#On Target

[muffinlance]

Team Avatar was very kind to Zuko with naming him Prince Angry Ponytail. Would the name have been the same if he showed up in the South Pole with only one (but gigantic at that) acne on his face?

"Prince Target Practice," Sokka snickers all through season one, because come on, big red spot to aim for with his boomerang? Priceless.

He says it to his face in season two.

"EXACTLY," shouts Zuko in season three, "AND IF AANG DOESN'T TAKE HIS PRACTICE SERIOUSLY, THE FATHER LORD IS GOING TO DO THE SAME TO HIM."

Sokka realizes they have been talking about different things, and also that his joke might have been a bit on-target.

[service4cops]

Everything's a competition with these boys; who can shoot farthest, last longest, shoot the biggest, thickest, tastiest load. Fortunately, I was on my knees after their practice run to help them out. It was a tie, so they had to go again, until one came out on top.

(no, I'm not gonna tell you which)

[theexecutionerstoolkit]

On Target

Of course it’s tempting. To keep your head down, to focus on this thing. The one in front of you. Just keep swimming. Attend the list. Add, Cross off, ignore, mull over, and when it gets too big, throw it away. Start again Plates, balls, actions, get dropped. Requirements, actions, updates, lost to the avalanche. Days later a query, a reminder will dredge those up again. It happens, when the day, the week, the month, is on fire. Signs and signals: Triple booked meetings. Lunch at 4. Lunch at 6. Now It’s 7 and you’ve been staring at your screen for the last 5 minutes. What was I doing? That’s OK, just for today keep going till 8. Maybe Thursday too. And, I’ll do a bit on Sunday. Start early, still arrive late. No breakfast and reaching for the vending machine. The multiple wrong choice machine. Salt, Sugar and Fat. Let’s get back to the basics. Then let's get back to our desk. And at the end of the day what’s been achieved? Have you done it yet? Because people are waiting.The project, the delivery, the next thing, is waiting. Is dependent. Here, do this. It’s urgent. Yes, that as well but this, you need to do this now. And tomorrow, something else.

Then at last through the fog here's Friday. Thanks be that’s over. “I love you Friday.” I love you too much. Smash it on the weekend. Message in a bottle. The answer is there. Will yourself to forget. And then, here it is again. Red Monday. Deep breath now. Then throw yourself in. March on.

The message comes down. Regroup, replan, re-engage. The collective groan. You are surrounded. Your colleagues, dependent, co-dependent, we’re all isolated in this together. Join us or leave. Sure, we all still believe. Yet, yet, still it moves to the right. Only. Always. Something is off but keep your head down. Just work your patch. Focus on this now-thing right here in front of you. Motion, the semblance of progress. Focus on that. No, It is me. I’m not reaching. I’m neither strong nor capable. What I did yesterday. That was yesterday, this is today. Chaos has a pattern. A blizzard of to-do not getting done. It’s all signal, it’s all noise. and I’m going snow blind. Life? Health? Work? Balance? No. The right way is not available here right now.

I exaggerate, we are not at the point where pragmatism must prevail. We’re not at the point where the brightest have slipped away. We’re not at the point where we need to sacrifice a lesser manager. But closing in. Steady and constant. We are on target.

[eyelinertestosterone]

BANGALORE CHOIR-DOIN' THE DANCE

[aeterna-auroral-avenger]

Thanks to my new favorite book protagonist, Court Gentry, I have a new insult when it comes to vehicle speed.

“This was probably the slowest vehicle in existence with the exception of a donkey cart.”

[hoaxghost]

Girl failed the med school exam like 8 times I dont think she'd do all too well when faced with the burnt crisp of her captain

[softestaries]

Violet Bridgerton is truly gods strongest soldier. Every season she tells one of her children they're in love and every season they scoff in her face before causing seven different scandals to reach the same conclusion.

[gumy-shark]

made a beautiful google slides infographic in 60 seconds on why u should Fucking Vote

[mermaidpiratevampire]

[draculas-tits]

the thing about the cybertruck being marketed towards people who are afraid theyll get shot driving through a city is that no other vehicle on the market psychologically invites violence and bullets as strongly as the cybertruck does. you see a cybertruck and you wanna empty an m16 into it

[aavara]

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

[acrowseye]

i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

[everwalldigan]

Hear me out: Robin Dick would be the biggest Bruceman supporter and shipper.

This boy hates any of Bruce’s love interest with a passion because then his dad guardian spends less time with him and that’s obviously UNACCEPTABLE, SCANDALOUS even, so when rumours start circulating that Bruce Wayne is in a relationship with the Batman, he jumps right on the wagon.

Reporter, thirsty for a story: Mr Grayson what do you think about the rumours that Bruce Wayne is dating the Batman?

Dick: What do I think about my dads you mean? My very married very taken dads? My very faithful to each other plural dads?

He would fuel the rumours both as Robin and as Dick Grayson, punching criminals for talking bad about Wayne enterprises as Robin (“THAT’S MY STEPDADS COMPANY YOURE TALKING ABOUT!”). He would be on online forums all day talking about how Bruceman is the only Batman ship that makes sense and Doxxing people who disagree.

Bruce is so exasperated because this is happening at a time where only Alfred and Dick know his real identity so he can’t even do anything with ANYONE without making either Bruce Wayne or Batman look unfaithful.

Throw Reporter Clark Kent into the mix who has been sent to scope out the Bruceman story, who Bruce makes the mistake of flirting with at a gala. Both Clark AND dick are scandalised.

Dick, making a scene: HOW COULD YOU! BATMAN IS WAITING FOR YOU AT HOME AND YOURE HERE FLIRTING WITH SOME… SOME REPORTER??

Bruce, sighing: Dick-

Dick, tugging on Bruce’s suit and looking up at him with fake tears in his eyes: Dad, are you and dad getting a divorce? :(

Clark, panicking: NO NO THEYRE NOT GETTING A DIVORCE PLEASE DONT CRY

Meanwhile:

Bruce, crying in the corner: he called me dad

He would even go as far as insisting that Robin is his step sibling

Principal: how do you explain that whenever Robin is injured, Dick fails to show up at school the next day?

Dick: Robin and I are twins :) so when he’s injured I’m injured too and we have to stay home together!!

Bruce, whispering: I’m sorry, they’re not really twins but neither I or Bats have the heart to tell hem