simmer down, cherry bomb

she/her | hello, welcome to over-enthusiastic rambling central.

[szecretary]

info about my blog under the cut, if you’re the kind of person that needs to know. have a nice day 💜

non-exhaustive list of obsessions: avatar the last airbender, legend of korra, the kyoshi novels, voltron: legendary defender, the camp half-blood chronicles, the all for the game series (and anything that is to my fancy at any moment.)

about me and my blog. 

you can call me kay ✨

i am on ao3 as kuarahy.

english and spanish, mostly english unless necessary.

i studied literature for a bit and never got over it, you can expect a lot of overly enthusiastic rambling from me because of this. i have a passion for storytelling and literary theory, but i am not an expert on anything i talk about.

i’m here to talk about things that make me happy, and i value respectful discussions about the less-than-perfect aspects of the content i consume, so if you’re of the Everything Wrong With school of media criticism, then this is not the place for you. 

fandom stuff.

i love ATLA and TLOK equally and i’ve read a fair share atla/tlok comics and consider them all canon, if you like to pretend they don’t exist, this isn’t the blog of you, friend!

i unironically like all 8 seasons of VLD and i still find many positive aspects even with the mess they made. yes i will still praise these positive aspects. no i don’t care about the ship wars. 

ocassional marvel/percy jackson/hadestown posting.

i have most harry potter/marauders and related content tags blocked. HOWEVER if you go to my ao3 you'll see i've posted one fic within this fandom. this was done as part of a fan event i joined with a friend. i don't think i'm ever going to publicly write anything for HP again. i do not to support the author or what she stands for. fuck JKR.

a very recent obsession of mine is the all for the game series, i try to be good at tagging but i'm not always successful, and this series has a lot of triggering content embedded into it. please be careful when navigating my ramblings about it.

on shipping.

you might notice that i post about various ships in my blog. this might seem strange if you’re used to people only blogging about their otp to the point of making their “rival ship/notp” a dni criteria. this does not happen here. i don’t mind shipping, i think it's fun, and i reblog shippy fanart, mostly because i’m a sucker for romance and pretty art. that is the extent of my enjoyment of most ships, both canon and noncanon. i like romance, and it’s fun to read and write idiots falling in love in different ways and worlds, but it's never too serious for me.

my love: [ insert phrase ] tags are for all kinds of relationships, not just romantic ones.

i don’t take shipping seriously enough to entertain discourse about it. these characters are paper dolls to me. do not come here to argue about ships or how or why some might be the worst thing to exist on this planet since global warming. i am a grown adult who knows how to discern reality from fiction. i've got a job and other stuff to worry about, DO NOT even try.

anti behavior of any kind is a bad investment of your time, pal. 

my url is a play on szeto and secretary, because when i made this blog i was a tired college student and he’s the closest thing to that, as the only nerd avatar we know of. 

that’s all~ if you want to be mutuals and even friends, my inbox is always there. 

[mindsmist]

always think of this meme when this scene comes up

[wnshoevr]

mitsuki koga vs the seven evil lesbian miscommunications

thank u twitter user for the caption

[zuspacey]

[thenerdwithadhdanddeppression]

Jean: That dumb little ill-bred menace to society cretin- Jeremy: Do you trust Neil? Jean: With every molecule of my being, why?

[podcastwizard]

affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.

[aavec]

I understand that people have issues with ep 3, but I’m grateful for it bc it gave us the Scott/Shane fight and therefore all of these great posts on Tumblr.com

[katinacrisis]

[elucubrare]

one of the reasons why "what if people went on a road trip and it was weird" is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says "what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person".

Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people

[toli-a]

What’s that quote? There are only two kinds of stories: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.

[grimalditeuthis]

cats are so naturally skilled at Writhing In Sunbeam. i wish i had even a fraction of this talent but instead i just have all these bones

[raleighdotcom]

2026

public transit can be your friend

any city is walkable if you arent a pussy

you need to leave home

shoot your phone

get into acts of creation

[official-linguistics-post]

by the way. being educated/trained in linguistics does not automatically free you from having reactionary thoughts about the validity of different ways of languaging. it does give you the tools to recognize and counter those thoughts as being false. you still have to be an active participant in shaping your own linguistic worldview.

[official-linguistics-post]

can also be phrased as:

you're still gonna think stupid shit sometimes about how other people do language. tell your brain to shut the fuck up and get over it, because you know better.

[mortalityplays]

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

[rafalopesart]

[skibbybota]

Three is trouble

[sappiscrying]

Fox Party :)

No doodles version:

Ok so this took me 30h total. I’m a little dead but it was very fun to draw, I love all of the foxes and I REALLY needed to draw all of them at some point so 😛

[andyfalcons]

holly jolly maxxing right now im gonna make a bunch of vld Christmas cards and then put them on my print shop... be on the lookout

but yeah you could re-tell the entirety of vld as a bunch of kids on a snow day...

[katebeckets]

In theory, maybe I get the “we’re all just playing with barbies, they’re fictional characters, no interpretation is incorrect because it’s an interpretation” argument. But actually no, not all takes are equally valid. Framing something as an interpretation doesn’t mean it inherently has merit. Some takes are completely incorrect and betray a fundamental misunderstanding of the source material. They just aren’t a reason to harass people or send death threats