#and they're thinking oh he's not a bender so he can't do anything

[cold-neon-ocean]

While yes I draw Baatar really buff to please my ‘muscular glasses man enjoyer’ brain, I also have genuine plot and character reasons for it. Like I love the idea that he still comes across as unassuming as any sort of genuine threat bc he’s a non bender, so he coasts on that societal presumption meanwhile he’d just... crush your spine instead lol

[chaifootsteps]

Still thinking about Viv's claim that she thinks both sides are in the wrong and it's bugging me enough to do a quick episode run down to see how exactly that claim stacks up. Hopefully quantifying a bit more will help see where we're actually at

Ozzies: Between episodes 6&7 Stolas gets a personality transplant and goes from calling Blitzo his 'impish little plaything' and demeaning him to being head over heels for him, calling him by his name and bowing to him. When the car drives away the camera lingers on Stolas crying, though the episode ends on Blitzo and his emotions so we'll call this one even

Queen Bee: We see Blitzo's emotions in the aftermath in the form of a self-destructive bender, but noticeably what he says to Loona is that he's upset that he'll die alone. He doesn't say anything about being upset about feeling used or mistreated by Stolas (he even says his name along with the others before he throws up)

The Circus: Retcons galore backstory about how Stolas and Blitzo were childhood friends and despite using him for sex all s1, Stolas was apparently really in love with Blitzo the whole time?? It doesn't make a lot of sense but go with it. Episode ends with a song where Stolas not only implies Blitzo was somehow lying to him this whole time (Genius.com contributor suggests Stolas believed Blitzo actually loved him, which seems the obvious interpretation of these lyrics) but also makes him out to be a weak victim. He shows no guilt whatsoever for the part he played in making Blitzo feel degraded and used.

What’s between you and I Just a comfortable lie I’m the fool who believes When you look in my eyes

Seeing Stars: Stolas being framed as badass while he's choking his butler and it not being remotely bad on his part that he continues to sexually accost Blitzo in their first meeting after Ozzie's. Any criticisms Blitzo makes of Stolas (not remembering his own spells) are dismissed by Stolas with nonsensical arguments (it's relevant Blitzo can't remember Moxxie's phone number, apparently?)

Exes and Ohs: Stolas isn't in this episode or mentioned at all

Western Energy: Text message exchange after Ozzie's show Stolas giving a non apology where he doesn't actually address the problem, literally doing a 'I'm sorry if something I said or did upset you'. Episode ends on Stolas alone in the hospital where the viewer should pity him that Blitzo didn't come to visit :(

Unhappy Campers: No Stolas!

Oops: Blitzo dismisses the notion that Stolas cares about him by using examples obviously meant to favor Stolas. He is framed as jaded and unreasonable and Fizz is the obvious voice of reason. The imp who hates royalty is called a supremacist, Blitzo is the in between who dislikes Stolas and Fizz - the one who capes for royalty - is presented as in the right

Full Moon: Blitzo again criticizes Stolas, without getting to mention anything specific from s1. He is framed as going too far and tries to apologize. Stolas acts like the deal was a mutual thing even when admitting it was wrong

By my count that's basically no examples in Blitzo's favor. And I imagine if we counted all the Twitter likes from Viv on posts favoring Blitzo we'd turn up a big goose egg there, too

Careful, now! You laid out all the facts and stated them plainly, and we know that that makes a certain subset of fans angry and scared.

Viv can claim that "they're supposed to both be in the wrong" all she likes, but it doesn't mean a thing if every other word of writing in season 2 suggests the opposite. I guess the real test will come in Apology Tour, when we get to see who's actually doing the apologizing.

[billlydear]

it’s normal for Billy to wear one earring so can u imagine him watching the breakfast club with his girl (after she forced him to, he can’t say no. max is lowkey both jealous and finds it amusing) but they do the Claire and Bender thing where they wear one matching earring (like each wearing a hoop or diamond)

i also had just bought these new flare jeans that remind me of billy, can u imagine wearing the earrings and putting on these tight jeans that sculpt your ass, and him putting his hands in the back pockets, arm dealing around your back as you head out to dance at a club or something.

he cannot hide that massive boner lol

how'd you know i just watched breakfast club the other day ! it's one of my favorite movies, and i envisioned billy the entire time ! i actually was planning a full breakfast club au with him, so this ask was right up my alley <3

but oh my gosh yes ! you watch them swap on screen and you just light up with this idea of yours. He's got his arm slung around your shoulders on the couch and he enjoyed the movie (not that he'll ever admit it) but tbh he's glad it's over because he's getting all sleepy and just wants to take you back to his bed and lay on top of you. of course he can't admit that he wants to cuddle with you, but he'll practically body slam you to the mattress and if you're squealing about him crushing you then he can just settle right in. <3

but anyways you turn to him all excited like billy omg ! we should totally do that ! and you're already reaching for one of your own earrings and he goes wait wait wait... 'babe your earrings aren't really my style.'

'that's the point, Billy. it's supposed to be my style, so people know we're together. if it was your style you wouldn't think of me when you wore it.'

'babe, i already think about you all the time.'

but you give him this look like he's a supervillain if he says no so he gets all grumbly and huffy as he takes out his earring, holding his palm flat for you to slip one of your studs into it. it looks fantastic in his ear, of course, and from then on you are always kissing it. sitting next to him on the couch? kiss the matching earring. laying next to him in bed? kiss the matching earring. waking him up in the morning? kiss the matching earring.

--

billy's hands are all over your ass in those jeans.

they're so tight that your ass is on display for him, like, how could he not grab it? he's squeezing, touching, grabbing, smacking, anything he can do with his hands he's doing to your ass. and don't think he even bothers to try to hide his boner, if you're out together and someone notices he's got a hard-on, they just have to follow his hands to your ass to see why. he's not gonna bother hiding it, he's proud as hell that he's got your ass to grab. a real 'hell yeah everyone, look at how hot and horny my girlfriend makes me' typa guy

[i-literally-cant-with-this]

I wrote this probably over 2 months ago and haven't done shit with it since. I thought it was cute but never elaborated on it.

So it is what it is. But it's about Nanami. ANYTHING to bring this man back lol.

SFW from what I can recall. Enjoy <3

Hear ... Me ... Out.

Nanami is at his favorite coffee shop one day and he sees this girl (woman, ok? don't get into semantics over it) and she is just a hot fucking mess.

Her hair is in the world's messiest bun on top of her head. It doesn't look like it's been brushed for a few days. Her clothes are like, less than casual. He doesn't want to use the word "sloppy", but damn. She look so sloppy rn that he has this overwhelming need to go straighten her up.

She's not ugly, not beautiful ... natural, though. But there's something about her that he is drawn to. She's kinda chubby. Which adds to her unique appearance(?), but with the right fitting clothes, she would be so cute, he thinks.

There's not a speck of make up on here face. And Nanami can't help but find that somewhat refreshing. There are stains on her sweatshirt from the coffee she is drinking. Crumbs on the table from her bagel with cream cheese.

