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#paradox of tolerance

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putting this here bc maybe i will be inspired to finish it ...but a scene from @erisenyo 's great fic All I need is to be Struck (by your Electric Love

#atla #fanart

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Hi I have a question about Pacific Rim. Given that the sparring is just A way to test for drift compatibility and any activity that requires people to collaborate and anticipate each others moves works, including stuff like multi player video games

Can you test for drift compatibility via improv comedy

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I think the internet would be a lot less dumb if we got over this idea of a perfect education and understand that you can't know everything, but you need to keep learning.

I mean, there are all those "why weren't we taught this?" posts when it's like

-Some stuff should be taught and wasn't, but you're in charge of your own growth now

-Some stuff is taught and you weren't paying attention or you might've been paying attention but it was also kinda boring and years before it would be relevant to you so you entirely braindumped it

-Some stuff just isn't reasonable to include in an education for children.

-You need to keep learning new things and re-learning old things. Oh no, you didn't get it all together in your early 20s? Nobody does! The people who think they did are some of the loudest and dumbest motherfuckers on the planet and they tend to work for places like Breitbart and the Daily Wire, and unsurprisingly, despite their penchant for "debate" they can only win against children

#learning #education

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#so true

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Fun, someone said the words “prior authorizations” around me and now I’m pissed off at 730am on my day off. I go off on this rant all the time. ALL THE TIME.

#yikes

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watching ML season 1: Chat Noir gets mind controlled so often it walks the line between repetitive and memetic. This is either lazy writing or a ploy to keep the show's focus on girl power.... Either way another whimsical entry in the unintentional children's show fridge horror category. watching ML season 5: Oh, The Catboy Is Mind Control Themed.

#ml #yeah this shit is wild

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I wish age gap discourse hadn't spiraled the way it has because I want there to be a safe space to say "Men in their 40s who date 25 year olds aren't predators, they're just fucking losers"

#incredibly fucking important #children

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One of my old hyperfixations have been returning😭 My love for Avatar is just as strong as it was 16 years ago when I saw it for the first time haha 🤲 These will be new mini charms and stickers!!

#atla #fanart

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Slutshaming women is not ok Slutshaming Alexander Hamilton is totally ok Tumblr logic

#world heritage post

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Natalie Portman being confused by the fact that you have to say “hi” to someone before starting a conversation in France got me like ?????

#cultural #culture

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Here's the thing. I'm a girl, and as a girl, I really like it when girls are portrayed in fiction. Especially fantasy.

But so much fiction/fantasy mixes up 'girls' with 'unstoppable forces of female badass' and there's not necessarily anything wrong with having a character who is an 'unstoppable forces of female badass'. But it gets old real quick. And it is not the same as portraying normal girls, or having good female characters.

And that's one of the many reasons I love Avatar the Last Airbender.

Because all the girl characters have flaws and weaknesses and sometimes act like idiots or jerks. They get emotional and make mistakes. They lose fights or arguments or are just wrong sometimes. Some of them are amazing warriors, and some aren't. Some are powerful or special and some are normal, with nothing special about them.

And I Love that.

I was around the same age as Katara when I first watched Atla. And I instantly connected with her as a character. I loved her optimistic attitude and her fighting spirit. And I could relate with her anger, and with her maternal instinct. I admired her fighting skills of course, but I loved how the show portrayed her compassion and kindness, the way she could both beat up a bunch of bullies AND enjoy a relaxing day at the spa. She was a baddass warrior that should never be crossed. But she was also a normal teenage girl who had a lot of the same internal struggles and problems that I did.

(I never connected to Toph on the same level, but I did relate to her on a few things. She's an adorable trash gremlin who would commit any crime for fun and I love that. But she struggles with being both independent and letting people help her, and I still struggle with that sometimes. I've learned that sometimes, you can help others by letting them help you.)

Yue is, in my opinion, a perfect example of a type of hero that seems to be disappearing. She is not a warrior. She is not a fighter. She's not even a bender.

Yue is a perfect princess, a perfect daughter. She is extremely feminine in a rather older sense.

And she was the only one who could save the world. She gave up everything for her people. She saved everything, everyone, the entire world. Without ever becoming a fighter.

Yue is a perfect example of a girl who was never more than a girl, and how that's okay. Not every girl has to be rough and tumble and fight for her rights in order to change everything. Sometimes it's okay to just be a quiet obedient girly girl. Sometimes that's all it takes to be a hero.

And I love that. Yue is strong in her own way. She is unique and interesting. She appears in only a few episodes and yet manages to be one of my favorite characters.

Song is another great example of this. Song is a healer in a small town. We don't see much of her but we see her compassion and empathy. She is gentle and generous. A healer not a fighter.

She watches Zuko steal her ostrich horse and does nothing.

Is that because she's kind and generous and knows he needs it more? Or is it because she's a healer girl who knows she can't actually stop those two from taking the horse? Maybe neither, maybe both. I have always thought that the scene where Zuko steals the horse and only the audience knows she saw it is one of the most thought-provoking in the series.

Suki is a badass warrior woman who is an awesome fighter and good leader. She is one of the best non bender fighter we see in the entire show. She was one of the smartest, most efficient, and powerful characters we ever saw.

She kissed a boy she had just met because she thought he was cute.

Now don't get me wrong I love SokkaxSuki. Its one of the best couples in the show.

But Suki totally did the old 'love at first sight' thing. And that is awesome. Because when she kisses him she delivers one of the best lines, not only from her, but, I think, in the entire show.

"I AM a warrior, but I'm a girl too."

Being a warrior doesn't mean that she isn't also a teenage girl. She might be a fighter, but she still gets crushes and likes to flirt with cute boys. And hey, she picked a good one. Not every boy is going to come break you out of prison.

Anyways, let's have more realistic girls in fiction. And please enjoy the next 24 hours.

#atla

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objectifying spencer is my full time job at this point

#spencer reid #criminal minds

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I need to see BDSM haters go on rants about the evils of capsaicin

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Lil crow snippets ✨️🐦‍⬛💙