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SO - I have a lot to tell y'all. but I realized I'd update faster if I spread it all around rather than making it one long post!

This post is to tell you that I decided to get a tattoo!



As you may or may not be able to tell, that is my left wrist (the picture is sideways) and that is the kanji for 'fire'. Currently I'm just drawing it on with a sharpie. I figure if I can keep it on for two years, then I'll be able to stand it for the rest of my life. :)

Anyway, that's all for now. Next time, I'll tell you about my dream house ;D

Oh, later today I get to go on a FIELD TRIP. haha I get to go hear Senator Dan Patrick speak. whoo hoo. (no sarcasm... I think... ;D)

OH And my new txt message alert sound is the kimmunicator beep. My life is complete. Leila rules. :D


ciao for now!

~LS

Because I always do what Sera tells me to...

NOT



Gosh, I love those guys. Haha. Psych is the best show ever - no joke.

So, I had written like half of this post. and then I clicked a button and it all deleted. and so I screamed, went and had a couple giant bites of pudding, and came back to persevere. So if I seem short.... that's why. (I must really love you, P. you better be freaking grateful.)

SO anyways!


"Oh yeah
So scared of breaking it that you won't let it bend
And I wrote two hundred letters I will never send
Sometimes these cut are so much deeper then they seem
You'd rather cover up, I'd rather let them bleed
So let me be and I'll set you free" 

Gosh, I love those guys also. ;) Yeah. I bought Maroon5's new album. and it IS freaking amazing. I seriously adore it!

SO. Miss Seraphima A. Stoff (what is your middle name, Ser? May I suggest Alana? orr... Justine. Orrrrrr Marguerite. OR OR OR Isabella (pronounced spanishly), or Isalli (pronouced spanishly)or Rilla (pronounced spanishly)) ANYWAY Sera wants an account of what I've been doing lately. So here goes [accuracy improves as it goes along]

monday the 13th of september
Got HP & the Goblet of Fire.  Went to acting, where I had to write a soliloquy and a bio (I hate writing about myself. NOT! haha, but yeah, sorta). Took my friend AnnaMae home, which was fun, cause we got to talk. Came home and read, and read some more, or something.

tuesday the 14th of september 
Went to math class. Prof talked about linear equations and word problems. No time for doodles. came home, listened to 'the coffeehouse' a sirius XM radio station. read some more.

wednesday the 15th of september
went to the BEACH!! with my fam and my Oma and Aunt and Cousin [jell]. We went to surfside, and the water was CLEAR. excuse my geeking out - this is a Texas beach we're talking about. I mean, normally you can't see your hand an inch from your face. This time, my cousin took a picture of her leg, and could see it all the way... and more. I mean... WOW. anyways, I acted anti-social when we first got there, laid on the beach and finished my book [sorry cedric, but your death just wasn't that sad when surrounded by the beauty of the ocean. sucks for ya, though.] After I'd finished it I went and boogie-boarded a bit, and then went in and worked on a sandcastle - http://i-amawriter.blogspot.com/2010/9/ruins-of-abalone.html
I applied, applied again, and REAPPLIED my 8spf tanning lotion, but still came away with a nasty sunburn, all down one side of my back, my arms, even the backs of my hands. [which has just started peeling, but more on that later] Ate dinner/lunch in a place that smelled like a bathroom (and the bathroom smelled like an animal shelter) but the food was good. I watched something when I got home, but I can't remember what :/ sry!! oh, and all day I was singing The Only Exception, acoustic version. It was annoying cause I couldn't remember the words. but oh well! I did some math homework, but HP & The Order of the Phoenix was calling me, so I went to bed to read it. Read until 3 in the morning, when I realized I should finish my math homework. So I got out of bed, realized I had actually done all my homework except for one problem I wasn't sure about, and went back to bed.

thursday the sixteenth of september
went to class. prof talked more about word problems, no time for doodles. Came home and crammed all the work I'd missed on wednesday. Ignored my acting homework, which was to find a celebrity who was like me. went to Y&G. was shocked, but pleased, by the giant amount of people there. Went to bed to read. Read until 4 in the morning, when a poem suddenly struck me. Came out of bed, wrote said poem down, and went back, to read until i finished the book.. at 5 in the morning.

friday the seventeenth of september
Finished the tiny bit of school I had left. cleaned the house a bit, or something. Don't really remember. :D :D went to the mall for a friend's bday at 6. got an amazing parking spot, thanks to my aunt who saved it for me. ate delicious Taco Bell, and then went to Bible study. Bible study was awesome. at one point we had to write three things we were afraid of, and my name was on the top of my brother's and another friend's lists. I love it. :D after that I went back to the same friend's sleepover. ha. it was... interesting. we played a very boring truth or dare game, I, naturally, was the only one who did a dare. I ended up with ranch all over my face, and celery in my hand. *nods* played 'freeze' and the ABC game. Had an hour long politics and religon debate. Did a little 'talent show' thing :D went to bed at about 4:30 or so.

saturday the eighteenth of september
came home and cleaned. managed to finish all my chores before I went to a skit rehearsal thing at one. got cast and all that fun stuff, came home and talked to my dad for five minutes, went to blockbuster in the shooting rain and was afraid I was going to go flying across the road, but I didn't! :) watched HP & the Goblet of Fire with Oms, Auntie D, & J, but didn't have time for OotP. went home and discovered the Netflix app... not so great ;) entered NHHS members into a spreadsheet while watching bones.