GOD he wants to give her a napkin but doesn't want to offend her. What is the etiquette here, he wonders. Could he spin it so he comes off as polite? Caring, even?

He watches her for a while longer. Studies her face as she reads up on whatever textbook she's studying from. He can't get a good look at it, but it's a thick book.

Speaking of thick, he looks down to her thighs. They're thick, too.

His tired mind begins to wander uncontrollably to what she would feel like, what she would taste like. Then Nanamin catches himself staring too long. Spit pools in his mouth and he swallows hard. He looks away, hopefully before you catch him eating you up & out with his eyes.

But it's too late. You felt someone's gaze on you. And not just someone's. Fucking Kento Nanami's breathtaking brown eyes.

So now you're taking him in. And he is the most put together person you have ever seen. His blue button-up shirt is so well pressed that there isn't a single crease in it, even as he sits there in the cafe, it hugs his large arms looking like it was about to give at even the slightest miscalculated move. His tie hangs perfectly around his muscly neck. The light colored pants he wears - Oh God. They look like they're painted on. And they leave very little to the imagination.

He's got a tiny cup in front of him, his regular drink, espresso. But you don't know that's his regular drink. Because you have never seen him before. You don't even come to this cafe regularly. The one you like, the one closest to where you live, is having some renovations done. It has ruined more than one morning for you this week. Seeing the tall, ridiculously handsome man sitting across the seating area is starting to fix some of today's damages, though.

You tilt your head to the left and size him up, just like he was doing to you. But you're not even trying to be discreet. You decided that morning that you had nothing to lose by doing the societally deemed shameful things.

ie: oogling an attractive man, while you're looking like you're coming down from a 23 hour gambling bender with Toji (Nanamin doesn't know you know Toji and vice versa). Not that he'd permit you to keep associating yourself with him if anything were to become of the two of you.

No, he'd put a stop to that years ago. No proper lady of his would be fraternizing with garbage like Toji Fushiguro. No, no, no.

He's already decided he wants to talk to you. And while he has absolutely no reason to be shy about speaking with you, he can't bring his legs to move. That could be in large part to the considerable amount of blood that has pooled in the center of his body. He'll give it a minute and compose himself before he walks your way.

Nanami glances back at his newspaper and continues to read the daily stock updates. He sees movement in his periphery but thinks nothing of it because, after all, this is a busy cafe. It is a Wednesday. More people than you will move around.

It is you, though. You pack up your stuff, purposely leaving behind your cellphone beside your empty coffee cup, and walk toward him, holding eye contact for the entire time you're heading toward the exit.

He gets excited for some reason he can't yet understand and his pulse gets faster and faster the closer you get to his table for 1. Without thinking, he straightens up the scattered papers on the small table surface like he was expecting company. Your company.

But you turn at the very last second and push open the door to the sidewalk. The disappointment Nanamin feels crushes him like nothing he's quite experienced before. You are no one to him. He, in turn, knows that he's no one to you as well. Yet the dejected feelings remain in the forefront of his thoughts.

His eyes squint against the bright reflection of something silver on the table you were sitting at. You'd strategically forgotten and placed your phone to pick up the sun's light emerging from behind the clouds to get his attention.

It worked. He made his way across the cafe to the shiny object left behind. Picking it up, he tapped on the screen. To his great pleasure, there was no lock on the main screen. He had access to your photos. Your contacts. Your notes. Everything. He could look at everything.

Being the gentleman he is, Nanami thought it best to not look through it, though. He thought about giving it to the barista and letting them handle returning it to you. But there's no fun in that. He would track you down and give it back himself.

On the car ride to the "Return To" address in the phone, he felt his stomach turning. There was no reason for him to be nervous about this task, considering what his career is. He dealt with much worse shit than delivering a phone to a woman to whom he was attracted but couldn't figure out why. This was child's play. There was no curbing his excitement though.

Arriving outside your apartment building, he was surprised at how nice the place was. If he had to guess by just looking at you, he'd not have guessed a place such as this.

The doorman let Nanami pass with no problems. Looking as respectable as he does often grants him permissions that other people can't even entertain the idea of.

He pushed the button to call the elevator down and waited for it to carry him to the 14th floor.

Walking down the hallway until he found your place, he smoothed his tie down and knocked 3 times. He heard your footsteps coming as you padded your way closer to your door. And then he saw your shadow moving underneath, on the opposite side that he stood.

"Hello?" He said, his voice rumbly and deep. "You left your phone at the cafe we were both just at. I - thought I'd return it to you."

Nanami watched your shadow stretch out a little more and heard your fingers tap on the door as you looked through the peephole.

@darkstarlight82 @viburnt @arlerts-angel @kazutora-kurokawa @katkusuo (tagging you on the off chance you give a shit =))

[anameistoohard]

Can you be a system with only two alters? Also, can you be one if you start having headmates later in your life?

I often write a character who consists of two headmates, let's call them A (he/him or he/they) and B (it/its or zie/hir). The main problem with calling them a system is the fact that they were seperate people and started sharing a body because of magic. So I'm not sure if calling them a system would be ableist or derespectful.

I also write them to switch pretty fast and I'm afraid it's not accurate.

When A is in charge he is doing the talking while B can hear him and talk to him with its thoughts but not talk aloud itself. Same goes for when B is in charge. Also, both B and A have different walking patterns, facial expressions and slightly different accents, to the point in which A's sister can tell them apart.

So, can I call them a system if they got like this with magic later in their life or would that be disrespectful or ableist?

(Disclaimer: We are not an authority, we're just some person on the internet. And we certainly don't speak for all systems)

Maybe gonna give you a little whiplash from that disclaimer, but yes, absolutely, 100% of the time, a system can have only two alters. Anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong and you shouldn't listen to them lol.

As for developing a system later in life. That's a little more tricky because I want to paint you a full picture.

From a medical perspective, the most universally accepted theory is that it forms in early childhood in response to trauma and can't form later in life. However, there is no definitive proof that's how systems form, or that it's the only way they can form for that matter.

From a more anecdotal perspective, many people claim their system formed later in life. Some even say they created theirs on purpose.

In my personal opinion, I think the medical community is missing the forest for the trees. After all, autism used to "only effect young boys". And "only dysphoric people could be trans". I think it's absurd to think all those people contradicting the science are wrong when the fact of the matter is that it's still a developing field of study.

I don't see anything wrong with calling them a system. "System" isn't a medical diagnosis, it's a state of being. If they function as a system... then they're a system lol. The only thing I'd maybe be mindful of is how you share your story with people. If you say "This is a story about a system." It's a bit more like "This is a story about a system*..... *Created through magical means."

Kinda like, the difference between a gender bender and a story about a trans person.

Oh! Also maybe avoid calling them alters since they're literally different people, not alternate identity states.

For us, sometimes switches happen without us noticing, sometimes it literally happens in the blink of an eye, but sometimes it takes a few minuets, or even several hours. Fast switching is fine in your story, but if you want to mix things up, maybe make it relatable to more people, don't have them switch the same way every time. Maybe when they're stressed it's harder to switch on command and they need to calm themself down first, or something happens that triggers one of them to front (It doesn't need to be a bad thing, it could be simple like being given B's favorite food causing it to front. Or A hates a song so much he gets pulled to front so he can turn the music off.)

Again, we also can communicate like that and perceive the world "through each other's eyes" (it's called co-con/co-conscious) but sometimes it's harder than others.

Different gaits, facial expressions, and accents are all stuff we have. To us they feel obvious, but no one's commented on the differences except for some words or phrases specific alters use. Most of us can also mask making it even harder for people to tell us apart. I'd imagine your characters would have a hard time masking at first, but maybe with time they could learn to mimic each other's behavior.

...It took long enough to write this we switched part way through ^_^'

[chatisthisfr]

You're sexy when you're angry-John Bender

John bender x fem!reader

lime

(Part two)

summary: you were just a mere class clown but you never did something so bad to get you in Saturday detention. that was until your enemy in class blamed one of Benders actions on you, the action being spilling her coffee on all her electronics while the teacher was in the restroom, making them unusable. you now weren't too fond of bender. for now

this is definitely not gonna be the same as the movie. i dont remember the lines very well so ima improve.

your pov

I can't believe e/n blamed me for one of stupid benders pranks. Your parents were beyond pissed. you'd never gotten detention before you never dreamed of getting Saturday detention. I walk in the doors of this place. this is hell. who would make someone go to school on saturday. this is so messed up. I soon walked to the library with the other students. 4 others are sitting in the room. I recognize claire and andy but not the other 2. one looked like she just woke up from getting beat and the other one was a boy. who looked like a huge dork. "Aw y/n l/n. right on time. surprising for a prankster and delinquent" I heard vernon say. "I told you, it wasn't my fa-""I don't want to hear it ms. l/n. We already discussed this. you are guilty." jeez i hate this guy. I think to myself and i go to sit in a desk in the very back. I look down and start picking at my short nails. "Bender! you are late" vernon yells. Oh you gotta be kidding me. I have to be in this place for 8 hours with this piece of shit, bender. "do you actually think i give 2 shits if i'm on time to this" he says casually walking to the desk infront of me. "That's another detention for you sir." "whatever" bender rolls his eyes. " You know the rules. if you don't they're on the board. Don't make me give you any more detention after this. i don't wanna have to see your faces any more then i already have to." vernon leaves the room and props the door open. "Damn this sucks" I whisper "It's your fault you spilt coffee all over our english teachers electronics." he smirks, slyly, knowing damn well that he was the one who did that. "Oh shut up bender, you know you did that. It's you and stupid e/n's fault" "what does that girl have against you anyway. wait. nevermind. i don't care." he smirks and turns around facing away from me. "what a dick." I mumble under my breath "i heard that and yes i do have a nice dick. I bet you wanna see it, don't you." "John just leave the poor girl alone. She does not want to see your dick." I see claire from a few desks infront of us speak. "Huh oh are you the one who wants to see it." Bender replys "Bender shut the hell up." Andy says, flipping him off. "Aren't you the one who told me to not use profanity last time we were all in here." He smirks childishly. "Wait yall were all in detention together before?" i ask. i then here the nerd boy speak up. "We all had our different reasons for being in detention and we had to right a letter for an apology. Turns out he didnt like our letter and he thought we were talking back so he said we had to come back for another this saturday. I'm brian by the way" "Alright thanks dork." I say as i look away from him "aNyway as i was saying. Don't be a hypocrite sporto" Bender says smirking at andy. "Bender do you do anything but annoy people?" I ask and roll my eyes "Why yes im very good at finge-" "What's with all the talking! Does no one know the rules." vernon yells coming into the room. "It was y/n sir" bender says with a smirk. "What the hell dude. you were the one talking." i reply. "actually you guys were both talking." Brian says matter of factly "shuddup dude." I send brian a glare "If i hear talking again, you all get another detention." Vernon was walking back and forth from the desks . Fun fact: i had gotten pretty good at pit-pocketing. So i grabbed his keys that would let him into the library if the door closed. i smirk and saw him leave "perfect" I say. "what did you do" claire says in a scared tone. She's in my classes so she's seen me pull my small pranks. "oh nothing. just got a little toy from vermin" i smirk showing claire the keys. before he can notice the keys are gone, i quickly get up and shut the door. quietly. thought, even though he's gonna see at some point. "i didn't know you got yourself into trouble like that." Bender says. "That's because our english teacher likes me and gives me good grades. and that's the only class we have together." I reply "Yeah i have her in all my classes. she does some wild stuff sometimes." claire says "How wild" Bender smirks

I have to make a part 2 sorry lol

[furby-organist]

// Speaking of rut:

For Alexa, the biggest symptom is that he gets fighty and wandery. It's very funny. He gets in the mood to fight other ungulates to assert dominance.

He does not bone their girlfriend after he beats their ass outside a waffle house. Sometimes he'll give the girlfriend a gift card or some shit to get herself a real meal, or he'll just invite her to the nearest good food truck, get her some dinner, make small talk, and be on his way. (Sometimes he's been in the middle of fighting, his aceness kicks in, he looks at the girl, goes "I'm fighting for you? You're mid as fuck. Wtf. Bye" and walks away.)

Sometimes he playfights his alternates for fun!

He hasn't tried to fight his own reflection yet, but he has walked into the middle of traffic because he smelled a doe. (He wasn't really thinking about what tracking her down implied. He just followed his nose.)

Does he get horné? Of course. It's an annoying physiological phenomenon. Why my thing go up. Why me. He thinks about sticking his dick in a blender so it'll leave him the fuck alone.

Thoughts of boning, when they're caused by rut, don't feel endogenous(?). His brain isn't going "oh that cutie is a moron 💕" or "this absurdist nsfvv idea sounds fun!" His brain is going "hey you should breed that doe demon" the same way his brain goes "you should swerve into oncoming traffic" or "wow you're really high up, you should jump." It's distressing. It's very distressing!

The thought of actually boning doesn't feel like a cure for the horné! There's a massive disconnect there. The way he explains it is like, if you've ever been on a stimulant bender (or taken really really strong ADHD medication), then you know what that nuked appetite feels like. The nausea. Food is unappealing at best, disgusting at worst. It's either plastic or steaming garbage. None of it should be going in your mouth. It's wrong. You know you're hungry! Your stomach is growling, your hands are shaking, you feel weak, you're objectively hungry and you know that you're hungry, and you know that eating would solve this issue, but food is just so awful that you can't do it. If you tried, you'd just gag.

It feels like a sick joke to him.

He avoids talking about or entertaining that part of rut. He prefers to focus on the fun stuff, like fighting anything with antlers!

[monsterfucker-lisa-swallows]

female characters are always held to standards that male characters aren't and when they deign to step down from the pedestal they're called bitches and the fandom writes them off as annoying while not giving the same treatment to similar male characters

explain to me why the narrative hated fiona gallagher that much. lip and ian fucked up too but any time fiona was less than perfect the narrative made it clear that she needed to be punished and put in her place. it was treated as justified that lip would get to scream at her any time something went wrong despite the fact that in most cases she was just trying to make a better life for herself. did she fuck up? yes. more than anyone else? no. but we're expected to dislike her and forgive lip and ian for anything they do. lip screaming at fiona and throwing her out of her own house was completely fucked considering he never even expressed concern for her up to that point or tried to help her gently. it was treated as a last straw when she had done so much for those kids and was never given the space to be a person on her own. all the mistakes she made were completely understandable given that she was burdened with extreme responsibility her entire life and never learned healthy coping skills and yet she's a bitch and the narrative wants to see her suffer.

(i'd argue that within the context of the show, the women are always treated as worse for doing the same things. monica is accepted to be worse than frank, i'd argue because people get to foist all their mommy issues on her and she's less funny than frank. they both should be held accountable for their actions and i can't figure out why frank gets a pass and we blame monica entirely. "monica left and frank never did." oh is that so? i'd count leaving them in the park overnight as leaving them. how about the kids just accepting that frank was going to pop in and out and be gone for weeks at a time because of a bender? "He always comes back" so does monica. arguably both of their presences in these kids lives is to their detriment. all the female characters eventually end up reduced to selfish bitches who commit sexual crimes, regardless of how fun they were in the beginning. debbie? rapist and teen mom, derided as annoying and selfish. karen? again, sexual predator, ableist, teen mom, called a cunty slut. i haven't seen the last two seasons yet but my assumption is they're about to do this with kelly too. i didn't see a justification for vandalizing her car after she broke up with her insanely jealous boyfriend and rejected his sister's advances. i think some of you guys are bitter about girls "leading you on" when they're just living a life. so can't wait to see how the narrative makes her into a bitch.)

shameless isn't even the only example of this. i keep coming back to the quintessential girl on a pedestal, buffy anne summers. she's put through so much, so young, and is never given any opportunity to heal without other people coming down on her for being a bitch. there's a large subset of the fanbase (and the writers) who openly think buffy is annoying and less complex than angel and think it's her fault when anything goes wrong. she's the prototypical fiona gallagher - always carrying everything on her shoulders and having everyone shout at her and kick her out of her own house when she's obviously struggling.

honestly think some of you have no empathy for women and need to examine your mother wounds and hangups about past relationships because it's super clear that male characters get away with shit female characters can't and don't pretend that attitude doesn't seep into your relationships with actual real life women

[limeade-l3sbian]

you're correct about ozai. i only loosely remember the comics, but the additional context there is pretty much that ursa was the grandchild of roku (whose family went into hiding precisely to avoid being roped into fire nation politics), that she already had a lover when ozai's father found her and set her up to be married to ozai (presumed to be zuko's actual father), and that ozai treated ursa as basically a trophy wife, going as far as to tell her that their wedding was the last time she would see her own family because she's "his." the man has a very solid background to be a misogynist, and they just didn't touch on it at all in the show, except to imply he was a bad husband (which...no shit).

i kind of respect the attempts to make more rounded female characters, including a female long-term villain, but i think they dropped the ball when considering misogyny and female oppression as topics (even though the writers clearly had it in mind at some points, they could never seem to commit or go all the way; it was better than a lot of other media, but it was FAR from perfect). i'm not necessarily against fully evil female characters, though i'm not very into wholly evil characters in general, and i'm mostly bothered by the fact that the younger girl sibling was irredeemably evil when the older male sibling was fully redeemable. also, i lowkey think that azulas traits play into some misogynistic tropes (as a little sister who was always accused of being a liar who faked her emotions to "get her way" (but was also "overly emotional," as well??) and was seemingly assumed not to care about anyone or anything else other than herself and her own self-satisfaction, her depiction stung to see quite a bit).

even though the writers clearly had it in mind at some points, they could never seem to commit or go all the way

YES

They wanted the credit of having these themes but were unwilling to give them the full depth that makes people truly appreciate them. While I think Azula's slip of mind was horrifying in a good way, I think it was rushed entirely too much. I think the earliest we see this "slip" is Boiling Rock when she's "betrayed" by Ty Lee and Mai. There's definitely a shock in her expression when Mai basically tells her "you haven't been controlling me with fear the way you think you've been".

But we should have see more. You can't provide to me this calculated queen of battle and then three episodes before the finale be like "oh but naw, she's losing it". Like, why would she be losing it over some bullshit like her hair was fucked up or she JUST started thinking about her mother? She just got everything she's been hounding for!

If you want me to think she's losing it over her new position as firelord (by the way, I love the genderless title of the throne. Kind of like Pharaoh), have her flashback to the betrayal of Ty Lee and Mai. Show me how she's looking around and putting on unnecessary acts of force to keep intact this method of control she's used her whole life. Show me an example of her thinking she's got everyone in the palace under her control of fear but its somehow revealed that they only really follow her because they're more afraid of Ozai.

That is a problem with this franchise in general. If you're gonna do it? DO IT.

I LOVE the ending of Amon's season. There was no redemption! And his brother knew that so he KILLED THEM BOTH. And we don't know what that tear was! Was he crying because he was happy to be reunited with his brother? Was he crying because he, the master blood bender, could sense what his brother was doing? I personally love that ending because they followed through. This guy was indoctrinated by his father but rebelled too far and overall, was just too far gone.

I do not think at any point Azula was too far gone. Yet, that's what they kept trying to sell to me.

Azula wouldn't be some compulsive liar. She would be so brazened in her fear tactics that there would be no need to lie. She'd say "I only lie when I'm afraid, and what do I have to be afraid of?"

They have a better show of female rep, but like you said, I hope people don't hail it as perfect.

