#drill-bits

[wileycap]

I think we in the A:TLA fandom have missed the absolute potential of the fact that Ozai Firelord is canonically a fucking idiot. I mean the dude's straight up stupid. And I want to be very clear that this isn't a plot hole, this isn't a flaw in the show, this is a fantastic and super realistic element that honestly enhances my enjoyment of it! Dictators are often stupid and breed a culture of cronyism-over-competence. Any similarities with real world leaders, dead or alive, are coincidental yet inevitable.

What do I mean?

Well, let's take the Drill. When faced with the problem of Big Wall, Ozai's Fire Nation comes up with Big Drill. One singular Big Drill. Which, as anyone except an idiot could have predicted, immediately breaks down and accomplishes nothing. And if the Fire Nation had made it past the wall, then they would have been fighting through a narrow opening against people who can hurl long distance rocks! Which, if your face or body is vulnerable to high velocity rocks, is a bad thing for you and also for the battle.

Not to mention the resource cost of that thing! It's so insanely gigantic, it must have cost the Fire Nation the equivalent of trillions. For ONE drill. Not ten smaller drills. Just ONE drill. (Fanfic fuel: how much did Ba Sing Se profit off of stripping that drill for parts? Did they reverse engineer it? Did Long Feng keep that for himself?)

And you might be thinking, fairly, that it was War Minister Qin who came up with the drill and you'd be right, but it's Ozai who's approving all this shit. Instead of doing the reasonable thing and asking Qin if he et the whole edible, or even the in-character thing of burning him to death, Ozai just goes... big drill. Makes sense. We should have the biggest drill, because we are the biggest nation. Drill, baby, drill. sorry

It's not the first time, either! He also approves Zhao's invasion of the North Pole, apparently just because Zhao is good at kissing ass and hates Zuko? I couldn't tell you what merits Zhao has. We do not see him lead a single successful mission. The closest he comes is Pohuai, and even then its the Yuyan archers who do most of the work. (My longstanding headcanon is that the reason we don't see the Yuyan archers again is because Zhao blamed the whole thing on them and they were disbanded. This is great fic fuel for displaced Yuyan archers just, wandering around, being elite.)

He approved a massive naval invasion of the North Pole, surrounded by and made of water and ice, inhabited by people who bend water. A nation that was, by its own choice, completely out of the war.

Every time we see Ozai doing something, it's something stupid. Like disfiguring and banishing his firstborn child in a culture that has primogeniture. And then (once he's done pissing away a massive fleet of ships) he does the logical thing and sends his only other heir to bring his first heir back - even though his first heir would have been willing to return with a simple invitation. Like he could have sent a letter saying "dear son come home miss u pick up 200 000 tons of steel qin wants 2 build a drill lol", and Zuko would have come. (Okay, he did have a valid reason for having Zuko escorted, since he thought Iroh was a traitor, but there's absolutely NO reason to risk Azula. Why not send Combustion Man? It's the luckiest stroke of luck ever that Azula is 100 times more competent than her dad.)

Of course, a dictator(-wannabe) sending his daughter on high-level diplomatic missions is pure fiction. Nobody would do that.

The best part of this is that it's entirely realistic and in-character. I could absolutely imagine Ozai purging all of his competent admirals and generals, and then promoting brownnoses like Zhao and crackpots like Qin, because they promised him glorious destinies and secret knowledge of Big Drill.

I also really, really want a scene of Zuko and Azula realizing that their father is a fucking idiot.

I would also like to note that all this stupid shit happens after Iroh leaves with Zuko. So, here's a headcanon: the only reason the Fire Nation didn't immediately implode when Ozai took the throne and purged everyone is because of Iroh. Iroh leaving with Zuko doomed Ozai. It's also a nice little drop of complexity in Iroh's character - he knew he was single-handedly keeping the Fire Nation afloat, yet he only left when Zuko did. Did he plan for Zuko to take the throne from the start? What was his plan before Aang showed up? Did he not intervene in the Agni Kai because he was afraid, or because he knew that Ozai was making a huge mistake and didn't want to interrupt? Give me chessmaster Iroh please.