sunday the nineteenth of september
went to church! forgot how much my sequined dress scratched me! good sermon. came home, thought I was going somewhere with my mom but we ended up not going cause it was raining again. changed into a much more comfortable outfit and watched a couple episodes of bones, and then went over to Oma's to watch Order of the Phoenix with all of them. Watched that, ate a yummy steak dinner, complete with WONDERFUL AMAZING CARBS (in potato AND bread form. GOSH carbs are GOOD)
anyways. Came home, watched another bones while finishing the NHHS stuff.

monday the twentieth of september
woke up at about noon. attempted to do school, got SOME math homework done, and then gave in and read HP & the Half Blood Prince all afternoon. Was almost done with it when I realized I was about to need to leave for acting and I had no idea where my solliloquy was PLUS i hadn't taken a shower and my hair was grody.  SO i stopped RIGHT after Snape killed Dumbly and ran around looking for my soliloquy saying over and over again in my head 'I thought Snape was good, I thought snape was good' [SERAPHIMA JUSTINE STOFF DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS I HAVENT FINISHED DEATHLY HALLOWS YET AND IF YOU SPOIL IT... INCIPIO MORTALITIS!) didn;t find my soliloquy, decided to finish the book instead of write a new soliloquy ccause I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in acting otehrwise. finshed it, ran to the car, jetted of to acting, mentally writing a soliloquy all the way.got to acting, wrote it all down in my notebook and went in, only to find out we didn't really need it this week. We studied the way people lead (walking wise.) and that - pretty cool. I found out I was cast as the mother in The Nutcracker! I came home and watched last week's project runway, then skyped leiler, halfway through she decided she wanted to hear a show, so she three-way called me and her other friend Olivia, who is a rabid Kataanger. She [leila] would go, 'say something Kataang guys, say something Zutara' so I would say 'well, aang needs to die' and Olivia would go 'How can you think that, that's not right,' and leila would just be dying laughing. we had a nice little conversation though, while I finished the NHHS stuff. Until my mom came and told me it was time for beddie. started deathly hallows

tuesday the twenty-first of september
went to math. prof was just going over the problems I'd already done, so I had time to doodle two Azulas, one awful sokka, half a katara, hermoine, luna, and little ginny. :D got home and did some school. went to rehearsal and had a lot of fun. glitterfied our bake sale posters :D got home and went to bed, got to leila's fave chapters and sorta understood why they were her favorites (harry finally does something realistic, for one!) stopped just before the hogwarts invasion, cause i knew it was fairly late already.

wednesday the twenty-second of september
did school. and school. and school. :D burned my old paper license, which was satisfying. Got the new Maroon 5 album, which is amazing. started to write this blog post and got distracted writing a story, accidentely deleted this post, cussed, made and ate pudding, started to write this new one, went to gringoes and had enchiladas and frozen yogurt, came home, and finished this post :) :)

well

there ya go, Seraphima Justine [justine is definitely your middle name. definitely]

Now, I am completely out of words. I'll go scan all the doodles I've made over the last few days instead :)

Blue Sky and TLA

It's amazing how a bad movie can ruin your week, especially when you were expecting it to be horrible. Of course, it makes a bit more sense when you throw in the fact that you have waited six months (counting down the days) for this movie, that you dressed up and went to the midnight premier (and ended up finding out that your 'genius' costume sucked and you looked/felt awful) ...

in case you haven't yet deduced it I'm talking about The Last Airbender (hereafter reffered to as 'TLA')

I am far too het up to write anything even closely resembling a review, so I'll give you pieces of other people's... with my commentary in brackets {like this}

Sera writes: So I went to the A:tla movie premier!! Needless to say, I hated the movie! Don't get me wrong, I love M. Night, {as do I} but it takes a true trooper to get past the lack of acting (although Zuko and Sokka were great!{Still hated them, casting wise}), plot and character development. And through the whole movie I kept waiting for something truly funny to happen, or some sarcasm to blow me away. HELLO!!! Where on Earth were Sokka's endless sarcastic quips... or his intense love of meat? In the show Aang character may have been a little bit emo (VERY emo when Appa got taken) but he still had a sense of childish humor, WHERE THE HECK WAS THIS IN THE FREAKIN MOVIE!!?! Katara spent the entire film looking like she was about to cry... What? Where was her preachy hopefullness!! Why where the Earthbenders weak? Where were the Kyoshi warriors {I was confused by this, because I saw a picture of them... so did they get cut at the very last moment???}? Why was Yue's father dead? Where was Hahn (Yue's fiancee)? Why does it take four hours to make one water whip (And people wonder why the Fire Nation took near complete control of the world?)?