[andiwriteordie]

Oh my god holllyyyyy shiiittttt every single thing I read about the atla st au is so incredibly big brained. The way will starts to hate his bending after being kidnapped? The way each member of the party feels abt their bending? Ohhhh my god there's so much potential owth this au. Begging u to ramble abt smth on this au, I'm too tired rn to present any ideas but dear god is this so good

HI HELLO!

god i also freaking love this au. it's consuming my brain which isn't fair bc i have too much to do but it's just so so fun and i love it with my whole heart. you giving me free reign to ramble is Very Dangerous™️ because i have all the thoughts, and sometimes i start talking and then don't stop.

i'm gonna talk about max i think because i just love max with my whole heart. listen. max mayfield has such firebender vibes, right? we all know she and mike have similar (but not entirely the same) personalities, so mike and max having the same element would make a lot of sense in my mind. but (partly for me wanting to diversify the party originally, then me adding some more substance to it), i made her an earthbender, since i also think she has earthbender vibes.

so what if we get the best of both worlds?

what if max is like mako and bolin from LoK? her mom's side of the family comes from the fire nation, whereas her dad comes from the earth kingdom. then we have max who is incredibly hotheaded and stubborn and prone to tantrums as a kid—who seems like she should be fire—end up being an earthbender.

and like, alright. when she's young? she doesn't mind too much. her dad starts to teach her how to earthbend, and she likes it well enough. it doesn't quite feel like her though, and max struggles to make it her own. but she keeps going, because she's max mayfield. she doesn't give up.

then her dad leaves.

and suddenly, max is left with a mom she feels distant from, who is very similar in nature to her, but who she never has really been able to connect with. and then suddenly, her mom is marrying another firebender with a son who isn't just a firebender but who's also just awful to her. in a home full of firebenders, suddenly, max feels like the black sheep, and she finds herself longing to find the steadiness and stability and comfort that she didn't even realize her earthbending lessons with her dad gave her.

it's hard for her to learn earthbending after he leaves. her mom and step-dad can't afford to pay for lessons, so max is self-taught. she's an okay bender, and she does enjoy it more now, but it's also tinged with the pain of knowing she's never quite felt like she's belonged anywhere. she's an earthbender, who is supposed to be strong and steady and be able to withstand anything that comes her way. so why does max feel so unmoored?

she moves to hawkins eventually, and it's tough at first. because somehow, max stumbles into the worst (the best) friend group at school. it's a friend group of kids who aren't very good at their bending either, so that's nice at least. they won't make fun of max's sloppy technique or her self-taught earthbending. but they're hiding something, and once again, it feels like max is the outsider here. she's never going to belong, isn't she? is this what it means to be an earthbender? to just learn to suck it up? to take what life throws at you? to get weathered and worn down time and time again and simply be unable to do anything about it?

but god, then things change, and max gets pulled into this crazy adventure and the chaos that her new friends have been hiding. she finds her place in their group, she learns all their secrets, and she realizes something—that they, just like her, feel unmoored. unsteady. their world has changed so drastically in the past year—ever since will was kidnapped and they stumbled into el, the avatar. life has been wearing them down more and more, knocking them down time and time again, and it's happening faster than they can keep up with.

so max brings a stability into the group. her personality is a steadiness and a comfort, even in spite of the fact that she's the newest party member. she's resilient and strong, and she's a protector. yes, the world is going to keep trying to push them down. but the earth is strong and unwilling to budge, and the earth won't so easily be changed. in a time when things are changing for the party and where things are continuing to escalate and when the party isn't quite sure how to rebuild in the aftermath of their traumas, max gets to be the support, the foundation for the new lives they're all rebuilding together.

and when the time comes—and suddenly, it's max whose life feels broken beyond repair? when max feels like she doesn't know who she is anymore, when she's weighed down by her own guilt and anger and trauma? when she gets hurt by the same man who hurt will all the years ago and she loses her sight and doesn't quite know where to go from there?

then, it's those same friends—like lucas and el—who get to be her foundation to rebuild and who get to remind her that the earth is so, so strong and so enduring. max is so strong and so enduring. and nothing is going to stop her from getting back up again and standing steady and firm.

[juniperhillpatient]

The Library Re-Watch

This episode is possibly the strongest Book 2 episode (with no Azula anyway) yet. I like that it starts out with the group talking about taking mini vacations & you think that it's going to be more of a goofy side adventure plot & it turns out to be a very integral episode that moves the plot forward a lot. I've been complaining a lot this season about how Sokka keeps getting relegated to the butt of the joke so I really enjoyed everything he got to do in this episode from pushing to find a Fire Nation map to staying behind in the sinking library to learn the date of the next solar eclipse.

This isn't saying anything new, but I continuously love the world-building of ATLA. Of course if a lunar eclipse weakens water-benders a solar eclipse will weaken fire-benders. I wonder if there is an equivalent for air or earth benders? I can't think of natural phenomena that would weaken either of their elements on a certain day, but it's interesting the way different settings affect Toph's earth-bending, with the sand making things fuzzy (although I suppose she could probably technically learn sand-bending eventually? I guess her style & technique is less fluid & more grounded though, which I think would make sand-bending very difficult for her...side tangent. anyway!)

Professor Zei is a fun character & I can't believe he literally stayed behind to get buried in the sand because he couldn't tear himself away from the books. That's some dedication to your profession as a historian! Also, pretty dark.

I love Wan Shi Tong. He's a truly fascinating neutral spirit. The idea that he doesn't care about which side has committed which atrocities and wants to prevent humans from seeking methods to destroy one another altogether is fascinating to me. I just really loved this scene:

Sokka: You don't understand. If anyone's evil, it's the Fire Nation. You saw what they did to your library. They're destructive and dangerous. We need this information.

Wan Shi Tong: You think you're the first person to believe their war was justified? Countless others before you have come here seeking weapons or weaknesses or battle strategies.

Aang: We had no choice. Please, we're just desperate to protect the people we love.

Wan Shi Tong And now I'm going to protect what I love. [Flaps his wings and the library starts shaking.]

I just loved everything about this scene. It's scary & also tells you a lot about Wan Shi Tong. Also, can't believe Zhao is dead & he's still ruining things. I never thought about the library's origins & how Wan Shi Tong & his foxy knowledge seekers became the guardians but now I am. It's a really interesting setting & it's tragic that it had to be destroyed.

The ending scene actually made me emotional. I just felt so horrible for Toph for trying to hold up the sinking library & not being able to protect Appa. And Appa....Appa getting taken just hurts so bad. I remember the first time that I watched the show I could barely even enjoy the episodes following this one because all I cared about was where Appa was, & I'm dreading 'Appa's Lost Days' in this re-watch. That's a rare ATLA episode I've only ever seen once because it makes me too sad.

Points for Iconic Behavior this episode: Well, no one made me mad in this episode & it was a great episode but I didn't have too many moments where I was like "oh, that's iconic" for what the characters were doing or how they were acting, which is how points are assigned. Only Sokka earned any in this episode. 1000 for bravely staying behind to learn when the next solar eclipse will be & insisting on this adventure in the first place / generally leading the episode.

