#a/vatar the last airbender

[bloodraven55]

People going crazy over Zuko's redemption arc causes the opposite problem that I've seen. Less "any villain can be redeemed" and more "if your villain's redemption arc doesn't look exactly like Zuko's then its poorly written". See: all the Catra hate for instance.

I’ve seen both and they’re equally annoying lmao

[shirozoid]

here we go, i’m a bit nervous but wanted to see what you gyus think. it also distracts me from my art block.

have fun reading but pls keep in mind english is not my first language!

[sageinacage]

sage's masterpost!

please note: i usually make it in order like “lee/ler” so for example if A is ler and B is lee, the pairing would be “B/A” dsmp 300 follower event masterpost for the DSMP can be found here ! > relax - philza/techno (platonic) summary: phil is stressed and doesn’t wanna admit it, but techno wants the man to relax > ticklish - george/dream (platonic) (creative title i know /s) summary: dream and george meet for the first time, and dream discovers a weakness from his sassy best friend > the tower of tommy - tubbo/tommy (platonic) summary: tommy figures out that towering over tubbo menacingly makes him flustered > not so embarrassed - streamer men trio (platonic) summary: eryn stopped tickling freddie and tommy for a few days because he thought he did something wrong, but freddie and tommy are both tickle-deprived > welcome to england - ranboo/tubbo (platonic) summary: ranboo visits tubbo in england and tubbo seems to be in a ler mood > summer cleaning - tubbo/tommy (platonic) summary: tubbo is conveniently wearing a cropped shirt while cleaning the house > surprise visit - bench trio (platonic) summary: tommy goes down to pay his two friends, ranboo and tubbo, a visit > successful training - tommy/techno (platonic) summary: tommy wants to be as strong as his brother techno, but doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to > technical difficulties - tubbo/ranboo (platonic) summary: tubbo’s OBS wasn’t picking up ranboo, so ranboo decided to have some fun with his friend > bed time - bench trio (platonic) summary: ranboo didn’t want to sleep and needed convincing to go to bed > scaredy cat - tommy/wilbur (platonic) summary: wilbur was messing with tommy all day and trying to scare him, until he figured out something interesting > height problems - dream team (platonic) summary: sapnap and george are tired of dream messing with them because of their height, so they decided to do something about it. > discovery - charlie/quackity (platonic) summary: charlie doesn’t know what tickling is, and quackity is more than happy to teach his friend about it. > endurance training - punz/boomer (platonic) summary: boomer wants to knock his cocky friend punz down a peg during their pvp training. > attention, please! - tubbo/ranboo (platonic) summary: tubbo wants attention, and his platonic husband ranboo is his closest target (/lh). > old pal - eret/foolish (platonic) summary: foolish is curious if his old friend eret is still ticklish. > "friendly" uno - tommy/charlie/wilbur (platonic) summary: tommy gets a bit too sassy in a game of uno with him, charlie, and wilbur. > still the same - tubbo/sapnap (platonic) summary: sapnap wants to know if tubbo is still as ticklish as before, in his own sapnap way. > little grape - mercenary trio (platonic) summary: punz and purpled are pushing each others buttons, and ponk tries to take the role of a mediator. keyword: “tries.” > my fireplace [mcyt fic exchange] - niki/puffy (platonic) summary: after a long day, all niki wants to do is to warm up and snuggle; and her friend puffy is more than happy to help. > fallen fort - bench trio (platonic) summary: blanket forts are hard to make, especially when tommy, tubbo, and ranboo all like to mess with each other.

avatar the last airbender (atla) > wake up call - zuko/mai (romantic) summary: zuko doesn’t want to get up, but mai has other plans.

[sideofmango]

You Know What They Say...

Warnings: swearing, fluff Pairing: Bakugou x reader (I originally was going to do Kiri, but this doesn’t really fit him lol)

This uses gender neutral pronouns bc everyone deserves to see themselves in (y/n). 

Description: The first date with Bakugou was going awesome, well until (Y/N) and Bakugou went to see one of the worst movies they had ever seen...anyways Bakugou sat there oddly quiet until (y/n) started trashing the movie and cursing out the characters...Bakugou was pretty sure he wanted to go on a second date after that.

Anywaysss GO GET YOUR MANS....