I'm going to blame the writers.
{All of these things bugged me too, as well as a few other things. Erica AKA GreenifyME summed up most of everything else:}


Erica writes:
As for the characters/acting/writing: Let me just say that it wasn't really the race thing that bothered me about these characters. You could quickly get over that. {yeah you could. I was over that in may...}Yes, Katara's family seemed to be the only white family in the Southern Water tribe (the rest were Inuit), but after seeing that the entire Northern water tribe was white, and knowing that Kanna came from there, I allowed myself to buy it. Sure. Whatever. But we barely had time to even get to know Sokka and Katara or even really learn to love them. They were just sort of "there" for the whole movie, besides the very beginning, when they actually had more than a couple words to say. And when they did, well, it wasn't very good. Which brings me to the writing...which was unbelievably awful. {YES YES YES. this was what bugged me the MOST. ugh ugh ugh. continue for more}

I don't know what on earth Shyamalan was thinking when he wrote this script. It would almost be impossible for anyone to perform good acting in a movie that forces you to speak such cheesy and out-of-place dialog. I literally cringed at a few parts...even giggled.{um yes. there was ALL OUT LAUGHING at some parts. my word, shamamallama!}  There was nothing natural about the way they spoke, it was just awkward. The pacing of the whole film was terrible. I really don't blame the actors for this, I blame Shyamalan. That being said, Katara could have seeeeriously toned down the melodrama. Nicola Peltz had a tendency to over-act, and everything she talked about seemed to require her bugging her eyes out or having tears in them, or both, and having a constantly shaky voice like she was about to have an emotional breakdown at any second. But once again, this is not her fault. It is the director's job to direct. To say "cut". To say, "Let's try that again with less DRAMA." But that, he did not do.

Noah Ringer's performance started off pretty shaky, but he did seem to get better as he went on, and I did like him at the end of it all. Sokka was pretty good, and was allowed a few humorous parts. Dev did really well in his delivery and emotions, even if what was coming out of his mouth was bizarre. And everyone else was just alright.
Also, Azula does show up at the very, very end, bowing before her father and in a flashback. She looks the part, but we'll see, if there's a second movie. {I LOVED azula!! I loved loved loved her! I sincerely hope they change writers/directors (Although I love shamamallama.... this movie just didn't work for him) so she can actually get a chance to work the part!}


One thing that bothered me was that Aang, in ocean spirit form, did not kill Zhao. A band of waterbenders literally just appeared, lifted him up into a ball of water until he drowned, then dropped his butt and walked away. O_o I was like alright... {yeah, that was weeeeiiiirddd. I was like.. okkk. guess hes... dead??}
Honestly, the most Aang did in that form was lift up a huge wall of water (like you saw in the trailers), and that alone scared the entire fire nation into leaving. That's it. Huge wall of water= we're done for. He didn't even USE it against them! It was just a warning!{EEEEEERRRRRRGGHHHHHHHH I hated that! I was looking forward to Aang Koi!}
And then of course, there's the name changes. Yes, Sokka, Aang, and Iroh are indeed all pronounced differently. Sokka is now Soh-ka, Aang is now Ohng, and Iroh is now Eeroh. I don't care what Shyamalan's reasoning for this was, it was unnecessary. All it did was throw the audience off every time one of those names were said. I'd hear whispers and giggles. It was distracting. {hee hee, ummm yess, we were the ones giggling. and ONCe when someone said 'Ong' Leiler went 'grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!' really loudly, and then we couldn't stop laughing and then.... ummmm... yeah. Sorry everyone in the theater with us!}





SO yes, that's pretty much that. Both of those sum up what I {Lu} feel about TLA. I despised it but at the same time... it was atla. on screen. in real life. SO MUCH POTENTIAL... and... failure.

:)

It is even more amazing how a simple patch of blue sky, a shower, some new cover up, and a night with your family can turn it all back around.

It might seem a little overdramatic if I say that with the failure of TLA I lost my will to live. But it did send me into one of those 'funks' where you don't see the point in anything. I wasn't even excited for my super-birthday celebration, which is going to be amazing!

I'm here to tell you that when you feel like that don't give up! Find the blue sky, drink some coffee, do something you always do that makes you happy, write a song, bake a cake, take a shower! Go shopping or to lunch with a friend, read your Bible, sing, pray, just live life... normal, wonderful life!

:)

~LS

I'm so-kkanfused

Hey y'all!! I have a lot of things to tell you, mainly about TLA, but right now I am at Sera's house ;)

She just informed us that she is going to marry a sexy ninja.

and Jell said that Zuko and the Kim Possible guy are hotter than any other japanese guy ever. :D :D

speaking of Jell, the weirdo, she just got a bloggy! so you get her side of this crazy story we call life! :)

check it -http://ajarofjelly.blogspot.com/ :)

sayonara!

(Leiler, Sera, and Jelly say hi. They;re watching me {type this})

JELL IS TOPH

haha :)

<3
LS

Shila Epilouge (Pianikpok) - A/N [AKA a really long a sappy post :D]

[BTW this is my 80th post! :) pretty epic 80th post, I think! :D]

So, wow. It's over! eeeps!! Before I go all sappy and comment on how much of a journey this has been, and all that good stuff, first let me comment on this epilouge!

**
This epilouge took me AGES, but not as long as I thought it would. it turned out TOTALLY different from how I had originally planned it, but I think I like it. I think! :D

so, Iroh. Yeah, that was sad, but I downplayed it, cause I didn't want to cry ;(. I needed someone to die and Iroh seemed the easiest. It was a bit wimpy, but I didn't want to get rid of anyone else. Well, Aang is a different story.

Hikari means light in japanese!! :) I LOVE that name, too! I was so happy when i searched it and found out it was such a pretty name!

