#i'm emo about it

[son1c]

you were made for this

[people-will-definitely-talk]

what I say: I’m fine

what I mean: in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the ending theme is a sort of positive foreshadowing that follows you throughout the whole show until, in S3E13 The Firebending Masters, you find out that it’s the rythm to the dancing dragon which Aang and Zuko work through together. In that moment, the show makes you fully realize just how much Zuko was destined from the start to be part of Aang’s support and so much more than what he seemed early on in the show. The ending/dancing dragon theme was there from the beginning to hint that the show was not only about Good vs Bad, but that it was also a story about redemption and about how Zuko would have his own part to play but only after he’d gone through his own journey separate from that of a classic villain character chasing after the main protagonist. In this essay I will-

[dadralt]

Geralt hiding goodbye gifts in his girls' sleeping bags

[tchaikovsgay]

does anyone know where i can 🏴‍☠️ pirate 🏴‍☠️ she-ra

[youshouldseemeinadeerstalker]

They all love each other so much. The whole cast. Everyone 🥺

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

do you ever think about how a series of tiny choices like "I guess I'll watch that show" can like totally and entirely change huge aspects of your life

[h0bbs-a]

" YOU ONLY FEEL IT WHEN IT'S LOST.   GETTING THROUGH STILL HAS ITS COSTS. "

your finger nails have been picked down as far as they can go prior to blood spilling,   &   yet you sit here still continuously digging at the skin surrounding them.   it saves you from having to maintain eye contact with @stagstalked,   an awkward thing for two reasons.   firstly,   he's right:   you only felt the resentment towards your father now that he's gone,   prior,   you played the game   &   went so far to convince yourself that this was okay,   it was fine because you had to live-   if you acted how you truly felt around him,   you're sure you would not be here today   (   the thought sends a pulse to your neck,   an itch that's begging to be scratched underneath your pink   &   risen scar   ).   secondly,   you cannot bear to look at him.   what can you say?   there aren't enough words,   or any,   that could truthfully hold   &   contain your feelings towards him.   thank you?   no,   you think you'd be better off dead   (   you deserve it   ).   i hate you?   no,   that's too simple,   you don't hate him as one does a person.   there are no words.   you continue to pick at your nails.   " i'm tired of just getting through...   it feels like every day i'm just getting through. "   what would it take to live again?

[mobius-m-mobius]

Sometimes our emotions get the better of us. You can say that again.

[anya-chalotra]

make one person excited to see your silly little gifsets AVA PLEASE I am literally in tears seeing you on my dash again I missed you you so fucking much 😭

[7clubs]

How selfish must we be? that our small salvations are worth tearing the stars asunder

If I could see you again I'd tell you over, and over and over again

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[people-will-definitely-talk]

Another thing I noticed on my Avatar: The Last Airbender rewatch is that the track The Avatar’s Love is, yes, used often in regards to romantic scenes with Aang and Katara, but is actually used most in those scenes that cement the gang as a Found Family™. In the finale (yes I’m fresh off watching it just 5 mins ago and I’m emotional) The Avatar’s Love starts playing already as soon as the last scene starts with Zuko pouring tea, Sokka drawing, etc. and even after, when Katara and Aang are on the balcony, they hug before kissing and to me that is the perfect representation of their love: they all became family even before Katara and Aang fell for eachother and in this essay I will-- no okay I swear I won’t bore y’all anymore but to end it simply I’m just gonna drop a tag that was added to my other post because it sums it up perfectly:

[rattusn0rvegicus]

Currently crying about Yoso-Tama-No-Kakehashi, a Japanese guidebook from the 1700s about raising rats. It's the first known rat guidebook in the world :)

They were raised as pets and for show animals, and it's mentioned in the guidebook that "one can call out and rats will come to hand". They were referred to as "nezumi" and it was considered important that they have large cages to live in. There was also a variety of rat that had a fox-like coat!

Rats were domesticated in Japan from the 1600s to the 1800s - it's unknown if any of those domesticated strains are ancestral to the current domestic rats today. They were domesticated again in Europe in the 1800s (initially for much crueler reasons than just for being pets) and I think it's just so sweet that we as humans fell in love with rats so much that we had to domesticate them at least TWICE...

You can download an article about the guidebook here. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/expanim/60/1/60_1_1/_pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwioidaLs5z6AhUojIkEHRI1BvEQFnoECAkQAg&usg=AOvVaw3aarTW0iy1HybCcrxtp4ww

[mychemicalraymance]

the new pool boy position just opened at the vampire mansion (previous employee disappeared under mysterious circumstances)

[nyankocatnyan]

Parent's lullaby

[sunburstsandmoonshadows]

"in the end, all I hope for is to be a bit of warmth for you when there’s not a lot warmth left to go around" - boreas, the oh hellos

below, a version with other lyrics: