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I'm Sara, 26, Canadian I mostly just reblog stuff. I'm pretty laid back and open minded so feel free to ask or talk to me about anything

[kyoshi-lesbians]

my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

[kyoshi-lesbians]

he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.

[kyoshi-lesbians]

his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’

[edgar-allan-possum]

The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend

[library-graffiti]

Important opinion in the tags that I need to have be part of the post:

[clearascountryair]

Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”

[terriwriting]

Sokka: “My girlfriend turned into the moon.”

Zuko: “I know.” “Yes.” “She sure did.” “Uh huh.” “Tell me something new.” “Are we still talking about that?” “That’s rough, buddy.”

[alexseanchai]

[image: tags by samwisethebold: #it’s not that he doesn’t get what sokka means #it’s that how on earth do you respond to that]

[uberguber89]

When you put it like that, this is actually a legendary display of tact on Zuko’s part

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform

[triskeleaficionado]

Timepiece with the fewest moving parts:

Sundial.

Timepiece with the most moving parts:

Hourglass.

[retroactivebakeries]

#sundial has some noteworthy moving parts#like the sun#and the earth

[femgineerasolution]

[rvllybllply2014]

His sugar work is more impressive than his chocolate work at this point

[esmeralda-anistasia]

#sure just use lampwork techniques on sugar#you can do what you want forever

[beepathan]

hey everyone its april fools. but dont worry i dont have anything planned. just going to sit here and...

I LIED !!!! GET PRANKED

POST BELOW ME GET FUCKING WET

[tahthetrickster]

[manfrommars2049]

UBI needs to happen. via antiwork

[hasufin]

I think most importantly, it would give us the leverage to say “no”. To walk away from bad jobs and abusive managers. To refuse to work in unsafe environments. To demand better pay.

To demand better, because the options are no longer “suck it up” or “die”.

[tehamelie]

The counter-argument: Not having UBI is in the interests of those in power who want to do anything to the people they are in power over in order to remain in power.

If the greed of the few should come before the need of the many.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

1,025 days left

[belbar74]

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply

"how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post

"_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior

"woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares

"and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.

"and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all

".. but its about a witch in the alps finding her lost cat" for someone trying to sanitize something to the point of absurdity

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

this is prime proof that this ENTIRE WEBSITE is autistic because nowhere else would a no tags post that's just an informative list about slang get this much traction.

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

anyway more addittions

“30-50 wild hogs” for someone making ABSURD excuses for violence.

“what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament” for how do you know that without being a part of it.

“anyone in this thread smoke weed” for the shit you people are saying is so off topic this might as well be a general discussion forum

“dogs are boys and cats are girls” for ooh ur mindset did not grow past 4th grade, huh

“color theory in a childrens hospital” for bending over backwards to not agree that YEA, that thing Came Off Weird

“you are a tar pit” for someone finding any reason to respond with outrage.

“is the __ in the room with us right now?” for I Don’t Think That’s Real.

“bean soup? im allergic to beans!” for ik this doesn’t work for you, but that’s not a flaw. not everything can be for you.

“people irl: hey man hows it going” for this will Never Matter irl

[katjohnadams]

[lurks-no-more]

As the saying goes, the difference between having nothing and having a billion dollars is a billion dollars.

The difference between having a million dollars and having a billion dollars is also a billion dollars.

That million is 0.1% of the billion dollars; it's a literal rounding error.

[headspace-hotel]

not gonna lie kudzu has shot up to the top of my list of favorite plants so fast. she's such a bad bitch.

[headspace-hotel]

"but it devours everything in its path committing ecological atrocities" god forbid women do anything

[headspace-hotel]

kudzu is the most aggressive and indestructible plant around and that's WHY its so important to research her usefulness as a sustainable resource!!!

[headspace-hotel]

banging pots and pans yelling about how kudzu has been used for textiles, paper, food, and medicine for at least 6,000 years in china and over 2,000 years in japan and has been argued to be "quasi-domesticated" by some scientists

[vergess]

All parts of kudzu can and should be harvested all year round in north america, due to the severity of the invasiveness issue. However, certain parts have better results in certain seasons, which I have marked below.

Kudzu root (winter harvest) use cases include:

ASSISTING in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal symptoms (ASK YOUR DOCTOR FIRST)

A roasted vegetable to mix with your carrots and potatoes

A mashed vegetable with cream/butter/fat, garlic, and/or gravy

A soup vegetable with broth, other veg, and/or meat

Mashed in broth until porridge, which is nice for sick people, very easy to digest and unobtrusive in flavour

A pickle with vinegar (rice or white), sugar, and chili flakes (finely sliced or grated)

A thickening powder for soups and gravies (dried and ground)

A dry shampoo (dried and ground, then sifted to remove the woody parts)

Kudzu Leaf (spring harvest) use cases include:

Steamed or boiled leaf vegetable (Young, tender leaves only)

"Cooked" in lemon juice then used for salad or sandwich (Young, tender leaves only)

Fry with onions then mix with eggs in a scramble, omelette or quiche (young, tender leaves only)

Baking parchment, especially good for fish IMO (clean and fresh older leaves, layered about 3 thick; fresh leaves are safe even on open flame; good for campers!)

