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Say happy birthday

FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.

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Ideas, theories and speculations for the next avatar series.

Okay so I can't stop theorizing and speculating about what could happen in the next avatar series. I also have a ton of ideas for new subbending styles and just need a place to let it all out.

Heads up there will be lots to read and it's gonna be all over the place. I'll try to structure it to the best of my abilities.

Feel free to add your own ideas (^v^)

Anyway.

Speculations

Let's begin with my speculations for the new series.

Legalization of bloodbending

While blood bending is extremely dangerous, I believe it could have many medical benefits.

Considering how blood bending is used to turn other people into puppets, making them move at your command, what if that is used to help a paralyzed person move? Like during some type of physical therapy. Maybe a bloodbender who is paralyzed from the waist down, could learn to walk using their bloodbending.

I can also see bloodbending being used for Dialysis or to limit unwanted blood flow during surgery.

Or bloodbending as cpr if someone's heart stops.

I know that with healing, being one of the subforms, that literally brought Aang back to life, all this probably won't be necessary but I still find it interesting to explore how bloodbending could actually be useful.

Perhaps healing is a form of bloodbending.

Anyway. I speculate that maybe bloodbending would be brought back in the new Avatar series, maybe it would even be legal by that time and we can see it being used in non malicious ways.

Science behind bending

Since the new series is supposed to take place during an age similar to our own, maybe the actual science behind bending would be explained or at the least explored.

Like how are benders different from nonbenders, what enables people and spirits to bend the Elements?

Maybe some scientist would try to invent something that allows nonbenders to bend an element.

Those could be antagonists for the new avatar. Because their work would go against what the spirits intended and to research, they probably wouldn't use the most humane methods and experiment on the spirits and element bending animals. Maybe they would even try to capture one of the lion turtles.

New subbending types

This leads into my next paragraph. My ideas for new subbending styles that I could imagine appearing in the new series.

Specifically new subbending styles for air and fire

Plasma bending

Plasma bending is a subtype of fire bending. Lighting and fire are made of plasma. Maybe a powerful firebender could learn to bend pure plasma, essentially allowing them to shoot lasers and cut through stuff with a plasma beam. Not sure how realistic that is in the avatar universe but it would be cool. Maybe this type of bending would require intense concentration and body control, more so than lightning, so it's a lot more difficult to master and even learn. This would make it nearly uncontrollable and very dangerous.

Gas bending

Basically airbending but Airbenders are able to control any type of gas. This has also been somewhat proven right by the chaos gremlin Meelo, who literally bended his own gas.....

Maybe aur benders, knowledgeable about the attributes of different gasses, could bend them to their will.

I suck at chemistry so I can't really name any examples, except maybe extinguishing a flame with nitrogen.

Anyway. Those are my ideas so far. Feel free to add to this list or debunk something I listed. I'm really curious of what you think.

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I am trans and still go to [Bathroom of assigned gender]

I am nonbinary and still go to [Bathroom of assigned gender]

You're still valid as fuck.

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I was never able to see myself in the mirror.

But, when I put on makeup, I can at least see some of me.

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Horrible puns part 1 of ???

Topic of the dairy....Udders

Have you seen cow tiddies? Just the udder size of them.

Also the way cows produce milk is udderly fascinating.

And when you milk a cow in Australia you're going down udder.

Thanks for coming to my teat talk.

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Yes

no wonder the rates of depression and anxiety are so high amongst autistic people. the moment we go out into the world, we learn that the only way people won’t hate us is if we don’t act like ourselves. we learn that one wrong move, one little falter in the mask, can be catastrophic. anxiety isn’t irrational, it’s a learnt response to being shut down the moment we finally feel like we’re being our real selves

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Brand new sentence by my girlfriend:

"Dear, you're stepping on my hormones"

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What's a french ace's favourite kind of lingerie?

A Boulangerie

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Cute shit my girlfriend says:

"I have to use the women's of a weapon."

Saturday Nov 11th 9:45pm

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Uuhhhm.......fuck yeah you did holy shit I need that yesterday omg amazing I love it.

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I just saw the cutest fucking thing.

Imagine an extremely sour, grumpy and mean looking old man. He's making the kind of face that tells you "Don't you fucking cross me".

This wonderful specimen is cradling something in his arms.

It's a tiny, derpy looking chihuahua in an oversized dog winter coat.

The elder fella was holding on to that rat dog (endearing) in the most tender, caring way, with an expression that could kill.

I doodled a little visualization.

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You just gotta call me out like that

Sterner's Studio, Brussels (1902)

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When talking about the distinction between Simon Petrikov and the Ice King,  it’s important to remember that originally, the Crown wasn’t trying to turn Simon into Ice King -

It was trying to turn him into this guy.

At the time, the Ice Crown - or rather the Wishing Crown - was programmed with Gunther’s wish to become Evergreen. So everything related to making the current wearer like Evergreen is a very direct result of the Crown’s Magic. The physical changes -

And the obsession with the name ‘Gunther’ -

And maybe some of the irritability and anger issues -

That is something the Crown is very directly forcing unto its current wielder. 

But everything else?

Ice King, personality-wise, was not much like Evergreen at all, or even like Gunther's view of him. And Ice Finn of the Farmworld Universe was also pretty different from the both of them.

At the time, I remember people assumed Ice Finn’s behavior is more indicative of what the Crown is actually trying to do with its wielders. That Ice King is so different because of Simon’s subconscious resistance against the Crown - while Finn’s much younger and dumber brain is a lot susceptible to the Curse’s influence to become some sort of mad world-conquering emperor of ice and snow. 

