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SWEETIE?????? SWEETIEEE????!????
“It… might be fun. Or interesting, at least. I mean, we know how things went down and we’re still good. How bad can it be, right?”
Frankly, Kaoru would rather get hit by Adam’s Full Swing Kiss again than tell strangers the details of their relationship, but Kojiro looks intrigued, like he wants to do it. It almost feels like a challenge. Kaoru sighs.
“Ok, fine, we’ll play the dumb game.”
Kojiro and Kaoru get tricked into playing "Truth or Drink."
🔗: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30587696
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After 4+ years of not writing a thing for any of the fandoms I’ve loved, Matchablossom has finally pulled me out of my writing coma. I used to post this stuff on my anime sideblog, but we’ve fully embraced being a messy bitch at this point and here we are. <3
Hi my name is Ever Given Ever’Green Imbari Golden Class and I have a long green hull (that’s how I got my name) with white letters that reach across my back and a red bulbous prow like a dolphin’s fin and a lot of people tell me I look like Sapphire Princess (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Conti Cortesia Ever’Green Marine but I wish I was because she’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a Golden Class Container Ship but my deck is straight and wide. I have smooth green paint. I’m also a Cargo Ship, and I sail in a shipping lane called called the Suez Canal in Egypt where I’m part of a caravan (I’m three). I’m a ship (in case you couldn’t tell) and I sail mostly in the ocean. I love Hot Topic and I ship all my clothes to there. For example today I was shipping a thousand black corsets with ten miles of matching lace and a lot of discounted black leather miniskirts, pink fishnets, and combat boots. I was carrying black containers, white containers, black half-containers, and wearing red eye shadow. I was sailing through the Suez canal. It was windy and full of sand so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of tugboats told me I was about to run aground. I put my middle finger up at them.
Ep. 11 Reki: I love skating!!! It's so fun!!! :D
Me: you have about 10 concussions happening all at once, you sure that isn't just the head trauma talking?
Hi it’s been six years and I’m still sooooooooo bitter that Zuko was able to shout “It was cruel! And it was wrong!” at the man that caused him so much suffering and trauma but Korra got the line “I finally understand why I needed to go through all that. I needed to understand what real suffering was, so I could become more compassionate to others” after being tortured, poisoned, and nearly murdered by a terrorist group
Yeah, so I decided I’m not done talking about this.
Bryan and Mike’s sexism in Legend of Korra really jumps out a lot at you in hindsight, and their radically dissonant treatment of Zuko’s trauma and Korra’s trauma is one of those glaringly obvious examples.
Zuko was allowed to recognize and indicate that his suffering was not deserved nor was it necessary for him to grow (even as the narrative COULD have gone in that direction by pointing out that his trauma and banishment are what set him on his path of growth).
He didn’t need to be abused, get half his face burnt off by his father, and get banished for three years to become a good person. His trauma was not necessary for him to “become more compassionate/understanding.” It was incidentally part of the reason WHY he became a better person (because said trauma caused him to interact with people outside of the Fire Nation and realize the realities of the war), but it was still cruel and wrong, and ATLA makes no effort to justify Ozai’s abuse and awfulness. In fact, Zuko explicitly calls out Ozai on this point, saying “How could you possibly justify a duel with a child?“
“It was to teach you respect!” Ozai says, to which Zuko responds “It was cruel! And it was wrong!” And it was, because there is nothing that can be said that will justify or excuse what Ozai did to Zuko.
Meanwhile, Korra (who had already gone through three seasons worth of growth and was already incredibly compassionate) was supposed to find “meaning” in her suffering and had the narrative justify putting her through incredibly debilitating, long-lasting physical and mental trauma by implying that she “deserved” what happened to her. That it needed to happen. That she was required to undergo suffering to learn a lesson.
And I’ve talked about this before (both here and here), back five years ago when it was a lot fresher in my mind, but the compassion line infuriates me because it completely invalidates and trivializes the entire reason she ended up poisoned, suffering, and traumatized in the first place. Her compassion and selflessness were the reason she was in that wheelchair, because she gave up herself to the Red Lotus to save Tenzin, his family, and the airbenders. “Help me save the airbenders, and then you can worry about saving me,” she says one episode before being chained up, tortured, and nearly murdered in three separate ways (the poison, the fight, and Zaheer’s attempted asphyxiation). She was already selfless. She was already compassionate. And she certainly didn’t need to be nearly tortured and murdered to learn how to empathize with other people.
Up until the Book 4 finale, Korra’s recovery arc had been actually fairly well-handled, all things considered. None of the characters blamed her for taking the time she needed to physically and mentally recover, no one blamed her for not being ‘ready’ to come back to Republic City, and no one blamed her for not being the same person she was before Zaheer. There was some resentment at being absent from her friends’ lives (re: Asami in “Reunion”), but her friends and family were generally understanding.
Meanwhile, Korra’s frustration and anger at not being able to “go back to normal” was also well-handled (again, all things considered). “Korra Alone,” “The Calling,” and “Beyond the Wilds” do a generally excellent job of portraying how convoluted the path of recovery is, and “Beyond the Wilds” even re-tread the lessons taught back in ATLA’s “The Southern Raiders” with regard to how Korra settled her past with Zaheer:
Mako: So … how are you doing? Korra: I feel … whole again. I feel good. Mako: Do you think you’re finally able to forget about what Zaheer did to you? Korra: No. But I am finally able to accept what happened and I think that’s gonna make me stronger.
