#At. Long. Last. ASAP

[muffinlance]

Read "Suki, Alone". Liked it in general. But can they please, please hire someone who knows both the show's actual events and how to follow through on a character arc? Because guys. Guys. That comic is not implying about Suki what they meant it to be implying, and all because of literally one line.

So like. From a writer's standpoint:

What they meant to do: show Suki as a community-oriented person who cares for her people, and believes in everyone succeeding together.

As opposed to (spoilers): the thief girl they set her up in contrast with, who's pretty upfront and consistent on primarily looking out for herself. She betrays Suki for one (1) corn chip to improve her own life at the prison, no surprise.

But the problem is: they give Suki an inspirational line to the effect of "we're all working together and we'll all break out together"

You know

The thing she does not do in the show

So if both the show and this comic are canon, then instead of setting up a compare/contrast with the thief girl, they've just set up a comparison. One were Suki is arguably worse, because she's been leading a significant number of prisoners on with her "we'll all fight and win our freedom together!" business, only to straight up cut them out of the escape loop and abandon them, whereas the thief is only leading Suki on in the sense that Suki keeps telling her what it's morally correct to think and confuses snide replies with agreement

My dudes. My fellow writers. You people actually being paid for this. There were so many ways to fix those awful implications against our girl's character, the simplest of which would be to not include that line. Or they could have, you know, made it canon compliant with what actually happens in the show, so that this comic doesn't set Suki up as a betrayer instead of a community builder. Like... just send all her good prison buddies off to other prisons in the wake of the warden finding out they're colluding. Have it timed to be right before the next new prisoners arrive, thus setting it immediately before the Boiling Rock episodes, so Suki didn't have anyone left in the prison she'd want to take with her on a breakout. For bonus points, include a page or two of her and her Kyoshi warriors opening up the cell of one of her prison friends post-war, thus implying she's tracking down and actually fulfilling her promises. Maybe even show her doing the same with thief girl, who was established as being imprisoned on false charges anyway, and also showing that Suki is A) the bigger person, and B) willing to acknowledge her own role in mistakes (because I cannot emphasize enough how much thief girl was not hiding her own priorities, and it was Suki who approached HER with all this, not the girl ever doing anything special to weasel her way in) (this would also open up an opportunity for paralleling Suki's earlier in-comic mistake of not listening to one of her friend's very valid thoughts and feeling, which lead to the girl leaving their island alone pre-canon; a "seeing people as they are, not what you want them to be" moment)

Anyway yeah enjoyable enough for a quick read but another one for the "this can't be canon or the characters are So Much Worse than they were in the actual show" pile

At least Aang didn't promise to murder anyone in this one

[hinamie]

tried my best 2 power through but i am so sleepy so i will finish this megu draws tmr so uhhhhhhh hav hand wips in the meantime

[swaglet]

my bf hit a deer last night and one of its antlers got stuck in his headlight so he gave it to me :3 he was out doing laundry on campus and i fell asleep at home and i woke up at like midnight to him standing over me going "look what i got" holding an antler in his hand and i was just there like that one pic of the guy just waking up ajd getting flashbanged. like this:

[sarah-yyy]

cannot believe i've been put on god's green earth to experience horrors

[why-the-heck-not]

oh jesus christ it’s wednesday/thursday and this is the second allnighter of the week

[000png]

it ain't much but it's honest work

[eatspiderss]

Gonna dump a bunch of my spiderverse stuff from the past week here, eat up!

[lilac69heaven]

don’t be dumb

[misschimotosuwa-blog]

I'm speechless... the heavens have answered my prayers

@bramble-scramble and tysm @protags-fic-blog for notifying me this is literally a dream come true

[officialjimmybuffett]

how to email professor about them being disrespectful of ur time and to please post assignments not 24 hrs before they’re due

[killrandy]

[blueberry-beanie]

how to have a perfect day

[roses-and-elixir]

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[salsflore]

[dandyshucks]

clara if u see this i just wanted to say i appreciate u sm (🫶) and i got ur ask dw - i just typed up a whole ramble w far too much detail over the past ... oh god. 30 minutes LOL, so I'm going to go to sleep and then trim it down or rewrite it in the morning dhfjdkdl

to the rest of yall ... i guess be prepared for a rambley response to a good fun question tomorrow (I'll definitely put it below a readmore so i dont blast ppls dashes w it LOL)

[lilac69heaven]

always strive and prosper