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After reading the last part of this post by RRA over on ASN, I was reminded of some things I posted to my old blog way back on 2006.  But my old blog is a fail blog with ads so I will repost the contents behind lj cuts here so you don't have to click to another blog.


Taken from this post from November 30, 2006.
( Avatar: Thoughts On Post-war Earth Kingdom )


Another idea, taken from this post dated for December 3, 2006.
( Energy Bending, Zuko, Firebending As Jet Propulsion... )

I will beta fics for people, but I will only beta fics for Avatar: The Last Airbender.  Outside of Law & Order/SVU and the History Channel, this is the only show I've bothered to keep up with over the last three years.  I can't critique your show's characters in your story if I don't have a working knowledge of the show you're writing for.

I don't care what your fic is about or what your shipping preferences are.  I'll beta anything.

Some guidelines:
I'm also looking for Avatar fans to bounce plot bunnies and ideas off of.  But, if I beta for you, you aren't expected to do this for me.  I only want people to be a sounding board if it's something you actually WANT to do.  I also love hearing about other people's ideas so, if you have ideas or plot bunnies for potential stories that you want to talk about, just hit me with them through e-mail, PM, or just leave a comment here.  rava77  was sharing his ideas with me a few months ago but I guess he gave up on them.  Now I'm lonely. ;_;

...A pretty senseless 1st Season Zutara Capture dream where Iroh let Katara Waterbend and she nearly capsized the boat.  Zuko's like "WTF, UNCLE?!"  Jee and the others wanted to make Zuko's life rough.  So Jee told Zuko to recite Haikus to Katara because "Girls like poetry" or they'd mutiny.  And Katar's like, "I like poetry." <3  Then Zuko got drunk because that's the only way he can apparently deal with Katara.  So then Zhao showed up and Zuko's drunk and he was like "HOW NOW, BROWN ZHOA!" <-- I don't even...know. >_<

Oh, and I would flash over to Aang and Sokka who were just hanging out doing nothing at camp and they kept telling "In the Fire Nation" jokes.  You know, "In the Fire Nation, food eats you!"...stuff like that.  In my Head!Canon, people from every nation tell "In the Fire Nation" jokes.  They're a take on those "In Soviet Russia" jokes.  I've been thinking this since I was introduced to Fire Nation Man in The Blind Bandit.

My icon isn't entirely relevant but I use to ship Katara/Zuko like it was my destiny three years ago so it's no wonder I occasionally have random dreams like this.

That is all.

15 icons:



( Aang, Iroh, Katara, Momo, and Sokka. )

I dreamed that I was being hunted down by Max Headroom.  He was a purple clad, Firebending cyborg who showed up at my house.  I told my dad to tell him I wasn't here.  My dad's like, "She's in the living room."  Then he started blowing the neighborhood up.  So I flew away but I was on "Empty" and I started to fall out of the clouds.  Then he just started carpet bombing the place, spraying the whole area with giant fireballs that he shot out of his mouth.  Then Combustion Man, in Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice said, "Come with me if you want to live".  So he took me by the hand and we flew to the Western Air Temple where Haru's talking mustache was playing cards with Talking!Momo and everyone else was running around trying to get away from CM.  CM's like, "Uh, what?"  So I'm like, "He just saved my life.  Your problem is Cyborg Max Headroom."  But they don't care.  They just kept screaming like a bunch of idiots while they ran around in circles.

As Cyborg Max Headroom approached the air temple, CM blew him out of the sky.  Then he turned on me and started chasing everyone around.  And out of nowhere, the Old Masters showed up and they're like, "We have The Ultimate Weapon".  So Bumi pulled The Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past From the Future out of his back pocket and set him down in front of CM.  CGOCPFtF launched into a mind-numbing story about how, ten thousand years ago, cheese ruled the world like an angry god and how people would throw their poop at each other during mating rituals.

As he was boring CM with his story, everyone snuck away.  Then Bumi told me that, if this didn't work, we should be ready to grab someone (then he grabbed Pakku) so we could use them as a human shield.  So I grabbed Piandao.  And Piandao said, in Kathy Griffin's voice, "BITCH, YOU JUST WANNA PUT YOUR HANDS ALL OVER ME, DON'T YA?"  And I'm like, "Uh, yeah!"  So Crack!Zuko was like "Don't act so desperate!" :O  How rude...

