Just popping by to say that 'Wanyi' and your words for why it's a good name for Zuko's ship hit me like a sack of bricks to the chest. absolutely incredible choice, I am REELING.
I'm glad you found it so touching!
I haven’t read Embers. I thought MuffinLance intentionally named Zuko’s warship 萬一 (one in ten thousand, what if) from the start. It’s been a bit bewildering to see a mistake become new fanon.
At risk of ruining the sentimentality of the name Wanyi, I would issue a few caveats to people adopting it for their fics. It’s really more of a retrofit of the old name—something to rebrand while sounding and looking similar enough to Wani to not be distracting.
Wanyi is pinyin romanization, used in the People’s Republic of China. You could just as easily spell it Wan-i or Wani. Canon uses a mix of romanization methods. However, if the goal is rebranding, Wanyi makes sense.
Wanyi isn’t an Authentic™ historical Chinese boat name. That would be something like Galloping Clouds or Tranquil Seas.
You might want to use a different culture instead of Chinese for Zuko’s warship. Canonically, there are Fire Nation characters with Chinese inspired names, like Zhao, Piandao, and Shyu, but if your fan-fiction is drawing more inspiration from Japanese or Thai culture, maybe a different name is more suited.
Wanyi is often used for negative what-ifs. An unlikely disaster. Zuko is, after all, a disaster magnet. And the cause of many misfortunes.
Wanyi literally means one in ten thousand, but it is grammatically used to indicate an extremely unlikely possibility. Like finding the avatar. To me, it feels ominous, anxious, yearning in an unrealistic sort of way, which I think all speak to Zuko's character arc. Idk, what do other Chinese speakers think?
Ok I’ve been meaning to shade this for a while but I don’t think i will, so here are my K-pop trolls redesigns! They’re highly inspired by the members of red velvet, specifically the outfits in the Russian roulette video!
Where did the world tour characters go??? Specifically where are the bounty hunters cause,,,,, they're my buddies, my sillies.... I'm probably the only one thinking intensely about them........
But anyway!!!!!! Uhhhhhhh Chaz and The K-pop Gang are roommates cause.... Shenanigans.
That second picture is a reference to @vanilla107 's really great wanillo fic!! It is SOOOOO WONDERFUL
IF ANYONE HAS ANY FIC RECS THAT CENTER ON ANY OF THE BOUNTY HUNTERS be sure to link me please please please I'm begging you
Was rewatching trolls 1 and 2 for the third movie and I have a new obsession now. Trolls World Tour will alway be the best movie from the franchise can’t change my mind and the Bounty Hunter trolls as a group are underrated
The game "I Wani hug that gator!" is looking pretty nice, this is a recent thing they posted on their official twitter.
Game is a Visual Novel about some human guy going to a school full of prehistoric creatures and falling in love with a paraplegic gator girl called Olivia. The game is not out but there's a pretty long demo on Steam, 100% recommended, specially if you don't have anything better to do.
it has come to my attention that I should probably promote the things that I do.
Those things being fanfic.
A Dragon's Instict is a fanfic series I have been working on for almost three years now off and on as life goes and it's currently at over 90k words.
Inspired by @muffinlance this story is my take on what if Zuko was a dragon shifter. Zuko is given a task by Agni to go find the new Elemental Champions. A bender from each nation that will help restore the balance of the Spirits and the humans in the Avatars absence.
Zuko is the champion of Fire, Flame of Agni. But he is also 13 years old and all he has is the crew of the Wani to help him. (Iroh tries to help, but what is a nervous young dragon to do when he is in close quarters with the famed dragon slayer? Why, leave him at the first port and not look back, of course.)
Shenanigans and those icky things called feelings are all over the ship but Zuko won't let anything get in his way.
Marvel Spotlight 5 (vol 2) cover date, March, 1980, introduced Dragon Lord and his son, Wani, Phyllis Shamara, and Mary Shamara. They were created by Marv Wolfman and Steve Ditko. ("A Hero Is Also A Man", Marvel Spotlight vol 2 #5, Marvel Comic Event)