YOU WERE WALKING down the hallway towards your locker since school had just ended, intent on grabbing your books and heading outside to walk back to the dorms. Well, that was your plan until you saw the blonde spikes that belonged to king explosion murder himself. “Hey Baku!” You called, speeding up your steps to catch up with his stride.

“I thought I told you to stop calling me that, Big Hair.” He growled, shooting you a side glance. You smiled widely at him, laughing off the hostility as you slid your arm around his. He looked down at where your arms were connected but didn’t say anything about it, surprisingly enough. “I will if you go to the movies with me.”

Bakugou was quiet for a moment as you both walked outside, rolling his eyes before opening his mouth again. “Don’t make me regret it.” He said simply as you stopped, eyes widening in realization. 

“Wait so that’s a yes?!” Your smile widened despite his grimace.

“I said don’t make me regret it.” He repeated, his tone harsh, but once again you ignored it.

“Ok! The movie comes out this Friday! I was thinking about the 6:30 showing. We can meet here if you want?” You suggested as he grumbled something to himself before spinning around to look at you again. 

“I’ll be at your room at 5.” He said beginning to walk away.

“But the movie doesn’t start until 6:30...”

“We’re getting food first.” Bakugou answered like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Your eyes widened but you said nothing, simply nodding before you sped up your steps again, walking next to him quietly as you both headed back to the dorms. 

You got in the elevator with him, the doors closing as you both remained silent, though you would sneak glances his way every now and then. You got to your room, stopping to unlock the door, not even realizing Bakugou had walked out of the elevator behind you, stopping and leaning against the wall opposite your door.

“What color do you like?” He questioned, startling you as you dropped your key staring at him with a hand to your heart. 

“Wh-what?” You blinked.

“What color do you like Dumbass?” He repeated a little more irritated than before.

“My favorite color? Why?”

“Just answer the question Dumbass!” His voice grew louder as you chuckled at his outburst.

“My favorite color is (your favorite color).” You answered simply as he nodded once and walked away. 

TIME SKIPPPPP

It was finally Friday and you had finished with school and had done your homework. You finished touching up your outfit and putting on your makeup (if you wear it, if not just ignore that). 

You turned to glance at the clock, being interrupted when a knock sounded at your door. You grabbed your phone and bag (if you want one, if not just ignore that) and opened your door. 

There stood Katsuki Bakugou wearing jeans and a black t-shirt. He stuck his hand out as a faint pink dusted his cheeks, revealing a small bundle of flowers in your favorite color. A smile grew on your face as you took the flowers from him.

“Thanks Baku.” You said softly. “I love them.” You put the flowers on your desk in a half full water bottle, reminding yourself that on the way back you had to stop to get a proper vase for them.

You closed the door behind you, sneakily sliding your brown hand into his paler one as you walked down the hall towards the elevator. He didn’t protest to having your hand in his so you left it, not noticing the faint smile that sat on his lips.

Bakugou took you to a ramen restaurant and ordered the spiciest thing on the menu for himself and the second spiciest thing for you. 

“I could’ve ordered for myself, you know?” You said as you both began to eat, the ramen arriving after a short amount of time. 

“You can order next time.” He said after a moment causing your face to heat up at the realization. Next time.

“Let me try yours.” You pleaded, holding your chopsticks out. He rolled his eyes yet obliged, as you took some of his and you held your bowl out to him, offering some of yours.

“Mine’s better.” He remarked as you rolled your eyes with a smile. You talked about random things and about the movie which was supposed to be an adaption of a show you loved and that you had been waiting a year for it to come out. (Let’s pretend it’s The Last Airbender movie).

Over dinner, you learned that Bakugou liked it too and you began arguing about which nation was the best. Of course he said Fire Nation, but you said that Water Nation was best because Katara and Sokka were the best. 

“You know, Zuko’s pretty hot.” You said before drinking some water, watching as he started rolling his eyes and growing irritated. He was jealous.

“Whatever.” He huffed.

“Not you getting jealous over a fictional character.” You said teasingly, trying to hold in your giggles as his eyes narrow slightly and he scoffs at you, but doesn’t deny it. “Don’t worry Katsu, I only like one Hothead.”

“Damn right.” He replied proudly. “Hey who are you calling Hothead?!”

“You.” You replied. “Come on let’s go to the movies before we miss the previews!” You said as you took out your wallet at the same time he did. He pushed your hand away as he got money out.

