artspam! + question period

[glass_icarus]

&hearts multifandom drawbles by glockgal: MADE OF WIN! Ron eating a chocolate frog, Toph and Mai as not-so-dutiful daughters, hipster!Jet-and-Zuko, Ron & Hermione swimming, Parvati with racebended Hermione & Lavender, and desi!Watson = HEARTSPLOSION! *\o/*

&hearts two A:TLA/ATLoK fancomics via inkstone. sd;flksjdflkj!!!!!

Also, I have been remiss as usual in terms of introductory-type things, so: hello, new DW A:TLA party people! Ask me anything! Or we can do post-series speculation. or just scream and keysmash about KORRAAAAAAAAA, whatever works for you. ;D (<-- these go for old friends too, hobvs. &hearts)

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not new but you know

[inkstone]

KORRA's baaaaaaaacccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkk.

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[glass_icarus]

SDF:LKSJDF SERIOUSLY. BACKS ARE UNDERRATED IN TERMS OF SEXY BODY PARTS, Y/MFY?!

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[inkstone]

MFY! I love backs!

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[glass_icarus]

(not actually a back, but. *whistles* ;D)

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[inkstone]

Well, no, that's not a back but I like abs too. ;D

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[glass_icarus]

Hee! (Also hipbones, jfc.)

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[inkstone]

So many body parts are underappreciated, I feel.

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[glass_icarus]

right??

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[crossedwires]

YYYYY

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[glass_icarus]

:D

And now I feel the need to make some back!porn icons! (STOCK PHOTOOOOOS WHERE ARE YOU)

[whymzycal]

ARTSPAM IS &hearts

[glass_icarus]

:D :D :D

[jibrailis]

KEYSMASHFDSHAHH.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE INCREASED TECHINESS (AT LEAST, THAT'S WHAT THEY MAKE IT SEEM LIKE) IN KORRA? IT SEEMS KIND OF, I DUNNO, STEAMPUNK. WHAT ARE YOUR OPINIONS ON STEAMPUNK? :) :)

[glass_icarus]

I think it is awesome because, y'know, I have pretty much zero interest in what passes for mainstream steampunk ('cause Victoriana: not exactly my thing) so I am SUPER EXCITE to see a fantasy!Asian steampunk setting! In an actual canon source of awesome! WIN ALL AROUND, SAYETH I.

also I think the Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation tech and HI SOKKA'S INGENUITY is fabulous foreshadowing for this, woooo! (CAN WE HAS POST-SERIES SOKKA AND INVENTOR SHENANIGANS PLZ?!?!?!)

[jibrailis]

I feel that same way about mainstream steampunk! I mean, I do like Victoriana, but I feel steampunk glorifies it in ways that are very uncritical.

BUT SOKKA. Haha, now I have this secret fantasy where Sokka is the architect/mastermind behind Republic City. Like, it's his creation, and he and Suki run everything in the background but only a few people know, and most of the time they disguise themselves as regular people and romp around the streets testing out stuff that Sokka makes.

[glass_icarus]

... hahahah NOW I WANT FIC OF THAT OMG. xD THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!! And he would get advice from Teo and Teo's dad and Iroh and the Gaang and s;ldkfj *\o/*!

[chagrined]

DO THEY HAVE TO BE AVATAR-RELATED QUESTIONS?

Ummmmmmmmmmm what are some of your favorite fight scenes in the series! :D

[glass_icarus]

NO, NOT AT ALL! :D But I figured since it was an Avatar friending meme, it would be a good alternative to ~random whatever~, haha. PLUS I WILL TAKE ANY EXCUSE FOR AVATAR SQUEE.

Fight scenes!!! oh man. Um. Practically anything with Azula and Katara and Toph and Mai and Ty Lee and... ahahaha, that doesn't narrow things down very much does it. xD BUT REALLY I LOVE PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING. *____*

[chagrined]

OKAY I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION THEN!! :D

What was your first fandom (however you define this) ever / how did you get into it?

[glass_icarus]

HMM. First fandom-as-we-generally-know-it was HP, in the middle of 2005! Specifically the Remus/Sirius corner, because the Marauders were way more interesting to me than Harry's generation. I... kind of can't remember how I stumbled into it now? All I remember is discovering fic and then MAINLINING IT because as my personal canon backstory it made so much more sense! xDDD

My first-ever fandom was probably fairytales and folktales, though; I grew up on those and pretty much never stopped reading them. (SF/F reading tendencies, hello!)

[chagrined]

Yay! :)

[eruthros]

How awesome is Toph?

woe, i lack icons!

[glass_icarus]

THAT IS A TRICK QUESTION

TOPH'S AWESOME CANNOT BE VERBALLY EXPRESSED

ONLY APPROXIMATED LIKE SO: TOPH >>>>> UNIVERSE

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[eruthros]

That is SO TRUE, Toph's awesome can only be expressed mathematically.

I keep reading these post-series stories that clearly don't know what to do with Toph, and they're like "... she goes home and becomes a dutiful daughter?" or "she becomes a merchant?" And I'm going, SHE REBUILDS THE WHOLE EARTH KINGDOM OR BUILDS SPACESHIPS OR BECOMES A QUEEN OR TEACHES A WHOLE BATTALION OF EARTHBENDERS HOW TO KICK MORE ASS OR SOMETHING.

