Kaltxì ma ayeylan! @projectavtr - Tumblr Blog

tsahìk neytiri

my comm done by @cj-k ♡

do fic readers know that their comments actually influence the course of the story sometimes? i don't mean in a "you need to write it this way because i say so 😡" type of comment, i mean when people are asking questions or really engaging with the plot and the themes in the comments they sometimes bring up things that i didn't even think of, or dig into parts of the story that i've overlooked, or get really interested/fixated on something i was going to just kind of glance over--and it has me going 'oh wait that's actually really interesting, that's a good point' and fully adding or tweaking or changing things about the story going forward. i'm literally adding an entire additional chapter to something right now because someone's comment had me like "oh i didn't dig into that as much as i could have." you have impact!

cuubism

Reblogging cuz I’m once again in the middle of adding an entire new plot arc to a fic because of a comment - and you know what, it made it better!

#yup #reading through old comments of RoF and go ‘huh’#‘that’s kinda interesting’#I also love it when people discuss my fic with me in the comments ‘cause it helps 1. to see if I’ve conveyed my ideas well #2. to see some other perspectives that I’ve not not considered but would make the story BETTER

000l

shrewreadings

like to charge, reblog to cast.

spider-defence-squad

Paz Socorro is turning in her grave whenever someone presents her as somehow morally pure or as having taken an issue with Quaritch's treatment of the Na'vi istg. For all we know that woman was just as loyal to the RDA as her baby daddy and we gotta start to recognise that more.

barlukovart

nap

sagebrussh

My husband btw 🙏💙

void-of-moths

hey. it’s mullivaikkal remembrance day. it is a day to remind us how the sri lankan government committed genocide against tamil people and it should be talked about. dropping these links here for more awareness.

Sixteen years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Tamil survivors and families of the disappeared are still fighting for one of the fund

British Tamils mark Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day | Tamil Guardian

Mullaitivu families of the disappeared serve Mullivaikkal Kanji to mark Tamil Genocide Remembrance Week | Tamil Guardian

Tamil Genocide Remembrance commemorated in Mannar with Mullivaikkal kanji distribution | Tamil Guardian

[Tasha Manoranjan, Esq. is the Executive Director of People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL) and a Senior Policy Advisor at the Onta

Sri Lanka guilty of genocide against Eelam Tamils with UK, US complicity: PPT

Tamil Resistance & Resilience in the Face of Genocide A global photo campaign to commemorate the Mullivaikkal Massacre The Colonization of t

me8t

i do not understand at all how the leadership succession works in the avatar universe and this is something i have to accept about myself <3

projectavtr

I’ve always interpreted it as ‘leaders are chosen based on capability’ with kids of Olo’eyktans and Tsahìks having more capability than others simply because they’ve been taught/have a direct role model in their parents. We’ve seen a lot of different pairs for leaders (parent-child, siblings, mated pairs, independent leaders that carry both roles) and whilst mated pairs seem to be the ‘default’ so to speak, they’re not the only option. As far as I’m aware neither role is gendered, and we’ve seen female Olo’eyktan (even have a term in lìfya leNa’vi for it: Olo’eykte) and leaders who are both (I think Varang may fall into this category since there’s no mention of anyone else leading beside her) but not male Tsahìk.

The Omatikaya’s leadership is the most in depth and unique we’ve seen: I’ve gotten the impression that Tsu’tey was chosen as Olo’eyktan instead of say Neytiri (who is both a powerful warrior and a daughter of an Olo’eyktan and Tsahìk pair) because he was in love with and worked well with Sìlwanìn. Once Sìlwanìn was killed he was kept as Olo’eyktan instead due to his own merits alone, just like how Tarsem and Jake would be chosen for their merits over a surviving daughter of the past Olo’eyktan. But there also exists tension in clans on who the ‘correct’ successor is, as seen with Artsut wanting Arvok as Olo’eyktan over Jake, even if Arvok was still a teenager. Mated, sibling or familial pairs may be preferred over two random clan members becoming leaders, simply because the Olo’eyktan and Tsahìk will have to be able to collaborate and work as one, which is much easier when you’ve already got a bond to rely on. It does make me wonder if arranged marriages (e.g. Tsu’tey’s betrothal to both Sìlwanìn and Neytiri) are more common than we’ve seen, with future leaders growing up knowing and learning the other person they’ll lead the clan with in the future, barring extenuating circumstances.

