Aggressively Chill

lilislegacy:

perseus jackson: the OG pjo incorrect quote writer

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teambuckaroo:

Happy birthday to the movie that fundamentally changed my brain chemistry

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konggodzuko:

Tying into a previous headcanon of mine that Zuko and Katara often bring their kids to meetings because they don’t want to foist parenting onto a nurse, the steambabies end up developing their version of House (i.e. pretending to be grown ups) except it’s Politics.

All you do is sit in a circle and say Serious Grown-Up Things then argue and shake hands (they might be in meetings but they’re kids so they don’t really know what’s going on).

Whenever their cousins (i.e. the Sukka & Taang kids) visit, they rope them in for a few rounds of Politics, and the cousins just don’t get it.

Steam baby 1: We’re here to talk about the bill to give people more water!
SB2: No water for anyone! Throw the bill out!
SB3: Chairman, censure SB2!
Taang or Sukka Kid: This game sucks.

Sokka, Suki, Toph, and Aang find the whole thing completely hilarious. Katara and Zuko find it funny too, but are also a little embarrassed that their kids’ idea of fun is council meetings.

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bbluesorrow:

my fave declan bits from tdt bc i just finished it and i’m obsessed

spoiler alert SPOILER ALERT

Keep reading

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arctic-hands:

dontmean2bepoliticalbut:

ALT

Without OSHA and safety regs, your boss will consider you disposable fodder (no matter how much they talk you up about “being a family”) and you’ll have no legal recourse assuming you survive

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ayeforscotland:

everentropy:

ayeforscotland:

As we see a barrage of evil executive orders come in, they are not immediately enforceable and will takes months or years to implement.

That’s still not great, but don’t let these pile up to the point of hopelessness. Take a breath, and look community leaders who will fight it every step of the way.

Reminder that when Trump was in office before a LOT of his orders got overturned or held up in lower courts for long enough that they became irrelevant. It also does not mean they WILL be enforced. Stand with your community where you can. The fight is not over. Do not obey in advance.

Last sentence above is the most important. Tyranny requires people to shut up and fall in line. Do not obey in advance.

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batmanisagatewaydrug:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

thought about the Katara v Pakku fight too hard and made myself cry

the thing is that Katara’s right.

there are a lot of episodes of ATLA where the main characters aren’t totally right, because they need to learn a lesson about something. they’re kids, it’s a kids’ show, there are morals to get across. that’s not a bad thing; for the most part ATLA tells those stories really well without condescending its characters or its audience, which is why the cast gets to grow and change so organically and we’re all still frothing about how good the writing is twenty years later.

but when Katara attacks that old man right there in public where everyone can see, she’s right. this isn’t a lesson about her needing to learn patience or humility or deference to her elders or respect for a belief system that’s different than her own. in that moment Pakku is both the face of the Norther Water Tribe’s cultural misogyny and an asshole who has disrespected Katara personally, and instead of having to find a way to play nice she gets to attack him with everything she’s got.

she doesn’t win. she can’t win, it would be ridiculous. but the show knows this; Katara herself opens the scene by saying she doesn’t expect to win while Sokka and Aang try frantically to talk her down. it’s not about winning, it can’t be. Pakku is, very literally, old enough to be her grandfather; he’s had decades to master his form in a walled city untouched by war. Katara is 14 years old and the only bender from a village that’s been diminished to nearly nothing. there’s never been anyone to teach her; the artform died out before she was born. she has nothing. every scrap of knowledge she has is something she’s had to struggle and steal for. how much of her waterbending has she learned on the fly, improvising as she fights desperately to keep herself and her friends and innocent bystanders alive? she’s the Avatar’s waterbending master, sure, but she’s learning alongside him.

and she still gets to hold her own, for a few furious minutes. this old man doesn’t even initially respond to her challenge, won’t even dignify her by looking in her direction, treats her with scorn when he does finally address her. she is always, always at a disadvantage against him but she gets to make a scene, she gets to tear down entire structures, and she gets to be right. the fight ends with Katara immobilized in ice, completely outmatched, still seething and snarling at Pakku that she’s not finished with him. she never backs down for a second, never doubts even for a moment that she has every right to beat this man’s ass for the way he’s disrespected her.

and the narrative backs her up on that, 100%. Katara is, frequently, unreasonably self-righteous to the detriment of herself and her friends, but this isn’t one of those times. there’s no moral for Katara to learn here; Pakku is the one who needs to get his shit in order.

a smug old man is a dismissive, sexist twat to a teenage girl who has suffered more than he will ever understand and when she sttacks him no holds barred she is framed as so completely, totally in the right that it’s still cathartic two decades later as a woman in my late twenties. teenage girl moment of all time.

people keep tagging this as “pro Katara” which is haunting because it suggests the presence of some kind contingency that is??? anti Katara??? how can you be against Katara???

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lolabearwrites:

context: she just got out of a meeting and he just finished training

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miggylol:

This links to a wheel with nearly a hundred fic tropes for plots, settings, and more. Spin it twice.

Considering BOTH of those tropes, does any story idea come to mind for your particular blorbo, or a comfort series?

No, I can’t think of anything

No, I hate at least one of these tropes and don’t WANT to think of anything

I can see the… basic outline of an idea

I can think of a story. It’s not a GOOD story idea, but I have it

I can think of a story, and I kind of like it

I can think of a story, and I might actually do something with this idea!

See Results

This could also work with art inspiration, but the buttons only allow for so many characters on them. And please do ramble in the tags! I’m going to have no idea what most of you are talking about, and it’s going to be great.

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