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HTTYD/Skyrim crossover

Shadow Knight masterpost, made with @heliosthegriffin, @noneatnonedotcom

RWBY/40K idea Short 1, 2,

Moonlight Isekai

Try, Try Again

Jaune of many Titles part one

Story Ideas

An Arc from the Past

Miraculous Ladybug School

additions to posts

Renegades

Jaune the Demon (s)Layer!!!

Trench

Disney Fantasy

Shadow of the Heroes

Team BLGA and the Pyrrha flip

#writing #my stories #httyd #Skyrim #rwby #crossover #Disney #fantasy #fantasy au #warhammer 40k #mlb

feminismisstillahatemovement

I can't talk to people who get their vocabulary from The View.

tea-and-la

And by zuko having something to gain by switching sides (romantic love in this case) his redemption arc isnt as impactful, he had EVERYTHING to loose and nothing to gain when he joined the gaang which is why it was so effective.

this type of argument from antis is so annoying because it doesn't even make sense. katara isn't zuko's "something to gain" and it feels like a poor attempt to give zutara a similar level of "trophy" as the "hero gets the girl" trope. zuko switched sides because of his own change in heart. this is a quote from the day of Black sun:

No, I've learned everything! And I've had to learn it on my own! Growing up, we were taught that the Fire Nation was the greatest civilization in history. And somehow, the War was our way of sharing our greatness with the rest of the world. What an amazing lie that was. People around the world are terrified of the Fire Nation. They don't see our greatness. They hate us! And we deserve it! We've created an era of fear in the world. And if we don't want the world to destroy itself, we need to replace it with an era of peace and kindness.

this is not "i'm joining team avatar because i think katara is attractive and i want to be with her."

zuko and katara's relationship (canonically friends) is not predicated on obligation, so this anti argument doesn't make sense. in TSR, he asks what he can do to make it up to her and she gives him an IMPOSSIBLE task -- effectively saying that she will never forgive him. He isn't "gaining" anything because he had to earn her friendship/respect; it's why he was so shocked when she hugged him at the end of TSR. although, there is a ship that does have obligation written into it canonically - (nodding at "avatar's girl for example), but we never hear y'all antis bring ts up.

a potential romantic!zutara relationship would come after his redemption arc; and it doesn't make sense to retroactively trivialize the growth that he went through to get to that place.

also these arguments always feel disingenious because you would never catch these antis saying that zukka would erase zuko's redemption arc. like, we can't even keep consistency.

shadowrosegarden

If it had been Aang who took that lightning strike for Katara in the exact same way Zuko did (same framing, same music, same slow motion desperation, etc.), people would be calling it the most romantic moment in the series. Nobody would be arguing it was just something the Avatar would naturally do for anybody. But because it's Zuko and Katara, suddenly there's this push to strip the scene of all subtext and act like taking a potentially killing blow for someone in one of the climactic emotional scenes of the show doesn't mean anything

Nobody is saying that Zuko taking lightning for Katara is Irrefutable Proof that he was canonically in love with her. That's not the point. The point is that the scene is charged with emotional intimacy and is framed in a way that audiences have learned to associate with romance. You don't have to ship zutara to recognize this, nor does the ship not being canon change that fact. And the thing is, Bryke knows this. They know that the scene is romantic. Why else would they get rid of Zuko's scar?

spahhzy

Roman: Oi, where did do-gooder go?

Neo: *rolls window down of car*

Roman: ...

Jaune:

Roman: GET. IN. THE. CAR. YOU. IDIOT! WE'RE BEING CHASED BY THE POLICE!

Neo: 🤭

wu-gang-writing

Jaune + Ruby

shadowfromthestarlight

People took a phenomenon that can happen - a popular "third place" such as a theater, event venue, bar, or restaurant can close and have effects on the community - and applied it across the board to claim that "third places are disappearing" and both adults and children might as well be at home on their phones all day because there's nowhere else to go.

But that's not true. Where on the planet are you where there isn't a park? Lol. But really. There is always a park. Yes, you can just be a random adult and take a book to the park and sit on a bench and exist in a place that is neither home nor work. Yes, kids can still go to parks where they can play basketball and run around screaming like banchees and climb on jungle gyms. Yesterday, there was hardly any room under the cherry trees in Central Park, so many families and groups were having picnics. Recently, I was struck by how many middle and high school-aged kids I saw at ice skating rinks over the winter, just hanging out in groups on a Friday night, often being very silly, but still, not just sitting at home communicating only in virtual space.

We also often confuse things like malls and movie theaters being past their peak with them disappearing entirely. They're still around, and you're still allowed to go lol.

