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@skybluestories
and for my next magic trick, i'll try to light up the world a little by writing blogs on substack with my view on the world. because though i love relating to sad posts because we all feel bad sometimes, it's time to say f*ck society, and be happy again <3
yesterday I attended a talk by a guy who had built his own business at 21 and when asked how did he know such technical stuff he answered "I watched youtube videos". this guy had sent TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EMAILS and got just ONE answer. he literally spammed everyone on linkedin. he was the definition of "damn it, let's put it all in"
so whatever you're thinking of starting, take this as a signal to just do it. time will pass anyway, embarrassment will arrive anyway, so just do it. consistent action will outperform actionless preparation always
not me mixing all my half-mastered interests and trying to write a novel in a language I can barely say I speak. but since i never really cared about doing things "right" and i'm a "i'll do it anyways and learn in the meantime" person... does anyone have good french names that aren't the most common ones?? like, besides Ratatouille and Ballerina I literally have no reference
please help
I'm forever a defender of scary languages. The more it terrifies the average English speaker the better.
i've been going around the idea of starting to learn russian for a while (i'd like to brush up my french first) but yesterday i dreamed of athena singing "i mistook you for a general, what a waste of effort spent" and i don't know if it's a signal i should start or a signal that maybe i've been listening to epic too much
current state of the internet is a FUCKING EMBARASSMENT. was chatting with my grandma bout the history of crochet and knitting (and the comparative ages of those respective technologies) and i was like "oh YEAH and also that ancient greek fiber art we partly figured out from chemically testing the scoured bleached pigments of stolen statuary (tumblr knows what im talking about)—gimme 30 seconds to look up the name."
5 minutes and 3 search-engines later i am crying tears of blood screaming spitting blubbering in despair as my grandma attempts to digitally pat me consolingly on the back. the library of alexandria didn't burn it was "restructured" to "increase shareholder profits"
"The library of Alexandria didn't burn it was 'restructured' to 'increase shareholder profits'"
It's honestly kind of sad how Suki had the most interactions with Zuko out of the whole Gaang except Sokka. Everyone should've gotten more of her.
I mean, she is a warrior sworn to Avatar Kyoshi, don't you think she would be curious to talk to Aang about how she was like? Kyoshi literally showed up that one time, and Katara and Sokka got to see it. I bet she'd like to hear about that. She was also the one that saved Appa from Azula and her crew. That's why she got captured and sent to the Boiling Rock. It's a shame that we never see Aang and the others find that out. She deserves the recognition. On the topic, why do we neglect the fact that Azula addressed her as "her favorite prisoner"? I know that she was taunting Sokka, but that means that she knows about their relationship and likely singled Suki out in the prison. Much to think about.
Katara was so hyped to have another girl in the group only to end up with Toph and her trauma surrounding gender expression, it is criminal that her and Suki didn't get to hang out more. Suki isn't the most feminine woman in the show, but generally I think she enjoys more stereotypically feminine things. If nothing, she could teach Katara more about make up, I think they'd enjoy it. Suki is also older than Katara, and unlike Sokka, I bet she would never let Katara mother her. She's a leader of her party, she knows how to be responsible for other people and how much pressure it puts on you. I also bet that since Suki was in a team rather than forced into a parental role like Katara, she would've called others out for not contributing enough. Katara deserves a break, and Suki deserves to be included.
The relationship between Suki and Toph is my personal favorite to think about, largely because of the Serpent's Pass scene. I love how canonically that doesn't actually result in any tension in between them. It's nice to see neither of them make a big deal out of it. On the topic of Sokka, I've seen a few people talk about how he was the one who made Toph respect non-benders more, but we're really sleeping on Suki here. Not only is she a badass warrior leader from the get-go, unlike Sokka who is mostly the strategist at first (which is still cool, don't get me wrong, but kind of less initially impressive), she also saved Toph a bunch of times. I think Toph could respect that. They're also both from the Earth Kingdom, and while their lives have been very different, I think they could still bond over the shared cultural heritage. I think that Toph, as someone who grew up extremely sheltered, would enjoy hearing about Suki's experiences and talking about her own.
Suki deserved so much more screen time. She also deserved to have more of a relationship with others in the limited screen time that she got. How sad is it that we only see her majorly interact with her boyfriend and the guy who burned down her village and needed to be reconciled with? Personally, I definitely consider her a part of the Gaang, but I see why many people don't, and it's honestly just not fair. She was introduced to the Gaang as an ally way earlier than Toph and Zuko, and yet she feels like an outsider. Anyway, #SukiDeservedBetter2026.
"Why do you want to learn languages? To communicate?"
Me, and my (dis)honourable reasons:
I think my favorite thing about humans are space orcs-style musings is that while the thought exercise is ostensibly about humans being unique in relationship to aliens, in practice it is mostly just an excuse to celebrate the things that we appreciate about ourselves as a species and the world in which we live.
Like yes, you could make a valid argument that "death worlds" are probably common or that other species are also batshit and it's honestly pretty likely that we would consider truly alien environments to be as mindblowing as we imagine ourselves being to other species.
But most of the time when I see people posting in the HASO tag, it's just something cool they noticed about themselves or the people they love and celebrating the joy they feel in being human.
Because really? We don't know what aliens will be like. We have no idea. They could look like anything. But we know that humans poison ourselves for fun, risk our lives to save deadly creatures, pack bond like nobody's business. We're the best endurance runners in the as-yet-known universe. Our brains are so coded for tool use they treat cars and planes and cranes as extensions of our bodies; and so coded for social bonds that we see faces in rocks and trees and teach our robots to sing themselves happy birthday.