[stormofbats4224]

-Worlds longest baby shower

-Ritual repainting(Representative of a fresh start?)

-Fancy traditional dance between sire and carrier (or carrier and midwives? Amica? Fancy dance)

I’m culturally uneducated and i don’t know how to google anything

What sort of ceremonies/rituals/traditions could U-terra do to celebrate carriage (pregnancy) and then childbirth?

Obviously they dont have to be real, you could also just make it up. Definitely want more of a focus on the pregnancy part (seeing as it lasts multiple years) than when/after the child arrives.

[martyryo]

🦷🦷🦷

[medicalunprofessional]

breaking the angel

[switchbackhyperloop]

Ok, but how do Will and Hannibal, like, LIVE together? It's not all fucking and recreational murder.

Like, Hannibal obviously cooks and Will obviously does yard work. Who does the general housekeeping? Hannibal will want to hire someone and Will will be like 'I REFUSE TO HAVE A STRANGER TOUCHING ALL MY STUFF >:('

And then Hannibal will be like 'I'll touch ur sTuFf', but in a weird, Hannibal Way like 'Is it a matter of pride or a safe guard against intimacy? What is a home but an extension of our selves, even our very bodies? Have we not, through our cohabitation, the mingling of our material lives, become more intimate than a simple sweep and dust could ever approach? Tell me, Will, what dust and detritus has settled into the cracks of your being that we, together, have not unearthed into the light?'

And then Will would be like 'I'm going to kill you with knives and hammers, you pretentious fuck.'

And then they have sex on the kitchen floor.

What the fuck was I talking about.

[jomajaba]

ahh forgot to bring my sperm whale sculpt to the guild today to get it lined up for a bisque firing 😅 tomorrow then

also left a hole on its belly since it would be really cool to mount to a wood base via a metal rod!

[vinceaddams]

it's required by law that all jumbled up old button collections must have at least 1 seashell in them

[that1notetaker]

Here's my half-assed take on Harry's cool lightning scar: Scarface x2

In which Hogwarts 8th year is THIS close to being a normal school year. SO close. Harry's scar starts acting up though, (not dangerously but as an anomaly (that might as well be a danger for all Harry knows)) but the trio is trying to chill for once. It's the slytherin's who'll try a hand at unraveling Harry's mystery instead. Mainly Theodore Nott because I'm obsessed with the fan-concept idea of him and so should you.

[drunkenmantis]

Lullaby

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Little sketch of Nado taking care of Spectra for a bit, cause they totally didn’t get sparkling fever after seeing the little bitty. Spectra belongs to @drill-bits

[rainyinautumn]

so uhhhhhh Grian just posted on Instagram

EVERYONE REMAIN CALM

[dhmis-autism]

still on my pilot kick. anyways. worstie era!! ♡

[argitscumdump]

Drift, rocking back and forth in a Swerves booth: crazy? I was crazy once, they locked me in a room, a rubber room. A rubber room-

Swerve and the rest:

Spectra: æřęıær

If new born human babies need to cry after being born, ever thought of how sparkling's emerging would sound like? Would it sound uhh sound like old 8 bit nintendo game or something?😅 can't think of anything else. Haha

They do cry! It’s just at they frequency only creator’s can hear

It’s like one long tone

[marciavalance]

Since the gang probably did duck and cover drills in school (they were living during the cold war), i feel like two-bit definitely did not take those drills seriously. Bro would be giggling under his desk, making “booom” noises. And Ponyboy and Johnny were so scared everytime. Ponyboy probably fell for the U.S. propaganda and he constantly lives in the fear of a soviet bomb (Darry and Sodapop have to talk him out of it)

[royalarchivist]

Pac: [He] fell, oh my god– I almost killed Ramon, I almost killed Ramon.

Pac: Ah, I miss Ramon, guys. I miss Ramon, man. [He stares at the little Ramon plush for a moment] I miss Ramon, I was a bit of a downer there, sorry.

[rocketbirdie]

i see it's that time of the year again where people start hating on the english localization of remake/rebirth despite having next to no understanding of how large scale translation projects work 🙃

[braisedhoney]

Can we get some Dark Dan and Jazz?

oh you absolutely can. these siblings are not alright.