Don't know if this is a hot take, but Mai and Yue are essentially the same character but on opposite sides of the coin
yeah i've said this before! (i drew mai & yue & toph together w the caption "repressed rich girls" years ago but i can't find it now lol. maybe i'll redraw it....) toph breaks free (ignoring comics & lok continuity lol) and mai.... is getting there (getting back together with zuko is such a massive L lmfao yikes) and i guess ymmv depending on what you envision for yue in her spiritlife (but either way she didn't have to marry hahn and that is in itself a W). but yeah mai and yue (and toph) occupy very similar roles in their respective societies (and obviously azula is the even more obvious parallel as she is literally a princess). the way expectations for women (and in toph's case, compounded by her disability) intersect with class privilege and how despite living in insulated wealth in an otherwise war-torn world, they still long for freedom despite the consequences.
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Shoutout to all the characters who we THINK are your run-of-the-mill bitches since they easily could be but are actually the SWEETEST characters ever
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okay but i need ALL of the fics that take place during crozier getting sober. like i feel like there is SO much potential here bc it is THEE biggest turning point for him! esp with regards to fitzjames and their relationship. like fitzjames seeing crozier's choice to sober up as this huge defining moment, one that ultimately and unequivocally earns his respect (back, really, because he DID have respect for crozier at first, before he met him. and now he sees that that respect wasnt misgiven, not really). and like the way this choice is what causes the first crack in james' mask around crozier! ugh it's just DELICIOUS.
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the thing that fucks me up about rereading instructions for dancing is trying to pinpoint when it is that derek becomes obsessed with stiles and realizing the answer seems to be always. from the beginning. the moment they met. that poor bastard. he probably should have tried to be a little nicer about it, though, saved them both some hardship.
I think it slides so quickly from fear and annoyance that Stiles will steal Scott away to 'Oh no, oh fuck,' I'm not even sure Derek knows himself. Poor guy hamstrung himself by starting out with the 'I'm going to scare him away' mentality then wondering where the hell that went and trying to find it again through almost every subsequent interaction (while something so much bigger and so much worse - Derek's Thoughts™ - completely eclipsed it). Meanwhile Stiles also helps cultivate Derek's dickish-ness by assuming that original motivation to be his only interest in him at all, essentially until the moment Derek tells him he's in love with him.
Which is hopefully why it seemingly comes out of left field for Stiles and the reader, because that's what I wanted.
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man, i’m not sure why i always imagined hooper lived a bit aways, but i was rewatching jaws last night and he probably just lives directly on the mainland from amity, huh?
we know he’s from “the oceanographic institute on the mainland”, and to me that phrasing implies it must be pretty close to be THE institute and not just AN institute. we also know that amity is either a smaller island right by martha’s vineyard or it just… straight up is martha’s vineyard (with a different name of course). based on this, hooper probably works for the woods hole oceanographic institute, and woods hole is directly on the mainland from martha’s vineyard! less then an hour ferry right between em! hooper could totally come down and spend weekends with the brodys and quint or he could probably even MOVE to amity and just have a moderately long commute every morning…
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so im doing a preliminary translation course french-dutch in january which if i do it well enough i can do the real course starting september, and you dont need any official recognition of your level in either language they just say you have to master your working language (ie dutch here) well and that your passive knowledge of your source language has to be good, around at least b2
and, okay, ive been told i do set too high standards, but like, that feels,,,,,cheating isnt exactly the word but like. if i couldnt make the sentence, then how could i ever hope to translate it well into another language you know what i mean?
im glad, because my chances are way better to get my passive french to b2 than my active french before january, im probably already there, but like, im still gonna try to get my active french there too right?
like it just feels so.....precarious. to only have b2 and to dare to try and put a sentence into your own language? if i couldnt have made the sentence, then i would never think i can write it as correctly as possible in another language. honestly.
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You ok?
no idea what this ask is alluding ta. if its about me ripping my skin off yes i am quite fine i just have Those Days . if its about me spam reblogging that "to get better at drawing i hafta draw" post, i want you ta know. i am so. mentally ill i havent drawn in 2 wsweeks and its getting 2 me.
so the answer is yes, but actually no.
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