#still tagging this

[the-badger-mole]

Do you think Aula loved Zuko or her friends?

If you're asking if I think Azula loved them in canon, I'd say maybe? I think Azula could be read in more than one way, and I could see a good argument being made for any of them.If you're asking if I, as a writer who occasionally puts Azula into my stories, then I'd say, yes! But...

I think Azula's idea of what it means to love someone is skewed. I think she placed value on people by how useful they are to her, like Mai and Ty Lee (sincerely, if it wasn't for the chi blocking thing, I think she wouldn't have been friends with Ty Lee). As for Zuko, I think she loved him, and she also resented him. She was clearly fine with him being imprisoned and/or dying, and she has proven herself willing to do the deed herself, but if he had fallen in line, I think she would rather have him around than not. I personally, do think she loved them, in her own way, but a lot of abusers love their victims.

In my own headcanon, she was jealous in how easy it was for Zuko to be liked. He was Ozai's most disappointing, and least favorite child. He was not the court darling. He was a "weak" bender (not really, but in her and Ozai's minds), and he didn't have the stomach to do what Ozai and Azula would do for power. And yet, he was loved in a way that Azula hadn't been. He had Ursa's love (so did Azula, but she couldn't recognize it for what it was). He had friends who would fight for and with him, meanwhile Ty Lee and Mai turned on her. Zuko had a father who actually nurtured him (which was not on Iroh, btw. Azula didn't like him because Ozai didn't like him). Zuko was loved for who he was. Azula was prized by Ozai for being powerful and ruthless like he wanted to be.

I do think Azula genuinely loved her friends and family in her own way. I also think she wouldn't let them stand in the way of her ambitions, and love didn't stop her from doing horrible things to them.

[lost-gamer]

[robyn-i-guess]

liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

[daisyofwaterdeep]

had a dream I went to a hozier concert and mr. hozier stopped singing and pointed to me in the crowd and asked me to go get him some extra crispy tofu and a blueberry shake for after the show and then the crowd passed his debit card to me and when I got it I could see his real legal name was Horace Bob-omb

[azvhaalk]

glorious evolution

[sunnylolli]

Something, something, what if it all went really wrong and they were forced to speed-run the brotherly bonding

[my-darling-boy]

I was at a bookstore looking through the art section and I saw a spine that said The Camden Town Nudes which was interesting because this didn’t seem like the bookstore where I would ever find something like that and I wanted to have a casual look but like. This also wasn’t exactly the bookstore where you felt like you could look at naked pictures let alone just suggestive paintings of them, it’s a really small shop as well, so I was like right I’ll just take a quick peek, I’m an art student, I love history, maybe I’ll buy it. I looked both ways and saw the shopkeep had left momentarily and no one was about, so I opened it and found it was an entire book featuring nude Edwardian women all painted by Walter Sickert between 1905-1912 and it was actually quite a revolutionary set of paintings for its time given that it featured very raw depictions of working class nude women in dark London instead of the elegant, white bedsheet clad, Demure middle and upper class women usually depicted.

And of course RIGHT as I flip to this lady’s boobs practically taking up an entire double page spread, every customer in a 5 mile radius appeared from around the corners of the shelf including the shopkeep and immediately regressing to a wet, pathetic Edwardian man from 1908, startled, I dropped the large book which caused a giant SLAP on the floor in this already silent store thus causing all patrons to look down at me scrambling on my knees to close a giant book of Edwardian boobs and let me tell you it would not have been nearly as funny had I not immediately felt like some Edwardian local pervert who just tried to sneak a cheeky peek at the erotic book in the bookstore only to drop it dramatically causing a scene, red up to his ears trying to shove it back on the shelf. Like such a casual and normal thing in modern day but looking at Edwardian women suddenly turned it into this egregious act as I apparently became possessed by the spirit of a moustached man in a bowler hat and morning coat going Good Heavens I mustn’t gaze upon these images in public lest the constable haul me away!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

License to Kitty.

[all-the-bones-ever]

this hit me like a truck

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[isawiitch]

ok NOW we can all freak out marvel vfx workers voted to unionize thank god

article here

[noelledeltarune]

EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt

[mybreadsmybutters]

when i was a kid i wanted to be a famous youtuber like dan and phil so that people would gay ship me with my irl best friend and we would be sooo weirded out by it and laugh and make videos joking about it but secretly it would make her realize her repressed gay crush on me and i'd help her through her gay crisis and then we would have a sickeningly sweet sappy romance and read fanfiction about ourselves together... anyways just found out she's married to a guy in the mafia now so i probably don't have a chance

[chaos-smoothie]

we did it once we can do it again we did it once we can do it again WE DID IT ONCE-

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead

[lokh]

DO YOU SEE MY VISION... DO YOU SEE WHAT THEY COULD BECOME