#i was always the fire elemental

[mocha-gladiator]

hey guys lets all be cringe together!!

what was your childhood RP character that you became on the playground at recess? your OC that you wrote stories about? or your self-insert that you used to rescue your favorite movie hero when they were losing?

[melimelotus]

entertaining the idea of eeveelutions as survivors of their own type. evolving when struck by lightning or caught in a fire/explosion as a way to survive

[ash-and-starlight]

Do you have any really specific and/or personal Zukka headcanons that you’d be okay with sharing? I eat up every hc you put into your drawings like they’re candy, I was wondering if you had any others :D :D

OH boii i sure have,,, nothing coherent is coming to mind atm so ill just expose my Extensive backstories of zukka bethrotal armbands that idk if i will find a way to sneak into art.

sokka’s armband for zuko is forged back at Piandao’s mansion, and it's one of the most fine stunning pieces of jewelry ever crafted. it’s not the usual southern ivory but metal, more similar to the armbands worn as an accessory in the fire nation. it’s made of intertwining bands of gold and black meteor metal, with patterns of waves and dragon scales that seem to ripple and move when the light catches on them just right. and the pendant is a traditional blue stone from the swt.

There are no particular engagement gifts traditions in the fn, so zuko goes on a deep dive into southern water tribe ones, asking sokka’s family and friends about jewelry making and learning to engrave over the course of several trips to the swt. He makes sokka’s armband with ivory from his own first (successful) solo hunt. i’m not sure abt the material of the pendant lmao maybe gold? but amber would also be cool methinks

as for the pendant engraving they display a unique single braincell moment (untrue i just want them to match). love the fact that both of them are sea savvy navigators, love to think that in their pining era they spent a lot of time watching the stars and showing each other the different constellations and navigation pointers of their nations, so in both of their armbands’ stones are depicted the constellation used to guide sailors back home, sokka engraving the swt’s one on zuko’s armband and vice versa.

if they were sun’s out guns out kinda guys before this only gets worse during the first weeks of their engagement. shirts are banned. everyone look at the bethrotal armbands NOW.

[iyuro]

"let's go on and on together forever. i wouldn't mind being like the scorpion and having my body burnt a hundred times over as long as it really was for the sake of everyone's happiness." - giovanni, night on the galactic railroad

[kicktwine]

analog jayposting

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Rewatching* ATLA and augh, the animators knew what they were doing on this show. Look at the anguish in this poor kid's face.

[compacflt]

what are ice & mav’s favorite colors? what is your favorite color?

this is so specific anon i am screaming!!!!!

junior public affairs officer just out of college, having lost a bet and now being forced to pay, stepping into admiral kazansky’s pearl harbor office, trembling, sweating, holy shit, : Sir… just for indopacom branding purposes… t-the public affairs office would like to know what your favorite color is…

admiral Kazansky, dusting his framed confirmation certificate signed by the SECDEF and SECNAV and POTUS, entirely flatly and disinterestedly, without a hint of humor: United-States-Navy blue. [Pause] i feel this could have been an email. In the future, [long lecture about wasting the brass’ valuable time]

(PAO, to the rest of the pacflt general staff, later: this guy is fucking unreal. US navy blue. fuck him he is not real. he was genetically engineered by the DOD in the 1950s as a bioweapon. he’s not a real person.)

his favorite color is just blue. and it’s one of those questions no one ever asks him until Bradley comes along so he doesn’t have a favorite color until five-year-old Bradley asks him (this is an extremely important question to five-year-olds), which is when he decides on blue. “why?” pretty arbitrary, kiddo. i dunno. It’s the color of the sky and the color of the sea. and those are pretty much my only two reasons to live. shrug.

mav’s favorite color is red. You know, danger & stuff. “it’s the color of the warning lights that start flashing when you do something cool in an f-18 😛”

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

why yes, voices in my head, i Will take a nap at 3 pm

[onaperduamedee]

I am obsessed with the way Park Chan-wook used translation in Decision to leave:

Sore apologizing for her imperfect Korean that is in fact quite literary, if Hae-joon is to be believed; Sore needing to express herself in Mandarin when sharing deeply personal details and using a program to translate her words, the confessions given to Hae-joon through a mechanical and disembodied voice; the shortcomings of said programm when Hae-joon translates and misinterprets her words regarding his body; the translation (lies) he himself unconsciously weaves when he talks to others about Sore; Sore checking afterwards the meaning of Hae-joon's specific words and her delayed reaction in front of her phone; the translation she does of his goodbye to her; the crushing, insurmountable realisation about what has been lost in translation in order to understand Sore's feelings and choices.

