this is now an yin yu & quanyin blog

Fandoms: MXTX (currently tgcf), Chinese drama, Good Omens, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, TwoSetViolin, A:tla/LOK. Ao3: the_cloud_whisperer (my fics); the_cloud_podcaster (podfics of my fics)

[the-cloud-whisperer]

Cloud's Zukaang Masterpost

I decided to remake my Zukaang fics master post (deleted the old one a while back in a fit of blog-cleaning) given the amount of people going, the scales have fallen from my eyes, Zukaang is the real truth, after watching the Netflix live action xD. I'm the_cloud_whisperer on Ao3. Masterpost header by @ao3commentoftheday.

My fics are locked (restricted to logged-in users only) on Ao3. If you would like an invitation for an account, feel free to message me here.

Avatar Zuko series

Zuko is the Avatar in this AU thanks to a bunch of timeline shifts, Aang is his lovely ethereal airbending master/boyfriend, Lu Ten lives (!!!), and Azula as an anti-hero of sorts gets a happy ending :) Obviously does not follow canon timeline, but remixes favorite canon episodes in an AU-appropriate fashion. Also each chapter has extensive notes at the end explaining about cultural inspirations, poetry, food, language, and other things that I incorporated from research and personal experience because I worked my butt off for the worldbuilding. 490K words split into 6 books, complete.

Cloud's Zukaang fics series:

This has been updated to include only the Zukaang fics that don't fit into any other AU or series, as of 4/19/2024. If some of your favorites are gone from this series, they've been moved to a different series page (see below). Here are the hodgepodge ones that remain:

like a swift and silent rain - Historical fantasy AU in which Zuko is bodyguard to Aang, a wandering minstrel. Ongoing.

The Two-Yolk Problem - Zuko and Aang make egg tarts. Fluff.

Menagerie - Sun Warriors episode, Zuko and Aang turn into a dog and a cat.

to know the sound of his voice - Book 2 Ba Sing Se where Aang has a stint as an opera singer. 

One Hundred and Twenty Light Years - Zuko's coronation, fluff

Starcrossed - Zuko and Aang meet the Mother of Faces

autumn is our season - kites and naps in an autumn field; fluff

The Year of the Bison - Zuko and Aang celebrate the New Year.

still water runs deep - Zuko misses Aang while he's away.

Festive Fics: short series based on Chinese festivals, post-series, canon divergent

Mid-Autumn Festival: Zuko and Aang eat mooncakes.

Qixi Festival: Zuko and Aang muse about their future in Republic City

Double Ninth Festival: Zuko and Aang climb a mountain with their adopted kid.

NSFW Bending Series: what it sounds like ;)

Impolite Company - Zuko discovers he has an asphyxiation kink.

this is not a place of honor - Aang fucks Zuko on the throne with earth crystal dildo.

Vacuum-Assisted Airbender Shenanigans - Aang uses airbending as a cure for erectile dysfunction.

Seven Bowls of Tea AU

Seven Bowls of Tea - Zuko is a ghost that haunts the tea field where Aang works. Unfinished.

Longjing Seduction - somewhat NSFW interlude set within the Seven Bowls of Tea universe.

Simple Gifts series (Modern blood donation AU)

The Gift of Blood: Zuko is a music librarian who donates blood and Aang is a phlebotomist

The Gift of Tea: follows from the Gift of Blood after Zuko and Aang get together, set during COVID-19 pandemic.

Zukaang Hospital AU (Modern)

grey eyes, silver lining: Zuko is a stressed-out surgeon and Aang is a pathologist he works with

tl;dr: i love you (NSFW): follows from grey eyes, silver lining, slight D/s; also Zuko has a cat :)

Pillow Talk: follows from tl;dr I love you, set during COVID-19 pandemic in response to anti-Asian hate crimes 2020-21

Random ficlets and ideas gathered from Tumblr posts (links may or may not still work xD):

Fashion designer AU

Modern Tea Shop AU

Legend of Damon and Pythias and Zuko was the Avatar before Aang

Medical Student Zuko

OG inspiration for Zukaang hospital AU

Cave of the Two Lovers AU

OG Beijing opera AU

Some fanworks made for me:)

Lu Ten and Hanxin from Avatar Zuko

by tinyglassearl

by god-of-dust

Gift of Blood gifset: by praetorqueenreyna (Reblog, original got lost)

[drarry]

Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation

[drarry]

This is the Pride Month that It will happen. I feel it in my gay bones

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[supertaliart]

@neo--queen--serenity , @tinysobek , @dragonji and @icedefloweringtornado all asked for Quan Yizhen! So here’s a soft Quanyin post-it!

