Context for anyone who is wondering: Lamine Yamal's parents won an UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot in which Barça players posed with kids, and 5 month old Lamine happened to get 20yo Messi. Which is like. Literally insane
what they don't tell you about making friends is you gotta be a lil annoying. you gotta push past the fear of "what if they don't want to talk to me" and simply ask someone how their day is going, send a meme. you cannot connect to people if you're both just awkwardly waiting for the other to start.
women are like diamonds: synthetically-produced women are not meaningfully different from naturally-formed women, and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is probably trying to justify keeping their women mines open
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
When Aang gets into a provoked Avatar State, Katara the enabler has to calm him down in canon.
With Toph, she’d be tired of always placating his ass that she’d just say to the perp. “Oh boy, now you’ve done it. Get out of the way! He’s gonna blow!”
Toph is an enabler but in a different way
“Yeah, let him get his steam off..”
Then afterwards Aang will see the devastation he caused (no casualties, Toph would have moved the earth to keep everyone away from the blast of his anger) then Toph would just sit beside him.
“See what you’ve done? I’m not helping you clean that up.”
And Aang and the rest of the gaang and their allies—except Toph, would most likely clean it up.
Moments later, Aang would probably begrudge her for not helping out. But stubborn Toph wont let him get away with it.
“Listen up Bald Head, there’s a lesson you need to learn here.” Toph would say.
“I’m in no mood to listen to you, Toph!” Aang would reply.
Then Toph would bark back unapologetically “Since when do I care if you listen to me? I don't. But I'm still saying it, so deal with it.”
“You better check your emotions or one of these days, that anger is gonna make you do something you'll actually regret—like hurting someone, or worse.”
And with that, she storms off.
Aang would stew in that thought for a moment. He hates it… Hates it when she’s right on most things.
He'd probably apologize, and she’d just pat his bald head and tell him not to make a big deal out of it. She'd instantly pivot to telling him to spar with her to blow off steam, and he'd gladly oblige. Or, he'd take her out on the town for a treat—totally platonic, of course, just like the antis love to scream to dismiss the sheer potential of these two.
And so that would be (one of the many)the catalyst/s that would actually help Aang to control his emotions before going into the Avatar state next time.
Aang should have had a Book 4 Air in canon with all these growing up-coming of age - character developments that Aang should have gone through the way Zuko did in season 3.
Instead, he’s 25 and “not quite the adult Avatar that he needs to be yet,” like Bryke said about that nose controversial, same face syndrome, manga-washed movie their minions keep raving about 😒.
Not getting a ton of reporting in US news, but the Trump administration is going after donors to Palestine, including going as far as international extradition under the guide of "counterterrorism"
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