But, with the context of the Crown’s actual backstory. That doesn’t seem very likely anymore. I think what’s actually happening there is that the Crown is just trying to make its wielder an Ice Wizard on par with Evergreen (who was the Actual Goddam Ice Elemental) and that means pumping the wielder’s brain so full of Magic, Madness and Sadness to a level that is bound to overwhelm anyone.

And Simon’s and Farmworld Finn’s very different behaviors after putting on the crown is indicative, more than anything, of how their psyche reacts to Madness and Sadness in general. You know, Finn has a very proactive and kinda aggressive personality - and you add Crown-induced-Madness-and-Sadness and a compulsion to use Ice Magic as much as possible and you get all of…. this 

Meanwhile, for Simon, the compulsions of the Crown originally filtered exclusively via the language of protection 

As his madness always manifested as romantic obsession 

And using goofy humor to try and deny the pain he’s going through 

Because that’s how Simon’s mind specifically reacts to being flooded with so much Madness and Sadness.

That’s why there’s so many parallels between Ice King and the sort of mistakes and screwed-up stuff Simon does right now! He’s even kidnapping people again!

Because the Madness and Sadness of Ice King might’ve been induced by the Crown, but now Simon has plenty of personal home-grown Madness and Sadness inside him - and it’s no surprise that Curse-Induced or not, his mind reacts to it in a sorta-similar way. (Although obviously not as intensely, again, there was a LOT of MMS in the Ice Crown).

Now as for Ice Thing, and the fact that he seems to be actually rather well-adjusted under effects of his version of the Wishing Crown. I mean... not by the time of the 1000+ Era, but that’s literally eons in the future and also maybe more Gibbon’s fault. Even if the Crown will eventually take some sort of toll on him, for now he seems to be doing pretty well considering his wish. I mean, there's still some sort of Loss of Identity stuff going on

But everything we've seen of Ice Thing (in the present day, at least) shows him as a friendly and cheerful individual that gets along well with others. A far cry from how maladjusted every single wielder of the Ice Crown acted.

At the very least, if there's any notable amount of Sadness in him, we really haven't seen it yet.

There might be several factors here:

First things first, I should acknowledge the possibility that it’s just that Orgalorg’s eldritch brain is better at intaking all that MMS juice. That could play a part, but I think it’s probably more important, at least thematically, to look at the distinction between ‘I wish to be Evergreen’ and ‘I wish to be Ice King’. 

First in the sense that while Ice King was occasionally mean to Gunter at times - he was generally much kinder than Evergreen ever was for ‘his’ Gunther. So, like, pretty much the one Personality Flaw of Ice King that you can directly link to the Ice Crown’s attempt to mimic Evergreen is the occasional anger issues.

And how they relate to Gunther’s view of Evergreen, so grumpy and controlling and constantly saying ‘NO!’

(Both Finn and Simon’s demonstrable not-crown-induced trauma responses can make them pretty short-tempered as well. So I’m not going to say this is purely the effects of the Crown. It still probably plays some sort of factor at why the wielder of the Ice Crown is Like That).

And that is not a factor in how Gunter views Ice King. For him, Ice King was a doting and loving father figure - so if the Crown was ever trying to implement any sort of specific negative personality traits, this is absolutely no longer a factor. Because the original Ice Crown was a reflection of Evergreen’s abuse, and now Ice Thing is a reflection of Ice King’s fatherly love.

Which is, itself, probably an echo or remnant of Simon’s own strong parental instincts. 

Secondly, while the Crown was trying to make the Ice King just as powerful as Evergreen…. Ice King was obviously not as powerful as Evergreen. Because he was already a second-rate copy of the Ice Elemental’s power, and because Ice King was often just too doofy to use his powers correctly and probably because some remnant of Simon’s original sensible self is subconsciously holding his powers back.

Either way, being ‘like Ice King’ as Gunter sees him requires less Magic than being ‘like Evergreen’ as Gunther saw him - and therefore less Madness and Sadness. Leading to the wearer or, um, the eater being a lot more well-adjusted from the get-go.

And I think that the implication that Ice Thing has fused with the Crown, so there's never going to be another poor sap who puts on the Crown and gets Ice King'd. But if there is one somehow... at least the process is going to be less mentally detrimental that time around?

Maybe one day Simon could look back and appreciate how much he (or Ice King, or both of them, or however you want to look at the situation) is responsible for basically neutralizing the Crown that ruined his life in the first place.

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Or Airbender Lumberjack and Bimbo with a PHD

"girl dinner is when you don't eat teehee" "men think about the roman empire women think about their ex best friends and poetry" "✨sapphic love✨ is so pure and innocent and sweet unlike nasty gross Man Lust" "girl math is when you can buy starbucks and makeup because you didn't buy it yesterday so it's free" "I'm going to explain (complex topic) for the girlies! so basically it's like when you go shopping-" "I love women because they're so soft and smooth and feminine and we can talk about girly things and they're not sweaty or hairy or horny like gross men" "women should be unemployed girls don't need jobs men should do all that for us" "ugh girls that don't like pink or being feminine just need to stop being such pick mes and get over their internalized misogyny it's gross"

god save my hairy dyke ass from this hell before I start whacking people's shins with my Girl Baseball Bat. teehee!

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"If men are from Mars and women are from weenus...."

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Tiddy Cat

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