#as someone who has been hunted

[blluespirit]

I sort of like the thought that Zuko and Aang take the Sun Warriors' warning not to tell anyone about the dragons a little more seriously… and they keep it between them. Of course, they trust Sokka, Toph and Katara. Of course they know they wouldn’t tell anyone, but now three people (including Iroh) know the truth about Ran and Shaw. And that’s three too many when you’re trying to keep a secret.

(and there are other people at the temple as well - like Haru, Teo and The Duke - who, while trustworthy, aren’t as close to them as the others, and when it comes to secrets with as much consequence as this one, you can’t afford to take any chances.)

Furthermore, the culture within the Fire Nation since Sozin’s rein has been warped. The culture is not to respect the dragons as the original firebenders, it’s to conquer and kill them. It’s the ultimate proof of your strength as a firebender. All it takes is one mistake before rumour spreads, and people go looking for the ultimate hunt. It’s not something Zuko or Aang can risk.

Whether Katara, Toph and Sokka (and Suki) ever find out the truth is up to you. But post-war, after Zuko returns from a strange, poorly explained trip with a dragon, and eventually develops the ability to use rainbow fire, either the others have some questions about Aang’s knowing look, or they are finally let in on a monumental secret.

#it’s a kids show so i think for that reason it was played for laughs about keeping the dragons a secret is not necessarily a bad choice... #the show does that sometimes where it says something off hand and then leaves me lying face down contemplating ✨the consequences✨ of that #but there are some… implications there about being too loose lipped with the truth in leading up to the end of and immediately post #war fire nation. just because zuko understands the spiritual significance of a dragon it does not mean the rest of his people will. actuall #its more likely that they'd reject zuko's opinion considering that he's basically coming into power and then telling everyone that #they've been lied to their whole lives. the fire nation is drowning in propaganda. for a lot of people this opinion of dragons and #firebending's true nature being violence and destruction is all they know. fire is LIFE but to most people that's an alien concept #and in terms of keeping secrets - it’s not even a matter of trust it’s a matter of too many people knowing #you might not even realised you’ve revealed some incredible information to someone who has the means to spread it or pursue it #so… i think zuko would be hyper aware of this. since he grew up hearing stories about the 'glory' of dragon hunting #and since iroh has also made a concerted effort to keep this information hidden i think it makes sense he’d be very hesitant to let it #get out to the public #aang would agree i think esp if zuko explained the importance of hiding them even from loved ones #ALSO random but it also makes me wonder what the fire nation said about roku in wake of the war #he had a dragon but he didn’t kill it. he didn’t ’conquer’ it #sozin would have had to work his ASS off to reframe history as him being the more… loyal(?) patriotic (?) of the two #did he frame it as roku didn’t have the courage to kill a dragon??? that he lacked the strength of a true firebender? #the avatar works hard but sozin's propaganda machine works harder 🧍‍♀️ #zuko #aang #avatar the last airbender #zuko & aang #jack talks #sun warriors #book 3 #what is it with me having a whole separate post in the tags 👁️👄👁️

[moonpaw]

ohh ohhhh... luffy's dream is having a massive party

it's both so very luffy but also childish and easy for someone to laugh at

#one piece #one piece spoilers #in the tags!! #we already know one piece is gonna end in a massive party since oda said so himself #roger was too early because of circumstances like shirahoshi not being born to help pilot noah and #momo being too young to talk to zunesha #noah and zunesha are both massive and can easily carry hundreds if not thousands across (or up) through the ocean #there's so many factions and islands and kingdoms and groups and luffy has affected so many lives by #not minding his own business #he's someone who could easily bind all the places he's been to together because of his ability to draw people close to him even without #meaning to #whatever one piece is- the search for it has turned into a treasure hunt and a scavenger hunt in the form of the road poneglyphs #the road poneglyphs leads to the rio poneglyph also but- it's like a game #joyboy has sent everyone on a wild goose chase #and whatever one piece is i could easily see luffy 'using' or 'exchanging' it for his massive party viva la post enies lobby style #could you imagine #''you used the treasure one piece for a party??'' #''yeah lol'' #can you see it

