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do you think any of the air nomads had complex thoughts or resentments about most of them not being raised by their parents? do you think aang did? (i know quite a bit about adoptees and i know most adoptees have complex thoughts about it once they come out of what they call ‘the adoptee fog’.) do you think it causes any insecurities for them, like abandonment issues or such? i don’t know if you have any thoughts on it, but i was curious on what you think!

ummmm…. so you know how like…. social structures such as the nuclear family model are not ontologically necessitated and adoptees being raised in a culture that reifies the importance of biological parentage are likely to feel an emotional disconnect but if you were raised in a culture that prioritizes communal living and de-emphasizes the supposed sanctity of a direct genetic lineage you are probably far less likely to feel alienated from your community because everyone else also shares your experience…… yeah so it’s probably kind of something like that…..

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I just read your all of 'no thing defines a man like love' and experienced the full range of human emotion and I just wanted to let you know that you're wonderful and I appreciate your art !!

WAA HIIIII!!!! I recognise ur name and pfp hi hi hi!! : D Thank u so so much!!!! I truly appreciate this I always get so excited to receive any asks or comments on No thing defines a man like love. That fic is TRULY my baby <3 Im so excited to write more, im about halfway done w the next chapter and have a more solid outline for the future ones so hopefully posts come more consistently.... But im in my final year of my degree so!!! Who knows!!

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Man now I’m just thinking about how much I love visual analysis. I’m a huge advocate for art not needing to mean anything deep and sometimes it’s pretty just to be pretty, but also our history is so heavily painted into canvas and stone and etched into copper and limestone!! It’s amazing how many paintings that seem to just be pretty (especially the Rococo period!! It was known for being a flirty, pretty era but has so much imagery and meaning in them) have serious, political, or sometimes even satirical stories behind them.

Visual analysis and visual comprehension is so, so valuable. I feel like since learning how to do it formally and then informally my writing and literary comprehension has actually improved. It’s also just so, so fun!! I know I don’t have many followers but if ur interested in doing some visual analysis, here are the steps to doing so given to me in my art history class. I cannot emphasise how fun and interesting it is to do and how valuable of a skill it is!! You’ll learn so much about history from doing it.

I have the notes in the read more if ur interested at all!! : ] This is a very long ramble and I knooow it probably wont go far, but please! If u do see this try out visual analysis!! Its so, so much fun, it helps enrich ur writing, and u will learn so much about history. In a time with AI on the rise, with fake images, editing, and photorealistic lies, your best weapon is your comprehension and ability to analyse. I've been told time and time again by art history lecturers that its so important to be able to do this, to any degree, or to even just be aware of it as a concept because you will start looking and taking note of it even subconciously!!

Start doing this by looking as little as you can about the time period, artist, or subject!! Thats the best way to approach visual analysis. Imagine it like going into a book blind, you arent sure what the genre is but you can guess from the first few lines its probably a dystopian! This is best done because it means you're more subjective when you analyse it visually. Visual analysis is different from a critical visual analysis, that comes next!

The example I have here is from my notes, which is the pastel drawing Madame de Pompadour in her study by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, is a Rococo period painting! The Rococo period is by far one of my favourite periods to dissect. That and Dadaism.

Step 1: Identify. EG: A painting, a sculpture, a drawing. What does it look like the medium is? This is more from a formal point of view, being able to identify the medium or form is a first step. It also leads you into being able to question why that specific medium may have been chosen later on in the analysis! Medium doesnt always have a purpose, but sometimes it will. EG: Prints were cheaper to purchase then a painting because they were reproducible and didnt require as much time on the artists behalf. So, having a wall of purchased oil paintings vs prints would mean something different status wise.

Step 2: Describe what you see, not what you THINK. EG: A woman with her head tilted to the left (from viewer looking in), she is in a lightly coloured, elegant dress with golden vine-like patterns over it. She holds a blue book filled with music notes, an instrument sits behind her. The desk is cluttered with books, papers, and a globe. The technique is realistic, smooth and refined details, a cool toned colour palette with her being in the lighter tonal value to keep intense focus on her. The difference between what you see vs what you think is saying "She is looking to the left." vs "she is gazing to the left, possibly for show or possibly looking at someone/something off screen" or "She is staring off to the left, looking at her hands, uncaring of the painter" Because THAT is in the next step! But you need to build the bones of subjectively what you are seeing. You can interpret it all later, first of all, define if the dress is blue!

Step 3: Interpret. EG: Conclude the above information to be information about the figure and analyse who they could be. This is where you can have more fun with the analysis. A lot of the time this will show a bias you may have, for example, if we keep with the example of pastel drawing, we can deduce that she is a musician even without knowing its Madame De Pomadour! She has music strewn over her desk, she has an instrument near her. You could also probably say she is well educated with the amount of books covering her desk, well travelled maybe with the globe or perhaps trying to appear as if she is? We dont know who she is, or if you do maybe you dont know her at depth, so for all we know like many artworks done in the Rococo period, or truly most periods, this could be done as a sign of status. She isnt looking directly at the painter, she isnt positioned and sat formally for a sitting, so we can guess she probably has these works done of her often. This isnt anything new. From her pose, her dress, the items cluttering her station, we can assume she is of some status!

