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we’re all trying our best here

[zukkaweek]

[ID: A banner for the Zukka Week. On the left side stand Zuko and Sokka next to each other with their backs to the viewer looking at something in the distance. On the right side is text that reads “Zukka Week. May 22-28 2022. @zukkaweek.”/ End ID]

thank you so much to everyone who submitted prompts and voted! the results are in and we are so excited to see what everyone makes! there are two prompts each day. you can choose between them and post your work on that day (or even combine them, if you’d like!) late works will be accepted until june 12th :) and a reminder to please be respectful about the prompts chosen, we had to use the ones that got the most votes otherwise we would be neglecting what people wanted, we tried our best to appease everyone but obviously not everyone is going to be happy so please keep negative thoughts to yourself! :)

DAY ONE, MAY 22ND Kyoshi Warrior Sokka or Blue Spirit

DAY TWO, MAY 23RD Arranged Marriage or Childhood Friends

DAY THREE, MAY 24TH Spooning/ Bedsharing or Domesticity

DAY FOUR, MAY 25TH College AU or The Arts

DAY FIVE, MAY 26TH Soulmates or Chronic Pain/ Disability

DAY SIX, MAY 27TH Dads Zukka or Accidentally Dating

DAY SEVEN, MAY 28TH 5+1 or Free Space

rules and how to submit

[crazycometspecular]

I’m going to have to start putting bigger watermarks on my stuff since permission before reposts is getting out of hand

I’ll no longer accept reposts of my art with or without permission

If you see art posted on any acc that isn’t this tumblr or my insta (crazycomet107) pls feel free to let me know

There’s not much I can do atm since I’ve been posting my art without big enough watermarks so I’ll have to do this going forward

That is all

—end of announcement—

[letsriseup]

one of my default emotions has been anger lately and it’s not fun :/

[samtf]

reblog to give a strawberry to the person you reblogged this from

[invadersib]

Y’all be safe playing among us. I now its a social game but like don’t give out your name or what school you go to. Like I’m sure people might Not track you down using that information but im 23 years old and I grew up during a time were they made us fear strangers and putting information online.

[okayysophia]

[stay-flaming]

Zuko in that one scene before Sozin’s comet

[glumshoe]

My mother didn’t believe me when I said the reason her phone keeps displaying ads for dog car harnesses is because it eavesdrops on her spoken conversations.

“Watch this,” I said. “I want to buy a wetsuit. I need a wetsuit. Where can I get a wetsuit? Bring me a wetsuit. Wetsuit size small. Women’s wetsuits. Wetsuits for children. Wetsuits for dogs. Discount wetsuits. Hot single wetsuits in my area? Sexy wetsuits. Wetsuits for sale. Purchase me a wetsuit. We need to get a wetsuit. Spend money on a wetsuit! I want to get a wetsuit. Where did you get that wetsuit?”

Her phone is now advertising wetsuits.

[witcheshaven]

Former web developer, AI/UI dev, and data analyst for various things (including targeted marketing on social media) here.

If you have accounts like Facebook and Google +/Gmail, or any app that requires permissions to read & write your surface settings, then this is why it happens. Your default settings for location and other permissions (mic and camera) are enabled for constant read-write.

What does this mean?

You can toggle your permissions for these apps for conditions like Never or While Using App. Keep in mind that if you have apps opened up in the background of your phone, then you're technically using them. Make sure to close them out completely when you don't want to use them.

But why?

When you have your location permissions enabled for apps, this data is collected and used for targeted marketing. Google is the biggest offender.

Example of how to stop active data collection

You can pause permissions on Google accounts:

You can toggle app settings for surface permissions off:

Friendly Reminder

The more you create accounts by using your Google or Facebook to login, the more active data collection you offer to these companies. Unfortunately, Facebook will never not offer you the chance to not have ads showing on your newsfeed. However, you can shut off channels of active data collection by signing up with an email address and a good ol' password instead of using SSO (single sign on) with Google or Facebook.

[neko-manta]

[ugh-my-heart]

[suckerforsaikik]

SAIKI K FIC COMPETITION

Hey so I feel like the saiki k fandom doesn’t have enough fics, so I want to host a fic competition to get some more! I’m going to make a tumblr blog called saikikficcompetition2020, where everything will be hosted.

Rules:

It can be any saiki k fanfiction, like a chapter in an already written fic, a oneshot, or the start of a multi-chapter.

500 word minimum for fics!

