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Old Wounds Reopened[flood]: Kyoshi Warrior Sokka | Blue Spirit
Zukka Week Day 3 (id in alt)
+some close-ups bc I love them so
other things from ZW2024: Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7
happy @zukkaweek is this too on the nose
This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.
I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!
Here’s a visual I found because I couldn’t understand the instructions well
My ringing just went away for the first time in years. What is this blissful quiet.
wait wait i gotta try this, i don’t think i’ve had Actual Silence since i was like 5
HOW THE FUCK
Reblogging to save a life, and also because, even if you don’t have tinnitus, this is totally worth trying if you like new sensory experiences.
Just showed this to my dad, and in his words, “The cicadas are still there, but the train is gone.”
y'all have seen that justin timberlake meme right
Hot fandom discourse take but framing dark content as only being acceptable if its a vehicle for exploring personal trauma is just giving ground to the puritan segments of fandom.
Simply liking dark content for its own sake is perfectly fine.
It also opens the door for random strangers to interrogate people about their trauma to determine if they're "allowed" to write dark content, only to then most likely turn around and use that sensitive information against them anyways.
{As adults}
Mai: I sleep with a dagger under my pillow.
Sokka: weak, I sleep with my boomerang.
Katara: your both pathetic.
Mai: oh really, what do you sleep with under your pillow?
Katara: The avatar.
"Sokka?"
"Yeah, Aang?"
"We didn't just 'super knock out' those guys back when I was a kid."
"Nope."
"That's honestly probably one of the better 'creative truths' you told me"
"You're welcome pal."
“being a man means knowing where you’re needed the most” is really the perfect sokka thesis statement because it’s such an illogically circular motto through which to define your unwavering sense of duty, and yet. every season sees sokka prioritizing his perceived duty over where he’s actually needed the most and dearly paying the price for it.
in “the siege of the north,” arnook takes him off the mission to assassinate zhao so that he can act as yue’s bodyguard and sokka accepts this role immediately even though if it hadn’t been a command from a father figure leader of his people to protect the girl he’s in love with, surely he would have resisted. surely he would have been like “wait actually i am the only person here who knows zhao personally and has intel on the fire navy and has seen combat, what are you doing rn.?” and if he had led the mission, yue probably would have lived, since zhao wouldn’t have gotten the chance to destroy the moon in the first place.
in ba sing se, sokka takes up katara’s offer for her to stay behind while he visits their father, even though he knows logically that it’s his plan and he should be the one dealing with the logistics of that, simply because he is so irrationally desperate to prove himself to his father that he doesn’t even bother interrogating why katara made that offer in the first place (hint: it’s not selfless sibling love). he truly believes that where he’s needed the most is with his father, even though hakoda himself explicitly disagrees. and had he stayed in the city, he would have tried to see suki, realized instantly that the kyoshi warriors were not who they said they were, and maybe even had the chance to foil their plot before it got to the point that aang, too, had to die.
and then “the boiling rock” is probably the most egregious example of this pattern because he genuinely believes that atoning for his sins against his father (within his own perception of what happened, always with the self-blame, always with the guilt) is worth risking his life over, even though he still does have a duty to aang that outweighs any sort of value potentially rescuing his father could bring. dying isn’t even an unattractive consequence to him (in fact one could even argue that he welcomes it), that’s how irrationally guilty he feels for fumbling the invasion, which he takes full responsibility for, even though, mind you, it was kuei who leaked the plans to azula and never mentioned it afterwards, and aang who decided to stay instead of retreat. and this perceived failure brings out his already latent suicidal tendencies to the point that he straight up forgets his promise to his father entirely, forgets that he is desperately needed elsewhere. because he failed one time, so surely that means he’s no longer useful (i.e. worthy, i.e. deserving of existence) at all…..right??
the thing about sokka is that he’s ostensibly someone who values the cold ruthlessness of logic and reason over the sentimental naïveté of operating on pure feeling (something that katara deems him “heartless” for), and yet he also displays a pretty dire pattern of not thinking clearly whenever the question of fulfilling his [perceived] duty to the Father is involved. what imbibing patriarchal logic when your entire notion of masculinity (and indeed the very question of possessing intrinsic value as a person) hinges on the valorization of martyrdom does to a mf…..
happy sukka covered in blood to all who celebrate
Sokka: I'm a guy with the boomerang, I don't need all this flying and magic
Azula: the boomerang boy
Sokka: I'm a warrior from the south pole
Azula: the tall warrior boy is very skillful
Sokka: I'm the plan guy
Azula: he's the leader of the group.
