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Lads boys as dogs 🐶 if Caleb’s winter soldier ass arm looks crazy, you dont see it ☺️ I 100% bsed that shit
Zayne - borzoi
Rafayel - english setter
Xavier - samoyed
Sylus - white doberman
Caleb - german shepherd
If this flops I’ll crash out, anyways this will be on my twitter too and maybe bluesky or ig 🫶
why do people ship zutara again? they didn't even have a romantic moment...
People wanted Katara to bang Zuko because they couldn’t and most people identified with Katara more than Mai, so they wanted to live their fantasies through a character.
excuse me while i leave this here.
Warning: shit is about to get real. Zuko took that lightning for Katara because he could redirect it and save both their lives without any damage and without anyone getting hurt. If he left it to hit Katara she would have died, but Zuko took it for her because he knew he could redirect it without a problem. But he screwed up and instead of it going through his stomach it went through his heart which almost killed him and thus came the “great sacrifice” that all zutarians like to speak about. But it wasn’t because Zuko was about to die for Katara, he just screwed up and redirected it wrong. He took it for her because he could save both of them without anyone having to die and no harm would’ve come to either of them if he had redirected it properly. The reason why it zooms in on Katara’s face is because this guy, who had threatened her and endangered and and her friends’ lives, was saving her. This completes Zuko’s redemption arc and has nothing to do with his feelings for Katara.
I think it’s important to discuss the ways in which a broad segment of the fans of Avatar and Legend of Korra have presumed a mutual romantic relationship between a man and a woman seemingly on the basis of the man’s actions. That alone is something that needs analysis and discussion as a pattern of fan behavior. At least in the above example (and Makorra examples from later in Legend of Korra), there seems to be an additional consistency - that what actions a man can do to validate reading a relationship between him and a woman as romantic are often wrapped up in the most simple recognition of the woman’s humanity and validity.
Zuko’s actions in the scene above do have to be understood in relation to his past actions towards Katara, and beyond that as stand-ins for the relationship between his entire nation and at least a large portion of hers. Part of what makes this so powerful is that it works on both those individual and representative levels. I think what also needs to be considered though is how Zuko’s behavior in that scene contrasts with not just his past self but also Azula in that moment. She targeted Katara who was outside of the Agni Kai - deciding to increase the threat of violence to others - the exact opposite of the reasoning Zuko gave for accepting her challenge of an Agni Kai. She glances at Zuko, then Katara, and decides to fire at her. Part of why Zuko damages himself is because he deflects haltingly, first aiming the lightening back at Azula, then shooting it into the sky above the arena.
Not sure there’s a parrallel yet? Well, what does Azula do next? She follows Katara and there’s this bit of dialgoue:
Sound familiar?
(Credit for those gifs goes to here).
What we’re seeing there isn’t just the repeated and angry spitting out of “peasant” but a broader aspect of the worldbuilding for Avatar: the Last Airbender that might even be one of the most overlooked aspects of that entire universe. It cuts right to the core of the colonial, monarchic, despotic line of thought that motivates the upper classes in the Fire Nation. Ignoring the ways in which that’s being referenced in that scene is the same reason it’s much harder to find a gif of the scene where Azula condescendingly explains to Long Feng that “true power - the divine right to rule - is something you’re born with” and even harder to find one mindfully made to be critical of what she’s saying.
Basically that entire scene is packed with meaning but almost all of it has to do not with viewing Katara romantically but with viewing not only her specifically but also a broad swathe of the world’s population as having the right to exist independent of the corresponding global minority’s wants and needs. That something so basic and hopefully antecedent to a romantic relationship has been broadly confused with romantic if not sexual interested on Zuko’s part is actually kind troubling.
Honoring the lives lost in the Atlanta shooting
Xiaojie 'Emily' Tan, 49
Tan, 49, was the mother of Jami Webb, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia. She was a licensed massage therapist and the owner of Young’s Asian Massage, along with other businesses in the area, including another spa and a tanning salon, according to state records. She was “the sweetest, most kind-hearted, giving, never-met-a-stranger person,” a friend told Atlanta’s WSB-TV. Just one day away from her 50th birthday when she was killed, according to USA Today, Tan was described by her daughter as thoughtful, devoted to her family, and looking forward to traveling in her retirement.
