i’m sorry i spent two hours watching your clay arts damn i could sleep but i just scrolled through all of your posts with clay tag and i’m
FASCINATED
can you please draw some teen au clanielle (i love nerdy bible clay) or orel and clay as early teens idk orel trying to befriend him
(also you don’t have to answer to this but do you headcanon some clay’s fetishes or do you agree with slightly canon ones??)
God I'm so rusty
MAN, fetishes? Even tho I don't like it it's kinda canon that he likes. Pee? 😭 to some degree.
I wouldn't even call it a fetish but I think he likes pain. Not much. Maybe. He doesn't get pleasure (maybe a bit) out of it but he feels validated.
I think he's a bit fucked up and honestly I feel too embarrassed to keep listing the other things I hc him to like lmao. Have you read duda's fics on ao3? My headcanons fit with some of their works.
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Wait, what’s going on with Embers???? That fic has been on my read later list since 2021, what’s happened with it???
Brief overview, then I'm likely never touching this topic again, because this is not a Drama Blog:
Context: Embers is a super old AtLA fic that was written during the early fandom days, read widely at the time, and was the origin of the widely-used fanon name of "Wani" for Zuko's ship (kind of by default that it was one of the first popular fics to give his ship a name, I think?), even though most fic writers don't seem to realize it's from there anymore.
"What's Going On": I used to include a link in all my stories to it, because I believe in crediting other writers for borrowed elements, and I was using "Wani" in all my fics. But BOY did I not want to be sending readers that way anymore, so I've adopted a new name for Zuko's ship, and removed all Embers links.
None of the criticisms about Embers itself are new; I'm assuming they date back to when the fic was being written, because this isn't an "it aged badly" thing, this is an "actually yeah this gets worse the longer you think about it and I shouldn't have ignored my bad feelings just because some of the worldbuilding was interesting" thing.
An Incomplete List of Why I Made the Change:
I don't actually like the story that much anymore, and don't want to rec it
I tried to re-read it recently to see if some things were as bad as I remembered and it turns out they were So Much Worse Oh Yikes. More specifically, the treatment of Katara and Aang and their respective cultures has... rather a lot going on. One example: The Fire Nation and Air Nomads are both given multiple backstory elements in an attempt to make the average Fire Nation soldier's participation in the genocide/war in large part the fault of the Avatar and the Air Nomads themselves, and also fully justified from the Fire Nation perspective. And I do mean fully. One of its core tenants is "People from the Fire Nation (and only people from the Fire Nation) who don't follow orders Literally Die, therefore murdering pacifists and babies and continuing the war (and their regularly scheduled war crimes) is the only thing it is physically possible for them to do". I cannot emphasize enough how literal that is.
Also the name "Wani" means "Alligator" and is... objectively a pretty lame name for Zuko's ship? Where's the personality, where's the deeper meaning, where's the resonance with Zuko's themes? @tuktukpodfics initially thought I was calling the ship "Wanyi", and that's what I've switched to, because it is Objectively So Much Better. In their words: “Wànyī (萬一): Literally ‘one in ten thousand,’ ‘perchance.’ Used grammatically in Chinese to mean ‘what if’ or ‘just in case.’ I think a ship called ‘The Perchance’ is perfect for a boy clinging to false hope.”
TL:DR; I don't rec Embers anymore, because I don't actually like the story anymore, and there are things about it that get worse the more I think on them. I've removed links to it and renamed Zuko's ship to "Wanyi" ("The Perchance") because our boy deserves a ship name that reflects his character arc.
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Dan and Phil A-Z Ask Game:
I was craving a big ask game so had to go for the classic dnp format. Hope everyone enjoys!
A - Activity; You can choose to do one activity with Dan and Phil, what will you do?
B - Baking; Pitch a concept/outfit/etc. you want to see in a future baking video.
C - Conspiracy; What are your favorite and/or least favorite phannie conspiracies (past or present)?
D - Dan; What is your favorite video from Dan's main channel?
E - Emotion; What Dan and/or Phil moment has made you the most emotional?
F - Fashion; What are some of your favorite Dan and Phil looks?
G - Group; Dan and Phil are doing a collaboration video, who do you want it to be with and what will they do? (Could be someone they've collabed with before)
H - Home; What are some of your favorite domestic Dan and Phil moments?
I - Instagram; What are some of your favorite Instagram posts/stories?
J - Joke; What Dan and Phil moment(s) always make you laugh?
K - Keepsake; What type of merch item/design/theme/etc. would you most like Dan and Phil to make?
L - Lion; What is your favorite item/running gag/etc. that's ever been a part of Dan and Phil branding?
M - Manchester; What is your favorite early Dan and Phil moment?
N - Norman; If you could choose a pet for Dan and Phil to get, what would it be?
O - Opponent; What is your favorite Dan vs. Phil video?
P - Phil; What is your favorite video from Phil's main channel?
Q - Question; You can ask one question each to Dan and Phil and they will give you an honest answer, what will you ask?
R - Radio Show; What is the most iconic radio show moment to you?
S - Sims; You have to choose one of the three main storylines in the Sims (Dil/Tabs, Devan, Dalien) to never be revisited again, which one are you eliminating?
T - Tour; What is the best segment from each of their tours, in your opinion?
U - Underrated; What is the most underrated Dan and Phil video?
V - Video Game; What video game do you most want to see on dapg?
W - Wow; What have Dan and Phil done that surprised you the most?
X - Xylophone; What is your favorite music-related Dan and Phil moment?
Y - Youtube; If you could choose one YouTube video for dnp to make, what would it be? (Solo or joint content, your choice!)
Z - Zebra; What words or phrases have you picked up from dnp and/or always make you think of them?
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It’s just… it is everything that Cardan thought Jude would notice his “SO OBVIOUS” exile riddle and thinks Jude to not hesitate to come back. Beside his certainty of her cleverness to piece the riddle together, he believed he was that clear about his feelings toward her; he had thought she absolutely ought to know how he feels for her.
Like oh buddy. BUDDY. Your wife had thought of the answer to your little riddle like you thought she would. But guess what? She has detrimental TRUST ISSUES. (Like… Ur super mean and hot, I can’t blame her.) Anyway.. it’s SUPER adorable of him to so wholeheartedly believe she wouldn’t question his trust. It reveals so much about his pov of thier relationship.
Jude thought Cardan’s (silly) trick was a (vile) trick, when it was simply a: “Im trying to impress/pay you back in kind with our romantic metaphorical sparring and eventually get you out of political drama for a bit,” trick.
I’m fucking laughing wow these delusional ass children I fucking love them.
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Spicy question....do you think Tim and Bernard have done it yet? In comic run
Idk, unless their relationship is still fresh
They have been dating canonically for a year, then again there’s no timeline for that 🤷♀️ but I just need to point out that during TD:R #7 after their failed date they got back to Tim’s boat and it seems like Bernard was going to stay the night so… make your own assumptions
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