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Tiresias song from Epic the musical

Mutant Ninja Midlife Crisis by @mutantninjamidlifecrisis

Well...it took me a little over a month to create this thing. Five days of which I actually drew and spent the other thirty on procrastination lmao

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Tim also seems to be bad at picking names. I think all of superhero identities were originally someone else's, mostly Jason's I think. I'm not suggesting that you pick Todd, but you could lean into that and pick a last name from one of Tim's friends. Considering that he would have been still grieving at the time I would suggest either Brown or Allen, I think those are both common names too. You could also change the spelling of Allen to Alan or something so it's not exactly the same. Though I did just remember that Tim Allen is a celebrity so I don't know if you would want that or not.

guys, those of you who’s reading cone!baby AU

help me chose a last name that Tim’s been using all these years while raising Jackie

It’s not any of the last names he’s actually had, as well as not ‘Kent’

It needs to be something common and not noticeable, but I’m terrible at choosing last names

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I don’t know why but the first thing that popped into my head for Longshot was Xatu. After looking at all the pokemon again I think Decideye or Lucario would also work for him. 

Smellerbee is harder I’m not entirely sure for her maybe Mawile, Pawniard or even possibly Raticate?  

So uhhhhhh

If Longshot and Smellerbee were gonna be pokémon, what do y’all think they’d be?

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Don’t be sorry about it at all it worked great I don’t miss the bending at all and do think the story is better without it. Honestly the reason I was curious about bending is because it’s in Pokemon I have always wondered what made humans so much different then Pokemon in that world. It’s just there are so many different types of powers and abilities that Pokemon can have, but humans can’t really do anything.The most humans get is maybe psychic abilities (seriously what was with Sabrina in the show?) and becoming a floating mask when they die. The reason why I asked was before I had started reading COFY I was wondering if you would go in a humans can learn moves route to add the bending in or just stick to normal Pokemon rules and even though I know the way you went I was still a bit curious about why. I do agree that it was a better choice not to have bending the recent scene with Ozai and Charmander would not have been as emotional if Ozai had his bending. Also do like the level playing field Aang might still be champion at the moment but Sokka can still decide that he’s going to beat him. Which is so great that is not something you would see is a story in the avatar universe since it would basically be non bender Sokka deciding to go fight a fully realized avatar and not in an evil way just an Aang is being really annoying lately so I’m going to fight him. 

Don’t think you needed to apologize for the accidental essay since I am also very guilty of this too, sorry.

Carry on for you is great Pokemon and Avatar mesh really well together. I think I might be thinking that because they both focus on kids solving problems while wandering the world, with a group trying to take over/destroy the world, and battling focuses mainly in elemental attacks. Which brings a point I have a question about if you don't mind answering. I like how it is now, but I was curious why you choose not to have bending? Just curious about your thought process.

Honestly?

I don’t really think that bending would have added much to the narrative I want to tell. I think it’s more interesting without it, and see how the characters have changed without something so critical to the original source material.

I don’t think I ever like…consciously decided that that was why I didn’t want bending in COFY? I think it was mostly that I was putting A:tLA characters into the Pokémon universe, and that universe doesn’t have bending. It’s something that I’ve been asked about before, though, and the more I think about it the happier I am that I did it the way that I did. It adds a certain degree of…not helplessness, necessarily, because I’d say that very few of these characters could ever be called helpless, bending or not, but there’s a certain vulnerability in it.

And honestly? Someone like Ozai doesn’t need bending to be a huge garbage fire; he does it just fine on his own. And in contrast, Aang made regional champion without being the Avatar.

Sorry, I accidentally wrote an essay about it lol. But the long story made short is that I didn’t wanna and I ain’t sorry about it.

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Sorry if I don’t explain this right, I’m running on very little sleep and should get to bed but need to wait for laundry, so what better time to interact with the internet.

Anyways when I saw this post I had to comment because it’s great and the whole Azula is 14 thing has been getting to me too, but it got me thinking and I think I have an idea on why Zuko didn’t even ask Azula to come with him. 

