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I think my favorite completely unsubstantiated crack theory/headcanon about Zane is that the reason he keeps dying so much in later seasons is because he wasn't meant to survive his fight with the Overlord - and since him coming back to life defies fate, the Cloud Kingdom is now desperately trying to kill him as a means of course-correction. But he keeps coming back to life each time/the attempts to kill him keep failing for various inexplicable reasons, leaving him in this perpetual game of tug-of-war between life and death.

On the one hand you can get really angsty with it about how Zane isn't supposed to be alive, so death perpetually haunts him like a dark cloud, something he cannot escape but for some reason can never fully succumb to either, and is now something that is not quite dead but not quite alive...

...but on the other hand, I also think it's absurdly funny. Imagine, all of Zane's brushes with death are because the Cloud Kingdom has a very passionate one-sided beef with him. Even better if Zane himself is just blissfully unaware of any of this - he just thinks he has rotten luck. Meanwhile the Cloud Kingdom monks are just constantly at their wit's end because this weird little robot is bizarrely persistent. He's like a gas station raccoon that just won't leave - no matter how many times you throw it out of the store, it somehow finds its way in again the moment your back is turned.

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Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

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for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

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i just said out loud, “you know what really gargles my goyles?” and then i had to just sit there and accept that i now live in a world where someone said those words in that order. and now so do you. what a tangled web we weave

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Best attribute you can have working with kids is chillness. You can and should still enforce rules and expectations, but kids pick up massively on vibes and if you are chill, you become a dam to unchillness

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A PSA about trucks from a truck driver

I and some colleagues were talking about how we wish everyone could see the safety videos that our company was showing us, because I don’t think most people understand how traffic works in a truck. So here’s some things we wish everyone on the road knew.

- we’re not kidding about tailgating. If you’re right behind us on a straight highway? Chances are we have NO IDEA you’re there, which means we can’t anticipate any of your movements. Plus slowing down takes multiple downshifts, so we might start decreasing speed way earlier than you expect.

- We’re not kidding about any of our blind spots. WE CAN’T SEE YOU, GUYS.

- That bit about slowing down taking a while? The same goes for when you’re in front of us. Don’t cut off a truck. Oh god, PLEASE don’t cut off a truck. If you cut me off, I’m not irritated, I’m terrified. For YOU. It can take 7 to 9 seconds for us to stop. DON’T CUT OFF TRUCKS.

- Before you get mad about how slow we’re going on the highway, keep in mind that many companies govern their vehicles so they literally CAN’T go over 60 or 65. This is a good thing, I promise. Because…

- Do you know what happens when a car meets a truck in an accident? The car gets totaled and the truck needs a new coat of paint. You will not win this fight. I know nobody likes getting stuck behind a big dumb truck, but it’s not worth your life.

We are trying our best to protect you from our 80,000 pound death machines. Please help us out.

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Sick burn bro

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Whump Prompt #1033

Submitted by Anon - thanks!

When the team decides to sleep in shifts, but whumpee knows they aren’t going to sleep at all (maybe they have nightmares, or plain insomnia), so they just take the first watch and don’t wake anyone else up. Maybe they keep this up for days until they collapse from sheer exhaustion, or maybe their team forces them to take a nap on someone’s back or on top of the cargo because they can’t afford to stop moving.

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I drew a little something for the Hiveworks micro comic summer~

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I don't think I've seen anybody talk about how absolutely insane The Boiling Rock is from Hakoda's perspective.

Imagine getting captured, and your son tells you that you won't be apart for too long. That's sweet, but obviously your son has no resources to spare for organizing a breakout. You hope that the Avatar can defeat the Fire Lord soon - that's the earliest time you could hope to be rescued.

You get put into a temporary holding facility until the guards can sort out who is who. After a while, they put you on a prisoner transport to the Boiling Rock. Your captors try to intimidate you by telling you that it's the highest security prison in the Fire Nation, probably the whole world. It's far away from the capital.

You arrive at the Boiling Rock. It really is in the middle of a boiling lake. There's only one way in or out, and it's a gondola that takes you above the boiling lake. You meet the warden. They take you to your cell. You settle down to wait for the end of the war.

