#the tea is symbolic

[sokkastyles]

Zuko attends Izumi's career day at school and everyone in the class is like! The firelord is coming to our school! And the teacher has the class prepare all these questions about governing and politics. And Zuko shows up in an apron and teaches the class how to make tea.

#zuko #izumi #firelord zuko #the tea is symbolic

[baskeigh-ball]

mission accomplished. now all that's left is to see where this goes >:)

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#they tried making conversation on liking tea but that got them absolutely nowhere #leo mentally gave up three minutes in #also the flowers i picked were totally random obviously #raph and splints have zero connection to the symbolism behind them #literally spent five minutes looking up flowers for that one bit of dialogue #don't @ me #mutant manhunt au #rottmnt #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt leo #rottmnt splinter #rottmnt raph #rottmnt fanart #my art

[shimmershy]

Buttercups and Golden Flowers

#i drew this mostly because i noticed that a lot of people mistake buttercups and golden flowers as being the same thing. #so i wanted to try drawing them like. distinctly different in the same image. #it's not a big thing but i do think the fact that they're different has some significance. or at least like. symbolic meaning. #my art #undertale #chara #chara dreemurr #safeutdr #something about the fact that they both look similar at least in color but one of them is poisonous. #the way golden flowers are clearly a positive symbol throughout the game and clearly heavily associated with Chara. #contrasted with the very negative connotations buttercups have. with asgore getting sick and chara using them in their plan. #you never see buttercups in the game. which makes it even easier to mistake the two. because we've only seen one kind of #golden/yellow flower. who's to say 'golden flowers' aren't just referring to buttercups? well. #why would there be golden flower tea if they were poisonous? why would chara want to see the golden flowers from their village if they're #the same kind of flower? they clearly have buttercups in the underground. #it feels almost intentional the way golden flowers are so easily mistaken for buttercups. or at least that the difference is so subtle. #it goes well with the way they're associated so strongly with chara who's also a very subtle yet important part of the narrative. #from a surface-level perspective the flowers that took their life and the one's they actually like/are important to them are the same thing #but when you pay closer attention to the narrative you can see the different symbolic meanings. #well. uhh I've thought about it too much don't mind me. #see i think about it from the perspective of chara being super adamant about them being two different flowers #and frustrated when anybody gets it wrong. because clearly. CLEARLY they're not the same. #'STOP confusing buttercups and golden flowers. i literally used buttercups to kill myself do you think i would still like them after that?' #'do you think i want to be associated with them? they're not the same!!' #<number one golden flower enjoyer number one buttercup hater. #i need a badge that says 'i have strong opinions about chara dreemurr because i kin them. i apologize for the wall of text' at this rate.

[2008tulip]

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#emoji combos #emoji combinations #krp #tea time #symbols #moodboard

[ivytea]

firebird’s orchard •  illustration for Herbarium 5e supplement. I was reading about alchemical and occult symbolism recently so it was a lot of fun to cobble together this imagery for this (probably structurally unsound!) poison/healing cabinetry.

#illustration #its tea times #my art #dnd 5e #dnd #goblincore #cramming in firebird eating fruit jewel philosopher's stone surrounded by ouroboros like Is this subtle symbolism????

[fandom-trash-goblin]

Alicent Hightower, Queen to King Viserys I Targaryen

for @boundlessfantasy (my only hotd moot currently, hi ma'am i survived geography! hope you like this one it's based on your blog background)

credits: icons of alicent hightower: pinterest user linberlyy, random images: pinterest, quote in first three rows: me, and last quote: tumblr user ojibwa

#god i love emily carey she broke my heart being alicent hightower #idk how people can look at her and say oh look she manipulated viserys #viserys was the adult in the situation. some of y'all are so deluded in that glorifying targs like viserys and daemon mood #idkidc baby alicent was a saint and a martyr and nobody gets to act as if she deserves it #also symbolism. dull red something something never fitting in with “pureblooded” targs #queen to king viserys: little to no agency for herself she is literally just a childbride broodmare no need for sugarcoating #baby alicent my love my sweetheart i want to wrap you in three blankets and give you a warm glass of tea. and then i want to #give you some glass bowls and tell you shatter them pretending they're viserys #it aint fixing much but atleast we know where to begin #anyways #alicent hightower #alicent my beloved #hotd #hotd aesthetic #hotd moodboard #*mine: aesthetics #pinterest #emily carey

[swetpump]

Like if used ><

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#layout #gg headers #gg bios #gg moodboard #discord layouts #messy bios #short bios #moodboard #messy moodboard #cute aes symbols #cute symbols #pride #kpop icons #heartstopper #cute #art #pink aesthetic #green tea #credit #discord #messy layouts #dividers #headers #carrd pngs #soft pngs

[novelconcepts]

Man, to have this story be about a girls’ soccer team in particular. Girls, who are taught to play by clean rules of society that must be actively unlearned in the wilderness. Athletes, who famously operate on superstition, rituals so easily transformed in crisis to matters of life and death. A team, which fundamentally cannot succeed if all parties aren’t working in tandem for the good of the whole. It’s so smart, and so simple, and goddamn, I love Yellowjackets.

