#clear the way ❁ ic ❁

[janadoesstuffwrong]

Thinking abt the air nomads:

What if, after the war, once the dust has settled a little, Aang goes back to travelling, hoping that maybe he can find at least some trace of surviving airbenders. As an added bonus, he gets to do more of the exploring and wandering that he had to put on hold.

Toph goes with him ofc. She only just got a taste of real freedom and it was overshadowed by ever-present impending doom. While she's on speaking terms with her parents, she isnt quite ready to be back under their roof on a permanent basis. The rest of the gaang have their individual homes and responsibilities that they get back to, though they join for the odd field trip or adventure when they can.

So anyway, they're touring all over the world and over the years they notice just how displaced so many people have become. EK citizens who barely escaped the blaze but lost everything; FN military now decommissioned with no idea how to carry on; people looking for a new start in the hard-won peace. Maybe it starts with Toph heading back to Earth Rumble, where a group of young runaways scrounge for cheap fights to make a little money.

At each turn they find more and more people with no homes to return to and no family to protect them; runaways escaping the roles the war forced them into. Gradually, Aang and Toph start to see that they aren't so different from themselves. They just want a new start.

So they decide to give them one. They clean up the temples and set up villages in the surrounding areas (helps to be master earthbenders), where people can arrive and stay as long as they need. Travellers and refugees pass through in droves, sometimes choosing to stay and rebuild their lives there, sometimes continuing in their wandering with a guarantee that they'll always have a place to return to should they have the need.

Over time, the lemurs grow in number and even some flying bison calfs (hybrids with a relative species maybe?), can be seen in the skies. Whenever the founders visit, it isn't the same but Aang feels a little more at home.

The first time someone asks Aang to teach him his philosophies, and expresses his desire to become a monk, how can he refuse? Maybe it's a former soldier, somebody who's done terrible things, looking for a path to redemption. So Aang teaches him, and then he teaches others. And though they may not be airbenders, they are as earnest and faithful as any nun or monk Aang knew before. The temples become filled with new faces: Firebenders, Earthbenders, Waterbenders and non-benders all wearing Air nomad orange and yellow.

Aang always feared that it would be his responsibility to have airbender children, and the idea of forcing that on someone he loved terrified him. Maybe that's why he waited so long before acting on his feelings for his best friend, his travelling companion, his fellow-village builder and temple-restorer. How could they have a truly happy relationship with this pressure hanging over them? He wishes he could be content with the new way of things that he and his friends have created. But he knows that he can't be the last airbender forever...

Nobody knows why some children can bend the elements and others can't. Is it blood? Is it blessing? Is it the land in which you're born? Or is it the simple allocation of fates decided by the values and norms you're raised believing in? Is it enough to be surrounded by the culture and beliefs of the Air Nomads? Nobody knows...

All they know is that nobody sees it coming when the six-year-old daughter of two non-bender villagers from the Earth Kingdom and Northern Water Tribe sends herself flying twelve feet into the air with a sneeze.

[demimonde-semigoddess]

Tbh I think Ada is really underrated as Kitten Burst characters go.

[captainlexapro]

as a newer hockey fan who has very limited knowledge of players (and would consider myself still somewhat of an objective observer) it’s soooo funny how many people harbor such powerful negative feelings towards chucky…bc to me it’s blatantly obvious he’s playing a character. like yes he’s a pest, yes he’s always itching for a scrum but it’s clearly for the drama™️ of it all. athletes are performers, no? he’s performing a role (in the most theatrical sense) and he’s certainly very good at it 😆

[hewantshisbrideback]

"M'lady? You look sad. Are you thinking of your sister?" The dwarf patted her on the hand. "The Crone will light your way to her, never fear. The Maiden will keep her safe."

"I pray that you are right."

Brienne II, A Feast for Crows

[icewindandboringhorror]

sneeping with his legs up over his head for some reason... weird boye

[bicheetopuff]

I’m on chapter 11 of From the Sidelines…

[magnusbae]

Matthew and Lucienne, crying softly while reading a book in the library: 

Dream, baffled: What is of the matter?

Matthew, sniffing despite being a raven: this poor, sad mate. he’s trying so hard, but he just. 

