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I wish I knew the exact time and date that harry told snape ‘there’s no need to call me sir professor’ so that I could take a moment of silence to remember the moment each year

#harry potter #professor snape #snape

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I have been waiting all year to post this.

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Here’s a “animation” WIP I’m doing for a thing

#tolkien #fellowship of the ring #tags not mine #lord of the rings #lotr

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#this is important #things to remember #me #literally me

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#that's funny #called out #yep pretty much #sounds about right #writing #writting

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gordon ramsey: is the food good here?

underpaid server: 

#that's funny #that's great #gordon ramsey #dear god #why is this me #literally me

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@slingerapen​ i cherish agravaine a great deal but nowhere near as much as @gringolet​ cherishes him so i’ll give this one to him. LOU COME YELL ABOUT AGGS

#agravaine #mordred #orkney bros #orkney brothers #orkney clan #arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian mythology #arthurian literature

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Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.

#anonymous #send me anons #anons are welcome #reblogging again because I can #me

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Just Indian things

#that's cute #indian customs #indian culture #culture

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protestants: god is not an absent father! talk to god like a friend! god is always with you! bring your problems to god, no matter how small! it’s not at all weird to call god “daddy!”

catholics: god is far too important to give a fuck about your lost keys or your algebra exam. please address your petty concerns to one of god’s ten thousand holy secretaries. if it’s really important, consider asking his mom.

#that's funny #that's great #religion

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all the tips I found for drawing a fantasy map are like :) “here’s a strategy to draw the land masses! here’s how to plot islands!” :) and that’s wonderful and I love them all but ??? how? do y'all decide where to put cities/mountains/forests/towns I have my map and my land but I’m throwing darts to decide where the Main Citadel where the Action Takes Place is

#worldbuilding #writting #writing #this is important

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Here’s the thing about the air nomads.

I introduced a friend to ATLA a few nights ago, and they had only known two things about the entire show: the cabbage meme, and that Aang apparently wants to ride every large and dangerous animal he can possibly find. We got through the first five or so episodes, and my friend noted that Aang is exactly what a 12-year-old would be like if given godlike powers, and that this is literally just what he could do with airbending. He can’t even wield any of the other elements, and he’s one of the most powerful people on the planet, because he’s an airbender.

And that got me thinking.

This snippet from Bitter Work is one of the few pieces of concrete information we get about the airbenders, at least in ATLA. Iroh is explaining to Zuko how all four of the elements connect to the world and to each other.

Fire is the element of power, of desire and will, of ambition and the ability to see it through. Power is crucial to the world; without it, there’s no drive, no momentum, no push. But fire can easily grow out of control and become dangerous; it can become unpredictable, unless it is nurtured and watched and structured.

Earth is the element of substance, persistence, and enduring. Earth is strong, consistent, and blunt. It can construct things with a sense of permanence; a house, a town, a walled city. But earth is also stubborn; it’s liable to get stuck, dig in, and stay put even when it’s best to move on.

Water is the element of change, of adaptation, of movement. Water is incredibly powerful both as a liquid and a solid; it will flow and redirect. But it also will change, even when you don’t want it to; ice will melt, liquid will evaporate. A life dedicated to change necessarily involves constant movement, never putting down roots, never letting yourself become too comfortable.

We see only a few flashbacks to Aang’s life in the temples, and we get a sense of who he was and what kind of upbringing he had.

This is a preteen with the power to fucking fly. He’s got no fear of falling, and a much reduced fear of death. There’s a reason why the sages avoid telling the new avatar their status until they turn sixteen; could you imagine a firebender, at twelve years old, learning that they were going to be the most powerful person in the whole world? Depending on that child, that could go so badly.

But the thing about Aang, and the thing about the Air Nomads, is that they were part of the world too. They contributed to the balance, and then they were all but wiped out by Sozin. What was lost, there? Was it freedom? Yes, but I think there’s something else too, and it’s just yet another piece of the utter brilliance of the worldbuilding of ATLA.

