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“Your soul is the whole world.”―Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha. multifandom feminist mess, they/them. panace, with a tagging system, a lot of sideblogs & an ongoing original series. words-with-dragons on ffn/ao3, header/icon by imminent-danger-came
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also for newer followers who might not know

i'm writing a book! and it's getting published!

if you just want the immediate details you can click the read and read a short FAQ! if you need more to get sold on it, stick around and check it out!

My YA SFF fantasy debut, ALVOSKIA: Call of the Infrans, follows an Unchosen one named Ally who is struggling to find where she belongs amidst her chosen one found family family when violence arrives at their doorstep, and they're forced to fulfil their duties earlier than expected. There's dragons and child soldiers and subverted fantasy tropes, some tone consistent werewolves, an almost entirely queer main cast with the majority also being characters of colour, and if you've been following my blog for any amount of time, it probably has something for you.

  • If you like ATLA: "what if there were multiple Avatars running around, and what if they weren't all automatically good people?" + past lives and reincarnation cycles
  • If you like Derry Girls: hot mess of teenagers getting in and out of trouble together while being ridiculous (and sometimes very sad)
  • If you like PJO: young teenagers with cool powers going on quests together and coming-of-age. And snark. Lots of snark
  • If you like Six of Crows: morally dubious collection of protagonists, some heisting may or may not happen, outsiders working together
  • If you like TDP: elves and dragons and long standing grudges and politics
  • If you like Star Wars: y'know how the Force like consumes you the farther you wander in? yeah that's the magic system here. + some shadow, death, and shapeshifter stuff
  • If you like HTTYD: you're here for the found family and fun fantasy aesthetic aren't you

Rep: queer (aro, ace, bi, pan, trans, lesbian, nonbinary, genderfluid, gay main characters, often times overlapping); Asian (Indonesian), Black, Sri Lankan and Pakistani (coded) rep; hijabi rep; one character is an amputee and one main character is Autistic.

The debut month is March 2026! Sometimes there is even very pretty (commissioned or friends) art for it:

If you want more info in the meantime you can shoot me an ask or you can follow this sideblog for it. If you want a taste of my fandom writing first you can check out my AO3 or writing snippets on said side blog, like this one:

Likes and reblogs mean a lot and I hope you enjoy!

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gabrielora

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

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yutaan

A papercraft commission of Zelda from Breath of the Wild/Age of Calamity, featured here with the Bow of Light! I had enormous fun cutting out both her swirling hair and the swirling shapes of the bow's decoration - extra-detailed shapes like that take a long time, but the end result is very satisfying. ^_^ And, of course, I'm always excited to make Legend of Zelda art!

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saw this floating around sorry to rain on my fellow kataangs.. parade but after all the time spending about how zutaras pushed a fake interview with this guy im not gonna blindly believe this happened. Plus aaron ehasz is highly overrated in this fandom anyway.. i mean his idea for irohs son being killed by spirits? Awful terrible. i really dont get the whole obsession people get with this gu gives of jkr making up new stuff on the fly vibes to me.

i mean come on does any of this really sound beliveable? esp that END part of it.. and the whole s4 is as likely to happen as invader zim being renewed . IE was never planned. use your heads atla fandom.

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kataraslove

i won’t take this as gospel and I do agree that ehasz is overrated, but there is some evidence to suggest that this encounter could be true, maybe just overexaggerated:

- aaron ehasz has expressed interest in tokka in the 2018 interview where he denies being a zutara or kataang shipper.

- i feel like the person writing it could easily have stated that aaron prefers kataang over zutara if they were making it up. but the fact that (in the post) he said tokka makes me think that it is in line with an ehasz type of answer, especially because just a couple of weeks ago he posted a joke video where he chose azutara while poising the question of kataang vs zutara.

- the ending of legend of korra with korrasami parallels a wedding (zhu li and varrick’s). the atla finale wouldn’t be the first time they use the ending scene to portray a marital bond.