Hyun Jung Grant, 51
Hyun Jung Grant was a Korean immigrant who worked at Atlanta’s Gold Spa. Her son Randy Park, 23, shared a tribute to his mother on GoFundMe: He said his mother was a single parent who “dedicated her whole life to providing for my brother and I.” She loved dancing and sushi, according to Park, who told The Daily Beast, “She wasn’t just my mother. She was my friend.” Park, who now has to raise his brother alone, is not buying law-enforcement officials’ suggestion that the attack was motivated by a supposed sex addiction, not racism. “That’s bullshit,” he said.
Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez, 33
Yaun Gonzalez, 33, was a mother of two — 13-year-old Mayson and 8-month-old Mia. She had worked all day on Tuesday at the Waffle House a few shops down from Tan’s spa business. She had been looking forward to having a relaxing night out with her husband, Mario Gonzalez, whom she married only last year, and the couple had reportedly never been to Young’s Asian Massage before. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, family members say that Mario Gonzalez, who survived the shooting, is “taking [the situation] hard.” Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez’s friends and family have set up a GoFundMe to address her funeral costs.
Paul Andre Michels, 54
Michels, 54, was a handyman at Young’s Asian Massage and the owner of an electric company. He was only recently hired for the role and excited to take it on after looking for more work during the pandemic, according to a friend who spoke with CBS46. An army veteran originally from Detroit, Michels is one of nine siblings and is survived by his wife of more than two decades. In an interview with the Guardian, his brother John Michels emphasized his kindness. “He was just a regular guy, very good-hearted, very soft-natured,” he said, while noting that Michels had expressed an interest in getting involved in the massage business.
Yong Ae Yue, 63
A licensed massage therapist, she was laid off at the start of the pandemic last year and was excited to finally start shifts at the spa again, her son Elliott Peterson, 42, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday morning. Yue’s youngest child, Robert Peterson, 38, agreed, recalling their mother as a kind and deeply caring woman. If you stopped by her house, she’d sit you down, ask if you’d eaten, and then insist on a trip to H Mart grocery store so she could make a meal.
Daoyou Feng, 44
Daoyou Feng, 44, began working at Young’s Asian Massage in recent months, according to Tan’s friend Hynson. She was kind and quiet, he said. Her relatives could not be reached for comment.
Soon Chung Park, 74
Soon Chung Park, 74, was also a worker at an Atlanta spa. Her family didn’t respond when reached for comment. Park previously lived in New York, where she has relatives, her son-in-law, Scott Lee, told the New York Times. “She got along with her family so well,” Lee told the newspaper.
Suncha Kim, 69
Suncha Kim, 69, worked at one of the spas in Atlanta. Her family could not be reached for comment. Kim, a grandmother, was married for more than 50 years, a family member told the Times. She enjoyed line dancing and worked hard, the relative said.
Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz, 30
Hernandez-Ortiz, 30, was the only survivor of the victims who were shot on Tuesday, and he remains hospitalized for multiple gunshot wounds in his “forehead, throat, lungs and stomach,” according to the Washington Post. He was shot while standing outside in the shopping center where Young’s Asian Massage is located. “He came from nothing and has come a long way; that is why I have faith he will survive this,” his wife Flor Gonzalez told the Washington Post. Gonzalez has also set up a GoFundMe to help with the costs of Hernandez-Ortiz’s medical care.
here is a link to the gofundme for the funeral of delaina yaun, a victim of the shooting in atlanta, and another link to the gofundme to support her family, she is survived by 2 children and a husband. (these are both verified by gofundme.)
here is a gofundme link for elcias hernandez ortiz, who was shot but is currently in intensive care as i write this. he was the only survivor of this attack. his family will need help paying for the medical bills. (cnn includes this link in an article about the attack.)
if i find any more links to the help out the victims friends and family i will add them.
thank you for donating if you can, and thank you for sharing. everyone please stay safe.
speaking as a Jewish person, this is incredibly important to me.
Christians in my experience know very little about the culture that is found within the stories of the old testament.
All of our stories are deeply rooted in the time and place that they occured.
Leviticus, for example, was when the Greeks were exploring and coming into contact with us.
They had a tradition of adult men having sexual relationships with boys (ages 12 to 17) as a form of mentorship.