Forage for chickens (any leaves, but only the leaves! Chickens won't eat the vine, which can then root and grow in your coop invasively)

Kudzu Blossom (Summer harvest) uses include:

Flavouring for syrup or honey, which is then really nice in tea, water, or soda water

Boiled and crystalized in sugar for candy or a cake decoration

Fermented in sugar water to produce vinegar (the flowers are pretty yeasty, like cabbage and grape, so they ferment quickly once sugar is available)

Fermented in sugar water with wine yeast, to produce wine

Fermented with honey for a surprisingly grape soda like mead experience

Kudzu Vine (autumn harvest) uses include:

Stripped to fiber to make a thread or yarn and used accordingly (it's very shiny)

Shredded, mulched, or mown, it is excellent forage for sheep, rabbits, and goats, especially goats, goats love this stuff

Train your goats to become kudzu predators then rent them out as an extermination force

Kudzu Seeds and Pods/Beans are TOXIC!! DO NOT EAT THEM! (they're safe to touch, just wash your hands after). Honestly I hesitate to call the beans "useful" in any way, given the invasiveness of the plant. You could maybe dry them up and use them for art or something? But no one in north america should need to make seedlings, you know? If you want a kudzu seedling like... walk near any vertical growth of kudzu and you'll find the seedlings!!

[inkskinned]

when i was younger and stupid and in the (glass) closet i was dating the son of a pharmacologist. this man had made millions developing medications. he was fond of me and privately told me i was too funny and smart to be dating boys.

he also said that it was incredibly unlikely that sexism will ever be resolved in the medical field. that the majority of medications i will ever take - even some of which are "for women" - will not be clinically tested on my body.

the problem, he said, was in getting any human clinical trial approved. to test on a body with a uterus - any body, even elderly patients or those who have been sterilized - was often nigh-impossible, because the concern was that the test patient may, at any point, become pregnant. once/if the patient became pregnant, the study would not be about "the effects of New Medication on the body." instead, the trial would fail - the results would be "the effects of New Medication on a developing fetus/pregnant patient."

it was massively easier, he said, to just test without accounting for a uterus. that's how he phrased it - accounting for a uterus.

at the time, i remember him talking about the ethical implications of testing on a developing fetus; how such testing could theoretically bankrupt a company if a lawsuit was filed. he talked about informed consent and about how long it took for any legislation to be passed about this - that in 1993; the year i was born, it finally became illegal to outright exclude women and minorities from clinical trials.

i remember him shrugging. "that's not to say it doesn't happen," he said. my ears were ringing.

i was thinking about how every time i have been rushed to the ER, the first thing they have asked me is if i am pregnant. when i broke my wrist at 16 years old - despite never having had sex - they made me wait three hours for the test to come back negative before they gave me pain meds. the possibility of a child haunts my health.

how many people have died on the table because they were waiting for the pregnancy test before treatment. how many people have died on the table because they were pregnant, and the only thing we care about is the fetus.

it is hard to explain to other people, but it feels like some kind of strange ghost. our entire lives, we are supposed to "save" our bodies for our future partners. but really we are just saving the body for the future child, aren't we? that hovering future-almost that cartwheels around in a miasma. you can't get your tubes tied, what if you change your mind? think of the child you must have, eventually.

who cares about you and your actual safety. think about what you could be carrying.

[ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122]

People who love cold weather are fucking weird. You like to freeze? You like to shiver?? You like when you take a step outside and the air stings your skin???

[peacemode]

[darksteel-relic]

[sonpat-rides-again]

[ihavenocluewhatiwanttobecalled]

Can someone who understands psychology explain why this makes someone "rude"?

[alex51324]

Phatic discourse, a subset of affiliative signaling.

When Co-workers do things like ask about weekend plans, chat about non-work topics, eat lunch in the same room, they are--subconsciously--reaffirming that they are part of a cooperative (or, minimally, non-antagonistic) social group.

The other primates cement social bonds by grooming each other; we do it by making small talk.

If they solicit your participation in these rituals, and you repeatedly refuse those bids, you are marking yourself out as, at best, an outsider to the group, and thus potentially antagonistic.

This is all happening on the monkey-brain level; they have no idea what they're doing or how they are interpreting your response, so there's no way to clear up the misunderstanding.

To the ape sleeping in your co-worker's DNA, either you are part of the grooming circle, or you are an outsider who, for all it knows, may be coming to steal all the bananas.

