Enter at your own risk. Image ID: the icon is of Li Lianhua (Mysterious Lotus Casebook) against a background of the aroace flag (top to bottom orange, yellow, white, blue, almost black blue). The header is a screenshot of the moment when Zhao Yuanzhou (Fangs of Fortune) walks into the Demon-Hunting Bureau for the first time. /end ID
TLDR: I don't tag consistently and can't. No aid solicitations or urgent news (except sometimes funny news).
I write image IDs as I can, they're under #described; you can request particular ones (especially please if you're an artist to put as ALT text; no credit needed!). No promises of speed.
I love cheer-reading!! and talking infinitely about shared interests; please g-d indulge me. List of fandoms and beloved shows below.
Enter at your own risk. Be kind and I will be kind to you.
My jame is Jay, or remaining jjay if that's how you got to know me; and on AO3 my handle is endrega_Turtlesse.
Icon by the wonderful @difeisheng & header is my screenshot.
I don't tag things most of the time, I have no energy for it. Requests to tag things aren't going to be fulfilled. I do try to tag spoilers with new shows but it's inconsistent at best, so step within with that knowledge.
Inconsistently doing image ID-ing, as my energy happens to be. Feel free to request an ID on any post, your own or not - I don't promise to be quick, but I promise I will do it. Artist mutuals, this is for you! I'd love for our shared fandoms to be a haven for people who for whatever reason use screen readers —and anyone with shitty internet.
(As for ALT text vs. image ID, from what I know from someone who uses them, screen readers deal with ALT text much more smoothly.)
And if you have insight on writing IDs better, I'd love to hear from you so long as you're kind, especially if you have lived experience!
Any art I've posted is under #my art, and any writing under #my fic or #my writing, though these days I rarely post what I made. If you're curious, I'm happy to share with you, but the utter silence is just painful.
I block and unfollow freely and don't apologise. I'm curating my own playhouse! You have yours! I love my social group here and I intend to keep it so; you should too!
I love cheer-reading stories, both of a fandom I'm in or original! (If you ask me to cheer-read you're doing me a favour!) Once again the caveat of energy, but if you want someone to yell at you excitedly, I'm raising my hand!! I love yelling excitedly! And not to brag, but I am very good at it. (<- bragging)
If you'd like to just chat, my DMs and asks are both open! I love hearing from other people. (I know people are shy, but here's your blanket permission!) I'm open to any and all questions & conversation starters, I might just tell you I won't answer it - but you can't offend me with any of it. Questions and attempts to learn are good, whatever the topic of it is.
A non-exhaustive list of my fandoms, of which I am entirely insane:
Mysterious Lotus Casebook;
Word of Honor, & Faraway Wanderer & Qi Ye;
Fangs of Fortune;
The Untamed;
Spirealm; &
the sleeper agent that is Marvel.
A non-exhaustive list of other shows and topics I love to talk about:
Anything and everything that relates even slightly to history!!!! Just prepare that I will infodump on you ;D
DnD in general omg. Tell me about your characters or your campaign or your mechanical character concepts or anything else at all!! My DMs are open for any and all DnD related shenanigans and infodumping, pleeease. I will be so unhinged with you I promise.
Shows & books that I have watched / read:
Leverage, Leverage: Redemption, & Almost Paradise (S1 for now);
Dimension 20 —absolute favourite is Escape from the Bloodkeep, but I adore deeply almost all seasons (all regular ones, most short ones) —& CritRole Campaigns 2 & 4;
Count of Monte Cristo, & works of Jules Verne & of Rejtő Jenő;
All works of Böszörményi Gyula.
Halfway through but loving it: Vengeance of An, Chasing Jade; &
Have not finished but am obsessed: Love Between Fairy and Devil.
Things I'm not interested in, in any form or shape:
Please do not tag me, send me a post or ask, or DM me about the following, because I will ignore it, & block & report you as spam. As a reminder, this is my own playhouse:
World and urgent news except for tumblr meltdowns, and where it pertains directly to my life (if you're not sure, assume it doesn't);
Mutual-aid, crowdfunding, etc., requests in any form;
Any conversations about the works of the chief transphobe of the UK. Leave me alone. Let her sink to irrelevance. Forget her on purpose. Hate only makes her stronger. (Politics, fund-raising.) If you don't know who I'm talking about, good. Let it remain so. The strongest way to fight in the modern mediascape is with irrelevance; &
Christianity. If we're mutuals and you want to talk about your life I'm absolutely glad to, but I'm not interested in anything beyond that.
(If you need to understand the logic for treating such as bots: I post or reblog none of these topics. There is literally no reason for a human person to seek me out regarding them. If you don't want to be treated like a bot, don't act like one and we'll be grand. I don't expect this to be a problem, but then, I've blocked all blogs who sent me such things.)
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Not that I think all marriages are doomed but when deciding who to marry you should ask yourself “is this someone I’d want to divorce?” As in, is this someone I believe would be mature and fair, even when they’re upset and don’t particularly like me at the moment. Is this someone I could continue to trust while going through an adversarial process? And if the answer is no, don’t marry them.
