calcliffbas

my fandom blog - here to chat! :)

[froggos-are-superior]

I love you characters who try so hard to avoid becoming one specific thing that they end up becoming something arguably worse. I love you characters with backwards development. I love you characters whose ideals dissolve over time. I love you characters who start out bright-eyed and end their stories with several important pieces missing.

[calcliffbas]

Tim Drake. This is about Tim Drake. This post is directed at Tim Drake. I'm reblogging this and thinking about Tim Drake. The premise of this post reminds me of Tim Drake's character arc from the early 90s to late 00s.

But then I remembered this page from Red Robin #26.

Not only does Tim save the day, but he does it without compromising. He doesn't do it the easy way. He doesn't do it alone. Remember his most famous line from this comic?

I'm not Batman. I have friends.

He's still the same Tim. He's bruised, but he's not broken. He still believes. His eyes are a little less bright and he doesn't smile as much these days, but he's holding on. As long as Red Robin saves people, Red Robin will never be the Savior.

[calcliffbas]

One-time post to remind myself that though I continue to get comments on my ATLA fic saying "this is stupid, now you're just following season 3 again" I've also written nearly 200k words of alternate universe post-canon stories that are set in motion by chapter 49 of Your Plans Can Change so I'm not going to lose sleep because RandomLexLuthorMonkeyAccount64 didn't like where I took my story nearly FIVE years ago. Write your own fanfic and show me how it's done bozo xx.

[calcliffbas]

any fanfic writers out there called lxnxrd skxnxrd

[kiyomitakada]

[mogamoka]

Superman & Batman scene redraw

[twixnmix]

Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz with their daughters Qubilah Shabazz and Attallah Shabazz at home in East Elmhurst, 1962.

Photos by Robert L. Haggins

[calcliffbas]

Today is the 100th anniversary of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz‘s birth.

[atlaculture]

Off-Topic Posting

Ty Lee: Zuko, did you really kill the Avatar? Zuko: FUCK.

Saw this screenshot from a Thai drama and this popped into my head.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Us, arriving to Austria to a tiny family hotel owned by an elderly lady

Us: speak only limited German

Lady: barely speaks English

Us:

Lady:

Lady: Czech? Slovak?

Us: Czech

Lady, to herself: Czech, that's a Slavic language right

Lady: understand Yugoslavian?

Us:

Us: yeah that works

[eastern-lights]

Shit like this can really only happen in Europe. Reminds me of the time I took my best shot at ordering at a restaurant in Spain in spanish. The closest language to spanish that I actually speak is latin.

Waiter: Germany?

Me: No, Czechia.

Waiter, in a heavily accented but intelligible Czech: Why didn’t you say so before! We get you guys here all the time!

[krcmelound]

Já v roce 2019 na Ukrajině: OK, takže když použiju tohle staročeský slovo, přidám polský sloveso, své chabé znalosti záhoráčtiny a řeknu to s ruskym přízvukem, tak to projde.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

[Me in 2019 in Ukraine: ok so if i use this Old Czech word, add a Polish verb, my poor knowledge of the Záhorie dialect of Slovak and say it with a Russian accent, it might pass]

Reminds me of the time when we were in Poland and I tried to order a burger using a truly unholy mix of Slovak, Russian and Ostrava dialect (which in itself is like an unholy mix of Czech and Polish).

I did get the burger

[orion-the-onion]

[mmaurysiek]

[#my grandpa called this "Slavic Esperanto"]

I know Ukrainians who can do this on purpose and masterfully, and it was mind-blowing to hear a speech as immediately understandable to an audience of native speakers of three different native Slavic languages, not just two languages as is common

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

During one student exchange I (a Pole) got acquainted with two students from Czechia and Russia. At first we talked in English or German, but after a while we’ve noticed, that we could understand each other’s native languages just fine. And if some word was unknown in one language, another one had the right synonym.

*Each of us talking in their mother tongue*

Me: Bla bla bla.

Russian: I don’t know this “bla”.

Czech: Oh, we have “bla”! We also call it “that”!

Russian: Oh I know “that”! It’s a very old version of “this”.

Me: Oh, we have “this” too, but it means something slightly different.

German acquaintance: Was für nen Scheiß zieht ihr da ab? o_O

[leseigneurdelorage]

the reason there aren't slavic people in the bible is that they wouldn't have been surprised or awed to hear the disciples speak in tongues and be understood by people of many nations at once

[alexfeelyx]

Slavs walked away from the Tower of Babel mildly inconvenienced.

