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Things I Make

I have a completed fantasy webcomic called The Poppy Court, and an ongoing comic called Blue Butterfly. Both are available to read on my comics website.

Find a quick guide to my original characters here. All content for my ocs can be found in #my characters. Character profiles and art are also compiled on my toyhou.se

If you have any questions at all about my ocs please do ask!!! I love talking about them!!!!!

Other stuff I make can be found in the following tags:

#my art #my writing

all my art will first be posted to @dragon-wisteria-art

sonshine-arts

underwater hangout~

#art #pokemon #q

chiptrillino-art

(id in ALT text)

lets look threatening with papa vs. lets look pretty with mamma

#art #avatar #q

aisatsaa

echoes of a full house

#;-;#avatar #kataang #art #q

mintywhisker

trouble is a friend

#art #my little pony #q

yutaan

Papercraft commission of Jester, Caleb, Nott, and Essek (and Frumpkin)! I've been moseying my way through Critical Role and having a lot of fun listening, and was thus very excited for my first time making art of any of the Mighty Nein! (I haven't reached Essek yet but I'm really looking forward to him :D) Plus I always have enormous fun with multi-figure compositions, so this one was extra delightful to make!

#art #critical role #q

jessmindspace

Happy Father's Day, featuring Luc and Thea hanging out at the monastery and reading some classic literature 💙

I never intended on this to be a companion piece to my Mother's Day picture from this year, but I'm glad for that happy accident :)

Mai in Ba Sing Se

Duo Maxwell in the 30th anniversary video of New Mobile Report Gundam Wing 🦇

#gundam #gifs #i never finished this anime (i got finale avoidance sickness and have yet to recover)#but i think duo was my favourite of the bois (because he had beautiful hair and a fun personality and got beat up a lot)#of course my favourite character was my beloved relena peacecraft (pacifist queen (literally))#q

theotheristhedoctor

Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations.

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing.

sindri42

You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.

And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.

ninjaotta

it’s also a detail from the second ever episode

aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations

this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:

[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]

why do i bring this up?

because it’s a move - and a mindset - influenced by earthbending, which hama has never faced (she went from the south pole, to prison, to the fire nation). it’s an indication not only of katara’s skill and power, but also how she’s learned from her travels, and from toph

toughtink

one of my favorite details of atla is how the main characters’ fighting styles adapt as they take on new enemies and make new friends with other bending styles. iroh straight up tells zuko about how he developed a technique for redirecting lightning by studying waterbenders, but if you watch closely especially in the last season, there’s a lot of this sort of thing happening unspoken with the gaang, using the bending forms of other elements like katara does above. it really shows the strength in differences and diversity coming up against a fascist regime that wants everyone to conform.

biglawbear

Look at Korra metal bending here

It’s completely different than anything we’ve seen from other metal benders, who bend metal with sharp movements like the derivative of earth bending that it is

But Korra is fluid. She is bending metal like it’s water. Because she is a water bender. And she is the first person in history to be able to bend both metal and water and so she is able to combine these styles into one and move seamlessly between them. This shows so beautifully how the Avatar is the embodiment of all bending

ironbite4

Every time I think this show has shown me all it can….it gives me more.

patrickdiomedes

The fight between Tenzin and the Red Lotus reinforces this. Zaheer is pretty skilled for someone who’s only been Airbending for a few months, and he has the advantage against a lot of people because there still aren’t really enough airbenders for people to know how to fight them. But against an Airbending MASTER like Tenzin? He only wins because he has backup

leebrontide

I just wanna say that this mirrors something I got to watch in real life. I fenced as a teenager, with my wife, who continued fencing in college.

But her college had fencing equipment but no team, so she started coaching them. But she fenced lefthanded. She ended up with a team of fencers who almost ALL learned to fence lefthanded.

A small % of fencers are lefthanded, so even very good fencers are often NOT USED TO fencing lefties.

So her dinky little team of mostly newbies came in and fucked severely with teams of much more experienced fencers who couldn’t cope with fencing leftie after leftie. Her one protégé who was also very tall just laid waste to nationally rated fencers.

Whereas I, a very shitty fencer, can hold my own against my wife no problem, because I’ve fenced her from the start.

This isn’t JUST a fun plot point and a lovely way of showing social influences and planning and creativity, it’s completely based in real life. Even a shitty fighter can be a problem for a good fighter whose never encountered their style before.

deliriumsdelusion7

I’ve been saying for years now that Zuko took the Avatar’s journey same as Aang did, but always one step behind. In season 1 he learns airbending techniques from fighting Aang - namely, staying at his opponent’s back, like he learned in their first fight - to the point where he uses them against Zhao during the Siege of the North. In season 2, he learns waterbending forms from Iroh to redirect lightning, and mimics Katara’s moves in the finale. In season 3, his focus is a lot more on wide stances, and he uses a lot of deflecting moves, like an earth bender. It’s only when he joins the avatar and they learn firebending together from a master that he finally catches up to the boy he’s been chasing all this time.

#analysis #avatar #lok had many problems but the fight scenes were amazing the whole way through #long post