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With the upcoming holidays, I envisioned in your Kuvirasami universe Kuvira and Asami inviting Korra and her girlfriend, Bolin and Opal, Mako, the whole Beifong family, and Tenzin and his family over for a traditional holiday get-together at either the Sato mansion or their estate in Ba Sing Se. Idk just something to increase the holiday vibes and good tidings. Pretty sure there's no Christmas in the Avatarverse but one can imagine. It'd be so nice🎅🎄🎆✨

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Talk about a full house! Kidding aside, holidays are a great pretext to get the family and friends together. Although the Avatarverse doesn’t have Christmas, there’s the Winter Solstice. The Dōngzhì Festival, or Winter Solstice Festival, is one of the most important festivals celebrated by the Chinese and other East Asians during the Dongzhi solar term on or around December 22, so the Avatarverse could have their equivalent of the festival, with traditions varying from nation to nation.

Asami having everyone at the Sato manor is a great idea but something tells me that one Suyin Beifong wouldn’t waste the chance to highlight/show off her city and her talents as hostess so I think she’ll invite everyone to spend the Festival season in Zaofu. Asami would welcome it because it would mean another opportunity for Kuvira to continue strengthening her bonds with her adoptive family, and for Asami to spend time with the in-laws. There would be plenty of food, games, music, and of course, lots of bending with the best metalbenders together in one place. Obviously, the mother of metalbending Toph Beifong would also be there, to Bolin’s delight (and Toph’s frustration). Korra would likely have her hands full making sure Ikki and Meelo don’t get to drill Nergüi with questions about her relationship with Korra. Luckily, Nergüi’s interest in Huan’s work would keep them far away from the airkids’ interrogation.

With the families all gathered, it’s quite possible the subject of children could pop up between our brides and I think Kuvira, seeing all the families gathered and her relationship with the Beifongs improved, might warm up more to the idea, to Asami’s utter delight. All in all, Winter Solstice festivities with the Beifongs would be quite unforgettable for everyone!

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The men on Odysseus's ship watching him twirl around and tuck his hair behind his ear when they're supposed to be killing sirens

hey guys im making french toast sticks in the oven. I’m gonna take a quick nap wake me up in 5 minutes so i can flip them over

did you wake up in time

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dyatlovpasst4t

Lol… sort of weird but funny 😁 i guess

Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

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webheadstan

Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)

They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you

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webheadstan

white people can and should reblog this

and shout out to the women engineers integral to the launch

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million. 

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

The photo of the women looks like a baroque painting

you will feel so alive again.. like so incredibly alive. i dont know when that will be but it will be. u are gonna feel so alive that ur cheeks hurt from smiling oh man oh man i promise that day is coming. you do have a future, you do have good things coming, and you’ll survive everything that’s thrown at you until you reach that day

i do promise

“No weapon forged by mortal hands can slay me!” hits you with a rock

Do robots count as mortal? If not you could also use a car

Wait…very few weapons are forged by hand these days. Just use a damn gun

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grettir-dun

#or one of those-mall swords “No weapon forged by mortal hands can slay me” “This is a 30 dollar wallhanger from the flea market, it’s about as far from forged by hand as it gets” 

comic by @tredlocity​ !

Concept: cursed blade rehabilitation center. Destroying a sentient weapon is expensive and highly unethical, so adventurers bring them to the center where highly trained staff can care for them and eventually find them forever homes. It turns out most cursed weapons are products of trauma and are not strictly evil themselves. Some blades turn out to be fiercely protective companions. Others don't even want to be weapons at all, finding joy in simple work like blacksmithing or farming. Most blades just need to be loved.

A pack of bandits descend upon a seemingly undefended town. But the blacksmith's hammer, the farmer's scythe, the woodsman's axe, they have not forgotten what they once were, and they *will* defend the town that they have come to love.

This sweet girl has been with us for seven seasons. She was forged in the heart of a volcano and would be ideal for anyone with a preexisting fire affinity (she's a cuddler and is guaranteed to keep you warm in winter). She still loves burning, but it turns out you can only reduce the world to ash once. She would be perfectly suited for forest management that regularly requires controlled burns.

