serra

hello! i'm serra (she/her) and i have many thoughts about many things. always up for a chat!

[cannibalcaprine]

i feel like we don't appreciate these days how much the twin towers sucked, like, design-wise

they were contemporarily hated for just being these giant grey monoliths

like there probably could've been an easier way to get rid of them, but they probably needed to go either way

[tgirl-subway-the-dark-ages]

crying at this. the curb is brutalist. the sidewalk is brutalist. house made of concrete bricks is brutalist. lmao??

[cue-jay]

[sliversoakley4]

[ornerycrab]

Oh you were a gifted child and now you're a loser? Well I was supernaturally experimented on alongside 12 other abducted children and became the lone survivor and dubbed "The Lost Sibling" and now I'm the assistant manager at a struggling small town Wendy's

[sisterdragonwithfeathers]

shoutout to platonic relationships so good they can make you recontextualize romantic songs

[str-ngeloop]

your strengths are harder to see than your weaknesses because the problems you're good at solving don't appear as problems, because you're so good at handling them before they become problems... unlike the relatively rare problem that becomes a crisis, which demands undue attention. it's sort of like a reverse survivorship bias. the problems that become noticed as problems, the moments where you notice your capacity has a gap, are only the ones that aren't cut off at the pass by your strength and capability, before they become problems. so if all you focus on is problems then all you'll see is your weaknesses. which isn't accurate

[toasthaste]

[mutationgirl]

you are just cranky because i took something imperceptible from you and you cannot recall it in its absence but you feel the edges of it anyway

[serra-says]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender & Related Fandoms Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sokka & Zuko (Avatar), Aang & Toph Beifong & Katara & Sokka & Zuko, Katara & Sokka (Avatar), Katara & Zuko, The Gaang & Zuko (Avatar) Characters: Sokka (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Toph Beifong, Aang (Avatar), The Gaang (Avatar) Additional Tags: Sokka & Zuko Friendship (Avatar), Sokka/Zuko-centric (Avatar), Can be read as slash, Zuko-centric (Avatar), Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Past Abuse, Past Child Abuse, Ozai's A+ Parenting, Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck, Zuko is Bad at Feelings (Avatar), sokka is significantly better at feelings, Good Friend Sokka (Avatar), Protective Sokka (Avatar), Zuko Needs a Hug (Avatar), Sokka Learns How Zuko Got The Scar (Avatar), that moment when your ex-enemy joins your team and it's really awkward, and your sister kind of hates him but he's not too bad, aside from having no common sense. sokka is suffering, Western Air Temple (Avatar), Toph Beifong is a Menace, Katara Needs a Hug (Avatar), Swordfighting, Sparring, Blood and Injury, Canon-Typical Violence, zuko has never heard of self-preservation, sokka has no interest in training accidents, and toph has no interest in getting involved, all these things are equally relevant, Sokka is Trying (Avatar) Summary:

“I don’t want to hurt you,” Sokka stresses, staring down into startled golden eyes, “you’re one of the best fighters I’ve ever had to go up against. Zuko, you terrified the tiger-sealskin out of me the first few times we met. I’m not dismissing you because I got one lucky hit in — I’m trying not to hurt you again, because I don’t want to do that. Not even if it would give me an advantage in a fight.”

“But—” Zuko shakes his head, dark hair swaying with the movement, and then he frowns. “Then you’re a bad fighter. If you don’t use the advantages you’re given, you’ll never win.”

“Has it never occurred to you that maybe I don’t want to win?” Sokka frowns back just as intently, deliberately ignoring the you’re a bad fighter comment and instead focusing on the latter part of the sentence. “I mean, I do, but not if I have to rely on advantages that get you hurt to do it. We’re training as friends, not as enemies.”

Zuko’s look turns incredulous, and he seems a little helpless when he asks, “What’s the difference?”

—

After joining the Gaang, Zuko and Sokka spar. Zuko doesn't dodge, Sokka doesn't understand, and they become friends. Somewhere in there, they talk.

[matchagirl]

sorry but if your bed isn’t against at least one wall you’re not valid

[heartsdesire456]

I used to think this post was stupid because most people like both sides of the bed free but then I realized some psychopaths put their bed like this so not even the headboard is against a wall and this post is about these animals.

[ranger-truth]

A single person’s bed is generally against 2 walls, a couple’s bed is generally against 1 wall, and people with 0 walls have no fear of the dark/unseen with direct access to their head, and therefore cannot be human.

[unnonexistence]

ok the bed just out in the middle of the room is bad but have you considered: only the footboard end against a wall

[crumplelush]

no i hadn’t. why would you put that image into my head?

[aceofsquiddles]

[demansiabites]

Okay, but how is this

[time-traveling-fetus]

[dashbork]

I’m at a loss for words

[pyramidschemeofthesun]

This was the bed of Thomas Jefferson. 

[froginakettle]

STay out of my study unless you intend to have sex with me

[segamascott]

got my first ever official customer complaint because when i was going over the terms of their life insurance they were like "well i don't plan to die" and i was like "well you're going to"

[freakoutgirl]

maybe if i isolate myself enough my desire for intimacy will go away

[annabelle--cane]

much has been said about "fics titled with lyrics (and parentheses)" but what about the ones titled with single vaguely religious-sounding obscure vocab words with direct latin and greek roots? I'm talking synecdoche. iconoclasm. exegesis. eschatology. cataclysm. hagiography. occultation. apotheosis. you know the kind.

[crazy-brazilian]

same bro

[leonbutchkennedy]

[marsipanart]

if i see more reels of this im gonna implodee

[mr-dinosaurus]

I love reading fanfics where one character is tagged as jealous, but their partner is unlovable to anyone but them. Like.. calm down, sweetheart, no one wants your man. We're still trying to figure out why you want your man.

[stonesense]

sometimes that character just wouldn’t hide an injury. it’s a great trope but only if they would do that.

[stonesense]

and sometimes the character wouldn’t try to push through sickness and do their day job or whatever. again i see what you’re going for but sometimes in these fics something else can happen. open your hearts and minds to scenarios such as “the character is actually pretty expressive about their needs and is willing to complain a lot but the other characters still don’t take it that seriously for whatever reason and have to deal with the guilt and quencies after”. or “the character takes a rest at the appropriate time (or earlier!) but then faces punishment/being ignored/hostility for doing so and that is what worsens their condition into a serious one.” or “the character is a practical one who informs people sensibly and takes every necessary step, yet to their distress their condition still spirals out of the control.” or whatever else but just do you see what i’m saying not every character is a silent sufferer and that isn’t the only way to put them in a situation . we can innovate

[stealingpotatoes]

reason 1 million why i love zukka: how extra insane it makes hakoda's family tree

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