Even if you would prefer not to socialize with your co-workers, it's generally worth it to set aside 5 minutes a couple times a week for phatic communication. You don't have to answer your co-workers' affiliative signals every time, but it's less trouble in the long run if you respond to a few of them.

[punkrorschach]

if you are the type of person who really just wants to be left alone to do their work in quiet: it is actually easier to achieve this as part of the in-group. when you enter a new space, in this case, a job, make it your GOAL to make everyone Know Who You Are. introduce yourself to everyone you meet. literally everyone. "hi I'm Jack I'm New." this helps burst the awkward bubble. you are now one of the monkeys.

at some point, either in response to an invitation, or just in the natural course of conversation, you can add in that you are a "quiet type" who "needs their silence" or what have you. customize to your personal needs. i find it helpful to imagine a well dressed elderly woman describing the sort of peace she needs to manifest.

roughly once a week if you see a group of people chatting, engage with them. keep it pleasant. it can be superficial. word will travel that you are Nice and Quiet and Not The Chatty Type protecting you from group lunches etc. if you have an office with a door that you keep closed a lot, putting up any kind of decor will also send positive signals.

humans are monkeys! for better or worse!

[tlbodine]

Pro tip: try to make a note (write it down if you have to) about some inconsequential thing that your coworker mentions so you can ask about it later. Kids and pets are great for This. As are hobbies. One guy in my office zoom called in from his house and I saw he had an arcade game in his office so I asked him about it later and he lit up like a Christmas tree. Another coworker has a pet pig and I ask every couple months how the pig is doing. This is a great strategy for pivoting conversation away from you and will make them think you are the friendliest monkey in the pod.

[that-house]

Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!

Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.

[anyroads]

#cold inspires a universal element of human nature that says let's share this fire for warmth and survival#heat inspires a universal element of human nature that says i hate you i hate the air it's sticky and i am going to do violence

you're right and you should say it

[salvadorbonaparte]

concept for a tv show: a cute simple love story between an assistant and a chauffeur or bodyguard or whatever else rich people have and in the background the rich people are having the wildest telenovela level drama that we only catch glimpses of

[still-bejeweled-and-shining]

(Flustered assistant) "So... do you want to go on a coffee date?" (Very flustered bodyguard) "I'd love to!"

(While they're looking at eachother cutely, we hear a woman screaming in the background "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CHEATED ON ME WITH MY BROTHER???" . Then somebody jumps off a window)

[salvadorbonaparte]

Exactly you get me

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I had a dream last night where I built and released a computer game called HORSE and all it is is that you play as a horse and most of the gameplay is you being ridden and having to obey cues from your rider (which are visually displayed on the screen). You move through beautiful vast 3D vistas while you hear and see the story of your rider, a young nobleman who's just been given his first horse, happen around you. He makes friends with a ragtag group of adventurers and might romance one of his party members et cetera but you have no part in that, your job is to be a horse. How good a horse you are affects your bond with him and if you're really bad you can get sold to a glue factory. It's an intensely narrative game where this young boy grows up and might overthrow the king or be banished and flee on his treasured horse or might do a variety of other things all depending on how good he is at controlling his horse and on whether his horse takes him where he wants to go or charges off into the woods and gets him kidnapped by bandits or whatever. You don't have any special powers or anything you're literally just a horse.

In my dream this game did incredibly well for no reason, but when I woke up all I could think of was how my dream self had ripped off my previous game idea, Fine, you can play as a magic sword, which is a card battler where you're the magical sword of destiny in the hands of the Chosen One and the story depends on what battles you win or lose; you can intentionally get a weak Chosen One killed and end up in the hands of someone stronger who'll get you cooler cards for your deck but could become an evil tyrant, that kind of thing.

[dogboysora]

Is HORSE from a first-horse or a third-horse perspective?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

First-horse. And if you're too disobedient a horse then they can put blinders on you to restrict your vision and make you listen to your rider more.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Important side not about HORSE is that you cannot understand the language that the human characters speak. You should learn any verbal riding commands pretty quickly just through gameplay, but you can never be one hundred per cent sure what's specifically happening in intense plot scenes and thus can't make deliberate long-term plans to control the narrative yourself. You have to trust that your human rider knows what he's doing and is making good decisions. You're just a horse.

[natmasthestinkylizardliker]

god I would play the fuck out of conlang horse game

if they had bad horse actions I would be the most obedient horse of all time except I would bite or step on feet every time the game offered me the prompt, only prince dingdong gets to stroke me, everyone else gets chomped or stomped

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Horse Girl Book type behaviour

[vodkassassin]

HORSE is fully voice acted by amazing VAs who infused every line with such emotion you can feel the plot happening. But it’s all spoken in, like, Simlish. So you can only witness the story based off tonal inflection, visual cues, and pure vibe.

[ozth]

what? oh sweetheart no, you're not weirding me out at all. you're weirding me in. keep talking, freak