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happyheidi

ig: lulumoonowlbooks - architect: trpcarquitetos

sosuperawesome

Mu and Coco on Instagram / Etsy

femalepope

I have no perception of time. I will be like "I have class in 2 hours... Do I have time to shower 🤔🤔"

keepcalmandcarriefischer

The spy chasing me throws a tracking device at my car. The throw is perfectly timed and the small, round device hits the bumper perfectly flush. However, since the tracker is magnetic and my shitty car is plastic, it bounces off

keepcalmandcarriefischer

The spy is following me as I walk down the street. I bob in and out of shops. Pause and accelerate my pace randomly. Stop to tie my shoe so he loses sight of me. I stay perfectly out of his reach. This is all due to being sleep deprived, confused, hungry, and lost

keepcalmandcarriefischer

The spy freezes my bank account. I do not notice for three weeks and only because Netflix sends me an email about non-payment

keepcalmandcarriefischer

The spy chasing me does a stakeout at my house. After 4 days of trying to match my sleeping pattern he has to call HQ for backup

hubwalker1

What did you do that requires a spy to follow you so thoroughly?

keepcalmandcarriefischer

Honestly I have no idea. My best guess is that it's a misunderstanding

impossibleandinsufferable

their direct parallels are just

sconesfortea

PCU (Psych Cinematic Universe) Ident

funnytwittertweets

silenthill

man i hate the allure of a good grilled cheese. you make one and eat it and its so good and perfect, maybe a little bland but in a good way and you instantly think “man that was a really good grilled cheese, im not entirely full yet, maybe i’ll have another…” dont do it. don’t even think about it. it’s the opposite of oreos. you make your second grilled cheese and 3 bites into it you’re so overwhelmed by the monotony. “this isnt nearly as good as the last one” despite being practically identical. The grilled cheese is a sacred food, it must be eaten hot, and quick. A second one only allows you to stew in the memories of the past (your previous cheese) and your nostalgia clouds your mind, creating an epic fail bite in your newest creation of dairy and grain. Show some restraint.

livelovecaliforniadreams

Thanks Steve!

meteora-fc

because everyone needs to watch "carrot in a box" at least once

(+ my fav comment about him: sean's so funny he makes jimmy laugh like a normal human)

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

moon-cricket-chirps

I love how Aang isn’t the only one in the group to learn from the others. They all kinda pick up a little bit from each other and it styles their bending. That’s part of why they are, because they learn and adapt their bending styles and people don’t know how to handle that

satansappendix

Ah no wonder Horse was animated so smoothly

spiftynifty

Just want to add to this because I’ve seen almost NO ONE talking about the animation in this show and who’s behind it:

Animation for show was done almost entirely at a studio in Canada called MERCURY FILMWORKS. They did ALL of the centaurworld stuff, with a Korean studio (Red Dog Culture) doing the Rider/Horse world. If you’re going to talk about the animation in this show, PLEASE PUT CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. The show was animated by, again, MERCURY FILMWORKS, and it was animated in Harmony. As far as I know James Baxter didn’t animate anything on the show itself, but he probably served as a consultant occasionally, and it’s important to read that in this quote itself: He did a Masterclass on drawing horses, which may have helped the designers in LA and maybe some of the animators at Mercury (though they already had a sizeable amount of experience with 4-legged creatures and horses thanks to Tangled and Lionguard). Animated shows produced by Netflix are not actually animated AT Netflix. Why does the animation on Centaurworld look so beautiful? BECAUSE THE ANIMATORS AT MERCURY ARE EFFING TALENTED and have EFFING TALENTED ANIMATION DIRECTORS THERE. At MERCURY. You’ve seen their Mercury’s stuff before, they’ve been around for like 20+ years, but here’s some other shows Mercury’s done (animation, BGs, FX).

Animation, particularly 2D animation, is rarely done in the States. Most of your faves were animated in Canada or overseas and the studios responsible for the animation rarely get named which is frustrating, especially since not all shows or studios will fully credit the hundreds of people who work on the production side of things (Centaurworld did though, which is really cool!!). Anyway, yeah, just wanted to clear that up. James Baxter is an incredible animator and I’ve seen a couple masterclasses myself and they’re just amazing. But credit where credit’s due, animators don’t need to be Baxter to be incredible, and the many animators who worked on Centaurworld are the ones responsible for how beautiful it is.

By the way, you can see some of the work of Mercury’s talented people on their Instagram where they feature their artists and a sample of their work.

satansappendix

Please reblog this version! The studios that actually did the heavy lifting deserve credit!

nelly-rain

🍵🔥Zuko and duckturtle🐢🦆

seirxi

I wanted to make atla stickers but it ended up just being zuko

writing-prompt-s

You are a villain who kidnapped the smart guy on your nemesis team, they tell you that nobody will come for them and that the hero doesn’t care. You didn’t believe them at first but it been a month and nobody shows up and after once again hearing them cry at night you had enough.

#read the tags

prokopetz

Two of my favourite things about animal behaviour studies:

1. It’s a recognised phenomenon that if you’re working with some of the more intelligent critters, sometimes they’ll figure out what you’re testing for and start deliberately providing the “wrong” response to every single test.

2. The researcher who’s writing up the paper is not allowed to say “clearly the little bastards are just fucking with us”, because that would be inappropriately anthropomorphising the subjects, but you can 100% tell that they’re thinking it.