[always-a-joyful-note]

I think the reason I like the 5 Eccentrics so much is that it's just such a good depiction of the….variety of friendship. Because it was a group literally created to be destroyed. It was, in other words, a forced union of 5 people who might have never or barely interacted. Yet even with that, even knowing that, they all chose to have a meaningful friendship with each other - they chose to be friends and remain friends even if their union was forced, even if the very reason that they met was to be taken down. It's almost the arranged marriage trope but it wouldn't work as well like marriage because it really isn't that. It's like the family system (brought together by chance and a common identity) but it's still different. Because they didn't HAVE to be friends even if sharing the same label, because they didn't have to keep sticking around each other and become a real family. They chose to be friends in spite of all odds, chose to be grateful even amidst their destruction, and forged a precious bond that not even their predetermined fall could break and in this essay I will -

[fishwithnohobby]

what if waterghouls have an extra form, an extra level of unglamouring that isn't suited for land, with no legs and just in general even more creature like then their usual unglamoured form.

now what if this form, since its exclusive to water ghouls, doesn't get "written over" during dews elemental change.

maybe he knows its there cause he can feel the water but doesn't wanna check cause he doesn't want to be reminded of what he lost

maybe rain gets trapped in the lake somehow and dew, in the middle of crisis management meeting with the others, just runs away and jumps in , leaving everyone else VERY worried and confused, as no one knows about the water form and dew has been aggressivly avoiding water

rain thinking he's hallucinating and/or dead as dew approaches cause what the fuck

mountain and aether getting a bit too emotional about seeing dew in a water form again, making him once again question if they loved him more back then

[mceproductions]

Best of 2023 Music #25: Lauv “Steal the Show”

There is a certain magic when it comes to unexpected connections.

Ember Lumen originally wanting just to humor Wade Ripple began to see him for more than what her heritage had previously seen.

All through a new age love romp showing the duo on a day trip in the city exploring what is offered.

Lauv kills it with the vocals.

And montages for weddings got a new theme.

SUM 22: Through his vocals, Lauv sets the mood of the bubbly connection that begins to form with Ember and Wade via Elementals highlight.

[chaosgenasi]

thinking about Aabria saying, "Opal, you are knocked off your feet as a massive earthquake rips through the Flamereach Outpost... It's not raining anymore, but there's a strange purple and a reddish orange light, like an Aurora Borealis, but jagged streaking across the sky," and Ashton saying, "I remember, vaguely, watching everything fucking go, everything just rip apart... wind and light and air and people flinging through the air, cracking and breaking and—" and Matt describing the leylines and the storms all throughout this episode: "At night, it's like a natural celebration of color and light. The night sky now around you, as the auroras are more visible, the leylines themselves are breathtakingly beautiful. And matched with the knowledge of what's to come, deeply ominous."

[rangers-are-cool-moved]

"Please tell me that I am imagining someone stalking my little brother." Izuna requested of the young Kunoichi as he dropped a bento wrapped with a dark purple cloth in her lap. He stretched his arms above his head then before stepping in front of her, hand resting on his sword as he gave a playful grin. "If not then I propose that after training we go visit that section of the woods. I hear the overgrowth there is just awful and you can always use more work on your Katon control."

  The silver haired Firesword heiress didn't startle at hearing the sudden request. "I could say that; but I'd much prefer Shisui-san to be alive. He's being stalked." She looked up from the book she was reading and blinked, looking vaguely surprised at the unexpected bento. Aside from Shisui, Itachi and Sasuke were the only other two members of the Uchiha Clan she interacted with. So it was rather odd having Izuna track her down, near the Forest of Death.

  "Hello to you too, Izuna-san and thank-you for the bento. My Katon control is fine on it's own, however I need practice in using it with my Genso Kesshō."

@torturedbrilliance

[rex101111]

currently playing Final Fantasy XVI, and while I am having a lot of fun so far, I have a fair few complaints. I'll give my full thoughts when I actually finish it, and maybe NG+ who knows, but for now the one complaint on the forefront of my mind is that a game that a has Trophy/Achievement named "Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeift" should not, ideally, be taking itself as seriously as this game does.

[darknerprince-pkmn]

Dugtrio Mail! One thermos full of soup. You have no idea what kind it is, but it's still warm and the aroma is an absolute BOUQUET of meats, veggies, stocks, and spices. There's a note taped to the side.

"Hey, heard there was another friend around who could use a little something nice. Sorry if you have any food allergies, I have no idea what all is in this, but it's REALLY good soup. A communal pot, even! Enjoy! - Kyle"

~ @bugs-and-grass

Oh it smells delicious! I don’t believe I have any allergies, so I’m safe to enjoy it. Thank you!!