#reminded me of lok

[lokisbeautifulangel]

I was bred for war darling, be it love or chaos

Everything I do is to the death

[beifong-brainrot]

Another controversial opinion from ✨️me✨️

You guys are SO wrong here. Like I hate powerscaling and these hypothetical fights but good fucking god. Don't get me wrong, Lin is an extremely skilled fighter, and it would probably be a close call, but I think Suyin is heavily underestimated here.

The first point people bring up is the fight between Su and Lin, and the fact that even when Lin was weakened, her and Su seemed to be evenly matched. Thing is, it's very obvious that Su wasn't going all out either. Between her primarily dodging and blocking Lin's attacks, focusing heavily on putting distance between her and Lin, and not taking all the shots she could've, it's pretty obvious that Su was playing for time. Waiting for Lin to 'get it out of her system', as she said.

Which, Su essentially allowing Lin to rage at her and verbally abuse her, and later physically attack her and just take it is a very interesting part of their relationship but oh well.

And we know this isn't Su going all out, because she immediately goes for the kill. She's a very aggresive and quick fighter, and can fight from both a ranged distance, and a melee one.

Suyin is a heavily agile, fluid fighter, and has an uncanny ability to use her surroundings to her advantage.

Another argument for Lin being a better fighter than Su is that Lin spends most of her time fighting criminals and triad members, while Su lives a primarily peaceful life. And, yeah, that is a very good point. Here are some other fighters who lived mostly peaceful lives and therefore struggled against their more combative contemporaries.

Like, yeah, you can argue that Lin has more combat on a day to day basis, but most likely it is triad mebers and petty criminals. We see that Lin struggles adapting to different enemies. Like the equalists very obviously threw her for a loop.

And I think that's one of Suyin's great strengths. She is a great strategist, very quickly adapting to a rare bender like P'li, coming up with the strategies to take her down.

Suyin combines intellect and speed, making her a very effective and adaptable bender. She's one of the most acrobatic benders, not only using her wires to move around, but she just has mad hops.

Suyin also seems to have taken the Iroh method of learning from other benders, as her bending heavily resembled waterbending with its fluidity and usage of momentum, while her propensity to dodge and use her surroundings bears the hallmarks of airbending. This is not surprising, since Suyin is a very well travelled person, as well as had established a diverse city.

While Lin uses very typical earthbending movements, prioritising stregth and power. She packs a punch, but that probably leads to longterm strain. Like Lin strains her entire body to bend the earth, while Su utilses momentum her body already has. And I think that honestly represents the sisters' personalities very well.

Lin bends harder, and Suyin bends smarter. And in the world of Avatar, there's a pattern of the creative and innovative being the most cabable fighters.

[stormbringers-melody]

"My Lord - let's try this again, shall we?"

My thumb👍 is still broken, but I had to get this out of my head and into existence before my next surgery on Wednesday next week.

[azulaang-chakras]

"Maiko isn't canon anymore! Mai isn't Izumi's mother!"

Bryke, the heads of Nickelodeon and Paramount, and whoever the fuck is writing the comics nowadays could all come out tomorrow and say those exact words while introducing their new Izumi-producing OC and I'd still be like "It sure is nice that Mai and Zuko are happily married and doing a great job governing the Fire Nation while raising their kids together."

[haven-of-dusk]

It's kind of impressive how people can watch something, see a character repeatedly established as a liar and manipulator, and then believe stuff they say and take it as truthful or believe it makes them "more justified"

Like...Palpatine, proven liar, master manipulator, that's his PRIMARY CHARACTER TRAIT, badmouths the Jedi, and a bunch of viewers just went "yeah, that checks out".

Peter Hale, repeatedly said to be the least trustworthy person imagineable, Satan in a V-neck, makes claims about his own strength compared to Scott, and despite him definitely being a paper tiger, a bunch of viewers went, "yeah, that checks out." And write off Scott as far weaker than he actually is.

"Maybe Zaheer had a point" Uh...no shit, that was the problem. He was not wrong that the Earth Queen was a terrible ruler, but his solution of ANARCHY is not better, it's just a different type of problem. Just because someone can identify a systemic problem, doesn't mean you should trust them to have the solution. Republicans in modern America occasionally identify real problems, like a crisis with mental health. But their "solutions" are only going to make the problem WORSE. Just like Zaheer mudering an 18 year old currently doing her best to spread peace and prosperity is not justified just because the Earth Kingdom monarchy was a mistake...killing Korra is just making things even worse.

I got a little off track there, but I hope the point still came across...

[therentyoupay]

Hello, Kris! I think I might’ve already gotten the gist of it, but it’s been some time. What exactly IS Academia Mode? Are you still in school, or is this your actual job, and it just happens to be involved in the education system?

