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31 • Lesbian • She/Her This dear friends, is a collection of everything that I fangirl over and find amusing. Feel free to inquire about anything at all and we can fangirl together.

[shortandsapphic]

If Love Is My Purpose

Some days it feels as though yearning is all my soul will accomplish. It yearns for time to turn back, stand still, fast forward and shatter all in the same week. It yearns for the chance to be anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere. It yearns for comfort. the divine oasis of a warm cottage in the depths of evergreen forests on a gray and gently storming day. It yearns for brightness. the taste of adventure among whipping winds in the sunrays of oceans vast. It yearns for the quiet of shelves stacked heavy with tales so winding that whispers are lost among the pages, minds led ever further down their paths. It yearns for the clammer of kitchens crammed with bowls on countertops, spoons vigorous and ovens warm in preparation of pastries split and laughs shared between loved ones gathered. This soul yearns so deeply that it spins dreams every night of possibility, romance, odyssey, friendship, and even disaster. This soul feels as though its always reaching, backward, inward, and forward. For the me I was, the me I am and the me I will be. Yearning so tangible I feel as though I could reach within and run my fingers along its fabric. Every fiber of this soul weaves all the stories that pour from me in droves. I create to satiate this yearning that was once a gift and since has become a driving force as strong and as touchable as the love it was forged beside. It knows not a single boundary or restriction. It lives in the air I breathe, it flows through me like the very blood in my veins. If love is my purpose, yearning is my familiar.

Author's Note:

This piece is not an ode to love, but to what blooms beside it.

It explores the quiet ache that threads through every act of creation, connection, and memory — the yearning that shapes us as surely as love sustains us. “If Love Is My Purpose” reflects the belief that longing is not absence, but presence in motion: the soul’s way of reaching toward all it cherishes, even when it’s out of reach.

To yearn is to live. To love is to give that yearning a name.

[shortandsapphic]

resurrecting my account for ships and smut sounds about right. now that im back i think ill start posting original works again. Some poetry, some novel drafts. Maybe even some fanfic. Who knows? Not me.

[ampervadasz]

[sweetsigyn]

I know it’s on purpose but still every dead choreographer is spinning in their grave

[anais-ninja-bitch]

this is so brilliant but how many times did they just crash and send each other ass over teakettle during rehearsal

[labelleizzy]

Omfg this is PRISTINE

[kshandra]

As several others have already said in the notes, this is Jerome Robbins’ “Mistake Waltz,” and it is GLORIOUS. And so much respect for the dancers, because having to do something intentionally wrong is frequently harder than trying to do it right.

[atombombtom]

As I grow older I feel my capacity to understand that Miss Piggy is not a real person reached a peak in my adolescence and is now on a steady decline. I watched a Wendy Williams interview and there's this part that's like "can we get a ring cam!" and Miss Piggy shows her bling and I'm just like fuck she's so iconic. Miss Piggy who are you wearing? Miss Piggy have you ever considered running for office??

[atombombtom]

Like literally every time I see Miss Piggy there's a period where I need to readjust to the fact that it's not a person, and I feel that period is getting longer and longer with every instance

[atombombtom]

now all my Youtube recommendations are filled with Miss Piggy interviews. I’m not complaining. Miss Piggy what’s your secret to ageing so graciously

[bigscaryd]

It's not just the audience; professional journalists, hosts, and actors report it is legitimately difficult to not see the Muppet as a person, and it is, in fact, incredibly easy to interview or act with them once the performer gets properly set up.

[redwaltz]

Like that one time they couldn't figure out why Kermit's audio was so garbage... then realized they'd put the mic on him instead of the performer.

[brunhiddensmusings]

this has been a very longstanding issue - before the muppet show was even a thing some muppets appeared in commercials, such as rolf the dog they had a continual problem where when people directing/shooting the dogfood commercial would give dirrection to rolf that they would be speaking to the muppet, to which rolf REPEATEDLY had to tell them ‘i cant hear you, you have to talk to him’ and point at the performer underneath him rolf is one of the most embarrassing muppets to need this direction as the performer is this, damn, obvious when not on camera

‘sir, i am a bathroom mat, the man you need to talk to is back there’

[petranaradulovic]

I did an interview with Gonzo one time, and when I got into the Zoom call, it was the actor on screen trying to figure out his audio. And then once he did, he went like “OKAY!” and then just like dove to the floor and it was Gonzo and there was never a moment when I doubted that the dude was just Gonzo’s tech guy 

[anxietyproblem]

This is reminder to check up on your own mental health.

[amannamedwinter]

OK thanks

[real-uwu-hours]

[nuggsmum]

The laugh that just erupted from me was ungodly.

[brightlotusmoon]

Still funny. Still true. Still perfectly timed.

Ah, comedy.

[badjokesbyjeff]

If Ani is short for Anakin and Obi is short for Obi-Wan, what is Luke short for?

A stormtrooper.

[sinsear-aisteach]

ok im kinda curious but how many people have admitted to having a crush on you? 

[aanakin]

Nathan Foad as Lucius in Our Flag Means Death (2022-)

[apparently-artless]

Speaking of which, how long do balloons last? Those balloons… I hope they last for a while.

~ Kotarou wa Hitorigurashi, Episode 3

[cinemapix]

CASTLES IN DISNEY MOVIES

SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) FROZEN (2013) HERCULES (1997) BRAVE (2012) THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989) CINDERELLA (1950) ALADDIN (1992) SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) TANGLED (2010)

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[miranova23]

Everytime I hear "a 9/11 a day," I revert back to 13 and need to sit down for a moment til I can breathe again.

