A reminder:
Harry Potter fans fuck off 🥰🥰
ALTsome book reviewers are truly baffling
Sooo hilarious but I can completely see this being a real conversation between streaming execs 😏
(original vid: Asif Ali - instagram - https://tinyurl.com/2p8jpkzz)
“they even put an Indian guy in WandaVision”
hang on a second, I gotta look up something
yeah, this is really funny
no one follows the trees warning
You know the parable about how the foolish man built his house upon sand and the wise man built his house upon rock and it’s always about having a sturdy foundation well there is also the fact of location which is that the sand probably used to be rock except it’s been eroded to sediment because it’s a FUCKING FLOODPLAIN
I feel like a dumbass, but @rapidashmascot just revolutionised my understanding of that parable.
My family quotes that parable loudly every time another planned housing community on a former floodplain gets inundated with water.
does the person you reblogged this from seem like
a big city kid
mid city kid
suburbs kid
small town kid
countryside kid
idk smth else (tags?)
rb for sample size! ive always lived in a big city and i forget ppl grew up elsewhere so. ye
Hi artists if you’re reading this I need you to know that it’s EXTREMELY necessary to have a folder on your phone called “bragging” where you save the screenshots of your favorite comments and sweet messages and shares and artist follow backs. So when you feel like your art sucks and you’ve only ever received praise out of pity, you can look back and realize that that feeling is wrong. The best way to combat imposter syndrome is to record your accomplishments. Keep reminders of your hard work and its reward. Actively try to be self-obsessed. Ok that’s all, go eat some fruit while you’re at it!
oh yeah this applies to writers too
school teachers. do you like them?
no
yes
I'm a teacher and [reasons why teachers are blah blah blah]
mixed feelings. Elaborate
I'm getting unreasonably mad about how absolutely appalling my teachers in school were and i have to know what other people think.
my lecturer answered my questions, post cancelled everybody go home
does the person you reblogged this from seem like
a big city kid
mid city kid
suburbs kid
small town kid
countryside kid
idk smth else (tags?)
rb for sample size! ive always lived in a big city and i forget ppl grew up elsewhere so. ye
dogsinspaces asked:
i've seen some people say that sokka should've gone with katara and zuko in tsr, and while i think the ep is perfectly fine as it is, i was curious to know your thoughts on that
comradekatara answered:
yes, i’ve seen this mentioned before, as well as the somehow even worse take that “katara should’ve gone along to the boiling rock.” i think this type of criticism betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of narratology, seemingly forgetting that characters are not real people, but rather components of a larger narrative that serve a function.
“the southern raiders” is an episode about katara confronting her grief, guilt, and rage; it is the apotheosis of her character arc, the same way that “the boiling rock” is for sokka (and, though that’s not the point of this post, that apotheosis could not occur if katara were there). the reason that zuko accompanies katara in “the southern raiders” is not because yon rha killed zuko’s mother, but because zuko’s mother died for zuko in the same that katara’s mother did for her. yon rha is to katara what ozai is to zuko, ursa is to zuko what kya is to katara. sokka also lost a mother, but she did not die for him. so going to confront yon rha, a man whose face he never saw, a man he does not feel any sort of personal connection to, would not make thematic sense.
kya’s death is personal to katara in a way it isn’t to sokka, but it is personal to zuko because he knows what it’s like for his mother to be killed in his place. it’s why he takes katara’s revenge mission so personally, in a way that aang and sokka do not despite also having experienced unfathomable loss. it’s also why i hate seeing people say that zuko only took katara to yon rha so that she’d forgive him; he genuinely thinks that this is what she wants, because it’s clearly what he wants, we see that in “sozin’s comet” when he quite aggressively expresses to aang that he should kill ozai (contrasted with sokka’s logical detachment, zuko’s desire to see ozai dead is a personal one).
the way he glares at yon rha as katara walks away demonstrates that he isn’t yet comfortable with the thought of sparing this man, but he nonetheless respects katara’s wishes and doesn’t hurt yon rha himself, just as he respects aang’s decision not to kill ozai (he doesn’t think it’s his place to kill them, and probably couldn’t do it himself if it came down to it, he would rather outsource the killing). sokka does not feel guilt over his mother’s death, he is under no illusions regarding life as a teleological narrative with heroes and villains the way katara and zuko are, he has probably given exactly zero seconds of thought to avenging his mother’s death (whereas you know it’s a scenario katara has fantasized about before); there is simply no compelling thematic reason for him to be there.
if the episode was about honoring sokka’s desires in any way, katara and zuko would’ve just stayed home and talked out their feelings in a safe space moderated by licensed therapist wang fire. but the boiling rock was last week, so now it’s katara’s turn to be unreasonable (sokka was literally suicidal but also more productive, so it ultimately evens out) and learn an emotional life lesson about accepting her own humanity with zuko! it’s really not that complicated.
