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out past the moat

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icon by @emily-escott / cover image by @thenegoteator
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one of my personal favorite dichotomies in atla is how iroh, once the top strategist and highest-ranking general of the fire nation, now directs all his energy and considerable tactical experience towards attempting to keep his teenage nephew from throwing himself into life-threatening situations AND IROH REGULARLY FAILS TO PREVENT HIM FROM DOING SO.

he lead a six-hundred day siege and now iroh can't keep up with a sixteen-year-old armed with two swords and a passionate deathwish. zuko's motto is "act first, think never" and he's running rings around his uncle. it's like!!! who's gonna come out on top, iroh's west point education vs. zuko's deep and abiding commitment to always choosing the stupidest possible course of action, and zuko manages to win every single time

y'all are straight up EVISCERATING that boy in the tags

the tags on this post are just the gift that keeps on giving

yes 911 id like to report a murder

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I haven't been around here much, and I probably won't be around much for about two more weeks: it's the end of the school year for my kids, and between musicals, ballet, baseball, girl scouts, and end of the year tests, I haven't had a braincell or second to spare.

please keep messaging me (though I may take even longer than usual to reply!) and tag me in all the art and meta I'm missing out on!!!

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akaratna

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like). 

Thank you for the tag, @charmwasjess, who has already multiple times harpooned me with her stories that are an entire gateway drug. Also the most encouraging person in the world.

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The cupboard is mighty bare, but ... there might be an "initiate Obi-Wan" (AU) WIP languishing in a folder somewhere while I finish A Garment of Brightness.

Here is a sliver.

He hoped it was, indeed, the prompting of the Force.  If not, he was probably going to end up in very deep poodoo.  He had not yet learned that poodoo could also happen from following the Force.

and anyone else who would like to play.

thank you for the tag!!!! here's a little bit from the next chapter of constellations.

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“That’s a risk we take in loving," Qui-Gon murmurs.  "You cannot choose anyone’s path for them, Anakin.  Your mother knew that.”

“It’s not about my mother,” snaps Anakin, but he knows it is, probably, under everything; the string that connects her to his heart pulses taut and fraught with unacknowledged grief.

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tagging @sanerontheinside @luvvewan @smilebackwards @majorenglishesquire @erisenyo @ssreeder @willowcrownedand and anyone else who wants to play!

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