#I feel I must clarify

[sokkathebluewolf]

Hi Im the same guy who asked about if ozai loved azula, and wanted to ask a follow up question if you dont mind. Does Azula love Ozai?

Against her better sense and all logic, she does, unfortunately. This doesn't blind her to the truth of the man her father is, but it's safe to say that Azula loves her father, and she might even be the person who ever loved him most, outright (feels a little difficult to decide between her and Ursa, but honestly, Ursa is a lot more ready to lose Ozai for good, in a final way, than Azula is).

This is, of course, part of the tragedy of their bond: Ozai is effectively destroying his connection with the one person in the world who truly cared about him, who didn't want or demand perfection from him, who idolized him as a child, who still cherished him without that kind of worship as a grown-up, someone who, even when she knew her father was a menace to the world who needed to be stopped, wanted to believe there was another way out besides having him killed. And as much as it hurts them both to see their bond collapsing as it has, Azula still cares about him, no matter if she knows she shouldn't.

Soooo yeah. It's a messy relationship. Ozai doesn't have the slightest clue of how to have a healthy relationship of any nature with anyone. It makes it extremely difficult to forge a bond like that with him... but Azula has always been attached to him, since her childhood. Breaking free completely from her father when he used to mean the world to her is much easier said than done, no matter if she deserves that kind of freedom.

[slidehead]

hello online feminist do you hate men as an extension of the hierarchical class they create, uphold and coercively enforce in society or do you hate men because you genuinely believe they are evil through an inherent biological heritage that cannot be mended

[frownyalfred]

All the conflicts Ollie has with Bruce over the years stem from the fact that he never truly got over Batman not having a contingency plan for Green Arrow (Bruce does have one, it’s just breaking all the bones in Ollie’s hands. which is pretty pedestrian, all things being equal, and not really worth writing down)

[buwheal]

Not sure if you ever mentioned, but what IS your favorite flavor? I can't tell from looking at the cake.

[dragonknightofsummerset]

The new scene has me in a chokehold

Thank you @andengeu for perfectly capturing the momentary shock of Nayeli and Blade being close to each other, and being aware of each other.

[r0b0t1me]

[saints-who-never-existed]

One thing I always feel with Fitzjames is that he may well have been happier if he hadn't tried so hard to build himself that great gilded life.

He may say otherwise but clearly it's a life that does humiliate him to live in many ways - he feels forever inadequate, forever a fraud and a fake right up until almost the end of his life when he reaches the end of vanity and is finally free. Perhaps an un-gilded life would have suited him better? Perhaps he ought to have forgone much of that emotional turmoil and continued just being the fighter/deadly weapon/balls-to-the-wall adrenaline junkie madman that life and the military saw fit to make him?

I would never in a million years condone his actions or condone violence and colonialism in general. But you can't deny that he was extremely fucking good at it and derived significant pleasure and purpose from being extremely fucking good at it.

Which is all to say that I'm now thinking the same thing about Hodgson...

We know of course that the real Hodgson appeared to be cut from a similar cloth to Fitzjames - distinguishing himself under heavy fire in battle and earning his commission during the Opium Wars. And there's much to indicate that his fictional counterpart shares that backstory right from his E01 dinner-table reminiscing onward.

Hodgson in the show really does often seem to be at his best under bloody, chaotic, and extremely high-stress circumstances in a similar way to Fitzjames. We see it in E05 when he's able to stop, assess the situation, rally the men around him, and lead them back towards danger to no-scope poor Tuunbaq in the arse in the middle of a blizzard. And to some extent we see it right at the end of his life when he's once again ready and willing to charge forward and make that desperate grab for Armitage's keys, even with chaos and death all around him.

Maybe Hodgson wasn't a Captain. Maybe he wasn't 'made of that'. Maybe he was just made to be a weapon and nothing more.

[anastacialy]

i know everyone's sour about colin's "i am a man of honor, and we were... intimate. perhaps that was another part of your planned entrapment." line but we all say things in anger. my main qualm is that pen didn't get to snap back at him. like.

"i'll remind you that you crawled into my carriage."

you know. i know she feels that she's in the wrong here but i just think it would have been fun

[moonmoonthecrabking]

"i've done so many terrible things. like touching myself and lying to the police." grace don't worry. acab; you've only done one terrible thing

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the whole "Fandom Is An Escape, so why should I have to care this much about misogyny/racism/ableism/transphobia/etc." thing. Idk about the rest of you, but it gets kind of hard for me to "escape" when I keep seeing people say the same vile things about characters who share aspects of my identity that I hear all the time in real life.

[transloumand]

i feel like i just need to remind y'all that louis did actually deal drugs, probably not personally but he does make two mentions of it (ep1 confessional scene - "i profit off the miseries of other men and i do it easy, drugs, liquor, women," and when he meets daniel at mary's - "i know you're struggling, i have what you're looking for, high quality, befitting a man of my tastes" said to an addict looking for drugs) i saw something the other day where people were getting mad at someone for assuming louis deals in drugs but like..he does/did, it's just not his main enterprise

[verifiablebot]

i found a guy who does tiktok skits of mafia dudes and it reminded me of something

[billiebustup-confessions]

Can I be the 200th confession pls

unfortunately not, as there’s already a 200th confession queued up. but you can be an honorary one next to the 200th. like a participation trophy.

[icewindandboringhorror]

More misc. daily life pictures and such

[championsandheroes]

I've started fatigue/burnout rehab, which mostly means chilling on a farm in the middle of nowhere with a few other people who are there for the same reason for four hours a couple of days a week. There are a couple of horses, sheep, a massive dog, cats, ducks, chickens… and bees. Bees that are too curious for my liking.

Day two one tried to take a closer look at my eyeball. I had a… normal reaction. Absolutely normal. Please, people I've just met, I assure you that there was nothing weird about my sudden shriek at all.

I can't guarantee that we're as polite when we panic over at Patreon or society6 but you'll at least get an apology afterwards.

[natjennie]

oh my god this is such a niche post but whatever it's my blog this clocktower game is driving me crazyyyy like everyone is pretty certain it's a vigor game and there's been an organ grinder in play the whole time so they do a little test nomination to see if votes are secret and say "well, organ grinder's still alive" LIKE. unless they've been vigor killed!!!!!! which is what happened!!!! but no good player is even SLIGHTLY considering anything close to that. what's wrong with yall did a year of botc knowledge get knocked out of your head. it's a vigor. the minion absolutely does not need to still be alive. what are you talking about!!!!!!!!