#i'm wild tbh

[thirtecnth]

(Bryce Dallas Howard) THE MOON. Please welcome CAROLINE "CARRIE" KINGSTON  (SHE/THEY) to Huntsville, WV. They are a 43-year-old RESIDENT who lives in TOWN. You may see them around working as an ARCHITECT. Poor unfortunate soul. We’ll see if they survive.

GENERAL

FULL NAME: Caroline April Kingston NICKNAMES: Carrie AGE: 43 years old DATE OF BIRTH: March 2nd SEXUALITY: Pansexual STATUS: Gatherer

APPEARANCE

HEIGHT: 5′ 7″ HAIR: Red EYE COLOR: Light Green

BACKGROUND

HOMETOWN: Huntsville, WV INCOME STATUS: High Class FATHER: Kingston MOTHER: Kingston SIBLINGS: Hope (Older), Christine (Twin) SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None HOBBIES: Art, Interior Design, Reading, Gardening, Dance

TRAITS

[+] Creative, Loyal, Comedic [-] Reticent, Soft, Clumsy

STORY POINTS

Life is a lot easier when you're born with your best friend. Carrie always had Christine and Christine always had Carrie.

They were around each other so often that it was easy to confuse the two of them. While it hurt Carrie in the beginning, both of them realized quickly that they could take advantage of it.

They played pranks on everyone. Some of them were a little mean but they were bored. Everyone would confuse them anyway so what was the point of being nice?

The only person who could tell them apart 100% was their older sister, Hope. She held the weight of their parent's expectations and she took good care of the twins. They respected her.

There was always some tension there but on a deeper level, the twins always cared about and would protect Hope no matter what.

Carrie always had a love of building and sketching. She'd spend her time in class doodling buildings on sitting and drawing city maps. She loved the design of them -- the intricate lines and hidden structures within the walls.

She knew instantly what she wanted to do when she and her sister made it to Europe for college... She wanted to be an architect.

It all became that much better when Christine decided to be her engineer. They could be a power duo for their entire lives and that was always what she wanted.

They studied diligently in Vienna and spent their off time living it up throughout the continent, experiencing everything they could get their hands on.

Eventually, they became very successful women. It was wonderful. They were doing great -- but their love lives took a bit of a toll.

Carrie met Irelia at a gala and they hit it off. Everything was so natural, so perfect, so sweet... Until she saw how smitten Christine was when she introduced the two of them.

She'd give up anything for her sister to be happy. Anything. Because she deserved it. Her happiness over her own every single time.

They got married and things were good! She had what-ifs stuck in her head every day since but Christine was so happy. It was worth it... Until one night, Irelia drunkenly kissed her instead of her sister.

Drunk herself, she figured it was a mistake. It had to be. It didn't help the what-ifs... But it couldn't happen again and her sister could never find out. It would break all that happiness she saw and she couldn't let that happen.

Months would go by but then they would banter and she would kiss her again. And again. And again. Every single time, it was the same. Carrie would say they couldn't do this and things would go back to normal again.

Until finally, after what seemed like the longest amount of time for Carrie, Christine was finally the one that Irelia hit on.

She wanted to say it was a complete relief that it was all finally over... But it wasn't. Her sister was inconsolable and Irelia was completely out of their lives. Even married to her sister, Carrie could at least see her. It was all over now.

Carrie honestly didn't believe she had to say anything about their past experiences. It was over now and Christine saw that she was cheating. That's all that mattered.

In her head, she believed she had done everything right in letting her sister believe that her marriage was perfect until that moment. That her sister was as perfect as Carrie believed her to be and the good memories would remain untainted.

The two of them moved to America after being commissioned for a huge project and figured it was time to check on Hope too. Time would go by without correspondence but not this much.

They returned to the town they had always been dying to leave and now were stuck there like everyone else.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

1. Owners looking for a business

2. Childhood Friends

3. Past Exes

4. Scorned people they play(ed) pranks on

5. Artist Friends

…More to come, I’m sure!

[nipuni]

14 and not 14 😌

[vanmarkus]

⚡️ 9-1-1 • S3E15 || S6E10 ⚡️

[hellcifrogs]

My two favorite things!! RWBY and Sakura! Thanks @thanatos-nightshade .

As much as gauntlets similar to Yang's could fit her beautifully, I just can't seem let go of Sakura using her big ass axes! I also imagined her semblance being "Healing", but she only figures it out later on and all throughout the academy years she'd try to compensate her lack of skill by using these huge exaggerated weapons - little did anyone realize that her abnormal strength to use said weapons was already her own body healing itself as she overexerted her muscles beyond its limits.