Azula! I love her! She was soooooo fun to write! At first I thought I made her a bit TOO childish, but Sera said she was fine. I mean, her main problem is that her mother [supposedly] doesnt love her, so... yep.
Seriously, I want to write like 500 azula one-shots now. She is really fun to write. Try it! no, really...
hee hee, YES i did put a march hare moment in there! I couldn't help myself! It was just begging to be written!!
Oh and this line - “I guess so. It really is Zuzu’s baby? Not that moustache man? The earthbender? You two seemed to –“ LOL omg that crax me up SO MUCH!!! I was like dying when I wrote it... haha!

so. Sokka and Kya hadn't fought! I was like, WHAT? thats impossible! so, yep. :D

:D

OH and I wrote that thunderstorm paragraph one night when there was a giant storm outside. I was like 'ahh, I have to put a storm in my story!' :)

Kya is a bit weepy. But so am I... so... yeah. There is nothing wrong with being emotional!!! :P :D

Yes, Zuko and Kat named their son after Iroh. Isn't that so sweet?? :)

LOOK -> I explained Mai and Ty Lee's absence! haha. not well enough, I know. But I really didn't want to mess with them... I had more than enough characters already. (next time I write a story, remind me to narrow my focus to two or three characters, not like TEN! omyword. haha)

Yeah, so... I'm not really sure what Kya did either. that horizontal column somehow stopped the lightning. And since Ky didn't WANT to hurt azula, it didnt. Please, don't examine it. It is full of flaws :D

Sooo, um, sorry leila for kinda making your life tragic :D but hey, you ended up with Cha-li! so its k, right??? haha. 

Oh yeah, and, I had written this whole thing minus Aang's viewpoint. Like, Sokka just got the letter and then it went back to Kya's pov. but then I realized that I kinda needed to go into detail a bit. So, I put that little bit in. And then had to make this FB status: 'thought people would worry that I just googled 'how fast do you die if you get stabbed in the chest with a knife' until I found a yahoo answer for it and the person who asked the question was in the same predicament as me: writing a story :D'

and yeah, those avatar relics are two of the ones we saw in 'The Storm' :)

and I don't know what shila did to aang. avatar magicky stuff, I guess. :D :D

well, there ends THAT portion of the authors note :) now on to the sap...

:)



Wow. I cannot believe this is over!

When I started this I hadn't even seen the third season. In fact, i think I started it because I wouldn't be able to get the third season for a while and I was having withdraws :D

So, I know I'm going to go back and hate those first few chapters (i already re-wrote chap 3! haha) but it's ok! This was my first fully digital (like, I wrote it all on the computer) story to complete! I can't believe I actually did it! It's amazing, really.

mainly I need to thank Bryke, for creating such an awesome universe to write about! :D and all the voice actors, for living in my head and helping me out! :D
thanks to SERA! omd! Without her, thsi story would suck, no kidding! she was (almost) always there on chat when I needed to bounce ideas, validate viewpoints, or rant about zutara! :) thanks sis!
thanks to my family, who doesn't even know what the heck this story is about, but knows I am writing a story and gives me my space when i'm in the zone :D and tolerates my 'ZUTARA SHOULD BE CANON' random screams :D
thanks to Leila, for actually reading this story! haha! and for inspiring an awesome, if underused, character! :)
Thanks to Dr. Pepper, Fritos, Funyuns, Fast Breaks, and fudge popsicles (OMD do I have a thing for the letter F? What is that about?) for keeping me from going insane! :D
Thanks to my computer for being amazing! :D
and now for the music portion of this.

So, a long time ago, (not really that long) I realized that there were certain songs that fit with this story. So I created a playlist that I called the 'soundtrack'. I will now share this with you:

Stand in the Rain - Superchick
Save You - Kelly Clarkson
Shadowland - Various Artists(The Lion King [Original Broadway Cast])
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Stumptown - Nickel Creek
Maybe - Kelly Clarkson
Somebody Like You - Keith Urban
If I Fell - Evan Rachel Wood
I Want You - Kelly Clarkson
You Remind Me - Allie Moore
Breakeven (Falling to Pieces) - The Script
I Can`t Stop Loving You - Keith Urban
4 Minutes (feat. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland) - Madonna
It's Not My Time - 3 Doors Down
Love Is Worth the Fight - Lanae' Hale
Have you ever really loved a woman? - Bryan Adams
He Lives in You (Reprise) - (Various Artists The Lion King [Original Broadway Cast])
When the Rain Comes - Third Day
Used To The Pain - Keith Urban
Without You - Brooke Fraser
Learning to Fall (Bonus Track) - Love and Theft

That is the Shila Soundtrack :) It is amazing and it really fits, and I love it. :D

other music that I owe my writing capabilites to (for I could not write without music...)

Jack Johnson
Gregory and the Hawk (thanks Alicia aka Squishpie!)
Veer-Zaara soundtrack
Pablo Cassals Bach Cello Suites
DMB (just the song You and Me)
Across the Universe Soundtrack
Replay - Iyaz
John Mayer
Kris Allen
Owl City
Maroon 5
Allie Moore

and THE TRACK TEAM omyword, without them... avatar would have been half of what it is! :)

ok, so... I'll stop being sappy!

I'll tell you now: There will be NO sequel. Haha! I love this AU, and Kya, but... yeah. haha. Maybe a one-shot, but that's unlikely :)

:D

EEK I don't want to end it. I need to bite the bullet

fin

<3

~LS

you know what bugs me?

that sokka doesn't recognize Suki when he sees her at the Ba Sing Se ferry-port-thing. he doesn't even recognize her face! I mean sure, she's makeupless and all, but come ON!

its so blatantly obvious that he's made for me.

sooooo obvious.

