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I write FanFiction, my own songs, and do art every now and then

[y-s-t-v]

Sibling Rivalry

Ever wanted to hear an Zuko and Azula themed Sibling Rivalry Song? Well, I wrote one :) Enjoy!

It's available on Youtube as a Lyrics Video

and also on Spotiy

And here the lyrics:

Little boy, flavourless Impress your dad, don't forget the code Don't draw the attention unless you can win You're treading a thin line Little girl, a prodigy Impress your dad, he favours you Knowledge is power, so use it well Secure your place in the world Siblings, they may be A sibling rivalry If it's all a game Don't get burned by the flame Little boy, on your own Keep your eye on the task Feed your illusions, go trick yourself To keep your place on earth Little girl, all alone Take your friends, control the world Use fear as a weapon and lies as a bait Keep your head straight Siblings they may be A sibling rivalry If it's all a game Don't you lose your own flame Grow up boy, you have a choice Open your eye, read between the lines The one you admire stands against Everything you are Little girl, you are powerful And your dad, he sees it too Will he still 'love' you, or is he afraid That you will take his place Siblings rivalry A father's love should be free If it was a game The stakes wouldn't mean death and shame Boy get up, set things right Go with compassion, and inner fire Play the game, draw the strings Secure the place from within Foolish girl, alone again Abandoned by family and friends With all of your power, there's no one to rule Your claim to need no one She had it all Unsettled by insanity's call It tipped the scale, His weakness became his strength And she's not understanding And he regrets That his little sister won't accept some help But how could she learn if Her own mother Tried only to Shield her brother A pit of snakes, venomous (but how could she learn if) Environment, poisonous (her own mother) It (tried only to) Sent her adrift (teach her brother) Little boy, now you're home (but how could she learn if) Duty calls, all-powerful (her own mother) Rise up(tried only to) to your destiny (save her brother) To your destiny (but how could she learn if) To your destiny (her own mother) To your destiny (tried only to) To your destiny (save her brother)

[evadingreallife]

In your language if you gotta buy 200g of ham, you ask the ham guy for

200 grams of ham

20 deca(grams) of ham

2 hecto(grams) of ham

0.2 kg of ham? for some reason?

some other gram variation

another whole unit of measurement (pounds of whatever ig)

i have no idea i dont speak no tongues at all

screeching silence

the horrors

Voting ended onApr 9

If its not on here tell me in the tags! <3

[midwinterhunt]

Hot Writers Don't Gatekeep

the writers REALLY liked my artist resource post, so I thought i'd give y'all my dragon hoard of things i use for writing

Reverse Dictionary, you type in the meaning of a word, and it gives you a bunch of words that mean that. (MY MOST IMPORTANT OFFERING IN THIS LIST)

Slang Dictionary, what it says on the tin.

Anglish Translator, Anglish is if English evolved without borrowing from other languages and it really itches my brain (Anglish is if english grown without borrowing from other languages and it truly itches my brain)

Incorrect Quotes Generator, Put character names in, and incorrect quotes come out. Really fun way to goof around with your characters' dynamics.

Handspeak, an ASL dictionary

Library of Babel, Odds are, the finished version of your wip is in here somewhere

The best fantasy map maker i have ever used

Glitch Text Generator is one I use A Lot, does ť̷̨̢͓̤͔̤̤̝̺̯̄̔̄̌̄͗͒͋͂͋͝ḩ̵̼̜͍͚͕̏̓͊̈̉̆̄͐́͗͒̈̃̊̚͜i̵̻̐̇̎̏̀̋̌̃̇̿͘̚s̴̮̔̂̇͒͑͝͝ͅ to your text

Totally not bootleg microsoft office

Emotions Thesaurus a guide for writing emotions and their associated body language

Mythcreants, has a whole bunch of stuff you can read to learn more about the technical aspects of writing

A decent article talking about what to think about when creating a language

Trope Talks, particularly good for beginner and younger writers or people who have a hard time reading. Honestly this whole channel is a fantastic format to get information into my adhd rattled brain.

FOR MY AO3 BESTIES! Postimages will host your image forever so you can embed it into your work

Ambient Chaos, sometimes the only thing in the world that can kick your brain into writing mode is nuclear sirens and lofi beats

Radioooooo, play a station from any place and year. Particularly helpful for period pieces.

