House-keeping and Love-spreading
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I'm distressed in my fandom-journal (Why can't you post about something happy once in a while? Your friends would appreciate it) but "a rosy-cheeked ray of f'ing sunshine 24/7" in my real-life journal. Um. I'm not trying to be duplicious? But art is born of frustration, struggle, and a hopeless defiance of conventional thought, so of course it comes out like that.Really.
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deathnote100. It won't make sense if you haven't read chapter 59--actually it probably won't make sense, period, as I dragged it out of a longer in-progress fic and stripped all the context away. I love deathnote100: it's the only "100" community where less than one out of every 15 submissions actually ends at 100 words.
And! I finally worked up the courage to re-read that HxH fic. Not as bad as I'd feared, not as good as I'd hoped. I added a little bit to the last section, which was literally written with my father standing over me taping his watch as we missed one train after another.
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rianax totally gives the best writing prompts ever. Can we put some of those in the Avatar 20 themes woah, getting ahead of myself there. Does anyone else want to do an Avatar: the Last Airbender 20themes list with me? The show's got a stupid-simple premise and a where-haven't-I-seen-that-before magic system, but the writing is sharp, the acting is top-notch, the characters rock and it is so, so pretty. It needs fiction.
Avatar: the Last Airbender is set in one of those fantasy worlds where every person on the planet can be divided a distinct category on the basis of their elemental affiliation. To quoteshusu: "The world is divided in ancient Chinese style, kingdoms of fire, earth, water, and air built like jigsaws of old Manchuria, Siberia, Mongolia, Tibet." (Although I was holding out for an African Earth Country, the one nation we haven't met yet. Ah, well, c'est la vie.)
If you are a member of one of these tribes and a magic-user, then you are what's called a "bender"--airbender, waterbender, earthbender, firebender--and you can manipulate your hereditary element using jaw-droppingly gorgeous animation (experts from the Harmonious Fist Martial Arts Association have been broguht in to advise). Avatar: the last Airbender is set at the tail-end of a 100-year period of Fire Nation expansionism, with the Air Nomads entirely and the Water Tribes almost entirely wiped out.
Plot focuses on the "last airbender" who is also the "avatar": his job is to save the world by mastering all four elements. Aang's a cute kid--he's bald and energetic and has a giant arrow tatooed on his forhead--and he's got engaging company in the form of a brother-sister Water duo who are, well, brother-sistery (read: they bicker). It's all incredibly straightforward, but the characters and animation save it. The humor's got an anime bent (three Japanese puns and counting--in an American show! Think Teen Titans) but it the dialogue is natural: you don't get the weirdness of, say, "Iron Chef: America." (Don't you just hate it when native-English speakers try to recreate the stilted feel of language-in-translation? *has just shot self in foot; waits for stoning*)
Screenshots:
On the left a Fire Nation general contemplates what's left of the conquest of the world. In the center are the remenants of a Water Tribe--the two kids in the center are Sokka and Katara, the brother-sister duo I mentioned earlier. On the right Sokka, Katara, and Aang head for an airbender stronghold on Aang's giant flying bison Appa. Additional characters include Prince Zuko, the firebender who's sworn to capture Aang in a desperate bid for his father the generalissimo's respect; his uncle the tea-and-go fanatic; and acute mascot flying Lemur named "Momo" (Japanese pun).
Four episodes have aired so far. You can download them here or read a summary here.memlu did a humorous summary re-telling of the first episode where she *gasp!* actually gives the characters the attention they deserve. General commmunity is avatar_fans; slash community is avatar_slash. Memlu's community is __wordbending.
New episodes air on Nickelodean Friday nights at 8:00pm.
Right. Themes?
I'm distressed in my fandom-journal (Why can't you post about something happy once in a while? Your friends would appreciate it) but "a rosy-cheeked ray of f'ing sunshine 24/7" in my real-life journal. Um. I'm not trying to be duplicious? But art is born of frustration, struggle, and a hopeless defiance of conventional thought, so of course it comes out like that.
I worte an L's childhood "drabble" for the current challenge at
deathnote100. It won't make sense if you haven't read chapter 59--actually it probably won't make sense, period, as I dragged it out of a longer in-progress fic and stripped all the context away. I love deathnote100: it's the only "100" community where less than one out of every 15 submissions actually ends at 100 words. And! I finally worked up the courage to re-read that HxH fic. Not as bad as I'd feared, not as good as I'd hoped. I added a little bit to the last section, which was literally written with my father standing over me taping his watch as we missed one train after another.
***
rianax totally gives the best writing prompts ever. 20themes list with me? The show's got a stupid-simple premise and a where-haven't-I-seen-that-before magic system, but the writing is sharp, the acting is top-notch, the characters rock and it is so, so pretty. It needs fiction. Avatar: the Last Airbender is set in one of those fantasy worlds where every person on the planet can be divided a distinct category on the basis of their elemental affiliation. To quote
shusu: "The world is divided in ancient Chinese style, kingdoms of fire, earth, water, and air built like jigsaws of old Manchuria, Siberia, Mongolia, Tibet." (Although I was holding out for an African Earth Country, the one nation we haven't met yet. Ah, well, c'est la vie.)If you are a member of one of these tribes and a magic-user, then you are what's called a "bender"--airbender, waterbender, earthbender, firebender--and you can manipulate your hereditary element using jaw-droppingly gorgeous animation (experts from the Harmonious Fist Martial Arts Association have been broguht in to advise). Avatar: the last Airbender is set at the tail-end of a 100-year period of Fire Nation expansionism, with the Air Nomads entirely and the Water Tribes almost entirely wiped out.
Plot focuses on the "last airbender" who is also the "avatar": his job is to save the world by mastering all four elements. Aang's a cute kid--he's bald and energetic and has a giant arrow tatooed on his forhead--and he's got engaging company in the form of a brother-sister Water duo who are, well, brother-sistery (read: they bicker). It's all incredibly straightforward, but the characters and animation save it. The humor's got an anime bent (three Japanese puns and counting--in an American show! Think Teen Titans) but it the dialogue is natural: you don't get the weirdness of, say, "Iron Chef: America." (Don't you just hate it when native-English speakers try to recreate the stilted feel of language-in-translation? *has just shot self in foot; waits for stoning*)
Screenshots:
On the left a Fire Nation general contemplates what's left of the conquest of the world. In the center are the remenants of a Water Tribe--the two kids in the center are Sokka and Katara, the brother-sister duo I mentioned earlier. On the right Sokka, Katara, and Aang head for an airbender stronghold on Aang's giant flying bison Appa. Additional characters include Prince Zuko, the firebender who's sworn to capture Aang in a desperate bid for his father the generalissimo's respect; his uncle the tea-and-go fanatic; and a
Four episodes have aired so far. You can download them here or read a summary here.
memlu did a humorous avatar_fans; slash community is avatar_slash. Memlu's community is __wordbending. New episodes air on Nickelodean Friday nights at 8:00pm.
Right. Themes?
