What the Hell is This?

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Sokka/Zuko (Avatar), Katara & Sokka (Avatar), Iroh & Zuko (Avatar), Lu Ten & Zuko, Iroh & Lu Ten, Lu Ten & Ursa, Azula & Zuko (Avatar) Characters: Sokka (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Aang (Avatar), Kanna (Avatar), Kya (Avatar), Hakoda (Avatar), Bato (Avatar), Ursa (Avatar), Iroh (Avatar), Lu Ten, Ozai (Avatar), Original Characters, Agni (Avatar), Azula (Avatar), Zhao (Avatar) Additional Tags: What-If, Dragon Zuko (Avatar), Dragon Sokka, Alternate Universe, alexa: how the fuck do I tag this, alternating pov, the POV is whoever is telling a good story at the time, no beta we die like jet, Crack Treated Seriously, Firebender Sokka (Avatar), Blood and Injury, Angst, Iroh is a Good Uncle (Avatar), Ursa’s A+ Parenting, that tag is only a little sarcastic, Ozai Being an Asshole (Avatar), child endangerment, like its fiiine, Gaslighting, kind of???, is it gaslighting if you just straight up think the person you’re gaslighting is already delusional??, Spirit Blessed Zuko (Avatar), Sibling Bonding, Azula Has Plans For Dragon Based World Domination, Zhao Being an Asshole (Avatar), Zhao Has Plans for a Dragon Based Wardrobe, Non-Linear Narrative, Canonical Character Death, Grief/Mourning Summary:

There is a moment when the Fire Nation soldiers come for Aang where Sokka throws off the pretense of his human form, and is unexpectedly met with a mirror.

The man— boy? The person who had been leading the soldiers down the ramp of the old cruiser discards his human shape at nearly the same moment, and there is a pause, startled as much as anything, where two very uncertain dragons bristle, arch their necks, and hiss like angry, overgrown geese.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sokka/Zuko (Avatar) Characters: Zuko (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Demisexuality, Queer Themes, Angst, Pining, Zuko is Bad at Feelings (Avatar), Sokka is trying his best, Communication Failure Summary:

“See? It’s totally a thing! Lots of people are just like you. It’s not weird, Zuko, you can go your whole life and never be attracted to anybody.”

“Oh.”

Sokka’s face fell. Zuko winced.

“That wasn’t a happy oh.”

Zuko hated this feeling more than anything. The moment he disappointed someone he cared about simply by existing as himself.

“I guess I was still hoping I’d. I don’t know. Get better eventually.”

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[ Avatar: The Last Airbender ] - The Gaang

zukka as ponyo!

This kids deserve some sleep after all

Why the fuck does he look like a Jetko baby. Like straight up biological one. Like not saying he is, beacuse he's not but. WHYYY WHO DESIGNED HIM I STRAIGHT UP THOUGHT SOMEONE FOUND A JETKO SHIPKID OFF DEVIANTART OR SOMETHING AND POSTED IT AND THEN I GOT FLABBERGASTED WHEN MY FRIEND (Hi Kat if you're reading this) SAID "why does it says avatar legends roleplay game."

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Katara & Sokka (Avatar), Other Relationship Tags to Be Added, Iroh & Zuko (Avatar), Zuko & Zuko’s Crew (Avatar) Characters: Sokka (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Ikki (Avatar), Juniper Spiceberry, Foo Foo Cuddlypoops, Zuko (Avatar), Iroh (Avatar), Zuko’s Crew (Avatar), Jee (Avatar) Additional Tags: Waterbender Sokka (Avatar), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canonically Sexist Sokka, Don’t worry Suki will beat it out of him, Stubborn Katara (Avatar), Bratty Little Sister Katara, AS IS HER RIGHT, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Big Brother Sokka (Avatar), Protective Sokka (Avatar), Dead Aang (Avatar), Canon Rewrite, POV Alternating, Not Beta Read Summary:

When the world needed the Avatar the most, he vanished. One hundred years passed. The fires of war raged. Lives were torn apart and reshaped in its heat, leaving the world forever changed. The waterbenders of the Southern Watertribe were hunted to near extinction, until only Sokka and Katara were left. For this, their mother was killed trying to protect them. Their father and the men of their village left to fight.

The Avatar? Please. That’s the stuff of children’s dreams and spirits tales. There isn’t anyone coming to save them. So why did this airbender suddenly turn up now, in the South Pole of all places, looking for them?

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Explicit Warnings: Underage Relationships: Sokka/Zuko (Avatar) Characters: Zuko, Sokka, Zuko’s Crew (Avatar) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Spirits, Spirit Pacts, Cuddling & Snuggling, Snark, Loss of Virginity, Supernatural Elements, One Shot, no beta we die like jet Summary:

“Zuko recognized a shrine when he saw one, even if it was a construction he was unfamiliar with, and dedicated to no spirit that he knew the name of.

Dread. That’s what that feeling was. Zuko now understood that the twisting, emptiness in his gut was his mortal mind knowing his own doom before his conscious thoughts could catch up to it. He was trespassing on grounds not meant for humans to walk.”

Iroh never went with Zuko in his banishment. Left to tend his ship and crew alone, the men mutiny when Zuko forces them to sail into the bitter cold of the South Pole, and Zuko must find a way to survive on his own if he hopes to find the Avatar. Help comes in the from the spirits, but it comes with a cost.