[earth-b0y]

TK-684 Council Dossier

For convenience's sake, I'm sharing a quick introduction to everyone on my council! If some things get redacted along the way, it's not my fault! ヾ(ゝω・)ノ

O5-1: Founder (He/him) Founder is a scary guy, he's super old, and we don't see him in person often. The basement is like his lair since that's where all the machines he's hooked to are kept; only Eleven is brave enough to go down there, mostly! When we hear from him, he typically uses Thirteen-ii to send messages to us. Founder is like... the head honcho? O5-2: The Gardener (she/they/it) Two is the grandma of the council! She's the head of the Anomalous Research Department. They're nice enough, but she's still pretty tough! Rai likes to help her out in the greenhouse sometimes. I've been told strange things about Two, like her connection between her predecessor - He Who Waits - and doctor [REDACTED]. Weird! =P O5-3 The Philosopher Scientist. (ze/zir) Ze founded the Ethics Committee and Psychology Department back in the day! Which explains zir... moral disposition. While Three isn't in charge of the Ethics Committee anymore, ze's still involved in it! Zir main role is now with the Amnestics Department. Ze's not around very often. O5-4: The Ambassador (he/they)

Four's our ambassador! He's often away on diplomatic trips to talk to high-profile individuals in Groups of Interest or heads of state, but they're pretty nice when they're around! Sometimes Four and Six hang out and drink alcohol. Oh, and Four can run like Sonic, which is pretty cool! Nyoom! O5-5: Blackbird (Mirror pronouns/use your own pronouns) While Four is in charge of diplomacy, Five is responsible for Department of Paranormal Organization Review, which essentially records and monitors our GOIs. He's cheerful and kind to everybody, as far as I've seen, so I'm not sure why we need someone else to be the ambassador, but yeah! He has five blackbirds, and he likes to wear stuff with bird motifs on them. O5-6: Dogwood (he/him) Six is our security and MTF guy! He reminds me of... a wild west sheriff, like in the movies! He's usually pretty laid-back, but he does have... a grumpy side. I don't talk to Six very much, but Kri gets along with him! O5-7: Teeth (she/they) Teeth!! I really like them; they're kind of weird, in a sort of creepy cryptid way, but they're cheerful and bubbly enough at the same time that it's not a bad thing! Teeth handles godly and extraplanar affairs. They're friends with Liar and The Other Overseer. O5-8: Magnolia (she/they) Magnolia's not so nice or happy, and she can be pretty harsh and to-the-point, not that she chats with us unless she really has to. They're in charge of the D-class program as well as the Foundation Department of Education. She kind of shambles around like a wraith. O5-9: Out of Place (he/they/it) I don't have that much to say about Nine; I've only seen him in person a handful of times, and I don't know much else about them besides that he moves between sites a lot, and it's the head of Research and Development. Nine almost always attends meetings virtually. O5-10: The Archivist (she/him/it/they) The Archivist is an interesting lady! She manages correcting, writing, and archiving Foundation documents, and there are some things the rest of us can't look at. It's kind of... otherworldly, sort of like Teeth, but not at all, and I don't think being a Thaumaturge has to do with it. I want to study him like a neat bug, but he wouldn't let me get very far with anything like that, haha! O5-11: Liar/The Father of Lies/[REDACTED]. (Any pronouns, favours she) The dossier is about to get stranger, now that we're at Eleven. I don't really know what she is. A shapeshifter? A reality bender? A deity? It's the head of our Disinformation Department, and her answers are hardly consistent, which she seems to be amused by. Liar has supposedly also been The Mailman, Jings, and currently still [DATA EXPUNGED]. She wears human teeth as a bracelet, which I think is creepier than anything the rest of us have! O5-12: The Accountant (he/him)

Very straightforward, Twelve is our accountant! He's a mathematics genius, and I've never met anyone that sticks to schedule quite like him! Everything is planned, even his drinking habit. Twelve has expensive tastes, and he's rather calm, but he doesn't tolerate annoyances or... disruptions very much. He's got these strange wraparound sunglasses that he always wears, even indoors, and I don't want to possibly offend him by asking why. Thirteen-ii: AI Construct (it/its)

We have two thirteens, and I'll save the other one for last! This one doesn't vote; it isn't sapient, and it's basically what Kri has described as "a souped-up Alexa." As mentioned before, Founder tends to communicate with us via Thirteen-ii, and it can be commanded to open/close doors, turn lights on/off, and things like that. Which is good! Because I forgot to mention earlier, when Founder is in a bad mood, he can slam doors or make the place really hot or cold. He's sort of... integrated with the Site? O5-13: Death/The Other Overseer (she/it/them, and infrequently him) Yep! We have Death, the Grim Reaper, whatever you'd like to call her, on our council; she's our tiebreaker! Thirteen isn't... here a lot of times? They can just disappear to some other plane of existence; I don't know. But when she's around, she hardly speaks, but she seems to be friends with Teeth and Liar! Its dresses are really pretty! O5-14: Min/The Creator (he/him) Me! My main role is anomalous welfare, though my skills in robotics and programming are sometimes implemented in security systems! My secondary role pertains to specific foreign affairs! =)

[coffeeandritalin]

Reactions and questions as I watch episode 3 of Cang Yue Jin Ming/Till the End of the Moon. (Possibility of spoilers ahead)

What... how is a frog alive and hopping around in the dead of winter? Actually, now that we mention it... how are all these birds alive in winter? Like I'll give that one crow a pass because it's a magical telepathic crow, but the frog??

He's basically an evil Disney princess

Can you even feel someone's temperature through their bangs?

X-D she absolutely should never ever work for a spy agency

Are they not cold!? I mean IRL, they're probably not... but look how heavily it's "snowing"!

I'm glad she's coming around to the "maybe treating people like absolute sh** will make them build resentment and cause them to lash out" idea...

I mean... sir, you do act very strangely... sigh. But I guess it's fair that he's super jaded and traumatized.

Oh dear... does she actually know what she's doing with those sewing supplies?

Sir! Sir! You are letting all the heat out! What is wrong with you people?

I like how she's trying to be kind to him, and he just thinks she's gone off the bender X-D

Oh no! The older brother is going to be a d*ck!

Awwwww the first time he's speaking up about being bullied is because someone f*cked up the pretty new coat his wife bought him <3

What's with the dramatic camera shot of his hand? What does this mean??

I like that the guys get some pretty, dangly hair accessories, too. Still not as elaborate and large as the ladies, but still - exciting stuff for me *kira eyes*

Sigh why do emperors always need to weaken their strongest military generals -_- (I mean... I get why... but these emperors need to watch more cdramas. Those ploys never end up well.)

Wtf. Who this? Shouldn't the maid have warned LSS/YXW that there was still a person living here?

D*** this nanny looks super young too. Just... everyone in Sheng Guo found the fountain of youth I guess.

The question still stands. Everyone seems to approve of Sixth Prince with YBC. Why aren't they already married? Oh I guess the emperor is hesitant because he's playing the paranoid emperor trope.

TTJ sweetie... how about we lie for now and then just not report anything -_-. TTJ too honesty for his own good. No wonder he didn't survive the palace.

I agree... Steward Wu does indeed talk too much.

But also, how did they get TTJ's level of volume back in the day? DId they have an ancient form of a blow dryer or hair spray? It looks fabulous.

Lol Steward Wu is a caricature of a bad guy and it's mildly amusing (for now... I'll probably get tired of it in 5 min)

ooooh no..... i needed trigger warning for that... warning for others that don't like bugs... a wasp flies into Steward Wu's ear >.< eeeuuughhhhh.... nuuuuuu (like it was fake looking, but it still freaks me out... nuuu why....)

oh.... well... guess I won't be getting tired of Steward Wu anymore...

oooh nooo.... another warning... they showed the wasp crawling back out T.T

I guess there were TTJ has been getting little moments of revenge before now. Or maybe he's only just started. Not clear. but d***.