;D

~LS

Shila CHP20 (Uitayok) - A/N

As you can imagine, I have a whole story's worth of things to say about this chapter. But, really, since I can't sit there next to you and give you a running commentary, I don't have that much! :D

I love love love the letters idea. I kinda, sorta, not really but almost got the idea from a fic i read which I can't remember the name of right now. But I'll remember eventually! :D

in fact, I got so caught up with the letters that it was really hard for me to go back to writing dialouge haha. :D

SO this chapter is pretty epic. it is of epic proportions anyway. hee hee.

*sigh*

hahah, Sera wanted Zuzu to play the Tsungi Horn.So, I got them all drunk. hee hee. :D

OH and the name Yuuchi (pronouced somewhat like 'yoo-ee-chee' but with the 'ee' barely noticible.) I asked her 'what would you name your first child' and she's like, 'boy = yuuchi!' :D

OH and Liluye's thing may be a bit unbelievable, but really think about it. Sokka and katara really would have made an impression on Chief arnook, not to mention Aang. And, since Yue is gone, he would need an heir (although, admittedly, he probably would have already picked one but whatever) SOOO Kat and SOk could put in a few words and suggest Lil. PLUS that would also pretty much clinch the loyalty of Nuuk, since before they werent *clearly* NWT.

so, yup :D

hehe, my favorite line in this: 'he stroked the beard he'd been growing out'.. OH YEAH BABY! bearded sokky! hahah :D 'I can't, it is permanently glued to my face!'
:D

OH YES and I used the songs Have you Ever Really Loved a Woman [bryan adams] and They live in you/he lives in you [the lion king] for helaku's encouters :D

OMG only the epilouge left! wow! I can't believe it! Don't worry, I'll save all the sappiness for the last A/N :D

OH and I am about a third of the way through the epilouge. I think I'm gonna go back and fix everything first though... rewrite the zutara chapter. :)

translations -
Uitayok Opened eyes

(I'm not going through and finding any others. If they're there, they're not new. They're translated in one of the previous A/Ns :))

Obsession

so hello.

:)

this is a post with pictures.
about AtLA. and Zutara. :)

lets start with AtLA...

Yesterday my mother and I went to the beach! She had an eye appointment in a town right by the beach, so we just hopped on down to the sea when she was done! We were only there for about 20 minutes, but it was enough time for me to do this -

confused as to what that is?

perhaps that helped? It is a bit better angle. still unsure??

:) Yes, i copied Iroh's sand drawings from the episode 'Bitter Work! :D I am a bit annoyed that I mixed up the places of the air and water, but its ok! :) I must concur with Sera and Leiler's conclusion though... anime sand is NOTHING like real sand. ;D

Fire was my favorite! (naturally... being a firebender!)

Water was the hardest! I swear, it took me forever!

Air probably came out the best! also, I find it hysterically ironic that my skirt blew into this pic. seeing how it is 'air' ya know? :D

Earth was the easiest! :D i like it too though!

so, yes. I realized that it is nigh on impossible to find a 'stick' at the 'beach'... yeah... *eyeroll*
I had to settle for a little piece of bamboo that had probably broken off of someones mat or something. It got progressively smaller as I continued, and by the end I had to draw the lines pretty much with just my fingers. :/ ha. it was fun though!

I love the beach. :) (though I don't like the ocean very much. more on that much later ;D)

SO now on to zutara.

I am the slightest bit obsessed. :D

I started maintaining a friend's facebook fanpage (or is it 'likepage' now... ;D) for her! She makes absolutely gorgeous glass jewelry, and she wanted to use the awesome marketing tools of fb, but didn't have the time. Since I am all but addicted to it, I was the one she asked!  Well, this was all great, and THEN she told me that to pay me, she could give me a necklace and earrings set! Wanna see which one I picked?

yes. it is a blue, swirly background, with an irridescent flame. and yes, it came with the red & black ribbons.

could there BE a more perfect necklace??

plus, it came with earrings too!

:) I LOVE it. very very very very very much! :)

so, yes, it is a pretty necklace in general! This proves I like Zutara, but obsession? ehh...

that is my hand. and those are kanjii characters. they say 'Fire + Water = Love'

:) on the OTHER hand, I have the Fire Nation insignia + the Water Tribe insignia = a heart :D

oh yes. that is obsession.

(PS - I have had the red and blue bracelets on since last august, long before I knew what zutara was. just FYI ;D)

so, yes. I am obsessed
Oh well, it's fun, eh?

:)

~LS

Shila CHP17 (Kamitpok) - A/N

So. Wow.

I think I am going to go do a dance of joy, or maybe cry.

Aye.

OK so DISCLAIMER: I used lines and scenes from Sozins Comet part 1 and 2 for this! Whenever she flashes to suki, and the agni kai and pre-agni kai stuff is straight from. Otherwise it would be wrong. and i wouldn't like that. I didn't mean any plagiarizing, see, here I'm giving credit!! :)

So yeah, pretty much she just kept flashing to Suki. This was mainly for the ending scene. everything pretty much happened the same except for a few key points:

-Sokka didn't kiss Suki when they were leaving the airship. He just smiled at her, in a friendly way.

