#whatever it is it’s wholesome

[luxlightly]

I don't know how to break it to you all but a bad parent will parent badly with books and a good parent will parent well with an iPad.

Ipads don't make the "ipad kid". What upsets you is a child who is being given something distracting and potentially obnoxious to those around them so that the parent doesn't have to deal with engaging with their child. And it's not new.

I grew up before the invention of the ipad and the complaints were the same. It was "tv kids" and "Gameboy kids". And it was book kids too, though people rarely complained about those kids because it didn't make noise and bother them personally so they no longer cared. Because the "it's for the good of the child!" argument dried up real fast as soon as it was something that didn't affect them.

A good parent who is engaging with their child's interests can do so with an iPad or television. A bad parent can say "take this and leave me alone" with a book or a toy. The problem is that some kids were raised by objects. By whatever kept them busy and entertained and away from their parents. Sure, there are parents who need to realize that's what they're doing and would benefit from changing their parenting style by limiting electronics use, but "if you give your kid an electronic toy, it means you're a bad parent" is not the same thing and largely misses the actual source of the problem.

Your arbitrary standards of what "good children" doing "good child activities" is as restricting.

[rox-of-iu]

ive been afflicted with weird priest in brain disease

[ecoterrorist-katara]

Ka/taang: friends-to-lovers or the Friend Zone?

It’s almost axiomatic, in any ATLA shipping discussion, that Ka/taang is the friends-to-lovers ship while Zutara is the enemies-to-lovers ship, and that differences in shipping tastes can be boiled down to whether you prefer FTL or ETL.

My first ship was Percabeth. My biggest ship was Klaine. It took me until Mockingjay to let go of my Gale-and-Katniss-are-childhood-friends rose-tinted goggles and start liking Everlark. I started dabbling in ETL because of Zutara, but I’m incredibly picky about it (do not ask me how many Dramione fanfics made me irrationally, disproportionately mad).

All this to say: as a longtime friends-to-lovers enthusiast, I should theoretically love Ka/taang. But…

My difficulty with Ka/taang as a friends-to-lovers ship boils down to this: Aang and Katara’s friendship was always narratively framed as insufficient, because Aang liked her from the start and always wanted a romantic relationship. And imo that dynamic really colours their entire friendship.

I like to think Aang would’ve been a ride-or-die friend — the type to give up the Avatar State to rescue her, the type to commit ecoterrorism and help her get arrested, the type to make her a flower necklace to cheer her up — even if he didn’t have a crush on her, but I will never know that. We never got to see the pure friendship part of friends-to-lovers, because the spectre of the romantic relationship was always there. Before the last five minutes of the show, Katara’s feelings for Aang range from “plausibly interested” (The Headband, Cave of Two Lovers) to “doesn’t hate it” (Day of the Black Sun, The Fortuneteller) to “no” (Ember Island Players). Yet Katara’s eventual capitulation to reciprocation of Aang’s feelings was always depicted as inevitable, starting from s1 when the prisoners during Avatar Day reassured him that she’d “come around” because he’s a catch. It’s as if friendship, even one full of devotion and mutual love like the one they share, is not enough.

And that’s just totally antithetical to what I love about a friends-to-lovers dynamic. I love romances where characters value each other outside of attraction, when they see each other for who they are (this goes double for pretty characters like Katara, whose complexity and imperfections are just as important as her beauty and her care for others). I love the idiots in love sub-trope, where they’re obviously into each other, yet do a bunch of mental gymnastics to remain in comfortable denial (we got a little bit of this earlier in the series, but by s3 we were firmly in Aang-pines-and-Katara-deflects territory). In every friends-to-lovers story I’m simply obsessed with the confess-and-kiss scene, but the version we got in ATLA was ruined by the lack of reciprocation, twice.

