[nothing-more-than-hot-leaf-juice]

Iroh: so Toph, what are your goals in life?

Toph: I’ve been banned from every major city’s transportation system except Omashu

Toph: I don’t know what their limit is but I will fucking find it 

[probsjosh]

King Boomie, having exactly zero limits:

[theotheristhedoctor]

Unstoppable object meets immovable force

[gaangarang]

[Toph eventually slips up and is captured by the city guard force. Instead of being imprisoned or exiled, Toph finds herself being given audience with the King of Omashu.]

Bumi: Well, well, well. It seems I have finally met the troublemaker who has been causing such chaos with my rail systems.

Toph:…

Bumi: I must say, I am thoroughly impressed with your earthbending abilities. You remind me of myself when I was a lad.

Toph: Get to the point.

Bumi: I see great potential in you, Toph Beifong. I want you inherit my title once I am no longer fit to rule.

Toph: Wait what the fuck

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

Why wasn’t this Toph’s future instead of becoming a freaking cop. This would have made so much more sense. 

[gallusrostromegalus]

My favorite part of this is “when I am no longer fit to rule” because

1. Implying Bumi was fit to rule at any point

1.1 except maybe in the sense that he was completely shredded

2. That he has no plans to die, (nor would death necessarily make him unfit to rule), but that he apparently intends to like. Tuck his arms and legs into himself and just roll off into the sunset.

3. Given that the Earth Kingdom has an actual ruling family that causes some drama in LoK, Toph continuing to cause monarchy confusion is both 100% in character and fucking hilarious.

[definitelynotaminion]

Toph takes over as King Bumi the second and everyone is like “no that’s not how inheriting works” and Bumi is like “No no she’s right, I did say “inherit my title!”

[aromantic-angel]

When toph is no longer fit to rule, she instills bumi (Aang’s son) as her heir and he is known as bumi 3.

[catflowerqueen]

Her first act as ruler is to ban herself from Omashu’s transportation system, thus fulfilling one of her life goals.

[carolofthebell]

But then she ignores her ban and continues to use the transport system forcing her guard to chase her and print wanted posters declaring her a fugitive.

Fortunately the clerks served under King Bumi the First and are well aquatinted with explaining chaos to the confused citizenry of Omashu. Without missing a beat they print the posters in 2 parts.

The first (read this aloud) part is a fairly standard Wanted poster explaining that King Bumi II Toph the Blind Melon Bandit Lord is Banned from the Omashu Transport system for crimes etc….

The second part (do not read this aloud) explains not to be concerned; if you see the King at one of the stations just shout “There she is!” The guards will chase her and you are free to go about your day. The King thanks you for participating in this guard training drill.

[variousqueerthings]

fully forgot about these two and melitta having a whole Thing between them that absolutely would have been solved with polyamory, but also kind of was polyamory already from the themes and parallels it deliberately makes between the three of them, like if gannicus and melitta had just spoken to oenomaus, if they'd taken some time to think it out (which naturally they all had time to do in their incredibly stressful environment), the three of them would have been happy... it came to me in a flash that oenomaus is the person who comes to gannicus to guide him to the afterlife in the moment of his death in s4 so that's something to look forward to and cry about

oh well, they figure it out post-death, in my soul the three of them are together there (which is basically canon, considering melitta was definitely going to wait for oenomaus and oenomaus then came to meet gannicus)

[rulesofdisorder]

rating the Disaster Lineage™️ based on how likely i think they are to bite someone in a fight

yoda: 10/10. however despite the fact that he bites someone in damn near every fight, people are shocked. no one ever expects it and when it happens they don’t tell anyone so he’s always got the element of surprise.

dooku: 0/10. he would never. that is uncivilized and not gentlemanly and it’s not something that would ever even cross his mind to do in a fight. one of the (many) reasons he has for disliking anakin is that anakin bites.

qui-gon: 5/10. i feel like when he was younger he’d bite just because he thought it was funny and it would catch people off guard. he learned it from yoda. but as he got older he’d do it less and less, like maybe 3 times total in his adult life, but he can and will bite if the situation arises.

obi-wan: 3/10. he, like qui-gon can and will bite if the situation calls for it, however he just doesn’t usually. for him it’s like a last resort effort and he isn’t really put in that position often. i think he bit anakin once during training as a joke when they were just screwing around and that really opened anakins eyes to the possibility of the Fight Bite.

anakin: 9/10. he bites. full stop he bites. but he doesn’t particularly want to be known as the Guy Who Bites so he makes a space spreadsheet of who he bites and when the last time he bit them was so he can make sure he doesn’t bite them every time they fight. so like if it’s a reoccurring fight he has with a person he’ll make sure to wait at least 3 months between bites so they’re still thrown at least a little off their rhythm about it. despite this he is in fact known as the Guy Who Bites.

ahsoka: 7/10. she doesn’t always bite, she’s not like anakin who Cannot Wait for the next time he gets to bite someone in a fight, but she recognizes when it’d be useful to do so. she just doesn’t do it around obi-wan because whenever she bites someone around him he gets a really disappointed look in his eyes and glares at anakin for the next hour. because anakin what the fuck why’d you teach our padawan that that was okay. (he didn’t teach her she just came to him ready and willing to bite but obi-wan won’t believe him.) so to keep the peace she keeps the biting to a minimum when obi-wan is around. unless anakin pisses her off. in which case bites all around.