“No.” He said simply as you continued to both try and put money to pay.

“Katsuki. I’m not letting you pay for me.” You said simply. You didn’t like when people paid for you. (When the author interjects herself into the character 😙) 

“No (Y/N).” He said, shoving the money in before snatching the check from the table before you could do anything. He ended up paying and you pouted at him. “What’s wrong with you now Big Hair?”

“I wanted to go Dutch.” You said as he rolled his eyes, before taking your hand in his again. (going dutch means splitting the bill in half, so you would each pay half.)

“Next time.” he replied simply before pulling you into the theater. Damn it, he did it again! Next time...

You both got into the theater, which was at the moment fairly empty since you had gotten there early to get the best seats. You pulled Bakugou around the theater to find the best seats, doing it twice until you finally decided on the seats right in the middle of the theater. “Are you done now?” Bakugou questioned with a raised eyebrow. Though he wouldn’t admit it, he found it cute what you had just done...though he seemed to be finding everything you were doing cute simply because it was you. 

“Yes.” You said triumphantly before tossing some popcorn into your mouth. The theaters filled up a short while later and before you knew it, the movie was starting. 

The arm rest between the two seats you were both in moved up, so the explosive blonde pushed it up and pulled you closer to him as you held the popcorn in your lap. You looked at him a small smile on your face, and he was thankful it was dark so you couldn’t see him blushing. 

It had only been two minutes into the movie and you already were angry about it, frowning at the way they had already pronounced avatar and it had only been the first lines of the script. “It’s Avatar not Oh-vatar.” You grumpily stated as Bakugou raised an eyebrow not expecting you to say anything, though you had been right. 

You were trying your best not to get angry, but M. Night Shyamalan was making it very hard. You were doing fairly alright and stuck to just angrily eating popcorn until this scene came up. 

(disgraceful...a joke....can you tell I'm not salty 😒)

“You’ve gotta be kidding me! This movie is a fucking joke!” You said letting some popcorn fall out of your hand as Bakugou tried to hide his smirk by eating popcorn. 

It wasn’t like you were the only disappointed one either, the theater was full of fans and they were all disappointed. 

“It’s a steaming pile of shit!” You said angrily, looking over to see if Bakugou was agreeing with you. He simply looked at you with raised eyebrows.

“Can you stop cursing? There are children present!” A woman said standing up in the middle of the theater, a few rows below you. She wildly gestured towards her six year old son sitting there looking embarrassed by his mother. He was gently tugging her sleeve to get her to sit down, but she wasn’t budging as she stared at you.

“Shut up Karen!” You called, rolling your eyes. She looked around to see who had said that as Bakugou burst out laughing.

“You are a horribly disrespectful child! Your mother should’ve raised you better! Letting you curse like that, she should be ashamed.”

“Hey shut the fuck up, shitty woman! Don’t talk about her like that!” Bakugou said angrily, creating sparks in his hand, his red eyes narrowing at the middle aged woman. The woman began sobbing and screaming as employees shut the lights on and the woman pointed the two of you out saying that you had threatened her and her son.

Needless to say, you had been kicked out of the theater and banned and the movie had ended for the night, though most people thanked you for them out of their misery. 

“What a bitch.” You mumbled as the two of you decided to walk around the downtown area since the movie had ended earlier than you had expected.

Katsuki Bakugou didn’t say anything but the smirk on his lips said enough. “What?” You questioned curiously.

“Nothing.” He said shaking his head as you walked into a store to buy a vase for the flowers that were in your dorm. When you arrived back at your dorm, the two of you hadn’t really talked that much walking back, but you didn’t need to it wasn’t an awkward silence...it was nice. “Next Friday.” He said simply before beginning to walk to his room. 

You grabbed his wrist to stop him, confused by what he had just said. “What?” You questioned, your eyes searching his face. 

“Dinner. Next Friday.” He said simply. “I’ll message you. Goodnight, Big Hair.”

“N-Night Hothead.” You called back after a moment seeing him walk away towards the elevator. He didn’t turn around, and you couldn’t tell from where you stood but he was smiling. Next Time.

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[assortedyeets]

I just attempted to watch The Last Airbender Movie on Netflix, fully prepared to watch and roast.

