#like... i can't

[iwastemytimereading]

She's so pretty I can't

[prideandprejudice]

“She [Lucrezia Borgia] listened to speeches about affairs of the municipality and its surroundings and, with grace and patience, examined petitions and heard complaints.” 

“[…] and listened with infinite patience to the complaints of ill-treatment or robbery at the hands of the soldiery. “Il duca [Cesare Borgia] sempre paziente, sempre cortese…” – Maria Bellonci & William Woodward.

Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia + politics for @ducavalentinos

[queenegeria]

omg you guys what if damen and laurent’s kids refer to them by their names in their internal monologue

[apollyodon]

- Tries to play RDR2 - Gets overwhelmed by the gun controls, the need to keep track of your weight and other conditional things like that - Puts the game down and doesn’t touch it for months.

[goinglightly]

I knew I'd have to take care of my parents one day but I didn't know it'd be now.. damn

[lapoflux]

I'm so irritated...

[seyaryminamoto]

Talking about "The proposal" setting, do you really think Hakoda would be against Sokka and Azula wedding? If it's not Hakoda then who will be?

I’m pretty sure he would be, yeah. Even in this sense I think the movie is perfect xD

In canon settings you can take things either way, really. You can make Hakoda approve of their relationship or not, maybe he’s happy because his son is happy, maybe he’s wary because that girl is the Fire Lord’s daughter and he has never heard a single good thing about her. But in this setting everything is set so he wouldn’t approve of the relationship at all.

For starters, Hakoda would want Sokka to take his place in Sitka, remember? He’s getting ready to retire, and he wants someone to take over the family business, but Sokka isn’t interested. He’s got other dreams, he wants to leave his hometown (ring a bell much? Considering that canon Sokka was so much more happier while traveling than while he was in the South Pole, I’d say he had always dreamt of leaving his home, even if in canon he dreamt of it in hopes to become a warrior) and thus he goes away to New York to make those dreams happen indeed. Hakoda has always wanted Sokka to come back, to take up his responsibilities, but these are responsibilities he has been entrusted with, and not responsibilities Sokka actually cares for. Ergo, Sokka refuses to take up father’s business all along.

In the end, Hakoda decides to be a little nicer when it comes to this after Kya argues with him and tells him that at this rate they won’t ever meet their grandchildren and whatnot (while Azula listens, slightly horrified to know that her mother-in-law to-be is already thinking of grandchildren xD). So Hakoda chooses to let this matter drop, even though he really worries about who will manage the family business when he’s gone.

But hey, that’s not all! :D

As it turns out, there was another reason why Andrew’s dad didn’t approve of this relationship, and it’s something that I’m sure would work perfectly with Hakoda too: she’s his boss. He HATED her, and all of sudden they’re together? After all the years of hearing the awful names he called her (in the movie the Grandma asks Margaret if they should call her Margaret or Satan’s Mistress, remember…? .w.), after she kept him from visiting his family for ages because she was using him as her work slave and errand boy, pretty much (she sent him for midnight tampax runs, okay? xD), and after all that, he’s with her? And it’s not just the fact that Hakoda would think it’s wrong for his son to be with a woman who’s supposed to be evil incarnate, but it’s also that he’s horrified to find that Sokka would resort to sleeping with his boss, whom he hates, just to get the job of his dreams. 

So, with all this put together, you can be sure that Hakoda wouldn’t be all that happy about their relationship. I figure Kya and Kanna would accept it and they’d grow to like Azula a lot as they spend time with her (exactly as it is in the movie xD), but Hakoda would always be wary. And when the Immigration Agent Zhao shows up, Hakoda’s suspicions that his son and his boss were up to no good are confirmed…