Luna's Void

'16 Scenes of You and Your Dad in Cars' - Jordan Bolton

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What if Lami was in Stampede?

I went to a glass museum recently and they had a program where they let kids design glass artwork and it brightened my day so much that I had to share some of my favorites:

"No," the other guard said, "we've worked together for years!"

"-but you can trust me when I say-"

"I can't, you have the curse that's opposite from mine!"

"I don't care for you at all."

Alastor and Lucifer perform “Only Tea” from The Great Gatsby musical 🌷🫖❇️

After reading through my list of Korean culture Easter Eggs in ATLA, I realized that I forgot to include the Yuyan Archers. The more I thought about it, the more I realized I could make a post series about them similar to my series of posts about Kyoshi and her warriors.

The intimidating Yuyan Archers are heavily inspired by Korea’s rich history of archery that lives on through their dominance in the competitive sport. Lets analyze the many Korean aspects of the Yuyan Archers’ design, starting with…

Hair & Headband

In contrast to the floppier topknots that most Fire Nation citizens wear, Yuyan Archer topknots are tall and stiff. This is because the topknots of the Yuyan Archers are inspired by traditional Korean topknots from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897) known as sangtu (상투). Unlike the top knots of the Qin Dynasty, sangtu are more tightly coiled and worn higher on the head. We see a similar sort of topknot on all of the Yuyan Archers.

You’ll also notice that the Yuyan Archers pair their unique hairstyle with a wide headband. This was also the norm for Korean men, including archers, during the Joseon dynasty. These headbands are known as manggeon (망건). Along with being fashionable, manggeon also kept sweat and stray hairs away from the eyes, which is especially important for archers.

Fun Fact: An upward pointing triangle can be found on both the headbands of the Yuyan Archers and the uniform belts of the Fire Nation school that Aang attended. The upward pointing triangle is actually the symbol for fire in alchemy! Don’t know how intentional that was, though.

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Until I was in....college? At least? The vast, vast majority of the books I read were either a) assigned by my school or b) (the vast majority of my reading) provided to me by my mother.

My mom is a librarian. She filled our rooms with books, picked especially for us. She pointed out books on the shelves in our home library (separate from our bedroom shelves) that she thought we would like. She bought us books for birthdays, Christmas, and just stacks of recommendations. She once paid me $10 to read one of the Cirque Du Freak books because she said I needed "to be exposed to bad literature."

She respected my privacy in room, didn't go through my belongings. She explicitly pointed out to us that she wouldn't know if we took a particular book of the shelf, as long as we returned it, if we didn't want her to know we were reading it. She purposely brought us books that she didn't care for herself, because she thought we might find them valuable or enjoyable.

And if we wanted to read something she thought might upset or disturb us, she would explain why. She wouldn't stop us from reading it - just ask us to check in with her, to talk through it.

And so when I read something that upset or disturbed me, I would go to her. She would listen and talk through it with me.

If she said she didn't think I would like something, or that a book might disturb me, or that she thought I should wait until I was older, I listened to her.

She didn't need restrictions or control to protect me. Because she proved I could trust her.