#killing the mood tbh.

[carnethyne]

Celegorm on big brother duties. Takes Caranthir and Curufin for a swim.

[comradekatara]

hi! apologies if you’ve answered this before, but what do you think of the theory that sokka was killed protecting korra from the red lotus??? i’ve always had mixed feelings about it - on the one hand, sokka Would. on the other, a) the in-text treatment of the red lotus was always questionable and b) the idea that sokka, the most self-sacrificing character, ending up dying for someone else is just so sad to me. what do you think? you consistently have the best ATLA takes on this app!

yeah. I think that theory comes from people valorizing sokka’s protectiveness without understanding why that trait is in fact harmful to him. like, dying a martyr to protect someone important against evil forces that wish to harm them and/or the world has always been sokka’s top #1 fantasy. I don’t really think that’s the kind of thing we need to be encouraging. if anything I think the nicest death sokka could ever possibly get is to die peacefully in his sleep as an old man, because by contradicting his internalized notion that his body is a vessel to used rather than the subject of his own experience, this signifies that he has innate meaning as an individual even when he is not serving another, which is a crucial facet of his arc. that said I also love sokka’s misery and suffering, so I think the idea that sokka does ultimately die a martyr kind of rules in a gruesome, morbid, sick & twisted way.

and then there’s the other element to unpack here, which is the red lotus. it's no secret that the red lotus is one of my favorite elements (no pun intended) of lok, and i spend way more time thinking about them than i do most aspects of that show (not including korrasami. i have clocked so many hours at the obsessing over korrasami factory you don't even know). so in the xai bau spy novel that (mostly) lives in my head, the notion that sokka one day dies at the hands of the organization that was formed through xai bau's ideology is very thematically satisfying to me. but also you really have to share my very specific brand of brainrot regarding who xai bau was, what his relationship to sokka is, the poetic injustice of that particular resolution, etc etc. and obviously none of that is remotely canon, so like. that's clearly not what you're asking here.

on one hand, the red lotus could've killed sokka in their mission to eradicate all world leaders (they do call sokka the chief in that one scene, which i resent, but according to the text, that does make him a world leader. ew), but also sokka could've easily just died in a bunch of other situations, it's really left ambiguous in the show. i don't think that the characters who would have been close to sokka who also fight the red lotus (zuko, katara's kids, lin beifong, etc etc.) seem vengeful enough for them to have been the cause of his death, though, but it's also been a while since i've seen the show, so maybe i'm wrong about that. it is beautifully tragic though. if you're some kind of fucked up sicko (which i'm NOT!!!!!!!!)

[kawareo]

Story reached a point where i have to introduce a new conflict and i do have it fully worked out but its stressing me out whether it'll come off good or not, i'll take a nap and try to figure it out tomorrow

[kikibumblesqueaks]

Just minding my own business watching @the-shy-ler play GTA and he starts making up songs and poetry on the spot for me and being heckin mean!!!😤😤😵‍💫😵‍💫

My ears were burning too much to pick up everything he said but something to the effect of “roses are red, violets are blue, the most ticklish Kiki in the world is you” “pull up Kiki’s arms, reach up to the sky, scribbles in her underarms and squeezes up her thighs” and a cursed three word poem entitled “Tickle, Tickle, Tickle” which moved me to tears🥲🥲🥲

RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE😤😤🫣🫣

[mixelation]

Absolutely floored by how many posts on the “TikTok ban bill” I’ve seen today completely fail to engage with any of the actual reasoning for the ban. And by “how many” I mean every single post that made it into my dash or popular blogs I checked are about “anti bullying” or an elaborate conspiracy to censor/shut down marginalized creators and community engagement.

The bill is part of ongoing anti-China legislation for “national security” purposes, folks. The bill attempts to force the owner to sell to a non-Chinese buyer or else TikTok will be banned from app stores. Any news source besides tumblr dot com journalism covers this. You can debate if this is a slippery slope into US censorship of social media, you can discuss if TikTok is an actual national security risk or just usual US government Sinophobia and fearmongering-slash-showboating, and you can talk about how a ban from app stores would undoubtedly have the off-target effect of negatively impacting tons of people. But if you leave this part of the ban out, you are spreading misinfo.