- aaron has ALWAYS pushed for a season 4. he keeps changing the narrative on this supposed season 4, even after bryke corrected him, but him answering that there’s a likelihood for a season 4 sounds exactly like him tbh. that’s the most believable part of this interaction.

there’s still a likely chance of it being fake. but it DOES sound much more real than all of those interviews made by zutara shippers claiming to be aaron ehasz.

if it is real id wish he stop pushing season 4. Season 4 was never needed and a lot of his recent tlaks to fan just give me grifter trying to appease fandom by saying whatever vibes maybe im paranoid but i just cant trust this man

@iminaworldofpureimagination we do know there was interest from nickelodeon in a s4 of avatar and that ideas were written / tossed around for it with at least one half of bryke (azula redemption arc, zuko helping aang navigate some of the possible consequences of energy bending and his own immense power) but like. he does not talk about s4 almost ever precisely bc of fandom stuff like this, and has been busy running his own company and show for almost a decade now (with some ideas from that s4, i.e. the thematic zukaang bits, clearly being incorporated and built upon).

the fandom's weird conspiracy theory surrounding him is not his fault & he is pretty clear about his preference for kataang/maiko if you look at the few times he's ever actually talked about shipping - he's even asked to read my kataang meta once (i was comparing similarities between them with the - at the time - non canon leads of his show so like. pretty blatant)

i also wouldn't compare someone who writes trans rep / regularly works with trans actors for his shows on the same level as a massive raging actively hostile terf

sincerely a trans person, thank you

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psshaw
More than that, you’ve got to actually spend your time doing this stuff on the off chance that the algorithm picks it up and people care about what you have to say. You’ve got to spend your time doing this even though it’s corny and cringe and your friends from high school or college will probably laugh as you “try to become an influencer.” You’ve got to do it even when you feel like you have absolutely nothing to say, because the algorithm demands you post anyway. You have to do it even if you’re from a culture where doing any self-promotion is looked upon as inherently negative, or if you’re a woman for whom bragging carries an even greater social stigma than it already does. You’ve got to do it even though the coolest thing you can do is not have to. You’ve got to offer your content to the hellish, overstuffed, harassment-laden, uber-competitive attention economy because otherwise no one will know who you are. In a recent interview with the Guardian, the author Naomi Klein said the biggest change in the world since No Logo, her 1999 book on consumerism and inescapable branding, came out was that “neoliberalism has created so much precarity that the commodification of the self is now seen as the only route to any kind of economic security. Plus social media has given us the tools to market ourselves nonstop.”

Oh hell yes. An article that supports my half-joke that a corporate app's demand for constant self-promo is technically classist.

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dduane

I had this in my to-post queue and was resisting posting it... because it's so painfully accurate, and nails some of the things I hate most about what social media's become.

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I wish we had more female characters like Eleanor Shellstrop. One of the most unlikable people you've ever met. Read a Buzzfeed article on most rude things you can do on a daily basis and decided to use that as a list of goals. Makes everyone's day worse just by being there. Dropped a margarita mix on the ground and tried to pick it up, only to get hit by a row of shopping carts which pushed her into the road where she was hit by a boner pill delivery truck, killing her instantly. Cannot keep a romantic partner despite being bisexual. Had a terrible childhood but will die before she gets therapy. Best employee at a scam company. Just the worst but also can't help but root for her to improve.

Absolute loser. Girl-failure. Bad at almost everything. Literally perfect female character.

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helila
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tibby

tubi is one of our greatest warriors in the fight against streaming services costing a fortune for mediocre content. tubi has the most insane collection of movies you will ever encounter all for free. it has cult classics and questionable lifetime movies and movies that nobody except like three people on the planet have ever seen. tubi has movies that doesn’t exist. like if you just thought of a movie one day but never made it and no one ever made it it would somehow still exist on tubi. one day i will log onto tubitv dot com and i will see terribly inappropriate, overly complex, and strange on there. and i won’t even be surprised.

The Dwarves of Dragon Mountain was not a movie i knew i needed in my life until tubi showed me the light

(figuratively) (its a quiet and dark slow burn buddy survival horror involving cave ins, allusions to complex wider worldbuilding, trying to fix old machines, humans being jerks while never showing their faces, a pet rat, and the terror of who is the real monster- three fantasy dwarves who have to choose who they’ll be when their world comes literally crashing down)

(who came up with this) (I Crave More)

They also have a surprisingly decent anime collection. All of Yugioh Duel Monsters is on there.

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thrandilf

Spider Riders is on Tubi as well if you want to experience it

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