Lucienne: and he never gives up, the letters. 

Dream, bemused, gracefully taking away the thick brown book with the golden title: What is this you are speaking of.

Dream, looking at the book name “Nameless Love, Hob Gadling”: —Fuck.

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

i’ve found a tiny sliver of sympathy for book Alicent. imagine that every societal norm, every tradition, and every custom tells you that sons inherit before daughters. now, imagine that you are marrying the king, and your scheming father is happier than ever because the kings only child is a girl. if you have a son, he will be named heir, and your blood will sit the throne. this is as good as it gets. this is the highest position a woman in your society can reach. you played the game and won! your stepdaughter isn’t terrible either, and you two get along. everything is going so well. shortly after your marriage, you get with child and deliver a boy. perfect! you’ve done everything right; now it’s time for the reward. but then something terrible happens—something that sends your world crashing down around you: your husband refuses to name your boy heir. you are horrified, embarrassed, and angry. every societal norm, custom, and tradition tells you that your sons birthright is being stolen from him—from you. you’ve worked so hard, and this is what you get for it? it’s not fair. it’s maddening. you try to broach the topic many times, but your husband considers the matter of succession settled, and your father is eventually fired for pestering him to name your son as heir. you cannot believe this is happening. you are humiliated. a girl inheriting the highest position in the country? over your son? preposterous! she’s a thief! everything is ruined, and it’s all that damn whore’s fault!! said “whore” is a twelve year old girl btw

[otrtbs]

i have the shakes so bad rn and i want to make a latte,,,, what is wrong with me???

pleek.

[lovecolibri]

Ahhhhh, Zac rolling that nat 20 for Gorgug to get the phone working and his call with Zelda and their first I love yous is SO sweet, it makes me melt every time! 😭😭😭 They are both SO awkward but trying SO hard to communicate about their feelings because it's important. I NEED Junior Year to explain what is going on with them RIGHT NOW because their relationship is so important to me 😭

[bericas]

I guess the end is here.

[raziraphale]

Liore is SUCH a good introduction to fma that every time I watch brotherhood and it opens on that random guy with the water alchemy trying to kill the fuhrer I want to scream. like I understand the pacing of the first cour is weak because they're trying to rush to the point where it diverges from fma03 more quickly... but why waste some of that time inventing an anime-original intro episode that doesn't do as good a job as what they already had? grrrr

[sonknuxadow]

im actually really worried about the knuckles series im so scared wade being a main character is gonna ruin it somehow . if they were gonna have one of the human characters be a co protagonist with knuckles it should have been maddie im not sorry for saying it

[a-court-of-moonlight-and-ire]

The second to last song in the takarazuka production of Elisabeth (and in the original but we're not talking about that rn) is this song where Franz Joseph, Elisabeth's ex-husband, has a dream where the personification of death shows up to idk, taunt him about how Elisabeth is gonna get assassinated and then she'll be with death forever, something like that, its actually a bit more convoluted but I dont have the time to get into it rn. Anyway, so Death and Franz Joseph argue about which one lf them Elisabeth loves more, her ex-husband with whom she is no longer on speaking terms because he cheated on her and who inadvertantly made her life a thousand times worse wayyyy before that, or her toxic yuri on-off (but mostly off) situationship who didnt do that and is also insanely hot and also is responsible for her sons death but im ignoring that for the sake of my argument. And for some reason, Death is super insecure?? Franz Joseph is like "if youre really Death, why dont you just kill her huh???" and he responds "I-Im just waiting for the right moment" and FJ goes "you LIAR youre just afraid that she'll reject you!!" and hes so affected by that for some reason??? Like bro, hes just some guy, he and Elisabeth are not even really on speaking terms anymore, when he approached her to tell her that shes his only goal in life she literally went "we have different goals" Whyyyyy are you insecure

Anyway, thats basically Tamlin and Rhysands dynamic when it comes Feyre

[eggbagelz]

Devil, won't you bargain with me

A redraw of an old piece

[ozzieinspacetime]

Simon Petrikov my girlfailure my manwife. My love. I care for him like a person cares for a damp and abandoned kitten with ringworm