[lokh]

does anyone actually build a detailed linkedin profile. you've got to be fucking with me

#💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 #we are at the stage that i am literally looking up 'how to write a good cover letter/resume' #and then some of the tips are literally 'networking' #bro i swear to god. has job hunting always been like this #why do u gotta be ur own fucking marketing team these days just to get a job. god #im speaking as someone who basically has no experience LMAO </3 #and thr experience i Do have. i dont have any metrics to attach LMAO in some cases thats on me #didnt realise i had to know this shit lmao. also my MEMORY IS BAD AND I NEVER SAVED ANYTHING

[dnangelic]

sometimes i think abt towa and argentine in the very last manga chapter n cry

#*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT. #waaaa waaaa my lucifer my boy-king and the respect and power he doesn't even want but deserves sm #dark wouldnt want towa n argentine's help if he could go without it!! all his theft has been bc he cared #n its the fact he n dai care tht they genuinely deserve the sort of trust respect n acknowledgement from the niwa fam #that the rest of the world who doesnt properly or intimately know the likes of dark n dai doesnt afford them #i justttt wooooughhhh towa argentine gratefully graciously bowing themselves with fealty #to dark who's always been bearing all this insane burden and self-expectation alone #all by himself #afraid even of that solitude but nevertheless doing everything he could for the sake of #what he felt was right saving the artworks saving precious things even if he had to steal them away and disparage himself #more and more (the more he succeeds the more he disgraces himself as a villain and a criminal) #aaaa waaaa INNER NIWA FAM CHARAS r just so special.... THEY GET TO SEE IT ALL... #how heavy the pressure is on dark n dai both actually despite the superficial layers like elmroot says #the 'outer self' that enjoys being a phantom thief and then the inner that 'hunts his own kind' #how tired dark is sometimes... #well. w/e. point is niwa fam chara writers who ever take this into account ill kiss u forever #dark can be annoying or behave in spoiled/lazy/belligerent ways sometimes but it rlly makes him and dai more like the #rebel angel leader / boy king example i try to write them as. they still care ofc they doooo #it's just they're the equivalent of the highest seat holding together their little country #their miniature empire that dark n the niwa have built up over yrs n yrs n yrs!! #dark never claims himself a king or a prince he doesn't throw his weight or titles around like that #but between paradise lost and POTO's occasional angel of darkness/PRINCE of darkness #the vibes are there in between the lines. they r right there. this dude has so much hes taking responsibility for #even though he doesn't even Have To. but in doing so- he is. and SHOULD rightly be supported #in the manner of someone in service demonstrating loyalty to him #ok. ramble over

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have found a beautiful perfect humble rock specimen that is light yellow with a weird dark yellowy brown lining, somewhat resembling a chunk of smoked gouda cheese... effervescent