[clearpurpleskies]

I am the S E A

[penandinkprincess]

truly an honor and a privilege getting to witness everyone's first time in public ever every single time i go grocery shopping

[meret118]

I got the Verification Required scam for the first time today. THIS ISN'T FROM TUMBLR. Report and block it if you get it.

ETA: I've gotten two more in the space of three hours this morning.

[friend-crow]

I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

[letmefixthatforyou]

I can read faster than you can talk and these videos are wasting my time.

[spicymochi]

your month, your mini cat!

[fruitless-vain]

Gay Puppy Gay Puppy Gay Puppy

[mementox1013]

Damned

I don't think I'll ever stop painting David Tennant.

[jumpingjove]

Some little hits of dopamine...

For anyone who's trying to ignore S2 and S3 for a while, here's a few short-and-sweet one-shots, all GOO-only (that's Good Omens Original, aka book and/or S1.) All under 6k words, most much shorter.

Hallelujah, by @astolat. Guys. GUYS! Astolat wrote Good Omens fic! It's only 848 words but she makes every one count, as you know if you've read anything else she's ever written. I love her Aziraphale.

The First Week of the Rest of their Lives, by @deputychairman. S1 epilogue that hits every note for me, including unwittingly addressing some of what made F15 so difficult to swallow.

The Play's the Thing, by volunteerfd. This South Downs slice-of-life sees Aziraphale trying out for community theatre and Crowley along for the ride. Caution if reading in public asgo you may be stifling chortles.

We Lowered Ourselves Into This, by wantstobeatree. A redeemed lapels kiss and beautiful Aziraphale sentiment re: Crowley's fall.

Breathe the Air, Slam the Door by Brinnanza. Crowley and the Almighty, on a bench. Works for me in-universe and a sweet antidote to the God we met in S3.

Names, Pet and Otherwise, by @elsajeni Another 800-word piece. Written long ago but feels especially relevant in the wake of Asa and Anthony.

[vonnebenan]

Heartbroken. World broken.

watercolour + coloured pencils

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Great time to start pricing this out by the way, fire season starts… on the summer solstice this year, that’s fun. Signs point to it being a doozy.

[insertusernameici]

[unicornempire]

I love that Leverage really goes out of it’s way to show us that just because you break the ‘rules’, it doesn’t mean you’re breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think that’s the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.

[theheroheart]

#there was a time when parker wouldn’t have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)

[jack-the-bear]

Leverage hands down has the best character development I’ve ever seen.

[lets-go-steal-an-ot3]

This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc I’d had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).

But somewhere along the line they just… Disappeared. My mom says they’re not being paid and they’re not in collections. It’s almost as if someone out there did…exactly what Parker did.

Ever since I saw this the first time, I’ve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.

[gay-jesus-probably]

Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I don’t remember the exact process but basically there’s a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But it’s also entirely possible for people to just… buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that it’s possible to exploit it for good sometimes.

Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that he’d bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.

[mikkeneko]

A charity where you can do this, right here.

Be Parker! Be somebody else’s Leverage!

[melyzard]

Reblogging for the website.

[nianeyna]

yes! if you want to help with the medical debt crisis in the US and have some extra money please donate to RIP Medical Debt if you can. They’re completely legit and really do what they say - you really CAN relieve an incredible amount of debt for the needy with even a small donation. I’m a monthly donor and receive a quarterly report of the debt they’ve abolished, and it truly is amazing. Based on those reports the average amount of debt abolished per person is actually I would say about $600 - which means, if you’re doing the math, that with a $6 donation to RIP Medical Debt, you can potentially pull one person out of a poverty spiral - maybe even one family. For six dollars. that’s a pretty good deal, I think.

[bethanyactually]

RIP Medical Debt is now called Undue Medical Debt!

Undue Medical Debt Homepage

Undue Medical Debt makes it easy for donors to make an impactful difference in the lives of those struggling with medical debt.

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[lovlae]

u know when u drink really cold or hot drinks and u can feel it going down into ur stomach and u feel like one of those skeleton pirates in pirates of the caribbean when they’re drinking the beer

[michaelnordeman]

Värmland, Sweden (3 May 2020).