I mean yeah on one hand Azula was someone that would also manipulate him,  and has hurt him in the past. So for his own mental health it probably was a better idea that she wasn’t there when his whole great plan of standing up to father, breaking his uncle out of prison, and trying to join Team Avatar hit the 3 main problems it had. Which was one letting Ozai manipulate him into giving them the upper hand (though I do think the Ursa thing might have distracted Azula too) and then by not planning ahead twice. 

First by not giving Iroh some sort of heads up that he was coming to break him out and the second by not figuring out a way to convince the group that has reasons to mistrust you, that you are good now before you hop into an air-balloon and start talking to a badgerfrog. For his metal health it was probably good that he didn’t have anyone around to see his mistakes especially since he has some self esteem issues, but it’s also Zuko and he’s not one to think about his own well being. 

And for all that both Zuko and Azula fight each other I think they still care about each other in their own way. For starters Azula just got your free to kill offer from Ozai and the first thing she does when seeing her brother again after 3 years try to peacefully get him back instead of trying to kill him and only when it goes wrong and Zuko tries to attack her does she start using force. (speaking about that incident the blabbermouth captain had to be loyal to Iroh or even Zuko right otherwise it doesn’t make much sense to make it to captain on a ship worthy for royalty if he can’t keep his mouth shut.) 

She did almost shoot him with lightning which does seem extreme but I am almost wondering if it a type of showing off a likely deadly way of showing her older brother of how much of a prodigy she is and honestly it wouldn’t have killed him Zuko’s to stubborn to die. 

That isn’t the only time she shows her type of love towards Zuko some of it might be also be considered beneficial for her, but she still cares about him. She didn’t need to take him back to the fire nation with her, she could have still said that Zuko killed the Avatar but left him in Ba Sing Se saying he was best suited there since he has first hand experience with interacting with the Earth Kingdom. Instead she takes him home and instead of just ignoring him and pushing him to the side, she tries to keep him company and make him feel better. 

Zuko can be a bit harder to point out moments before day of black sun where it is more obvious that he loves his sister but that’s more because he’s an over-dramatic theater nerd who’s response to feelings seems to be yell at them till they go away (other reason I’m still tired and just running off memory and don’t feel like hunting down particular scenes at the moment). But he does still care when he sees Azula again he wants to believe her and feel like he can trust her. He also wants to go home so bad and be with his family that he throws away all the change he has made in Ba Sing Se. Also when he joined that fight Katara was beating up Azula which might have swayed his decision some. Especially since he knows from the last two times he fought Katara she hits hard and that’s still his baby sister. 

My main point about Zuko as why he would actually want his sister with him is back with the badgerfrog. After Zuko finishes giving a speech to an amphibian he tries to think of advise that the someone he respects the opinion of would give him and after he finishes confusing himself by imitating Iroh the other person that Zuko would turn to for advise is Azula. I think Zuko does want her there and as sad as it is (mostly because how lonely Zuko is) the two people that he looks up to in the world before joining Team Avatar is his Uncle and Azula. 

Sorry got on a bit of a tangent but going back to why he doesn’t think to invite Azula. For starters but not my main reason is mainly just Zuko being Zuko a bit I don’t ask for help but more being a bit slow on the uptake. It took Zuko 3 years after being banished at 13, having half of face burnt off and being sent on a impossible quest until it became possible a few months ago to finally realize what his dad did was wrong. I’m not saying he’s dumb or anything he is very loyal and stubborn and honestly if he gave up on the possibility that his dad did love him and that he deserved what happened to him at the beginning of his journey it might have broke him. 

What I was trying to say though is that it took awhile for him to realize that Ozai is a bad father and what happened shouldn’t have and when he finally realized this there wasn’t a lot of time left before he had to leave to get further into that line of thinking. I feel like Zuko got so focused on planning for the eclipse that he forgot to do math and go if Ozai is a bad father willing to hurt me, he’s willing to hurt my sister. Also the fact the burn the Earth Kingdom to the ground plan was Azula’s suggestion probably didn’t help. 

