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gascreates · 1 month

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^^ infectious

#i now desire to read sickfics #this is an old sketch that i colored cuz i was dying to feel productive #depression and executive dysfunction are joining forces against me #i fight back by finishing something fast so i can feel accomplished for a bit #then maybe i can work on the bigger pieces/comics i want to get through #or maybe *gasp* work on a FIC #wouldn't that be crazy #atla #zuko

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gascreates · 1 month

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The Atla dino AU has precedent to exist since (almost) every animal in the avatar world is a mix of two real life animals. Humans are animals irl, so it could be reasoned that they are a mix of humans and dinos in the avatar world.

oooooo yeeeeeees! that conveniently lets me sidestep my lack of dino hybrids ahdjsjgj

atla hybrids are so important to the vibe, i had considered for a while trying to do dino hybrid forms, but it didn't really pan out. despite my obsession, i dont have a lot of practice actually drawing real dinos vs vague cartoonistic dino like creatures, so learning to combine two species of dinos i'd never properly drawn before was a tall order. but who knows, maybe i'll try it in the future! for now, im chill with the explanation agdjshhf

though the implication that all non hybrid animals might have another animal they can transform into is mildly horrifying. what crimes must miyuki be committing

#ahdjshf im so sorry if it took a while to answer this #i didn't see the ask in my notifs and the inbox is very hidden away on mobile #but thank yooooou for the aaaaaask #it means so much that you're actually thinking about my funny lil au #atla dino au #asks

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gascreates · 2 months

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So, in your AtLA Dino AU, do they switch back and forth or what?

that's the idea, yep! everyone can swap back and forth between their human form and dino form at will. the few worldbuilding rules i have in my head are that transforming takes energy and practice, dino forms can't talk, dino forms can still bend, and dinos are only known in the world as humans. there aren't raw dinos running around, unfortunately. that said, im very lenient on world building details here, it's not really a cohesive narrative at the moment. im literally just making art and jokes ahdjhsjf

alsoooo im fully on board with other interpretations or people using my dino designs for their own aus!!! i'd love to see other people's takes

#if it's funny it's canon #that's my world building philosophy here #with the secondary rule of if it has good whump potential it's canon #i have no idea if i intend to present a cohesive narrative #i might but right now im mostly just doing snapshots and jokes #neither of which really need consistent world building to work #but technically it's there #technically i have some proper 50k fanfic ideas for this #and also technically this dino au is labeled the dino transformation au in my head #cuz there's another i haven't posted anything about where everyone just gets pet dinos #that's the dino companion au #BUY ANYWAY.#yeah they switch back and forth here ahdkbsngk #atla dino au #asks

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gascreates · 2 months

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pigeon hunting :)

redraw of an old doodle now that i have a clear idea of what aang's dino form looks like. background under the cut cuz im proud of it

#the avatar is not meeting zuko's expectations at ALL #first he was TWELVE #now he's a GLORIFIED CHICKEN #zuko unfortunately gains the title 'pigeon hunter'#which surprisingly helps keep others from trying to steal his thunder cuz who wants to be known as that #the gaang hears to nickname and the sibs are outraged on aang's behalf #meanwhile aang is just like 'i like pigeons c:'#anyway uh #embrace my au i beg of you #atla dino au #atla #zuko #aang

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gascreates · 3 months

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when teenaged rebellion goes too far

#iroh has no idea where he went wrong #zuko drinking coffee as a statement #no he doesnt want any fucking TEA #and iroh trying to support the one thing his nephew has expressed any interest in in the past 3 years that isnt the avatar #but fuck he hates that damn bean water #atla #zuko #iroh

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gascreates · 3 months

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hi i just wanted to say that your art of zuko and little zuko hug stopped me in my tracks So Thourghly it hasn’t left my brain in. about 24 hours. i’m in love with it so much but it also Hurts because like. i want that for my younger self but because of time and all that i can only look at art and hope she feels my love through space and time. thank you for giving me that little bit of peace i needed.

aaaaa im so glad my art helped you in some way!! i dont even know what to say, i'm buzzing with joy right now. thank you for the ask anon, this means so much to hear

#like aaaaaahfjhsjfud #ive never been in a position where my art has struck people this way #it feels good ngl adhshfks #im so glad you sent this anon #and im so glad my art helped give you a bit of peace #asks

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gascreates · 4 months

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Can i just say how much i ADORE YOUR ART, it's so beautiful and utterly hilarious, you nail their expressions every time, especially in your latest atla drawing, Zuko's "oh shit" face has me HOWLING🤣❤️

aaaaaa thank you so much!! im crying omg <3 im so glad you enjoy all the dumb little things i put my favorites through! it's just so fun to draw zuko suffering in some way ashfdhh

#thank you so muuuuuch #i shall treasure this ask forever #asks

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gascreates · 4 months

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when aang doesn't explain everything

#part of my new effort to gaslight people into thinking im wriitng fics that im not #i mean my effort to provide visual creative prompts #go nuts if you get inspired #i have no intentions of adding more context :)#atla #sokka #zuko #@spidey-thwiped for the idea among many others #brainstorm buddies <3 <3 <3