And 15 minutes later Sokka comes in like "hey dad I'm here I got the prince of the Fire Nation and an Earth Kingdom ninja leader gf ok let's go I'm busting you out"

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I just reada really good fic but halfway through I realized "oh shit this is really familiar.... didn't I write something like this once?" And as I kept reading I kept predicting what happened next and the further I went the more convinced I was that they'd ripped off my story-

like, copied the ENTIRE plot and re-written it, just better than I had? The characters were more fleshed-out than mine were, and the POV was more interesting, and the pace made more sense- but it was MY STORY?

So close to the end I was like "holy shit.. do I message them? Ask if my story inspired theirs? Should I be angry? Flattered?" Cause their tags and description didn't mention me AT ALL, which, sure, it's fanfiction to begin with, but if you're using my work than at least credit me as inspo, right? Just to be courteous?

But I get to the end of the final chapter, and it's not finished, and I'm kind of disappointed cause I never finished my story and I was really immersed in their version now and had been looking forwards to seeing how they tied up my loose ends- so I scroll to the bottom to leave a comment, and.

It's MY URL.

IT WAS MY STORY THE WHOLE TIME.

THE ONE *I WROTE*.

In *2013*.

And FORGOT ABOUT

BECAUSE I WAS SO INSECURE ABOUT MY SLOPPY, SHALLOW, AMETEUR WRITING

And I'm just sitting here now staring into space thinking about every shitty story I've ever written now like

IT WAS ALL GOOD?

IT WAS GOOD THIS WHOLE DAMN TIME??

I'M A GOOD WRITER?????

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thinking about how social media reflects the best parts of people and never the worst. been struggling a lot with anxiety, sleep, drinking too much, and eating way too much junk food while at the same time trying to lose weight and struggling with an eating disorder.

and like that's a random monday. like social media not showing all of that blows my mind in a way.

and i've been sick of feeling like garbage, so i'm practicing ways to calm my anxiety and i take medications for it, i've cut out alcohol 100% indefinitely, i go for 5 runs a week in a good week, and eat decently?

but like how long did it take for me to get there???? been a bumpy ride and all because of my shitty job (which i've since quit THANK GOODNESS)

just a venting post, thx for reading :)

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@youjustfeelthemforever

dude we are just like twins except we were born at two completely different times and we are not related and we look nothing alike too

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I made this art to celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary of The Swan Princess!!!🩵🦢🩵

I love this movie SO SO MUCH, and Odette will forever be one of my all time favorite princess! I hope that you guys enjoy this design!😋💖

Happy 30th anniversary Swan Princess!!!🥳🩵

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ooh thanks for the tag!!

Thomas: Paper Crown by Alec Benjamin

Ralph: Tough to be a Dreamer by Felix Hagen and the Family

Cordelia: Lunar Years by Maisie Peters

tagginggggg: @youjustfeelthemforever @splashinkling @kaylinalexanderbooks

Pick 3 OCs and give them each a song

Thanks for the tag, @literally-just-zay

I was planning to just do three but it was pretty fun so I just did the whole squad.

MA- Time in a bottle (Jim Croce)

Above all else, MA loves the world and wants to cherish every moment in it.

Owen- Army Dreamers (Kate Bush)

I had trouble with this one, but it fits him best because he could have been so much more if he had been given proper care.

Ember- Gasoline (Halsey)

Ember wasn't always a piromaniac, but one too many blows to the head, and one failed burning execution changed many things about her.

Bonus!

Tori-Baker (Aimee Carty)

He is quite skilled and, in his own way, very good at his job. He just works with crazy people who are better than him in their fields.

Hati- Believer (Imagine Dragons)

A core concept of Hati is his ability to change the world based on his beliefs

Billy- Gotta Be A Reason (Alec Benjamin)

The centuries have not been kind to Billy, but he has to keep moving because who else will?

No pressure tagging: @kuebiko-writing @renasdoodles @davycoquette @flurrysahin ,

@somethingclevermahogony @creatrackers