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☁️zephyr☁️ gender- fluid, queer he/they/she fandom blog tlc, renegades trilogy, atla, voltron?? games and art and pretty stuff lots of books and other random things that don’t make sense welcome!

[zephyr-thedragon]

prev. rue-velleia -----> zephyr-thedragon

hiii i’m zephyr, or zeph, I'm gender fluid and I use he/they/she pronouns

I'm a singer/songwriter and I make variety content for The Lunar Chronicles and Renegades Trilogy but I'm currently working on writing a TLC musical :D

tagging system:

all og posts are tagged #mine and shitposts/talking posts are tagged #zeph speaks, and anytime i post music they're tagged #zephyr sings

basic blog info:

-i don't reblog pressure posts (posts that pressure you into reblogging them, ex: telling you you're a bad person for not doing so)

-i do use prev tags sometimes

-i am a minor, and all nsfw blogs will be blocked

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oki that's all the serious things!

so here's a guide to my stuff !

THE LUNAR CHRONICLES MUSICAL MASTER POST (all songs written so far in chronological order)

That one chapter of a tlc pirate au I wrote dfjg

☁︎Renegades Actor AU series (quotes, bloopers, behind the scenes) (tagged ‘actor au mine’)

All Lunar Chronicles Original Posts (tagged 'the lunar chronicles mine')

All Renegades Trilogy Original posts (tagged 'renegades trilogy mine')

Thank you!! <3

[linh-cindy]

Cinderella in Cinders

FIRST SONG OH NO

Written by me

Inspired by @zephyr-thedragon on tumblr 

Based off Marissa Meyer’s Linh Cinder

[Verse 1] 

I fell down the steps,

My synthetic heart shattered

Where’s my happily ever after?

(oh oh oh)

Glass slipper glistenin’

Nobody listenin’

Though I feel like somebody’s missin’...

[Pre-chorus]

I was so close to saving youuuuu

But then

You slipped away from my grasp,

Gone.

[Chorus]

. . .

Cinderella in cinders,

(oh oh oh)

Girl, where have you been

All my life?

Cinderella in cinders, 

I keep tryin to hide

In the night

Cinderella in cinders

I won’t stop

Til’ i take back what is mine

🎵

I’m a Cinderella in cinders

[Verse 2] 

Revolution beginnin’

Don’t feel like we’re winnin’

When will it be the right time?

Too many flaws

And lives we have lost

Nothing, I doubt, will be fine

[Chorus]

Cinderella in cinders

Where have you gone 

All these years?

Cinderella in cinders

You don’t belong 

You don’t shed tears

Cinderella in cinders 

I won’t stop 

Til’ I take back what is mine

I’m a Cinderella in cinders

[Bridge????]

Lies, fate, heartbreak 

Breakdowns, going insane

🎵

They say I’m not normal

But they don't need to rub it in

Cause I have experienced enough

🎵

Tell me what’s wrong with me!

[outro]

Cinderella in cinders,

(oh oh oh)

Girl, where have you been

All my life?

Cinderella in cinders, 

I keep tryin to hide

In the night

Cinderella in cinders

I won’t stop

Til’ i take back what is mine

I’m a Cinderella in cinders

…

I’m a Cinderella in cinders

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[zephyr-thedragon]

I LOVE “QUEENS”! Are you going to make a recording for that??? Please do!!!!!! YOUR VOICE IS AMAZING! I’m hoping for the Kaider songs to be recorded too 🥹 Thanks!!!!

Ohh thank you so much!!! 🤍🤍🤍 Honestly its been so long since I wrote those songs I didn't expect anyone to find them but I'm so glad that you like them!!! Currently I don't have plans to record the older songs cause I'm super busy doing a bunch of other music stuff, but I did actually finish writing the last song of my little fairytale x tlc ep series which is "Cinderella" (its kind of a retelling of cinderella from the stepmothers perspective with some very significant tlc references) and once I finish recording that I plan on posting it here!

[maykitz]

yesterday i was hiking with my dog and passed by a family with their 14 yo princess of darkness trotting behind them in very unsuitable clothes and uncomfortable shoes that clearly weren't meant to get dirty on forest mud. oh the quintessential teenage experience of doing something in a way that is stupid and sucks because it's important that it's your own way 🫡

[lee-enfielded-deactivated202309]

The experience of being a teenager, especially, is relentlessly being forced to do things by authority figures who have arbitrary power over you. As a result "Okay, I'll do it, but I'll do it in the least compliant way possible" is a persistent and entirely sympathetic element of being a teenager

[ganymedesclock]

Okay as someone who professionally works with kids, I'll weigh on on this and say: the thing about defiance and "brattiness" is they are defense mechanisms for having no power in your life.

Kids and teens do not have power in their life. Even in the most ideal of circumstances. They can't really make informed choices about voting or houses and especially in America, the entire social structure is hostile to letting them go where they want to go.

