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One detail from the book that didn't make it into the movie that I think is neat is that Eva Stratt did not just stumble across Ryland Grace. He was not the 'potentially disposable' option. She went to the top microbiologists in some of the best research labs in the world and was told multiple times "you know what? I think Dr. Grace might be your guy." When discussing the Petrova Problem. And this several years after his ejection from academia.
scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah; things could go sideways real fast
because grace learns eridian from rocky do you think he speaks to people on erid with his little piano/organ/instrument setup and theyre like lol wow. you've got a REALLY strong accent. and grace is like well im an alien, thats to be expected, right? and theyre like no that's not what we mean. it's just... you sound just like rocky :,) it's very cute actually
of course grace is delighted! but it'd be very funny if rocky had just. a massively specific regional accent. and now grace has it too. all the eridians from that area are like OMG THE ALIEN IS ONE OF US - we're adopting it. that's an honorary member of the clan. listen to it. it might as well have grown up here.
...actually i'm gonna do it. fuck it. rocky is space scottish. to me. he's mine now, i'm taking him out to look at the kelpies and the falkirk wheel and climb up ben ledi. he can go fishing in a loch. and now grace's eridian accent is their equivalent of scots. he says stuff to adrian's family (posh motherfuckers) and theyre like 'i think it's trying to communicate with us..?' meanwhile adrian, well used to rocky's accent by now, is like 'it's giving you a compliment. be nice to my spouse's alien, please.'
(adrian is like the dad who doesn't want a cat. theyre like this is my spouse rocky and rocky's... alien friend.. and then like two months later rocky comes in and adrian is letting grace sleep on top of them. he was cold, I couldn't just let him shiver, and rockys like no no beloved you're so right, and secretly rubbing his claws together like yesss just let it happen, grace will win all of erid over at this rate..)
ppl who don’t make an effort to listen to their partner(s) abt their interests bc they “don’t like it” scare me
exactly. it’s not about whether you like it or understand it. it’s about sharing their joy and learning about who they are.
Real and true
Also the best relationship building skill you can master is the follow up question. Being able to ask something that says you follow enough to do that is amazingly satisfying for the person who is sharing. Even if the question b is what a term means or how something works.
As if they wouldn’t be codependent after everything they went through. Significant separation anxiety and all that. I cannot imagine they’d ever be comfortable being apart after being cooped up on a spaceship going through ✨trauma✨ for years.
Grace making huge advencements in the Eridian medical field.
Turns out there's a childhood disease to the tune of measles that erodes the carapace, and the first symptom shows up about a week before any actual damage is caused.
Grace comments to Rocky that one of his students seems to be turning oxidisation-green. About a week later that student has to be hospitalised for this illness.
Eridian scientists realise pretty quick that Grace can detect the illness long before any of their equipment can, and when caught that early it is much, much easier and safer to treat.
Not only is Grace celebrated in the scientific field for his knowledge and for his part in saving the world, he becomes a beacon of hope for doctors and parents and children on Erid.
a lot of ATLA college AUs put Katara in a medical course, specifically Nursing, which is cool. But I'd like to put her in Anthropology or Sociology.
Anthropology, specifically Cultural Anthropology, because of her deep appreciation and understanding for other nations' cultures, especially her own.
Sociology because of how well she connects with other people and understands the situations they're in.
maybe im a little biased cuz im majoring in Social Studies but i hope u get the point XD
She's triple majoring
Her first advisor, Pakku, STRONGLY advised her against it (specifically he advised her that she could certainly double major in the "soft" sciences but medicine required more dedication than he'd yet seen from --gendered pause as he looks at the cheery HR reminder poster hung just opposite of his desk-- students like her.)
Aunt "Is working on her eighth doctorate as they speak" Wu, on the other hand, has predicted GREAT things for her, and they've been having a blast maximally overloading her credits each semester
Rocky, once again, being baffled and STRESSED about human biology and the things his human does to keep healthy i dont think mr "my whole crew died of radiation sickness" likes the fact that his alien and most things on his planet needs it for survival very much xD previous
Grace goes swimming! Rocky is not thrilled.