-Kya and Hitomi took the lightning out of Zuko, which enabled Kya and Katara to heal the wound right up, without any other after effects. (it seemed a bit easy to me in the show... i mean it took spirit water to revive aang!)

-Ozai died. See, he was really fine. just kinda weak from having his bending taken away, but still as strong as any normal, slightly tired, man. Then he stabbed Suki with his belt buckle thing, so Sokka chopped his head off. this makes me so very much happier. I hate Ozai alive.

-Suki died. Ok, so honestly I like Suki. She is a cool character. But she and sokka are too hard to write, like how they aren't together. :/ so, I had to kill her. please note, she didn't die just from Ozai's flame ornament. That probably wouldn't be enough to kill her. She lost a lot of blood, passed out, and fell off the column thing. :)

-oh and I solved the worst problem I had with this story. How quickly Taang and Zutara happened. Don't get me wrong, I love both of them, but they happened WAY too easily. more will be explained next chapter! :)

so... yep. I was kinda annoyed with how un-involved Li was (sorry leiler-buddy!) but I wasn't going to go back and re-write. it had already taken me ?two? weeks to write this! :)

TRANSLATIONS

Issho Ojusan - Bridesmaids... I believe it literally means Bride and Maid or young woman. :)
Inotowok - isolated, alone
tuwawi! - quick!
ingiarsiwok - Passes beyond
auksarpok - plunges through the air
kamitpok - extinguishes fire
tartok - dark (is without light)
illulikangitok - inside ourselves is empty
niptaitok - foggy (is)
ikkuma manigutiwok... ikkiertok - fire submits. feels cold

:D

~LS

A Good Fight - A/N

Ok, first of all.... Toph/Teo WOW I don't know where that came from. I was trying to come up with someone who was earth kingdom who could marry her and poof Teo popped up.

It's really weird, and I don't think I'll write anything else with it!

With THAT out of the way! (yes, shameless Zutaraness. I'm sorry, but all my stories WILL be Zutara)

this story came about quite interestingly! :)
Jell and I were playing the park and we decided to play 'pretend.' seeing as how neither of us had played 'pretend' in years, we figured it was worth a try, plus we had nothing better to do. :D

SO we came up with characters and a back story. I was Zia the firebender, she was Tang the earthbender.
(Side note: Zia has nothing to do with Zia from Shila, I just really love the name. And Tang has nothing to do with the Toph Aang shipping. Jell actually doesn't like Taang *GASP* i know... haha. :D she just liked to name too!)

SO we started playing... and every five seconds we would stop and giggle over the fact that we - an eleven year old and a fifteen year old - were *actually* playing pretend!

Originally Ansayto was 'Gyatso' becasue we didn't really want to take the time to come up with a name for him, since he wasn't really a factor in our story. When i wrote it down though i gave him a proper name.

OH and the scene where they attack the Southern Raider's captain - we actually did that. hee hee, I dropped down and went *phhhhhhhhhhh* while sticking my hands out, and Jell went *plah plah* while pretending to shoot rocks. Then we started rolling, we were laughing so hard. :D

Yep, we are officially weird. Oh well! :) I got a good story out of it!!

PS - I LOVE this AU, I think I'll go back to it a few more times in other one-shots! So don't be sad if you like it too! :)

PPS - I absolutely ADORE this line - "This time she wouldn’t try to patch a hole in a dam with a piece of cloth. This time she would knock it down and build a whole new one." Like SERIOUSLY!! thank YOU! haha :D

PPPS - After reading one of Sera's latest post I really wanted to change the name of this one-shot collection to 'Thought-Wasps and Luna Moths' because that is what they all are. But, I really like the name arrows also. comments?

hmm.

:D

~LS

HISHE - Author's Note

Wow. This was SO GREAT TO WRITE! Hahah. I think I am in love with this. Seriously, if the show ended this way, I might kiss Bryan AND Mike. ;)

SO to end any confusion, ‘cause I didn’t go into detail very much (this had to stay a one-shot!)

Katara and Zuko had fallen in love, but they were keeping their relationship a secret. Zuko told off Mai, but Katara was too chicken to tell off Aang. At that point, their plans were to go to Ba Sing Se with everyone else after the coronation.

THEN Zuko talked to his dad and found out info about his mom. They also found out that Ozai was planning a rescue of himself, that he was firebending-less, but still devious and powerful. With that kind of threat, Zuko couldn’t leave to find his mom.

PLUS Katara was STILL too chicken to talk to Aang.

SO they thought out this really elaborate plan.

Katara kills Ozai, but makes it look random. With Ozai she left a note to Aang.

They leave to go find Zuzu’s madre.

THEN Aang becomes disenchanted with Katara.

This solves my three main problems with the series.

#1 – the Kataang ending
#2 – Ozai being alive
#3 – Zuko not finding his mommy

WOW that was long!! Haha ok! Bye now! :D

PS -

The poem I used in this is awesome! it fit so amazingly

It is 'The Flood' by Robert Frost.


"Blood has been harder to dam back than water.
Just when we think we have it impounded safe
Behind new barrier walls (and let it chafe!),
It breaks away in some new kind of slaughter.
We choose to say it is let loose by the devil;
But power of blood itself releases blood.
It goes by might of being such a flood
Held high at so unnatural a level.
It will have outlet, brave and not so brave.
weapons of war and implements of peace
Are but the points at which it finds release.
And now it is once more the tidal wave
That when it has swept by leaves summits stained.
Oh, blood will out. It cannot be contained."

eeeehhhh I love it so much!

