#I'm just in a state of awe

[narastories]

I'm here once again to say something that only people with very specific intersecting interests will appreciate but:

hoyoverse sure let Wriothesley have ridiculously talented VA's huh?

I don't know about the CN and KR ones but then for JP you have Mr. hotshot Daisuke Ono, who it has been brought to my attention can sing. And it should not be news, I know, but guys they recorded Monochrome no Kiss?? I'm going to expire??? Don't ask me how many times I have listened to that snippet.

And then on the same day, I find out that Joey Zieja isn't just a very funny guy who voiced Wrio amazingly. He also wrote books? And they are on Audible narrated by him? And they sound like very funny sci-fi that I think I would actually enjoy??

Stop it. The talent. My heart can't take it.

[pianokantzart]

A small collection of Mario looking like a kid who got off at the wrong bus stop

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

don't mind me, i'm just thinking about the studio brussel interview photos yet again 🫠

[softpine]

she's looking especially sacrificial lamb today 🥩

[comradekatara]

You've mentioned Zuko's "inability to kill" before, so could I ask you to elaborate on that?

sure. zuko is banished for, essentially, committing treason. he says to ozai that he was banished for "speaking out of turn," but simply speaking out of turn is not actually why ozai banished him. zuko said that people shoudn't have to die for the sake of further empowering the fire nation, and that goes against their nation's entire ethos. zuko lacks, as azula puts it, that "killer instinct that is just so fire nation."

while zuko does set fire to suki's village in his quest to capture aang, and you could argue that he may have committed other such acts offscreen, we never actually see him outright kill anyone. unlike zhao, who kills the moon, and azula, who kills aang in a manner that would have ended the entire avatar line had katara not revived him, zuko threatens and intimidates and harms, but when it comes down to it, he does not actually kill, because he simply cannot.

he threatens to kill zhao, and if he had killed zhao, no one in the audience would fault him for it. zuko does not even burn him upon winning their agni kai, going against custom; zhao calls him a coward for it. zhao tries to kill zuko on multiple occasions, including when he blows up zuko's entire ship. but, when the ocean spirit is dragging zhao under, zuko still extends his hand in a futile attempt to save zhao. contrast this scene with sokka arguing to leave zuko for dead in the same episode. he legitimately does not have a problem with letting zuko die, because, as he says, zuko would do the same thing to them (at least, sokka seems to think so).

sokka kills combustion man, toph kills yu and xin fu, and neither of them have any regrets. conversely, katara cannot kill yon rha, and aang cannot kill ozai. like sokka and toph, they are justified in killing these men, perhaps even more so (since yin and xin fu did not actually attempt to kill toph, "only" kidnap her), but they ultimately choose mercy. like zuko on kyoshi island, aang and katara's actions, such as blowing up the factory in jang hui, may have had indirect casualties (i don't count aang being merged with the ocean spirit because he was not truly in control), but they are never able to kill directly, because when faced with another human being, regardless of how much they may hate them, their pathos prevents them from delivering that killing blow.

zuko, as a foil to aang and katara and the deuteragonist of the narrative, is also someone whose instincts prevent him from being the cold-blooded killer his nation expects of him. it is why, unlike the rest of his family (including iroh), he is unable to produce lightning; he is too sensitive to become the perfect weapon his father wants him to be, which is why azula's reveal is so thrilling and terrifying to the audience, because she is what ozai wants in a protege, unlike zuko, who try as he might, fails at embodying the fire nation values of ruthlessness and power at any cost.

[leqclerc]

Which driver currently on the grid would make the best team boss, once they’ve retired? [x]

[yukipri]

I feel like over the month+, I have like 1-2 hours a day max where I feel relatively awake, and every other hour I'm fighting bone-deep exhaustion. I'll bring it up with my doc at my check up on monday, but tbh i know the solution so idk if she can help

And I can work-work when I feel half-dead, or rather I force myself to because I don't want my cats to starve, but when it comes to creative stuff, it's like my mind is slippery sludge dribbling out my eyes...

The Solution, of course: just stop working 3~10 AM every day (and then taking a short nap, working during the day, and then taking another short nap, hours vary but repeat), and maybe get at least 6, ideally 8 uninterrupted hours of sleep at least every other day, ideally every day.

But do I see that happening? No.

Like rn I know I desperately need to edit fic and reply to comments and do several arts but I'm nodding off at my desk after boss DMing me work at 5 AM and dealing with repair people since 8:30 AM...

[tarczar]

it's a pizza friday

[suddencolds]

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[yardsards]

living alone is all fun and games til you have a medical emergency and there's no one there to help you to the hospital

[aiteanngaelach]

I know we joke but genuinely it is so strange to talk to americans irl. get back in the TV omg

[akemi-snow]

It's them.

Don't let that serious face fool you. Izumo was the one who came up with whatever idea put them there. Kotetsu only made it worse.

I got the background from here but had to edit the heights bc my boys are smol

[maddy-ferguson]

i saw someone say they were hoping noah would apologize and it's just kinda fascinating to me...if he thought zionism was sexy on monday (or i guess on sunday probably and for many days and weeks before that) why would he suddenly think it's an awful ideology on friday?

[archduke-enver-gortash]

posting on here is like my sisyphean boulder i'm constantly rolling tbh

[ikeameatballspoisonedme]

Things might seems dire right now but Vietnam war ended. Apartheid South Africa was legally dissolved. Zionists painted this as a war that spanned over thousands of years determined by God but it was actually a recent project by British colonial empire a century ago. I truly believe Palestine can be free very soon

[missholoska]

Papyrus, what do you think the future holds?