you"

for ages after when we'd wind each other up we'd declare "NO ONE LIKE YOU ☹️👎"

[embraceweird]

✨🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜✨

[raftaliathebest]

THE LIKES ARE QUEER HEHEHEHE

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[tj-crochets]

My grandma just called and, among other things, said “You have hips. That’s good! Men like hips!” and then she interrupted herself to say “Women like hips. People of your preferred gender like hips. I can never remember”  And I was like “Thanks grandma! My preferred gender is none of them, no thanks.” and she was like “Okay, no one will comment on your hips!” very self satisfied, like “aha, I have figured it out” I think like half her grandkids are some variety of not-straight and she can’t always remember which is which but she is the epitome of like “she’s a little confused, but she’s got the spirit!”

[tj-crochets]

Update: I gave it some thought and my estimate was wrong. Of the grandkids that are out, it’s 1/3, not ½

[tj-crochets]

I told my grandma that I’d told my friends about what she said and that some of y’all had said you wished she was your grandma, and she said “Well, you can never have too many grandkids!”  So like…consider her your honorary grandma* I guess? *if you want an honorary grandma, that is

[tj-crochets]

Update on my grandma: I told her my hair was standing up, but instead of straight line it was diagonal and she said “That’s okay, you’ve never been straight!” and then laughed so hard at her own joke I thought she was going to drop the phone

[tj-crochets]

Happy almost pride month! Have my confused-but-supportive grandma!

[tj-crochets]

An update: my grandma just called me to ask if I knew it was pride month

[tj-crochets]

Happy pride month!!