She doesn’t forgive Zaheer for what he did or forget that it happened, but she was able to accept that it did happen to her and that she has risen above it. And if the recovery arc commentary had stopped there, it would have been great! She felt healed, and there was no justification or rationalization for what she went through. Sometimes life sucks, people hate you, and shit happens; it doesn’t mean that you deserve what happens to you. And as far as “Beyond the Wilds” was concerned, that was the narrative! We were ALMOST at “It was cruel, and it was wrong!” levels.
……….and then the finale happened.
……….and then the “compassion line” happened.
……….and then Bryke decided to invalidate not only how Korra’s recovery arc had been portrayed up to that point, but also her growth throughout the show AND the lessons imparted to viewers in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
They decided that showing Korra internalizing her trauma and growing from it only through the perspective of “well I deserved it, because I needed to be taught a lesson” (something women IRL often do, by the way) was preferable to “sometimes bad things happen to you because of the cruelty of others. You don’t deserve it and you are more than what happened to you.” And they just…put that message out there in the last five minutes of the entire show, uncritiqued and un-remarked upon. It’s sickening.
It was cruel, and it was wrong, and it shows a baffling lack of basic compassion and empathy on Bryke’s part for their own protagonist that they felt the need to justify putting her through a season and a half of absolute hell with the Korra equivalent of “it was to teach you respect.” It wasn’t to “teach her compassion,” it was just an excuse to break Korra down and do a one-season speedrun of the growth she’d already been through in Books 1-3.
Because Korra was too “arrogant” and “confident in her own abilities,” she needed to be “humbled” through trauma. And it was something they NEVER would have done to Zuko even if they’d been given the content rating bump that Korra received, despite the fact that Zuko was far more arrogant than Korra ever was (and yet was allowed to grow out of that arrogance organically through personal interaction with the people he and his nation had harmed without further trauma being done to his person).
…anyway Bryke is Ozai, “I needed to understand what true suffering was so I could become more compassionate to others” is the new “You will learn respect, and suffering will be your teacher,” and I will NEVER be over it no matter how long I live.
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this scene makes me laugh now that I know what dalmatians are like and how funny it is that they’re presented like the perfect even-tempered well-rounded dog-next-door with all the qualities of a moderate and sensible life partner
Poodles in movies: pampered brats, high-maintenance, mean and snappy
Poodles irl: smart, loyal, athletic, loving
Dalmatians in movies: cool, intelligent, capable
Dalmatians irl: the neuroses of a chihuahua with the musculature of a horse
maybe what Rodger wants in a wife is intense athleticism, strong guarding instincts, and a fearlessness in the face of invaders and thieves... Anita will chase you down and cut you...
Ok but the other dogs here are also WILDLY mischaracterized:
Afghan Hound in Movies: Snooty, artistic animal Afghan hound IRL: Doofus except when there are rabbits then they turn into the roving gangs of murderers from the Mad Max franchise except they don’t need internal combustion engines to go NYOOM
Pug in Movies: Adorable idiot Pug IRL: genetically cursed crime against nature and Idiot
Cocker Spaniel in Movies: Gentle sensible family-oriented dogs Cocker Spaniels IRL: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: An Animal Breathing In My Face At 3 AM
Labradors/Golden retrievers in movies: Goofy, easygoing dogs with the occasional Secret Talent (TM) Labradors/Golden retrievers IRL: Goofy, easygoing dogs with the occasional Extremely Weird And Very Intense Hyperfixation That Is Only Sometimes A Talent But Is More Likey An Inventive Means Of Small Animal Murder.
tru “大王様” ikawa
the grand king is back!
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don’t you just love how mental disorders are basically buy one get seven free
I didn’t even really want the first one my mum made me buy it
Mine’s a family heirloom, passed down through generations
I recently started working in hospitality, and I’ll tell you guys right now, the trope of “there was only one bed” is not as rare as you’d think in real life. A few times a week, at least, I have guys come in who are working together on projects in town or passing through who have to literally book the last room I have available for the night and lo and behold — there is only one bed, and guess what, they give each other a side-eyed look and begrudgingly take it. So write it up, it happens all the time!!!
Never let your There Was Only One Bed dreams die. I was secretly in love with my best friend for over a year when she graduated and moved to Oklahoma (like 1000 miles away) for grad school. Between that travel restrictions, we were so scared we’d never see eachother again.
At the end of summer, when Covid numbers were at a lower point, I took the risk to visit her in her new apartment and I quickly realized that, unlike when I’d spent the night at her house before, the couch wasn’t made up like a bed. She explained that since her new couch was so fancy and pink, I couldn’t possibly sleep on it, and so I needed to sleep in the bed with her. You know, out of necessity. I woke up with her snuggled around me in the middle of the night.
We’re dating now, and I genuinely think I’m going to marry her. Just the other day, though, I mentioned that if she hadn’t been weird about her fancy couch, I probably never would have like confessed my feelings. AND THEN she stood up, took the cushions off the fancy couch, UNFOLDED IT INTO A HIDE-A-BED, and said “I KNOW.”
THIS GIRL. ORCHESTRATED. BED SCARCITY. JUST SO SHE COULD MAKE THE “ONLY ONE BED” EXCUSE. Y’all when I said I just about lost my goddamn mind, I just about lost my goddamn mind. I love this sneaky bitch so much and the moral of this story is BE THE ONE BED YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD.
Fanfic imitates life, and life imitates fanfic. It’s full circle really.
• An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony
- Jill Thomas Doyle
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