#gods I love tragedies

[chaotic-tired-bastard]

You must be so sick of me and I’m so sorry but you’re the only other person I know who’s still active and gets me when it comes to atla so.. what are your thoughts on the panning perspectives during the avatar and the firelord? what does “I think of a time.. when everything was so much brighter.. I think if my friend.. Roku” mean to you? because like.. to me this is sozin finally expressing himself at his old age and I’m imagining him post wiping out the air nomads, sitting hunched over and closed away somewhere, hand shaking as he reminisces, regrets and writes about his life from a time when he had everything, to the point where he lost it all and never looked back until his dying day, unknowing that someday someone would find it, so when Zuko reads it, he’s looking into sozin’s consciousness and even a bit of Rokus

Oh kay. OH KAY.

SO I LOVE the panning perspectives! It shows that Roku and Sozin's stories weren't entirely separate, that they were woven together so tightly that their stories would have been essentially useless without each other. Roku and Sozin had such a profound effect on each other's lives that if you take one of them out of their story it becomes useless and jumbled and you wouldn't have a story anymore. you need to have Roku to have Sozin's story and you need to have Sozin to have Roku's story. (I'll come back to this but I just wanted to put this first lol)

I think Sozin's opening line- "As I feel my own life dimming, I can't help but think of a time when everything was so much brighter. I remember my friend."[transcript] -was meant to show that, even if he doesn't regret what he did, he still loved and cherished Roku to the point where, at the height of his popularity and power, he would still fantasize about when they were younger and still friends. He would have so many conflicting feelings about him in the moment, but he could forget that just by remembering how they were when they were young and happy. I think he instinctively connects being with Roku both with being happy (bcs of their childhood) and sadness (betrayal & the hurt he feels about Roku) and doesn't know how to deal with it. He'd be happy and remember Roku bcs of that but then get depressive because of him and it's sort of a self-sabotaging thing; he was the reason why Roku died and, yes, it allowed him to start the 100 year war, but he also lost (what I believe to be) his only friend. He's surrounded by his achievements and the glory he gained in the war, but he's so completely alone. And he has to remember Roku when he's happy and then what he did haunts him so completely that he can't stay happy, because he remembers what he did to his best friend, and he can't stay happy after that. He can't when he loses the one and only person that he was connected to (LOVED. HE LOVED HIM.) outside of family. AND. GOING WAYYY BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THIS LONGASS PARAGRAPH. I LOVE the "everything was so much brighter" part of Sozin's line because it implies that Roku was the reason why everything was so much brighter. Roku was the reason why he looked back on his childhood with such fondness and joy. Without Roku, he would probably have hated his life. Roku is the reason why Sozin is who he is. Roku is the reason why Sozin is Sozin. And I just love that ❤

AND THE THING HE WROTE. YOU ARE SO RIGHT. He was at the end of his life at that time (I think- I haven't watched the episode in a hot second(he was, it's in the transcript)) and instead of going over his military conquests, instead of talking about what he wants Azulon to do as his successor, he writes about Roku. He and Roku are woven together so tightly that you cannot have one without the other. I keep on repeating this because it's TRUE, but he is as much Sozin as he is Roku because their stories depend on each other- one needs to have the other to exist.

When Zuko reads Sozin's autobiography(?? final testimony??), he's reading from both Sozin and Roku. What he's getting is both from Sozin and Roku a bit because Sozin, even when he's old and dying, is still part of that Sozin-and-Roku dynamic and he can't let go of that, even if he so very wants to.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Normal Friend Behaviour.

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[lazylittledragon]

i refuse to believe that boycotting is hard. my favourite thing in the world is ordering maccies after a late night at work/a concert/getting drunk. yes i do miss it sometimes. but the other night i ordered from a small place near my house instead and it was the most orgasmic burger i've ever had in my life. i very rarely say this but fucking suck it up people are DEAD

[wyrmwright]

the love you can't even name

[ordicanary]

Grief

[beaulesbian]

"The world should have protected you, but you have been asked to protect it. What an honor. What an injustice." - NADDPOD, Bahumia campaign ep. 97 (x)

[stil-lindigo]

the sunset.

a comic about two outlaws who loved each other, despite everything.

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[lotus-pear]

whatever happens, please don’t break

[harrowedsoup]

Anyway Wake lives in my mind rent free and the fact that she’s the Mary to Gideon’s Jesus and John’s god is just!! So crazy to think about!! I’m not catholic enough to really appreciate it but I LOVE that about her and I wish I saw more people talk about it.

Wake, who had an incredibly messy relationship with two people at once, being cast as the Virgin Mary? Having God’s child only for them to be killed for the good of mankind?? Yet Wake’s hard refusal of anything related to motherhood because Gideon was never supposed to be anything other than a tool?? OG Gideon/Pyrrha being her own twisted version of Joseph????

[shirecorn]

Tumblr keeps popping up to sell me ad free dashboard. But what it doesn't understand is that me and the ads have a sort of symbiosis at this point.

The guys from the fake gameplay trailers for a predatory mobile app are my blorbos

[woffles-4-waffles]

!!! GARMADON ANGST INCOMMING !!!

[kcrra]

no thoughts, just "where is duty, where is sacrifice" and the way that alicent clings to abstract constructs like religion, honor, duty and sacrifice because her material life is so concretely terrible and empty. to have loved someone so dearly, and watch them be what you perceive as free while your entire personhood is reduced to a womb and made to serve the realm, a vessel for the rotting king to use and abuse. to not exist as a person for yourself but in only in service to others as you are ordered by your father under a patriarchal structure..........and then the contrast of that quote, which summarizes all of alicent's anguish and agony, to the classic, "what is honor compared to a woman's love? what is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms...we are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love.".................but alicent doesn't have love, not anymore. duty, honor, these concepts - they're all she's got, and the lack of the very elements that make them meaningful has corroded her inside and out. so: honor, duty, sacrifice, all without love. and here we are.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Parallel Lines and Brothers.

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[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[heyimcelery]

Control freak (Clara) gets their grubby hands on a freak (the doctor) to control

[fun-esta]