#southern watches

[floridagrowngirl]

Tornado touchdown, Northern Colorado, 2015

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

[mother-lee]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

November in northeast china: daily life of chinese college students on campus

[demaparbat-hp]

Kiyoshi AU - sharing kisses in their makeup?? They'd get so embarrassed cause the makeup leaves evidence. And I feel like Ursa would totally tease them (mostly Zuko cause he's too tease) but also think they're too adorable

They weren't made for subtlety

[sapphic-agent]

Trying to argue that Katara just wanted a peaceful life is so wild to me because every chance she got she chose violence

[hamletthedane]

I know people complain about the film version of Fried Green Tomatoes burying the lead a little re: the main characters being in a romantic relationship….

But let me tell you: nothing will ever beat being a 13 year old queer girl and having all your conservative southern religious relatives invite you to watch a movie where a hot woman dips her fingers in her friend’s jar of honey and slowly licks the honey off her fingers with an intense amount of eye contact. That was the day that all the wlw southern girlies learned what a visual film metaphor was.

(And then - of course - the characters kiss, quote biblical wedding vows at each other, move in together, have a baby, open a cafe, refuse to marry anybody else, possibly commit a murder, confess their undying love for each other in sworn courtroom testimony, and raise their son as a family. you know….just as friends….)

[newwavesylviaplath]

all i wanna do is get high by the beach

[sisterpaxton]

Still standing where you always did in those fields of georgia cotton

[floridagrowngirl]

Tornado weather

[ladyloveandjustice]

It's actually so hilariously hypocritical of Zuko to scoff at Aang when he talks about not taking revenge and not wanting to kill, when he went out of the way to try to save Zhao right after the man nearly succeeded in killing him. And also spared Zhao's life during their little Agni Kai. He repeatedly refused revenge and murder. I hope Aang finds out about it one day and gets his ass.

It honestly almost seems like he became MORE pro murder post-redemption, which is funny, but it's more like he'a pro righteous murder as long as someone else does it. Not him.

Notably he's all "Aang you have to kill my dad" but he didn't actually kill Ozai when he had the opportunity. He's all "it's the Avatar's destiny!" but come on. that was an excuse. He just didn't want to do it. Which is understandable, even though he knows Ozai deserves it, it would still be extremely traumatic for him to kill his father. So he passes it off to Aang. And then berates Aang for not wanting to kill his dad, the exact thing he didn't want to do, like a loser.

And fittingly, only time he seriously tries to murder someone was when he hired Combustion Man to kill Aang in peak desperation and even that was "someone else should do it. I don't have to be there or think about it. I didn't technically kill him someone else did"

(You can also argue that him being so passionate about helping with the righteous murder of people who were agents of the genocide is driven by a sense of guilt too, which is why he's so extra about it. It probably is. On top of that, I think he very much dragged his own mom issues into helping Katara specifically)

So yeah I also hope Aang finds out about his opportunity to kill his dad and roasts him like he deserves. Man who says murder is okay really means "it's okay if you do it".

[antomander]

Watching Marisha and Laura after the tether conversation is something else. Marisha’s reflective fascination. Her little looks in Laura’s direction, her little smiles. Laura’s nervous body language, her twitchiness, her trembling; that anxious intoxication. They really gave space to Laudna and Imogen at the table and felt their feels and it shows.

[demaparbat-hp]

Hey, @geothewriter, was it necessary to break my heart?

A little thing for Vermillion Seas, Cardinal Skies, a truly magnificent fic that has left yours truly rolling on the ground more than once. I'll post the entire artwork once it's finished! For now, you get a little sneak peek.

Start reading the fic here. You can find Chapter 19 (from which this scene comes from) here!

[zukosdualdao]

there’s also just something so… intensely private and intimate about their confrontation in the cliff? like, obviously katara sniped at him in front of everyone before walking away, but zuko is the only one who follows her. kinda surprised no one else felt the need to go, uh, mediate that.

but like… what actually happens here follows the beats of a very common romance scene.

girl becomes upset and leaves group setting → boy follows her as everyone stares on concerned → boy tries to ask what’s going on and talk about it → girl reveals the depths of her hurt.

and like yes, the context here is that the betrayal was not romantic in nature and there are complexities here, but this just feels like another notch in the zutara romance coding tbh.

[sleepynegress]

BELOVED - 1998

[isawken]

me literally every time G1 Michigan came on screen in AC6