Eridians cant "hold their breath" like humans do, their vents dont close completly so water can still get in, if they fall in water they drown and die. safe to say rocky is not a fan of when grace does it for fun xD
(i got the inspo for this from this fic: Enrichment by alatarmaia4, please check it out it is so funny)
More art of Rocky Stressing™️ about human biology
Rewatching Book 3 of ATLA and cringing at how dumb the Iroh fanservice plot twists are:
"Iroh lied about killing the last dragon before Zuko was born because he wanted to protect them! They actually deemed him pure of heart and worthy to learn the truest form of firebending🥰" .......... even though he continued to be a violent general in an evil genocidal empire long after that...? I'm questioning the dragons' wisdom now.
"Actually Iroh and all the other old guys in the show are senior members of a super secret society working for the good of the world!!" ..... even though one of them flat out refused to teach the Avatar waterbending for misogynistic reasons, another refused to teach the Avatar firebending for personal reasons, and Iroh was an evil war general barely 6 years ago so I suppose he's only a recent member?
I love AtLA as much as anyone, but yeah it is, uh. Pretty abundantly clear that the White Lotus didn't exist in the writers' room until at least season two, and they didn't have a full idea of its role in the narrative probably until season three. The timeline on Iroh "Did A War Against All The Rest Of You" Azulonson joining and being trusted so high in the membership is also. Very questionable.
Which is all to say I think it would be perfect if we got to the season three end game and realized Iroh was actually still an errand boy initiate in the White Lotus. And Piandao pulls aside the main tent flap to reveal our Supreme Grand Lotus:
Gran-Gran
Canonically traveled the world without Committing A War, thus reasonably having met and networked with most of these other people in a positive way? Check
Saw the Avatar and told her only grandkids to go help that kid ASAP, don't worry Gran-Gran's just going to stay riiiiiight here while you're gone and definitely not relive the excitements of her youth? Check
Would recontextualize Pakku's constant sour grapes face (and his reaction to seeing Katara's necklace) to "my ex left me and now she's my superior, if I don't train her grandkid she will mobilize a global movement to Kick My Ass"? CHECK
Gran-Gran for White Lotus Grandmaster 2026
You are Iroh, you finally land a job in your new field. This is the first time in your life you’ve ever had to work your way up. This time, this time you will succeed or fail entirely on your own. No weight of expectation bears down from your father, no brother waiting in the wings, salivating for you to slip up. No legions of men looking to you with trust and hope and faith shining in their eyes. You feel… free, hopeful, ready.
Then your kid assaults your new boss.
Or not really your boss, more like your boss’s boss’s boss.
And it turns out everything is really really hard when everyone around you isn’t trying to curry your favor or affirm your ideas. Outside of the fire nation people don’t just nod and go along with you. They ask follow-up questions and instead of adopting your plans and automatically beginning to work on adapting and generating solutions they instead point out flaws that you hadn’t considered. Nobody is troubleshooting for you, nobody stands ready to spin anything that goes wrong in a favorable light. You are repeatedly written off at best and criticized at worst.
Turns out you kinda suck at this new thing you’re trying, and while it’s a novel experience you do kind of want to ask Agni why you had to be so GOOD at destroying the world and so BAD at uniting it. Why will nation and sons alike follow you so readily towards certain death, but not turn back with you towards peace and life? Were you ever the leader you imagined yourself to be or have you always been a fool riding a mighty riptide and believing yourself the fastest swimmer.
Iroh having to go have a little lie-down after his nephew assaults his boss's boss? CANONICALLY CHECKED
Sleeping on the job
+bonus doodle ft. Stratt
grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)
rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it
I really tried to tip the scales in your favor
Ponytail Zuko, cleaned up for instagram (cabbage_merchant.jpg). Originally from this post by @vallirenwrites about bald zuko without the ponytail to keep his flowing long locks contained. Then my brain went “hold on, what if Zuko just never changes his hair” and now look what happened.