[rulesofdisorder]

extended Disaster Lineage™️ Fight Bite ratings:

ventress: 5/10. she’s really 50/50 on it. she’s competent enough to never actually need to do it but she does do it just to fuck with people. she’s kissing the clones she kills in battle, you think she won’t bite obi-wan as a way of flirting? she does it for the love of the game, not because it’s an instinct of hers. every bite is a conscious choice.

savage: 10/10. bites. i feel like this one doesn’t even need an explanation. dooku did try to train it out of him (see: gratuitous use of force lightning) but it did not work even half. if anything it made him bite more. 

sabine: 5/10? admittedly i don’t know much about sabine, i haven’t watched rebels yet so i only know her from the ahsoka show which i only saw once when it came out. she does give off an “I Will Bite” vibe, however i do believe she is mandalorian which means she spent much of her life fighting while wearing a helmet which doesn’t lend itself well to the Fight Bite. i think she forgets that it’s an option that she has. but when she remembers? Fight Bite.

luke: 2/10. luke just doesn’t give me bite vibes. like i think he’d do it if he had to but it’s not an instinct of his. yoda bit him during his training and luke went “??!!??!!” so he associates the Fight Bite with swamp gremlin yoda and is like nahhh. in his mind jedi don’t bite. little does he know his lineage is full of biters.

leia: 4/10. only because she usually fights with a blaster which puts her too far away to actually bite someone during a fight. however i believe in my heart that she bite tarkin on the death star at least twice. so she’ll bite if she’s grabbed but in an actual fight no. when luke starts training her with a lightsaber? different story. she had to chill on the biting eventually though because she kept forgetting that luke has a metal hand and nearly broke her teeth.

kylo: 3/10. he also wears a helmet most of the time which doesn’t lend itself to biting. and also i just don’t think he does. i feel like he bit someone once during training and everyone was like “what’s this freak on right now??” and now he’s embarrassed about it. he’d be upset to know that no one else in his lineage received this kind of reaction when they bite someone during a fight.

rey: 10/10. feral desert child. she’s biting. i feel like she’d get into a fight and forget for just a minute that she is in fact a jedi with a lightsaber and throws instant hands (and jaws). shes using every weapon in her arsenal here and by GOD her teeth have never failed her.

grogu: 1000/10. needs no explanation we’ve seen him do it.

[stealingpotatoes]

Honestly my personal favourite interpretation of how the OT trio line up with the sequel trio will always be

Luke = Finn

Leia = Poe

Rey = Han

idk why my first thought was "well now ive gotta draw them as that one tremendously slutty ANH poster from the 70s" but anyway that's what happened

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[monstermoviedean]

whoever said the empty should have taken cas' grace and left him human, made human by loving a human, i am in your eternal debt. i think about it all the time.

[monstermoviedean]

no cosmic destiny bullshit. power of love or nothing. we could have had a tangled moment! dean crying over cas' body, having seen the empty take something (cas' grace) and thinking it was all of him and he was gone for good. but there's still cas left. the love kept him there. the empty could take cas' grace but it couldn't take his soul because it can't touch that shit! because it's human and it's love! and dean's love brings cas back! he wakes up in dean's arms and they go off to save the world together! they live happily ever after goddammit!

[greyssokay]

Seeing as Meredith and Megan keep trying to give Nathan to eachother, I reckon they should just ditch him and get together

[lazarrusrising]

Funniest thing spn could have done is have Dean and Sam keep their own hunters journals like John did but Sam's is a glimpse into his horrible little mind where he calculated exactly how much demon blood he'd need to drink to do various things to demons and Dean's is the equivalent of writing "Mr Castiel Winchester" in pink glitter gel pen over and over again

[parroot]

“you still watch supernatural?” yes, but only the secret good version I telepathically hallucinate online with other unhinged gays

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

[findingfeather]

Every time I see this quote I realize how poor even very smart people are at looking at the long game and at assessing these things in context.

One of my favourite illustrations of this was in a First Aid class. The instructor was a working paramedic. He asked, “Who here knows the stats on CPR? What percentage of people are saved by CPR outside a hospital?”

I happen to know but I’m trying not to be a TOTAL know it all in this class so I wait. And people guess 50% and he says, “Lower,” and 20% and so forth and eventually I sort of half put up my hand and I guess I had The Face because he eventually looked at me and said, “You know, don’t you.”

“My mom’s a doc,” I said. He gave me a “so say it” gesture and I said, “Four to ten percent depending on your sources.”

Everyone else looked surprised and horrified.