Over time, because Aang was written as so insistent about his affections, Ka/taang went from a friends-to-lovers story to a Nice Guy Friend Zone “why doesn’t she like me” story. I mentioned Everlark earlier: I got the same ick for Gale in Mockingjay as I did for Aang in s3, where the woman is not interested yet he still badgers her about it. (And considering Gale is canonically hot, I don’t think the relative attractiveness of Aang is the issue here). But Gale’s insistence was presented as his problem, his lack of empathy, his self-righteousness; Aang’s insistence was just a part of his quest to get the girl.

A lot of people say Zutara is a female fantasy, whether they mean it in a positive or pejorative way. Nobody says the same about Ka/taang, even though women definitely have friends-to-lovers fantasies too. A good friends-to-lovers story reminds me of all the times when I was an idiot before getting together with a friend I was actually head-over-heels for. Ka/taang reminds me of all the times when I was not interested in a friend and they didn’t respect my preference. Friends-to-lovers is a delicate balance, maintained only by unerring mutual respect and unconditional care for each other, and it can veer into Nice Guyism if the writers aren’t thoughtful about why this dynamic is so appealing. Which is exactly what happened with Ka/taang.

[jeffthegriller]

nightmare

[spirk-trek]

can you imagine kid!jim being gifted a tricorder for his birthday and running around the farm in iowa scanning bugs and trees pretending to be a starfleet officer :')

[kcamberart]

these are probably my favorite enemies in the game, but you won't encounter them until later on

[kittzero]

i did two silly little drawings of my comfort ship at a theme park!! (made it up for this because ya!). don't mind lampert hehehehehe

also, im only posting this on tumblr so, here's the photo of pilby and poob without filters

[bakedtato223]

Lil kissy 😘

[libelelle]

who better to go smashing badniks with than your best friend and best brother?

[dunkinbublin]

heyy :]]

how about sonic and tails hanging out in tails's workshop??

its ok to take a break every once and a while

[clovreat3r]

ITS OFFICIALLY HOT COCOA SEASON WOOOOOOO

(In around two days, but we like to round our numbers up here)

[rancidsugar]

A gift for @jedi-nurse 🥰

[fireyartccoon]

“Fox or not, you’re still my little buddy, Tails, and I can ensure you nothing will ever change that’’

This thing:

[kaiserouo]

ahamkara ooc

i just wanna add tails to guardians

also a warlock i guess

[sparksandstars]

Tim drake and you talk about the batmobile

You’re laying down on your bed next to Tim as he typed whatever he seems to always be typing. You knew about him being Red Robin and working with Batman. It didn’t scare you off. That was mostly due to the fact that Batman didn’t cross your mind even though you were raised in Gotham. In your mind he was basically just a cop.

“You know as a kid when I saw the batmobile I thought it was an uncover cop car because it was all black.”

“Honestly I don’t know how you survived in Gotham for all these years without paying attention to Batman.” He said still not looking at you. You wondered how his eyes weren’t strained.

“Not everyone worshiped him, Tim” you said rolling onto your back.

“I did not worship him.” Finally he looked at you but then he looked back to his work.

“Wasn’t he your idol? You know where that word comes from right? Like false idols. You know-”

“I know, y/n!” He sounded so tired. Honestly it got more of a reaction from him than you expected.

“So sounds like you did.” You looked away.

He gave you the meanest side eye.

There was a long silence. Then time spoke again.

“How did you even know what uncover cop cars looked like as a kid?”

“Oh my dad thought me how to spot one!” You got up slightly and looked at him with a smile.

“Honestly I shouldn’t ask. I’m just surprised you didn’t see Batman more often considering how you grew up.”

He looked at you almost concerned even though he knew how you lived for a long time now. He still couldn’t shake off the feeling —which he hated to admit was pity— you didn’t deserve that. No one did. When he thinks about it, he’s still shocked you came out so... well you. That’s when he closed his laptop and sat next to you in bed.

That’s when you both smiled at each other.

[ceilidho]

to be against dark fics in the military fandom………some of y’all are rly into mental gymnastics lol