This is all to say that James Cameron plays very loose with the Olo’eyktan and Tsahìk roles, and they don’t have the rigid structure many leadership roles do in our world - which, in my opinion, makes it very interesting.

#james cameron avatar #avatar #I like the idea of a merit based leadership role #especially when arranged marriages and betrothals and siblings pairs get involved #I think for the Metkayina now Tsireya IS their tsahìk #(Which hurts me so much. she’s fourteen and already with so much responsibility on her shoulders)#and the next tsahìk will probably be another heard/spiritually inclined member of their clan before being #passed to Prìl if she grows up to have the inclination for it #(Side note but I do find it interesting that Ao’nung is not labelled as future Olo’eyktan the way Tsireya is future tsahik #even though he’s her older brother #I mean I could be remembering wrong so take it with a grain of salt #but if it’s true I’d like to know WHY)#worlbuilding

me8t

u should draw baby lo’ak and jake 🥹🫶

got rlly emotional drawing this like ohhh thats his mini me... thats his baby.

#ahhhhh so cuteeeeee #my heartttttt

captainkirkk

What they don't tell you about writing is that as you write, you discover scenes and entire plots that you hadn't accounted for that need to be written. So you can spend two hours writing and editing only to realise you're further away from the finish line than you thought you were when you started

attenashe-deactivated20190606

things that always make me happy: serial commenters. there are three types

1) reading a longfic chapter by chapter, leaving an increasingly emotional comment on every chapter, descends into keysmashes near the end: outstanding

2) read one fic by accident, clicked the author name, now working steadily through the backlog and commenting on everything, I wake up to an AO3 inbox full of enthusiasm: precious beyond words

3) the longterm serial commenter whose comment begins with I don’t even know this fandom but because they have followed me from somewhere else: stunning. humbling. magical.

fineillsignup

these are all *chef’s kiss* and I want to add one more: 4) left a comment a while ago, comes back and leaves another comment on the same fic, telling you that they’re coming back to reread the fic: angels. blessings. lifesavers.

dancinbutterfly

I owe all 4 my actual life

dirtytransmasc

I don't think I've ever posted this oc here, but... have these

Visual Dictionary Entry: A'ekir

or should I say inspired. these are certainly equally text based as they are visual. but this was the prettiest way to put his lore together, so I opted for being text heavy.

hopefully I caught all my typos... also praying I can one day take higher resolution pics of his songcord (that I wove entirely myself and is like 7 feet long and I'm so proud of it oh my gods) so I can upload it, in picture format, in higher quality.

jaraniii

Sea princess 🌊🐚💚

#Ahhh she’s so beautiful!!

ulibeanzz

if ur lgbt+ im curious: if u can remember, what was your first major Gay Ship?

#tsu’tey x an original male character I think #which then evolved into tsu’tey x Tommy when I remembered the latter existed lol

apolladay

artists, writers, and other creators for both fandom & original works: do you like to save and/ or go back to REread* nice comments people left about your work(s)?

I often save/reread comments

I rarely save/reread comments

I do not usually save/reread comments

Not a "creator" but I do this w/ other compliments

Not "physically", but I remember/think about them

I haven’t gotten [nice/any] comments on my work before

Other (what do you do?)

Results/l do not consider myself a creator

——

*Assume you have seen the comments once initially: do you deliberately seek them out or save them (e.g. screenshot) to look at again? Even if you’ve only made and shared 1 work 5+ years ago, you can answer as a creator! AI squatters not included.

I have a folder for my favorite ones that are very encouraging and I love to look back on them, so I was wondering if other people do this :> they truly can make the day of someone who’s work you enjoy (AO3 & tumblr are examples of timeless places, so it’s never too old or too late, if you’re worried 💜)