And the paramedic said, “We’re gonna talk a bit about some details of those figures* but first I want to talk about just this: when do you do CPR?”

The class dutifully replies: when someone is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse.

“What do we call someone who is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse?”

The class tries to figure out what the trick question is so I jump over the long pause and say, “A corpse.”

“Right,” says the paramedic. “Someone who isn’t breathing and has no heartbeat is dead. So what I’m telling you is that with this technique you have a 4-10% chance of raising the dead.”

So no, artists did not stop the Vietnam War from happening with the sheer Power of Art. The forces driving that military intervention were huge, had generations of momentum and are actually pretty damn complicated.

But if you think the mass rejection of the war was as meaningless as a soufflé - well.

Try sitting here for ten seconds and imagining where we’d be if the entire intellectual and artistic drive of the culture had been FOR the war. If everyone thought it was a GREAT IDEA.

What the whole world would look like.

Four-to-ten percent means that ninety to ninety-six percent of the time - more than nine times out of ten - CPR will do nothing, but that one time you’ll be in the company of someone worshipped as an incarnate god.

If you think the artists and performers attacking and showing up people like Donald Trump is meaningless try imagining a version of the world wherein they weren’t there.

(*if you’re curious: those stats count EVERY reported case of CPR, while the effectiveness of it is extremely time-related. With those who have had continuous CPR from the SECOND they went down, the number is actually above 80%. It drops hugely every 30 seconds from then on. When you count ALL cases you count cases where the person has already been down several minutes but a bystander still starts CPR, which affects the stats)

[myfatfuckingface]

That Vonnegut quote brings this particular moment to mind:

Yes, it’s just a pie. Yes, the pie itself doesn’t do much direct damage in the grand scheme of things. But the pie is resistance, and resistance inspires resistance. Resistance inspires survival. Throwing pies sometimes starts a movement. Throwing pies sometimes saves lives.

And of course, we haven’t spoken about the inherent morality of throwing pies at oppressors in a world where oppressors have outlawed pie throwing. At the very least, pie throwing is a reminder to the oppressors that no matter how much money they have, no matter how much power they have, there are still some people, some moments they can’t control.

I’d rather go out throwing pies than just rolling over and accepting that pie throwing isn’t going to solve anything. Yeah, the pie throwing doesn’t immediately solve the problem, but it doesn’t have to because it’s just a starting point. So throw the damn pie.

[holy-muffins]

So throw the damn pie

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[kcsplace]

Top Gun Silliness

[persistent-mango]

Rooster: Your smile? It makes my day.

Hangman: Your happiness? I live for that.

Phoenix: A room? Get one.

Bob: Hotel? Trivago.

[btsunyeondan]

he must be stopped

[tartrazeen]

I've been in lockdown too long 'cause I did NOT recognize 2020 or 2023

[argumate]

dude

[crystal-rebellion]

I have watched this so many times now - not only is the outfit styling stunning, the artistry of the video editing is so exquisite, both the song blending, the transitions, the stylization of the particular years. I could watch this on loop for ages.

[crusxs]

[unexplained-events]

Faces carved into the walls of the Paris Catacombs

[m3n4c3v35537]

Frenchmen be like “this pitch black cave full of skeletons is not scary enough, I must make it worse”

[der-ewige-retard]

[metalandmagi]

Hera and Zeus are like if Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss, was married to Mansplain, Manipulate, Manwhore.

[psychedelicizedcryptoid]

I like Sage as a character on the boys but the final episode kind of had me scratching my head. Instead of demonstrating how smart she is she just showed up at the very end to tell the audience that this was her plan all along? And that was it?

I want to see her thriving and fucking over everyone just because she can, don't get me wrong, but i feel like the writers are falling into the 'smartest character ever' trap. Instead of having to carefully consider the consequences of things and create a plot to suit the plan of a super genius they can completely disregard planning and then play the 'she knew this was gonna happen all along because she's THAT smart' card. And that feels cheap. It kind of ruins the build up of the season for me.

Like i want to see sage sending everyone spiralling. I want to see her beat the boys at every turn. Shes come face to face with them now and she's got them figured out. The only reason they get away is because she's playing with them, or she might need them for something down the line, but you can't really tell and hughie and the gang are literally losing their minds trying to outmanouvre her and avoid the trap she has laid. Homelanders quaking in his polished boots because she knows exactly which buttons to press to keep him in line. Sage is the only person who has made him feel weak. She's pulling all the strings behind vought, she has a monopoly on compound v, and she's directing a puppeteer president to do her bidding.

But i think that all that insane potential is going to be overlooked, and a vague plan is going to be hinted at throughout the final season, only for sage's underwhelming grand reveal later on to serve as a plot-hole filler for the writers.

I dont want a reveal. I dont want her to be passive for most of the plot just for everything to work out for her anyway. I want to see her in action. I loved the dynamic between sage and homelander this season and i desperately need more of that. I need to see her scheming and manipulating and succeeding. I need to see her winning.