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#where does 'for a team for a sport that doesn't technically exist' fall? #i need more excuses to wear the hades tigers jersey

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it's hilarious how if you do any amount of research into life or death melee combat the prevailing themes that emerge are that

you're gonna get tired very quickly

tired leads to injured, injured leads to tired, tired leads to—

you're not gonna be as composed as you expect

humans are more fragile than you think and also more durable than you think. both are true and neither stop them from dying of an infection later (DO NOT GET BITTEN)

DO NOT GET STABBED (generally good life advice)

DO GET A SPEAR

knights are faster than you think

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The simple way I do it is that the "innocent" village? Yeah, that's where all the workers at the death camp of a prison she was kept in lived.

It also very neatly also explains why the hell she didn't do something like "escape to anywhere out of the Fire Nation" (even if she didn't think she could go back to the SWT without endangering her people). If the village is still profiting over the bones of her people, if she's the only one who remembers the names of the people in the mass graves, then how can she leave?

If anything, yes, I will play up the fact that she's a genocide survivor, a concentration camp survivor, and she's got all the right in the world to deeply resent what was done to her and her people. And to bluntly state just how disgusting I find it that Bryke decided to not only side with the oppressor, but to have Katara be okay with handing Hama over to the exact same people who fucking tortured her for years, the same people who were ultimately behind the death of Katara's mother.

Like what in the actual fuck.

Do you have any thoughts about Hama? I know shes a single episode character, but i think about her on occasion, and when other bloggers write about her (and fics mention her) it seems to flatten her into the Worst Possible Villain

One of the few indigenous elders, one of the only older female benders, one of the few indigenous resistance fighters, and a survivor of genocide gets demonized by the narrative and treated as absolutely evil? Yes, there are issues with how Hama got depicted, mostly because there are almost no other characters in those categories to serve as positive counterexamples.

#atla #hama deserved better

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Jack Black did more of Hit Me Baby One More Time, and I am living for this.

What an ad for Kung Fu Panda 4

#jack black #this is an ad? christ on a bicycle #flawless

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RPG’s be like

#jrpg #WHERE'S THE LIE

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#i cannot believe people think ursala vernon does not understand narrative tension #oh wait yes i do #ffs context people #exhibit a in 'read the quote in context'

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For those that are going to miss the eclipse on Monday, I have created a simulation of what the eclipse will look like along the path of totality

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No context no nuance. Pick

Apotheosis: To become a god

Deicide: To kill a god

#kill all gods #declare war on every single god

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It is very, very telling that Azula was never taught a language in which she could express her love and care in a healthy way, but she tries to anyway with an imperfect tongue.

Zuko was taught how to express care and affection in multiple ways, in word and deed, by Ursa and Iroh at the very least, and he uses none of these to extend any to his younger sister.

Azula is a child who only has a hammer and is trying to use it to build everything because it is the only thing she has. Zuko has the entire toolbox but refuses to pick a single tool up to do the work.

the crucial fact of zuko and azula's relationship that makes it so insanely compelling is not the tried and true facets of siblings on opposite sides of a war, sibling rivalry turned murderous, or siblings who are divided by their parents' favoritism; it's the fact that despite being the older sibling, zuko is the one who doesn't care about azula while azula cares about him even when it goes against her best interest to do so. i think this makes a lot of people who want to see zuko through the fanon lens of this awkward turtle duck who's just doing his best and isn't super angry and volatile deeply uncomfortable because it so directly contradicts that reading of him unless they completely strip azula of her sympathetic and human traits. but that reading is not only unsupported by canon, it's boring.

the truth is that azula cares about zuko (in a very distorted way given how her upbringing and trauma restrict her ability to express it in a way anywhere in the area code of healthy) to the extent that because she chooses him over herself in bringing him home (because it is an insane retcon that implies she is near omnipotent to say she knew for certain the avatar was not really dead and was just going to scapegoat zuko, not to mention it makes very little sense and is, again, boring), she loses everything. and zuko cares so little for azula that he only feels anything remotely close to grief about it all when he sees just how badly she's hurting.

as much as i think his redemption arc leaves to be desired in terms of the political implications of it, zuko does have a good heart. he does want to do the right thing. it's just that azula has always been his blind spot, and that makes their relationship so much more interesting.

#atla #fire hazard siblings #the problem with using hammers is when some things don't take well to hammering #and i'm very serious that zuko is the one with ANY context for other tools #other healthier ways to express love and affection because he experienced them to a far greater degree than his sister ever did #honestly expecting azula to be demonstratively soft in her caring is some ex nihilo shit #(although half of turtleduck Zuko fandom seems to think 'good sibling' equals 'fawning sycophantic doormat' #and the other half seems to think it equals 'violent attack dog but only if Zuko gets to hold the leash')

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#batteries are hard #no really storing energy for use later is a hard problem if you want to do it at massive scales #remember when people were all talking about hydrogen fuel cells? it's not that the idea didn't work it's the scale #and the cost to create batteries that can handle the load

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They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven’t had your “third” death. You decide to find out why.

#ea nasir

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Challenge Level: IMPOSSIBLE

for me it's "the search"

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In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)

I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it'd stopped to give people rain. Then it'd stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that's why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).

Dragons aren't meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.

So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.

I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.

I hope we will be dragons.

#dragons

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There is some pretty shocking footage out there of the Baltimore bridge collapse early this morning. I've already seen some incredibly wrong, incredibly insensitive Hot Takes about how shitty the bridge was to have fallen after being bonked by a boat, etc

Please don't be that person.

The facts will come out. Speculation is silly. In addition to loss of life, the Francis Scott Key bridge was a major arterial in that region's highway system. Its loss will be felt for years, and not just to daily commuters.

Baltimore harbor is closed. No shipping at all. This will impact supply chains in ways we cannot even assess yet.

It's pretty fucked up.

#to all you idiots saying the bridge was faulty: physics is a bastard #an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted on by an equal an opposite outside force #95k tons is a lot of object #i doubt the bridge strut was designed to take that kind of direct impact

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Source

#zhuge liang #zhuge liang appreciation post #(okay but the story of how he met his wife is pretty cool too #'zhuge liang why didn't you marry a pretty woman?' #'what the hell is wrong with you she's the smartest woman i know')

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#nos and their adversarial relationship with words #i am in this picture and i don't like it