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Okay, I'm going to keep this short.

This invasion is not about the US. What Russia is doing is wrong. Not all Russian citizens should be condemned for their government's actions. Ukrainian people deserve support. There is so much misinformation out there and I encourage you to look into things further or ask actual Ukrainian blogs on Tumblr. World War 3 memes aren't funny. Don't send hate to every Russian blog on Tumblr. Try to educate with thorough research and double check facts and elevate Ukrainian voices.

You should stand with Ukraine. I don't care which party you support and I don't care who you voted for in 2020. It doesn't matter. Support Ukraine and check your facts. Listen to the first-hand experience of Ukrainians. Stand with Ukrainian people.

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The Suki Alone comics fuck up the AtLA timeline, and contradict canon just so azula act out of character, and be the big bad villian when literally any other guard would have worked, even tho in the canon timeline azula literally could not have been in boiling rock torturing suki AND canon azula is NOT interested in torturing people

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I just went and actually read “The Search,”(or at least the portions of it which occur in the present) because I hate myself:

1. Oh boy, the depiction of Azula is so ablest and screwed up, not to mention not compatible with canon. Don’t worry, Gene Yang’s WoG explains Azula is like this because she was badly abused in the asylum…

2. Replacing motives with “craziness” is just awful writing.

3. Zuko is only interested in “fixing” his family because a professor told him it was important to be a successful ruler. This interest in the “ideal” of family instead of actual human relationships with family members is consistent throughout.

4. Azula is implied to be badly abused and treated very poorly in the asylum.

5. Ty Lee chi blocking a restrained Azula. Just no.

6. Zuko of course shoves Azula in front of her abuser in order to help him find “his” mother.

7. The members of the Gaang needlessly antagonize Azula from the start, and respond severely and violently which she reacts. Apparently calling Appa a “shaggy beast” is a deadly insult.

8.  Katara trying to murder Azula the instant she sees her, not giving Zuko any time to explain the situation, is something else. And it’s not like Azula was doing anything the least bit threatening.

9. The members of the Gaang appear to be replaced by alternative versions of themselves who feel extreme hatred and fear for Azula specifically, much more than they did for any antagonist in the show.

10. Azula is very clearly not in control of her actions and a threat to herself and others.  It doesn’t seem to occur to anyone that this is a problem.

11. The members of the Gaang began with using violence and intimidation to try to control Azula. And they respond to #10 by attempting to ramp this up, despite this being pretty blatantly a bad idea.

12. Zuko + the Gaang appear to have zero interest in or knowledge of the mental health issues Azula has, nor of her symptoms. Apparently it didn’t occur to Zuko that he should talk to a doctor before he took her on a road trip. Maybe this is because the asylum doesn’t have doctors or any actual treatment.

13. Azula rants about Ursa plotting against her every other line, but Zuko and the Gaang have zero interest in figuring out who she is talking about.

14. Azula’s lightning apparently isn’t deadly at all anymore. Zuko redirects a full blast right at her and she’s completely fine?

15. Of course, the “Zuko holds Azula dangling over a cliff while blaming her for ruining his life since she was born” scene.

16. Sokka is written so badly.

Honestly, some stuff wasn’t as bad as I expected, but other parts were worse. Overall it’s very poor. And I didn’t even touch the Ursa-Ozai plotline.

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Why Azula's appearance in Suki Alone comic was a Retcone and a made-up event

This post was inspired by @/hello-nichya-here's post here.

Sokka: The other Kyoshi Warriors, are they here?

Suki: No. I don't know where they are. They locked me in here because I'm the leader.

When Suki revealed who sent her here in the Boiling Rock, she did not say "Azula sent me here" she said "They sent me here".

Who are "They"? We don't know, ambiguous party, but it's definitely the Fire Nation, more precisely FN prison authority.

So, yes. This is evidence that Azula haven't met Suki. I don't see a reason why Suki wouldn't say it was Azula who sent her here to the boyfriend who later taunt her about getting captured by Azula.

Suki: It seems like every time there's a big battle, you guys barely make it out alive. I mean, you guys lose a lot!

Sokka: You're one to talk, Suki. Didn't Azula take you captive? That's right, she did!

If Azula had been the one to order such transition and leader separation then she would have instructed the responsible party after delivering the Kyoshi Warriors for being the Avatar allies.