#yellowjackets #it’s! so! excellent! it feels like early seasons of orphan black #where I just trust the show runners to know what they’re about #because everything from casting to music choice to symbolism is deliberate #and while there are a few elements of season 2 I’m not as crazy about I overall really really dig what they’re putting out there #I want to talk about this show to EVERYONE while knowing full well it will so not be half of people’s cup of tea #I’m like ‘it’s weird and fucked up and tragic PLEASE OBSESS WITH ME I’M BEGGING’

[sichimi]

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#◯ ˇ ﹕y uisa #y-eora #sullyoon #sullyoon nmixx #sullyoon nmixx moodboard #nmixx #nmixx moodboard #nmixx sullyoon #nmixx sullyoon moodboard #sullyoon layouts #nmixx icons #nmixx packs #green tea #green aesthetic #pastel #pastel moodboard #pastel green #pastel pink #pink aesthetic #aesthetic symbols #aesthetic #kpop aesthetic #kpop layouts #kpop locs #kpop moodboard #aesthetic kpop #kpop aesthetic moodboard #aesthetic kpop moodboard #aesthetic kpop locs #aesthetic kpop layouts

[duohensheng]

the untamed lineart: meng yao and lxc first private exchange

“I like to color in lines” series

#myart #the untamed #xiyao #music and letters and tea #the bowing series continues #mdzs #mdzs art #the flute symbolism in this shot is chefs kiss

[memento-mori-amor-fati]

#tea became a symbol of the oppressor #coffee became a symbol of the revolution

[sokkastyles]

 I’m surprised I’ve never seen anyone talk about this because I think about it a lot, but: Ozai’s smile when Azula grabs the tray.

From the dialogue, they weren’t talking to each other at all before that and this is the first time they’ve been face to face since the war. Ozai might have been wondering whether Azula was still loyal to him, and he ended up getting what he wanted. That smile is chilling.

Also Zuko wanting to give them dignity...both of them. Suki protests, saying they’re prisoners, not guests. Ty Lee has ever right to attack Azula the moment she makes a move and Zuko protests when that happens, too, even AFTER Azula has attacked him. 

The fact that Azula is in a straight jacket highlights the absurdity of bringing her tea, though, and Azula points that out, but she also knows that Zuko was trying to offer her kindness, otherwise she wouldn’t try to use that against him.

And it works. She’s able to convince Zuko that she should be allowed to talk to Ozai alone, “with dignity,” because she knows that’s what Zuko was trying to do. And Zuko also repeats that Azula should be given dignity when he tells the group that she should be allowed to travel with them unbound.

And I have no patience for people who say that Zuko has no right to get angry at Azula later in this comic after she’s taken every attempt he’s made to show her kindness and used that to manipulate and try to hurt him and everyone else around them.

But there’s also something that passes between Azula and Ozai here, and I think the text does want us to notice it because Zuko and Suki and Ty Lee remark upon how they haven’t said anything.

That look that Azula gives Zuko when Zuko tries to bring her the tea...maybe Azula would have accepted it if Ozai weren’t watching.

And Zuko channeling Iroh by attempting to mollify the conflict with tea, something we’ve seen him do before.

Come to think of it, this isn’t even the first time we’ve seen Azula vs tea server Zuko.

I’ve also written before about how Azula drinks tea in “Crossroads of Destiny” that Ty Lee serves her, right before luring Zuko and Iroh as tea servers into a trap. And I’ve written several posts about Zuko and tea, and Zuko learning to accept a life of service to others, something that Iroh accepted and Azula utterly rejects (which is also at the heart of why Azula resents Iroh).

 You can also see that reflected in the way Azula reacts to Zuko in this comic. “Even when you’re strong, you’re weak.” Because to Azula, showing kindness is a weakness.

I’m not saying some of the dialogue here isn’t still terrible. Ty Lee going “Azula, you’re not making any sense!” is clearly just supposed to be a signpost telling us that Azula is “crazy,” but then Ty Lee actually comments on what Azula said a few panels later. It’s weird that nobody in this comic asks Azula who “she” is, especially since Azula is talking about the very person they’re trying to find.

The frustrating thing about the way Azula is portrayed in this comic to me is that hackneyed portrayal of mental illness replaces a real examination of Azula as a character, her cruelty and her hatred and where it actually comes from. Women should be allowed to be awful without it being modified with either a hysterical woman trope or “oh, but she really didn’t mean it,” which is not that far away from the hysterical woman trope in any case.

#zuko #azula #iroh #ozai #atla comics #the search #the tea is symbolic #the crossroads of destiny #the earth kingdom chronicles

[hartanddoe]

Jackie's favourite flowers are poppies...

#tea death and sleep? sounds like intentional symbolism to me #jackie taylor #yellowjackets

[yuriprince]

how do y'all like my new watermark?? :0

#it's a little different than the one i used in my last comm cuz i just realized i can put the bear ears on the yuriprince @ #instead of drawing a whole new symbol #but overall i think it looks really cute!! #tea time! #a new masterpiece!

