Here But Not Present (*´-`)

Nia |She/They| Illustration Might draw, might not

[herebutnotpresent]

Finally trying to organize this mess...

HereButNotPresent | Nia

Sometimes I draw,

most of the time I'm asleep (*-μ-`*).ﾟ｡.

mostly an atla blog but on occasion my other fandoms will be on the loose woopsie

♡ ∩_∩ („• ֊ •„)♡ |￣U U￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|

Art Tags:

#presentingart

#🎁art (present art)

#wip asylum

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Au Tags:

Atla

#Wont Learn Everything au (Library/Knowledge Seeker! Zuko au)

#Midnight Sun au (Brainwashed Jetko)

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Writing Tag (one of these days Ill figure it out ☆⌒(≧▽​° ) )

#presentingwords

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Random Tags:

#mailbox 💌 (asks tag)

#nia rambles

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[hammersanvil]

Rewatching Book 3 of ATLA and cringing at how dumb the Iroh fanservice plot twists are:

"Iroh lied about killing the last dragon before Zuko was born because he wanted to protect them! They actually deemed him pure of heart and worthy to learn the truest form of firebending🥰" .......... even though he continued to be a violent general in an evil genocidal empire long after that...? I'm questioning the dragons' wisdom now.

"Actually Iroh and all the other old guys in the show are senior members of a super secret society working for the good of the world!!" ..... even though one of them flat out refused to teach the Avatar waterbending for misogynistic reasons, another refused to teach the Avatar firebending for personal reasons, and Iroh was an evil war general barely 6 years ago so I suppose he's only a recent member?

[muffinlance]

I love AtLA as much as anyone, but yeah it is, uh. Pretty abundantly clear that the White Lotus didn't exist in the writers' room until at least season two, and they didn't have a full idea of its role in the narrative probably until season three. The timeline on Iroh "Did A War Against All The Rest Of You" Azulonson joining and being trusted so high in the membership is also. Very questionable.

Which is all to say I think it would be perfect if we got to the season three end game and realized Iroh was actually still an errand boy initiate in the White Lotus. And Piandao pulls aside the main tent flap to reveal our Supreme Grand Lotus:

Gran-Gran

Canonically traveled the world without Committing A War, thus reasonably having met and networked with most of these other people in a positive way? Check

Saw the Avatar and told her only grandkids to go help that kid ASAP, don't worry Gran-Gran's just going to stay riiiiiight here while you're gone and definitely not relive the excitements of her youth? Check

Would recontextualize Pakku's constant sour grapes face (and his reaction to seeing Katara's necklace) to "my ex left me and now she's my superior, if I don't train her grandkid she will mobilize a global movement to Kick My Ass"? CHECK

Gran-Gran for White Lotus Grandmaster 2026

[carolofthebell]

You are Iroh, you finally land a job in your new field. This is the first time in your life you’ve ever had to work your way up. This time, this time you will succeed or fail entirely on your own. No weight of expectation bears down from your father, no brother waiting in the wings, salivating for you to slip up. No legions of men looking to you with trust and hope and faith shining in their eyes. You feel… free, hopeful, ready.

Then your kid assaults your new boss.

Or not really your boss, more like your boss’s boss’s boss.

And it turns out everything is really really hard when everyone around you isn’t trying to curry your favor or affirm your ideas. Outside of the fire nation people don’t just nod and go along with you. They ask follow-up questions and instead of adopting your plans and automatically beginning to work on adapting and generating solutions they instead point out flaws that you hadn’t considered. Nobody is troubleshooting for you, nobody stands ready to spin anything that goes wrong in a favorable light. You are repeatedly written off at best and criticized at worst.

Turns out you kinda suck at this new thing you’re trying, and while it’s a novel experience you do kind of want to ask Agni why you had to be so GOOD at destroying the world and so BAD at uniting it. Why will nation and sons alike follow you so readily towards certain death, but not turn back with you towards peace and life? Were you ever the leader you imagined yourself to be or have you always been a fool riding a mighty riptide and believing yourself the fastest swimmer.

[muffinlance]

Iroh having to go have a little lie-down after his nephew assaults his boss's boss? CANONICALLY CHECKED

[lujinarchive]

Mai and Zuko

[oliviawhen]

Just swimming by to say hello. 🦭

[caara-mia]

[tempo-takoyaki]

Bunch of Toph screenshots redraw I made recently because I got back into ATLA and I love Toph so much.

[lujinarchive]

Firelady Mai

[soncee]

Asami redesigns

[epriver247]

I'm kinda late to Kuspuk Week 2026 by @mostly-mundane-atla, I've been wanting to participate for a few years now while I was lurking at Tumblr and decided it was time! For Day 4, "Easygoing" I like looking at and drawing food so I decided at Gaang eating some traditional meals and snacks together. Hopefully I'll be able to draw more stuff later. The menu is fried dough, arctic char, beluga and ice cream.

Closeups are below

[herebutnotpresent]

Some old library au scribbles from some months ago (－ω－) zzZ

more outfit sketches under the cut

[herebutnotpresent]

Encounters (｡••｡)⸝ෆ⃛⸜(｡••｡)

[anniewananie]

suki!! yay

[blarg-8]

would you perhaps consider : ty lee & mai ; ty lee grumpy mai happy ?? outfit swap ? something of the sort

I forgot to do the outfit swap but I attempted the personality swap

Wowwww

Sketch before I did that

Ty Lee is so gorgeous

Mai is also pretty but I feel that I can’t get her right

It might also be the expression this is lowkey really scaring me

Do we care for these designs I wonder bc I do draw them like this a lot

Okay bye bye

[i115ve]

iloveher

[sermna]

another quick photo study!

[littlestpersimmon]

The Dancer and the Cloisonné Dream

[herebutnotpresent]

Consider doodling this please?

Here ya go! Zz(ρω-)o゜。