#I am still very into trash collecting at the moment and even went out and got one of those grabby sticks for cheap and a little #bucket I can carry around and put trash in. so I am going on walks in nature a bit more (not really to enjoy nature but more to play the #very fun Real Life Hidden Object Point And Click Game that is 'hunt for bottle caps and cans' .. but eh.. whatever gets me out of the #house lol).. anyway.. some nature places near water will have cool rocks #Which I know you're not supposed to take them and I MOSTLY dont.. but every once in a while it's like... when else will I ever find a #gouda rock... I have cleaned up 4 buckets of trash today.. I have helped the environment.. mayhaps.. i could take a One Single Rocke as a #treate... ANYWAY. but yeah. I don't know the names of rocks but there's a rock that's a matte muted marigold yellow sort of #color and I call them 'cheese rock'. I'm pretty sure this one is of the 'cheese rock' species but it just has weird brown coloration #like maybe it got stained or something on one side of it. Most of the other cheese rocks have no markings. though sometimes there will be a #auburn reddish sort of hue on a corner or something.. hrmm.. curious. I also got a Beginner's Hobby rock tumbler and some supplies #so I might try polishing some of the rocks from my enormous rock collection. even though they're all street rocks I picked up from sidewalk #and stuff. I saw a video where someone put random gravel and stuff in a rock tumbler and none of them were Stunning Gems or whatver #but some still turned out cool enough that I would be pleased with the result... OUgh.. I want to post more I need to like do costumes and #sculptures and stuff and be Active On Social Media and think about my Future and Career and how it always benefits artists to keep an #active social media or etc. but I just feel so tired and bad lately. I think the summer heat waves have really exhausted me. I also have #been trying to make new friends + on a weird schedule so I've been socializing and also watching media too much. I notice I always start #to feel this kind of unsettled stress of not making any forward progress in my life if I do that for too long. like 'Okay this week I've #done nothing but meet up with two friends & watch like 10 episodes of tv and only worked on a few projects on the side.. this is HORRIBLE!' #(ppl who follow me here that I talk to on discord: this isn't about you! Im specifically just referencing being tired of introductory talks #with a new round of random strangers during my Friend Hunt. Just clarifying so it couldn't be misinterpreted as vaguepost implying that I'm #secretly bothered by talking to you or etc. lol.. anyway) . Which I know to MOST people 'I talked to a lot of friends and watched some cool #stuff!' sounds like a GOOD relaxing time but.. to me it is not ghhj.. Those are 'external' focuses on things outside myself which bothers #me if not moderated. Like.. i MUST retreat internally to work on my worldbuilding and my own thoughts and etc. at very regular intervals or #it will really start to bear on me too much. Brain Mandated Hermit Isolation lol. Just being too detached from my world and stuff for #too long feels increasingly bad. PLUS. every day I don't make tangible progress towards my goals is a day wasted that I could have been #investing in my future by working on novels/games/sculptures/actual career relevant stuff. Not even in a Capitalism way i just genuinely #enjoy Completing Tasks & feel miserable if I don't for too long. EVEN the media I'm watching I turn into A Task since I rank in a detailed #google doc list after viewing lol.. Like EW movie too boring on it's own. NEED to turn it into something I can categorize and analyze ghghj #LOVE to make things more complicated than they need to be. like YAAAY organizational tasks! yaay meticulous sorting!! BOO ''mindless fun''!

[abutterflyobsession]

actually deeply apprehensive about opening up my strange magic fic documents |:

#a butterfly obsesses #maybe I should rewatch the movie as a restart #as someone who's done most of their creative work during manic episodes I need to learn how to do it when I'm on an even keel #see this is why so many bipolar people go off their meds #it feels like the inspiration and creativity has been taken away #don't worry I'm not even considering it. the withdrawal symptoms alone are enough to stop that idea dead in its tracks #plus the ups are not worth the panic attacks and constant feeling I'm being hunted for sport

[rainymoodlet]

i mean legit the best example i can give of dan’s purposeful censorship of his life was in that last post tbh

his reality: horrific absolute monster deadbeat dad who made him and his family’s life a living hell

what he says: my dad was mean to my mom :(

#he’s not LYING… he just… refuses to go further fjdjjf #like if his siblings want to vent to him abt their dad??? go ahead #but dan is a Steel Fortress ugh #i could talk abt him for hours i’m sorry pff #it wasn’t that he was expected to be a protector or his mother or younger siblings assigned him that role - he’s just… like that #he decided very early on that he could Handle It - no matter what It was #because as long as someone could handle it they could all be okay #it wasn’t that he was expected to step between his mother and his father he just… did #and earlier in the same day he and his dad could have gone out hunting and sat in odd comfortable but not at all friendly or loving silence #but god… he’s been so repressed for so long #he only knows how to be there for others - i don’t think (even for as insightful and confident in himself #because of his years of introspection that he has) that i can properly even put into words #how much this man has mistaken having a restricted section in his library for healing and Moving On #he still has trouble hanging out with his siblings - he still feels guilt - he still feels like he’s been stuck in some strange limbo #of life. he’s very lucky to be where he is and doing what he loves #but some mornings he wakes up and he’s still that fourteen year old boy #whose face aches and ribs hurt and when he comes to… he doesn’t feel any ownership of the space he occupies #he’s just… there. #daniel is the boy who practices a few smiles as he pushes himself to sit in bed because he can hear his baby siblings running down #the hall to let him know breakfast is ready - and he told them yesterday that the broken nose was nothing and the black eye was fine #and giving them that relief will always come before the sick feeling in his stomach and the fear coiling around his neck #i could wax poetic abt this sumbitch for hours omg pls bless you if you read this AT ALL idk if anything i say abt daniel makes sense fjfhf #child abuse tw // #military yt man marries local selvadoradan beauty whose twenty years younger than him - does their eldest son have some #Serious Generational Trauma?? vote now on your phones!!! 📞 #dan takin a hit for everyone in the house at one point or another: light work no reaction #dan learning there’s cucumbers in his food: 😰😭😢🤕

[pavus]

i've been furiously spinning aurelia and astarion in my head while making her oc page & i cannot wait to restart her game once everything is fixed. i want them.

#like... the intimacy of astarion being with someone who has a history of hunting undead only ever being treated kindly by those hands.... #with someone who worships love and beauty and passion and has been grievously wounded by the things she reveres #but hasn't slowed her momentum or quelled her desire to find someone to live inside her heart #chewing them chewing them chewing them chewing them #📢.txt

[lunearobservatory]

You know what? I'm gonna say it. I'm vouching for Montana to join the huge honkers club.

#look. #he's the 4th biggest state with rly high elevation and a lot of. erm. Land Mass. iykwim. #I'm obsessed with the homophobic homosexual slur sayers group chat lately. by that i mean wyoming idaho montana #TO ME THEY ARE FRIENDS. #hunting. fishing bros. they r huge DUMB farm dogs who beat tf out of each other playfully like they'll throw down. wrestle in the dirt #montana wins 👎👎👎👎👎 usually. unless its 2v1 #oregon meanwhile a little further west like. Exhausted by this. his husband and his homophobic jock friends. they will not stop fighting. #they are in public. if he takes them to yhe shore they will try to drown each other. wyoming almost full ass dies #OMFG WAIT NAW FR I MET??? SOMEONE FROM WYOMING TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. #YALL ARE REAL???? YALL ARE REAL!!!!! #they were..... wearing a FANTASTIC amount of minions merchandise. which to me only confirms that wyoming is in a time bubble #causing it to perpetually exist 10 years in the past #i fully said omg never met someone from wyoming before!!!!! and they said lmfao well there isnt rly that many to meet tbh. like. #YAS. rocking that least populated state title #to me that means he has SEVERE empty head syndrome. dissociative disorder 🫵 maladaptive daydreaming 🫵 im projecting. #its not a problem for him tho he's got a huge ass fantasy world he's been cultivating in his head since the 1800s. this bitch loves books. #and when i say bitch i mean BITCH. victoria my dear beloved darling made a post about it but WOW. he is a CUNT. #the west is full of mean girls !!!! #disgusting of them #lune talks #lune talks even more in the tags 😐 #i cant keep DOING THIS. #wttt #wttsh #ben brainard #welcome to the statehouse #welcome to the table #REMINDER THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY ABOUT MONTANA'S HUGE FUCKING TITS. REMEMBER THAT REMEMBER. OKAY? GOOD #wttt montana #i hereby deem alaska mass montana texas. the huge knockers club.

[babisawyer]

shauna being like jackie I really need you right now and then sobbing hysterically is literally me every week watching this friggin show.