[reactionimagesdaily]

[welcometoteyvat]

society moved on too quickly from furina's demo

[throttlegainwell]

Since I've been talking about so many heavy fics lately, figured I'd share a fun, porny Jancy WIP snippet:

[Rated E]

“Really?” His eyebrows were up somewhere near his hairline, running north to Canada, practically. This hadn’t happened a lot before, but to say it was a first would be generous. Did she get like this every time? Her shrug was quick, simple, unapologetic. “I like what I like.” “You like… that? Me… that fast?” “Take the compliment,” she said, slipping him tongue probably to shut him up. He fell into it, just a bit, always easily tugged down with the force of Nancy’s ardor. It was hard not to mirror her ministrations, given where his fingers were; harder still not to be a little pleased at the gasp that escaped her, only to be swallowed up by his patient mouth. But he squirmed, all the same, getting kind of desperate to lose the pants before he fused with them permanently. The patience only covered so much. The sound of their lips parting—the unflattering grunt that he couldn’t quite smother, that wet smacking suck—was enough to wake him up a little, enough to pull his hand back, to move them to her hips to encourage her back a bit. She took the hint, her eyes bright and fixed on him as he lifted his hips to shuck his pants and underwear, somehow, around Nancy. He couldn’t quite hold back a whine at the feeling, thoroughly unerotic and, honestly, pretty gross. He probably shouldn’t even have been sitting on her bed. “You’re sure… this works for you?” A vague gesture at the mess he’d made of himself was all he needed to get his point across, but it still lit up his face with something not quite embarrassment. Maybe embarrassment at not being as embarrassed as he probably should have been. Was that too convoluted for a guy whose brain was only just reclaiming its blood supply?

[highbrasshighkass]

listening to the galactic skylanes spotify playlist while playing jedi: survivor with its music on mute so it's like cal is listening through lil spearbuds (space earbuds) as he explores koboh

[yuleshootureye]

I know the youths we meet in The Crèche™ are supposed to be depressing and horrifying child soldiers, but this is just a normal statement a normal child would make, tbh.

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Ul'mirel: Sa'varsh Kethk won't let us do anything fun 'til we pass this test.

Ul'mirel: I just want to learn how to crush someone's brain with my mind. Splat!

[gifti3]

Would u actually go into the attic tho, be honest...

After lucifer specifically told u not to?

[loverboybreakdowns]

boys will literally sit in a 50 degree bedroom with nothing to do rather than go into the living room and risk encountering their sister

[waywardsalt]

uuuhhhhh wrote a segment of the ganonbeck thing on my phone (this whole thing isnt written on my phone i just have future scenes hashed out on phone) so i figured id share it for: giving a snippet of it bc why not, and to maybe get some feedback on writing ganondorf and the specific concept he talks about?

(this isnt indicatives of the whole fic just a scene delving into ganondorf’s personal conflicts and a little bit of worldbuilding or something. would appreciate some feedback or tips or whatever on this since im not sure if. i wrote this idea well. also hope its generally interesting/fun to read)

[badolmen]

Supermassive games made something that was almost perfect and then decided to make several much worse things before reeling it back to something decent that makes the same damn mistake the first game made without any of the first game’s charm and cleverness to make up for it. Like you’ve had the time to figure out this professional video game thing maybe you should start acting like it lol

[theanomily]

Flicking through Dreadnought trying to find that scene with Ms Leon, the Colonel, and the Professor when a couple things struck me.

Although definitely not to the extent of Anastasia, Pietor sure does know what he's doing psychologically. I swear, in all his exchanges with Raven, he's just insulting her- weak, slow, lazy, sloppy, etc. And it really does read as though he thinks that. I can't recall a single instance where he degrades another person to the extent that he does to Raven. It seems that he purely hates her, but he doesn't. He even says outright that he both respects and fears her. However, he needs to make sure she underestimates herself for his own gain. He does this in Zero Hour perhaps more obviously when he explicitly tells Raven stuff like "you are too slow to do that" as she is actively formulating plans, nipping them in the bud before they can blossom. It's not elaborate, but it is efficient...

For then my eyes settled upon another scene. It's after Pietor spars with Raven, when she is alone and whispers "where are you, Max?" It's a plea. In fact, given its quiet, personal nature and that what she essentially wants here is some kind of intervention, it could be argued that it reads almost like a prayer. Obviously, at no point ever in the series is Raven depicted as either dependent or religious. She is literally one of the strongest characters in the series, if not the strongest. Yet when it comes to the Furans, she does not seem to believe she can free herself. Before, her only solo escape plan was basically suicide. In this moment now, it needs to be Max- who had saved her from them in the past- or nothing short of a miracle. And it's heartbreaking.

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

how is everyone feeling on this fine monday?