That is why he didn’t think Azula was in danger but the reason he didn’t try to bring her even though a part of him might have wanted was because of Iroh. His whole plan with standing up to his father, joining the Avatar and mostly importantly breaking his Uncle out of prison all of was not just finally doing the right thing it was earning his Uncle’s forgiveness. Which until he finally sees him again before the comet he is constantly questioning if what he is doing is even enough.     

Why does that involve Azula then, it’s because Iroh said she needs to go down. Which is pretty harsh to say about his 14 year old niece, but I will excuse him for that because he did just wake up after she shot him and is probably in pain and not very happy with her at the moment. The point is that Zuko who is so trying to be good and please his Uncle wouldn’t think of bringing Azula since Iroh said she was bad, and he is trying to do what Iroh would want so that means he has to cut ties with her. She had just tried to kill the Avatar so he’ll think Iroh is probably right, but he wishes he could have brought her too. 

what a wonderful day to have So Many Feelings About Azula

i love azula in the show and what we get of her character and arc but i also feel the show was unfair to leave her where they did

because here’s the thing. zuko’s redemption was one of the most well written character arcs i’ve seen to this day. and he deserved it. he really did. but azula did too

zuko was an abused child. in some ways he was in a position of privilege, but in a big way that mattered he was in one of the worst positions he could be. his father emotionally and physically abused him, and his mother was taken away, and he was banished. eventually he sees the error of his ways, and he has a long journey to becoming a hero, but the reason that he has this opportunity is that he was loved. as a young child he had his mother, and when she was taken away he had uncle iroh. there were people who unconditionally loved and supported him, and through this love and inspired by this love he becomes a better person

azula’s father was proud of her accomplishments but not proud of her as his daughter and as a person. she thought her own mother hated her because of who she was and who her father turned her into. even iroh, loving and wise uncle iroh, thinks she’s crazy. skill, power, manipulation, and aggression are the only things that get her any semblance of affection, so that’s what she embraces. is that her fault? i don’t think so. i think a lot of children in her position would do the same. it doesn’t make her evil, certainly

she was a child who had never been loved, and she was so desperate for acceptance that she demanded it and feared it at the same time. it’s only ever conditional for her. she’s praised for being cunning and brutal and she’s rejected for being cunning and brutal. she prides herself on her wins but she really never does. she maybe loses the hardest out of anyone. she loses her family, she loses her friends, she loses her title and nation, and she loses her sense of self

where we leave her in the show isn’t a moral victory for anyone. it’s sad. it’s desperately sad. because there’s this character who seems indomitable and the show absolutely breaks her. she’s desperate, she’s angry, she’s terrified, she’s losing everything and losing herself in the process. and she never gets to heal. we see a character who was never loved, who’s been abandoned over and over, who only ever had her strength and her pride and has lost both. she’s on the brink of total mental decay. she was desperate and scared and lonely and she lost. she lost.

she never gets a redemption because no one ever thought she was worthy of being redeemed. her mother was afraid of her. iroh rejected her. her father used her as a puppet of war. zuko realized how horrible their father was and leaves, and doesn’t offer for his own sister to come with him. who was there to show her the path to goodness? who was there to tell her that being powerful wasn’t the only way she was worth something? you can’t know goodness without love, and azula certainly never had that

and you want to know the kicker?

the indomitable, powerful, terrifying, cunning, broken girl was 14. she was 14 years old

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Reblog if you are ASEXUAL, SUPPORT ASEXUALS, or really really want to WEAR A REALLY FANCY BLACK CAPE

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Hilarious🥀👐

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if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in the midwest, this is it. 

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My other idea wasn’t working out and I wanted to have something for today so I did a quick drawing of a apple being cut based on this video by achievement hunter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWUZO_jl3rA. 

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Haven’t done something like this before but thought I’d give inktober a try. This is using the swift prompt and it is a Common Swift with it’s migratory path in the background. I’ll be trying to post for each day hopefully but might not be able to get every prompt done.