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Like father like son.

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Today this war is finally over. I promised my uncle that I would restore the honor of the Fire Nation and I will. The road ahead of us is challenging. A hundred years of fighting has left the world scarred and divided. But with the Avatar's help we can get it back on the right path, and begin a new era of love and peace.

zuko | fire lord

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WATERBENDING ABILITIES & TECHNIQUES According to the Avatar Wiki

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EARTHBENDING ABILITIES & TECHNIQUES According to the Avatar Wiki

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FIREBENDING ABILITIES & TECHNIQUES According to the Avatar Wiki

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AIRBENDING ABILITIES & TECHNIQUES According to the Avatar Wiki

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study of @jocelincarmes work

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Fionna and Cake episode 4 color script

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“Do you remember this place? Do you have any of her memories?”

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I made this for Brickcentral's anniversary contest #bc_tenyearsofbc

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LO victim blaming again

please, please, please. whoever ends up reading this post or found this blog by chance, if there is anything at all i can convince you to do, even if you do think that all allegations against LO hold no water, please do not follow the advice of LO on this. this is a terrible idea that has all the potential to get people killed. don't do this. don't listen to this woman because she has no idea what she's talking about. i know that seeing a friend you love and care about being in an abusive relationship is hard, and even more so when this person refuses to leave despite all your good faith advice. i know that feeling. if you absolutely can't handle the situation anymore and is giving you too much distress, then do what you have to do for yourself. keep a reasonable distance if you absolutely must for your own sake and take care of yourself, but please know that leaving an abusive relationship is extremely hard for the victim and they aren't themselves when they're on one. it's one of the hardest things a person can do. you'd think that since LO is the one who keeps insisting was on a abusive relationship that lasted years, she'd know that already, but i guess she's the only victim who deserves understanding and compassion. everyone else just wants to be miserable and wants to be abused. well, she's wrong. more wrong that she has ever been. please, understand this and know that this person doesn't want to "walk to the jaws of death", like LO callously saying there (the fact that she's talking this casually about someone's else life to a love one of that person should tell you everything you need to know). this person probably do love their partner and think things can get better or, i don't know, that the good moments they have together are worth the bad ones. whatever their reasoning is, try to listen to them and offer them a safe space where they know they can come back to when they're ready to leave. i'm not an expert on any of this either, so here are some resources i found and the numbers you can call if you find yourself in a situation like this. https://www.joinonelove.org/learn/help_a_friend/

take care of yourselves, but also try to understand what's actually happening with your friend and where they come from. if you care about them don't cut them off, especially if you do fear there's a genuine risk to their life, because even if they do decide to leave someday they'll need the support then more than ever before. there's too many cases of abuse victims who ended being killed when they tried to leave or were killed after moving out because their abusers tracked them down. if this relationship is as bad as anon believes it to be, the person inside of it probably knows this too on some level. that fear can also be a factor for someone staying on those relationships.

what LO is saying is not "harsh", it's cruel and it will isolate victims even more than what their abuser already did.

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CHAPTER 3 HYPE BABEY

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A Deal With The Devil

So lately I’ve been thinking that maybe this is how it all went down on Kris’s end!

Happy Halloween and Happy Anniversary, Deltarune! 

EDIT: There’s also a short follow-up comic: Some Self Reflection

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Everybody apologize to Sonic The Hedgehog right fucking now

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We're at the point where people will accuse fans of going through a midlife crisis before they accept sincere criticism.

Being a cash-cow franchise and being a once-a-generation event aren't mutally exclusive. Look at Smash Bros. Pokemon was a once-a-generation series before they turned into a yearly release. And I don't need to mention that taking 2 years to create a 2D sprite-based game is very different from taking 2 years to create a 3D open-world. And on average, there's less time spent developing the 3D games then the 2D games.

Fans don't even want it to be a huge event, just more effort than GF is putting to make these games not suck. Fans have severe distaste for GF pulling the same scams as most Triple A developers. Stop making things up and give the criticism more respect than you're giving it.

Okay y'know what since the Pokemon discourse is back in full swing, here's a thought that's been percolating in my head for probably around two years.

This is gonna be a long one so I'm putting it under the cut here

So I was talking with some friends about Pokemon and the controversy around Sword & Shield, and how a lot of people wanted more time between releases because of how half-baked they seemed, and one of them was like

"You can't really turn a yearly cash cow franchise in the vein of Call of Duty into a once-per-console-generation event like Zelda, and Pokemon is very much in the former category."

and, like

yeah

One of the core tensions between what Pokemon is trying to be and what Pokemon fans want out of the series is that Pokemon is very much a cash cow franchise, and what a lot of older Pokemon fans want is a once-per-generation event.

And honestly after turning it over in my head for the past couple years, something finally clicked with me about why that is: the fact that your perception of time accelerates as you get older.

As a kid, the time between mainline Pokemon releases just felt a lot longer. For me, the two years between Pokemon Emerald and Pokemon Diamond & Pearl felt like an eternity. The time between each release seemed long enough that it genuinely did feel like a huge event.

Now I'm 25 and I didn't even realize that Sword and Shield are coming up on the 3 year anniversary of their release, since it still feels like they just came out.

To paraphrase one of my favorite youtube videos: you don't want more time between Pokemon games; what you want is your youth back.