This has been bugging me for ages and I feel like you’re the only other blog who would appreciate my conundrum here. Do you think people in the avatar-verse drink cow’s milk?
On the one hand the lost lore archive seemingly confirms that cow-pigs produce “delicious” milk, but how canon can we really consider that? On the other hand, if you didn’t already know, most humans are lactose intolerant. The gene for lactase persistence (the ability to digest milk past babyhood) originated in the Middle East or Europe and spread from there. Even today East Asia has some of the highest rates of lactose intolerance in the world, and lactase tolerance was virtually nonexistent in North America pre-colonisation. Not drinking cow’s milk is the norm for humanity, not the exception, so I just think it would be cool to have at least one fantasy world where the main characters are lactose intolerant and soy milk is the norm.
Granted, given that cheese can be made to be palatable to lactose intolerant people and that there does seem to have been some lactase persistence traditionally in northern Indian and Himalayan regions (at least at a cursory research glance), you would probably expect it to vary by region and culture. Maybe cow-pig milk is consumed in only certain regions and otherwise usually made into cheese. I personally headcanon that air nomads eat sky bison cheese, which might taste similar to chhurpi.
From what I've read, dairy cows aren't native to East Asia, hence the lack of cow milk in most of the traditional cuisine of that region. I would say that cow-pig milk in Avatar might just be a local delicacy unique to the EK town from "Zuko Alone".
However, a predisposition towards lactose intolerance is not necessarily a permanent roadblock to enjoying milk products. Speaking from personal experience, I can generally build up my tolerance for dairy if I make a point of drinking milk every day. However, if I take a break of more than a week, then I have to start the whole process over again.
As for the consumption of other animal milks...
Based off cultural inspiration, the Air Nomads likely had close to 100% lactase persistence. Dairy is a huge part of Tibetan and other Himalayan cuisine. Plus, if Appa is any indication, sky bisons were roughly the size of sperm whales. Assuming there was a sky bison for every nomad, there was probably enough extra milk produced for it to become a staple of the Air Nomad diet.
The Northern Water Tribe probably has some lactase persistence, since they have Mongolian and Sakha cultural influence in addition to Inuit. Both Mongolian and Sakha culture are known for their consumption of mare's milk, both as a drink and as an ingredient in dishes. Plus, the NWT canonically has Buffalo-Yaks, which is a combination of two animals whose milk is commonly consumed in parts of Asia. Lactase persistence might not be as strong in the Southern Water Tribe, who don't seem to have domesticated any milk-producing animals.
The Earth Kingdom probably only has lactase persistence in certain regions, such as the village in "Zuko Alone". This aligns with its primary cultural inspiration, China. While most of China does not have a cheese-making tradition, there are pockets of regional cheeses: cow and goat acid cheeses in Yunnan, fermented cow milk cheeses in Xinjiang, and yak cheeses in the Tibetan and Mongolian autonomous regions. However, on the whole, I think most EK citizens stick to non-dairy milks made from soy, seeds, or nuts.
Finally, there's the Fire Nation. I don't think they drink much milk. In addition to China, the Fire Nation's other major cultural influences are Southeast Asia (Thailand, especially) and Japan. Historically, none of these cultures consumed much animal milk. I think the Fire Nation's choice of milks would be soy, sesame, coconut, or peanut.
Aren't arctic camels a domesticated animal in the swt? camel milk is a pretty common staple among people who keep them (and I know several north American farmers that have brought camels. onto their farms specifically for milk!) Sami people also milk reindeer, but immmmm not sure how well snow leopard caribou would take to being milked
You're right! In Korra, we do see arctic camels, so the SWT likely consumes dairy regularly, at least in the post-war period. This would imply that Katara and Sokka have some lactase persistence. I can just imagine Sokka bringing this up whenever a game or situation requires the Gaang to split into teams:
Sokka: Alright, Team 1 will be me, Katara, and Aang. That leaves Suki, Toph, and Zuko for Team 2.
Suki: Are you basing this off seniority in the group or something?
Sokka: More like who can handle a few rounds of drinks without turning into a tomato.
Team 2: *glares*
Sokka: Kidding! It's based on who can have a milkshake without turning into a walking stink bomb---*gets dirtball to the face*
Okay, this really got my cartography brain going, so...
Lactase Persistence in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender!
The map is inspired by the above thread, but also some additional real-world biological anthropology, heavily referenced from this paper.
Of course I kept the high lactase persistence (LP) around the air temples, but I also showed the diffusion of that trait in the areas around the temples. This could be because of Air Nomads mixing into the non-nomadic local populations (genetically and culturally) and due to the trading/gifting of sky bison dairy products to those populations. I think the latter would reinforce the former, in this case.
Important to remember is that this map is representative of the percent of a population's LP if there is a population living in a given location. For example, for over a hundred years, there were no people living in the air temples, but if there were, they would have high rates of LP. Similarly, the Si Wong Desert is sparsely populated, but those who do populate it likely have LP (operating under the assumption that the sandbenders and other nomadic people get milk from the camelephants).