And oh lord was it

Fucking

Painful

I couldn’t even get past the first ten minutes. And here’s why:

Whitewashing: They’re white??? Sokka and Katara, Gran-Gran???? But the rest of the SWT isn’t?

The stilted acting and script: I don’t think this was necessarily the actors’ faults. There were several awkward lines that had potential but just,, fell flat. (“Katara! Do NOT hit that sphere!!”)

Pronunciation: Ah-ng, Soak-a, Eer-oh, Aah-vatar. It’s just— it’s strange to hear that after watching the show. It would just make more sense for the studio to keep the pronunciations the same as the show, right?

Zuko: It’s nice to see a poc actor, even if everything’s a bit flip-flopped. But like. His scar. They just slapped a bit of blush on the side of his face, and were like, “yeah, that’s about right.” I know it’s not bad to want to make it look realistic or whatever, but this scar is a huge part of Zuko’s story. It spurs him on to find Aang, marks him as a traitor to His Royal Bitchface Ozai, and produces several of the emotions that lead to his redemption— shame, bitterness, and later on, pride that he stood up against the Lord of the Assfucks. It’s an integral part of his story and I feel like it shouldn’t have been dialed down so much.

So yeah. That’s really why I couldn’t get though it. Mostly it was the stilted acting, but the rest contributed as well.

I might just subject myself to more of the movie to make a full version of this rant (I enjoy screaming my feelings into the void)

(Also: This is all produced from my knowledge, so if I’m missing something, please tell me!!)

[chriscdcase95]

What would Godzilla look like in Star Wars , Game of Thrones, and LOTR?

Video by Goji Center, featuring Alteori, Dangerville, and Kaiju News Outlet, wherin they discus how Godzilla would be different if he were in Middle Earth, ASOIAF, and Star Wars.

I wanted to do my own post since I had something like this in mind (my example being what Godzilla would be like in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra).

Anyways, I have a follow up post in mind where I give my own thoughts on these designs, but I figure I should at least share the video itself.

[vairuler]

EIGHT PEOPLE I’D LIKE TO GET TO KNOW BETTER!

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[generalsolo]

december a–z challenge: avatar: the last airbender 

jordan’s

[fiestatech]

⋆ simblr cartoon challenge ⋆

thank you @mousysims for tagging me!!!! i decided to make my fave angsty fire nation kids from avatar: the last airbender and i just wanna say… if you had a childhood crush on all of them (and still do),, you are VALID

i tag @flamelium @sadb0ysims @yuuzhan @windnburg @quillfruit @literalite @virtuchem @naelu @meantrait @simrays @melveri @simpeaches and everyone else who wants to do this!!! (please… i love nostalgia and cute sims)

[downplaystore]

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[bloodraven55]

So I just found out Amity's VA is the same as Katara's from ATLA and I've gotta say the sass is still on point after so many years

Yasss Mae Whitman has been incredible as Amity tbh.

[avatarrewatch]

@perishingshards here! Since we watched the same episodes yesterday, I’ll include the episode summaries that A Socially Awkward Duckling wrote up last night. These are her words.

2.1 Rebel Spirit 

For some reason, Korra is a jerk and hasn’t really learned anything. Mako is trying(and failing) to be a good boyfriend, Asami does business and Bolin gets a girlfriend(I think). Korra kicks Tenzin to the curb joins her uncle because punching spirits sounds more fun than mastering airbending. Tenzin decides that this is the perfect time for a family vacation.

2.2 The Southern Lights 

Korra jumps right into training with her uncle and is disappointed when she learns that she won’t be punching spirits and that it mostly included more spiritual stuff that Korra thought she left behind when Tenzin left. Korra then learns that her dad maybe doesn’t deserve his best dad mug she got him for father’s day that one year. Korra does a thing and Unalaq decides to start a war.

2.3 Civil War Part 1 

The North invaded the south and the south isn’t very happy. Korra tries to stay neutral and doesn’t do a very good job. Meanwhile, Tenzin loses his daughter and finds that maybe Aang didn’t deserve that best dad mug that she bought him for father’s day either. The Varrick plans an uprising and eats kale cookies. Korra stops an assassination attempt and her parents are arrested as traitors. Bolin’s relationship is on the rocks.

