Like Memory Undone

✧ Every time I think I know, I forget. ✧ Hey, I'm Nik. They/Them. 22. I write/wrote:  Not As Simple As A Happy Ending,  Nothing Small,  Of the Dead and the Wicked,  King & Reaper, etc.

[edbaebae]

This tweet totally describes me

[theotheristhedoctor]

Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing. 

[sindri42]

You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.

And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.

[moonlit-sunflower-books]

writing should be fun.

make oc playlists. spend hours on moodboards that have no purpose. write self-indulgent fluff that’s never going to be published. scribble three lines of poetry in the back of your history notebook. draw fanart of your own characters. write stupid dialogue that your publishers might hate. start new wips that you might never finish but write those three chapters that make you happy because if you don’t write them, who else will?

writing shouldn’t always be about “will publishers like this” or “i have to reach this word count” or “how do i get the most likes”.

have fun with your writing.

[insomniac-arrest]

carrd? nah. if you want to learn about me you have to connect scraps of information from my occasional sentence-long tumblr tags and gay little rants I’ve been putting there since 2016. that is the truest wellspring of self.

[insomniac-arrest]

ideal way that my followers figure out what the fuck is up with me:

[haileythesato]

finally stopped playing resident evil village long enough to draw this idea.

He made me beef pilaf when no one else would!! >;0

[everydaylouie]

started playing the Big Lady Game

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

i think the muppets should preform the passion of the christ but as theyre nailing muppet jesus to the cross it makes squeaky toy noises and theyre using rubber mallets

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

mrs piggy for the virgin mary. jesus is the only human in the entire movie. gonzo as john the baptist. beaker as lazurus. thers so much to work with here

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

animal was at the passion of the christ

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

i know we have the eagle guy as pontius pilate but how do we feel about the two old guys

[ma-la-xa]

the penitent and impenitent thieves

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

statler and woldorf “sinner? i barely know ‘er!” while nailed on a cross tell me you dont want to see that. tell me.

[verysimplynothing]

@notsuchasecret

[funkygraveyards-deactivated2023]

“free Palestine” and “don’t use what’s happening to Palestinians as an excuse to spread anti-Semitism” can and should co-exist

[frownyalfred]

me: god if this author doesn’t update I’m going to DIE

also me, an author with several WIPs:

[writeouswriter]

[mcsiggy]

I named this file “milkers”

[tavalen]

disability advocacy went wrong when it became about inspiration porn and “differently abled” and savants. its incredible that that guy with no legs did a triathlon but your sister with no legs will not and she doesnt need prosthetics or five hour training days to deserve respect and compassion and accommodations. its incredible that that autistic guy can look at a city from a helicopter for an hour and then draw the entire detailed skyline from memory when he lands but your autistic friend cannot and they dont need to have a special Autism Power to deserve respect and compassion and accommodations. 

activism framed around “we are just as CAPABLE” means that when people genuinely are less capable they are left behind. activism framed around “we are just as WORTHY” is fundamental to radical compassion.

[pumpkins-s]

HI NOT AS SIMPLE HAS A TV TROPES PAGE?????

Y’all I can literally die complete now goddamn.

[unbotheredmuse]

[nkomaeda]

friendship is magic redesigns!!

[otherwindow]

my fav trope is when the protagonist thinks a villain is doing something terrible and it cuts to them being mundane

Princess Knight, polishing her bastardess sword: what dastardly deeds is mine own rival plotting… Queen of Skulls at a ride-thru: can i get a fuckin uuhhh

[pens-swords-stuff]

Every little bit counts.