[ID: 4 monochrome drawings of Zuko, with his book 1 hairstyle. Drawing 1 shows Zuko speaking, while his hair, unbound from the confines of the pony tail, flows majestically behind him. Sparkles adore his hair, to illustrate just how beautiful it is.
Drawing 2 shows a tired and disgruntled Zuko in uniform, scowling slightly. Heavy bags are under his eyes, and his hair is, once again, out of its pony tail, but now just hangs down onto his shoulder in a tangled mess.
Drawing 3 is a redraw of the scene in the episode “The Beach” where Zuko takes off his shirt dramatically and there are birds flying behind him, except in this version he has his Book 1 hairstyle. Thankfully in a pony tail this time.
Drawing 4 is a redraw of the scene where Zuko is in the war balloon on his way to first meet the Gaang in Book 3, except this time, of course, he has his book 1 hairstyle. End ID.]
wait fuck this just made me think, what about an AU where when zuko is banished he ends up with the sun warriors somehow??
alright this idea slaps.
When Zuko gets banished Ozai doesn’t even pretend that he’ll take him back. Zuko is told, in no uncertain terms, that he is no longer crown prince. He is given time enough for his scar to heal enough not to risk infection, but as soon as he can stand long enough without falling over he is deposited at the palace gates with a bag - they didn’t let him bring much, just his swords and a clean pair of trousers.
He wishes uncle were here. Uncle would know what to do. But Iroh is away somewhere, on a spirit journey, so Zuko is alone in the world. And he’s hungry. Luckily there are always merchants in Caldera, and if one of them happens to take on a fumbling part-time worker that looks just a little too scared at the sight of fire, then that surely has to do with that giant scar across his left face, the poor thing, and no one bats an eye. After all, everyone is too busy preparing for the funeral of Crown Prince Zuko to notice little Li.
The merchants aren’t very nice though, in Li’s opinion (they treat him like he’s stupid, but he’s not, the tutors at the palace just never covered things like haggling in their lessons), so he collects his pay for the last time and hitches a ride on a cart down to the harbour. He could go to the Earth Kingdom, maybe; the scar distracts from his golden eyes well enough, and he’s lost his fire, so it’s not like being a firebender would be a problem.
(Not until Father conquers the rest of the Earth Kingdom, at least. He doesn’t know where he will go when that happens.)
But Li is 13, and small for his age, so no one wants a half-blind toddler on their ship, no matter how much he insists that he can earn his keep. The logical idea is, then, to sneak onto a ship in secret, because he really can’t stay here, not another second, so he picks the ship with the most green-eyed people and hides in between crates of spices and fine Calderan silks and hopes for the best, but the best doesn’t come (of course it doesn’t, Agni hates him) and Li is discovered three days into the voyage.
He pleads and he begs, he really does, for the second time in his life, but the old sailors are as deaf to him as his father was, and they bundle him up and toss him overboard (”waste of good rope,” one of them says) and somehow he gets his arms free but the sea is so cold and dark and not at all like the warm waves of Ember Island and Li - no, Zuko, he’s not going to die under a false name - Zuko can’t breathe-
Zuko wakes up with sand in his mouth and sun in his patchy hair. He’s parched, and hungry, but he’s alive, so maybe the spirits have been merciful with him this time. There’s really no use lingering around on the beach, where no one will come for him anyway, and he needs to find water or something to eat, so he sets off into the thick jungle.
There’s nothing to eat here either, but Zuko does find what looks an awful lot like old stone buildings, and well. He’s always loved exploring.
