Crappy tutorial

I decided that the Zuko piece I made is exactly the sort of thing where I look at it and go "How did they do that?" so it might be nice to document the process in a tutorial. I couldn't be bothered doing it very well, though, so I'm not sure how helpful it is.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Avatar the last air bender is awesome

I just finished the first season (Book 1: Water) of "Avatar the last air bender". It's great! In fact I can't think of a high/historical-ish fantasy tv show I've enjoyed more. (Admitedly, it's not competing with much. Lets see: Xena. And, um..)

I mean it is a kids show, and it falls into kid-show tropes here and there (Let's learn an important lesson about honesty!) but despite the simple story telling, young protagonists, and lack of sex and gore it's quite subtle and well written. It doesn't try too hard to have a Serious Moral, and there's very few charcaters or groups who don't have a mix good qualities and flaws. (Though the Fire Nation is mostly an evil nation of unsympathetic characters)
( mostly more squee, no spoilers )

Fandomnews

So metafandom recently has had lots of discussion about the recent lack of meta (in general and on metafandom specifically) Which is kind of an amusing negative feedback loop but hey.

Anyway, various people floated the idea of a more inclusive dw specific (fanfic) fandom meta community. Another suggestion was a "latest posts with a meta tag" feed, which inspired me to put "meta" into the search engine.

I found many of the same posts I'd just read, some fic, and...fandomnews

"Awesome!" thinks I. "And it's just been started, presumably inspired by these discussions. I wonder if it's skuf or one of those other people who was talking about it? Is it very popular yet?"

But as it turns out, the creator, and thus far only member..is purplepopple aka Laura Hale.

This will end well.