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i know people feel weird about saying 'nonbinary people are nonbinary' because it's grammatically clumsy at first glance and hit the "and nonbinary people are valid" instead because that isn't but also nonbinary people are nonbinary. pretty essentially. trans men are men, trans women are women, and nonbinary people are nonbinary. and they aren't (universally) 'too powerful to be contained by the gender binary', they aren't (universally) 'creatures', they aren't (universally) 'incomprehensible'. why would you feel weird about saying 'nonbinary' when it fulfills the same purpose as these other phrases?

one-time-i-dreamt

i was going home and there were two lanes full of school buses. mine was in the back when i tried walking through the first row i got hit by one and woke up with a sharp pain in my side

one-time-i-dreamt

fishbonesart

They're a little unhinged but it's ok

So a clearer timeline for this au (bc I can't stop thinking about them):

Sokka started joining the Southern Water Tribe to trade with Kyoshi village when he was around 6 years old (originally because Kya had her arms very full with two hyperactive children so Hakoda decided to take Sokka on an "educational field trip" instead of just leaving his wife and mom to deal with the kids.)

He and Suki did NOT get along but Hakoda did notice that Sokka seemed to really enjoy learning about Kyoshi's very different culture so it became a thing-- twice a year, Sokka would join the traders up to Kyoshi

Katara started joining those trips when she turned 6, but after Kya's death, Hakoda decided that it wasn't safe to risk Katara's safety by bringing her to foreign lands, even if Kyoshi village likely weren't the ones to inform the Fire Nation that there was still a waterbender in the Southern Tribe

Suki and Sokka start getting along when he's 8 and she's 9-- Suki starts training to become a Kyoshi Warrior and Sokka ends up swallowing his pride and asking her to teach him some moves.

They get especially close after Kya's death-- Suki is the only one Sokka actually opens up to about his grief.

Sokka stops visiting Kyoshi village after his 14th birthday, when the Southern Water Tribe's warriors leave with all of the ships. He doesn't get to tell her why he never came back.

She 100% punches Sokka in the face when he comes back, aged 16, hauling the Avatar with him. Then they hug :)

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fallout-lou-begas

so in the 2003 Aquaman series they introduce a new backstory for archvillain Black Manta in which the entire reason for his (hyper)fixation on destroying Aquaman's life was severely maltreated autism, which Aquaman then cures him of with his magic water hand to completely redeem him. and this is obviously insanely stupid and ill-conceived and genuinely hateful, but given all of that, this is still one of the funniest speech balloons i've ever read in a comic. me @ myself when i remember how i acted in high school or whatever

teethcritter

could be anyone

rosey-thorns

it's so obvious!

eebie

What on earth is happening on twitter

calamitys-child

I'm a pacifist like institutionally but I'm absolutely certain that violence solves at least some problems on a much smaller level. I don't believe in wars or nuclear weapons or military campaigns I do believe in the power of that guy who punched the nazi in the face so hard his entire media presence immediately crumbled to dust

bat-bleed

Happy birthday tim

dizzyghoast

every so often i remember how awesome the modern interconnected multicultural world is. i grew up getting to hear fairy tales from all over the world. africa, asia, europe, america. everywhere in between. i can have bagels for breakfast, curry for lunch, and ramen for dinner without even leaving the city limits. music and art and philosophy and technology that originated thousands of miles and years apart from eachother have come together and interwoven into something greater than the sum of its parts. its hard not fall into despair when thinking about the horrors but god. god the wonders.

dizzyghoast

you can have friends on the other side of the planet! neither of you even has to travel!!!!! you can just talk to them whenever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

marlynnofmany

I can snap a photo of my cat and share it with friends in multiple countries without even getting off the couch. And they can send back pictures of their own cats. We can laugh about the different time zones we're all in, and who's awake too late. It's great.

The horrors may be horrible, but the wonders are wonderful.

scamguy

i would like to officially thank sesame for its seeds, its oil, and of course its street

magicalmrmephistopheles

couldn’t leave this in the tags

dramatic-dolphin

since there is such an "english speakers who don't even try to pronounce a foreign mame correctly" epidemic, native english speakers often try to overcorrect and end up thinking they have a moral imperative to pronounce every foreign name correctly at all times. so i'm gonna hold your hand and look into your eyss as i say this: you can't. you can't pronounce every sound in a language you don't speak. and that's fine. it happens to the rest of us too. we won't be mad so long as you try your best.

apricops

“I did some research to pronounce this name correctly” = 👍 great! even if the pronunciation was still off (and learning to pronounce a foreign language correctly takes a lot of practice) people generally appreciate it when someone goes the extra mile for accuracy, and honestly, languages are cool

“I’m probably not saying that correctly”/“sorry for my pronunciation” = 👍 understandable! foreign languages often have sounds that aren’t used in English and learning to correctly pronounce unfamiliar phonemes is genuinely difficult even with help

“lol I’m not even gonna TRY to pronounce that 😂” = 👎 THIS is the problem, if treats languages other than English like they are inherently ‘weird’ or ‘overly complicated’ just because you aren’t familiar with them

“One thousand apologies for my butchering of this beautiful effervescent tongue, I will now flagellate myself as punishment for my crimes” = 👎 chill

stovetop00-deactivated20230907

We’re winning.

lilnasxvevo

I found his bio on societyofpresidentialdescendants.org and it was so delightful I had to copy paste the whole thing:

“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.

“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.

“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”

wakingfromthewater

And frankly, the novels sound like they slap:

Desmond was nominated for a Lambda Award.

doctorscienceknowsfandom

“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know ... they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.

oidheadh-con-culainn

having now read the first of this man's vampire books, you can absolutely tell that he cares a lot about historical furniture because oh my god he really wanted to tell us about all the historical furniture in this vampire's house. material culture as foreplay. seduction via theses about chairs