My Randomness

I do not control the hyperfixation. I’m along for the ride as well.

[insomniac-arrest]

a graph based on my observations

[samayla]

I would like to apply a Dolly Parton quote to this most excellent graph.

[kropotkindersurprise]

We salute an absolute icon 🫡

[gaylor-moon]

[captain-price-unofficially]

[ladyofspoons]

this blog supports punching fascists

[drmajalis]

Matt Frank (@mattzilla85.bsky.social)

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[notthegrouch]

This is so important though: "You're gonna get in trouble for that" reveals so much. He was planning on nobody doing anything, not because nobody stands up to him, or nobody objecting to what he says. He expects good people to be goody-two-shoes rules followers, and he expects the rules to protect him no matter what he does.

Important lesson to learn from this standing up to fascists means getting into good trouble. Get into trouble if it's worth it. Fascists will never expect it.

[calder]

you deadass mob them and hit them until the casual violence cant keep happening. you do this or you allow fascism into your community.

if your fist cannot find them you hit them in every other possible way.

their unchallenged public existence as barely-masked neonazis is the fragile victory they are trying to maintain. they believe a general taboo against conflict will protect them. they will win unless an element in the room stands up and hits them.

[augustxcardigan]

This one's gonna make kataangers mad 😇

[lilbagdermole]

do you think Katara and Aang would have worked if they got together when they were older? (still Zutara fan for life!)

Not necessarily, no.

Even if Aang and Katara were the same age, or even if Aang was the older between the two, it wouldn't work for me, personally.

Canonically, we've seen Aang at the age of twelve, fifteen, in his early twenties and late fourties. And in every stage of his life, he has been selfish, neglectful or borderline obsessive towards Katara.

At twelve, during ATLA, predominantly during Season 3, Aang objectifies Katara as something to possess (a reward at the end of the war, per say) more so than her own person. He doesn't care enough to care about consent, having kissed her TWICE without it (Episodes: The Day of Black Sun, Part 1 - first image; The Ember Island Players - second image).

During 'The Southern Raiders' Episode Aang is extremely neglectful towards Katara's wishes, feelings and pain.

[ "Zuko: Sokka told me the story of what happened. I know who did it and I know how to find him.

Aang: Um ... and what exactly do you think this will accomplish?

Katara: Ugh, I knew you wouldn't understand.

(...)

Zuko: She needs this, Aang. This is about getting closure and justice.

Aang:  don't think so. I think it's about getting revenge.

Katara: Fine, maybe it is! Maybe that's what I need! Maybe that's what he deserves!"]

Zuko who has known her for a matter of days/weeks was able to empathize and understand why Katara needed to avenge her mother. So why couldn't Aang, someone who shared that same pain of losing his family, not understand her hatred and anger?

Oh, because Aang is a pacifist.

People forget that Zuko was also depicted time and time again as merciful, benevolent and unable to kill. He attempted to save Zhao in S1, all through out S2, he gave up his own food, protection and his life, to save other people, in S3, when he could have killed his father, he didn't (even though, Ozai was the reaosn his mother was no longer in his life and was the cause for every misfortune and pain he endured).

And despite Zuko mirroring Aang's inability to kill, Aang could not mirror Zuko's ability to understand Katara.

Furthermore, Aang, throughout this episode is put off by Katara's anger. He's attracted to the soft, sweet, submissive side of Katara (the one he idiolizes in his mind) and is put off by her louder, hot-headed and brash side. Many times, Katara has to swallow her own tongue and subdue her own feelings just to appease Aang. A courtesy that Aang does not replicate.

Also a lot can be said that Aang views Katara as a prize, something to own. His jealousy towards Zuko during the play is derivative of the fact he can't handle someone else "owning" Katara. His jealousy and immaturity ultimately lead him to kissing her non-consensually and getting so aggravated that he yells in Katara's face. It's weird, it's possessive and borderline abusive.

Also, no one can convince me that the kiss at the end of the series wasn't Bryke's way of sying that Katara reciprocating Aang's feelings (even if they did come quite literally out of no where) was his reward for winning.

Aang at fifteen is no better. We Aang depicted at fifteen (a year older than Katara was during ATLA) in the comics.

And luckily enough his behaviour towards Katara in the comics can be describe in quite a few damning panels.

It's even worse.

Aang at fifteen manages to neglect his GIRLFRIEND even worse than he did at twelve...

