Kataang War Room XIII

[Growly]

I've been sleeping. In the last 2 days I think I've slept over 30 hours. Hopefully this will soon pass and I'll be feeling as perky as usual.

[Lady Liesl]

hah, I see. I've been working on a fanfic/guide to avatar thing and just finished the introduction. Wanna see it so far?

[Kataang101]

"Peaceful Ferry ride or Deadly pass?" -Katara
"Delectible tea or deadly poison?" -Iroh

just thought that was funny ;D

[Growly]

lieselle said:

hah, I see. I've been working on a fanfic/guide to avatar thing and just finished the introduction. Wanna see it so far?

Sounds good. Now is it a guide to different fanfictions, writing fanfictions, or something else fanfiction related?

[Lady Liesl]

Its bascially not so much a guide, but just the know hows of avatar sort of thing. The shippings, the characters, and everything in between. I'm writing them in diffrent "books" and the first one is going to be on the characters so its 'Lieselle's Guide to Avatar part I: Getting Into Character"

my corny jokes make this guide fun ;D

[Growly]

Sounds good - and useful. I'll probably consult it while writing my fics. Speaking of fics - does anyone here know a good beta-reader who doesn't mind long, serious fics with a Kataang bias?

[Lady Liesl]

lol, okay, so here it is so far....

Introduction

How many times has this happened to you;

You’re walking down the hallway at school, and there’s one guy that’s being a real prick to some other kid. So you give him a two-fingered jab in the chest and warn him if he doesn’t learn respect, you will teach it to him. Or maybe for others your still pretty ticked that you haven’t perfected getting those hair loopies in for school in the morning. Maybe you can’t decide whether you want a mango or a papaya for breakfast. You get turned on by guys with pony tails -- or more preferable -- ‘warrior’s wolf tales’. You feel like a bad a** walking around with your boomerang. And you’re really tempted to take a blue magic marker and draw an arrow on some friend’s head because he decided to go with the bald look.

Basically, you get feeling you might have a slight problem…

Well, my young Avatard, do not despair. For you are not the only one that’s gone overboard with your undying love for this show. And the depressing thing is with some people, they really mean it when the say “undying love”.

For one reason or another we’ve all come to admire this Korean animated work of genius. Some for those action packed fights that keep us on the edge of our seats, other for the romance that makes our hearts sore and squeal with joy, and if even this does not satisfy our needs, we have Sokka’s dry humor that always seems to lighten the mood.

And in a way, (whether anyone of us will admit this or not) we all feel a sense of connection with these character, because we’ve seen them go through so much. We’ve seen our troubled heroes flirt, fight, and fall in love. We were all there when Aang first made his appearance, we all gazes upon that giant mushroom, and we’ve even seen a couple Toph and Katara b***h fights now and then. And I guarantee with most of us, when this show finally comes to an end and we’re about five or ten years older, we’re all going to stumble upon those old DVD’s and chuckle to ourselves “Those we‘re the days..”

Yes, I know reader. It seems so strange to talk of characters in such a way because they just happen to be, oh, I don’t know….not real. But keep in mind my fellow friends and fanatics, the creators job, the animators and storyboard artists job and the writer’s job is to make these character real to us. And if they seem pretty darn real now, well it seems like Mighty Mike and Bodacious Brian are doing a crackerjack job.

But before we start jumping in on this lovely fan bandwagon just yet, we’ll need some time to answer some questions: What makes a hero a hero? How can one so hot be so angst? Why do some people insist Katara (or anyone else for that matter) is a mary-sue? Why are there so many Sue’s anyway -- and how do they keep coming back!? And in short -- how can we really bring out these characters and see just what makes them tick?

I am determined, with a bit of help from our lovely fandown of course, to perhaps provide some answers to you....because all of us are way to lazy to go out and get them or even care.

And so now, without further adue, I bring you “Lieselle's Guide to Avatar part I: Getting Into Character”.


...thats is so far.

[Kataang101]

hey cool

EDIT: grr! can't find the serpent's pass anywhere! All I have is limewire

[Growly]

Looking good so far. Yeah. I use limewire too and it doesn't seem to be available yet -_-

[fire/lightningbender emily]

hey guys, whats up? i drew my first fan art of avatar but i don't know how to scan it into my computer, does anyone know how to do that?

[Growly]

momo said:

hey guys, whats up? i drew my first fan art of avatar but i don't know how to scan it into my computer, does anyone know how to do that?

You need a scanner or a digital camera

[fire/lightningbender emily]

yeah i have a scanner, do you know how to scan it into the computer

[Growly]

momo said:

yeah i have a scanner, do you know how to scan it into the computer

*blinks* Are you not familiar with using a scanner? First off, does your computer have a program to run a scanner? If so then just click it, put your art in the scanner and it should be fairly easy. Provided the scanner is hooked up, of course.

[fire/lightningbender emily]

no not really, i'm computer illiterate, i don't know much about computer or anything, im like an idiot when it comes to computers, even when it comes to easy stuff

[Aners]

yay! now I have a kataang sig. XD haha, makes me feel like an official kataang or something ;D