Fellowrite

Mediator | Bibliophile | Fic Writer?

[charlesoberonn]

Avatar AU where Aang stays in the iceberg and Katara is mistakenly believed to be the Avatar after she “earthbends” a rock by moving the ice inside it.

Instead of telling the truth and letting everyone down, she and Sokka pull on an elaborate charade and go on a journey to convince the world that the Avatar is back.

[charlesoberonn]

Sokka was initially against the idea, thinking it’s crazy, but he got onboard anyway because it’s his little sister and he can’t let her go out into the world alone and put a target on herself.

After they started, he got super into the idea and started crafting an elaborate backstory for her Airbending predecessor, and devising ways for her to fake-bend the other elements.

[thechainlink]

The Road to Ba Sing Se. I love it.

[appendingfic]

Bumi agrees to teach her because he is pretty sure she’s a reincarnation of him

[charlesoberonn]

Sokka: But… you’re still alive.

Bumi: So is the real Avatar. I think we can bend the rules of reincarnation a bit.

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

Zuko still gets a redemption arc and switches sides.  Only after he joins Team Avatar does he learn that Katara is not, in fact, the avatar.  By this point he’s already committed so screw it he’s teaching a waterbender how to fake-firebend now.

[charlesoberonn]

That’s very in-character because Aang never wanted to be the Avatar anyway.

[charlesoberonn]

Sokka after learning the real Avatar was 20 minutes from his home village the whole time:

[charlesoberonn]

She respects Katara a lot more as a fake Avatar than she did when when she thought she was the real one (which is none).

[silvermoon424]

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.

[yaoiblackmold]

Committing to the bit so hard you actually start thinking all the technology on the set is real

[kedreeva]

If there's a sequence of fake buttons to press to do a thing, and a guy presses them in the same order every time for every episode, and then there's some New Guy that has to press them for an episode and he presses the wrong ones, for some observant fan out there, it'll break the illusion. It will pull them out of the story. You are telling a visual story. The foreshadowing and Easter eggs are hidden in the visual elements. But so are the continuity errors. They're 100% right for trying to avoid those errors, and I wish more people would be that dedicated.

Dedicated enough to walk smack into "automatic" doors that were just some guy pulling a rope.

[ukulelekatie]

me reading all the news articles and social media posts that immediately start calling the new pope Leo XIV

[autiebiographical]

I can't stand the idea of "If you forgot something it must not have been important." I forget important stuff all the time!

[godlessondheimite]

[fluffmugger]

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

[pennie-dreadful]

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

[mikkeneko]

I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance

please try this on for size:

there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present

[three--rings]

My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument.  Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM.  The message is that it is BAD. 

My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.

[lyricwritesprose]

Huckleberry Finn can actually be seen as a powerful case study in trying to do social justice when you have absolutely no tools for it, right down to vocabulary.  And in that respect, it’s a heroic tale, because Huck—with absolutely no good examples besides Jim, who he has been taught to see as subhuman, with no guidance, with everyone telling him that doing the right thing will literally damn him, with a vocabulary that’s full of hate speech—he turns around and says, “I’m not going to do it.  I’m not going to participate in this system.  If that means I go to Hell, so be it.  Going to Hell now.”

(I used to read a blogger who insisted that “All right, I’ll go to Hell,” from Huckleberry Finn is the most pure and perfect prayer in the canon of American literature.  Meaning, as I understand it, that the decision to do the right thing in the face of eternal damnation is the most holy decision one can make, and if God Himself is not proud of the poor mixed-up kid, then God Himself is not worth much more than a “Get thee behind me,” and the rest of us should be lining up to go to Hell too.  Worth noting that this person identified as an evangelical Christian, not because he was in line with what current American evangelicals believe, but because “they can change their name, I’m not changing mine.”  Interesting guy.  Sorry for the long parenthetical.)

Anyway, the point of Huck Finn, as far as I can tell, is that you can still choose to do good in utter darkness, with no guidance and no help and none of the right words.

And when you put it like that, it’s no wonder that a lot of people on Tumblr—people who prioritize words over every other form of social justice—find it threatening and hard to comprehend.

[fruitviking]

“All right. I’ll go to Hell.”

[batsandboba]

owl house was right.planet earth turns slowly and i do feel like an insomniac

[batsandboba]

not owl house. crap

[smol-ruby]

…owl city?

[batsandboba]

no obviuosly i meant owl house !!!!! leave me alone!!!!!!!

[batsandboba]

the owl economy is in shambles

[seven-oh-four]

character misses their shot and the villain goes "ha! you missed." and the main character goes "did i?" and then shoots the villain again while they're frantically looking around the room for what the hero could possibly have aiming for instead

[seven-oh-four]

i hate the notes on this so much so many people are saying shit like "and then the hero shoots the villain while they're looking around!! XD" THAT'S WHAT THE POST ALREADY SAID. THAT'S THE ENTIRE JOKE.

[keiachi-chan]

There's a Pukicho post like this I need to find it

Edit: found it

[seven-oh-four]

maybe... they DIDN'T miss part of the post...! (starts frantically looking around)

[omorinintendoswitchedition]

(i shoot you while youre looking around)

[seven-oh-four]

and then while i'm frantically looking around you shoot me for real this time XD

[longshrimp]

Omg you missed part of the post

[seven-oh-four]

did i? 😏

[longshrimp]

(frantically looks around)

[seven-oh-four]

(i raise my gun to shoot you while you're distracted but the bullet i already fired ricochets all around the room and hits me in the back of the head, killing me instantly)

[mirensiart]

get ratatouilled, kid!

anyway I drew this while sad and missing my own grandma and her cooking :’(

[mysteryteacup]

Since tumblrinas can understand that mlms screw over everyone except the person at the top but can't comprehend that having privilege and being oppressed are not mutually exclusive:

Whiteness is a pyramid scheme.

