#god. sorry.

[eggtomatosoup]

gh

[taakitz]

ATLA (zukka….) au where everything is mostly the same except that the phrase “friend of the Avatar” is a euphemism for being gay, a la the phrase friend of Dorothy

(the phrase started towards the start of the 100 year war because in this universe Avatar Roku was some flavor of gay, then Sozin canonically banned gay marriage after their situationship went downhill. so people had to be more subtle about communicating their identities, something something something, the phrase became semi-commonplace throughout the fire nation and later the earth kingdom. maybe it started even earlier because of bi queen kyoshi. who knows!)

miscommunication and self-discovery ensues throughout the events of ATLA:

early on into his banishment and search for the avatar, Zuko runs into someone who casually mentions that they’re a “friend of the Avatar” and he’s immediately like “THE AVATAR IS ALIVE? WHERE ARE THEY. TELL ME”

…he learns a new phrase that day! perhaps he didn’t even know gay people existed until that awkward encounter (bc sheltered fire nation royal.) maybe he does some self reflection at this point, or perhaps he puts off his sexuality crisis in favor of his avatar hunting mission. who’s to say?

(the next time he hears someone say they’re “a friend of the avatar” he asks if they’re gay or if they actually know the avatar. you know, just in case they actually do.

….and the next time after that, too.

but after that he catches on pretty quickly that, no, it’s REALLY just a turn of phrase, and he does not repeat the mistake again.)

+ early into the series events sokka runs into some confusion when he mentions to a stranger that he’s a friend of the avatar while aang isn’t around—

sokka: hey so uhh i’m actually a friend of the avatar… think i can get a discount for that??

kindly ally shopkeeper: oh! i love that for you!! you know, i have a cousin who’s gay, real swell guy. anyways about the discount—

book one sokka, canonically sexist and with perhaps a fragile masculinity: what wait a sec, IM NOT GAY??????

shopkeeper: oh that’s okay, you don’t have to explain yourself or put a label on it to me (:

(sokka does in fact get a discount.)

he walks back to katara who was waiting for him and overheard the whole conversation, and she says “you know, sokka, it’s fine if you like boys.” sokka responds as you’d expect he would at this time.

(some amount of time later, sokka comes up to katara and aang very nervously and says “hey guys. i think i might. um. be a friend of the Avatar.”

and aang, confused but enthusiastic, goes “aww buddy, we’re already friends!!!!”)

at some point they’re fighting Zuko and during a back-and-forth exchange, Sokka proclaims “i won’t let you hurt him, the Avatar is my friend!” or something to that effect

Zuko, who has learned from his past mistakes in misconstruing this phrase, says “love is love. but your sexuality will not stop me from capturing the Avatar”

[loyalhorror]

knowing that the writer of the Dreaming run was a trans woman makes me even more annoyed that people are out here interpreting sila as a trans man when he could not more clearly be transfem and/or genderqueer

[aethernoise]

yo patrons

Hey all, I have decided to close my Patreon for the time being. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while and figured it was best to do it before the 1st of a new month so you can spend your donation on something else :)

I’m not going to stop creating content or anything, I’m just going to pause the subscription model until I feel I have more to offer. Everything will be saved, so let me know if you need another download of a commission / reward, etc.

Thank you so much for your support! I’ll surely make lots of noise when I’m ready to start up again.

[nancynailbat]

saw multiple jim and pam edits in the last week. what if i died.

[memvi]

I FORGOT MY FUCKIB LAPTOP CHARGER AT HOME. I HAVE TWO CODING ASSIGNMENTS DUE IN THE NEXT TWO DAYS.

[stellerfly]

life worth missing by csh my baby girl my buddy my pal the love of my life

[romijuli]

-chinhands- tell me about your Kniroun oc :3

SHAFIEHILGEASH OH NO-

okay so for clarity here when i say "kniroun oc" i mean a little less "this is my sona's playverse character" and a little more "this is a character that didn't make it into the stage version because they're more important later." I mean this would be my sona's playverse character but that's less important to this. anyway. my problematic nightmare child.

their* name is Percival, or Percy for short. (sorry for making you share a name with this nightmare, percy timeskip.) did you know that in the earliest Arthurian mythology Percival was the guy who got the holy grail and they INEXPLICABLY CHANGED IT LATER anyway that's why they're named that. this is getting long hang on.

(* momentary explanation: i don't know what exactly their gender situation is but I like to think that in some kniroun iv reboot/remake the devs make Percy explicitly nonbinary which is exactly as much of a problem as you would think this is. I made them with the intention of "in-universe fandom discourse magnet" and boy did i go hard with that)

they uh. they USED to be a squire around Mordred's age, and kinda sorta still are, but they wound up studying magic under Merlin because a) they thought it would be useful and b) they're mildly in love with him (tragic i know) so by the time Lancelot gets there everyone just kinda goes "oh they're basically just Merlin's apprentice." so naturally they end up working with Mordred + Merlin in the coup, get knocked out of the mind control whatever magic when Merlin's defeated, all's well except uh.

whatever the next game in the timeline is, Percy spends a LOT of time needling Mordred in particular like "well are you sure he's REALLY gone like what if he's still out there, you know, blah blah blah" until they straight up fucking vanish one day. and then the party finds them and WHOOPS surprise! Percy totally faked the mind control thing and was in on it the WHOLE time. probably.

in-universe you will stumble upon some fandom arguments over whether Percy was REALLY in on it or just extra-super-mind-controlled. also something about queer-coding villains, which is less funny but since i the creator of this OC and thus the discourse am nonbinary myself i feel less bad about that than maybe i should