The Hebrew people were like "uh no? Fucking gross." Thus it ended up in our holy texts.
Sodem and gamorah is a big one too.
The smiting that happened there wasn't because of homosexuality, but rather the nonstop eating, drinking, and fucking to the point of ruin.
Basically everyone was so busy with pleasure that the rest of the aspects of life no longer mattered to them. this was both a spiritual disaster and a very literal one for people outside the city who depended on it for goods and services.
so the two stories that Christians hold as anti gay evidence can be summed up in two parts:
- Pedophilia is fucking evil.
- You can't be selfish and just party all the time because then your community will fall apart.
So yeah we have never seen gay stuff as bad and neither did your homie Jesus.
also. We have words in Hebrew for several different genders and many scholars believe that King David was gay.
Peace out, fuckos.
Remember how Kyoshi, badass that she was, just owned the fact that she straight up killed Emperor Chin by moving Kyoshi island? Remember how she didn’t see the difference between allowing him to fall to his death and any other way she could’ve killed him. Remember how in addition to that being amazingly badass, it was a commentary on the moral double-standard in nearly every Disney villain death, where they mostly fall from great heights or are killed by some other karmic event??? You know, how nearly every Disney movie kills off the villain but the hero is never actually involved in their reckoning??? As if to say that when someone does some sort of injustice, the world will eventually make them pay even if the hero doesn’t??? Remember how avatar was like fuck that! take responsibility for the justice you seek in the world??? Remember how the show emphasized that if you let people die, you are responsible for that action/inaction??? And remember how avatar insisted that pacifism involves more than simply letting people live unharmed; that pacifism involves disempowering the people and institutions that create harmful environments???????????
American Girl stories were the best tbh
Dude, read the books, she and her mom freed themselves in Book 1. We don’t disrespect American Girl in this house
Don’t you dare disrespect Addy, or any of my girls for that matter. American Girl used to be legit. Good stories, good dolls, good movies.
Felicity’s story was set in the beginnings of the American Revolution, and addressed the conflict that she faced when her loved ones were split between patriots and loyalists. It also covered the effects of animal abuse, and forgiving those who are unforgivable.
Samantha’s stories centered around the growth of industrial America, women’s suffrage, child abuse, and corruption in places of power. Also, it emphasises how dramatically adoption into a caring family can turn a life around.
Kit’s story is one of my favorites. Her family is hit hard by the Great Depression, and they begin taking in boarders and raise chickens to help make ends meet. Her books include themes of poverty, police brutality, homelessness, prejudice, and the importance of unity in difficult times.
Molly’s father, a doctor, is drafted during the Second World War. Throughout her story, friends of hers suffer the loss of their husbands, sons, and brothers overseas. Her mother leaves the traditional housewife position and works full-time to help with the war effort. They also take in an English refugee child, who learns to open up after a life of traumatic experience.
American Girl stories have always featured the very harsh realities of America through the years. But they’re always presented honestly, yet in ways that kids can understand. They just go to show that you don’t have to live in a perfect time to be a real American girl.
Dont you fucking dare disrespect the American Girls in my house. ESPECIALLY Addy!! That was my first REAL contact with the horrors of slavery, as I read about her father being whipped and sold and her mother escaping with her to freedom, but also how freedom was still a struggle.
A slave doll. Please. Read the books.
Don’t forget Kirsten, the Swedish immigrant who had to deal with balancing her own culture and learning the english language and customs of her classmates, or Kaya (full name Kaya'aton'my, or She Who Arranges Rocks) , the brave but careless girl from the Nez Perce tribe, or Josefina, the Mexican girl learning to be a healer.
And then there are the later dolls, that kids younger than me would have grown up with (I was just outgrowing American Girl as these came out), like Rebecca, the Jewish girl who dreams of becoming an actress in the budding film industry, or Julie, who fights against her school’s gender policy surrounding sports in the 70s, or Nanea, the Hawaiian girl whose father worked at Pearl Harbor.
These books, these characters, are fantastic pictures into life for girls in America throughout the years, they pull no punches with the horrors that these girls had to face in their different time periods, and in many cases I learned more history from these series than social studies at school. And that’s without even mentioning the “girl of the year” series where characters are created in the modern world to help girls deal with issues like friend problems, moving, or bullying. We do NOT disrespect American Girl in this house.
