#which is heartbreaking

[frogosaurus]

the way so many people see sam eagle and are all like "booo he sucks he looks like john c calhoun and he's mean!". i don't get it. like yeah sam eagle DOES suck. and he IS the worlds biggest capitalist and he IS probably a climate change denier. but i LIKE him. i will not stand for sam eagle hate

[megaclubdiolis]

Write.

[wannaliveattheholidayinn]

can't watch anything with martin sheen that isn't the west wing because why would i watch this other thing, when i could be watching the west wing?

[adozentothedawn]

Karlach, I cannot tell you how much I also want that. Unfortunately that will probably still take a while.

[harteofthehart-ayyy]

If anyone knows of a Keahilani Sekioka with a Tauros with the Devourer of Light’s eight pointed star on his forehead please please please send him my way. Please.

[minotaurapologist]

Bunnies is a difficult animals

[sailor-moon-moon]

Happy Amok Time Day, friendly reminder that Theodore Sturgeon, the writer of the episode, is credited with the first positive portrayal of homosexuality in science fiction with his short story The World Well Lost (1953), 14 years before Amok Time aired. Which could mean nothing.

[daughterofsarenrae]

Sometimes i randomly remember "who are you? I love you too" and have to have a little cry about it

[madamemiz]

sad: falling out of a hyperfixation

tragic: watching your beloved friends and mutuals fall out of the hyperfixation while you're still in it

[platoapproved]

— And he hadn't told me. — I did, once. He didn't hear it.

[theladystrikesagain]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

if JGYs song of evil in poorly drawn MDZS is titled "evil penis music" then is Wangxian "good penis music"?

There exists penis music, which is neither good or bad, it simply is!

It is only through compounding it with 'evil' music that JGY creates his dastardly aural poison.

[demaparbat-hp]

Zuko looked up and locked eyes with his cousin, who was struck speechless. Then, ever so slowly, Lu Ten's lips twitched upwards. And then he smiled. And then he beamed. And then he nodded proudly once, just once, and vanished.

Lu Ten comes back in For the Spirits Chapter VII: Take Me South, only to leave Zuko with more questions than answers. Just how much is he truly aware of? When will he return? What is Zuko going to do now?

(What will the South bring?)

[friedwizardwhispers]

Maomao: I need you to be clear about your feelings. Just straight up tell me, no more ambiguity.

Jinshi: I want to make you my wife.

Maomao: no, not like that.

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

*rolls up 15 years late with Avatar the Last Airbender thoughts*

So I've been rewatching clips from the show lately to refresh my memory while I'm writing my Zuko Alone fanfic. And last night I rewatched the clip where Iroh teaches Zuko how to redirect lightning and I have had thoughts about this scene for years so I might as well finally throw them into the void of tumblr.

So, this scene is insane to me, because at the end of learning how he could-hypothetically- redirect lightning, Zuko looks at Iroh and, completely seriously says "okay I'm ready to try it with the real thing now". Like, Zuko, the boy with a massive scar on his face from where his father burned him just looks at his uncle and says, "shoot me with lightning".

And yes, he's 16 and not thinking but that's part of the point because the amount of blind, complete trust Zuko has in Iroh to look at him and say "shoot lightning at me" after the insane trauma he had at the hands of his own father- that is WILD to me. Zuko literally trusts Iroh so much that he just assumes, without even having to think about it, that no matter how volatile and unpredictable the lightning is, Iroh won't hurt him because Zuko cannot fathom his uncle hurting him.

And of course, Iroh's appalled because Zuko's standing there with a massive scar on his face from when his father misused firebending against him and likewise, Iroh cannot fathom hurting Zuko. And since IROH knows how volatile and unpredictable lightning is and how it could literally kill his son nephew he is absolutely NOT going to use it just to let Zuko practice redirecting lightning, but he's so flabbergasted that Zuko would even ask him that that he just kind of splutters angrily that he will ABSOLUTELY NOT shoot lightning at Zuko. (it's also just another layer of how messed up Ozai is because he shot lightning at Zuko without a second thought later)

But I hope Iroh thought about it later and realized the amount of pure, unthinking trust Zuko has in him because ;-; the child didn't even THINK about it. "Okay uncle shoot lightning at me now. I know I'll be safe because it's you." I love them so much 😭😭

[contract-crawdad]

Lyle/Shutterbug Encounter Secret

I was attacking Lyle (only to get the Dark Room achievement, I swear) and stumbled upon an interaction that I haven't heard ANYONE talk about! Which is weird because it's really notable and has some important information!

You know how Lyle is always emphasizing how photo paper is so flammable using red text? Well, I was in a bit of a bind during the fight and figured 'oh, duh, a molotov will do extra damage' but when I threw it...

Note that you have to use a Molotov (or presumably some other form of fire damage) DURING the Shutterbug phase of the battle!

HEARTBREAKING SPRITES but also pretty explicit confirmation that Lyle has done the 'soul stealing photo' thing a lot of times!

I suppose the generous read of the situation is that these are NORMAL photos that he considers to be 'friends'? But the implication seems preeeeetty cleat that those polaroids are each individual people!

Hoo boy. One has to wonder if they're actually Lyle's friends, or just people who became Lyle's friends by virtue of being added to his collection.

Not to sell our main man Lyle Lookoutside short! Not do quickly, anyway.

It's possible that he only did this to people who had died or gone insane, right? He did mention that those were the only instances in which he'd develop Sam's photo, and he's obsessed obsessed with him.

Much to think about.