[rogerdeakinsdp]

Sherilyn Fenn in Wild at Heart (1990) dir. David Lynch

[elitesheepi]

No, Zuko did not lead Katara down a "Dark Path" in The Southern Raiders

Watching Southern Raiders again, and it's bizarre to me that people read that episode as, "Zuko leading Katara down a dark path." Zuko just wants her forgiveness. He fucked up with her severely and to a level that's different from the others. She feels betrayed by him--she was betrayed by him. She trusted him and he all but spat that back in her face so yeah, she's mad. Is it selfish using her desire for justice, closure, maybe revenge to get her to stop being mad at him? Idk perhaps, if you read it that way.

But the way I read it, I read it as him using his resources to give her what she wants most, and that's her mother's killer. Since he was the face of the enemy, since he lost her trust, let him earn that trust back by taking her to the real face of her enemy.

It's the literal least he can do.

Then he steps back. Zuko let's Katara lead the mission, let's her defend herself against Aang and sadly Sokka too while only playing support. Zuko got a comment in there or two, but for the most part it's Katara doing all the talking.

Also something important people forget is that, neither Katara nor Zuko brought up revenge, that was all Aang accusing them(meant to type her, but saying them fits more) of seeking revenge. Maybe that was her unconscious motivation, but Aang was the one who brought it to the forefront of their minds. Zuko states that this is about Justice and closure, Aang was the one who made this about revenge.

After all that back and forth is said and done, Zuko is largely quiet the rest of the episode save for like 3 lines, none of them involving him telling Katara what to do or what she should do.

Katara leads the mission, Katara makes the choice to bloodbend even when Zuko was already facing the SR general on the boat. He didn't tell her to do that, he wasn't in a pinch so she would've needed to do that, hell she didn't even have to do any of that at all considering there was still water on the ground.

These were all Katara's decisions, all Zuko did was stand by her side.

This isn't me trying to say that Katara's making bad decisions. Far from it actually, I heavily agree with Katara's decisions. This isn't even a "supporting woman's wrongs" scenario either. Katara's completely in the right in my mind.

This is a mission involving finding the man who killed her mother. Not kidnapped like Appa (comparison courtesy of Aang), not whatever the hell the comics are doing with Ursa, murdered. Kya is never coming back and it's because of Yon Ra. Little Katara had to see her mother's dead body after the act was done and has to live with the pain and guilt of it all knowing Kya died to protect her. She's traumatized, she's hurt, so she's very much justified in wanting revenge and it's disquieting how so many people make this about Zuko leading her down some dark path for saying "I want to find the man who killed my mother and took her away from me." Bryke included.

Again, Zuko stands back, adds support in the fight when needed, but ultimately is there as her backup and sources.

And yet, people see all of this as Zuko leading her down a dark path. Because he dared to stand back and not talk Katara down from wanting to merc the man who took her mother away from her. What a villain, she said sarcastically.

Realistically, why would he stop her?

If anything, the fact that Zuko was the only one in her corner for this says a lot because of everyone there, he gets it. Sokka should've gotten it too, but that's a separate point for separate post.

He too lost his mother to the Fire Nation. Whether she's dead or missing, the Fire Nation and, namely his Father to put a face to it, took his mother away from him. He lost her and he believed that she was never coming back. Katara and Zuko are the same in that regard. Something he verbally empathizes with her in the Crossroads of Destiny episode.

He knows she needs this because he's been there, is there, and very much wants to have done that. If facing the Fire Lord wasnt Aang's destiny (and this wasn't a kids show, along with other in meta perspective) it doesn't feel to far to say Zuko probably would've killed Ozai.

Revenge for his mother is a side goal, but it's out of reach as of this moment. He has no information on what happened to her or where she is, so he can't do a thing. He sees Katara, someone who badly wants to regain trust with, with a similar goal and mindset and he actually has the means of helping her. Of course he takes it, but this is her mission, not his. He just provides the information and helps her getting there. That's all, everything after the fact comes down to Katara's choices.

When the moment of revenge happens and Katara decides to not kill him, does Zuko say anything? Does he asks her "what are you doing? He's right there, get revenge!" No. He doesn't say anything. He lets her leave, stares down Yon Ra for a second and follows after her in silence. You cant apply headcannon like "maybe he tried to convince her after the fact," because that can easily be countered with the head canon of him comforting her telling her she did the right thing. Going soley off what we saw in canon, on screen, Zuko watches Katara spare him from skewering the man with ice.

