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[edge-oftheworld]

‘I still hate Chicago’

Chicago:

from an urban design perspective: checks out

reading the street signs: with things that I miss

[puppyeared]

horrible truth bomb dropped on my head 20 min ago

[slumbering-shadows]

Underrated bit in Psych is that sometimes for no discernable reason at all the weird old priest that gus is in love with shows up to rescue them from situations

[devotion-disorder]

Kuuya is sweet. He gets the snow globe jar.

Noel is bad. He gets THE JAR

thoughts and prayers for him😔💔💔

[frm9pm]

Sometimes I remember they lived through the 90’s which also means boybands

[beannary]

So I named TLP after the book The Little Prince because I went to a French school so we read that book constantly so I thought it would be funny if I made little drawings of TLP Donnie if I had named au after different French books I read as a kid!

It was hard to think of some that were actually French and not just translations lol turns out a lot of the books that I thought were French were really just English books with French translations :P

[dailyloopdeloop]

loop and mirabelle. That's it that's the ask

DAY 84: enrolled in the gossip wars

[coquelicoq]

as a huge unreliable narrator enjoyer i love the fact that the raven tower is narrated by someone who cannot lie. so the narration is not unreliable, and any kind of uncertainty is always couched in "here is a story i have heard" or "i imagine", but it scratches the same itch as unreliable narration because the evidentiality of the narration is still so central, just in the opposite way. stories that don't care about where the narrator is getting their information or what biases are present in the way that information is shared with us are on one end of a spectrum, and stories that do care about those things are on the other end, and the raven tower is firmly situated alongside the unreliably narrated stories even though the whole point is that the narrator is as motivated as it is possible to be to never say something that is untrue. and it's fascinating to see how ann leckie manages to build suspense and subvert expectations without really at any point deliberately misleading the reader. every time i reread one of her books, the bouncing of the dvd screensaver in my brain gets a little more frenetic. how does she do what she does. ann leckie what is your secret.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[schrodingers-romy]

People who dream about their blorbos: HOW?!

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

i am so normal about the swingset scene, but i'll not lie, the actual kiss part makes me giggle so much because i cannot for the life of me seriously accept and imagine that Monty would have realistically been that smooth

i feel like it's more likely that he would've fallen off the swing, slammed right into Edwin, and sent them both to the floor

[asterwild]

Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) can be found across much of North America and part of northeast Siberia. Most populations migrate south for the winter, forming flocks of upwards of 10,000 birds.

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[imthepunchlord]

If AtLA did get that season 4 the writers wanted, I kinda wonder if they would've revealed the origins of the Avatar and what they would've done; as LoK's take on the spirits and the origins of the Avatar and bending felt disconnected from what AtLA previously set up (at least for me).

As I never got the original show's answer, it led to me pondering it and I had a thought I felt makes more sense.

Based on AtLA and how spirits were, I thought that the Avatar originally started as a powerful spirit that was tied to nature, and had a fondness for humanity and how they connected to nature, strong enough that they developed bending. And similar to La and Tui, they mortalized themselves in human form to be amongst other humans, only they had the unique ability to bend all four elements.

And between being a powerful spirit that's tied to people and the four elements, and the devotion to be there for people, the Avatar Cycle just came to be upon the first death and the first birth, this spirit always becoming reborn in a new elemental nation, to grow up amongst the people it naturally cared for, having a new life to live, to have new experiences, and forming new friendships while also finding old friendships that will last lifetimes. And given the spiritual origins, can also work off the unique role the Avatar has between the spirit realm and the material realm.

I feel this thought makes more sense for the origins of Avatar and working more off AtLA's set up of spirits and the origins of bending.

And while I would vote the actual spirit be left a mystery, IF it had to be specified on what it was, I probably would've voted they were a lion turtle. Like, even in AtLA, they're set up as incredibly mystical and spiritual, and able to manipulate energy itself, and I think the creators even had the idea that people used to live on their backs before LoK confirmed it, confirming they did have a close connection to people.

Everything about them is kinda set up to be like, a precursor to the Avatar. Mindful, it's not a requirement, but that could be a potential reason why the lion turtle arose to help Aang in his time of need, how they sensed Aang was lost and in need of guidance and advise, the Avatar potentially was the soul of a lion turtle, and playing off the lion aspect, they are sociable and work as a team.

It's not a stretch to think a spirit tied to lions are open to helping another.

Either way, this is a thought I wanted to share as an alternative to LoK's answer for the Avatar origins as I just wasn't all that crazy about it.

[0m3n-0f-d3ath]

Sun and Moon lesbians again for I am ill

[prof-d-oakland]

Dresden, what happened with Jackson and the pawmi? My curiosity needs to know!

For context, we were sent to study a small creature you all know as 'Pawmi', but we knew as SCP-P921 at the time in a local Spanish forest. I was 5ft 4ins tall, as I am now, and Jackson, at that time, was in a form that was about 6'3. Pawmi, as you may know, is on average, 1 foot tall. The one we were studying in particular was actually smaller than that, at around 10 inches in height when on its hind legs.

We eventually found its nest, and it seemed like the others of its group were killed by predators and this one was left alone. This solitude was likely what made it unable to hunt, leading it to attempt to forage from local trash cans, which is why we were sent to study and/or capture it.

While we were searching its nest for information and possible DNA samples of the creature it returned, and, seeing possible threats in its home, attempted to attack.

Due to the electric nature of this -P, we were both equipped with high-grade insulated protective equipment. I assume the creatures strategy was to stun or kill us before fleeing, as it stood up to rub its face, attempting to activate its underdeveloped electric sacs in its cheeks to fire a beam of electricity at us.

However, when it did so, Jackson immediately yelled several curse words and attempted to hide behind me. As you might expect it did not work, and only further aggravated the creature.

I eventually managed to contain it, with little help from the extremely frightened Dr Bright.

...It is a memory I look back on fondly.