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[glass_icarus]

LOL, Toph as merchant, wtf?! I am of the opinion that she spends lots of time wandering about and mudfighting with Aang and Katara, and meets Teo's dad with Sokka and Zuko in tow to poke about with steam tech, and then possibly goes to meet King Bumi for epic earthbending and metalbending funtimes, and then maybe eventually settles down somewhere in the vicinity of Ba Sing Se. (Because her parents are like ;_______; TOPH WHERE ARE YOU WHAT ARE YOU DOING and she finally gets sick of it and goes RUNNING THIS GODDAMN EARTHBENDING SCHOOL, LIKE A BOSS.) But maybe that's just me. xD

[instantramen]

WHAT is the airspeed of an unladen messenger hawk?

[glass_icarus]

TRAINED OR UNTRAINED?? ALSO, DOES IT BELONG TO SOKKA?

[instantramen]

LET'S GO WITH YES.

[glass_icarus]

IF (YES IT BELONGS TO SOKKA), THEN ITS AIRSPEED IS ZERO. Sokka's hawk is a lazy bum!

UNLESS Momo is involved; then all bets are off. xD

[pseudo_tsuga]

KORRA'S BRINGING (HER) SEXY BACK.

(Does this even work as a pun? I don't care. NO SHAME!)

And urban Avatar! Your thoughts?

[glass_icarus]

HEEEE, YES.

Urban Avatar = I AM EXCITE!!!! xD I think I am still too incoherent for proper thoughts (though I am curious to know what happened to Ba Sing Se! and what about the Fire Nation's steam technology??).

So random....

[nightowl]

What do you feel about Aang's early death (I hear it's b/c he was stuck in an iceberg for 100 years) and do you think everyone else is still alive?

Do you think they're going to go with nature vs. technology as the major conflict in the Legend of Korra and if so, how do you feel about that? :D

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[nightowl]

OMG I should have taken a look at the fancomics you linked first before asking about death. XD XD

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[glass_icarus]

Hee! My answer to the first question can basically be summed up by AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG ;______; so, you know. :P

Moving right along- I am hoping that Katara and Toph are still alive, because as with that fancomic, I want Katara to be Korra's waterbending master A LOT! Also because (as stated by multiple people) Toph as Earth Queen- of Omashu, of Ba Sing Se, I don't even care but it would probably be Omashu if it happened- would be the BEST THING EVER.

Actually the whole premise of steampunk!A:TLA is an obvious parallel to the state of modern environmentalism/conservationism to me, seeing as it appears to be element-bending (connection to/awareness & respect of the natural) versus steampunk city (tech & engineering developments). It has a lot of potential for interesting commentary! I am all aglee!

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[nightowl]

LOL, man, I am totally hoping for Katara and Toph to be alive as well. I don't tend to speculate on what will happen cuz I'm weird but now that you've mentioned it, Toph's gotta be some kind of kickass awesome earthbending legend. Anything otherwise would be wrong! And yeah, it would be great if we get to see flashback moments of Katara teaching Korra, if she is in fact the waterbending instructor.

I can't help but wonder if the creators thought about what will happen if there's only 1 airbender left. I mean, it's great that Aang left behind descendants (1 descendant?), but he's one guy. Does that mean in a few more cycles when it comes time for an airbending avatar again, the world will go kaput?

I totally agree re: what you said about the obvious parallel. :) I hope they do a good job because it's so easy to fall flat on one's face by going too far one way or the other (although being something of an environmentalist I am probably going to mind less if they lean a little bit more on the preserve nature side).

I am surprised that the world got so industrialized in only 70 years; I wonder if they will go into what inventions really sped things along, etc..

BUT OH MY GOSH A (non-princess) FEMALE PROTAGONIST IN A US ANIMATION! I want this show to be good so badly!!! (US animation sucks at having girls as protagonists - even Coraline stuck in some random boy at the end to save the day when it should have been all her.-_-)

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[glass_icarus]

OHHHHHH the airbender question makes me nail-bitey. D: I mean, Aang teaching airbending is one thing, but WHAT IF APPA IS REALLY THE LAST SKY BISON (and Momo is the last flying lemur)???? Like, what happens to airbending if the sky bison- the original benders- are extinct?! We know that the moon is the original waterbender, the badgermoles are the original earthbenders, the dragons are the original firebenders (and are protected, even though there's only two of them- but there ARE two, they could potentially be male & female and have offspring) but we have no idea what happens if/when the original sources are gone!

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[nightowl]

The dragons could also be, maybe, er - immortal and thus be around even if all the firebenders die? Maybe? That could just be my automatic assumption of "dragons are immortal unless killed" coming into play here.^^;

My personal take on it is that the "original" benders are natural inspirations for the various martial arts/bending styles, so that as long as there are people passing down the bending arts, it won't go away. That's why it's so scary for me that there's not only no airbenders but no inspiration animals either - sky bison. Like, airbending could be recreated if there are still sky bison around, but if not... What then?? So I think my worry is the same as yours!

Also, I have always wondered: is there some genetic element to bending?