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Azula's first real kiss, because Chan doesn't count.

+ their thoughts under the cut

Years of therapy could still not prepare Azula for Katara. She'll be a socially awkward gay disaster for the rest of her life.

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Ok ok this is all heartwarming and all, BUT

We need to talk about protest etiquette / OPSEC 101.

Repeat after me:

You do not post protest pictures with the faces uncensored.

I appreciate that a lot of yall are new to this whole protesting and resisting thing, but this is seriously a very, very basic rule. Don't post protest pictures with the faces in them. Don't blur, either; modern software can very easily reverse blurs.

For the same reason you don't ask people to RSVP to your rally (seriously, why would you ever make lists of people grouped by political ideology?!): don't do the nazis work for them. Don't paint a target on other people's backs.

You can post your own face all you like, though I advise against it, but for the love of god, black out every one else's face. If you need to, visible tattoos or other identifying marks, too. The same goes for license plates, unique hair styles, etc.

The police use face recognition and surveillance cameras. They have databases full of people's faces. They can index those pictures faster than you can say "Orwellian surveillance state". The nazis are very dedicated to hounding political opponents and there are dedicated nazi forums solely for doxxing people. If you don't know what I mean, one left-wing streamer was doxxed because a selfie of her hotel room was identified and someone SWATted her (that's attempted murder-by-cop, if you're unfamiliar).

A protest photo with uncensored faces is, essentially, a hit list.

Don't make one for the nazis.

If that all sounds a bit dystopian, remember that this administration is willing to mess with the social security database and snatches people off the streets, deports them to foreign torture prisons, and refuses to retrieve them even if ordered to by the supreme court. And remember that this nation has long run black sites and torture prisons where human rights don't exist.

Welcome to the resistance or something. Please learn how to resist.

Honestly not being a killjoy, but do we have photos on what the protests were like in Republican territory? That seems more significant than the numbers in liberal zones like DC/NYC/Boston/Portland/Philly/etc.

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For your future information, here are medical innovations younger than both the basics of HRT for trans ppl & the first gender-reassignment/gender-confirmation surgery. I put together this incomplete list earlier today bc I was bored:

all organ transplants

most modern vaccines, including the polio vaccine

the gluten-free diet as a treatment for celiac disease

synthetic insulin

oral contraceptives

MRIs

the concept of a "blood bank"

pacemakers

hydrocortisone

ibuprofen

diazepam

artificial hearts

sumatriptan

naproxen (Aleve)

tramodol

dialysis

ECT

ondansetron (Zofran)

chemotherapy

IVF

CPR

CT scans

transdermal patches

liposuction

intravascular stents

penicillin

In case you run into someone talking about how 'experimental' HRT is.

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It's so nice being on tumblr because you don't even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you're good at rebloging posts they like

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i hate when you google a word and some fucking company comes up instead. Do you think you are more important than the english dictionary you piece of shit corporation

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doctor who is a show about putting ncuti gatwa in outfits

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Normalize leaving unhinged comments on ao3 fics you like. I'm tired of being the only one brave enough to write "I am chewing on this fic" in the comment section. Be weird. Authors will love you for it

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thanks @notira for the opportunity to draw hot people kissing♡

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when your not-so-boyfriend (who is dating your sister) you've been in love with for three years joins your adopted sister's fascist army so your relationship becomes even more complicated Commission from Aziraphaelle on Twitter

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an air nomad inspired / thai lee for @atlaculture. i know it’s not tuesday, but i still wanted to draw this as a show of appreciation for being literally the only atla page on the entire internet i actively enjoy looking at

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There are problems at Fanfiction

I have a problem with Fanfiction

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I've always liked the idea of Kya II being able to see spirits, like Jinora (and Iroh in the og show) did. Maybe not as clearly as Jinora, or she didn't have as special bond with them, but it just feels so very convenient that she somehow deduced that Jinora can see spirits simply by seeing a child chase something invisible. Like talk about a lucky guess.

Tenzin: You have to trust me. I can help you. Kya: There might be another way. Jinora, is there something you want to tell Korra?

Now, I imagine there are two paths this headcanon could follow.

One is rather sad, where Kya manifests the gift, but never tells Aang because he's too focused on training Tenzin. And so Kya doesn't really do much with her spirituality.

But the other, and more cheerful (and the one i find more plausible) is that Kya did tell Aang about her ability and he tried to to train her in the traditional way airbenders were, however it didn't work, as Kya herself has admitted that she struggled with memorising the theoretical and historical aspect of it.

Obligatory "yeah i bet you couldn't keep them straight you beautiful sapphic" joke

Which is why Kya didn't consider herself a viable spirit guide for Korra in B2. Tgough she clearly did internalise some of Aang's teachings, like mediatation and a nomadic lifestyle. Perhaps her journeys led her to more spiritual places, who knows. I also think that, while focused mostly on the physical and chi, healing through waterbending appears to be a decently spiritual discipline, which may be why Kya excelled in it.

Big fan of her signature move, the "scan em like a big xerox machine"

Also, piggybacking off this, I always thought that the reason Kya ans Bumi succumbed to the Fog of Lost souls quicker than Tenzin was bacause they're both more spiritually attuned than him. Sort of an open door policy on spiritual influence, good and bad.

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Probably the funniest take on Ozai is that he's a "master manipulator". Guys, this is the same man who thought asking his abusive father nicely to make him heir would actually work. He's got all the subtlety of a hammer; where do you think Zuko gets it from?

And yeah, I know someone's going to point out how Ozai manipulated his children, but like, that's the thing. They're his children. Manipulating someone who is entirely under your control and does not have enough life experience to see through your bullshit isn't very hard.

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hey americans there is a recall on testosterone gel because they found benzene in it! please check the lot numbers on your batches, benzene is really not something you want to be rubbing into your skin, also you might be eligible for compensation because this is just insane what the fuck

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