The competition will end on August 31, so you get a month to write

Post it on tumblr and @ @saikikficcompetition2020 to enter, as well as tag it saikikficcompetition2020. That can be the actual fic or the ao3 link/ wherever else. I can also post it for you, if that’s what you want, just message me and ask.

I’ll save all the fics in my drafts and post them all on August 31st.

Winners:

There will be three winners

Each person will get a free drawing by me, I will draw up to four people for whoever wins.

The category of winners is: best writing, best idea, and a random pick.

The best writing and best idea will be voted on a week after all the fics have been posted by a strawpoll.

you don’t have to be good at writing to do this, you just have to write. I’m going to write something for the competition too! Also, on @saikikficcompetition2020, I’ll be reblogging some saiki k writing inspiration during the competition for ideas.

Send an ask if you have any questions!

[incorrect-saiki]

Saiki: You’re on speaker phone so behave

Aiura: Or what you’ll spank me

Kaidou: ......

Nendo: .......

Kuboyasu: ...........

Toritsuka, in his head: (lucky bastard).....

Teruhashi, on the verge of screaming: ......

[vesface]

[cherryjax1525]

[official-lucifers-child]

all of the above

[wywei-remade-deactivated2020121]

I’m making a version without the puzzle peice because the history behind that symbol is rather offensive.

[spirallingintotheabyss]

Reblogging this version, sorry about the first time everyone!

[official-lucifers-child]

rereblogging bc i was made aware that the puzzle piece is not an okay symbol and i deleted my reblog but here it is and i wanna make sure everyone knows i fuckin hate autism speaks and i support all my autistic peeps and neaurodivergent peeps

[haymaker-mva]

yEAH

[incorrect-saiki]

Saiki: Well aren’t you sugar and spice and everything nice

Aiura: Aren’t you rudeness and sarcasm and everything.... uhhh

Saiki: No no, go on

Saiki: You find something that rhymes with sarcasm and makes sense and I’ll stop being an asshole

[spookyyarn]

Toritsuka: And everything but enthusiasm

Toritsuka: Please don’t hurt me

[flightlessdevotee]

Him. baby.

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

This moment in Sozin’s Comet where Toph and Sokka think ‘this is it, we’re going to die, we did everything we could’ is heartbreaking for so many reasons. Because it’s tragic and seems final and they were just kids. Sokka holding on to Toph with all his strength even though his leg is broken and Toph putting all her trust in Sokka because he’s the only thing saving her? Devastating. But can we think about something for a second? 

Can we think about how the last time Toph saw her parents they rejected her and wanted to put her in a box, hide her away from society rather than accept who she was. How she thought she was going to see her mom in Ba Sing Se but got locked in a small cage where she couldn’t bend. How she decided she hated them but deep down actually missed them despite everything. 

How she still wanted to have them in her life and did miss them and took the small step to send them a letter. That was the last time she interacted with her parents and for all we know, she never heard back. Hawky didn’t return. She never got her reply. Toph never got to know if her parents wanted her back. 

She could have died without anything resembling catharsis or closure. She’s crying as Sokka tells her “it looks like this is the end” and she believes him. That was going to be it. After everything they went through, they weren’t going to make it out alive. 

And then Sokka? 

The last time he saw Hakoda was in The Southern Raiders. They barely had time to spend with each other after The Boiling Rock and they didn’t even get a full goodbye. All they got was Hakoda telling them “it’s not forever” and a quick hug in the heat of battle. Sokka was so sure they were going to see each other again because he didn’t know about the plans for the comet and he didn’t know what was going to happen in the coming weeks. 

And right here? He could have died with this being the last time he talked to Hakoda. Sokka could have died with only this fleeting moment as the last time he talked to his dad. That could have been the end of it after years of separation with only a few weeks together in all those years.  

And they were kids.They shouldn’t have had to be the ones to save the world. They shouldn’t have had to invent metalbending or save their father from a high security prison or march into battle without knowing if they would live or die. 

Toph and Sokka were so sure they were going to die in this moment. They were so sure the quick goodbyes and attitudes that ‘it’s not forever’ were all they were going to get to leave behind to their parents. They thought they were going to die and had no idea if Suki or Aang would come out of it okay. They had no way of knowing if Zuko or Katara would live. And they never got the chance to get anything close to resembling closure with their parents. 

They just had this trust in each other. Just this grip. That’s all they were left with in the end. Because the world never protected them the way they protected the world.