[midwinterhunt]

Food timeline, when foods were invented

[solochely]

Friendly reminder that...

Not everybody likes the same things as you do. And even if they like them, they also have the right and the freedom to like another interests other than yours. Just because you don’t see the person on the other side of the screen doesn’t mean they don’t have feelings. They are humans, same as you.

Being in the “virtual world” doesn’t make it any less real. My friends in here are real. So real that my best friends in “real life” -how you oh so love to call the “life outside the digital world”- were the ones I met on the internet. We support each other, we travel together, we spend our vacations together, and I think of them being part of my family above from most of my blood relatives.

It’s not right to bother others just because you don’t like the same things as them. If you don’t like what you see, ignore it. Simple as that.

What’s the point of sending hate because of that? Do you like to feel hatred, just because? If you have the time to annoy others with your hatred, why don’t you spend it on -i don’t know- taking a walk to buy some icecream? It sure will feel much better that hating for the sake of hating.

Just saying.

[atlaculture1]

ATLAculture's backup account

Hey everyone! My dumbass fell for a scam and now a hacker has my main account. Fortunately, the only thing affected was my Tumblr. Please do not engage with my hacked account in any way, as I just wanna settle the issue through the proper channels.

Anywho, feel free to roast me via this account. Meme me even. I'll give Tumblr til the end of the year to turn my account back to me. If I don't get my main account back by then, I'm gonna just steal back my own content and post it on here.

My Tumblr Situation Right Now:

Also, thank you @lynzine, @muffinlance and @chiptrillino for getting the word out.

My account is still-halfway logged in on my laptop. I can't access anything, but it's nice to look at what was once mine.

[milniar-problemsolved]

i wonder if bagpipes would be a popular instrument among airbenders (consgant pressure on the bag, even while expanding it. Breath control. Aang would 100% love the tooting. Things like that)

[conarcoin]

resources for staying safe online

always important, but i feel like especially recently. particularly stuff that’s a bit more than just the usual “don’t post personal info”

feel free to share this post on twitter or anywhere else, staying safe is important

justdeleteme.xyz - direct links to delete accounts

how a photo’s hidden exif data exposes your personal information

have i been pwned? - check if your accounts have been compromised in a data breach. CHANGE ANY ACCOUNT THAT USES THE SAME EMAIL AND PASSWORD

online harassment field manual

form for removing personal information from google (for the eu), see also: “remove your personal information from google”

extreme privacy: what it takes to disappear (personal data removal workbook)

filter lists for ublock origin, and more

restore privacy - online privacy resources center

privacytools.io

online spyware watchdog

how secure is your password?

defensive computing checklist

cloudflare dns

non-technical tips on staying anonymous

webrtc leak shield - chrome, firefox

web safety tutorials by the electronic frontier foundation

crash override network - resources for victims of doxing and online harassment

[conarcoin]

note: very slightly updated, reblog this version instead

[rmhashauthor]

Reblogging so I can find it later!

[bogleech]

when I'm just walking around and something makes me screech to a halt and my eyeballs shoot out like binoculars and I gotta drop everything to take photos

[parliamentrook]

ugh yeah that's the good shit

[drifting-knightjar]

@lichen-spotted

[evadingreallife]

[y-s-t-v]

This is true for pretty much any art supply. also the reason why I've currently got 3 spinning wheels in my living room, but I haven't started to spin a new project on any of them yet since finishing up the old one.

oops

[pinkpiggy93]

I finally finished the animation!!!!

The full one is on youtube, heres the link

[e-e-e-s-the-avatar]

The Blue Spirit putting out firebending with a bucket of water is the absolute funniest thing ever done in avatar combat. It just is.

[thequantumqueer]

katara: *kicks zuko’s ass without even blinking* zuko:

[finding-flight]

I literally just watched this episode, and I’m sorry, but there’s one thing funnier:

Zuko couldn’t speak during this whole fight/escape in case someone recognized his voice. Can you imagine the frustration he must have felt having to go through an entire fight without yelling? Zuko???

[sweetiepie08]

Especially while dealing with Aang’s shenanigans?!?!?!