American Girl is probably going to be the only exposure young girls are going to get to history from a female perspective. This is actually kind of important considering that in history classes we dont really get that exposure. We dont hear about what women felt and endured during these time periods cause schools are too busy teaching us about what happened from the male perspective, which is not unimportant, but we need both. Girls need both.
These books were such a crucial part of my childhood and shaped my love of history, which still ensures today. These books can be a young girl’s first lessons in diversity and cultural awareness (hopefully burying that insensitive “we’re all Americans” tripe) and looking at history from more perspectives than just that taught in school. They also are an example of how women have ALWAYS been part of history, which some people would rather us not believe.
I think Kit and Kaya were the newest American Girls when I started “aging out” of the books, but hearing about some of these kinda makes me want to revisit them!
I wasn’t gonna say anything, but you know what?
Nah.
OP (of the tweet thread) was either a actively trying to start shit or is just a huge fucking moron. Probably both.
I’d like to point out that the company that makes American Girl dolls actually doesn’t skimp when doing their research and they don’t make the dolls with the intent to be offensive in any way:
This thread is gold
Photographer Bastiaan Ekeler made a modified zoom lens so that he could take photos of distant objects with a Gameboy camera
full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009
bold of you to assume I was not forged in that dark crucible
My favorite catholic lore is that anyone can make holy water in a pinch but the church puts dumb restrictions on us like ‘do this only if someone needs their last rites’ like I WILL bless this McDonald’s sprite and I WILL enjoy the crispiness of our lord and savior
Another bit is that holy water cannot be diluted. When I went to the Vatican the tour guide was explaining this, if you put any amount of holy water into any amount of normal water, the whole bunch becomes holy. This is how they sell Pope Holy Water in the gift shop. This is how I've been drinking only holy water for two months now. I am immune to demons.
Homeopathic holy
It’s not actually any amount of holy water- according to the Church, the water has to be more than half holy water by volume. So if you take a half gallon+a few drops of holy water and a half gallon of secular water, you get one gallon of holy water, plus a few drops. You can then add a gallon of secular water to that and then you have two gallons of holy water. We’ve got a couple jugs of Pope Water in the linen closet at my parents’ house, because my mom used the heck out of this loophole after a trip to Italy in 2008. It was more than a decade ago at this point and we still have Pope Water. We no longer have that Pope, but by god do we have his water.
Here’s what a jug of Pope water looks like. Mom measured a fill line on them so that we never accidentally run out and just have old jugs of secular water lying around.
i think its very sexy how millennials are very anti-ad. like. ads were invented to encourage us to buy stuff. but me and all my friends? if we see an ad for something it fills us with rage. a pure hatred. if you interrupt my twitch stream or my stupid TV show for you stupid product i will hate you product for the end of time. i will spit on it whenever i see it. your ad doesn’t work on me. it doesn’t make me want to buy your shitty thing. it makes me want to piss on your shitty thing. fuck you ad companies.
“15 Men React To The Idea Of Taking Their Wife’s Last Name After Marriage”
Men believe the family is their domain but when it comes to watching the children or doing chores suddenly it’s not their responsibility
Men believe the family is their property.
Male lineage is a scam
I clicked on the link because I expected the other answers to be less bad but they aren’t 🙄
Asdfgdgjfflhkjl if we were to look at this ‘biologically’, men would be the ones taking the women’s surname hands down. See, children get all of there mtDNA (mitochondrial dna) from their mother and none from their father - where as their normal DNA is a 50:50 mix of both their mother’s and father’s. This means that mtDNA remains unchanged as its passed down from mum to daughter. This goes on for generations, in fact, geneologists can trace back lineages for millions of years using mtDNA.
However, the father’s dna is diluted with every generation, and soon becomes unrecognizable. The mother’s biologically legacy lasts the longest and that’s the tea
Reblogging for the last comment. My sister works in genealogy, identifying any female living relatives of missing soldiers. The men dont matter. Why? Because the female family member’s DNA can be traced back GENERATIONS with no decay. When bodies (generally from vietnam or Korean wars) are recovered, they then can finding living female biological relatives, no matter how distantly related, to positively identify the remains.
watchmojo: That moment when you meet the Watchmojo lady 😱
“can you do the intro for us….?”
“…please?”