Oh... Xiao Lin has been cultivating... so is he the shixiong????

Junior Martial Uncle is from Xiaoyao sect, but LSS called GYJW shixiong which would imply he's from the Hengyang sect... I'm so confused about the relationship of these two sects and also who is from what sect... Also, is Xiao Lin (sorry I can't use XL for anyone except Xie Lian) GYJW or not?? THE MYSTERIES!

LMAO junior martial uncle's face... he's like... "son... you are such a killjoy" X-D

KITTY!!!!!!!!

Oooh... YBC being kind of shady here... why not announce yourself? (Like I wouldn't either... but in cdramas this is usually sus)

I bet this an intentional misunderstanding. Like that magical crow ordered the wasp to attack Steward Wu and it wasn't actually TTJ's doing.

Nuuuuu he was just starting to build a little bit of trust toward her T.T.

Yeah... again... what's going on with that right hand of his. OH! Is that where the evil bone is!?

Oh. Previous theory canceled. TTJ did order the wasp. Womp womp.

YXW (thinking): gotta trick the truth out of him... YXW (speaking): you know anything about the dude dropping dead in the palace today?

Again... warning to all spy agencies throughout the universe... do not hire this woman X-D

Wow! She just outs herself. *face palms* This woman is on another level.

LMAO X-D. She's just sits and gets ready to enjoy his strip show X-D.

*watches as lady demon just clouds into the palace* But for real... what were they expecting regular mortal humans to do against a demon? *smh*

Oh no! The nanny!

hmmm... "This was mine to begin with" - what was?

OH! She's actually in PJs! And her hair accessory is out! Hurrah! But also at what point did she change/undress? She definitely got under the covers fully clothed and accessorized. Does Chuntao come in at night to get her into jammies?

Oh! There's something demonic inside her? The plot clumpens...

Oh my bad. This is Ye Bingchang. Huh! Even more sus and interesting.... The plot clumpens further...

X-D There's a minimum of 6 buns in that bowl. And then that's 7 lol.

I love that he just thinks she's off her rocker and has gone crazy X-D.

KITTY!

Omg I love Pang Ziyi.

Hmmm... he doesn't seem all that worried about rescuing YBC... was he just faking liking her? Or does he simply just prefer keeping his secret safe over liking her?

She stole his cat! X-D

Is this lady demon going to try and pick up TTJ for her garden and get caught or something as a result?

Wait... why would the nanny have memories of him eating that pastry? She wasn't there. ALso, why would she have memories of him kneeling on ice in Ye Manor? She def wasn't there... mentally or physically...

Really? She's afraid of a crow? Well... i guess they are bad omens and harbingers of evil...

It's kind of sweet that he has the crow keep its distance away from YXW.

Ooooh... he writes with his left hand eh? Oh... no. he was just disguising his handwriting. Fair... But... that lefthanded calligraphy is ridiculously good. Like does he practice on the reg for just in case moments like this??

Hmmm she's grabbing his right hand. Is that going to be a problem for him?

Now kith.

Pang Ziyi. Sir, you are perfectly useless, and I love you for it. His biggest contribution thus far was saving YXW from a crow. What a king. Lmao he's even acknowledging that his junior is more competent than him. All of this is excellent.

Lmao hilarious. Xiao Lin ends up actually getting the secret note from TTJ. (Side note, Xiao Lin's hair and accessories are so pretty <3)

Hm. Was his hair piece always this elaborate and fancy? I mean he looks very good. But... he's gone from a single hairpin to this fancy hair crown.

What. He caught her and they fell together. Why are they so far apart now and facing opposite directions. Did they horizontally ballerina twirl away from each other as they fell?

Ooooh his telepathy with creature comes from his tribe/mama... not from the evil bone.

I really like this song.

Huh... i really had a lot of reactions and thoughts today... Hope that kitty is ok!

[seyaryminamoto]

1. Oh, I also think it was a great idea to make Sokka and Azula agents of white lotus. I think my favorite trope for sokfics is Zuko sending Azula on a mission so she can do something helpful to protect the world and atone for her evil actions. And she accepts it, because anything is better than being locked up in the asylum. And Sokka begrudgingly agrees to go with her, because they’re still distrustful of her and someone has to make sure she won’t cause more problems.

Yeah, I've seen this trope many times, though while I started several fics that versed around Zuko doing that, I can't say I remember seeing a fully finished one x'D Maybe they do exist these days, I don't know, maybe they did get finished and I just haven't checked, I dunno.

But yeah, I do think Azula's redemption can take many shapes. Missions to fix the world subtly, direct hard work of the sort, is a good way of going about it. I definitely went with a darker take for it in my last story in Leap of Faith, because they're basically assassins, the ones who have to clean up the world from the very worst of the worst, the people who will absolutely jeopardize the tenuous balance the world is striving for right now. Obviously, Zuko didn't send them this time (not intentionally anyway :'D), but in principle it's largely the same thing.

Azula's redemption would be strongly benefited from letting her see more of the world. She saw some of it, yes, in Book 2... but she didn't seriously see it, I'd say. Traveling in a train-tank doesn't really feel like she would get to see lifestyles and ways of existence that are completely different from everything she knows. I just feel like Azula is such a fundamentally intellectual person and that means she'd be intrigued by experiencing life in different ways once she grows out of the misery of losing the lifestyle she clung to before. Learning that there's more to life than Ozai-sanctioned success would be such a good thing for her, and I feel like that's something she'd be better off experiencing away from the Fire Nation. The fact that this girl isn't shown or treated by the show as a firebending supremacist, that she will genuinely value the combat potential of two non-benders and an earthbending army, tells you that the firebending supremacy doesn't run as deeply with her as it does in many other Fire Nation characters. Starting from that point and expanding it in a positive direction could really yield results, with Azula learning to appreciate things that aren't what her father wanted her to appreciate.

Which, of course, is one of the fun things about Sokka being her love interest. The Water Tribe non-bender who, even while being a chief's son, was raised as a commoner and not as royalty...? He's everything Ozai would deem unworthy of his daughter. Ozai would absolutely underestimate him, treat him with disgust and disdain... and that's exactly why I find it so beautiful if Azula grows to love someone who's everything her father taught her to destroy. Nothing says more clearly that she has grown out of his toxic teachings than her willingness to spend her life with someone Ozai would never want to approve of :'D

Anyway. I digressed xD point in case being, yes, Azula and Sokka being on a long road trip together is a loooot of fun. There's a lot of room to work with, so much development possible for them... their potential as traveling buddies/partners in the White Lotus is just incredible. Even if someone didn't want to ship them romantically, their potential as allies and as teammates would be amazing to witness.

[a-tale-of-legends]

More powers stuff. Kiran doesn't exactly have a lot of powers for himself really. Being a direct descendant of Arceus means that they're powers are actually pretty limited, cause Arceus knows what would happen with a human with Arceus' power. It would simply be too much. For the world, and for the person.

