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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[lujinarchive]

Baby Maizulee is finally complete! 🔥🔥🔥

• gaang version

• yue, jin, jet version

[lujinarchive]

Baby Gaang 🌪️🌊🔥🪨🪃🪭

• maizulee version

• yue, jin, jet version

[lujinarchive]

Last batch of my atla characters as kids series

• gaang version

• maizulee version

[mismedleym]

recollections

[mrporg]

[die-auster]

Jin's outfit (which inspired the whole drawing) is taken from the post by @samuelisvenus

[sayuupi]

Yellow flower 🌼

[chiptrillino-art]

(ID in ALT Text)

its not like i dislike the canon design! i just... can't help myself ;;;

also aang is my exception to the 'no cape' rule

[vickisigh]

good morning~ 💐🍎

✿ limited edition sticker ✿

[snepital]

My fave made up friend group

[spookycriticalblog]

Fuck it at this point can y’all actually start supporting indie animation and indie games made by black artists/creators because I’m really getting sick and tired of everyone hyping these racist phase mediocre white people that get 90% of their humor from 2000s newgrounds animations

[tech-obsessed-shark]

For the people asking “How am I supposed to find them?” Look them up, it’s that easy.

Here is an entire youtube playlist by Mannof1000Thoughts with a ton of indie animation videos AND a livestream he did where he watched some with the creators!!!

Black Indie Animations

Black Indie Creators Watch Their Cartoons With You

Black Indie Cartoons to watch https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2xOBojHKMmoATz6odc0Jo0KNcyO0yXJZ&si=XJ-bUub8_CoTEbUO______________________

For games, there are TONS of lists out there like these:

Games Developed By Black Developers You Should Look Out For - IGN

In celebration of Black History Month, here's a roundup of games made by black developers that should be on your radar.

Black Voices in Gaming

The MIX is celebrating Black game developers by hosting a stream to talk organically about game development from the Black perspective.

[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