#they had THAT POTENTIAL FRIENDSHIP

[dapper-lil-arts]

We were robbed of mom Celestia... And daughter Sunset fr fr

[homkamiro]

That's a one way to deal with a brat!

[courtmartialme]

forcing myself to post more just so the world has more riza in it

[the-badger-mole]

I get the frustration around shipping within this fandom. No, really I do. It does take up a lot of the bandwidth in the conversations around the show. I don't blame the fans, though. This is really Bryke's fault. They may not have started the ships wars, but they definitely threw napalm on the bonfire. Add that and the fact that when you really look at it, the friendships- the relationships that were supposed to be the backbone of the series- don't really add up to much. The biggest mistake was trying to make Aang the heart of the group and have so much of the "friendships" hinge on him. The kid has zero empathy and nil desire to actually get to know his friends.

His closest bonds are supposedly Katara and Zuko. I've talked at length about how little focus Katara gets in their relationship, platonic or romantic. His interest in her is very shallow, and mostly focused on the fact that she's pretty and sweet. Any moment of real, in depth friendship between them is Katara supporting him and caring for his feelings, but the moment she needed him to give her the same energy, he compared the death of her mother to his losing Appa for a few days, and compared her desire for targeted justice to Jet trying to do a deep cleanse of an entire community which included children (and possibly other EK citizens). Then the episode ended with his continued misunderstanding of Katara with no attempt at getting to know her better.

His other major bond is supposed to be with Zuko, but I have many of the same criticisms (minus his hyper focus on how pretty Zuko is). Honestly, I don't think Zuko and Aang actually had that strong of a friendship. We know they were "best friends" by the end because the narrative says so, but aside from that moment after Pouhai, and their field trip to see Ran and Shaw, they don't have a ton to do with each other. Even their training together is glossed over. Zuko is more narratively tied to Katara, and he has a stronger "bros" vibe with Sokka, and even Jet, for a quick moment.

If I'm keeping it a whole buck, Aang isn't really a great friend to anyone in the Gaang. The strong friendship beats have more to do with how they are friends to him than the other way around. He doesn't offer much by the way of empathy, or even a desire to know the struggles of his friends. I know that's mostly a failing on the part of the writing, but I do like exploring that as a character trait of Aang. His negative traits are a lot more interesting to explore than his positive ones.

I love the stories that explore the friendships within the Gaang. I love writing stories that do those friendships. In particular, I think the potential Katara, Toph and Suki, and Sokka and Zuko friendships had so much potential. And I'm right. They do. But let's be real here. The major points of interest within the show are the ships. And i think it was partially by design. Who else remembers how hard the show's promo material pushed the Zuko/Katara/Aang triangle?

[sofieartz]

[ Fnaf Fanart ]

I always headcanon that Mike and Charlie are around the same age when she died, and I like to imagine that they're bestfriends.

( Tragic doomed friendship )

[kismetconstellations]

[littlestkoi-n]

the rage I feel when reading Blood of Olympus chapters 45-56 is almost equivalent in magnitude to the absolute joy I experience when reading The Last Olympian chapters 1-23.

remember when percabeth was good? when they meant the world to each other but had other people they cared about (nico, for one. both of them. so much), other worries and other storylines aside from their romantic plot? and when nico's completed arc wasn't repeated for no reason other than to dump more trauma on the youngest character in the series? when background characters were included in the story not for all the unnecessary last minute romantic subplots but because they were fun and fascinating to learn more about? and were actually friends with main characters? remember when grover was percy and annabeth's best friend forever? and antagonists were actually interesting and intimidating and had compelling goals? and the story revolved around friendship and family and loyalty? and death was definite and loss was palpable and battles were thrilling?

yeah. good times.