To recap: we have power to push us forward; we have stability to keep us strong; we have change to keep us moving.

And then we have this guy.

The air nomads brought fun to the world. They brought a very literal sense of lightheartedness.

Sozin saw this as a weakness. I think a lot of the world did, in ATLA. Why do the Air Nomads bother, right? They’re just up there in their temples, playing games, baking pies in order to throw them as a gag. As Iroh said above, they had pretty great senses of humour, and they didn’t take themselves too seriously.

But that’s a huge part of having a world of balance and peace.

It’s not just about power, or might, or the ability to adapt. You can have all of those, but you also need fun. You need the ability to be vulnerable, to have no ambitions beyond just having a good day. You need to be able to embrace silliness, to nurture play, to have that space where a very specific kind of emotional growth can occur. Fun makes a hard life a little easier. Fun makes your own mortality a little less frightening to grasp. Fun is the spaces in between, that can’t be measured by money or military might. Fun is what nurtures imagination, allows you to see a situation in a whole new light, to find new solutions to problems previously considered impossible.

Fun is what makes a stranger into a friend, rather than an enemy.

Fun helps you see past your differences.

Fun is what fuels curiosity and openmindedness.

Fun is the first thing to die in a war.

#atla #avatar #avatar aang #avatar the last airbender #a:tlab

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😅 it's an info dump. I know, I'm sorry.

You can ask anything at anytime. If I'm not at work I'll get back to you as soon as I can

In attempt to get back into writing, here’s

A bit about my Arthurian anthology (retelling) that nobody asked for:

Whispers: it’s going to be a mess… sorry… It’s also long and out of order…

Seguir leyendo

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Your sixth most recent emoji predicts how you’ll feel about life in 10 years

#💙 #uh... yeah #not sure that's right lol #me

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#that's great #love this

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Who says Kay's problematic? I'll throw hands!

Lol no, not really, I'm weak and can't fight 😅

But still. How can they possibly say that? He's literally paid to be an ass to Camelot noobs in most sources now and he's always loyal to Arthur (except that one time with Loholt). But, like, other than that, I thought tumblr loves a rogue?

Gawain's cool but, like, there's options, y'know? Lol and there's a reason I saw a Lancelthot tag last year; we love him but he's sorta extra in a way that not everyone favors. One of the reasons to make different characters, well, different is so that everyone can have a favorite. We can all like who we like for the reasons we like them.

Kay is great. I'm sorry you had people be rude to you about that. You're great, Kay's great, they're not.

who are the people saying you cant like kay? i dunno im not very active in the tag but everyone seemed pretty nice so thats disappointing.i would have blocked someone who was being negative i just havent seen any of that? i mean i could be wrong but ive only heard you talking about it. it seems like most people like kay? and the few people who dont arent like, forcing anyone. idk it would suck if they were i just havent seen it

I'm not as active as before either in the Arthurian tag (funnily enough I found that apparently Kay now is problematique in the Sir Kay tag), but apparently now you can only like Lancelot or Gawain because they're "certified good boys" or some stuff like that , as in "why do you support an asshole like Kay when Gawain/Lancelot is there?" which like ?????? Congrats, you read some (ugh) Dutch/French thingy and your fave is at its Suest mode there, why do you now have to tell me which character I should or shouldn't like? I certainly won't stop liking a character I liked before (even less so over some "he no good boi 'cause van Frog said so" argument) , and putting it against other characters in some sort of contest certainly won't make me like Lancelot or Gawain better, quite the contrary in fact

(It also makes me wonder what kind of Arthurian fandom they're seeing in which apparently Kay of all knights has a bigger presence and popularity than Gawain and Lancelot, but whatever)

I'm so glad I'm not as active as before if this what the fandom is going to be like now tbh. I shall now go pray for my soul as I enjoy reading and writing the POV of a problematic evul asshole, have a nice day anon

#now i'm grumpy #arthuriana