yeah it’s pretty wild how I knew this was what happened and was already bracing for it and yet STILL got completely misled by the narrative??? MEN I tell you MEN. I’m also going to use this ask as a method to reply to some of the other commentary if you don’t mind since this seems like a good place for communal frustration (here is my original post for anyone scrolling around lost)

@meg-hemmings: I agree with all of ur thoughts and I would TOTALLY read anything you wrote for Zutara … your writing is among my absolute favorite ever and I think you would write the Zutara dynamic so beautifully!

@one-man-propaganda-machine: I am - begging - you to write it yourself.

I... am not going to make promises, but I may have to. I want something very specific and that never bodes well for me. I doubt it would be more than a one-shot, but there are multiple scenes that could have occurred between episodes that would flesh out what was there (and of course I’d cut the final 15 seconds of the show, much like another epilogue I loathe and ignore)

@deifiliaa: omg atla discourse in 2021; olivie, i’d love to see what your character tier list looks like now that you’ve finished the series 👀

I’m going to put azula at the top. not because she’s a good person obviously but she’s FULL. OF. HITS. every time she’s on the screen the narrative gets immediately more interesting. she’s savvy and self-assured and I love it. her ending depressed me although I like that it was kind of about the loss of her two best friends? if that had been more of a focus I think I would have enjoyed it more but yeah, losing mai and ty lee could have been rightfully devastating. who among us is not totally obliterated by friend breakups. I also really loved uncle iroh; if anything that’s why I wasn’t invested in zuko’s storyline until close to the end, because watching him disappoint his uncle was very difficult (I get it, he’s a teenager, he’s growing and evolving and whatnot, but also I am closer to being his uncle than to being him so like, yeah). I also hope the peter pan revenge guy (JET that’s his name, sorry pregnancy kills my brain cells) did hook up with both katara and zuko. I love that journey for all three of them. I wanted more time with mai than we got, so there wasn’t quite enough there to love... but I was very down with ty lee interfering on her behalf. what a pivotal moment

Anyone?

Edit: Thanks dideldumsdreamsinred and akashathekitty!

hello magnificent starflower I have been thinking of you!! sorry for this being moderately off-topic and also more of a private conversation but SINCE YOU’RE HERE and have brought up audiobooks and I know you have asked me in the past: what would you think about potentially being the voice actor for an audiobook of The Atlas Six? I have been asked about it again recently and have also been told by my agent that unless it magically starts selling like Fifty Shades I can kind of do whatever I want, so if you’re interested, we can chat about timing and payment and all that. I have like no resources, as I’m sure you could guess, and I would also have to be able to pay whoever else was involved (such as a sound editor and all of that, for which little chmura is thankfully very adept, a goddess of many talents) so idk how feasible this actually is but if you are interested let me know!!!

hi hi I’m glad it feels safe here! I don’t have any quick answers because to my limited knowledge bellesa is at the forefront in promoting ethical contributions to the sex industry buuuut maybe there’s a way you can leverage their platform to find something similar? bellesa has two parts, the “netflix for porn” part where they actually produce the films and have sex ed videos and their collective and stuff, and then there’s the curated videos which they pull from other sites. one thing that’s great and quite detailed is their tagging system! when you find Black performers you like, you can check out that performer’s other work or find links to where those specific videos were sourced. I think that might be a good way to find other places, though I've never tried it myself

ah hellooo I miss you too! but I understand. I certainly wouldn’t want to stare at anyone on a screen at this point in quaran-time. not to worry! it’s all the same nonsense and yes we are moving just a couple of miles from where we are now to a bigger apartment. it’s become clear that he isn’t going back to school anytime soon and while sharing the living room as a single makeshift office is a very cute look for us, it is a bit of a bandaid as far as solutions. plus we need a bit more space for totally non-mysterious reasons anyway

ahhhh yes thank you so much my dove. I am finding this to be a very rude thing the universe has done in response to me taking ap chemistry PURELY to avoid physics. the irony is real