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des | 29 | they/them | transmasc | INFJ // catch me on twitter and ao3 @borzbois

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happy pride to girls who didn’t know that women could be nice to you, inscrutable polycules, straight people in forbidden marriages, body snatchers who kiss their own reflections, poets obsessed with long-dead warriors, predatory cougars, lesbians who are in fact the problem, and girls who are in love with a corpse

[fairycosmos]

apparently youre supposed to perform. they love it when you perform. but it has to be authentic. they hate it when it's not authentic. but you have to perform.

[orcaking]

Wishing you all a get more hairy and naked summer <3

(available as a sticker on patreon through june 2026)

[chipjrwibignaturals]

feel free to cite the deep magic to me witch i was there when it was written but my memory is like REEEEALLY shitty

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[morkowkx]

winding down after a long day

[borzbois]

cant believe its 2026 and i’m in my overwatch 2 phase

[breikka]

Mirrorwatch Tracer 🖤❤️🖤

They didn't give her custom "evil" voice lines so I just imagined her being a creepy, psychopathic character. 🤭

I wish they gave her custom voice lines though 😆

[cryptcoop]

First impressions are everything

[anthewitch]

Jetpack Cat and Ana are such besties🥰 She gives Ana some mobility lol

[ktlnz]

i wish all birthday catgirls a very pleasant sword gf

[disgustinggf]

[vivi-llain]

bow to your queen

[kestrvl]

Jedi Aloy AU ✨!

I think Aloy would be a pretty cool jedi, I tried to incorporate her original clothes with a more starwars feel. Her saber is blue, like sylen’s lance with its electric blue charge, I tried to make the hilt similar to her lance too. I think for the AU, Rost would be an exiled Jedi, whom after aloy is shunned from the order, Rost becomes a mentor as she takes apprenticeship under him. GAIA and all other things of the old world could be an ancient civilization on another planet, GAIA could be an ancient force being (the antagonists of forbidden west would be an ancient sith cult). AUs are fun to think about “what ifs” but it’s not like I’m trying to rewrite the original story, I love it how it is! Just wanted to merge my favorite franchises together!

I’m on Instagram too! @/birdysketches

I’m experimenting with a more rendered style for fun and I loved how it turned out, let me know what you guys think!!

[rosenkranz-does-things]

some more plein airpril paintings

[theotheristhedoctor]

Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing. 

[sindri42]

You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.

And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.

[ninjaotta]

it’s also a detail from the second ever episode

aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations

this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:

[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]

why do i bring this up?

because it’s a move - and a mindset - influenced by earthbending, which hama has never faced (she went from the south pole, to prison, to the fire nation). it’s an indication not only of katara’s skill and power, but also how she’s learned from her travels, and from toph

[toughtink]

one of my favorite details of atla is how the main characters’ fighting styles adapt as they take on new enemies and make new friends with other bending styles. iroh straight up tells zuko about how he developed a technique for redirecting lightning by studying waterbenders, but if you watch closely especially in the last season, there’s a lot of this sort of thing happening unspoken with the gaang, using the bending forms of other elements like katara does above. it really shows the strength in differences and diversity coming up against a fascist regime that wants everyone to conform.

[biglawbear]

Look at Korra metal bending here

It’s completely different than anything we’ve seen from other metal benders, who bend metal with sharp movements like the derivative of earth bending that it is

But Korra is fluid. She is bending metal like it’s water. Because she is a water bender. And she is the first person in history to be able to bend both metal and water and so she is able to combine these styles into one and move seamlessly between them. This shows so beautifully how the Avatar is the embodiment of all bending

[ironbite4]

Every time I think this show has shown me all it can….it gives me more.

[patrickdiomedes]

The fight between Tenzin and the Red Lotus reinforces this. Zaheer is pretty skilled for someone who’s only been Airbending for a few months, and he has the advantage against a lot of people because there still aren’t really enough airbenders for people to know how to fight them. But against an Airbending MASTER like Tenzin? He only wins because he has backup

[leebrontide]

I just wanna say that this mirrors something I got to watch in real life. I fenced as a teenager, with my wife, who continued fencing in college.

But her college had fencing equipment but no team, so she started coaching them. But she fenced lefthanded. She ended up with a team of fencers who almost ALL learned to fence lefthanded.

A small % of fencers are lefthanded, so even very good fencers are often NOT USED TO fencing lefties.

So her dinky little team of mostly newbies came in and fucked severely with teams of much more experienced fencers who couldn’t cope with fencing leftie after leftie. Her one protégé who was also very tall just laid waste to nationally rated fencers.

Whereas I, a very shitty fencer, can hold my own against my wife no problem, because I’ve fenced her from the start.

This isn’t JUST a fun plot point and a lovely way of showing social influences and planning and creativity, it’s completely based in real life. Even a shitty fighter can be a problem for a good fighter whose never encountered their style before.

[blogquantumreality]

Another thing I’ve noticed that’s really cool is that Korra also tends to bring firebending techniques into her other bending methods as well, and that fits! She’s aggressive, physically active, and generally doesn’t shy away from a fight - all traits that work well for firebending and not so much for airbending which well explains the troubles she had in Book One in mastering it.

[catasters]

[natalieironside]

When I am president, I will abolish. There will no longer be any.

[mnemonicpneumaticknife]

You have my

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🫡 Thank you for your

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