[commanderboshtette]

along the same vein...

[gehayi]

As of May 7, 2020, 76,503 Americans are confirmed dead of COVID-19. To put this in perspective:

58, 209 Americans died in the Vietnam War (1961-1975)

54, 246  Americans died in the Korean War (1950-1953)

25, 000 Americans died in the American Revolution (1775-1783)

15, 000 Americans died in the War of 1812 (1812-1815)

13, 283 Americans died in the Mexican-American War  (1846-1848)

4,576 Americans died in the Iraq War (2003-2011)

Also:   The annual number of deaths in the USA from infectious disease is about 75,000. That’s twelve months’ worth of deaths.  We are slightly over the annual death count for infectious disease after only four months and seven days.

Don’t kid yourself that this is normal. This is not even remotely normal.

[t-aash]

As of January 23, 2022, the number is more than 865,000 Covid deaths in the USA alone. This is not normal. This is not ok.

[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.

[ninjaotta]

it’s also a detail from the second ever episode

aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations

this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:

[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]

why do i bring this up?

because it’s a move - and a mindset - influenced by earthbending, which hama has never faced (she went from the south pole, to prison, to the fire nation). it’s an indication not only of katara’s skill and power, but also how she’s learned from her travels, and from toph

[toughtink]

one of my favorite details of atla is how the main characters’ fighting styles adapt as they take on new enemies and make new friends with other bending styles. iroh straight up tells zuko about how he developed a technique for redirecting lightning by studying waterbenders, but if you watch closely especially in the last season, there’s a lot of this sort of thing happening unspoken with the gaang, using the bending forms of other elements like katara does above. it really shows the strength in differences and diversity coming up against a fascist regime that wants everyone to conform.

[biglawbear]

Look at Korra metal bending here

It’s completely different than anything we’ve seen from other metal benders, who bend metal with sharp movements like the derivative of earth bending that it is

But Korra is fluid. She is bending metal like it’s water. Because she is a water bender. And she is the first person in history to be able to bend both metal and water and so she is able to combine these styles into one and move seamlessly between them. This shows so beautifully how the Avatar is the embodiment of all bending

[ironbite4]

Every time I think this show has shown me all it can….it gives me more.

[omghotmemes]

No, no it isn’t.

[moonlit-aura]

this gif is perfectly timed because it gives you enough time to read it, comprehend it, and still have this too-long-for-comfort moment of suspense before being punched square in the solar plexus

[damianwaynerocks]

ok but if bruce wayne somehow came upon zuko fresh out of banishment he would lose his mind.

black hair? check. bad parent(s)? check. trauma? double check.

bruce: how’d you get your scar?

zuko: my dad got mad at me for saying that killing people is wrong so he lit my face on fire and banished me.

bruce, vibrating with excitement, already pulling adoption papers from his utilility: that’s terrible. how do you feel about capes.

[explorerrowan]

Zuko: Do you mind if I wear this blue demon mask?

Bruce: *sniff, tear in his eye* Not at all.

[kitt-the-werefox]

*Zuko fighting the Joker*

J: "wan na kno w h ow i go t thes e sc ar s"

Z: *rips off mask* i don't give a fuck

[fefeman]

I’m still stuck at the “batman has adoption papers in his utility belt”.

“Quick, it’s time to use the Bat-adoption papers!”

[silverscreenx]

Bat-option papers

[phantoms-lair]

Okay, but you’re missing the best part of this.

Alfred and Iroh complimenting each other on tea while they discuss their overly dramatic children.

[damianwaynerocks]

iroh: once, i told zuko that he needs to work on his inter turmoil. he screamed at me that he had no such inner turmoil, and then proceeded to go to a cliff during a thunderstorm to scream at God to strike him with lightning

alfred: master bruce and i have that interaction at least three times per week.

[coffeebuddha]

@absentlyabbie​

[animate-mush]

I see your "Alfred and Iroh as tea bros" and raise you "Alfred and Iroh as tea rivals"

Consider

Iroh: you too must learn patience. Boiling the water ruins the delicate flavor of the white jade

Alfred: oh I'm dreadfully sorry - for some reason I expected this tea to have TEA in it

(later)

Alfred: *aggressively laying out full tea service with milk, lemon, sugar, and, just to drive his point in, jam*

Iroh: *dying inside*

[damianwaynerocks]

excellent addition

[whetstonefires]

hey bruce spent a lot of his bat-study abroad in the far east and has kind of a weeb weapon collection so proposal, what if Bruce appreciates Iroh’s tea

while Zuko is enthusiastic about cream and sugar

further fueling their dad-figures’ passive-aggressive rivalry?

[princesscolumbia]

You had me at Zuko vs. Joker, I was crying by the Eastern vs. Western tea service

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Wait a minute. Batman and Zuko have the same arch-nemesis.

Mark Hamill

[library-seraph]

Saw the last comment and my brain would not rest until it happened

[darrenpillowscriss]

[lichrelly]

this post has everything

[jumpingjacktrash]

this was an enjoyable ride. i liked the scenery very much. smooth suspension, nice height, several fascinating loops. 10/10 would go again.

[maya-hawke]

MAKKARI & DRUIG Eternals (2021) dir. Chloé Zhao

[smol-bean-buchanan]

that last fight giveth me ✨life✨

[expressions-of-nature]

Hobbiton Movie Set, New Zealand by Nate Johnston