He does have a shocked expression in the background but that can either be read as "wow she didn't do it," or "holy shit she probably could've killed me 10 times over." Again, nothing verbal from him, only expressions, so it's hard to say firmly what he's thinking.

I got away from my main point for a second, but I'm coming back to it to say, none of this is Zuko's doing. Zuko didn't lead Katara down any path, he didn't encourage her to enact a bloody revenge, what Katara does was all her own actions, all he did was point in the right direction. Kinda shit how by making it seem like Zuko's manipulating her, it takes away from Katara's agency in the situation. She made her decisions and no man influenced her.

The only who actively tried to was her brother and Aang into forgiving their mother's murderer for some insane reason that I still can't fathom. Maybe from doing something she'd regret, possibly, but the in canon reason we get is, "don't do it. It's a dark path, you should forgive him for your own sake. Insert the Appa comparison" I bring that up again, because Appa was kidnapped, and then found again and they were all reunited. Yet Aang compared that to Kya being murdered and left for her daughter and husband to find. There's a stark difference.

Aang's pain in that regard is understandable and dare I say more supported by the fandom and show, while Katara is pratically being told by everyone save for Zuko to sit down and forgive for some inane reason that rings hollow, feels insensitive at the absolute best and takes away her agency by turning it all on Zuko as him making her choices for her.

It's shit, and an absolute misread of what the episode showed us, something Bryke somehow missed too.

I'm gonna conclude this with a quick summary of the end of the episode. Katara doesn't forgive Yon Ra, yet spares his life because he's just pathetic. Aang's weirdly giddy telling her that he's glad she forgave Yon Ra, and Katara having to shut that shit down and tell him that no, she didn't forgive her mother's killer, she never will, and she's conflicted on letting him live. Then Katara gets a soft look and smile for the first time in a good long while in the episode as she tells Zuko that she does forgive him. We get a Zutara hug (iconic) and the episode ends on a happy-ish, bittersweet note for her. Zuko does tell Aang that he's right and violence isn't what she needed (an admittedly weird line considering seconds before she just said she doesn't know if she was too weak to kill him or too strong too, implying she probably would've gone through with killing him, but whatever) but that's when Katara is out of earshot.

Zuko didn't lead her down any dark path, he left himself be lead by her and was willing to let it happen. It being whatever Katara's decision was going to be. Good, bad, middle, whatever would have happened would have all been Katara's decision and her agency shouldn't be ignored because of a bad-take misread of a pretty clear cut episode with very little ambiguity.

[who-the-fuck-are-you-bruh]

WAKE UP SLEEPYHEAD YOUR BOYWIFE IS COMING TO GETCHA

[vuelode-irbis]

No anchor

[ID: digitally drawn fanart of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. It recreates the scene in which Kipo finds out who her mother is and transforms into the mega-jaguar, along with Nael's poem, "The tiger" modified verses in-between the drawings. The first scene is a close-up of Kipo's eyes, she looks worried and tears are forming in her eyes, text below reads "The jaguar". The second image shows the mega-monkey, Kipo's mother, surrounded by Scarlemagne and other's flamingos, trying to fight them, the text below reads "She destroyed her cage". Third scene shows Kipo's eyes again, this time they're pink and her pupils are sharp like a cat's, she's angry and her tears come out, the text says "Yes"; onto the next drawing, she's on the floor on all fours, her arms have turned into the jaguar's and her tail has come out too, the text says "YES" in all caps. In the next scene she has turned into the mega-jaguar, roaring in anger, the text below reads "The jaguar is out". In the last scene, she's running towards the camera, still angry and roaring. End ID]

Inspired by and based on Nael's poem :>

I had this idea for a while, tried to execute it, failed and gave it a second try because Kipo's a very good show and this is one of my favorite scenes ever

Original poem: The tiger

The tiger

He destroyed his cage

Yes

YES

The tiger is out

-- Nael, "The Tiger" from "They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket"

[wickedcriminal]

The LU boys as Warrior Cats 😺

(Top to bottom, left to right) Time, Wind, Four, Hyrule, Legend, Wild, Twilight, Sky, and Warriors!

What should their Warrior names be?

[koushuwu]

𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐍 - 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 [template] additional cards (links to be added): HYUNA | LUKA | MIZI | SUA | TILL

[linktotheheart]

I feel like so many people misunderstand BOTW/TOTK Link especially (Zelda too, but that's another topic entirely)

His lack of expressiveness IS a personality trait. It's a direct result of the pressure on his soldiers to be a perfect soldier, hero, and savior. No, he's not Skyward Sword Link, and never will be, because his story is completely different.

