#AND ALSO

[voiceofthesilly]

Behold, my Scarlet Hollow MCs!

Left to right: Sly (he/him), Cain (they/he/it), Ashton (she/her), Seraphine (any?? don't refer to them) and Nancy (they/them)

+ doodles of them . the sillies

[firstservepercentage]

a collection of signs and memes at the Shanghai GP

(mainly ferrari)

the chinese captions in the last 2 pics:

a quote from zhou guanyu at the start of this season: 'Hahaha this car is so easy to drive!'

'ferrari i will not forgive you even in my afterlife'

'why dont you fight back on the first day i broke your heart and messed up with your emotions? i think you are enjoying it too. what does me being slow right now has to do with all our glorious past? when you suffer you might at well leave, you have chosen this yourself. we are this kind team if you say so'

cr: xiaohongshu @ 小红薯64AD28D6 @ 卡丁茄 @ 刚好反应 @ 你圆YourYuan @ Mul @ 东亚夏季风 @ Jane

[octodrawn]

umbrella at your side, it's raining but you close it tight.

edit: i forgot the close up teehee

[letmesleeponyourtummyordie]

Man's wrote two songs and one Goes Hard.

what are you talking about

[clearlydusty]

Made some happy mouthwashing fanart, all credit for the images go to @joetastic2739, thank you joetastic for feeding me and everyone else in the MW community <3

Also click for much better quality cuz this looks TRASH now that I’m seeing it again

(close ups and links to joetastics posts below !! )

Anya Steam awards , Anya admiring herself

Daisuke's Daisuke Dance , Daisuke as Yosuke

[hatchetfield-scarecrow]

I hope Barbie is so good and successful it makes every executive that’s turned everything bright and fun made for young girls into edgy boring teen dramas for the last ten years spontaneously combust into flames

[chaoswiththeprettyspine]

I want Dick to have a realisation that Bruce is Old.

Just looking up at him one day reading case files and squinting at the small letters or some shit and like a lightning bolt coming from the heavens it becomes clear that his Dad's hair is more gray than black at this point, and he has wrinkles on his face. He didn't have wrinkles before. When did those get there? In his head, B is still the same "barely adult" man who brought him home when he was 9. But it's been 20 years since then, and they both kept ageing even tho he didn't really pay attention to it until now. And it's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's a thing, and he has to come to terms with that.

Idk maybe I'll do art for this when I have time and motivation...

UPDATE: the art is here!

[iveneveze]

Can only do sketches lately, so decided at least try out some interesting styles.

[linkedin-offficial]

me when i get the opportunity to think about speculative biology and non-existent game mechanics in media i like

⠀

[skysmadness]

warm up stuff

[bruciemilf]

ships where the human is scarier and more intimidating than their super powerful lover who could crush the world in the palms of their hand, my beloved

[tapetum-lucidumb]

durgetash nation rise up

[dduane]

There are a very few pieces of food history that I consider to be in my personal keeping, and this is probably chief among them. This story has had a page at our old European Cuisines website since the late 1990s.

National Chocolate Fondue Day (February 5th) is almost upon us. So here's an updated version of what I know about this particular fragment of the Old [Food] Magic.

[teaandcrowns]

I've also always read this scene as things really sinking in for Katara—remember, a LOT has just happened. Zuko nearly died saving her and she brought him back from the brink of death; she just fought against Azula, the Fire Nation prodigy princess with whom she had fought before, yes, but who also had killed Aang during that fight (Crossroads of Destiny) and then tried to specifically kill Zuko at the Western Air Temple, and now Katara had just bested her with the power of the comet fueling her, and chained her, spitting fire and sobbing, to a water grate; and I have to believe Katara must have been thinking about the fact that Zuko and Azula both saw this drag-out fight between them as inevitable. Zuko said Azula wasn't sorry it had come to this and she admitted it easily. The age gap between Azula and Zuko is nearly the same as the one between Katara and Sokka. Katara and Azula are both prodigies of their element. I can't believe none of this occurred to Katara as she watched Zuko and Azula fight their agni kai (except maybe Katara wouldn't think of herself as a prodigy, though she is). The understanding of what it means to have such a terrible and desperate fight between siblings, that Zuko was defying and going against and prepared to fight his father—the two closest family members by blood he had left—had to have been weighing on her.

Her tears, to me, are ones that would be for Zuko, for having to face his sister like this, for the damaged and broken family that is the core of stability for Katara personally and culturally, for nearly losing him the exact same way she lost Aang—and this time without the Spirit Oasis water at her disposal, and yes, also for the shattered person Azula has turned out to be, now that she has been subdued and it made clear that something was already "off about her" (as stated by Zuko before the agni kai started).

Let me be clear and emphasize that even if this were true, it wouldn't matter one little bit because Azula doesn't deserve empathy from either of them, since she just tried to kill them, and I find it extremely suspicious that certain people are trying to praise an indigenous girl for having empathy for a racist colonizer in order to make Azula's actions seem less bad or her victims worse than her. Katara's bleeding heart does NOT make her your good victim stereotype.

Which is also funny, because Azula stans praise Zuko in the same offensive way for being a good little victim about as much as they demonize him for not being that, as above.

And all that in a scene where Zuko and Katara's expressions are completely ambiguous. Katara looks more openly emotional than Zuko, who just looks sort of sadly resigned but determined. Whether Katara's tears are for Azula or for Zuko is unclear, though, and it's Zuko whose back she had her hand on for support, the same hand that chained Azula to that grate. The scene emphasizes, if anything, how Katara feels about Zuko, before any interpretation of how she feels about Azula. Even shutting her eyes against Azula's violent tantrum can be interpreted as sadness that Zuko's own sister tried to kill him, and relief that the terror is finally over for both of them, as she stands protectively by his side. The music and Azula's tears are meant to emphasize the tragedy of the situation, but trying to paint Zuko and Katara's reactions as in opposition to each other is a deliberate misrepresentation of the text. It would be like if I said that Zuko had more empathy for Azula than Katara because when he saved Katara, he shot the redirected lightning away from Azula, whereas Katara continued to fight Azula.

But what it really boils down to is the fact that violent people will take any opportunity to use the empathy of their victims against them. Katara shuts her eyes because she can't turn off that instict toward empathy, even for people who don't deserve it, whereas Zuko, who has been told time and time again that he should empathize with his abusers, just looks empty and tired. They both look emotionally drained by the experience but determined to stand together, nonetheless. Much has been made about Katara looking away, but as she does it, she leans towards Zuko, who removes his hand from his arm and stands with an open posture because Katara is there to support him. They are, neither of them, alone. That's what makes this moment a triumph for them both even as it's a tragedy for Azula.

[demontouched]

i love how, no matter what, zac has his character's face on. in fantasy high, he looks a little confused, a wee bit perplexed, at all times. he nods sagely like he understands and then asks a question he knows the answer to. in unsleeping city, he is smiling like a puppy, constantly tail waggin', looking pleased and earnest. he says the most bizarre things like they are mundane. zac oyama knows who he is playing.