Bring Balance to The WORLD

Sophie, 15, waterbender, probably Sokka's past life. "They balance each other, push and pull, life and death, yin and yang.”

[oneatlatime]

I love how Avatar perfectly balances "the kids are going to save the world!" with "which is pretty fucked up, actually."

[glimzo]

[ebookporn]

[tentacleteapot]

[yuutta]

aang + the seven types of conflict

[1-700-aesthetics-deactivated202]

[cowboy]

whaoh why is uncle iroh giving zuko drugs

[konigstigerr]

uncle highroh lol

[cubtooth]

[korresponsable]

Sooo there's this spanish men that i fell in love with and decided to draw them heh

Instagram of my art

[heavensickness]

Honestly, people generally don't want much... They want to eat their favorite food. They want to go to the seaside and smell the fresh air. They want to nap on the grass and listen to music. They want to hold their loved ones in their arms, and be held in return. They want warm clothes, be occupied with a profession/a hobby that does not smother them. They want to feel safe and unafraid. Mostly, they want to live without being ridiculed, manipulated or being forced. And this is why capitalism/modern life overall is so upsetting, depressing and even destructive. Because thinking about how small and simple things you yearn for & how hard it is to even be able to have them really wears you off

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don’t ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it.”

Howard Zinn, Marx in Soho

[thegenderal]

Heres your semiregular reminder that opal is one of the worst possible gemstones for engagement rings and tumblr posts about how pretty opals are and how diamonds are bullshit and we should all wear opal rings are not actually well informed or your friends

[thegenderal]

@sirfoggybrain Of course!

So opals, as we all know, are gorgeous stones

I will at no point deny that, theyre stunning and look different from every angle and in every lighting, the plays of color are insane, and they can be used to make beautiful jewelry, including, unfortunately, engagement rings. Which then have the tedency to do what opals do best, which is break and chip

The problem with opals is their position on the mohs hardness scale: they are a 5.5 to a 6.5. This in on par with glass. You can break one of these with glass or a knife or any piece of metal. The woman on the left broke hers by accidentally knocking it against her desk. Engagement rings are meant to be worn every day, and they are worn on your hands, which are high contact body parts. Opals cannot properly hold up to everyday use, and will become damaged unless you are lucky. It is, in my opinion, best not to risk it- this is a special ring, your forever ring, an object that meant to be worn daily and symbolizes your love and is, if worst comes to worst, something to hawk if you are desperate for cash to continue to live. You do not want it to break. Moonstone- which is another one i see recommended a lot- is the same way. Engagement rings are special. I would not ever in good conscience be able to recommend something that fragile to be someones forever ring.

Diamonds are not recommended just because of the diamond industry (which is bad, i agree! Please make sure your diamond is ethical if you chose to get one, and my personal opinion is that lab made is better) but because they are the most durable stone out there. You cant break your diamond.

Theres nothing wrong with wanting a colorful, flashy engagement ring, but an opal is not the stone for you. You want a gemstone that is an 8+ on the hardness scale- so stones like emeralds (if youre careful with it!), rubies, sapphires (which come in all sorts of colors), moissanite (typically white, but with twice the fire and brilliance of a diamond), morganite, colored diamonds, and alexandrite are all good choices. Alexandrite even changes colors depending on lighting!

TL;DR: opals are too soft and fragile for an engagement ring. Get opal necklace instead, and pick a tougher stone for your engagement ring.

[sew-birb]

Topaz is also 8 on the Mohs scale, and Aquamarine is the same stone as Emerald but in a different colour. Both are also worth considering!

[marxsposting]

[pennygesserit-deactivated202402]

#dead

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[bimbinis]

His door

[tiktokmuseum]

fake horse adventures

[bogleech]

one horse here is really hogging the brain cell

[theproblematicblogger]

REVEAL YOURSELF

[catie-does-things]

if you want your female characters to both have agency in the story and be complex human individuals then sometimes bad things have to be their fault

[love2bfit]

I love this.

[dwarven-beard-spores]

[ID: A series of tweets by Jennifer Lynn Barnes @jenlynnbarnes:

One time, I was at a Q&A with Nora Roberts, and someone asked her how to balance writing and kids, and she said that the key to juggling is to know that some of the balls you have in the air are made of plastic & some are made of glass.

And if you drop a plastic ball, it bounces, no harm done. If you drop a glass ball, it shatters, so you have to know which balls are glass and which are plastic and prioritize catching the glass ones.

Nora was not talking about juggling five balls. She was talking about juggling FIFTY-FIVE balls. The balls don’t represent “family” or “work.” There are separate balls for everything that goes into each one of those categories. “Deadline on Project Y” or “crazy sock day at school”

And her point, addressing a room full of women, was not “proritize kids over work.” It was “some kid stuff is glass and some is plastic, and sometimes, to catch a glass work ball, you have to drop a plastic family one, and that is okay.”

I think about this ALL THE TIME. I dropped more than one ball today. It is hard to drop any ball, and I hate it! But they were plastic, and tomorrow, it will be okay.]

[hollenengell]

the sexual tension between me and the alternate reality i daydream about

[catadromously]

the dubious philosophy of salmon

[pencilscratchins]

a toph & zuko life changing field trip would be half amazing character development and half zuko being like “aang & sokka are much nicer to me :(” to a totally unsympathetic toph [audio]