This weary old soul has grown tired of bloodshed and would much rather spend his days as an ominous decoration in a tavern or common room, a perfect fit for an adventurer looking to leave their dungeon crawling days behind. He likes peoplewatching with his single glowing eye, preferably from high, prominent locations with views of entrances and exits.

Dark king Grütmore’s edge of annihilation consumed 10,000 souls in the first era, and as it turns out, statistically a lot of those souls heard stories that never got written down. It works in a library now.

The throngler, however, is just irrevocably fucked up. We put it in a stone in a forest and hoped nobody ever finds it

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I love getting "prev"ed, it's like getting a good grade on tumblr dot com, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve

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Pearl!! I’m glad someone was able to convince her to wear the gold dress, she was saying she was worried she would be over dressed but she looks gorgeous.

I tried to tell yall you needed to warn your local sapphics. I tried to warn you. Just Life Series ladies looking incredible.

Image description: a screenshot that reads the following;

“Nobody:

Girls that bullied goth kids in high school:”

Attached images are of Taylor Swift, a white woman with sunglasses, blonde hair, a black tank top reading “this is my fight song”, and green shorts. She is wearing a leather bondage harness. It is backwards.

my favorite genre of humor is alt text being just completely factual and somehow reading the image for filth

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hi i just read your e!gem post (same anon) and yeah. e!gem is such a fantastic character 💜💚 i don't have much to say that you practically touched all the points as to why gem's pov and her character in empires felt so special to me 🏔

but now i'm interested in your traffic!gem thoughts, because she's also one of my favorite blorbos to think about; on one hand she's really difficult to crack because a lot of things don't really seem to face her (at least after secret life) and she like, barely creates attachment to material things. on the other hand, her relationship with pearl does help to know gem as a character better because of how uniquely they treat each other (both in sl and wl).

i definitely think she tries to put a facade of "i don't heavily care about death or anything because this is all a game" while also constantly bringing back secret life, almost like that season and what happened (end portal, eye taken 'against her will', a camel and the weight of leadership she never desired) haunts her to some degree that she won't ever admit outloud. some things she brings back are certainly remembered with fondness (her saving that camel during ep6 and then making sure it stayed safe in the barn... you could tell she missed pearl) and others are not (she does not like sacrifices after sl).

the idea that a celestial being, who had been boundless all her life and held control over every aspect of her existence, now keeps coming back to the games because she wants to recuperate what, for the first time in all her life, she lost during sl (her agency? control? freedom?) is an interpretation i'm a fan of rn, but ofc there's so many other things you can delve into (i could rant way more about how she actually is her own biggest enemy and that ties into her trying to not care too much about people and stuff after sl but it’s kinda late lol).

as for fic recs, i definitely recommend this series from dustaundonut (https://archiveofourown.org/series/2796937) basically a canon divergence that explores a reality where corrupted!gem isn't cured, roseblings are really nuanced and complex, shinyduo is shinyduo, and the world is still moving forward. updates for the main fic are slow, but it’s still soooo worth it for the great narrative. one of my faves ever

(also i do think someone should put all gem variants in one room and see which one comes out of the room as a better person and which leaves wanting to commit more crimes)

Hey !! Thank you for all of this !! I’m so proud of my Empires 1 Gem analysis, glad you enjoyed and extra happy you want to hear more :)

I'll do my best.

Traffic Gem’s theme is control. She is constantly fighting to maintain it, to get it back, to pretend she has it, while the whole world makes it their mission to take it from her. She’s a trophy, threat, leader, lover, and at the end of the day: she is and has lost. The tragedy of Gem is her inability to fulfill her full potential, how her situation leaves her no option but to resign, giving a glimpse into what could have been if she was allowed. And the triumph of Gem is when she rejects that, spins things around so her only option is committing, delighting not in the spoils but in the hunt.

Gem is wonderfully difficult to pick apart, with Traffic!Gem as the worst offender -- most of my #analysis were posted during WL trying to figure her out. But the fun is in discovering another aspect/layer that completely changes an interpretation. All to say: this isn't my first crack at Traffic Gem, and it certainly won't be the last. Written mostly in January, I was gonna wait till I had a companion fic to post with this (stay tuned 👀) but Simple Life April Fools spelled soooo much out, I can't resist posting now. Enough disclaimers, let’s get into the great Gem analysis!

Traffic Gem, willingly or not, is the villain of everyone's story. Even her own.

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