Chishiya can play the french horn and can play it incredibly and definitely got dared to try seduce the game masters by playing it ‘sexily’ by kuina
I feel like Usagi is prone to just getting up and sobbing on her kitchen floor at night. and It will be about really deep topics and shit. And then when she comes to borderland doing that becomes harder but then she meets Arisu and they start existing together she discovers HEY he does the same thing. after a couple days of this he finally asks Arisu: so what are you crying over? Usagi: my mum died when I was young and I'm sobbing over how I had to grow up fast and take care of what my dad didn't. He tried his best but he wasn't super human so I took up the cooking. Guess I'm just sobbing over the loss of my childhood tonight and how I’ll never get back my teen years- and now I guess this time either...what are you crying about
Arisu:...a gravity falls amv I saw 2 years back
Last boss seems like the kinda guy to be obsessed with smoking meat. Dude probably spends his time either gathering meat and wood and seeing how different wood affect the taste and shit.
Sometimes I guess he hands them out for others to taste. And so I propose: kuina and last boss bonding over meat and sometimes they invite Arisus and chishiya to taste it but both have the taste pallets of a Labrador. That is to say they couldn’t give a crap if it’s the most fine dining food ever made or actual crap, they will wolf it down in 10 seconds flat
Who needs dating when you can cuddle your friends and listen to fall out boy
The beach definitely has a anthem but idk what it would be but like hatter wouldn’t just not pick one
Hearing Aang over explain how bending works each episode is genuinely so annoying. Now listen, I know the original show also has info dumped about bending. But at appropriate times!
It feels like whenever Katara is bending with Aang around he just takes the time to say how air bending works. And then Katara can magically do the move. It doesn’t draw this obvious distinction between the bending forms, if he had said that for air benders it's about blah blah or if he had mentioned how a friend used to do an exercise where they follow the push and pull of the ocean that would be decent. It would show the difference, show how Aang as a bending master can be helpful, but also how he isn’t a stand-in for an actual water bending master and also explain why HE can’t just start water bending like a genius.
I think a lot of the issue stems from making Katara an idiot when it comes to water bending. She couldn’t even draw a water droplet up in the live action, yet in the animated show she was teaching aang during the first few episodes what she DID know. This allowed for the two benders to play off each other, to explore Kataras own self-worth issues when it comes to being the last bender of her tribe, and also explore how Aang's inability to self regulate because he is 12 can unknowingly hurt his friends. But in the live action, Katara isn’t skilled, she can’t do anything, they literally remove the entire fighting scene of Zuko's ship which is SUCH an important moment for Katara and her bending! It's frustrating. Honestly if she can’t even teach herself to lift a water droplet on her own I don’t have that expectation of her growing into a master bender status once she DOES learn the actual forms. It's her determination, her natural ability, her attempts to use her bending to help that make her a really interesting and powerful character in the early episodes of season 1. She doesn’t have that in the La and any sense of natural talent or personal experimentation is replaced with Aang going “well the monks said-”.
No Aang, the monks didn’t say anything because Air bending and water bending are different bending forms!
All of those “team cap comes back and just live off Tony’s wealth without care for him until finally someone shuts them up” has the exact same vibe as all the suitors just eating Odysseus out of home during his 20 years away from home. Especially since Odysseus comes home and kills them all. I've read a couple fics were Tony either kills or exiles them (somehow idk the logistics of that ever truly happening in the mcu)
Arisu and Usagi Carrousel date where they sit on like the ponies next to each other and hold hands and laugh as their hands are stretched apart where one horse goes up and the other comes down. Maybe Usagi steps off for the next turn and leaves a reluctant Arisu to stay sat on the horse and she takes photos of him on a polaroid camera and laughs because he's sorta grumpy at being left alone buy then carrousels are SUPER fun so he's still smiling and shit.
SO TEA PARTIES. HATTER HAS THEM, HE INVITES HIS FARM ANIMALS, AGUNI, ARISU, KUINA AND ANN. Aguni wears his normal clothes but has a feather boa that is pink and the feathers get in his mouth constantly but he wears it because he would rather not have Hatter cry again hatter wears a full on Disney princess dress (either Ariel or sleeping beauty) but its a kids size so its like basically a top for him. he also wears galaxy print leggings because he can Arisu wears a plastic tiara and wears a pair of heals he was gifted that he struggles to walk in but they make him taller so he pushes through the agony that is wearing heals Kuina wears a really cool ball gown with a real tiara and pearl earrings and shit and shes super fancy and pretty and wow I love her Ann either wears a suit cuss she's a girlboss or wears a matching dress to Kuina. she also has those fancy rich person gloves that like go up to her bicep. the farm animals all have either tiaras, feather boas to match Aguni or their fur dyed to be cool
Heavenly Tyrant is out today! It's a weird feeling after so many years of losing hair over it. It didn't feel like I was capable of finishing the book until I wrote the last word. The publication process was not a happy one. I'm not doing any events for it, not even a launch. I'm typing this while lying in bed and thinking about what a terrible year it's been. We joked about 2020 being the worst year ever, yet every year since has been progressively worse. And the coming years do not show any indication of being better.
But a big theme in Heavenly Tyrant is that wherever there is oppression, there WILL be resistance. I have had as much heartwarming support from peers, friends, and readers as I've faced heinous shenanigans this year. When a very, very famous author I met this summer asked me "Are you a controversial person?" after I told him about the stuff I was going through, I answered "To many who hold power? Yes. To regular people? I don't think so."
I want to thank all of you who gave me the faith to say something like that. Most people I know are on the right side of history. If you aren't - I don't want to know you.
Anyway, the book. Heavenly Tyrant is SO different from Iron Widow that I'm pretty nervous about whether people would like it. I want to ask you all to adjust your expectations going in. You're not going to get another breakneck-paced story about a Girlboss Going Smash. The smashing was the easy part. Rebuilding what she broke into something better is much, much harder. The story is a lot slower by necessity, and the problems she faces are way more complicated to deal with. I also ask that you read until the end before making a judgement because, well, developments you don't like might not be endgame! And there's a book 3 coming! (This was always supposed to be a trilogy; it's just that my publisher was only willing to buy 2 books from me at first. They changed their minds after seeing the preorder numbers for IW.)
Finally, I want to bring everyone's attention to the five songs the Bookish Songs Collective wrote specifically for Iron Widow! They're now available to stream whenever you get your music. It blows my mind that MY book would get such epic music?! I can't thank or praise them enough. Seriously, CHECK THE EP OUT.