"But [other Link] hugged Zelda when he got her back!" and this Link maintained a respectful distance as his princess's subordinate - but ALSO out of respect for Zelda as a person, because she spent her whole childhood having her agency denied and he wants to let her initiate even something as simple as platonic contact whenever possible. He's being kind!

(And yes, I know that primarily only the "he is a knight and she is a princess" part is directly supported in the actual game, but I'll remind the people making comparisons that the dynamic was COMPLETELY different in their favorite comparison game, Skyward Sword. But also... look at the gentleness with which Link interacts with Zelda, the tenderness that he shows so few other characters - Mipha probably being the closest example. Look at the way he looks to her first to see what to do in every scene they're in together, unless he's protecting her from an immediate threat to her life. Notice how outside of that, Zelda IS usually the one to initiate any physical contact)

I also personally hate it when people describe quiet, not very expressive people as "lacking personality" because... my partner IRL is like that. If she expressed herself at all around most people, it's in a very flat, reserved way. I've seen how it hurts her that people treat her like she doesn't have a personality, like she isn't even a full person - and I know that's real life and Zelda is fiction, but come on, do you think all the people that aren't highly expressive and extroverted don't hear that about very popular characters and internalize it?

Being reserved is a personality trait. Being cautious and not impulsive is a personality trait. In fact, I'd even say just because you as an expressive, extroverted person see Link as a blank slate to project your own personality onto, doesn't mean he actually is or was even intended that way.

(I also think this is a very US-centric point of view, honestly. There's plenty of cultures where even BOTW Link would be considered at least close to average - Finnish culture specifically comes to mind, even if he's still slightly exaggerated in that regard as, y'know, a character.)

Idk, this is as much a silly little vent post as anything, it's not that serious, etc, but whatever

(and don't get me started on "oh Zelda got no agency in TOTK and she learned the powers she was struggling overnight". No, it's called a time skip, and just because she learned her powers before the 13th hour this time - which yeah, she would get them easier this time with a mentor who could actually use the same powers, and having already learned to use her light powers - doesn't mean it just "happened overnight". And... she didn't express agency? She was actively influencing the entire flow of the timeline, changing the actions of her ancestors by convincing her ancestors to act, learning to control her powers and fighting Ganondorf, and finally expressing the ultimate form of autonomy in choosing to sacrifice herself to save the world. Some of the criticisms of TOTK didn't even seem to play the same game. Just because a heroine isn't a pop feminist badass who *gasp* wears pants and easily and perfectly kicks every villain's ass, doesn't mean she "has no agency" and is being sidelined. Like, a princess engaging in courtly politics is neither powerless nor "doing nothing")

[bad-traffic-smp-ideas]

what if grian went through this blog for wild card ideas. what would you do if the effects started seeming reaaaaally familiar. what then.

I would cry. a lot.

[kirby-the-gorb]

[hillbilly---man]

The telepathy blocking from Saiki's germanium ring does NOT work both ways

We know it effectively blocks him from hearing thoughts, but until now I wasn't sure about whether it blocked others from hearing him speaking telepathically.

Especially since Kuusuke suggests (perhaps unconvincingly) that his telepathy blocker does work both ways:

However, in chapter 95 (a chapter that... Tbh I'm sure most of us skip) I found some evidence that Saiki can be heard while wearing his germanium ring!

In the beginning of the chapter, he says that he's had his ring on since the day before:

Right after this, while talking to his dad about the knockoff game to the one that the chapter is advertising to us, he mentions the actual game, J-Stars:

Then, Kuniharu directly responds to what he said, repeating it back:

It's pretty clear that Kuniharu heard his son speaking telepathically!

And, in case anyone wonders about the possibility that he may not still be wearing the ring during this conversation, we see it again just a few minutes later:

I'm gonna go ahead and call that a mystery solved!

[r0semultiverse]

Dan Da Dan mangaka is a homestuck fan

My partner was looking up the Dandadan manga just for fun or whatever and sent the magazine/book page that looks a bit different in the anime and immediately I felt an eerie sense of familiarity...

Obama going into space on a special mission remind anyone else of a certain piece of media?

At first I was like surely Dandandan has been out for some time before getting an anime adaptation; so, it's probably just coincidence... right?

Oh how wrong I was... truly, we can never escape it. We cannot fight the Homestuck.

[thecrazywriter]

honestly the wild kratt kids have some of the funniest real-world potential. like imagine turning on the news and they're interviewing some tech dude with an annoying voice and your kid goes "oh yeah, I know that guy. I beat him in a fishing competition."