Suki: If you're looking for the Avatar, you're out of luck

Mai: I knew this was a waste of time.

Azula: No Avatar, huh. Well, that's okay. Any friend of the Avatar [Jumps off the mongoose lizard.] is an enemy of mine!

So by the time the Kyoshi Warriors were transporting to the FN, Azula, Mai and Ty Lee were in their way to Ba Sing Se. So the possibility of Azula and Suki meeting would be physically impossible -- much less Azula waste her time even if she has a chance to, she's a busy girl.

The prisoners starvation was also made-up in this comic since it was not mentioned in the show's episodes nor its lore. The Boiling Rock was secured but not inhumane, in fact it was even implied to offer therapy scrolls to its prisoners. Suki too seems to be even more fit and physically capable than she was in Appa Lost Days when Kyoshi Warriors battled with the Dangerous Ladies, this indicate the imprisonment conditions weren't inhumane.

Hakoda publicly humiliated the Warden of the prison, yet the consequences of such action were quite mild.

The only form of "torture" (if you want to describe it as such) were the cooling machine which was exclusive for rebel Firebenders...

...and when the Warden was about to interrogate a "prisoner" over an escape plan which, surprise, was stopped by Azula.

Azula, to the Warden: "You're wasting your time. That's not one of them."

During the Day of Black Sun, when Team Avatar figured out that Azula’s plan was wasting their time by baiting them into chasing her until the eclipse is over, Azula said anything that comes to her mind to distract the people who were literally in their way to kill her own father and Fire Lord while he's powerless, the one she's responsible of protecting...until finally she brought up Suki and that successed. Azula's face here reveals that she was lying.

How Azula figured out Sokka's connection to Suki is already in Crossroads of Destiny:

Ty Lee: Yeah. What are you in time for, [Cartwheels to Sokka, standing just inches from his face.] cutie?

Sokka: [He begins to sweat and places his hand behind his head in discomfort. Nervously.] Uh, I'm kinda involved with Suki.

And she heard that. So yes, Azula probably wouldn't even remember Suki has not been to bait Sokka.

P.S I know post-atla comic writers have a huge boner to make Azula look bad or generally incapable of writing anything involved Azula other than "yo, this bitch is mean" which make me lose faith in it as Azula fan, but they at least could've spared an effort to make it look consistent, since Azula's appearance in this comic was at the end of the day unnecessary.

"Katara and the Pirates" comic also suffers from similar issues, mostly concerning the timeline and the poor topic choice for the character expansion. Both comics were published after over a decade of ATLA finale and was written by a fan of the show not one of the original writing team, so the possibility of retcones are there and the canon credibility of it is selective to me at best.

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i know its been said b4 but growing up suicidal and then reaching an age you never planned to live to is extremely stressful and terrifying, and we deserve more credit for not killing ourselves and THEN having to make up for the time we spent not caring if we lived or died and not doing work to improve our lives.

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Iroh never once refers to Azula as his niece, while Azula almost always refers to Iroh as her uncle even though she heavily dislikes him. Make of this what you will.

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Its really crazy to me that we’ve gotten to the point where being photographed in public without consent is like acceptable

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What went wrong with how Azula was handled in the comics and why she deserves so much better (critical essay)

The issue I see in how the comics portray Azula is how everything around her seems to happen for plot convenience (or forced plot in other words). It happens to everything in the comics, yes, because depending on the plot Yang wanted to work with, characters could behave in absolutely OOC ways to allow those plots to work: see how Aang forgets Katara exists and that she was the only one of his friends with any interest in Yangchen’s festival in the Rift Part 2, for instance, which is the least Aang-like thing I’ve ever heard of? How Mai’s choosing to get a boyfriend who’s untrustworthy instead of joining her father’s terrorist organization herself and getting the intel she needs first-hand; and not just that, but deferring to Ty Lee’s “aura identification” to decide if Kei Lo is reliable or not after already dating him? For real?

There are a ton of such situations through the comics, a lot of moments where you just don’t feel like the characters would behave as they do if this were written by the show’s writers. And usually, the answer is that Yang needed to bend over character personalities and behaviors so that one plot or another could come to fruition as he wanted them to.

That, of course, happens to Azula. 

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Happy 100th Birthday to Winnie the Pooh!!

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Oh to be a sheep lazily nibbling grass on a hill 

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AUGUST 1ST 1999 / “Koromon, the Great Clash in Tokyo!”