He doesn't care enough to notice when Katara is unhappy. He doesn't care enough to allow her to finish speaking about something that is clearly bothering her. He doesn't care enough to control his anger around her.

He likes her submissive, he likes her quiet, he likes her when she cares about his feelings, his culture, his worries and concerns. He likes her as his, his girlfriend.

Aang is his early twenties is, yet again, depicted as someone still insecure about his relationship with Katara.

Aang in his early twenties still chooses to dismiss Katara's very valid and mostly always correct concerns about people.

And even in his early twenties, a man grown, Aang still needs Katara to be the one to console and comfort him. He's never the one conforting her.

Aang and Katara are residing in Republic City. Far a way from Katara's home. And despite popular fandom belief, it's not wearing a string of blue/orange fabric that symbolizes respecting your significant other's culture and heritage. To respect and honor Katara's culture, heritage and her own wishes and desires, they would be closer to the Souther Water Tribe, to Katara's people and family, to her element.

But I guess Katara's love for her people, home and tribe was put second to Aang's desires to unite the four nations. So Aang's dream are now Katara's dreams.

We don't see much of Katara/Aang during this stage of their lives, but, the little we get is still odd.

And finally, we see Aang in his late fourties and early fifties. A neglectful father to two of his three kids. A husband who leaves his wife to take care of the kids whilst he's off doing whatever the world needs him to do.

We are told Aang favors his sole airbending child through the mouths of his other two children. Aang who prioritized sharing his culture and heritage to ONE of his three kids, instead of involving all three of them. Aang who didn't care enough to be present in Kya and Bumi's childhood nor try to share the Southern Water Tribe culture with Tenzin.

Aang who allows Katara to forget about her goals and aspirations and is content with seeing his wife, the once youthful and fiery woman who had big dreams and a larger fight, become a hollow shell of her former self, a stay at home wife who was merely a good healer, no longer remember as the strongest water bender to live. Hell, she didn't even get one statue in her honor whilst Aang had how many?

So no, Aang doesn't get better at any age, unfortunately. His selfishness towards Katara wouldn't dissapear if he was older or the same age as her.

And the same can be said for Zuko. People don't ship Zutara simply because Zuko is older than her... Zuko is mature, empathetic, sees Katara as a person and doesn't idealize what she symbolizes. If Zuko were aged down to Katara's age, I believe the appeal would still be there.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk!! And thank you for the question!! I'm sorry for the late reply! I hoenstly could not find where anonymous asks go and struggled for a while trying to find it! 😭😭😭

[catsandwich-deactivated20240213]

This is a literal sexual harassment training video we had to complete

[quendergeer]

i assumed this was porn

[k-0re]

humanity's destroyer or whatever

[ashstfu]

the “pleasure to have in class” to overly active tumblr user pipeline

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you were a pleasure to have in class

[weirdovictor]

GAG AND SOBS

[elinex]

his ass is never beating the dogboy allegations

[elinex]

i know these are my tags but i’m having too many thoughts about them so. doodle dump inbound. they’re so silly.

bonus romabby + jinu’s stupid ass

[bikananjarrus]

oh so when john wick goes on a revenge killing spree to avenge his murdered dog, he’s an awesome action hero. but when kara zor el beats up and kills the child sex trafficker who poisoned her dog, she’s the worst most selfish awful mean person

[kettle-bird]

Jackass Jenny #3 - if only they'd learn "lie down" and "play dead"

[senatortedcruz]

Didn't you retweet incest porn on 9/11?

we all mourn in different ways

[jessaerys]

[baybelletrist]

Americans Are Cutting Down Flock Cameras. The Company Calls Them Terrorists.

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles.