So OP is absolutely right and put it beautifully. "it's important that it's your own way." I've seen preverbal babies force their shoes off their feet in response to a completely unrelated obligation because I can force them to take a nap but I can't make them take a nap AND nicely keep their shoes on. It is arguably a pretty stupid defiance, but defiance isn't about being smart.

It's the scream of a person without power insisting if they have no choice but to do this, they will do it their way! And that's more important than practicality. It's more important than being reasonable.

I firmly believe that deep down adults aren't less bratty or defiant than kids are- they're just given more leeway and power so they're more used to having control and use that to cope. The average 30-year-old would absolutely have a meltdown in the pasta aisle if they were regularly dragged to places they didn't want to be by another adult who they were never allowed to be away from or choose where they were going besides very limited exceptions.

(also disclaimer that in using the term "bratty" I am by no means condemning this behavior. It's born of a frustration that is completely understandable.)

[v-ersacrum]

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)

[escuerzoresucitado]

[cosmicnovaflare]

It’s dangerous to scroll alone! Take this.

A very messy drawing of Link for release day because I drew in the wrong layer for 4 hours and don’t have time to fix it because now I have to once again terrorize the NPCs of Hyrule for another 300 hours while I ignore Zelda’s pleas for help

[septembersart]

turned this interaction into a little video :3

I’m making a TLC video game proposal for a class, and figuring out how the game will play has been so fun

[modogoblin]

[slimejr]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

big fan of marriages of convenience. marry your best friend for tax benefits. marry your roommate for college tuition breaks. "marry" your love interest for plot-contrived reasons at a fake wedding, then accidentally fall in love & get married for real in the epilogue. so many possibilities!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

oh the harvest has been kind this year: #my friend married her best friend bc she's doing masters program and her uni wouldn't give her pet friendly housing bc she was single #she literally married her friend for her cats #and he is onboard with it bc he's tired of people asking when he'd get married #now that will shut them nosy relatives up #really check in on your quiet friends. they might be up to craziest shit you ever hear today lol

[xclockworkxsoulx]

One of the Legendary beasts! Colossus also known as the God of the Seas, the Oceans Guardian and more notably known by sailors as the Dread of the Abyss!

He’s an abnormally large Seatearer/Trenchtearer Leviathan hybrid. The first records of him date back about 2500 years ago making him one of if not the oldest living creature known.

He’s know to eat others of his kind and even swallow ships and terrorize fisher villages. He’s so large he could hold The Ardors' largest dragon in his jaws and bite him in half.

[mxkjxm]

[bugsylovesbugpokemon]

Little cute guys

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

[bugsylovesbugpokemon]

Sparkly protective dust

[animentality]

[thespoonisvictory]

people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

[thespoonisvictory]

it’s not about actually being gifted, it’s about an initial higher scoring on standardized testing that means little to nothing or being good at learning in the way elementary and middle school wants you to, so you get marked as ‘advanced’. in reality, maybe you had faster development in certain areas, but the issue with being a gifted kid isn’t that “everyone told me I was so cool and special for reading and then I actually wasn’t :(” it’s “I wasn’t properly taught to handle things not coming easily to me, but the adults around me were counting on me not being a ‘difficult’ child in school.”

people who use it as some weird bragging method or interpret it that way are ignoring the way a lot of school systems force certain roles on students to simplify the learning process. If your kid doesn’t need to take notes to understand a science concept bc they get it naturally, well that’s good, but now you’re not teaching them how to take notes and they’re not learning that important soft skill. but because ‘gifted’ kids are easy and don’t show that they’re falling behind in learning in other categories that are harder to quantify, they eventually fall behind after that catches up to them. It’s about the failures of a one size fits all school system trying to compensate in the worst way possible.

[jabberwockypie]

And also the thing where ‘gifted’ kids are super likely to also be neuroatypical, which they don’t get screened for because they appear to be doing well in school. Or “You can’t be ADHD/autistic/etc, because you’re doing so well in school!”. Or being shamed for developing mental health issues/generally not being able to keep up with school work later, because you USED TO BE able to do it just fine.

Or the assumption that just because you can read well or you like math class, you’re somehow more EMOTIONALLY mature than your little kid brain is actually capable of being.

Or gifted kids whose parents and teachers put immense pressure on them to Do Great Things and Save The World and you’re like. “I’m 10 and I have no idea how to do that, but everyone is saying that’s my job?”.

[swordplease]

This is the best “gifted kid” post out there. I never took notes until college because I didn’t have to, snd when it got challenging I had to literally teach myself note taking at age 18. It also fucks with your perception of asking for help - you’re advanced, you’re competent, you should be able to understand every topic easily. Asking for help/going to office hours/asking for a tutor feels like failing when you were praised in your early years for not needing to do that.

[mintchochipkookie]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary

The Midnight Diner comes alive when the rest of the city starts slowing down, and Zuko often finds solace in this charming hole in the wall. One day an equally charming girl walks in, and this time, maybe he’s found a friend too.