The girl who cut my hair looked like a 25-year-old version of Lily.  She was wearing a strange brown and pink dress and funny flowered hat.  She was so cute and she did a fantastic job with my hair. :)

So last month, iroh.org and piandao.org came dangerously close to exceeding their server's 1000 gigabyte bandwidth allotment.  It was at 98% usage just a few hours ago, before the date rolled over to July (Eastern Time Zone represent, yo!). >_<;

( More info here. )

As if my day couldn't get anymore "meh", my sites are offline. :/  I'm hoping like EIP!Katara that they didn't redirect the site to a default directory that shows that dumb page because I'm using up 96% of my bandwidth alotment and I'm about to crash the server. >_<

*mutters*

... And 14 icons from this episode



( Aang, Mai, Momo, and Ty Lee )

Animated Sokka and Chong cats.

If you open the link up in separate windows at two different times, the song sounds like a round.





... Yeah, I'm that bored.

Fandom, here is my series of Emmy Award Winning text icons. :b Let me show you them.






Yes, I was so bored that I made more of these things.

This picture scares me. -_-;

Also, 12 icons: Aang, Chong, Lily, Song, and Zuko.



( Here. )

Last night I dreamed that Crack!Zuko told Sokka he had to get up before dawn so he could spend the whole day marveling at his greatest creation: the sun. @_@   So then he convinced Sokka to let him go hunting with him (cuz sometimes I dream that Crack!Zuko is in the Gaang and they wander around the Earth Kingdom and do nothing useful).  But the whole time, Sokka's yelling at Zuko for being cracky and making strange noises and scaring off all the animals, and Crack!Zuko's like, "Dude, if I wanted to be nagged all day long, I would have stayed back at the camp site with your sister!"

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Fandom, please check and make sure I have all Avatar-related lj comms, old and new, listed below.

( 142 Lj Comms )

I like keeping track of Avatar-related stuff via this friends page.

zoetekohana made my gorgeous icon featuring Kyoshi. :)

It's been a banner week here in Lala Land, Fandom.  I got my comic (thanksaang ) on Saturday, and I've been licking it ever since.   Haha!  Not really, Fandom.  That's what I pay people for.  I also received my season 3 DVD of The Universe and the Star Trek OST today. <3

Fandom, do you remember that time I said this would be my first and last post about the new Star Trek movie?  Yeah, I lied.

Music downlaods from the OST:
Track #3 Labor of Love
Track #5 Enterprising Young Men

The OST has 15 tracks from the original score (no songs) and it's definitely worth buying.

The Paper Reeds By the Brooks (Isaiah 19:7) from "The Peaceable Kingdom" by Randall Thompson  If listening to pieces that have words taken directly from the Bible offends you, don't download this.  I'm an atheist.  The words are meaningless to me, but the melody has always haunted me.  While listening to this piece for the first time, It made me want to believe in God so that I could understand the kind of devotion and love that went into composing something like this.  Oh well.

I fell asleep at the computer during one of those times when I thought it was a good idea to stay awake for three days straight because I had "stuff" to do.  When this came on, blaring through my earbuds at around 3 am, it threw me into a dream where Azula was crying for Ursa. Now everytime I hear this piece, I think about Azula's breakdown in the finale.

 

To continue this line of thinking, I watched 3.20 and 3.21, muted, while I listened to my playlist which basically consists of music from the the ST OST, excerpts from various Requiems, Mars, stuff from Danny Elfman and well....I just have a bunch of orchestral and choral stuff on my playlist.  I synced my playlist up so that appropriate pieces would be playing during the appropriate times during the finale. So Mars and some stuff from the Stargate OST was playing during Aang and Ozai's battle, and The Paper Reeds By the Brooks was playing when Azula was freaking out.  Then I played Pie Jesu from Maurice Duruflé's Requium during Zuko and Azula's Agni Kai.

Enjoy the music. :)

And please, please don't post spoilers for the movie in comments.

( 12 icons are here. )

I've updated with the most recent Avatar-related fandom secrets.

Whenever I see people post inflammatory secrets like this, this, or this, I think that the person/people who actually posted the secrets are really supporters who want to make any opposition look like a bunch of loons so even people who wouldn't normally care will feel sorry for the wanked.  Plus, it's good advertising.