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles. Perched above public streets, they are birdlike things, weatherproof, and they photograph every passing car and file it in a searchable national database. Somebody cut two of them in half at Washington Avenue and Westcott in Houston, spray-painted the wreckage, and left an American flag on one of them. Police were notified on the morning of the Fourth of July. Somebody severed a camera in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. The police department posted the photograph itself and collected more than twenty thousand comments. “Not all heroes wear capes.” “Give them a medal.” Here is what the cameras do when nobody cuts them down. Cops use them to hunt immigrants and to follow ICE targets across state lines and to find women who ended pregnancies in states where that is a crime and to watch exes and to watch women they want, without a warrant and without a judge. A cop types a reason in a box and the box does not check. A man in Burleson, Texas, told deputies his girlfriend had taken abortion pills. He showed them the photographs, the FedEx envelope, the instructions. Deputies opened a death investigation into a non-viable fetus, and the district attorney told them the state could not charge her, and they searched anyway: 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks, a month of everywhere she had been. The reason they typed was had an abortion, search for female. The search reached Illinois and Washington, where what she did was legal. They found her in Dallas. She came into the sheriff’s office a week later, and they thought she had come to explain the fetus, and she had come to report that the man who called them had put a gun to her head. A sheriff in Jerome County, Idaho ran his wife’s plate more than seven hundred times in three months. He typed the same reason every time. Test. The attorney general found nothing to charge him with. He retired in April. The Institute for Justice counts at least twenty-two officers who used the system to track people they were romantically interested in, and calls that almost certainly an undercount. And the cameras keep falling.

Become ungovernable.

[lilylilium]

Reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a Croissant (🥐).

[seitsukino]

AU where, after zuko and iroh run from the north pole, iroh notices zuko has a bit of… energy, surrounding him. on the run from azula, iroh takes him through a swamp. a swamp of all things? haven’t they suffered enough?

what zuko sees, rather hears, is laughter. a girl’s laugh. when he sees the girl, running from him, laughing… all he sees is the brown hair and a wisp of blue. the water tribe peasant. is the avatar in here? no, zuko must run.

he meets with iroh, they leave the swamp. iroh tells zuko how the swamp works. but zuko pauses. he didn’t meet his past— if not for the recent past. wouldn’t have he seen his mother, then, like how iroh saw lu ten? why did he see the water tribe peasant girl?

AU where after touching the avatar in the spirit world, zuko’s blood that comes from roku, awakens in him and zuko meets koh— who wears the face of a water tribe girl… so similar to the one he knows but so different…

AU where long ago, an earth kingdom city and the southern air nomads were looked in a decades long war. but two people met within the crystal caves — a powerful earth bender and a powerful airbender. they fell in love, but the airbender died in battle. it was the earth bender who stopped the war and returned peace to the land they both loved.

hundreds of years later, avatar aang and toph beifong are imprisoned underneath the ba sing se castle, in crystal catacombs.

AU in which talks of a blind bandit that is ravaging the fire nation city just so happens to be in, that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. in which she is helped by a boy by the name of kuzon.

or… taang / zutara lore swap AU 😋

[gorgonsrus]

I'm dealing with the specific conundrum of being a Zutaran who doesn't like fluff, but rather one who likes the 'ship BECAUSE it's not necessarily an easy one.

I like it because it's messy and complicated, even if they are incredibly compatible underneath it all. I like that it's probably always a little bit uncomfortable, even when they get close. It's the compatibility that makes it worth making it work, and the difficulty that gives it meaning.

Now, if you just like fluff for fluff's sake, that's fine, but I feel like a lot of Zutarans feel the need to emphasize the fluff because they think it gives them some sort of moral high ground against antis. However, I think there's no point in letting them (or canon, or Bryke) dictate the terms of what constitutes a quality 'ship.

I disagree strongly with this tactic because Zutara is its own thing. It has its own internal logic. I think it suffers when people try to justify it to people who will NEVER, under ANY circumstances, acknowledge that this 'ship, just like any other 'ship, is not inherently indicative of a moral failing.

Why? Because it's not about the 'ship in the mind of antis. It's about what it says about the people who prefer it. There is no point in trying to prove that you're moral in their eyes, or justified, because you NEVER will be unless you completely concede to every single one of their talking points and start THINKING about things the way they do.

And why would you want to please people like that in the first place?

So what if you write a fic for the reasons they say are bad? So what if you think Zuko is hot and identify with Katara? (Or, you think Katara is hot and identify with Zuko?) So what if you pick up on the Dark Romance elements of S1 and ignore everything after that? So what if you don't like pushy younger men who demand the attention of their crush? So what if you're specifically interested in the implications of their relationship in the context of the war?

ETA: So what if you make one or both of them morally gray or a villain and STILL mash them together like Barbie dolls?

None of that matters. It's just fanfic.

So stop giving antis the time of day, stop arguing with them, block them, and just write, draw, and enjoy whatever you want.

Even if you think they would hate it, because they're going to hate you anyway. No matter what you do.

And why would you ever let people like that get in the way of your fun?

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