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- She/He - Sí/Sé - Call me Moth - Adult - White - Asks Open! -

[salmonmoths]

Get to know me?

Hello! You can call me Moth!

Some more basic information about me:

She/He

In my 20s

White

Autistic

Bi, aroace, genderqueer

My interests fluctuate but some of my big ones are:

BUGS!!! Especially Moths and Bees

Salmon (I'm a big fan)

Plant Science, especially trees

Nature education

History

Random fun facts!

Tolkien's works

Arthuriana

Textile art

Star Wars

How to Train Your Dragon

The Ocean

Murder Mysteries

Star Trek

Batman/DC

And now you know more about me! Congrats!

Posts about me are tagged under #personal stuff

Icon is by @wervty (picrew)

[burst-of-iridescent]

the thing with zuko and azula that people, specifically azula stans, seem to forget is that they are intentionally and specifically characterised in opposition to each other.

i keep seeing discourse about how azula deserves a redemption arc & even leaving aside the fact that a) saying someone “deserves” a redemption defeats the purpose of what redemption is and b) there was no space in the original show for azula to redeem herself anyway, azula could not have been redeemed because part of her narrative purpose is to be a foil to zuko.

zuko and azula are each the metric against which the other’s evolution (or devolution) is measured, and it’s the striking disparity between their character arcs that makes said arcs as impactful as they are: the child who swallowed the poison vs the child who spat it out. the fire nation royal who perpetuated the cycle of violence vs the fire nation royal who broke it. the abuse victim who became an abuser vs the abuse victim who became a protector.

would zuko’s redemption have felt as satisfying and hard-won if we hadn’t seen in azula the alternate path he might have so easily gone down? would azula’s downfall have been as terrible and saddening if we hadn’t seen the possibility of a better future embodied in zuko?

thematically speaking as well, the fire nation royal family exists as a microcosm of the fire nation itself — the generational trauma and violence passed down from sozin to azulon to ozai to azula and zuko is symbolic of how the fire nation’s warmongering has turned inwards, back on itself, a self-inflicted wound that grows and festers and rots until they’ve destroyed themselves just as much as they’ve destroyed the world. but where zuko represents a way out — hope for healing, for peace, for an end to the self-destructive nature of war — azula represents the cost of that war, the damage that can never be undone, the danger of remaining mired in an ouroboros, forever the snake that bites its own tail.

a version of the show where both zuko and azula redeem themselves together would have lost the grave, sobering impact of that message: that getting out as zuko did is the exception, not the norm, because the system in which they exist is built to be a trap. and even when that system is dismantled, the destruction it’s wrought cannot be fully erased.

the point of zuko and azula’s story lies in its inherent juxtaposition: there was never going to be room for both of them to rise or even fall together, not in the world in which they were raised and the virtues it extolled. and it’s because zuko exists as who azula could have been and azula exists as who zuko might have been, that their individual arcs are so powerfully poignant, and their relationship so infinitely tragic.



[io-lu-art]

A tale of Ba Sing Se.

[juniper-petunia]

they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids

[strandnreyes]

“I don’t like this song because I can’t relate to it” skill issue. I’m mad at my husband I love my girlfriend I’m a lone cowboy I’m growing old I’m growing up I’m depressed I love my friends I’m perpetually horny I’m drunk at the club I love my husband again

[evilkitten3]

i'm trapped inside a whale but so is the guy who bankrupted my mom

[the-haiku-bot]

i’m trapped inside a

whale but so is the guy who

bankrupted my mom

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[moniquill]

[bulletstapes]

Opened this tab months ago with the intention of checking out the song.

Remembered it's still buried in 100s of open tabs. Reopened. Video is unavailable.

Sigh.

[moniquill]

Here, @bulletstapes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPAr7kL-mmg

[ndnbutch]

personally I am of the opinion that vegans who are like “the way our food system currently works under capitalism on a large scale is exceptionally cruel to all animals including humans and is not sustainable, so I’m doing what I can to make the most ethical choices available to me about what I eat and encourage others to do the same” are generally very reasonable people who I agree with in spades. but vegans who seem to think human beings are not themselves animals who are ultimately also part of the food chain but instead some kind of other paternalistic higher entity that can never engage in ethical and sustainable hunting practices (and especially the fringe I’ve seen who think other carnivorous animal predators are also evil and need to be eliminated) are people I regard as foolish at best if not actively anti-indigenous and racist

[sabellart]

god bless iroh’s patience

[colavoxi]

tale of two brothers .

[kitkatopinions]

[fatalisticme]

rewatching atla. love those little 2d freaks

[dkrltktma]

That Doofenshmirtz scene but it's iroh, zuko and zhao

[kitkatopinions]

[beifong-brainrot]

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

Saw this frame on a different reblog by @thatssroughbuddy but why does it look like Iroh is using his phone to take a photo of his nephew at a landmark

[sokkastyles]

"Uncle, make sure you get that glowy light in the picture and send it to my dad to let him know I'm about to capture the Avatar!"

[late-draft]

This was so cute I had to draw it

and of course Iroh is doing what-

[sokkastyles]

!!!!!!

Iroh posts it on social media with some caption like "look at my beautiful nephew" and Zhao comments like "is that the Avatar in the background?"

And Iroh responds, "no, it's the northern lights."

[late-draft]

This is insanely funny to me and now:

[tadpole-art]

"You will learn respect, and suffering will be your teacher"

[itznarcotic]

a collection

[makingqueerhistory]

Botswana officially erases ban on same-sex intimacy

Dick Bayford, Botswana's attorney general, removed anti-gay language that courts struck down years ago. (Photo courtesy of the Sunday Standa

Local LGBTIQ+ organisation LEGABIBO welcomed the government’s move, describing it as “a necessary and long-overdue step toward restoring dignity and aligning our legal framework with constitutional values of equality and human rights.” The group said the change sends “a clear message that LGBTIQ+ persons are not criminals, and that their lives and relationships deserve protection, not punishment.” LEGABIBO noted that the colonial-era provisions had long cast a shadow over the lives of LGBTIQ+ people in the country.