The Grand Lotus hears the news of Prince Zuko’s demise not from Ozai, but from Piandao. He hurries back to Caldera, to the palace, but doesn’t even make it home in time for the funeral. He wears his white robes solemnly, as does the rest of the country (although there are whispers, rumours, that the late Prince didn’t die in an assassination attempt, that the prince was killed by his own-), and when Iroh hums the tune of ‘Leaves from the Vine’, he now does it by the graves of two young soldier boys instead of one.
Hi i wrote some more (at 5 am)
The Sun Warriors are strange, Zuko thinks. For a lost civilisation, they seem very much alive. And they don’t bend like anyone he’s ever seen before… they dance, they talk to their fire, breathe with it instead of forcing it to follow their breathing, and for the first time since the Agni Kai, Zuko wants to learn.
Keep reading
this au now lives in my head rent free so i ended up drawing some more stuff for it
[ID: 4 digital drawings in monochrome of Zuko from the sun warriors adopt zuko au above. Image 1: Zuko, aged 15, from the shoulders up. His head is lowered slightly and his eyes are closed. His head is shaved in the style of the Sun Warriors, which almost looks like his book 1 ponytail but longer in the front. Ritual markings decorate his cheeks, shoulders, and head.
Image 2: Younger Zuko, aged maybe 14, practicing with his fire bending teacher (original character named Atzin). They’re both wearing the trousers and leg coverings of the Sun warriors, while Atzin is also wearing arm bands and ritual markings on his cheeks, as well as the sun warrior’s tail hairstyle (three-pronged), while Zuko’s hair is long and un-styled to signify his young adult status. Both are in a crouched stance, with their right feet in front of them and their right hands parallel to the ground. Atzin is smiling down at Zuko, saying “Almost… check your right foot.”
Image 3: Young Zuko, aged 13 and fresh into banishment, playing with another Sun warrior kid of the same age. Both have shoulder-length unstyled hair and are wearing trousers and leg wrappings like the other sun warriors. The kid has a big grin, and Zuko is sporting a small smile. His friend is running. The two are playing with a ball, probably some version of football. The ball is on fire.
Image 4: Older Zuko, now with his Book 1 hairstyle. He is in the process of putting his hair into a ponytail, his hands above his head and brushing through his hair. His eyes are closed in concentration. End ID.]
call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.
@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.
Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.
Remember that time male swimmers were pulled out of training because Kate Ledecky was leaving them ‘broken’ by swimming better than them? Remember how she didn’t even notice, because she was busy actually training?
Shooting is a sport that has no reliance on strength and so any allowance for gender variation is irrelevant. The last time there was a mixed competition (1992) a chinese woman named Zhang Shan won it.
It’s often presented as for the benefit of women. After all, they’ll be heartbroken when they‘re hurt or bested by men.
Projection is a hell of a drug.
this is why they drug test Serena like crazy. the believe no woman should be that good. let alone a black woman. and black women have always been considered “manly” and less feminine.
also can we talk about how surfing is segregated as well? like how the dude who won this years international surfing cup or whatever was given $30,000 worth of prize money, while the woman who won the women’s comp was only awarded like $16,000 of prize money???? or whatever it was. but I know it was either half or less than half of what the man won. like why can’t they get the same prize money and when they’re competing internationally in the same competition? they surely have the same level of skill and talent.
the pay gap in sports between men and women is fucking insane.
The pay gaps, not to mention lack of sponsorships for women athletes who don’t look like models is insane. If you weigh over 250 pounds, no one will sponsor you. It’s why most female Olympic-class weightlifters live in poverty/out of their cars.
Reminder that in international (and usually national too) womens athletics anybody with 5m/mol of natural testosterone or higher is disqualified. (See legal case of Dutee Chand vs IAAF.)
Do you or somebody you know have PCOS? You are banned from international womens athletics because you are supposedly in posession of an unreasonable advantage in sports.
Folks disqualified for hyper-androgenism in womens athletics.
