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

A couple new one-shots

here - http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5902599/5/Thought_Wasps_and_Luna_Moths

and... sera made this really cool list. which was inspired by leiler's really cool list.

I sense a trend.

no, it's actually really really addicting making lists.

NO JOKE!

so, probably sometime soon, I shall make a list. ;D

PS - wanna hear something hysterical and ironic? we went to the zoo today! haha, after that faux 'status update' example! :D

but my camera died, so that pretty much sucked. BUT my mother had her awesome one, so hopefully she got some cute shots that I can show you buddies! :)

sayonara!

planning

I plan stuff out in my head before I post/say/do it

i.e.... my mother says we are going to the zoo tomorrow... in my head I think up a fb status
'LuSno is going to the zoo with ma fam! :D'

and even a blog post

'So, today i went to the zoo. I love the zoo. I mean, who doesn't love cute and interesting animals?? here are some of the cuter ones...
*picture* *picture*'

then my sister contracts a fever. and my mom says, 'Sorry guys, we cant go tomorrow!'

I immediately mentally delete my status and replace it with
'LuSno - Lil is sick UGH so no zoo, which was what was originally planned! :/'

and blog post

'Don't you hate it when you are looking forward to something so much, and then something else happens which prevents it... ect. ect.'

I honestly write entire stories in my head and then go to sit down and write them... and they usually turn out really different :D

you know what is the most ironic... I wrote this whole blog post in the shower. Ah, planning.

:)

~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

This Weekend pt. II

Another camping post, this one written on Sunday morning.

"Trying to sleep - it sucks.
[while camping that is]

First there are the outside noises. Crickets, cicadas, owls, other bugs, and other birds screeching, hooting, and buzzing all through the night.

Then there is the cold. No matter if it was 90 during the day, when you're camping by a lake it gets cold at night. We're talking 45-50 (F) which might not be too bad, except you're sleeping on an air mattress. See, when you sleep on an regular mattress it absorbs your body heat a bit. When you sleep on an AIR mattress the air inside is at the same temp as the air outside. Meaning you're practically laying on a piece of ice... *shivers*

Also - there's the rain. Now sometimes rain is good. It's soothing and it drowns out the other noise. But it is also annoying-

Coals are really cool

ANYWAY rain is annoying because it's loud and it makes you worry.

Lastly - you just don't get any sleep. Once all these factors add up, it turns out that you wake up a lot, and when you do finally fall asleep you sleep awfully!

-I LOVE JELL!

ok.
so.
Sleeping at camp = not great!
but the rest of it is worth it!

:D

~LS
[Written 4/18, while sitting at a campfire waiting for everyone else to wake up. Occasional distractions were present]

I just updated my about me page!! ooooohhh!! :D

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!

A note I wrote a while ago...

My brain hurts when I think about deep things. I mean, really hurts. It is like trying to walk through molasses, or walking uphill with 50lb weights attached to your ankles. I have to fight through the fog and sometimes the fight is so exhausting that I have no energy left for contemplating. Sometimes though, I get these moments of clarity, moments where the fog has dissapated. It is regretable that these moments always seem to come as I am falling asleep...when I DON'T have a notebook nearby to document them.

I do not agree that tv turns your brain off. Sure, some shows probably do, but not all. A lot of shows stimulate and inspire the little grey cells. The same goes for computer, and such technology. And sometimes the same does for music as well...

A bit to ponder

:)

~LS

[Sent from my iPod]

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]