The only people in the top triangle of the pyramid are the aristocracy of the English and North Western Europe - not including Celtic nations. Then come the regular people of those nations. Then come the Scottish (WASP is White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, not just White Protestant, for a reason), then Welsh and French Bretons, then Italians and white Eastern Europeans, then Irish, and then white-passing Jews. Then come pale skinned East Asians like the Han Chinese. And so on.

Each level is promised by the one above that they'll totally be viewed as equal one day if they just conform enough and explote & oppress those further down enough. And each level excep the single triangle at the very top - the anglo-saxon and germanic aristocrats - continues to explote and oppress the levels below.

It's a lie. Conditional acceptance is always a lie.

Don't fall for it.

[astronomical-bagel]

god it’s so sad living in an allocentric world. There are so many relationships that are so complex and nuanced that are all put under the label of ‘romantic’ and immediately all the intrigue is taken from it. Like don’t you realize that these relations are actually ENHANCED by the fact that they are not romantic or sexual?

[astronomical-bagel]

NOOO DONT PUT THE CHARACTERS IN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP YOURE TAKING OFF THE SEASONING!!!!

[astronomical-bagel]

[lighthouse-wizard]

"I would do anything for you; I would cross worlds for you; I would kill for you; I would die for you" etc in fictional romance= tired and expected

from a boss to their employee= what the fuck is happening there

[apolladay]

What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?

64 or lower

65-67

68-69

70-72

73 or higher

No preference

What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?

64 or lower

65-67

68-69

70-72

73 or higher

No preference

Voting ended onJun 2

[licilou22]

[kittytheillustrator]

Cuddly Moshang I sketched while I was sleepy at work 😴

[questbedhead]

Look, Binghe's whole thing is that he's the genius protagonist who can always put the pieces together, of course he already knows that his Shizun and Shen Jiu are different people. He had five years to meticulously examine his spiritual pathways and literally pick Mu Qingfang and Qiu Haitang's brains, he has enough information to reach that conclusion.

By the Holy Mausoleum arc, he clearly sees that Shen Qingqiu has knowledge beyond what a human cultivator should be capable of, and by the end of the Bing-mei vs Bing-Ge extra, he knows where Shizun got that knowledge.

It's not a huge stretch to deduce that Bing-Ge is the man Shizun was running from in Jin Lan; a violent conqueror with a harem full of every woman his well-meaning teacher has ever tried to encourage him to romance. Once Shen Qingqiu confirms that he's met Bingge before, that inference would be all but confirmed. even without any knowledge of the system, he has gotten like 85% of the story straight.

The remaining non-system percent that he's still misunderstanding is that, due to Bing-Ge implying that they'd slept together, he probably assumes Shizun's past life was one of Bing-Ge's neglected wives. Whoops!

[thankchaosforspellcheck]

DP X DC Prompt

Danny gets summoned by a cult.

again.

Unfortunately, this time they tried to give him a sacrifice in the form of a small child.

Fortunately, the kid is still alive at that point in the summoning since the cult was operating under the assumption that he wanted to eat them alive or something (which. gross! but useful for him at least).

They make it out of the area that the summoning took place in pretty easily, but now they have to do a cross country trip in order to get the kid back to their family while trying not to draw the cults attention (which they already did once after attempting to contact the kid's guardian in a nearby town)

in the meantime though, this kid is acting pretty sketchy...

aka the cult accidentally (or even purposefully) used a kid that's related to a cape in one fashion or another and now said child is on a cross-country trip with a being of unknown ethics and abilities.

who are they and what do they do?

[axion-labs]

Well if you just drop that there like that, you've made me an offer I can't refuse.

[strejdaking]

Compilation of Lois Lane being terrible at spelling.

Bonus:

[pianoprincessfemme]

somebody get this girl the grammarly app.

[timkontheunsure]

@pianoprincessfemme

Wouldn’t Work

lol we can still confuse the heck out of grammarly. That one is the weakest of the easily accessable checkers.

And can’t see Lois putting up with that blinking new incarnation of Clipy trying to rewrite her copy for her. 😆

My SO has to put his uni work through 3 different spellchecks, grammarly, google docs; and then word.

They all pick difference thing up, and make random bonkers errors all of their own. 🤦(Only word is really good for spotting word substitution mistakes).

I used 4.

On top of my phone’s built in inbuilt spellcheck; I used 3 versions of google’s (crome’s in app, and the search bar are actually two different engineers for this). Plus I used speech to text.

Again they all pick difference things up, make mistakes. So I can’t get away with one and hope. (The little red line will tell me I’m wrong, but not how to fix it🙄).

Google’s speech to text has the unfortunate habit of being able to misspell words, especially if it can’t understand your accent. So it’s not a good option for direct dictation. (It used to be ok, but think they hooked it into more AI🤷).

I’d probably do better switching to an outside program again. Like using spellex; but my membership lapest. (It’s good for spelling medical words. I’d really recommend it. Especially good at working with patient note dictation software).

And honestly more often than not dyslexics make spellchecks just still giving the flip up, and go cry in a corner.

Short answer; Lois is right not to trust them lol. They are tricksy and false lol. (Gollum golem).

And yay for Pulitzer prize winning Lois Lane, single handlingly being the reason; Perry gets the force the Daily planet’s bosses to keep a Copy Editor on staff.

Bet that that guy’s saved every reporter butt ten times over, even Clark’s.

Lol probably even Perry’s butt a few times.

Nurotypycals often benefit from adaptions that help neurodivergent people.

[dozydawn]

opal carved by makoto nakano