Step 3: Evaluate! Now, I wont lie and say I know everything about Madame De Pomadour and this being tumblr im SURE theres someone out there who knows far more about her then I do, but, this is the intrigue of visual analysis. I dont know anything about her, not truly, but in a formal setting and not just an exercise like this was and is, this is where I would then do a SHIT load of research on both her, the artist, the medium, and then even the objects she has in her background. Research into how the artist interacted with their models is also a very good thing to look into (did they have a lot of repeat customers? Were they hired on has a permanent artist for someone? Did they ever do a portrait of anyone of royalty or high status?) as good or bad reports says a lot more about the context of the painting.

If an artist doesn't like someone they will often sneak details into the background to signify so. Think hiding them in shadow, maybe changing some of their jewellery to be from the fashion of a period from earlier to make them seem less on trend. Maybe they will make the person look even more grand to earn favour (think most monarchs, first to come to mind being Henry the Eighth.)

Art was heavily purposeful, even if it is "just" a portrait there is always intent behind it. There is always some reason, even if the artist did not put anything else into it the use of that painting then becomes the meaning. Was it used as a gift to gain favour? Was it used to incite fear? Henry the Eighth would send his representatives with these MASSIVE paintings of himself, made to look stronger, taller and healthier then he actually was, in order to scare them-especially those who hadnt seen him before.

Anyway, this was a long post, but I hope someone gets something out of it!! I love visual analysis and comprehension and i think its important and fun and just!! Have fun ok!!

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Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

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tumblr is so scary. Why am I so scared of this place. Every time I dont use it for awhile bc I get busy I end up forgetting how it works and then i get paralysed by "oh dear god what do i do" I WASNT A TUMBLR KID I WAS A DEVIANTART KID AND THAT SHIT WAS SCARY!!!! i deserve compensation for that.

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12 more chapters.......... Good lord...........

today is the day I look through my original plan for No thing defines a man like love and accomodate for all the changes I had to make in the timeline + pacing and add in that to the chapter count.... Could be another four chapters. Could be another ten. I guess we'll just have to wait and see....

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today is the day I look through my original plan for No thing defines a man like love and accomodate for all the changes I had to make in the timeline + pacing and add in that to the chapter count.... Could be another four chapters. Could be another ten. I guess we'll just have to wait and see....

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Hello I'm back how devastated am I going to be.

HII I DONT THINK THE NEXT CHAPTERS ARE TOO SAD?? I’m also not sure how backlogged u are though!! I think the saddest thing is how long I take to update now

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MAN WHAT THE FUCK! THIS IS INSANE. THIS IS TERRIFYING. If this were wattpad days I'd be doing a face reveal or some shit to celebrate. Writing out one of those like wild RP chapters where its me talking to the characters and doing a QnA. Thankfully we arent in wattpad days and I am just waiting to present an assignment for uni but still holy FAURK!!!!! what am i meant to do with this. Thats so many people.

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OKAY I HAVE A STORY TO TELL.

MY BEST FRIEND FUCKING HATES THIS HANSTER. Or more specifically, she hates ME and this hamster happens to be in the crossfire.

I sent this to her for the first time at LEAST three years ago. I don’t even remember the original context, I was having a phase of sending unrelated images as reaction photos and that last one in the thread got me so bad. I spammed her saying it was important, and then sent the hamster. She got so mad at it that I made it a point to send it whenever I could just because I couldn’t understand WHY she had such a deep hatred for this lil guy who’s just cheeked up!!

Her hatred for this image has led to her having to go on actual, honest to god walks because I’d just send it for NO reason. It’s a sticker on my iPhone, it’s saved to my phone and my laptop in a special folder for easy access, I have it open on a tab at all times. I am always ready, and the rage this mad her feel was unmatched.

Now. Important thing about me. I am VERY good at the long-con. Sort of ridiculously good, actually. I have “hamstered” her three times since the time I got temporarily blocked for it. It’s important to also note that aside from me sending it nonsensically, she has 0 reason to be so knee-jerk aggressive around the hamster. Anyway. Onto the three times I’ve hamstered her in the most BRILLIANT ways.

1- I did not use the hamster for over a year. I had moments I could have, but I didn’t. She even pointed this out!! Saying “I expected hamster ass.” But I did not rise to the bait, for I knew if I waited, the result would be oh so sweet.

I travelled HOURS to meet her, I took a plane, I used a train for the first time, I LABOURED!! And finally the moment was upon us. We met for the first time in person, we hugged, we exchanged thoughtful gifts, we went back to her house so I could force her to watch the hunger games, and then my time to strike came. I said “oh I have an edit to show you!” And I brought up an edit I had made using a capcut template, the “say yes to heaven, say yes to me. I’ve got my eye on you.” And then at the “you”, hamster ass flew across the screen.