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Katara & Sokka (Avatar), Other Relationship Tags to Be Added, Iroh & Zuko (Avatar), Zuko & Zuko’s Crew (Avatar) Characters: Sokka (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Ikki (Avatar), Juniper Spiceberry, Foo Foo Cuddlypoops, Zuko (Avatar), Iroh (Avatar), Zuko’s Crew (Avatar), Jee (Avatar) Additional Tags: Waterbender Sokka (Avatar), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canonically Sexist Sokka, Don’t worry Suki will beat it out of him, Stubborn Katara (Avatar), Bratty Little Sister Katara, AS IS HER RIGHT, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Big Brother Sokka (Avatar), Protective Sokka (Avatar), no beta we die like jet, Dead Aang (Avatar), Canon Rewrite, POV Alternating Summary:

When the world needed the Avatar the most, he vanished. One hundred years passed. The fires of war raged. Lives were torn apart and reshaped in its heat, leaving the world forever changed. The waterbenders of the Southern Watertribe were hunted to near extinction, until only Sokka and Katara were left. For this, their mother was killed trying to protect them. Their father and the men of their village left to fight. The Avatar? Please. That’s the stuff of children’s dreams and spirits tales. There isn’t anyone coming to save them. So why did this airbender suddenly turn up now, in the South Pole of all places, looking for them?

Want to avoid the action movie effect and make your character's injuries have realistic lasting impacts? Have a sick character you're using as hurt/comfort fodder? Everyone has tips for how to write Dramatic Intense Agony, but the smaller human details of lasting or low-level discomfort are rarely written in. Here are a few pain mannerisms I like to use as reference:

General

Continuously gritted teeth (may cause headaches or additional jaw pain over time)

Irritability, increased sensitivity to lights, sounds, etc

Repetitive movements (fidgeting, unable to sit still, slight rocking or other habitual movement to self-soothe)

Soft groaning or whimpering, when pain increases or when others aren't around

Heavier breathing, panting, may be deeper or shallower than normal

Moving less quickly, resistant to unnecessary movement

Itching in the case of healing wounds

Subconsciously hunching around the pain (eg. slumped shoulders or bad posture for gut pain)

Using a hand to steady themself when walking past walls, counters, etc (also applies to illness)

Narration-wise: may not notice the pain was there until it's gone because they got so used to it, or may not realize how bad it was until it gets better

May stop mentioning it outright to other people unless they specifically ask or the pain increases

Limb pain

Subtly leaning on surfaces whenever possible to take weight off foot/leg pain

Rubbing sore spots while thinking or resting

Wincing and switching to using other limb frequently (new/forgettable pain) or developed habit of using non dominant limb for tasks (constant/long term pain)

Propping leg up when sitting to reduce inflammation

Holding arm closer to body/moving it less

Moving differently to avoid bending joints (eg. bending at the waist instead of the knees to pick something up)

Nausea/fever/non-pain discomfort

Many of the same things as above (groaning, leaning, differences in movement)

May avoid sudden movements or turning head for nausea

Urge to press up against cold surfaces for fever

Glazed eyes, fixed stare, may take longer to process words or get their attention

Shivering, shaking, loss of fine motor control

FATIGUE. This is the big one that people get wrong. Ongoing pain is exhausting. Your character might not be able to do as much as they usually do, even if they're being careful to avoid aggravating their wound or injury. It's especially true if they've spent a month in the hospital and are deconditioned, but just pain itself is exhausting for the body.

Brain fog and difficulty concentrating. Especially if the pain is peaking, or they're getting tired towards the end of the day. Speech gets harder to process, books are harder or impossible to read. Memory is worse. You can have aphasia where you lose a word or two. Brain fog will often/usually arrive with irritability. Not being able to think clearly – or remember the word for ... thing. The machine you use to wash dishes – is incredibly frustrating.

Lack of sleep makes pain worse. If your character is healing fairly well and is getting to the stage where their pain is tolerable, being forced to stay up all night for plot reasons will make their pain much worse the next day. Like 'pain levels have gone from a 4 to an 8' kind of worse.

Nausea from pain. Less applicable to low-level pain, but you can get nausea from severe pain. It isn't 'oh no I think I'm going to be sick' nausea (IME), it's just a complete disinterest in food. You might have your injured person picking at their food, or eating smaller meals than usual. You can definitely get this from moderate chronic or ongoing pain, too – it isn't just a horrifically severe injury thing.

Pain in areas other than the injury site. This is a combo here of 'kid of a physio' and an 'easily injured person's first-hand experience'. There are several ways that you get pain elsewhere:

Referred pain. This is where you hurt yourself in one spot but feel the pain elsewhere. This is especially applicable to soft-tissue injuries.

Compensation. If my left knee goes out and I change my gait pattern by limping, I'll likely develop pain in my right leg, as now it's handling more weight than usual. I have crap joints, so that could easily be my right knee or right hip. If your character has an old injury on the 'good' side, that could flare up through compensation. Other things to think of here is the pain that can be caused by aids such as crutches and canes – full weight bearing on crutches left my palms in agony, and my wrists too. Shoulders are also not used to supporting large amounts of weight. I had a crutch go out from under me on an icy surface, and for a good week or so, the sprain was more painful than my healing broken leg.

Protection. (idk if this has a better name) I injured one of my neck muscles (wry neck), and got pain through the whole shoulder and neck on that side as other muscles tensed up to protect the injury, and to prevent further damage. This caused more pain, and took nearly a month to settle down with treatment.

Pain + Problems aren't always linked! Esp for older injuries. Sometimes I'll be in a lot of pain + have no mobility issues. Sometimes no pain, but my leg will painlessly give way at random when I take a step. (When hiking I use a walking stick on my 'bad' side- I need a failsafe if my ankle gives out unexpectedly.)

For anyone looking to describe wind in fic! Beaufort Wind Scale. I found some of these descriptions amusing.

Update: Sorry this is so hard to read. I may type it out when I have a minute.