Francine Niyonsaba
Caster Semenya
Dutee Chand
Margaret Wambui
And more
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Why are those disqualified overwhelmingly black and brown? Because testing is case by case when an athletes performance “raises suspicions”. They overwhelmingly test athletes of colour, for being too fast and not meeting white expectations of femininity.
Racism and intersexism(discrimination against intersex people) in sports is abject evil. Desegregate sports.
the only people profiting from segregated sports are white cis men. desegregate that shit.
even with those four numbers there are countless possible combinations good luck with figuring out which one is the right one you punk
*straightens calculator*
It’s pretty likely that it’s a four digit number, and as there are four digits chosen there, that means that there cannot be any repetition. This mean that there are:
n!/(n-4)! possible orders. As ‘n’ is 4 (number of digits available). 4!/0! which becomes 4x3x2x1/1 which simplifies to 24. That means that there are 24 possible combinations of codes. This would take you about two or three minutes to input all possible codes.
Unless an alarm goes off if you don’t get it right in 3 tries
*straightens calculator again*
Kick the fucking door in
well ‘technically’ the code is most likley 1970. statistically, a majority of people, when told to choose a 4 digit code will choose their birth year. and this key pad is obviously a few years old to put it nicely, thats most likley it.
some sherlock holmes shit just went down over here
No, no, no. Don’t base your deductions of psychology. Let’s talk chemistry. When you first press a button, there’s more of the natural oils on your skin, and therefore it wears down the numbers on the keys faster. Obviously 0 is the first one, then. Try 0791 first.
Sherlock out.
it got better
and this is why the sherlock fandom could either rule the world or end it….
Close, but not quite, I think. People will almost always choose a number they can remember. What’s memorable about 0791? Try 0719 - a birthday, 19th of July. That is more likely.
Those deductions are great and all, but unnecessary.
The light is green.
The door is already open.
And that’s why we have a John Watson.
This is “top 10 favorite posts” level.
Omg, it’s actually on my dash! This post is like a fossil!
Idk if I’ve rebloged this before, but I’ll reblog this legend again
Smithsonian? I’ve found the quintessential Tumblr and Sherlock fandom post. Yes. I would consider it definitive.
Ahh it’s back.
“And that’s why we have a John Watson”, indeed 😂
Legend of a post. 10/10 recommend reblogging.
this post is on my dash I feel HONORED
THE POST OF LEGENDS HAS RESURFACED ON MY DASH
I’VE ONLY EVER SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS OMG
On your dash? I dig for gold like this,,, by looking at my mutual pages.
I’ve only seen this on Pinterest!
*gasp* THE SACRED TEXTS!
THIS IS A LEGENDARY POST I HAVE BEEN GRACED BY IT’S APPEARANCE!!!
@hellsite-hall-of-fame
“It’s incredibly discouraging as a fandom creator to get little to no comments/reblogs on your works” and “no one should be guilt-tripped into reblogging or commenting if they don’t want to” are statements that can and should coexist.
And they both coexist with the statement that “posts that guilt-trip fans into interacting with fandom works make many people who want to interact less likely to do it out of fear the creator will think their interaction is not good enough”.
And another truth that also coexists with these, but that I don’t see talked about enough, is that this:
(no need to actually read the whole text in the image!)
…is a wall of love.
But these:
…are also walls of love!
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And both of these make many creators so, SO happy!
So, for all of us who do want to show creators more love and improve their and our own fandom experience, here’s what I propose:
Whenever you consume fandom content, if you have the energy and feel like it, leave a one-line comment. A few emojis. A smile. A keyboard smash. If you have a bit more time and energy than that and you feel like it, quote back your favourite line or point out what your favourite detail about a fanart is. And on the moments where you don’t have the energy for any of this, trust that others will do it for you, the same way you do it when you have the energy and others don’t.
Let’s all remember that fandom is a community. No fan should be feeling like they have to do it all on their own. No one should feel guilty for not having more to give than they do. And those of us who do, let’s create walls of love together.