TODAY IS STILL AUGUST 1ST, 1999

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Possible New Digimon Anime Leaked

Some Digimon fan accounts have started reporting that an official Digimon account posted (and promptly deleted) the above image, a poster for a new Digimon series called “Digimon Ghost Games”. While this may very well just be a fake rumour, it does line up with a series of leaks we’ve had for the past few weeks, as well as some official information from Bandai regarding the Digimon Vital Bracelet toy. In short, the leaks implied the existence of a new Digimon anime debuting after the current Digimon Adventure: was over (either in September or October), with the protagonists using a Digivice called “Digivice V” and being partnered to Digimon called Gammamon (Ganmamon?), Angoramon (Angolamon?) and Jerrymon (Jellymon?).

The supposed new Digimon revealed for this series fit very well with those names, with a jellyfish-inspired one, a large mammalian one (”Angora” refers to a breed of rabbits, goats or cats) and a reptilian, vaguely dinosaur-like one (Gammamon being the supposed protagonist, who have traditionally been dinosaur-like).

Additionally, the above poster has supposedly been leaked. “Digimon New Movie 02″, centered on the first human being to have contact with Digimon. Despite the name, we currently have no solid reason to believe it’s linked to Digimon Adventure 02.

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i drew this little friend and i dont know what he is but i love him

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So I was told that Human Planet had a segment about pigeons in the Cities episode that I might be interested in and I was honestly so underwhelmed. I haven’t finished the episode so maybe there’s more pigeon stuff but I feel like all I saw was more Birds Of Prey Are The Only Cool And Acceptable Birds and pigeons are Trespassers In Our Urban World Who Shit On Everything And Are Useless On Top Of It. Which isn’t true and I’m so tired of this being framed as some horrible burden that humanity must face. Pigeons are the victims here, not us. 

Hate of pigeons didn’t start until the 20th Century. Before that was about 9,900 years of loving them. The rock pigeon was domesticated 10,000 years ago and not only that, we took them freaking everywhere. Pigeons were the first domesticated bird and they were an all-around animal even though they were later bred into more specialised varieties. They were small but had a high feed conversion rate, in other words it didn’t cost a whole lot of money or space to keep and they provided a steady and reliable source of protein as eggs or meat. They home, so you could take them with you and then release them from wherever you were and they’d pretty reliably make their way back. Pigeons are actually among the fastest flyers and they can home over some incredible distances (what fantastic navigators!). They were an incredibly important line of communication for multiple civilisations in human history. You know the first ever Olympics? Pigeons were delivering that news around the Known World at the time. Also, their ability to breed any time of year regardless of temperature or photoperiod? That was us, we did that to them, back when people who couldn’t afford fancier animals could keep a pair or two for meat/eggs. 

Rooftop pigeon keeping isn’t new, it’s been around for centuries and is/was important to a whole variety of cultures. Pigeons live with us in cities because we put them there, we made them into city birds. I get that there are problems with bird droppings and there’s implications for too-large flocks. By all means those are things we should look to control, but you don’t need to hate pigeons with every fibre of your being. You don’t need to despise them or brush them off as stupid (they have been intelligence tested extensively as laboratory animals because guess what other setting they’re pretty well-adapted to? LABORATORIES!) because they aren’t stupid. They’re soft intelligent creatures and I don’t have time to list everything I love about pigeons again. You don’t need to aggressively fight them or have a deep desire to kill them at all. It’s so unnecessary, especially if you realise that the majority of reasons pigeons are so ubiquitous is a direct result of human interference.

We haven’t always hated pigeons though, Darwin’s pigeon chapter in The Origin of Species took so much of the spotlight that publishers at the time wanted him to make the book ONLY about pigeons and to hell with the rest because Victorian’s were obsessed with pigeons (as much as I would enjoy a book solely on pigeons, it’s probably best that he didn’t listen).  My point is, for millenia, we loved pigeons. We loved them so much we took them everywhere with us and shaped them into a bird very well adapted for living alongside us.

It’s only been very recently that we decided we hated them, that we decided to blame them for ruining our cities. The language we use to describe pigeons is pretty awful. But it wasn’t always, and I wish we remembered that. I wish we would stop blaming them for being what we made them, what they are, and spent more time actually tackling the problems our cities face.  

I just have a lot of feelings about how complex and multidimensional hating pigeons actually is

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