#🐇 #yellowjackets #the amount of homophobia this week.....far too much #where the fuck is kristen/crystal lmfao who has her #I also was totally shitting on all the therapy but then shauna's stuff was like a punch to the face so thank you lottie!!! #idk how many episodes are left but like....do you think that misty will confess to destroying the black box and then because lottie is #getting her visions again and things kinda seem like they're going towards a cannibal ritual direction that they'll hunt her to possibly #appease the antler queen/save van/fix the adam issue?? #I'm getting the vibes heavily someone won't survive the main plot line and I think the van thing is too obvious #and the reddit thinks it's nat but they're literally never right about anything they said no one would actually care about the flight #recorder like tell that to dead kristen/crystal why the fuck would no one care about that????? #also so so amazed that it took this long for someone to get the shit beat out of them lmfao I thought that would've happened in the first #season and also I would've thought it would have been mari if I'm totally honest. like we're all thinking it #I'm also like really wondering if walter really is a cop or something or a PI tai hired or something idk there's something there #and like honestly I'm so bored of the two tai thing and the eyeless man like just explain it already I'm tired of waiting #I will say though so so funny the girls talking about how misty is insane and also hoping they can eat kristen/crystal

[detectiveconnor]

scenario: someone tells your muse (& connor) that they found an old computer/harddrive with a program called 'amanda' on it at (kamski's house/cyberlife/other reasonable location) and they reach or step in connor's direction, and connor immediately Flinches several (at least two) steps backwards. does your muse consider this person to be a Threat / what do they Do about it

#this is entirely something i am entertaining myself with currently i Know that i just had a whole 'he killed kamski in order to be able to #hunt down/destroy the copies kamski had' thing and that IS the case but imagine a tiny little au #where this happens - someone going through supplies for whatever reason - #and connor. *connor*. flinches away #immediate and at Once and abandons whatever he was working on to put Distance between himself and this person who has #been in physical contact with any form of technology that can even possibly have amanda-adjacent files in it

[darcyolsson]

also on the topic of hannibal the one thing i think is most telling for how invested i am in will & hannibal's dynamic is how the women in this show are treated lol like you know hannigram got to me bc all of these women combined still have less personality than that stag thing from will's hallucinations

#the way every woman in this show is defined by her relationship to a man 😭 ough it's BAD #alana is the only one who has some depth i think but even then the way her relationship w margot is treated #compared to the way her relationships w hannibal & will were treated....... very telling #someone pointed out that even though abigail is quite an important character you know nothing ab her personality or college or her hobbies #we know she likes to hunt (bc her father taught her) we know one of her friends (bc hannibal killed her) etc etc #and i think for abigail her being defined by the men who manipulate her couldve been an intentional choice #but for the others it definitely wasnt. which leads me to think that for abigail it maybe also wasnt #personal

[lochley]

thinking a lot about minbari telepaths and how much agency they do/don't have over their lives. i only remember what was touched on in legacies and even then, hardly, so i may be stupid here <3

but anyway their service is an honor or a calling or whatever, they're compensated for it i think, but is it a choice? i feel like once you refer to something as a Calling in minbo society it's all over for you.

and in a society where you're not supposed to lie, telepaths on the loose would... in Theory not be a threat, but in actuality where everyone is just tiptoeing around the truth, it'd be dangerous. i feel like the gov would like to keep tabs on telepaths to make sure no clan or caste or political rival would be using one for their own good, but obvs have some front up about it where "we have nothing to hide it's just to help the telepaths actually, and ensure they're using the gifts valen gave them as intended haha <3"

so if alisa had gone there, she'd probs have more freedoms within that role than a psi corps teep would, but she still wouldn't have much freedom as a normal citizen maybe? and that makes sense since that's the cost of her being allowed there and provided for.

but for a regular minbo telepath i imagine it's the same thing, where sure you have freedoms within your role! but if you wake up and decide you'd rather own a bakery then haha, haha, you might just mysteriously disappear <3

AND THENNNN i wonder how this impacts how delenn views lyta. she had some rly sympathetic lines toward her at the very end, paralleling her own feelings about her own ostracization, but i kinda believe a lot of why she didn't speak up sooner would be because of seeing telepathy and servitude going hand in hand.

they had soooo many similarities and enough history where if it wouldn't have gotten in the way of Plot, delenn could've been a good person to help lyta. so apart from the general concept of delenn just having her own life and not being perfectly in-tune with lyta's daily life, maybe this is another in-universe reason for why she didn't do more.