The betrayal. The rage. The horror. It was cinematic. It was BEAUTIFUL. It was beyond anything I had ever seen before in my life. I played the long con, and it paid off. “In my own house?? Under my roof??” Yes, Soap. In your home. Under your roof. My hubris is unmatched and you consistently let it go unchecked. This is a saw trap you designed, enjoy the hamster.

2- I had just gotten back into contact with a mutual friend of ours who I hadn’t spoken to in years! It had been around eight months since the amazing first-meet-hamster-ass, and I once again hadn’t used it since then. I saw my opportunity, and I took it.

I sent a photo of the hamster ass to our friend and asked him to use it when he felt the time was right, and I wish I could have seen it when the time was right. Out on the beach, I think, and he goes “hey, look at this!” And shows her the hamster ass. The confusion, the betrayal, the shock. I would give my afterlife to be a fly on a rock observing that interaction. The rage in the message she sent me was beautiful.

At some point it becomes something she brings unto herself. I don’t gain anything from the hamster but her reaction, and yet even though she fully understands this, her rage for the hamster out matches her understanding that if she stopped reacting, I’d stop hamstering.

3- now. This one took prep, and I can’t take all the credit. I got my friends sibling in on this one and we planned it for MANY weeks before. I sent a document with ten hamster asses on it, and they cut each one out, numbering them 1-10, with little witty remarks on the back of them to keep things interesting.

I distracted my friend with our homestuck re-read, such perfect planning, and her sibling hid the hamster asses around their home. Coming to the end of the call while we discussed how wild everything was, and how we always forget the crazy little details, sibling walks in.

“I got some chocolate!” “Oh! Thank you-“ the pause. The silence. THE ERUPTION OF CHAOS AND RAGE. “THERE IS SOMETHING SICK AND WRONG WITH YOU!!” The HORROR!! Shakespeare could only ever HOPE to get to the level of drama and chaos exhibited in that discord call.

Nothing, however, could match when I went, “enjoy the hamsters!” And she goes “… hamsters? Plural?” And realises that yes, indeed, the hamsters are numbered. One to ten. She had number one handed to her, and yet nine more await her, hidden in her own home.

Has she found them all, you ask?? No. No she has not. How do I know for a fact that she hasn’t? Because if she had found number 10, I would know within on second of her realising, because the shock and horror when she finds it will be completely unmatched to any horror film identity reveal. No plot twist will ever compare to how she will react to number ten.

Anyway, that’s the very brief story of cheeked up hamster. I could add some screenshots of her reactions to being hamstered but it’s also late at night and I can’t be bothered. Just wanted to share with the world that sometimes the most fun pranks are the completely harmless ones.

Breaking your friends shit is out, sending them a cheeked up hamster is in.

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Being an artist is so expensive. What if I just asked for impasto for my bday. What then.

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URGENT HELP SAVE THE LIFE OF MY CHILD.

Dear humanity,

Please Help Me – My Son May Die at Any Moment.

I'm Amal, a mother of three children, living under the weight of the genocide taking place in Gaza. 🍉

Here’s my story, and I’m reaching out with a hopeful heart 💔✨, hoping someone will feel what my family and I are going through.

My son is suffering from a severe and life-threatening injury after being shot by Israeli drones. He urgently needs medical treatment outside Gaza.

Time is running out, and we are facing a critical situation. I am asking for your generosity to help us save him either through a donation or by sharing this urgent plea with others

I beg you, i kiss your feet, to help my son. My son may die at any moment.

I lost most of my family. I'm afraid to lose my son too 🥺

Mohammed deserves to live a happy and healthy life, just like every other child on this earth.

So I humbly ask you to donate even a little or at least reblog this appeal.

Please Donate now:👇

https://www.gofundme.com/f/join-us-in-our-struggle-save-our-family-from-war-in-gaza

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My name is Abed.

I’m a survivor from Gaza, holding on to hope in a world that has fallen apart around me. 💔

The life I once knew — my home, my family, my sense of safety — has been shattered by war. Today, I live among the ruins, trying to find a path forward through the rubble and heartbreak. 🏚

Every moment is a battle against fear and uncertainty. What was once ordinary — a safe place to sleep, a future to dream of — now feels like a distant memory. 🕊️

I share my story not to seek pity, but to keep hope alive — to believe that even in the darkest places, kindness can still find a way. 🤍

If my story touches your heart, please consider sharing it or offering support. Every voice, every act of care, brings me one step closer to safety. ✨

Thank you for taking the time to listen. 🙏

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/62825428/chapters/160853977

WOW? Me updating a JJK fic??? WOAH! WOAAAHH!! Anyway enjoy the Shokohime content i love them so fucking much i could die!

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i refuse to not reply to a comment. however. 52 comments since the latest update. Good LORD!

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Due to the AI scraping that happened on Ao3 I will be making all my fics visible to registered users only : [ so sad bc i rlly want my work to be fully accessible to anyway </3

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/55992616/chapters/167282434

idk why tumblr isnt. embedding my links like it usually does. I'm NOT even gonna bother formatting this post i want this chapter gone and dead and FINSIHED WITH. IM DOEN! I GIVE UP WITH IT.