Many thanks!

hahah no worries!!! that is a good question 🤣😭😭🙏 for me, academia mode is currently finishing the 5th and final year of my doctoral program and includes (but is not limited to lol):

data collection, analysis, write-ups

writing python programs to support my data cleaning, data coding, stats, and data analysis/visualizations

applying for GRANT MONEYYYY

submitting abstract proposals to conferences (and applying for MORE GRANT MONEYYYY)

reporting research findings (writing journal article manuscripts, preparing conference slides)

writing my actual dissertation manuscript lol

supporting and instructing my research assistants

sharing my research with mainstream public audiences

writing my non-fiction book based on my ongoing dissertation research

teaching classes, grading papers, holding office hours, fielding emails, writing letters of recommendation for all sorts of students' fellowships/grad admissions/grant applications, teaching students how to strategize their personal statements, grant purpose letters, and other aspects of apps, etc.

peer-reviewing others' journal manuscripts, providing feedback to colleagues (blind review or not)

assisting with my advisor's research and textbook manuscripts (proofreading, copy-editing, internet sleuthing, finding more up-to-date citations, occasionally writing rough drafts)

writing chapters for edited volumes on various topics

READING. all the time. reading new literature and research articles constantly. ALL THE TIME. writing 1-pagers and mini-annotated bibs for future lit review use, etc.

WRITING. all the time. professional-speak, academic-speak, insructor-speak.

getting paid to travel to conferences to present my research (GRANT MONEYYYYYY)

by may 2025, i'll be a Ph.D.!!!!!! [screams]

academia mode! ✨🤣🤣🤣😭🤣💕 every day, i think about how lucky i am that i get paid to do what i do 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 hope you are having a magnificent day, and thank you for the ask!!

[nivalingreenhow]

The past few years, I've realized that I haven't been taking delight in Fandom like I used to. Part of this is just being and adult with an adult job and being tired. Part of it is the difficulty in making Fandom connections in the current internet set up. It used to be a lot easier it feels like. But part of it is just not letting myself revel in how characters and stories make me feel. I remember crying when Lin Beifong lost her bending, and now I scoff at that as being too emotionally invested in a cartoon for children.

But so what if I was too invested? It brought me joy in a time in my life when I was struggling to find anything to look forward to. Media has always been there as something that made my brain have moments of happiness and engagement when I was at my lowest. Just because I'm in a good place mentally now doesn't mean I have to abandon all of that.

Your experience is what you make it, and I want to recapture the fun I used to have with Fandom

[cheshiresartblog]

I'm just gonna say, if anyone goes around trying to "fix" other ppl's oc designs because they're "bad" by your arbitrary standards, you are an asshole, full stop. No questions.

You are an asshole.

I do not care about how "bad" the design is. This kind of internet bullying should have died in the 2010s where it belongs.

You're a asshole if you do this.

It's one thing to like...redesign a canon character to a major franchises that could care less about how you think their character should look. It's another to pick on another artist and, typically, a young or new one, take something that they likely love and sating it's awful and making fun of it in the redesign's comments.

I hope this reaches the right people.

:|

[louisdotmp3]

here's the full pdf

[malachitezmeyka]

I'M GOING TO CALL MYSELF OUT BEFORE ANYONE ELSE CAN

How fucking telling is it that for the most part I don't care about The Dragon Prince bc it was always my sister's interest, not mine, I was just roped into watching it, BUT the four parts of it I do care about are:

1) The lesbians

2) The honestly kinda toxic relationship that is the embodiment of "Your hands are scarred with murder and yet I trust them completely"

3) The character who destroyed and betrayed herself for nothing in hopes of saving whatever remained of her family

4) The dead child whose death influenced the fate of the world

[lokisbeautifulangel]

“There is a reason she is quite, when she is quite. 

she is sorting out the chaos in her mind and the madness in her heart “ 

[beifong-brainrot]

Jinopal in Turf Wars.. save me

Save me...

Jinopal in Turf Wars...

[sk1fanfiction]

Idc what the epilogue says. Harry would definitely not become a cop. He would retake his seventh year and either set up an advocacy group for magical children in abusive households and/or become the Defence professor.

[hotgirlkorra]

Maybe it's because I'm getting old but it's really ironic that the more ATLA/LOK and Avatar adjacent content comes out the less exciting and appealing the series get. ATLA was way more appealing/fun when it was niche.

It's has become way too saturated in mainstream media like how Star Wars and Harry Potter is.

I guess what I'm trying to say is. Series fatigue is real

[zincbot]

(two missions in) dmc: devil may cry might be the greatest game ever made

[n11d44hs-t0n]

tenzin and pema’s kids,,,the writers really nailed the sibling dynamic and the dynamics of oldest, middle and youngest