#og #as usual i am still rewatching and i am very sleep deprived so like? #be nice perhaps? #i need to dig out the actual line delenn said bc it might contradict what im talking about here #i only remember the ostracization bits #ok so she talks about being forced to join the psi corps and being hunted and enslaved #which honestly still lends itself to this idea #because she may not... have understood the depths of corps corruption until byron brought it to the council #i do think minbos still use the calling piece to do something similar but less cruelly #and so this would have her still view that method as superior because it's simply a calling #and who are we to deny telepaths of their calling etc #and lyta doing what she's done is simply Her calling esp because the vorlons specifically made it happen #it's just that Now that it's clear how Inferior humans handle their teeps #(ie. lyta not being inherently provided for for example!) #Then she can realize that yeah this has been quite messed up hasnt it #(anyway im not articulating it very well and im sure i'll get in Trouble for talking about someone's precious pure uwu delenn #in a flawed way lmfao this is just me trying to expand on why #for someone who should have understood what lyta was going through for many reasons #(shared history. vorlon involvement. ostracization.) #delenn was not able to intervene #and i know a lot of that is bc of season 5's needs and writing issues and just the fact that delenn had other things going on probs #but i think exploring this piece Maybe helps give more in-universe reasons about it as well #even if im wrong! #it is a big show and again i am not saying i know everything about it so if you remember something different that #contradicts this i would LOVE to actually know! #if i was trying to present any of this in a finite way it'd be a meta post on ao3 with comments disabled lmfao)

[cynical-crypt]

the whole "i liked patrick better fat/skinny" shit has been making me so angry for so many years. you should like patrick better happy

#i dont give a shit what he looks like as long as he's happy. which as far as i can tell he is right now #stop being shitlords. patrick has looked and always will look absolutely gorgeous #and i will die on this hill as many times as i have to #the same applies to the other guys obviously but patrick has been the victim of 99.999% of the bodyshaming #and if you're someone who bodyshames him i will personally hunt you down regardless of the moral implications of that #i would do the same for anyone else. bodyshaming is fucking crazy #fall out boy #patrick stump

[arcenergy]

i genuinely have to ask as someone whose a sweaty loser and does everything in destiny SOLELY to raid and do raid challenges, or complete the most difficult endgame pve content that destiny has to offer, if you arent playing pvp in destiny and also arent doing endgame pve content then what the FUCK are you doing . what are you guys doing with your time as casual destiny players. please let me know because idfk . strikes???? titles???

#misc #destiny #like sure i can understand achievement hunting or secret hunting but there is NO WAY that eats up the vast majority of your playtime i just #cant comprehend it #i am FLOORED every time someone who has been a longtime destiny player tells me they dont raid like THEN WHAT ARE U DOING WHEN U PLAY IF ITS #NOT ENDGAME PVE CONTENT #do NOT tell me yall are playing gambit . i couldnt cope if that was the case #every time i get the end of the year playtime report from bungie literally 80-90% of my playtime was spent inside of a raid

[totheslaydogs]

i know kunikida struggles with self image bc why tf else would he say that the waitress at the cafe has nicer hands then his.....

#kunikida hcs #bsd kunikida #kunikida my beloved #naw cuz who hurt him to make him think that way #i just wanna talk #when will my boy just embrace that he is destined to be a boyboss not a boyfailure #i miss him #my boy has been missing in action for MONTHS #bsd anime #bungou stray dogs kunikida #i’m coping with the new chapter by rehashing bad jokes #ugh anyway #bsd #i’m sure he’s regretting saying this after the events with the hunting dogs #…yikes #no hands #laughing through my TEARS #someone give this man a hug