One of my favorite parts of rewatching the episode is imagining everything that must have been going through Zuko’s head during that escape.

[lunangels-moved]

Aang: Wait! My friends need to suck on those frogs!

Zuko, trying not yell out of anger and confusion:

[art-and-writing-knox-me-down]

It gets funnier when you think that he could absolutely, no problem go through a battle without yelling once, as seen here and yet chooses to be a dramatic gay and holler at the top of his lungs at every opportunity. 

[e-e-e-s-the-avatar]

That says a lot about how he firebends vs how he fights with the dao blades.

He actually can’t, at this point, fight without yelling if he’s using firebending. In The Firebending Masters, he says he’s been relying on anger and rage to fuel his bending, so yeah, in every firebending fight, he’s drawing on rage and hyping that up by yelling. Someone has pointed out that after he finds the original source of firebending, he stops yelling all the time - I haven’t checked that personally but it does seem accurate.

But he doesn’t need to draw on fury to firebend when he’s the Blue Spirit. He can fight in total silence when he’s working with a weapon he’s more in touch with, when he doesn’t need to draw on hate or anger to fuel it.

[flameraven]

I am SO curious where he learned to fight with the swords. I can’t imagine he got much training in martial weapons as a kid – he’s ROYALTY, he’s a firebender, and the focus we see on them practicing forms from a young age (and Zuko being expected to do an Agni Kai at 13!) make me think it’s likely there would have been a lot of disdain for something as pedestrian as swords. Also– @atlaculture didn’t you do something on how the split swords are a peasant weapon?

Seems like something he must have picked up after his exile, but he’s so prideful and so obsessed with “proving himself” to Ozai, I can’t imagine he’d dare to experiment with that on his own. Maybe Iroh introduced it to him? Practicing sword forms or sparring would have been a good way for him to build back muscle after what had to be a long convalescence from the burn, but without the trauma of firebending again so soon.

(You can’t convince me Zuko didn’t have some pyrophobia after the Agni Kai, and probably a heaping dose of shame along with it, because he’s the prince of the Fire Nation, he’s a fire bender, how pathetic is it for him to be afraid of fire? And yet he has to suppress a flinch every time fire gets too close, especially near his face)

[atlaculture]

Yup! Zuko’s dual swords are for civilian use and called niuweidao, meaning “oxtail sabers”. Historically, these sword were relatively cheap to acquire, due to their thin blades typically being made of low-quality metal that was easy to mass produce:

https://www.tumblr.com/atlaculture/718240438095593472/cultural-weapons-fire-nation-swords-pt-2?source=share

The consequence of them basically being the McDonalds of swords is that they were popular with all different kinds of poor people. The most interesting ones being… theatre troupes! Because these swords were relatively affordable, they were often used for stage and street performances. (And because the tropes of theatre carry into modern cinema and TV, you also see the niuweidao overrepresented in most kung fu-inspired media as well.)

Anyways, I bring this up because Zuko is very much a theatre kid, so maybe his sword skills actually come from observing actors using the sword and imitating them? Better yet, maybe his mother secretly taught him to use the niuweidao to boost his self-esteem? After all, she is a former theatre actress, according to the comics. It would certainly explain why it’s a skill he possesses but not Azula/Ozai/Iroh.

It would also explain why Zuko thought he could get away with hanging them on his wall as decorations. It would be like decorating your room with a Phantom of the Opera mask.

[flameraven]

I don’t read the comics, so now I’m wondering how on Earth Ozai married an actress! Someone so obsessed with lineage and legacy is not someone I would expect to marry down like that. Maybe Nobility were allowed to have hobbies like that in the Fire Nation? Although it seems like entertainers don’t have the best reputation given what we see of Ty Lee and the circus…

[atlaculture]

Without spoiling too much, Azulon forced Ursa to marry Ozai, because she’s the granddaughter of Roku and he believed she would give the royal family powerful heirs. Before that, she was just a local actress in her small town.

[ripplestitchskein]

I cried. Like not in a meme way in a real, I can’t believe how pretty it is and how neglected it was way. I’m talking to a man in one of my fiber groups who might be able to help me secure a spindle head so stay tuned.

