Im Rewatching Avatar And I Never Noticed The Way Sokka SCOOPS Up Top At The End Of The Western Air Temple

my brother had a brilliant idea that i wanted to share with other people who have four-legged family members: he trained our two cats to go directly to the door when they hear the fire alarm.

obviously at first the fire alarm sent them scrambling for cover, but he started slowly by giving them treats whenever it went off, when someone burned food or forgot to open the fireplace flu. he then progressed to calling them to the door to offer treats immediately after the alarm went off. and it actually wasn't too long before the cats voluntarily started going to the door upon hearing the alarm.

i think this was genius because in the event of a real emergency we know exactly where the cats will be and we will not have to waste precious time trying to find them to rescue them. i think this method would work equally well with dogs and probably other free-roaming pets such as rabbits, ferrets, etc. and i certainly encourage others to give it a shot!

one thing that pisses me off is when people supposedly love sokka but then say things that just don’t make sense. like that post that’s like “sokka was so charismatic he was charming everyone” no that was aang. aang is the one being charming and charismatic and friendly and beloved by everyone everywhere he goes. meanwhile many people straight up found sokka offputting due to his being a miserable little hater. neurotic freak. paranoid sleep-deprived and kills people without remorse. like he straight up gives off bad vibes a lot of the time. yes he does pull bitches and father figures, but that’s because cute girls and fatherly adult men are the only two demographics of people he actually makes an effort to be nice to. i’m all here for people appreciating sokka, but we need to stop acting like what his makes him great is the fact that he’s some extroverted life of the party when a) he isn’t b) aang, however, very much is and c) he’s literally so depressed that he makes it everyone else’s problem just by standing in the same room as them with his utterly miserable vibes. get it right

I think more people need to play around with Damian's speech. Don't get me wrong, I love the antiquated Victorian child style of speech, but also he's a teenager that swears plenty in the comics. We really need more scenes like:

Damian: Father, I regret to inform you that I have been assigned in-school suspension for the next three days.

Bruce: What, why?!

Damian: My classmate Kevin was disparaging a female classmate for turning him down, so I called him 'a rizz-less, basic-ass neckbeard bitch' and said I was going to fuck his mom and give her a son she'd actually love.

Bruce: *is completely speechless*

Damian: That is all I needed to tell you. If you will excuse me, I have homework to complete before dinner and patrol.

Voltron news

hey. I know it’s really sad that voltron is leaving Netflix. I was at a football game when I found out so I have to share something. You guys should absolutely NOT use myflixer.to to find all the way up to the fourth season. You should definitely not screen record it if you have an apple product with Netflix. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you use obs with a laptop. This means that you may get the show for free long after its removal.

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THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

when you think about it no wonder they called lucy the valiant, and i don't mean because she went to war. i mean because after the wars were over, she was the one on the battlefield, cordial in hand, tending to the dead and dying. she was the one with so many lives in her hands. she was the one having to make the call about who was gravely injured enough to be healed and who would keep suffering. lucy the valiant. lucy of the fire flowers. lucy of the healing hands. the queen who walked among the dying and tried to bring them back to life. how much must that wear on a person? on a little girl?

really, do you think peter's decree not to carry it into battle often was to spare the cordial, or to spare his sister?

I really like your modern ATLA takes and art :) I was wondering how the circumstances of Yue's passing change in a modern au since I imagine she doesn't give her life back to the Moon Spirit.

thank you! over the years my own personal modern au has kind of just developed a life & lore of its own. you can go thru my modern au tag for some of that lore, but i’ll also rehash the saga of yue here, because if i’m being completely honest, her life & death was the initial foundation upon which this AU was conceived. i just love yue a lot.

yue meets sokka on the first day of fifth grade. he’s still pretty raw from the death of his mother that summer. it’s her first day of “real” school, since she was homeschooled as a kid due to her chronic illness that made her parents extremely overprotective. she was finally able to argue with them that she was well enough to go to school, but really it’s just because she got bad vibes from the tutors her father picked out for her. she still keeps to herself and doesn’t make many friends. aside from sokka, of course. they immediately get along, and are attached at the hip from that moment forward.

for years, katara likes to joke that yue is sokka’s girlfriend (a hilarious joke specifically because it’s so obvious that she’s way too pretty to ever date him) until yue shyly asks him out For Real. they go to the library, a thing they have done together a million times before, but this time they’re going to The Library on a Date, and they’re both extremely nervous. until they realize that they’re both nervous, at which point they start laughing over the absurdity of their mutual nerves. nothing much changes about their dynamic after that except for the fact that they occasionally hold hands and kiss.

yue spends a lot of time at home, or she’ll go to school and then realize that she’s not actually well enough to be at school, at which point sokka will notice and insist on walking her home (during the middle of the day, which his teachers just love, of course). he always brings her whatever homework she’s missed when she’s absent, and then if she’s feeling up for it, they’ll sit in her bed together and just listen to music or read or talk – whatever she has the capacity to do that day. they are just happy to spend time in each other’s company.

