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Like we say in Venezuela, "a quien pueda interesarle"
Well, everyone already voted, so I guess this blog is going to become a whole lot messier from now on 😅
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I could not resist I was talking to a friend about a Zutara Kanej AU. Zuko is Kaz, Katara is Inej, and after he buys her freedom, she is set on a quest to take vengeance on the people that took her away from her family, so Zuko has a knife crafted for her to use when the time comes, a knife with a red handgrip but with moon-shaped details made in silver:
“It is named The Blood Moon, made for the occasion. I had it crafted since you first mentioned it. If you are going to take revenge, might as well do it with style.”
She eyed the gleaming weapon on her hand. Even though the handgrip fit in her fist like it had been designed for her specifically, she could not imagine Zuko doing such a thing.
“Not revenge,” she said. “Justice.”
His shoulders lifted nonchalantly. “I fail to see the difference.”
She smiled.
She weighed the knife in her hand, wrist holding it out. “I had it crafted for the occasion since the first time you mentioned it,” Zuko explained under her inquisitive stare. He wore a rather formal attire and cloak that didn’t match his disheveled hair and unusually relaxed demeanor. Many people would consider his discreet smile a sign of trouble and, in another life, Katara would have, too. But now, she found his calmness infectious, and her posture eased before his warm gaze. His eyes remained ablaze even under the moon’s cool radiance. His right profile hid in the shadows while he kept his scar on full display under the light. Instead of a burden, it had become proof of his true nature, the risk and strange kindness he held within. “I call it The Blood Moon, but you can name it however you want,” he continued. “If you are going to take revenge, might as well do it with style.” “Justice,” she said as her eyes fell to the gleaming blade. “Not vengeance.” The handgrip perfectly fitted in her fist, though she still had a hard time imagining Zuko would order a knife crafted for her. When her eyes raised again, they settled on Zuko’s smiling lips. His shoulders lifted nonchalantly. “I fail to see the difference.” Her lips curved upwards, mimicking his smile.
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Anonymous asked:
Hypothetically speaking. ‘ if someone wanted to start drawing at a teen age do you think she or he would as good as the people who worked their whole lives’
I don’t think people fully realise that “teen age” is, how do I put it, Young As Heck? 😭 I understand (and remember) that living for like 12-18 years feels like A LOT, but in a grander scale of things it really isn’t. 25 is young. 33 is young. So If you do start at a teenage age, you have SO many more years ahead of you, I wouldn’t really be worried about not drawing since you were, say, 5. It helps, yeah, but it shouldn’t stop you from starting something! No age is too old to start Anything you’re interested in! Life is (ideally) quite long. There shouldn’t be a certain age you pass and think that, no, I am already too old to start learning that, you aren’t! Life is for learning new things, regardless of ones age^^ And also, there Always will be people better than you at something. There are plenty of 16 year olds with much larger potential and art predisposition than me. Already, so much better than me even if *technically* I had like a 10 year old early start compared to them. There are plenty people my age that aren’t as experienced at art as me. Regardless of your age, it will always go both ways. You will always be better than someone at something you do, and worse than someone else, just because...there are just so many people and it’s just how it works. So I don’t think that comparing yourself (with no experience in drawing) to someone who has been drawing for a long time (and most likely started as inexperienced as you) would be a very healthy approach. I’d definitely say don’t let your age stop you. Whatever it is. It’s never too late to start something and I Sincerely Mean It.
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"It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth. Don't you think?"
"Benoit Blanc" (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022)
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Neil Abram Joosten. 19 years old. Milport Dingoes striker.
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So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?
“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”
And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.
Saying "I'm not going to draw this thing because I don't know how to draw this thing" is really shooting yourself in the foot, because you've now cut yourself off from an opportunity to grow.
I had a friend in college who was an absolutely amazing artist. I loved seeing his work! One time I said something to the effect of "I could never do that."
He told me something that, as an artist, I resonate with. He said art isn't about natural talent; it's a learned skill. When you tell an artist their level of skill is impossible for you to reach, you're assuming their level of skill is a natural gifting they have, and it discredits the hundreds to thousands of hours of hard work they've put into getting where they are today, and you're cutting yourself off from trying to reach that point yourself.
I don't remember where I heard this but I wish I could, because it stuck with me:
Talent is THE RATE at which you learn things, not whether or not you can learn certain skills at all.
And that suddenly clicked for me. I have been very talented with a lot of things in my life and once I realized that I had basically been getting XP multipliers on my normal life experiences, it suddenly felt so much less awful to realize that I did not have the same advantage with other skills I struggle with, and that's okay. I might even have some debuffs on those, and that's okay. It's still all gaining as long as I keep working on it!!
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We will be okay, I promise this is not the end. It wasn't the end in 2016, it's not today, even if the future is uncertain. No matter who is in the president's seat we will continue to fight, that has not changed.
There's a lot of people getting scared and it's understandable, but as someone who lived through trans bans in FL there's always people on our side willing to take it to the courts and protesting. We find community in each other, find resources, and take care of each other.
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this emphasis is so funny help
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I lied, put your clothes back on while I discuss the many postcanon AU content I have over this 12 year old ship
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katara for my friend 💧🩵
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Bridge of Ross, Clare, Ireland.
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there needs to be a cultural shift in america like im not talking about culture war bullshit i mean the average american needs to learn to care about their community and the rest of the world and not be a self-absorbed asshole with a "fuck you i got mine" attitude.
"i doubt this will change" "good luck" sorry we simply cannot afford to be fatalistic about this. go feed your neighbor and invite a friend to go with you.
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if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted
life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters