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Happiness Will Come To You.

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#katara #she deserves better

something that really bugs me about people invalidating katara’s grief because “[insert male character here] had it so much worse and she was such a b*tch to him >:(” is that KATARA IS ALSO A SURVIVOR OF GENOCIDE.

genocide usually isn’t all at once. it’s much more common for it to take place over years or even decades. katara is the LAST southern waterbender. everyone else was thrown into internment camps to die, and only hama survived long enough to escape. yon rha was there specifically to kill her, an eight year old child, for being a waterbender. the only reason she survived at all is because her mother died in her place. katara BLAMES HERSELF for kya’s death, to the point that she forces herself to take on the mantle of an adult mother to her OWN FATHER AND OLDER BROTHER, who should have been the ones comforting her instead of the other way around. katara is literally the only reason why sokka isn’t traumatized and scarred by kya’s loss the way she clearly is. every time she talks about her mom, uses her own grief to soothe and comfort others, she is pressing on a wound that NEVER HEALED because she’s expected to heal everyone else’s pain, and no one has done the same for her. katara’s loss literally shapes her life and who she is as a person. her motherly and caring attitude come from the loss of her mom, and her obsessive need to learn waterbending comes from her being the only one left, with no one to guide her and teach her, under constant risk of death if the fire nation finds out she survived. she can’t even defend herself because anyone who could have taught her was taken away and died in an internment camp.

and then she learns that she’s not the last one! there’s another, just like her, who can teach her! and then hama turns on her, tries to kill her friends and family, takes the result of all the grief and pain of the genocide only they survived and forces it onto katara via bloodbending. bloodbending is pretty obviously representative of that generational trauma, which katara is forced to inherit from her elders because she is the only one left able to carry that burden and fight for justice. the only time she uses it again is when she is confronted with the man who killed her mother (and wanted to kill her), yon rha, and the organization responsible for the southern waterbender genocide, the southern raiders. the metaphor is crystal clear!!!

but katara’s grief isn’t important enough. katara’s grief is annoying. katara’s grief is selfish and b*tchy and an overreaction. katara is too loud, too aggressive, too demanding. she should just keep doing everyone else’s chores and everyone else’s emotional labor. how DARE she stick up for herself when compared to jet. how DARE she vocalize the pain and grief and rage that sokka and aang and toph have been ignoring. why can’t she just shut up and keep being everyone else’s mommymaid?!

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Reblog if you utterly and without hesitation support gay rights.

(via poetry-siir)

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my granddad just called me to tell me how big his cauliflowers are growing and it was so cute theyre “TWICE as big as the ones you get in the shop”

#cute

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Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

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Eight Rainbows! WOW Lehigh Valley, PA [960 x 960]

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Creative & DIY

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dealing with the worst case scenario

your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

your house has a gas leak

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this is the perfect grade of good luck

reblog in 5 seconds and all of your grades will inch ever closer to perfect

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reblog if ur mom is smart and beautiful

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Fandom Etiquette

I’ve been around for a really long time in various fandoms, and no one ever writes this stuff down. I’ll start. Please add to the list. We can’t expect people to follow “rules” they don’t know exist. 

written with the help of @unbreakablejemmasimmons

Fanart

if you like something, reblog it. Help the artist get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you. 

if you want more of it, support it. This can be via commissions, reblogs, recommending the artist to other people, shouting in the tags, or sending the artist asks/messages. 

if you hate it, keep scrolling. Keep the hate in a message window with a friend, not in the artist’s notes. 

if you want to use it, ask permission. Artwork is beautiful and you want to show it off. But please ask the artist before you throw it into your header or your icon. 

if you use it, give credit. And not just a post where you say “Do you like my new icon? X made it!”. Put it in your blog description, that way when someone rolls around your blog three months from now, they also know where your icon/header came from. 

Fanfic

if you like something, reblog it. Help the author get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you.

if you want more of it, support it. Kudos are fine, but if you want more of the thing you like, you should comment. Subscribe to the story or the author. Send them a message about how much you like what they wrote. 

if you read it, kudos it. Or give it a thumbs up. And this is just if you managed to get all the way to the end. If you finished the story and you actually liked it? Comment and reblog. 

don’t demand content. Be patient. Stories take time. You can encourage without being demanding. Show your love for what’s there without telling them to post more often. 

be gentle with criticism. Some people want it and some people run away from it. If you don’t know what type of person the author is, it’s best not to go there. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.”

Fandom

ship and let ship. You love your ship and other people love theirs. No one needs to “win” when we’re all going to end up in tears anyway. 

if you hate it, stay out of the tag. This has two meanings: 1) don’t deliberately put hateful commentary in a tag and 2) if you  hate a tag, don’t go and read through that tag just to make yourself angry

if someone makes you something, appreciate it. Read and comment the fic. Like and reblog the artwork. Pimp it out and tell them how much you loved it. It’s a gift, treat it like one. 

if it’s a gift, put some effort into it. You signed up for that exchange three months ago and now it’s a week before you have to send the gift and you don’t have the time or the inclination to do the thing. Well too bad. Someone out there has been working hard in your gift, so you should do the same for them. 

none of us are “better” than anyone else. We’re all trash for our particular show/film/book/ship/artist/what-have-you. My fave is no better than yours and yours is no better than mine. 

actors are not their characters. They are people. Treat them like people. 

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this tip tho!!!!!!!!