[dirtbra1n]

it’s always when I have things to be doing that this happens but it’s like. I don’t know I’ve gone so far into weird love territory and I’ve been here so long that when I go back and really look at canon it’s like it’s new to me. because like do you ever think about how hanzawa masato just sort of DECIDED that tashiro would be the next captain of the ping pong club. like it wasn’t a recommendation or anything that decision was made. and absolutely if tashiro genuinely GENUINELY didn’t want to do it nothing bad would have really happened, someone else could have done it, sure. you know? but at the end of the day tashiro, in the midst of his running away, had that thought, like. not in a thought bubble but in a b Hold on

in the narration box. like it’s not a fleeting in-the-moment thought like the whole poor shmuck thing. I’m not explaining this well. it’s just you get the impression that tashiro thinks about things a lot and also tangentially kind of thinks about his hanzawa senpai a lot and that realization of burden is so significant to tashiro that he takes on the position of captain

and he doesn’t look him in the face when he does it, and I love it. I love when things are indirect and subtle and sort of reluctant because it’s human and speaks to sincerity and tashiro’s grounded…ness that he isn’t unflinchingly happy to do it. he still doesn’t really want to do it. but he will. and he’ll do it WELL. because and this so matters hanzawa masato just sort of DECIDED that tashiro would be the next captain of the ping pong club because he knows tashiro and has been watching tashiro as a fun kouhai who he likes a lot and who makes him laugh like literally no one else in the world, and he knows that he would be a good president because he is, amongst other relevant things, a good person. the right kind of good person! he wouldn’t have forced tashiro to do it because frankly he couldn’t REALLY force tashiro to do it, tashiro has a way of getting around things (pudding head….) but he decided tashiro would be captain, because he knows tashiro, and tashiro decided to take that on, because he sees hanzawa. he decided that tashiro would be captain, and tashiro decided to accept that decision because hanzawa decided correctly.

and tashiro cares, and encourages his senpai to rest, and we get the FUCKING.

that just speaks VOLUMES. hanzawa masato who notoriously stays busy for at least one of two known reasons that sound a little contradictory but aren’t actually is resting right now. hanzawa masato who is so weird and so unknowable to his juniors is wearing a small smile that, unlike so many of his other ones (ominous as they are, usually), shows for only contentment. he’s resting right now. like the tashiro gonzaburou hanzawa masato dynamic IS so weird I’m not delusional for that. but my favorite thing that I think I do a really bad job of showing is that their exchanges go back and forth and are so much fun for the both of them, and it’s exactly like PING PONG. well matched and silly and hanzawa masato knows tashiro gonzaburou and if tashiro gonzaburou doesn’t know hanzawa masato he sure as hell sees him, and wants to know him, just a little at least, and it’s all so much. I’m resting right now. fuck. anyway

#bangs fist on the floor. is on the floor. #hanzawa to tashiro #hanzashiro #and really the fact that tashiro is hiding around the corner to hear the milk tea exchange with miyano. and then brings him some #ASSUMING HE DIDN’T ALREADY KNOW. it’s just like. i wish i was more comfortable writing tashiro he’s so much to me #silly little guy for sure. but intentionally taking on a burden for someone else when it’s explicitly something he doesn’t want to do #(or maybe just something he felt he wasn’t qualified to do. depends. probably both) #and doing well at it. the person hanzawa masato is trusting in the most. #just. someone who doesn’t want to be responsible but will be and someone who old people LOVE and someone who accepts things without judgment #and someone who will hide in a box on the floor to hide from his senpai and just as well walk right up to him and hide his face #and accept the trust masato was putting in him. #like this of all things isn’t really a burden to masato because he’s. he’s RESTING right now. of all the pies he has fingers in #this might actually be his favorite. for a number of reasons that are mostly speculative #but it’s SYMBOLIC of a burden. am i making any sense at all. i might not be #masato is giving this one away because it’s not really a burden to him exactly. but tashiro is taking it because he feels it’s a burden but. #how do i say this. it’s not a burden to masato but it IS a weight on his shoulders whether he realizes it or not #and tashiro takes it from him—not unreluctantly—because he cares. because he wants masato to rest. #i think talking this long is manifesting a tin cap on my head. i should go #dirtbrain digression #tldr it IS weird love. but just not AS weird or the KIND of weird that i’d have it be. haaaah i’m sick

[the---hermit]

Definitely not me delaying turing off my phone and going to bed to research things for what might be my next tattoos.

#and the funny thing is i have more or less the rest of my sleeve planned but the two main pieces i am thunking for that are #not what i feel like i need rn #idk how to explain it it happened to me before to know i wanted something but it was not the right moment #i just know #for the past months i have had this feeling of i want a tattoo mmbut those two are not what i need right now and #i felt like what i would need right now is something with leaves don't ask me why i feel like botanical pieces are what i need on my body rn #and then last week in class i have this flash of the placement and what to get and how and i have been thinking about it so hard #so now i am looking furhter into the symbolism of the herbs i was thinking about getting #so than i can amrinate this for months and see if it's really what i want #i think it would turn out to be pretty cool and let me tell you i was already vibing with the plants as a gardener and as a tea maker #but after looking in the symbolism i am vibing even more #cris speaks #the---hermit