perpetually disoriented

Hi my name is Mawe and I want to be your friend.

[bimstown]

jimothy my cryptid son

[electricheart]

a little reminder! by annalaura_art

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to this day i cannot BELIEVE aang called up and blew off like nine avatars just because they didnt offer any vegan options to ending the war

[pikameme-dayo]

roku: my best friend assaulted me as a senior citizen :(

kyoshi: sometimes some murder is OK

kuruk: just punch people that disagree with you

aang: okay i’m starting to think that none of you took this avatar thing seriously

[teeveew]

You're not wrong

[aboutiroh]

Aang when he is told he’s the Avatar at age 12: *has a melt down because he understands the seriousness of this function and the consequences his new responsibilities will have on his personal life* 

other Avatars at age 16: I’m the avatar? Cool! Hey look it comes with a glowing eyes feature! 

[aviculor]

aang: fuck this noise, i’ll get advice from the last air nomad avatar

yangchen: i gave up that hippie bullshit first chance i got, i love murder

[hedge-rambles]

I will never not laugh at the bit where Aang is like "finally, an Air Nomad, you get me, right?" and Yangchen just says "sorry bud, I also vote murder".

A close second on that note is of course the trial of Kyoshi in which she manifests in the courtroom just to say "Actually, I did murder him and I'd do it again. But consider: the bitch had it coming".

[kittyissac]

#tbh I think there's something to be said for the fact that Aang was 12 when he ran away from home#and how there's more than a bit of evidence that the adult airbenders had a less strict pacifistic approach#Aang was purposefully sheltered by Gyatsu to protect his childhood and so he has the ethics of a child#and when he awoke there were no other air nomads around to sit him down and have The Violence Talk#about how yes we're pacifists and murder is bad but there are exceptions#like Gyatsu was a kindly man of the highest order but uh#he didn't just lay down and die on a pile of skulls he just found#man went out taking like 20 fire nation soldiers with him#Aang: ''I could never kill! Gyatsu taught me to abhor all forms of violence“”#Gyatsu: deals out death to attacking soldiers like he's got a side hustle as a claymore mine

[zarohk]

And the fact that he figures out a more technically complex and socially stable way to remove Ozai without making him a martyr just shows that he has a lot more skill at the problem at hand than most the previous ones.

To me, that whole scene was very much the previous avatars saying “when all you have is a hammer” and Aang going “okay, but what can I do with this Swiss Army knife?” and they don’t give very useful advice about it.

[tamer-of-jabberwocks]

Personally I also don't think the prior Avatars were all that helpful, but they weren't all saying murder was okay. Aang's there asking for help with Avatar skills because he'd had so minimal training, maybe there's something in the toolbox he doesn't know how to use yet, but they're all trying to make him comfortable with using the hammer he already has and knows how to use. What they were saying was what they thought he needed to hear, based on what they regretted most from how they'd acted as Avatars, and what they thought was most needed here.

Roku regretted not killing Sozin specifically because it gave him the opportunity to come back and kill him, then the Air Nomads. His lack of decisive action led to a lot of tragedy, and so his advice was to make sure whatever he did, make sure it was permanent, or Ozai would come back.

Kyoshi regretted not moving sooner on the threat of Shin the Conqueror and waiting until he was at the very edge of Kyoshi Peninsula before actually doing anything. She allowed a lot of destruction on the continent because she didn't move fast enough. Her advice is to move swiftly instead of allowing Ozai more time to act.

Kuruk basically did nothing as Avatar by his own admission and basically just said that Aang had to do something, and not to back off of his responsibilities because it was hard.

Yangchen is complicated because, well, she isn't talking about one of her own regrets. She's the one trying to give the 'Violence is sometimes necessary' talk to Aang, because she's the best person to tell him his duties as Avatar have to outweigh his duties as an Airbender. Arguably she is the one telling him to murder Ozai, but personally I read that as more 'you need to do what's right for the world, and I am giving you permission to break our cultural rules to do that. Because I am the only person you can ask for absolution.'

They were all trying to offer him spiritual guidance and support, but Aang wasn't looking for emotional support here, he was looking for solutions. Because he had already decided he wouldn't kill Ozai. No advice or absolution was really going to change that he already knew he wouldn't do it.

[nebulations]

[ID: Tags that say, "#LMFAO #aang is that one kid in the group that actually does the project n everyone else fucks around #we know this coz in korra he straight up gives her the avatar state back n everyones like 'shit wait spirit avatars can do that'?? #well yeah if theyre competent #aang was a 4.0 student stuck w/ 4 ppl on sports scolarships to help him save the world". End ID]

[blazing-butterfly-inactive]

It's been a while since I saw the scene, but IIRC Yangchen wasn't just saying "murder is ok" but specifically saying that the fate of the world was more important than a vow of never killing, that as the Avatar his duty was to the world rather than to his own enlightenment.