they enter highschool together and sokka is like “i can’t believe we’re literally adults now” and yue is torn between being like “um. i don’t think we are, actually?” and feeling one million years old (pain ages you). sokka has a whole plan mapped out for their futures together: they’ll go to the same college, and then the same grad schools. they’ll be lab partners somehow, even though they’re both interested in different fields. sokka will finally solve GUT, and yue will singlehandedly cure her own illness (and all other illnesses) through the power of her research. they will win nobel prizes in the same year and they’ll be displayed on one of the shelves of their expansive home library.

yue’s a little more realistic about her own physical limitations (although she doesn’t actually doubt that sokka could win a nobel if he set his mind to it) but she still lets herself indulge in the fantasy of getting a little house with a vegetable garden and having two kids (both daughters of course. no sons!) and after that discussion (which sort of just makes official what they’ve both personally agreed on since they first met), they’re both in perfect agreement that no matter what happens to them, they are life partners. aang has already long called being the best man at their wedding. katara and toph fight over who will get to be the maid of honor, but sokka and yue quietly suspect that they don’t really care all that much, and it’s just an excuse for them to fight.

yue and sokka mainly keep to themselves in high school, and don’t have many friends outside of each other. they’re friends with katara, aang, and toph, but they’ve all yet to enter high school, so they can’t exactly see them in the halls. yue sits next to a kid with a giant bandage over one eye in her english class, and they bond over making snarky comments about the quality of the books they’re being forced to read, but even he gets kind of exasperated by the frequency with which she talks about her beloved boyfriend. (“my boyfriend gave me this rock he found in the park. isn’t it amazing?" she eagerly asks him, and it's literally the most normal rock you've ever seen.)

(it takes zuko years to make the connection that yue’s precious boyfriend from her stories is the same guy who azula considers her academic rival and is definitely obsessed with to an unhealthy degree. zuko’s just like “why is literally everyone so obsessed with this guy??” and then he meets sokka and immediately becomes obsessed with him, so, well. fuck.)

a few weeks after yue’s sixteenth birthday, sokka is walking her back home from his house one evening, when it starts to rain. yue suggests that they go back to his house to grab an umbrella (really, she just wants an excuse to stay out longer. her father has been inviting hahn over more and more often lately, and she fucking hates hahn) but sokka argues that they’re already more than halfway of the way there to her house, so it’s completely illogical to head back to get an umbrella when it would be faster just to continue walking. his logic is correct, and it’s already getting pretty late, so yue acquiesces. sokka will regret not going back for an umbrella for the rest of his life.

it’s at that hour between night and day where it’s just too dark to see clearly, but a driver could easily neglect to turn on their headlights. between that and the rain making the roads slippery, there isn’t enough time for them to run out of the way when a car skids into them. on instinct, sokka shields her with his body, but she still falls and hits the ground really hard. even though sokka is the one who was hit by the full force of the car, the impact of it is devastating for her. the driver calls an ambulance while sokka holds her in his arms, but by the time the ambulance arrives, it’s too late. they can’t save her. he couldn’t protect her.

sokka spends the next month refusing to get out of bed. it’s the second hardest month of katara’s life. on the day of her funeral, he climbs up onto the roof of her house with the first bottle of liquor he could find in her parents’ cupboard. he spends hours on her roof, just drinking in silence and thinking about how he failed her, how if he’d just been better, then his life would still have meaning. it’s his fault, really. sokka will later insist that he fell, but katara can see right through him. he breaks his leg from the fall.

eventually he returns to school, hobbling in on his crutches. he was always a smart kid, but kind of a lazy student. everyone expects his grades to plummet, but now that he has no distractions (and in fact is in desperate need of a distraction) he becomes an insatiable overachiever. instead of just doing crosswords during math class, he takes tests to place out of high school math and starts taking math classes at the local college instead. he wins his regional science olympiad. he starts tutoring half the school. anything to fill any and all of his spare time.

he never really stops being an academic overachiever (and once he and mai become college roommates, he infects her with his crazy pretty quickly, although eventually she drops out of their grad school program because she realizes she doesn’t actually wanna be an academic, and that her real dream is to be an indie horror game developer). he also never stops insisting that he “doesn’t do relationships” (a lot of people just assume that he’s a fuckboy, and he does nothing to dispel that notion) even though whatever he and suki have going on is clearly a relationship of a kind. he has one million hobbies, and he never sleeps. he spirals every time he’s forced to be alone with his thoughts. but if he just keeps moving, and achieving, and proving his value, then maybe he’ll forget for a moment that his life has long since lost its purpose.

he never truly gets over her. how could he?

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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