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A charmingly heartfelt character exploration of both Aang and Korra, set just after the main AtLA canon. And it's complete!

Author Summary:

“She’s me,” Aang answered, looking more perplexed than anything. “I don’t know how, but she’s the… an Avatar.”

“Like… one of your past lives?” Suki asked.

“Actually,” Korra said, “He’s one of mine. I’m the Avatar after him.” And then figuring she might as well drop the pretenses, Korra metalbended the cuffs off of herself and waved, hoping what once would have been an easy feat of bending didn’t make her visibly sweat. “Hi.”

“How did you—?!” Zuko asked as Korra slowly got to standing, watching the Kyoshi warrior drop into fighting stances carefully. Aang just frowned.

“Wait, I can’t metalbend. Why do you get to metalbend?”

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During her time away recovering from the Red Lotus attack, Korra stumbles on a spirit that sends her decades into the past, less than a year after the hundred year war. Avatar Aang is happy to help her as much as he can, but his duties and the upcoming anniversary celebrations keep him busy and soon it becomes clear that Korra isn't the only Avatar who could use some help.

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

About two hours later I was permanently banned from r/MadeMeSmile for “self-promotion.”

I accepted that different communities have different rules.But then something even stranger happened.Soon afterward, a moderator from r/pics started going through my account. Not just the new post—many of my older painting posts disappeared as well. One after another. Then I was permanently banned there too.

Maybe it was the same moderator. Maybe it wasn’t. I honestly don’t know.

What surprised me wasn’t even the ban itself. It was realizing how much power individual moderators have over what millions of people are allowed to see. One decision can erase years of posts from a community and instantly cut off your ability to participate, even if those posts had been happily sitting there for months or years.I’m not saying moderators shouldn’t have rules. Communities need moderation.But it does make you wonder where the line is between protecting a community and allowing a single interpretation of the rules to completely reshape what people can share.

The funny part?

I wasn’t advertising anything in those posts. I wasn’t posting prices or asking anyone to buy anything. I was simply sharing my original paintings because I enjoy discussing art with strangers from around the world.

Anyway…

Here’s the painting that apparently caused all the trouble. 🎨

Discovered last year I couldn’t look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.

Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.

-And I couldn’t spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.

Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.

And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and I’m still dealing with a vertigo migraine.

For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.

And it’s not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. There’s even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that won’t trigger eyestrain and headaches.

So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.