2.4 Civil War Part 2 

There’s a trial and Korra’s father is sent to prison for treason and tells Korra not to do anything rash. Korra decides to ignore her fathers advice and that threatening the judge who sentenced her father is a perfectly sound decision. She then finds out that Unalaq is a big butthead and that she has been a stupid person. She even admits that Tenzin was right. Bolin tries to break up with Eska only to end up engaged and Varrick helps the krew escape the south. They rescue Korra’s father before escaping a very angry Eska.

Fanart

Asami 

Varrick 

Eska and Desna

Korra in her winter coat 

Tonraq and Senna 

Mako meeting Tonraq comic 

Makorra 

Unalaq, Eska & Desna 

Discord server: https://discord.gg/dtajJx3

Avatar Rewatch Calendar: http://goo.gl/NUV1Kp

(These beautiful episode title cards were made by @theredshewolf)

[plotlinehotline]

Hi! I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how many characters you can have in a novel before you have too many? Is there any page to character number ratio (approximately, I mean, there's no formula)? If someone's already asked this, please ignore. Thank you!

Hi there!

That really depends on your preference. I’ve read novels with only two characters and I’ve read novels with close to thirty. I’ve done a little research to see what most writers say and found a few key points to keep in mind:

-Necessity: Do your characters hold importance to the story that cannot easily be obtained in another way? And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie features a total of 13 characters. Each character had a specific purpose and was essential to the plot. Lord of the Flies features a very large cast, but only a handful of characters actually have presence while the rest are designated background characters (referred to in the book as the “littluns”) who are given roles, but not depth or individuality.

-Role: Not every character has to be the most important. Yes, every secondary character thinks that they’re the protagonist, and it’s possible to have multiple protagonists. But that doesn’t mean that every character is one. It’s okay to have a character that, maybe you really like but can’t get to work in the setting, pop up once or twice in the book as a minor character. 

-Memorability: Personally, I can’t remember the majority of the characters in books like Eragon or The Crucible. There seemed to be just to many, and the plot only revolved around a handful. Yet in books like the Harry Potter series, they would bring up a character that I hadn’t seen in a while and I would remember them pretty well. I didn’t need their entire family history or an epic entrance to remember them, they just needed to make an impact on me.

-Uniqueness: Sometimes the best characters are the ones that show up once. One of my favorites (although he shows up in multiple episodes) is “The Boulder” from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Whether it was the humorous way he talked, or the fact that there were secret underground Earth bending fight rings, he always stuck out to me. Just as it is important to remember the character’s name, you need to remember why they’re important. In this particular case, The Boulder showed the audience and even the protagonist just how powerful and important the character Toph was to their mission. 

The bottom line is that the amount of characters in a novel depend on what you feel is needed. With proper care and consideration put into why each character is in your story, you can put as many or as few as you need to. 

Hope this helps! If you need more help, feel free to message us again!

–Dianne

[konekorambles]

Fluff Week Day 4: Movie Night

@voltronprompts so I’m a little late, work got incredibly busy and then Easter with family and...I’m gonna try to get the last three out today and tomorrow.  This one is gen, just trans kids making fun of gender and body parts.

Just a note: I'm trans and deal with body dysphoria. I know it's a serious topic but tbh we have enough of trans kids angsting over their bodies, and not enough trans kids joking around and having fun.

Day 4: Movie Night/Game Night

In which the team introduce the Alteans to human film and Keith and Pidge have a bonding moment.

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | AO3

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The first time they do a movie night they watch an Altean comedy. It’s immediately clear that humor is not a thing that transcends species boundaries. The lions can translate the words for them but can’t give them any context. Coran and Allura are roaring with laughter, clutching their stomachs, while the paladins shoot puzzled glances at each other over the Alteans’ heads.

Next they try a romance. And discover that romantic tropes do transcend every possible boundary. “If you guys would just talk to each other all of this could have been avoided!” Lance yells at the screen an hour in. No one shushes him. Everyone agrees that the ending is trite and unrealistic. Allura confesses in a horrified whisper that it was her favorite film as a child, and she’d never realized just how bad it was.

A week later Pidge manages to rig up an adaptor that runs between a smartphone and the castle’s screens. They, Keith, Hunk, and Lance had their phones on them when the blue lion kidnapped them from Earth. They may not get wifi on the other end of the universe, but most of them had something downloaded.

