should probably be writing

Havernel - writer (AO3) - music and chess lover - multifandom: Marvel, HP, The Martian, LotR, TG, MI, PJO and many more

[luna-azzurra]

Writers have two modes and they are "i haven't written in three weeks and i am rotting from the inside and everything feels wrong and i don't know who i am anymore" and "i wrote for four hours straight and forgot to eat and it's dark outside and when did that happen and i feel like a god" and there is nothing in between. no chill. no medium setting. just famine or feast and a very confused nervous system.

[havernel]

[ao3org]

Wrangling Update - Avatar: The Last Airbender 

Hello ATLA fans! With the recent changes to Fandom Metatags, a new change is coming to the way the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise fandom on AO3 is structured! Don’t worry, the existing fandom tags will remain as they are - this change will not impact your ability to search for works in specific fandoms (i.e. Legend of Korra, The Chronicles of the Avatar novels, etc.). 

What is changing is that we are creating a new metatag for the fandom! 

What is a metatag, you ask? Great question - think of metatags (and subtags) like file folders on your computer or in your Google Drive. In this analogy, the metatag is the top-level folder and the subtags are sub-folders that live inside that top-level folder.

New ATLA metatag: Avatar: The Last Airbender & Related Fandoms

All current and future ATLA-related fandoms will be sub-fandoms ("subtags") of the new Avatar: The Last Airbender & Related Fandoms fandom metatag. Currently, this includes: 

Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)

Avatar: Legend of Korra

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Chronicles of the Avatar Novels - Various

Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)

Avatar Legends (Roleplaying Game)

Avatar: The Last Airbender (Video Games 2006 2007)

Avatar: Realms Collide (Video Game)

There is no 2010 movie in Ba Sing Se The Last Airbender (2010)

As new ATLA franchise canon is released, those will be added as subfandoms as well. For more information on the hows and whys, keep reading below the cut!

Why are we making this change? 

In short, to make it easier to filter and search for what you’re looking for! 

Franchise-wide searching: Don’t care which part of canon is included in your search? No problem! Filter/search using the new metatag (Avatar: The Last Airbender & Related Fandoms) and all the fandoms listed above will be included in the results. 

Specific sub-fandom searching: Only interested in works tagged as Legend of Korra or one of the other sub-fandoms? We’ve got you covered, too! Simply filter/search using the subfandom, and you’ll only see results that have the sub-fandom tagged. And if you want to exclude works where some or all of the other sub-fandoms are tagged, you can still do that as well! Just add those fandoms under the exclude filter.

Crossovers: Don’t like crossovers with external fandoms? Or maybe you LOVE crossovers? Either way, this change is good news for you! By organizing all the ATLA subfandoms under the overarching metatag, works that are tagged with multiple ATLA fandoms will no longer be treated as a crossover work by the filtering/search system! This means that:

When you exclude crossovers from your search, works tagged with multiple ATLA-related fandoms will now show up in the results (since the system no longer considers them to be crossovers since they are now all part of the same fandom tree). 

When you include crossovers in your search, works tagged with ATLA fandoms and non-ATLA fandoms will still appear as usual.

Other ATLA Wrangling Tips

Beware the blue people Avatar! While you’re always welcome to tag your works however you like, we recommend selecting your preferred ATLA fandom directly from the dropdown or using phrasing specific to ATLA. If you tag your work’s fandom just using the word "Avatar" or something similar, you run the risk of your work being listed under the James Cameron Avatar franchise instead of ATLA. Tags are wrangled based on what they've most been used for, and many "Avatar" tags have already been made synonyms of James Cameron Avatar fandom tags.

Speaking of the dropdown - mind the dropdown! Because AO3’s dropdown prioritizes results that list a word multiple times, the first result may not always be the result you’re looking for. For example, the fandom for the ATLA novels is Avatar: The Last Airbender: Chronicles of the Avatar Novels - Various, which includes the word "Avatar" twice. We recommend double-checking what tag you select from the dropdown to make sure it's the fandom tag you intended! 

Happy tagging! If you have questions or need help, please contact Support, who will be happy to offer any necessary guidance.

(From time to time, ao3org posts announcements of recent or upcoming wrangling changes on behalf of the Tag Wrangling Committee.)

[ice-cream-sandwitch]

It's important to me that people understand why EPIC getting a movie, specifically an animated movie, is such a big deal.

Animation is a dying art and any animated movie at all is great news. Especially in the age of fucking AI. We LOVE to see an animated movie with real artists that is genuinely a labour of love.

But for EPIC, specifically, this is so so important because the musical is a concept album. It's just songs. This means all the art for it, all the visuals we have, is made by the community. Yes, some of it was commissioned, but so much of it was made simply because the artists that made it wanted to, they chose to.

Hundreds of artists have made so so many animatics and animations for EPIC in their own styles for every song in the musical. This community is built on these artists who have done so much for the visual storytelling of the musical.

So for EPIC to be an animated movie, IS a big deal for a lot of people, including myself. I truly believe it's a perfect medium for this story. And I hope that the movie does it justice. But if not, I know that we have hundreds of artists here who already have.

[lilmiaowkittie]

[araeofdrawings]

[userfinalgirls]

april fools? on [tumblr] ? i see fools on here 365 days a year, pal.

[irunaki]

this is how it went right

[wolfythewitch]

wouldn't you like

[saturnsconstellation]

Men use “I’m just a man” to cheat on their wives. Odysseus uses “I’m just a man” to kill, slay and torture people to get back to HIS wife. They are not the same.

[depsidase]

[saedynee]

tumblr has its faults yeah but i gotta say. our posts about the ao3 outage seem to be mostly "WAAAUGHHH NOOOOOOO (thank you ao3 volunteers) MY BEDTIME STORIESSSS!!! NOOOOOO (thank you for working so hard to get the website back otw volunteers) AUGGGOUAGHHHUUUU I MISS MY STORIESSSSS!!!!!!". but on twitter there's folks throwing horrifying insults at ao3 right to their face. which. what the fuck

[saedynee]

tumblr has its faults yeah but i gotta say. our posts about the ao3 outage seem to be mostly "WAAAUGHHH NOOOOOOO (thank you ao3 volunteers) MY BEDTIME STORIESSSS!!! NOOOOOO (thank you for working so hard to get the website back otw volunteers) AUGGGOUAGHHHUUUU I MISS MY STORIESSSSS!!!!!!". but on twitter there's folks throwing horrifying insults at ao3 right to their face. which. what the fuck

[ravenclaw-jedi]

EDIT: I’m editing this so ppl stop panicking—THIS WAS MARCH 2ND

[sailorsally]

everyone rejoice, Ao3 is back

[wishcamper]

Me reading my own fic: wow I love this, hope the author updates soon

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[murasaki-cha]

*a few months after The Ithaca Saga*

Odysseus: *wakes up at the dead of night drenched in cold sweat*

Penelope: Love? What's wrong?

Odysseus: That prophet son of a bitch- IT WAS ME!

Penelope: What??

Odysseus: I WAS THE MAN WHO WAS HAUNTING ALL ALONG!!

Penelope: *pulling him down and hugging him* ok dear just go back to sleep.

*meanwhile in the Underworld*

Tiresias: Fucking finally that dumbass