And our planet? It has so many kinds of spiders and so many kinds of fungi and so many creatures that like to get pets and SO many animals that will get themselves drunk on fermented fruit or jellyfish zaps if given the chance. Dihydrogen monoxide, the universal solvent capable of dissolving more substances than any other liquid we know, falls from the sky and we dance in it. Our world is deadly as fuck and beautiful in its danger and in its wonder.
At our best, we imagine a future in which we are a benefit and a joy not only to our planet but to the universe. We dream of meeting alien species and inviting them home to meet our parents. We make art imagining all the ways we could be part of a galactic community.
It is sometimes not easy to be proud of being human or to take joy in the world we live in. But then you imagine someone taping a knife to a Roomba and you remember that sometimes, actually, humans can be kind of awesome and it is a privilege to live on this planet Earth.
People will go on about how "Katara's story is a tragedy" because she... ended up marrying the guy she loves, having children and grandchildren which she was always excited about and literally becoming a master waterbender and rising to the top of her field as a healer.
Yes, Katara's story has tragic aspects to it. And there are certainly flaws in how she is written in tlok (Though I will argue that there are actually more issues with how Toph and Zuko are just plopped in there for no reason in later seasons). And her storylines aren't perfect, for example her resolving her trauma around the murder of her mother being more used to prop up Zuko than her own internal turmoil. (Most of TSR is from Zuko's perspective and I hate that actually)
"Katara's story is a tragedy" Why do you have such a hard on for this woman's misery? Let her be happy, man.
You know what gaang girlie's life is an actual onscreen tragedy?
Toph's!
People will fucking downplay Toph's childhood abuse because she wasn't physically hurt, but her childhood was a never ending carousel of abelism, misogyny, neglect and isolation. The way Toph describes her parent's treatment of her as "pressure and pain" is heartbreaking.
Toph's only escape was Earth Rumble and earthbending, but despite her skills, she remained the perfect little lady her parents always wanted her to be. She's never known a different life, and she was only able to be her real self in secret.
And when Toph finally opens up to her parents, when she finally lays her real self bare in front of the people who are supposed to love and care for her?
She is met with what may be, in my opinion, the cruellest rejection in the show.
Despite this, even when Toph runs away, she still cares for her parents' approval. Hell, she's even lured into a trap due to her getting a forged letter from her mom and getting excited because it looked like her mom was finally accepting her.
It's also important to note how determined to be self sufficient and to prove herself Toph is. We can especially see this right after she joins the Gaang, where she refuses to participate in splitting with the rest of the group, insisting on "pulling her own weight". This isn't Toph being a brat, or spoilt, this is her wanting to prove that she can handle herself because people have handled and understimated her her entire life.
Eventually, Toph starts to learn to trust the members of the Gaang and this is a step in the right direction. She's literally making friends for the first time in her life I'm so proud of her.
However, I was genuinely upset when Toph's life changing field trip with Zuko didn't work out. When Toph was trying to connect with Zuko and he blew her off (I'm not blaming him tho they had shit to do), I couldn't help but remember the rejection Toph suffered from Lao.
Post canon, Toph continues to try and prove herself, starting a metalbending school and training new metalbenders.
She also reconciles with her father. Not before Lao disowns he rmultiple times and calls her a rude, ungrateful thing. And while he eventually comes to understand Toph and cherish her, that type of trauma sticks with you.
So it's no wonder really that Toph, someone who went her entire childhood seemingly without even speaking to someone her age, would have trouble forming connections. She has children with two different men, neither of which seem to stick around.
Toph tries to do right by her daughters and gives them the freedom she never got. Sadly, the pendulum swung too far to the other side, since it seems that she started to neglect her daughters, which led to them developing a sleugh of issues of their own.
Toph becomes the cheif of police, which kind of makes sense. Republic City was only slowly emerging as an actual metropolis. Toph took on a role as a protector, and probably as a way to prove herself. But as Republic City grew, Toph probably realised that she became something she hated. A cog in the machine, and started to despise her job.
Searching for a semblance of the freedom and happiness her travels afforded her in her childhood, Toph leaves the city and takes up the life of a hermit in a swamp. She managed to fix her relationship with Suyin to some extent, but still seems reluctant or simply unable to connect with her daughter or grandchildren. Since she apparently hasn't seen Opal, a grown 20 year old woman since she was a little girl.
On the surface old Toph doesn't seem terribly dissimilar to young Toph, still tough and spunky. But she is more jaded, depressed and pessimistic. She comes out to save Suyin from immediate harm and manages to somewhat reconcile with Lin, but then she fucks right back off to the swamp where she seems to literally hide until Wu and Korra straight up force her to come with them.
Toph's story began with her alone and it seems to end with her alone as well. It's a story of a girl who grew up isolated and handled by others, and was woefully unprepared for the real world, which only jaded her further. She lives with the guilt of fucking up her daughters' lives and a belief in the pointlessness of life.
Toph started off longing to experience the world and ended up willingly isolating herself from it.
If that isn't a tragedy, I'm not sure what is.
Mind you, this is not the trauma olympics. I'm not saying that Toph has suffered more than Katara or that Katara's trauma is not as valid as Toph's. Katara and Toph's experiences are completely different, Katara being a victim of genocide and war, Toph being a victim of child abuse. I'm just saying that, objectively, Katara had a happier 'ending' than Toph.
my daily affirmation as an author
Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.
as if writing made you rich. why rush the journey of creation when it's sole point of existing is to explore?
apparently my writers block is not because I don't know what to write but rather because I don't wanna edit. apparently I've fallen in love with the idea of discovering a story and just drafting and I don't wanna edit. I want my story to be finished yet I want to discover it all over again, all the possibilities of what it could be