She said most directly what all the others had been telling him too: Roku, Kyoshi and Kuruk all faced situations where their ideals about what they "should" do clashed with what would really do the most good (or at least prevent the most harm). They all chose their ideals over the real effects, innocent people paid the price, and they were urging Aang not to repeat their mistakes.

I'm glad he didn't kill Ozai and found another way, but I'm also glad the past Avatars gave him that message and weren't shown as bad or wrong for saying it. Not to get too into real-world issues, but in this day and age where a lot of people seem more concerned with moral purity over actual impact, it's a message I think is really important.

[laerugo]

Obviously the Yangchen books weren't written at the time the series aired, but one reason I love her duology series is because FC Yee dives into how breaking cultural rules she grew up with all her life for the sake of a job she didn't ask for was also really hard for Yangchen, too. From the start, her Avatar duties forced her to deal with the messy politics of her time, which is already a big no-no among the nomads, so she internalized that being the Avatar is incongruous with her cultural values from very early on. She doesn't say "Murder Ozai" to Aang because she loves to kill people--she's just used to forcing herself to doing things that cause her personal discomfort, and sees it as an unavoidable element of the job. She's speaking as someone who has been where Aang is, backed into corner after corner, and forced to make impossible decisions she also didn't want to make. Unlike Aang, though, Yangchen often couldn't find a way to avoid it. Air nomad culture wasn't something that she brushed off because it was ~holding her back~. Every time she breaks another cultural taboo and severs herself from her people a little more, it causes her deep pain.

[kitty-cat-cryptids]

Local Cryptid Stasia Sits On Pants, Preventing Owners from Getting Dressed

Sources say she does this just for fun and will smack you if you try to take the pants.

[fairychium]

ailurophilia (n) – a fondness or love for cats

[bloodytales]

Teach boys about periods

My mother also talked about periods to my brothers.

When I first got mine I had terrible cramps. Crippling cramps. I once was camping with my family and a few of my big brother’s friends when my period came. My cramps were so bad that my mom gave me a full pain killer ( I was 13 and before that she only gave me pills cut in half).

I literally laid down on my parents’ air mattress and cried in pain for an hour before the pill kicked in.

My brothers friend came in to the big tent and I was just curled up and sobbing. Now, I was quite the tomboy and was known to rough house with my brothers and their friends and made sure I wasnt seen as just “a little girl.” So my brother’s friend was confused to see me openly weeping in the fetal position (seriously, these were the worst cramps I have had in my life. My vision went white). He asked what was wrong with me.

My big brother stood up immediately and suggested a nice long hike. During this hike I am sure he had a pretty awkward conversation with his friend explaining menstrual cramps, because when they got back the pain pill had (mostly) kicked in and I was sitting up at a table when my brother’s friend sheepishly asked me if I was feeling better. I said I was better, and he said good.

When we made s'mores that night my brother and his friend kept me well supplied with chocolate.

Making sure sons know as much about periods and menstruation as daughters makes them better brothers, better sons better fathers, and better men. A man that understands a period will not lightly accuse a woman of “being on her period” if the woman is in an argument.

Raise better sons Teach them about normal bodily functions.

[khaleesi-mother-of-fandoms]

Also teach your sons about menstrual cramps because some boys get cramps too, and it’s important that cis boys are better allies to their trans brothers.

[brmanso27]

Humans are awesome

[alexfromawen]

I say things like “I’m not interested in sports” I really have to give a caveat to explain I really mean “sportsball”, those mass media team sporting events that lead to white privilege riots and fill the pockets of millionaires and billionaires. Because this? This is incredible, just the athleticism, what bodies can do, female, male, young or adult, differently abled…just awesome.

[deathtokillian]

^^^^

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[paperstorm]

Australian comedian Jim Jefferies points out the ridiculousness of American pro-gun arguments. x x

[redhead4eyes]

Welp

[featheredclaw]

WELP

[romxntiqe]

forever that girl that gets really excited when the sky is in pretty colours

[coolled]

[thisisdefunct-deactivated202103]

So number one, Reading Rainbow was not cancelled because it was not effective. Reading Rainbow was the most used television resource in our nation’s classroom. In 2009, it was [cancelled] due to No Child Left Behind. That government policy made a choice between teaching the rudiments of reading and fostering a love of reading. So the idea that I am trying to somehow revive a failed endeavor is bullshit. That’s right. I said it. Bullshit.

LeVar Burton (via franfinethesecond)

[mercury]

[sadviolences]

[metabirdnyc]

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[visvya]