if you told vin diesel fast and the furious you were gay he'd be like "Some people like driving stick…some people like driving automatic…what matters is you cross the finish line.." and then he'd rev up a dodge challenger and drive through a building and kill 16 people
If you asked if he was cool with trans people, he'd probably say "sometimes, aftermarket parts are the only way to get the vehicle you really want. Everyone should have the right to hot rod."
looks like reform hogs are scraping the bottom of the bin for the tiniest bit of dirt. it takes a bin to clean up clacton!
context under the cut. british politics are very silly
nigel farage was a member of parliament "representing" clacton (he goes to the US to schmooze with trump more than he spends time in his own constituency). he's leader of reform, a far right party and is a fascist piece of shit. he also looks like a sea devil from doctor who
he's responsible for brexit, which has tanked the uk economy and is also in the epstein files.
it was discovered that he accepted five million pounds from a cryptocurrency billionnaire in thailand and failed to declare it, which, if found guilty, would cost him his seat in parliament. so to worm his way out of the investigation he quit
this triggered a by-election in his constituency. he immediately announced he would be running for his seat he resigned from. an obvious farce to flex the support he supposedly has.
thing is every other political party could tell what he was doing so boycotted the election.
enter Count Binface, intergalactic dictator of the Recyclons from Sigma IX:
He's been a joke candidate for some time. In the UK anyone can run in elections, you just need ten signatures from residents and £500. This time, he genuinely has a chance of winning. Without the other major parties to split the vote, he could potentially unite the anti Reform vote in Clacton and win Nigel's seat
so Nigel will either win and the investigation into him will continue, which will lead to him being fired, OR he loses his seat to a man with a bin on his head.
best thing about uncle iroh is that if you pay attention he is actually just as much of an idiot as zuko but has just mastered the art of coming across as a wise old man. the even better thing is that zuko is the only one on the planet who somewhat realizes this and no one would ever believe him because he's zuko
like uncle iroh 100% does dumb shit on purpose sometimes to get people to underestimate him and keep zuko from capturing the avatar, but other times he just, and i cannot emphasize this enough, does impulsive dumb shit for no reason other than the fact that terminal stupid presumably runs in the royal family's blood
uncle: "you never think things through, prince zuko!"
also uncle:
once got captured by the earth kingdom army buck ass naked bc he really wanted to go to a hot spring in enemy territory
betrayed zhao at the Northern Water Tribe with no escape plan and then spent 3 weeks starving on a boat
immediately went to a spa resort upon publicly committing treason
ate a poisonous plant and, in the spirit of Two Fish Hook Sokka, was going to solve the problem by eating another potentially poisonous plant
decided the safest place in the world they could go was the city he once FAMOUSLY laid siege to for 600 days
instead of lying low or giving a modicum of a shit about people recognizing him, overachieved himself into becoming one of the most well-known restaurant owners in said city
in fact overachieved so hard that he got an invite to meet the earth king (whose city he, again, once FAMOUSLY LAID SIEGE TO) which he fucking? accepted????
#no wonder zuko was constantly frothing at the mouth! he's the only one who knows the truth!#god just imagine the number of times people have seen zuko yelling at iroh#and assumed zuko was just being mean#when zuko was actually yelling at his uncle for wasting all their money bartering with pirates AGAIN#everyone assumes iroh is babysitting zuko but really they're pingponging responsibility back and forth#and zuko at least has the excuse of being 16#anyway I love Uncle Hypocrite so much; funniest motherfucker on the planet (via OP)
“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat
trying to 100% hk in steel soul rn (it's not looking great) and this is just a tiny thing i really like to think about sometimes so i'm going to yap..
hallownest is a civilization whose downfall was a slow decline. still, we don't know how much time passed since the sealing until the vessel failed to fully contain the radiance (if such period even existed <- i'd argue it's implied) neither at what point did the king choose to flee. the existence of a slow decline in hallownest's direct territory might hint that a head leader was there, otherwise anarchy would be an element of the decline worth noting by lemm (or a leader different from pk that took the reigns would certainly be mentioned), so he probably braved on until most of hallownest was under her control. It could've been the in-world equivalent of months, a couple of years, decades, maybe even a century.
what interests me so is the way in how he executed his escape! especially what it repeats. depending on how much time you believe has passed between the sealing and his escape, the severity of it changes, but it does not alter the fact that the sealing left such an impression in his mind that he chose to redo this technique when it came to another light: himself. A technique tied to his failure and guilt over damning the pure vessel, and yet he takes a hollow knight-proxy (a kingsmould) and does it again.
It's a neat parallel between the radiance's fate and his. make of it what you will, perhaps he finds it one of his most sturdy techniques for shielding himself, and he's being methodical. maybe it's a subconscious way of self-inflicting punishment. though i also think there's a psychological element here of not having mentally left the moment of the sealing, to a point that, when he's cornered and out of options, the only thing he can manage to muster is doing it again. almost like as if he was stuck reenacting it.