[mayabishopgold]

Can you just stand next to me? This helps. I think this is what I need right now. Maya & Vic | Station 19 - 1x07

[solaestial]

Play Date 🎮

[amadryades]

ten years ago my dream was to study history & archaeology and I remember the teacher I was closest to discouraging me because I think and write like I do literature not history, my mind has a tendency to alter facts in favor of beauty // seven years ago she said that if I leave law school for the humanities I'll end up just as miserable as her // seven years ago I did leave law school and did not become miserable but philology faculties in Greece (and modern Greek faculties abroad) are toxic to a radioactive level// one year ago I was offered a place, then got snaked and rejected by a dream literature institution for reasons still unknown to me// the same day I vowed that within a year I will have found a job 3 times better// today I am working in a cultural heritage project where 90% of my colleagues are... historians and archaeologists and computer scientists// it's funny how life works in concentric circles and ring compositions to land you where you should have been from day one, truly the most talented author

[alackofghosts]

wolbert week day 5 - loss

how i wish we could have been friends

[octopiopa]

(boy?)friend kissers

[thaliasthunder]

i actually need more of percy's and piper's friendship, like?? both their names star w p??? they're both unhinged AND queer??? imagine being as iconic as that???

[aroaceleovaldez]

yknow, i've said before i don't know what my favorite Nico scene is cause i like a lot of them, but i think the top two are probably Nico being introduced with "You can take your great army and shove it up your ass" and him killing Bryce Lawrence and the line of "That word ['please'] didn’t make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice." because those two lines are core tenets of Nico's character to me.

He will tell his first monster to go fuck themself as a ten year old actively being kidnapped and he operates on a moral system based on the laws of the Underworld, not based on mortals. and that is so fascinating.

actually this is a lie the third top Nico scene is in BoTL, Nico's conversation with Minos where Nico goes "You're talking about murder" and says Murder Is Bad and Minos says "You'll learn differently as you get older." purely because that to BoO when he kills Bryce - character development. He's okay with murder now. Interesting that Minos was correct. Love that for him.

[still-breathing-au-p3r]

Junpei had come by to visit today, with Aigis in tow. A few weeks ago Shinjiro would have called them an unexpected set, but according to Aki and Kirijo, the two of them have been hanging out a lot lately. Kirijo had a few laments about some less than proper turns of phrase Aigis had been taught as a result, but considering that Aigis likes yakuza novels so much, Shinjiro figures she’d pick that sort of thing up with or without Junpei’s influence.

They’d gotten Shinjiro updated on all of the most inane and pointless gossip from school– or Junpei had, at least. Aigis’ idea of gossip tended more towards insane and pointless, which at least made it highly entertaining. He has no idea how a whole breeding population of rain swifts could have even gotten into the defunct observatory tower, but according to Aigis, those little birds apparently have drama that makes daytime soaps look tame.

Once he’d run out of other people’s business to share, Junpei had dipped out to visit Chidori. He seems to really be serious about her, which Shinjiro feels– oddly proud of him for? Aki’s sentimentality when it comes to the juniors is catching, apparently.

So that leaves just him and Aigis in the room. Usually she’s good company, but ‘usually’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting right now. Neither of them have said a word since Junpei left, and Aigis has fixed him with an owlish kind of focus. She’s not even blinking, which he’s pretty sure she normally does.

The silence stretches on. Shinjiro feels the demented urge to hitch the sheets over his head like a little kid hiding from a closet monster. Aigis just keeps looking at him.

She finally blinks, as if taken out of some kind of trance.

He debates for a second whether being scanned is more or less uncomfortable than being stared at. Probably more, since she can apparently see the inside of his head. Considering what she is, it makes sense that she can pull that off, but it’s damn unsettling.

That’s so on brand for her that it’s almost hilarious. Or at least it would be if it wasn’t at Shinjiro’s own expense. He sighs and runs a hand through his hair.

Shinjiro snorts. He’s never met someone with a talent for speaking in air-quotes quite like Aigis.

He readies himself for more bird drama. It definitely beats talking about himself.

Koromaru drama works too. Just mentioning him makes Shinjiro wish more than ever that dogs were allowed at the hospital.

Shinjiro laughs so sharp and sudden that he chokes on it and slumps into a spate of shallow, asthmatic coughs. Aigis waits politely for him to get his shit back together.

Goddamn. That’s the second time she's gotten that kind of reaction out of him. She’s way too good at that.

He clears his throat awkwardly.

Good grief. After everything that’s come gunning for his life recently and failed to kill him, he swears it’s going to be Aigis being Aigis that gets him in the end.

[juniemunie]

I like to think before new tail and see you tomorrow Toothless still had internal arguments with himself about Hiccup

he warms up to him in time of course

And thus begins toothless' instinctual eye dilation when he looks at hiccup