So what Kiran can do is fairly simple stuff. What he's known for is creating barriers of light, as well as being able to give minor "blessings" to other Chosens, which is essentially giving them small buffs. And given the fact that he has a tiny tiny bit of Arceus' power/blood, even just activating their power can cause some damage. But again, Kiran isn't exactly strong in terms of powers. The only way I can see Kiran becoming more powerful is if Sakura lends him her power momentarily, which is honestly pretty dangerous since his body isn't going to be used to it.

I imagine that Arceus giving someone their power would cause the person to lose themselves completely, decaying into nothing under the mighty power of Arceus. This is why Arceus doesn't have Chosens. And while Kiran has the lucky advantage of being a direct descendant of Arceus, he's still human. He still comes from a long line of squishy humans that can't take that power( with Sakura being the big exception for obvious reasons).

Moving on from Kiran, I had this idea of one of the Chosens being able to move within the shadows. My main two culprits are Danica and Ames. Danica less so cause like, she can already move through mirrors, and access distortion like shadow, so she already, technically, has it. But Ames is tricky cause while yes, Lunala's ability shadow shield has shadow in it, I don't exactly see that relating to being able to traverse through shadows. If anything,that's a Marshadow Chosen thing, and I don't have that lmao. Still nothing for Poppy/Pua just yet , sadly. I'll think about it more later.

This is very minor and passive, but I can see Kenji being able to affect the weather in some way. Like apparently in frlg when encountering ho-oh, the sky lightens up when Ho-Oh descends, so like. Why not do the same for Kenji. It's very minor and honestly not super impactful, but I thought it was cool.

Side note: Love how Elliot's fire, while used for good, is more destructive than Kenji's fire, which doesn't hurt unless he makes it hurt. Reshiram is known to destroy in the legends, while Ho-Oh is known to revive and renew....

I've been thinking a lot about how the Hoenn trio would utilize their powers in combat. Jin is the easiest to envision, since they're powers are the most combat oriented. They can zip around if they want, add force to their punches and kicks with the air, and may or may not have a "dragon mode" ( no clue what that means but admit it, it sounds cool). Amber and Wally is more harder to really figure out. Amber has more passive powers compared to her partners, so I think she often relies on her own brute strength and the boost that being a Chosen gives. Wally is kinda harder to figure out with the whole "wish maker" thing. The best thing I can think of, based on both the anime and manga, is being able to create. That and minor wishes that last a few seconds. So essentially, while the roles that Amber and Wally have aren't bad, I want to try and make them a bit more versatile. Explore what they can and cannot do essentially. Though if I ever change their legendaries to Groudon and Kyogre ( which are currently with Maxie and Archie actually), then they become an earth and water bender respectively hgvhvgvgvcg.

I think that's all the thoughts I have right now. Thanks for listening to my ramble :3

[sergeant-angels-trashcan]

and i put a minific in the tags of the post which is relevant to what's about to happen so here ya go

kate and roy may start planning a wedding that they will NOT invite clint and ollie to#SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT#kate and roy dealing with the ultimate betrayal#jason: guys you may want to rethink this plan#roy and kate cake testing: how could this possibly go wrong?#its all fun and games until the planet starts reporting on it#at which point its easier to get married and do a quickie divorce#roy: so so so cool cool cool so lian thinks we're getting married for real#kate: oohhhhhhh noooooo#jason: wow if only someone had told you this was a bad idea#kate: well we could stay married for a while and get divorced in like a year#kate six years later: roy did we forget to do something?#roy making their anniversary dinner: nope can't think of anything

@tawghasa said

BESTIE Omg???? Can I see your "forgot they got married until they go to get married for real" and raise you "forgot they got married until they go to get married for real TO EACH OTHER" !?!?!?

Clint's like ok. Gotta bite the bullet and tell Katie-Kate about me and Ollie. Brace for impact. I know how she feels about him.

Clint: Hey so Oliver and I. Are going to get married.

Kate: oh like a vow renewal?

Clint : no like regular married

Clint: you have to have vows in order to renew them weirdo

Kate: lmao I idc if you lie to Stark or whatever so he gets you a cooler present but u don't have to lie to me

Clint: Katie wtf are you talking about

Kate: you don't get to gaslight me

Clint: KATE WTFFFF ARE YPU TALKING ABOUT

Kate: [image attached; it's a picture of Clint and Oliver with an Elvis impersonator and a marriage license] you guys literally got married and didn't invite me or Roy why did you think he and I got married?!?!

Clint: because you LOVE EACH OTHER? TAX REASONS???? NOT THAT????

Kate: Clint are you fucking serious right now

Kate: Clint you had better be fucking with me

Clint: Kate is that picture real oh my god KATE

It's important to know that Oliver has texted Roy and is like "clearly I have more functional friendships" and the only reason Roy hasn't gotten back to him is because it is Pedicure Day, and Roy is painting Kate's toenails while the polish dries on Lian's. So Kate is trying to REMAIN CALM but Roy could you check your phone? Could you talk to Ollie and see if Clint is just being a complete a-hole?

Which is when Ollie CONFIRMS that no, he and Clint sure didn't realize they got married! Or that ROY AND KATE GOT MARRIED AS AN ELABORATE REVENGE PLOT??? YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR FOUR YEARS??? ROY??????

And Kate and Roy are PIs so they're like frantically digging through emails and papers "I have a contact who is an Elvis impersonator, they work some chapels!?!" "I think I know someone in the records office?!?!?!" "HOW DID THEY NOT FUCKING KNOW?!?!?!" (Lian: no swearing)

Clint: omg is that why you kept saying all that weird shit about being left out and how did I like not knowing anything until the last minute????

Clint: IM SORRY YOU GOT MARRIED TO DUNK ON ME????

Clint: WHY ARE YOU STILL MARRIED????

Kate: well at first we forgot and then we realized we actually were kind of in love with each other SHUT UP IM NOT TAKING SHIT FROM A MAN WHO IS GETTING READY TO REMARRY HIS OWN HUSBAND BECAUSE HE FORGOT THEY WERE ALREADY MARRIED

Kate: Clint we can never tell anyone about this ever

Clint: too late Barry overheard me and ollie talking

Jason swings by Roy and Kate's. He's having the GREATEST day. He got to be there when Dick found out that Roy is happily married because of a drunken bender that WASN'T EVEN HIS. This is the DUMBEST thing Jason has ever witnessed and it's added at least five years to his life.

Jason: you are all idiots

Roy: watch it pal, keep talking like that and you'll wind up IN this marriage

Jason: that is absolutely not the threat you think it is

Kate, in an aside to Roy: are we, like. Positive he's not already married to us?

Oliver Queen marries Clint Barton. For real? For a mission? On a drunken bender in Vegas? Doesn't matter. The point is, they do not inform Kate or Roy who are LIVID.