[loserlu]

[binary-bird]

Hamlet as a D&D paladin.

Keep reading

[arrantknave]

some gems of insight from the reblogs (@aspiring-protagonist​ and @moderndayathena​):

[fan-enby-anonymous]

Weren’t you listening? He’s praying. GOES HARD AS FUCK

[calcliffbas]

help pls: in need of motivation

She is so outraged when she hears of Father's judgement that she nearly spits lightning, but she knows before Iroh shakes his head that she cannot go with them. Father needs an heir. She cannot plunge her Nation into that sort of political instability. But the Crown Princess has greater resources than her banished brother, and she sends word to Uncle of every whisper and rumor she hears.

I did a 'Zuko joins the White Lotus and joins the Gaang Early' fic and now I want to write an 'Azula joins the Gaang early' mirror fic but I don't have the energy right now. These are the only small snippets I've been able to come up with. So this is me throwing up a Bat-signal: if anyone wants to toss ideas around with me, please drop me a message!

Aang knows the girl is from the Fire Nation, but surely not everyone from the Fire Nation can be all bad, right? Okay, so Aang had to agree with Sokka that Zuko had been like a bit of an angry jerk, but this new girl isn’t Zuko! Katara, Sokka and Suki all seem suspicious of her, but she can’t be that bad if Momo and Appa like her. When he remarks on this, something changes in her expression. Aang isn’t sure what changes, exactly, because she has a crazy good Pai Sho face, but something in her amber eyes looks a little bit different. “My brother is fond of animals.” She pauses for a moment before adding, “My cousin was, too.” Aang’s not sure he likes the way she makes a difference between is and was. He licks his lips to try and give himself time to work past the sudden awkwardness he feels, but it’s not very helpful.

[calcliffbas]

Hi! I started reading your White Lotus series and I noticed that it was part 2 of the Blue Spirit series and there's no other overlap? Is there a recommended order if I want to read both?

Hey there, thank you so much for your ask! 😊💛 I always intended for allll the works to eventually be brought together in one series, but whilst I wrote and posted the canon-era fics pretty early on, the Blue Spirit fics were a lot harder. I've got them all plotted and mapped out!! but I have to be honest and say that I've really struggled for time & motivation these past two years, so that grand unified theory of calcliffbas Avatar fanfic hasn't come to fruition yet. So it may not be a very satisfying experience to read them all together with so much of the story still yet to be posted, but if you want a recommended order, here's the timeline:

where my spirit could seek shelter (sadly still a work in progress 😭)

seventy-two to nil

The Blue Spirit: Year One

No Reason You Can't Do It

Your Plans Can Change

You Have To Stand Firm

Who Knows What Happens Next

The Blue Spirit: Born Again

The Blue Spirit: Without Fear (WIP 😭)

and the journey itself is home (a bunch of random one-shots)

The Blue Spirit: Birthright (WIP 😭)

Still a few works to complete. :( I promise I'm working on it!! But I really hope you're enjoying the fics in the meantime. :) Thank you again for the ask, I'm so happy you cared enough to reach out!

[calcliffbas]

brain dump

Wanna write a TimSteph fanfic titled ‘baby, you’re not that kind’ after the Elton John song where Steph is looking at Robin in a cute post-crimefighting moment and realizing that after all her bad experiences with her Dad and his crim friends and her babysitter and Dean, here, finally, is someone she can trust to love her and treat her the way she deserve.

And then the fast-forward to the Red Robin and Batgirl era where it’s messy-messy-messy and Steph’s looking at Red Robin and realizing that he’s not the same earnest, dorky, good kid she knew back then. because he’s not that kind!!!!!

[calcliffbas]

lol I totally forgot to share this! nearly 2 years later and I finally did it. :) never give up on your dreams kids!!!!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[calcliffbas]

if you’re so insistent on making sirius black read russian literature as a shorthand to show he’s morose and sullen and moody and depressive, stop making him read dostoevsky, make him read turgenev. who the hell finishes karamazov and doesn’t feel uplifted

[two-bees-poetry]

[calcliffbas]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Kuei (Avatar), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Humor, Fluff Summary:

The Earth King is determined to bring righteousness, justice, and liberty to his citizens. The way he intends to do this, much to his butler's dismay, is to invite General Iroh to tea.

[clarisinne]

“Your employer’s gonna look at your socials” alright pal have fun reading my posts where i argue about whether the blonde guy from les miserables is gay or not