As in our reality, there are also high rates of LP in less fertile lands like deserts or higher latitudes (by the poles) and altitudes, as these regions tend to have more issues growing crops that can meet diet requirements. By having dairy producing animals eat the less nutritious crops, their bodies can basically add in the missing nutrients. This is why I have marked more mountainous regions + the Si Wong Desert as having more LP.
Version without the location labels:
Reference map (Wells 2021):
🌊 If I missed something or anyone has questions, always feel free to tag me! Big thanks to anon, atlaculture, and lizardlicks for the inspiration today!
@atlaculture Your wish is my command~ Almost—I added the character for milk in the negative space because I thought it looked cute there.
Additionally, here's a new map:
Dispersal and Domestication of Ruminant and Dairy Cattle!
We are really going down a rabbit hole with this one.
So once again I'm referencing the Stock and Wells paper, because it has really nice maps and it's pretty accessible in terms of academic language.
This map is pretty straightforward—circles represent points (areas) of origin, and the arrows denote the dispersal of the species. But for lore purposes, this requires some notes.
Flying Bison: I have marked their area of origin as being in the Southern Air Archipelago. We really don't know where they're specifically from, but seeing that there are populations of bison living in the Fire Nation (with/around the Bhanti tribe), I'm guessing they're from either the Western or Southern Air Archipelagos. And purely because the Bhanti tribe lives in the southern part of the Fire Nation, I've placed the bison as from the South. Their dispersal paths are also the most unique of the list, as, since they can fly, I imagine them flying directly to their preferred habitats, and the Air Nomads following/settling based on that.
(Really, the bison are too enlightened to be considered 'domesticated' by humans, but I included them because of their teamwork with the airbenders + their dairy potential.)
Arctic Camels: These creatures have more appearances in the Southern Water Tribe than the Northern, so I've placed their area of origin in the South. Perhaps they reached the North on trading ships or pirate ships traveling between the tribes?
Moo-sow (Cow-pig) and other pig hybrids, excluding the Picken/Pigster: The moo-sow are the only pig hybrids confirmed to be raised for their milk. Others, like the wooly-pig (cross between a sheep and a pig), are raised for specific functions like wool for clothes. But seeing as sheep in our world have been utilized for dairy, I don't think it's a big jump to think wooly-pigs would be in similar circumstances. All other pig hybrids are fully mammal (so this inference could still apply) except the picken (pig + chicken) and pigster (pig + rooster). (I don't know why they're two separate things. Weird!) Since these are birds crossed with mammals, they might not be able to produce milk. In Beasts of the Four Nations, Aang supposes that they lay eggs, and makes no mention of milk.
If the Picken and Pigster are more like chickens than pigs, they are likely to be native to A:tLA's equivalent of Southeast Asia—the Fire Nation. (Wikipedia page for the red junglefowl, from which chickens were domesticated.)
On the subject of the Fire Nation, I remembered—after completing this map, of course—that the Fire Nation has a native milk producer: the hippo cow.
Admittedly, this throws a wrench in the whole 'lactose intolerant Fire Nation' theory, but we could suppose that they are raised primarily for meat, and milk is an extra. According to the wiki, hippo cows are also domesticated in the Earth Kingdom after the Hundred Year War.
Final notes:
Non-hybrid yaks also exist and can be found around the Northern Water Tribe. Their dispersal pattern likely follows that of the buffalo yak quite closely, so they were not included in order to prevent crowding and clutter on the map.
Goat dogs and goat gorillas exist in the Earth Kingdom. While goats in the real world produce milk, these goat hybrids seem to express their non-goat 'genes' more prominently than the goat ones. Therefore, I have decided not to consider them.
New version of lactase persistence map, without labels:
Version of cattle map with labels:
And the lovely reference map (Stock and Wells 2023):
🌊 Questions, comments, concerns, critiques? I'll take them all :P
Your posts are so good! I love how easy it is to encounter academically minded people on Tumblr for literally any subject.
However, regarding the Hippo-Cow, I actually contend that it's not originally from the Fire Nation. Here's the excerpt from the original profile that was on the Nick website:
Creature: Hippo-Cow
If you haven't already guessed, this animal is a cross between a hippo and a cow, and can be found on farms throughout the world. While in most cases the hippo-cow is known to be a vegetarian, in the Fire Nation, things are a little different. The hippo-cows of the Fire Nation love meat. Like Sokka says: In the Fire Nation, "Even the meat eats meat."
The Hippo-Cow's "default" state is being an herbivore, but it seems to have adapted to becoming a carnivore in the Fire Nation. This implies that they're native to somewhere else, most likely the Earth Kingdom. This leads me to think they're a rather recent (<100 years) import from the colonies and the Fire Nation raises them for meat rather dairy. They kind of look like those scarily buff cows they raise for their lean meat.
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The thing about Miss Piggy is that she kind of has a Roger Rabbit comedy superpower where she wins nearly any conceivable fight she's in. But unlike other characters of which that's true, like say, Bugs Bunny, who tend to win because they make the opponent play the game with their rules, Miss Piggy wins because the joke is that she can beat the shit out of literally anybody.
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