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gascreates · 4 months

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doodles where no one is smiling except me

#aang's got tha pakige look avfhgshf #everyone is suffering in some way #but poor aang msot of all #momo is FINE. just wet #aang is not fine and he does not want to be sokka's friend anymore #sokka crying in the last bit has nothing to do with the dinos #but it happened on the same page so #enjoy #atla dino au #atla #sokka #aang #zuko #@somethingfoamy for the idea for pic 2 #i had to draw the consequences

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gascreates · 4 months

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them :) dino refs finally complete, so now i can make all the joke comics i want

design thoughts under the cut

aang- second hardest design to ge through. at first i couldn't decide on a species, and then i couldn't get the colors to work. believe it or not, bright yellow right next to bright blue is painful to look at. so instead i opted for an all orange color pallette. does he look like a candy corn? yes. and we love him for it. puny lil candy corn avatar

katara- sweet baby so easy, love her, perfect design, no tears shed except for joy. also GIGANTIC. non negotiable part of her design tbh. and aquatic dino!! spinosaurus was the only choice. the sail is meant to look like her necklace! isnt that cool. im so cool and talented.

sokka- nanuqsaurus is! maybe a cold weather dino. possibly. so we did that. he's smaller than his sister and he's mad about it :) also, him face is warriors paint!! and i know that atla water tribes didn't really have anything to do with orcas, but I love orcas and i wanted to give sokka some recognizably hunter-y pattern. so, orca white markings.

toPH- i am ENDLESSLY SUGFERING. do you know how many times i flip flopped on toph's species. do you understand how many hours i spent debating over the benefits of triceratops vs protoceratops?? ankylosaurus vs. pachysephalosaurus???? my agony is unending. im still unsure. sacrificing the concept that toph could take down a t rex (trike) for the small n unassuming character theme (proto). also the badgermole looking markings are cool i guess

zuko- this is where you pretend that im bot playing favorites when it comes to dino species. why is he a deinonychus? cuz i like big raptors, that's why. go away. dont look at me. he's cute. he looks like a bird and i love that for him. also something something aang and zuko similar species that specialize differently based on how their environments changed them, zuko an echo of the potential of flight and aang an echo of the potential to hunt. flock bird vs pack hunter. same but different.

height chart:

i really cant say if it's accurate at all to the real dinos, but i was lazy and didnt want to do math, so it's just eyeballed heights. the important part is that we understand how tiny aang is and how massive katara is

#pls ignore my theropod bias #im allowed to have favorite dinosaurs #even if they're basic bitch carnivores #also if you saw other versions of this post no you didnt #did you know if your internet dies when you're editing a draft on mobile and save it tumblr just posts it #that's so fuckin stupid #ANYWAY im posting now #and im bracing against the lower note count that i know is coming #i do this for me and it doesn't matter if other people like it #(pls like it i die without validation ahdgjshdg)#I AM DO NOT REQUIRE ATTENTION TO THRIVE #(i want. attention)#atla #atla dino au

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gascreates · 5 months

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emotional support frog

who will absolutely eat your hand.

#THIS FROG is a main character now #i dont make the rules #actually i do and you have to follow them #and the new rule is zuko has a badger frog and he doesn’t know what to do with it #he does not WANT the frog #it just wont leave him alone #he did not expect one of his first questions upon joining the gaang to be 'whats your pet policy'#also momo wants the frog now and it is unclear if his intentions are good #so zuko's playing it safe #abd unfortunately looking overprotective of his frog in the process #atla #zuko #also feel free to bug me for individual files #i can add em under the cut #when im not feeling lazy

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gascreates · 6 months

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we're ok

#my plan today was to write #so obviously i finished this #atla #zuko

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gascreates · 6 months

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this is the only relationship that matters actually.

#shipping wars solved #atla #zuko #momo #me: im gonna do a short lil doodle! so i can feel like ive finished something!#me 12 hours later:#my hand hurts #this is not a short little doodle #fucking. why did i keep going

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gascreates · 9 months

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the BOAT. the name of the BOAT.

#if this has been done before #no it hasnt #im the funnyman. i own all the jokes.#atla #zukka

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gascreates · 11 months

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this thing is Too Big

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au where everything is the same except ostrich horses are replaced with terror birds, which makes them a little bit bigger and a lot more carnivorous :)

while i acknowledge and appreciate the fact that ostrich horses on their own qualify as Horrifying, being a combination of a living murder bird and a manmade mistake on 4 legs, im a paleo nerd and i wanted to throw kelenkens into atla. the added knowledge that these things really existed makes me so happy

#atla #atla terror bird au

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gascreates · 11 months

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dear fandom, i offer u "wow i hate this" sokka for ur personal use, enjoy

#from a wip lol #but important #atla

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gascreates · 1 year

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when u finally find the avatar and he's a fucking pigeon

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more dino atla au wherein everyone can turn into dinos and the world's last hope is Smol (featuring strategic black and white cuz idk aang's dino colors yet)

#someday I'll settle on what species aang is #that is not today #i have ref sheets on the way #but they take a lot of decision making #toph has been like 8 drastically different dinos already and she's nowhere near complete #atla #atla dino au

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