This Weekend

So this weekend I went camping! I've been camping before, but I am by no means a wilderness afficionado. I use common sense and episodes of Stargate SG-1and I get by rather swimmingly! :)

ANYWAY - here is a post I wrote sat night.

"When we got here this afternoon, after refereeing the little kids' water balloon fight (OK - side note - Sera, Jell, another one of our friends, and I spent about an hour filling up probably 100 balloons. Well it ended up - by our sorta unintentional design - that the little kids were the ones fighting PLUS the fight was over in like five minutes. one reason I loathe water balloons.)
So, after that, we decided to go on a bike ride. After surveying the map, discussing what we hadn't seen and what we remembered from past camping trips at this park that we wanted to see again, we decided to take a maze of trails that combined the two. We encountered quite a few problems, but it was worth it! I'll now list the pros and the cons:

CON: The trail had a lot of uphill & my bike + I weren't so great at uphill.

PRO: We discovered that biking turns you into a theologian (say THAT ten times fast!)  - such as 'The light often fades'... doesn't that sound like something from LOTR? haha.

CON: We had a kid (a ten year old) go with us & the poor thing couldn't exactly keep up. Honestly, it wasn't as much his fault as his bikes, the thing had no gear but one. So, at the beginning of the trail we worried about him & had to keep the pace down + eventually Mia went on ahead with him so we lost her too!

PRO: The three of us that were left went at about the same pace (of course we each had our weaknesses - mine? Uphill :/) plus our personalities worked well - realist + muscles + leader = solid team! So we did alright. (although we did definitely have room for a photographing complaining madcap wayfarere! :( ;D)

CON: Sera fell. of course. and she hurt herself. of course. and it was gushing blood and we had nothing but my used tissue to stop it. (She ended up taking the bra-pad out of her swimsuit & using that. Sera is it ok I'm telling everyone this? and have you washed that yet? DON'T RAISE YOUR EYEBROWS AT ME, I KNOW YOU WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW YOU'D FORGET! :D)
so anyway, this was where my love of blood came in handy. I mean, seriously, when I see blood I'm like 'oooooh I can fix it!' I honestly dunno why...

PRO: The scenery was absolutely awesome! I mean, gorgeous boardwalks, sandy levees with a view of the whole lake and a uber-green, awesome, spillway (which is where Sera fell. Don't ask, you don't want to know.). Everytime you'd start to get bored of the scenery it'd change! (I LOVE TEXAS!!)

CON: It ended up being 7.4 miles. It was long. It took us 3.5 hours.

PRO: It was 7.4 miles. It didn't feel that difficult at all


SO our camping trip thus-far has been great! (except I forgot my pillow, so I'm using two towels folded up in a pillowcase... hahaha) I told an interesting summary of AtLA to Mia as a story and she said "is that really how it is?" and I said "Sorta," and Sera shook her head emphatically. BUT it caused me to come up with a PERFECT ending (to AtLA) so look for a "how it should have ended" type one-shot, COMING SOON! :)

TTYL!!!

<3

~LS

[written 4/17]

Life is Good

OOh OOH guess what??? I have a surprise for YOU!

:D

A new, super cool ONE-SHOT! (or drabble, as the case may be. it's like, 2500 words or somewhere around that. So what exactly *is* the difference between drabble and one-shot? idk.)

This one is about Katara and her life five years after the war! It was inspired by Toph, and me brushing my teeth. HA read the whole inspiration story in the A/N after the REAL story ;)

without further ado -

Life Is Good


PS - I had to look up 'Sukka' for the summary. Is that not sad? Just had to make sure it was the correct name for SokkaxSuki. I just don't read much Sukka, I mean not Sukka-centric! Hrmmm.. .LOL

PPS - OMG OMG OMG IT was on the FRONT PAGE and OMG OMGOMG it has one review ALREADY!!! (ok ok ok, sorry, geeking out!)

TY!

:)

~LS

overdue...

SOOOO I've had these pictures scanned for quite a while!! :) thought you'd probably want to see them!!

This is Kya in her Water Tribe getup :)

Here is her in her Fire nation disguise. :)

Ok, so basically the challenge I gave myself was that they were all given a uniform: A tank, a pair of kulat-type pants, and a tunic. The challenge was to make them all look different :)

Kya here has the tunic wrapped tightly, and she has cut the sleeves to a nice, almost T-shirt length

Hitomi and LI! :D

Hitomi! I adore her outfit! I just about died when I drew it! I sat back and went "What! haaa!!"

her pants were actually just a last minute thing... I wanted to make them different than Kya's and Li's, but still obvious that they had once been the same pants. So, she put bands around them and made sweatpants/arabian pants.

Hitomi, much like Sera (no, duh), is the one that is able to take the uniform she is given and create an outfit that it was definitely not intended for, an outfit that takes a boring uniform and makes it spectacular.

I really want this outfit, just BTW

and Li :) What she has done is worn the tank and pants like Kya, but loosened the tunic, and cut off the sleeves.

:) I had the most horrible time with her eyes. I had them all nice and perfect and then I redid her hair and accidentally erased them, and couldn't get them back to their previous level of perfection! I'm pretty ok with how they turned out though!!

