#Anyway I hate it

[lady-tortilla-chip]

i think one relevant thought in regards to criticisms of Aang's character arc and how I don't think most of the discourse comes from a place of actually understanding his character, is that lot of it seems to revolve around the idea that people think that the only valid kind of character arc is about change? Like they think characters HAVE to let go, or that growth necessarily means losing something; a big part about Aang's character is that his beliefs matter but most characters either don't understand them or dont care about them (implicitly mirroring Ozai's own 'WHO CARES, THEY LOST' mentality), so his struggle is in keeping true to his beliefs and ways in a time actively hostile to them, I think?

No that’s 100% true. His big fight the entire time is proving the value of his cultural beliefs in a world which doesn’t understand them but needs them. It’s why I mention in my tags that Aang’s arc was never about being fundamentally changed. He didn’t need an ideological upheaval in order to grow because he wasn’t supposed to grow AWAY from the kindness and value of life that the monks instilled in him. He NEEDED it in order to still see the Fire Nation and Zuko, as worth saving too. (It was Zuko’s role in the narrative to have his ideology drastically changed and shifted!!)

Also the whole loss thing will never not bother me because it essentially implies losing his entire people and culture wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough that he had to deal with the guilt of being the sole survivor of his people. Of having made a choice that took him away from them when they needed him. How is that not enough? It’s literally what haunts him through book 1. It’s what inspires his rash decisions to go along with plots to figure out the Avatar State too soon. It’s what drives him in book 3 post the failed invasion to decide he CAN’T keep dragging people down with him he HAS to do it alone.

His loss is so big. So incredibly big. I don’t understand how it’s not enough.

[spoonietimelordy]

Thr amount of meds I have to take to fonction at 2/3rd of the abled people standard is scary.

[fraddit]

My predictive keyboard on my phone has gotten so much worse in the past year or so and I fucking know corporate nonsense and the unnecessary use of ai is to blame.

[lacm-ac]

I've made it a habit to look at the comments on my pinterest before saving anything these days. 5/10 times the "drawing" is AI generated and you can't even tell at first glance. When will this madness stop

[4kaia]

studying accounting cause art is not valued in my country (or maybe i should choose to be poor).

[bonesandpoemsandflowers]

hahaha, my sweet child, do you even have to ask? do you even really wonder? this is like asking an American to verify if burger.

idk about Texas. but.

BEHOLD! Spaghetti Junction, ATL.

wiki link above and screenshot of Getty images result below to verify the reality

not only is this real. it's so real that we all have one. we all have biblically accurate hell highway that we know personally. it's not even remarkable.

(ours, however, is infamously the worst bottleneck in trucking)

ive never liked the phrase "manmade horrors beyond your comprehension" but i cant think of a better way to describe texas roads

biblically accurate highway

[mroddmod]

the queen of the disco or whatever

[benpaddon]

I don't believe in class warfare, but there is something about the way some Gen Xers refer to their SSN as a "socsh" that makes me want to learn how to operate a tank.

[whatsorryiwasntlistening]

Why is there so much hate around sports bras as an everyday bra?? I find them way more comfortable but for some reason people don’t like that???

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[puppppppppy]

abogagos……..

[thefbiagentinyoursearchhistory]

I'm pretty sure I accidentally flushed my kidneys the other day trying to make sure my bladder was Full™️ for an ultrasound (after failing to do so a month ago and we had to reschedule ;-;), and I feel like I'm still feeling affects (it sucked btw) so I tried looking up "symptoms of kidney flushing" but all google gives me is How To's and 2-Day Flushing Diets like BRUH. NO.

[za1ka]

noooooooo Aziraphale don't turn around you won't survive the cunt this diva is serving

[shayneysides]

hobie: kill yourself

pavitr: WHAT THE HELL BRO WHAT DID I DO

original format from @ha-youwish in this post!

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[starspilli]

some random jason warmups. missed drawing him T_T