Sokka: each one of you is amazing and special... I'm not.
Azula: he's the most dangerous of all of them *choose to take him out instead of Aang and Toph*
For context:
These are Sokka’s quotes about himself from the show
vs
Azula’s quotes about Sokka from the novelization.
“Fuck you and the horse you rode in on” Okay it’s fine to hate me or whatever but you do understand the horse is not a part of this right. Like he’s only here because I got on his back and steered him here. I treat him exceptionally well but if he saw anything slightly strange he would run into the woods and forget about me forever. Take it back.
the thing that zucc shippers don’t understand is that zucchini is about sokka being like “hey zuko you should kill yourself” and zuko being like “anything for you my king”
Thinking about Katara and Sokka seething over Aang and Zuko gallivanting around the South Pole penguin sledding and dancing in like nice light weight clothing because both their bending keeps them warm.
Like yes, they are probably also perceiving and lusting on spec but I would be so mad if I couldn’t wear a silly little outfit in my own home but these two dudes are like running around having acrobat time and I am in a huddle in the worlds thickest coat. I’d want those twinks dead.
#Sokka seething with rage over Zuko and Aangs ability to crop their top (via @erisenyo)
Sokka: you know what? next time I visit the Fire Nation I'm gonna slut it up like you wouldn't believe. I'm gonna brush right up against the line of indecent exposure while you have to wear your seven-layer Fire Lord robes in the dead of summer.
Zuko: Oh no. Stop. Don't do that.
one thing i think is so Neat about atla is how all the main bender characters have an arc that corresponds to their "opposite" element. zuko's arc is about the capacity to change yourself and your worldview, and the culmination of his arc is learning a move inspired by waterbending. katara is all about passion and drive, wanting to become a great waterbender and fight for what she believes in, and over the course of the show she comes into her power. toph's arc involves getting free of her restrictive family and connecting with a community, and aang's arc is about learning to stand fast in his beliefs and confront difficult issues head-on. it's a beautiful bit of symmetry that reinforces the show's point about the illusion of separation
i think this might be why i've never thought aang's decision in the finale was "selfish". aang was someone who ran from responsibility bc it (understandably) scared him, and often when he did try to "be responsible" it was out of guilt rather than a genuine commitment to his role as the avatar (agreeing to fong's plan in "the avatar state", striking out on his own in "the awakening"). he either avoided the issue or did what he thought others wanted him to do to "atone". but in the finale when he approaches the issue of killing ozai, he is not running from responsibility. he knows he must take down ozai and is prepared to do so. and his final course of action is not based on guilt or what he thinks others want from him, but on how he approaches the task of being the avatar, from his perspective as the last airbender. he takes ownership of his responsibility as the avatar and does his duty in his own way
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azula as zuko’s evil advisor is so funny to me i actually fuck so hard w this concept. she gives zuko advice and then zuko looks across the room to sokka and sokka just discreetly gives him a thumbs up or thumbs down. one weekend sokka, aang, mai, toph, suki, katara, and anyone else who might have a modicum of common sense all go out of town for like. omashu coachella or smth. and when they come back the entire palace is in shambles, zuko’s just sitting on his throne shinji style, and he’s just like “i’m so sorry….. her advice seemed so cogent….. she made trickle down economics seem so reasonable……. why weren’t you there….. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE, GODDAMMIT!!!!!!!” while azula slyly sips from a cunty chalice she had personally made just for moments like this.