:)
<3

~LS

Shadowland

"I stared at the scene before me disbelievingly. It just couldn’t be possible. Our tiny, peaceful, little Island had been turned into a horrific example of the power of the Fire Nation. My heart was screaming no but my head knew I had to accept it. Accept what? That almost everyone I knew and loved was dead, and my home was a wreck? I don’t think so."
My version of the aforementioned pic...

I know, it's nowhere even close. (Like seriously... I'm not even going to think about that hand) But it's still cool! and I'm pretty proud of it! :)

done with colored pencils and photoshop.

the lyrics are from 'Shadowland' from the Lion King Broadway soundtrack. (a song which just happens to be on the Shila soundtrack. What's that? You didn't know shila had a soundtrack? more on that later... much later! :D)


:) ty

This picture...

is amazing. It literally almost moves me to tears.

mainly because it reminds me of Kya and Helaku.
I am currently working on my own version of it (I suppose if you give correct credit then it ISNT copying, right? Hope so...)

EESH just had to share!

"Earth Nation, Fire Nation, Water Nation, so long as bargins are your INCLAnation you're welcome here! Don't be shy, come on by!"

"I'll save you from the pirates..."

"I'm sorry Aang. This is all my fault."
"No, it's not!"
"Actually, it kinda is..."

"Are you too busy fighting to see your ship has sailed away?"
"Uncle! We have no time for your silly proverbs!"
"It's not a proverb!"
"MY SHIP!"
"hahahahah... what!"
"Maybe it should be a proverb!"

"You're gonna love this! The tile was in my sleeve the whole time! Hah!"
*seeths*

The Story of how an ATLA nerd became one of the world's biggest ZUTARA shippers...

Soooo, I was chatting with one of my fanfic.net buddies, squishpie AKA alicia.. (my writer... LOL :D) and she asked me how I became a zutara shipper... I promptly replied with a novel... HA see I really am a writer!!

ANYWAY, I quickly realized that it actually is a good story, and an interesting question. So I am posting MY story here, and I want you to tell me yours in the comments!! :) enjoy

     

            "I watched the whole show in like three weeks, because Sera had changed her profile pic on FB to a pic of Mai, and she made me change it to a pic of Azula (I swear, if I'd had the sucky family and expectations zula did I'd be megalomaniacal too... we are extremely similar... anyway) so I was like 'wait, I'm not just changing my pic to something I have no idea about.. plus this show looks cool!' So I watched the first season on netflix and then borrowed the next two from ser.

ANYWAY during the show, especially season one, I was REALLY kataang. I mean Cave of two Lovers, with the hippies/nomads, was TOTALLY my fave epi, because singing hippies + sokka being his awesome hysterical self + at the time, Kataang = perfect  (ok, *almost* still is, except for kataang :( ;D). Then Sera (who is super super zutara, almost as much as me) started watching them with me and she was kinda telling me about Zutara, THEN I started reading FF and I was like OMG... how could I not see it?? (Though, in my defense, season two and three, AKA good Zuko is much more perfect for Katara... season one zuko isn't quite as perfect..) Then I watched Crossroads of Destiny and nearly jumped off a cliff with annoyance, luckily Seraphimala was there (misery loves company) :D and THEN when I got to the finale (actually the whole last disc) I was overwhelmed with the Zutaraness... I mean seriously? That whole freaking disc is COMPLETELY zutara, then BAM they kill you at the end! I called sera and screamed at her (feel kinda bad for that now... she was probably deaf for a while) Tried to find Brian and Mike's adresses so I could go murder them, went to bed and woke up the next morning feeling almost better.

Then the other day I watched the last disc again, to research for my story, and went through all the same emotions. I actually turned it off at the end... when Aang walked out to the balcony I hit the power button... LOL!!! My sis was like 'That was the end?" and I was like, "um... yes!" hah!

yep, kataang pretty much makes me sick now... its so sad!! haha! I see a fic and I read the summary and go 'hey, that looks ok!' then I see 'kataang' and go... no, just no... :)"

:)

~LS

Shila CHP15 (Audlarpok ) - A/N

okeedokee this is *sorta* a filler chap. it's k. not much to say! except, I wrote this in the car while on a road trip... yes, I took my computer and typed until it died. see how dedicated I am??? :D

OH Selina is based on my little sis. She was sitting next to me when I was typing, reading it, and I said 'do you want to be in my story?' and she said 'Yeah! Can my name be Selina?' haha :) 

OH AGAIN - :D (SERA you rock!)  for clarification... Zia is pronounced ZSHH EEEE AAA yeah. Like Zhao. :) :) 

~translations~
audlarpok- leaves (departs)

because IM also stands for I'm randoM :D

I really am. I am sometimes the randomest.

check it -

"LuLu says:
*is skepticality a word?
 *or rather, can it be?
 *"I was dragged along, skeptical at her ‘plan.’ When she stopped in front of the large throne room doors my skepticality wasn’t lessened. "
 *ROFL I just typed samantha tapping
 *wow
 *my foot is asleep
* its bugging me
*OMD i forgot FONG was the earthbending general in the "avatar state" epi
 *hrmmm
Sera says:
 *try about her plan as a opposed to 'at her plan'
LuLu says:
* ooh, good, kay
Sera says:
 *Yeha, hmm... why did you think of that?
LuLu says:
 *i was just random searching on avatar wikia "


Aren't I completely awesome??? :D

I know. I just crack myself up sometimes!!

~LS