[fossilfibers]

General Wheel Care.docx

General Wheel Care All wheels are different and may have specific needs. For modern wheels, please check with your makers for care. Cleanin

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nq32StAdXznEve6TNhbVvsUuAjF0Nwsw/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=103407506926157569429&rtpof=true&sd=true

This might be useful! I restore antique wheels all the time. My great wheel was my gateway wheel for doing more of them. 😂

[y-s-t-v]

[doctor-direst]

Just letting you know that a friend of mine made a freaking ISOPOD bag from leather!!

Name: Zod

Gender: Pod

[jamiebythesea]

Leather Isopod Sling Bag PDF Pattern

Video tutorial: https://youtu.be/jr7K3eDd9hc This sling represents a Giant Deep Sea Isopod, and it's absolutely not an insect, beetle, cockr

[atlaculture]

Cultural Fashion: Agni Kai Armbands

Been wanting to do a series of posts on the Southeast Asian influences on Fire Nation culture. Lets start off simple:

Agni Kai Armbands

I didn’t notice it the first time I watched ATLA, but on repeated viewings I saw that all the characters would wear bands around their upper arms during official Agni Kais. I’m 99.9% certain these armbands (and the complimentary lack of shirts) are inspired by the prajiad (ประเจียด) bands worn in Muay Thai. Note the similarities:

According to multiple sources, the prajiad (ประเจียด) is believed to grant good luck to the wearer during battle. The armbands were traditionally fabric torn off a mother’s dress and tied around the arms. The symbolic act represented a mother’s blessing for the safety of the wearer.

Assuming these cultural practices also hold true in the Fire Nation, this makes Ozai’s burning of Zuko even more vicious. He was a child wearing gifts given to him by his missing mother for good luck, only to be brutally attacked by his own father. It is deeply symbolic of Ursa’s inability to truly protect Zuko from Ozai.

Like what I’m doing? Tips always appreciated, never expected. ^_^

https://ko-fi.com/atlaculture

[newsmutproject]

Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.

Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker

[beatrice-otter]

This is also, btw, how the US drastically reduced drunk driving in the US. Telling people they shouldn’t drive when intoxicated made absolutely zero difference. A slogan-and-ad-campaign for “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk!” changed drinking culture. Going after the bystanders is quite often the most effective thing to do in any social change.

[ghostofhallownest]

#empower people to make the changes they want to see#don’t feed their fear that they are one wrong decision away from being the evil they despise (tags via @rum-and-shattered-dreams)

[daxdraggon]

I think one of the Worst Things about wanting to find period clothing from other cultures, is trying to find fucking casual/work clothes. Like no, I do not want to see all these fancy intricate kimonos, I want to see jinbei, and field work outfits so I don't put a damn obi on this poor boy so he has a belt to hang his knife from.

[daxdraggon]

ok but i found the best picture ever

look at her she's so cute and happy i love this photo

source

[once-a-polecat]

This image comes from a whole gallery of Taishō era b&w photos, many of them showing everyday work clothes.

[prince-rosalium]

The pants she's wearing are called monpe. I just made a pair yesterday in a day.

You can learn how to make them here, but this video is in Japanese. If you have basic sewing knowledge, you should be able to get it.

There is no pattern, only a cutting guide. 2 meters of fabric is able to do it perfectly with no fabric waste whatsoever.

Perfect for people who always feel like their clothes never fit! If you are concerned about the size, here are the pants on me (5', 90lbs) and my husband (6'1, don't know but he looks like fanart of Laios).

if you think you are bigger than my husband, all you have to do is scale the rectangles up so this measurement is 1/4 of your waist measurement.

But don't worry if it isn't perfect.

You can wear them as regular pants, or over kimono.

I want you to make these pants. Make monpe and experience the joys of adjustable clothing that will stay with you for years. Experience the joy of sewing something you know will fit and be well-made and usable, with no precise measurements besides hemming them to your height. Put on these pants and feel superior because you made something that the store could never give you.

Weight fluctuations? Pregnancy? Really thick kimono? Need to wear a lot of layers? No problem. Monpe will help you. Monpe will always be there for you. You can't get that at the mall with the rest of the slave labor clothes.

[ninedigitninja]

Reblogging for later sewing experiments.