Coffee shops are also thriving. And many of them serve as prime "third places." They're upbeat. They're comfortable. They're inviting. You can sit in them for two hours, talking or eavesdropping or reading or writing or drawing, and nobody will bother you. I'm not just thinking of one special place that I'm really lucky to have access to because most people will never get the chance to visit it, I could rattle off a list.

Bookstores are also increasingly becoming a "third place" - Barnes & Noble is particular good at this, with ample space to peruse books at your leisure and seating to hang out for a while, but it's certainly not just Barnes & Noble.

Another example of a very common third place I can think of is a farmers' market. This is somewhere you can meet new people, talk, and exchange ideas (or not), try new things, and be outside in the sunshine. And oh my goodness, spare me the excuses. I've shopped at a variety of farmers' markets in different parts of the country. I've seen people shopping with EBT at the farmers' market in the Bronx. There are Wednesday markets, Saturday markets, and Sunday markets. Before I had a car, I walked two miles to the farmers' market that was open in the summer and took the train to the farmers' market I liked that was open in the winter. Spending time at the farmers' market is a feasible solution for a lot of people who might be looking for a third place.

Tangentially related, I saw an article several weeks ago about the "disappearance of the Sunday drive." Meaning, you can't just go drive around the countryside for pleasure anymore. Well, er, you can. Case in point, I do it all the time. Its "disappearance" is a choice.

This could all be an excuse to sit at home and rot on your phone, but it could also be more significant; pushing this negative message about third places to the masses (which doesn't seem to be working too well yet given the hoardes of people I find in parks and coffee shops) leads people to spend more time in front of screens, making more money for tech companies and also getting them slowly more comfortable with the concept of cramming into smart cities and traveling via virtual reality.

In any event, the rhetoric about the so-called disappearance of third places is extremely counterproductive and it's not doing anything to improve anyone's life.

noneatnonedotcom

I mean the parks still exist sure, but that doesn't stop old people from calling the cops on kids who are congregating in any numbers over six.

I live in rural Pennsylvania, last year some kids organized a hide and seek tournament. Nothing spectacular just kids playing a game, rules stated that they had to stick to public places, had to keep their cellphone on in case of emergency. They stuck to the park and the adjacent library and courthouse grounds no one went inside the buildings.

The cops were called within the first hour to break up the gathering.

So while third places will always exist, I have fond memories of just fucking around with friends by the river, that doesn't mean anything when you're heavily incentivized not to make use of them vis police or legal intervention.

Personally I think the issue is that there's a hostility to people, especially young people, existing in general but especially having fun in public. The seeming lack of third places is only a symptom of the problem.

witch-hattery

Let's not forget that in places helicopter parenting is mandatory.

It is not legal for kids to be anywhere without a physically present parent or legal guardian. Literally a crime for them to be in their own front lawn alone, never mind a park.

only-cat-memes

nostalgicamerica

basderer

enbaluka-tokyo-drift

hometoursandotherstuff

weatherman667

The best thing to do is honestly stare at it until it feels awkward and moves away. Don't look it in it's eyes.

Unless it's starving, (or a polar bear), it probably doesn't want to eat you.

If it is starving, (or a polar bear), well, you're SOL. Their skulls have natural sloped armour.

Use team tactics, and make sure you give it a way out. This also applies to drunks, or homeless you are kicking off of your property.

heywriters

Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of

Not only did this experiment prevent plagiarism, it also taught her students to become better writers and thinkers.

"No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers, or delete keys."

Concerning the AI papers she kept receiving: “What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?”

From one of her students,

“ 'While writing the essay, I had to talk a lot more, socialize a lot more, which I guess was normal back then...it’s drastically different from how we interact within the classroom in modern times. People are always on a laptop, always on the phone.' Without a delete key and the ability to correct every mistake, he paused to think more intentionally about his writing."

"Most students found their pinkies weren’t strong enough to touch-type, so they typed more slowly, pecking at the keyboard with their index fingers."

Another student said,

" 'This thing I handed in had pencil marks all over it and definitely did not look clean or finished. But it’s part of the process of learning that you’re going to make mistakes'..."

All this in a college level foreign language class. I cannot imagine attempting to pass a language class using AI and then expect to somehow magically speak it! Why pay buckets of money to be taught something and then refuse to actually learn it?

Whatever, I'm going back to hand writing my stories because relying on devices that keep breaking down on me is nuts.

weatherman667

typing is also, literally, a lost art, which we need to bring back.

Give them a physical dictionary beside their desk.