Lance has several episodes from a middle season of an old sitcom, which greatly entertain him and Hunk, but no one else really gets it. Pidge has a collection of BBC nature documentaries and some History Channel shows. Hunk is overjoyed when he gets to watch several episodes of Cutthroat Kitchen on a big screen again.

None of them have anything that could be classified as a movie.

At first it doesn’t occur to Pidge to ask Keith. He’s lived in a shack in the desert without wifi for a year, after all. Honestly, if they’d taken a moment to think about it, they’d have realized this made him the most likely one to have downloaded films.

“Yeah, hang on,” he mutters on their next movie night, squinting at the spiderweb of cracks that passes for his phone screen. “I have Avatar on here somewhere.”

“What, as in ‘the last airbender’? Awesome!” Lance flops into Hunk’s lap and kicks his feet excitedly.

Keith shrugs as he continues poking at his phone. “No, no, not the cartoon one. I wish I had that.”

“Wait, tell me it’s not that mess of a live action remake.” Pidge leans against his side, trying to read what he’s doing. “I swear, if I hear one ‘ahhh-vatar’ I’m out.”

That gets them a laugh. “Oh my god, no. The other movie. The one with the aliens? The blue ones?”

“I really hope you didn’t spend money on it,” Lance mutters after an awkward silence.

Keith shoots him a scowl that clearly says who do you think you’re talking to? “I know it’s not the best movie, but I like it. The colors are pretty.”

“That’s our Keith. Motivated only by the deepest and most complex desires known to man. Like pretty colors.”

Pidge and Hunk laugh, while Keith pauses for a moment to obviously scan the area for throwable objects. Finding none, he shrugs off the comment and returns to his phone.

“It’s been a long time since I got to watch a movie. A real one I mean.” Shiro seats himself next to Hunk and shoots a smile at Keith. “This’ll be fun.”

It is fun, way more fun than a good movie would have been. There’s quite a bit of yelling at the screen involved, and occasional flung snacks. Everyone cheers when Sigourney Weaver shows up, Lance and Pidge loudest of all. Allura and Coran are fascinated by the concept of avatars and spend several minutes debating whether Altean technology could create such things. Lance and Hunk vocally judge the main character’s life choices. It’s when they make it to the World’s Most Awkward Sex Scene that the conversation turns to the Na’vi themselves.

“Okay, you’re telling me that this completely alien species not only has the same shitty gender binary as humans, they have the same shitty gender roles too?” Pidge grumps at the screen. They squirm in their position in Keith’s lap and drown out the ‘choose a woman’ line with a loud raspberry. “Like, come on people, there’s so many ways you could have taken this but you went with the most boring one possible.”

“I wonder if the Na’vi have their own ideas of gender, but the humans invaded the planet and declared that anything with boobies is clearly female,” Keith suggests, shifting his thigh when a sharp elbow digs into it in the course of Pidge’s wiggling.

Quiet resumes as everyone ponders that possibility. It doesn’t last for long. “But that’s the other thing. Everything on the planet has six or more legs,” Pidge points out. “Are the Na’vi from a completely different evolutionary line from everything else on the planet? And the horses and everything else have chest vents for breathing, but the Na’vi don’t. What is going on on that planet?”

Lance sighs, flops backwards across Shiro’s legs to look up at them. “Well, Pidgey, if they had chest vents there’d be nowhere for them to put the cat alien boobies, and where would we be then? Without cat alien boobies we have nothing!”

They snort and go back to watching the movie. About ten minutes later, during one of the most serious scenes of the movie, Keith suddenly jolts upright and clutches at his own chest. “Oh no, oh no! I should never have gotten top surgery! I have no cat alien boobies!” He looks up at them all, eyes wide, bottom lip trembling. “I’m a defective cat alien.”

Silence reigns for approximately two seconds, then Pidge snorts space juice out their nose. Then both they and Keith are laughing, so hard that they curl into a tangle of limbs and can’t quite manage to inhale between the bursts of giggles. The others laugh too, Allura and Coran rather stiffly and too-politely, but the pair at the end of the couch are totally lost to mirth. They keep settling, then making eye contact with each other and exploding into another fit. It’s well into the final battle scene before they actually calm down, Keith collapsed limply against the arm of the couch and Pidge slumped on the floor.

“So, that was funny, but I dunno if it was that funny,” Lance mutters.

"Told you guys Galra Keith makes jokes," Hunk whispers.

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