The fact that both of zukos abusers used lightning against zuko and instead of learning to use lightning himself like he could have he learned how to redirect the lightning and let it pass through him and then straight clean out of him… Do you ever think about how that is literally physically representing how instead of absorbing his father and sisters abuse he lets it pass through him and instead of soaking it in and letting it destroy him he redirects it away from himself… I just want some peace in my life
when iroh said that you have to let the energy flow through you. that you can’t let it hit your heart
This is an incredibly simple example—there are agroforestry systems practiced by indigenous people in various parts of the world that incorporate 5-20 different crops.
The “Three Sisters” (Corn, beans, and squash) are another example of a polyculture system
But you gotta think bigger than simply combining crops—a lot of problems in USA food production system are because we just don’t eat a lot of the edible plants that naturally grow as “weeds” in our agricultural environment
Every few months twitterinas bring back the “carnivores are a problematic element of nature and we should feed them synthetic meat and make it so they don’t eat herbivores. this is completely normal, feasible and won’t have any kind of repercussion on the ecosystem” discourse
First time I saw that was a guy who had as proposition to create fake prey animals with a robotic exoskeleton and covered in synthetic meat that predators would hunt, eat and then the exoskeleton would get up and go to the lab to get re meated. That was funny as hell
Tiger watching skinless carcass it just ate get up and walk away
Actually we should totally do this but not for like ideological veganism reasons just cuz itd be funny as like an animal social experiment.
doing this with real meat so there’s not even a hypothetical animal rights angle, just completely unwarranted and unmitigated freak behavior
If I was a popular Tumblr blogger, I could go on here and say “my yaoi balls and my yuri nuts hurt” and receive notes one million billion. But alas. The peasant must toil the field.
there’s a delicate balance between “seeing something on my dash so often i end up caring about it unexpectedly” and “seeing something on my dash so often that it gets added to the blocked list with extreme prejudice”
hey, can we talk for a second? it’s about your girlfriend. yeah, she’s great. no, yeah, I agree. It’s just that… she seems really devoted to you? Like really devoted. Almost as if you were the sole, fragile line mooring her to the shores of humanity. No, that’s not romant—ugh. Listen. Me and the girls, we’re worried you might be the last good thing to happen to her and that were some tragedy to inevitably befall you, she would tear the gods from their thrones and dye the infinite western seas wine-dark with their ichor. Do you think you could introduce her to a new hobby or something? we don’t want to have to argue over what color “wine-dark” is supposed to be
now you too can be nostalgic for a game that doesn’t exist
OK OVER-ANALYSIS TIME-
The simple sounds- the simple chip tune-like sounds are somewhat similar to 8-bit sound, with the limited amount of tomes there are, bringing back nostalgic feelings from things like the GameBoy
The simplistic song arrangement- with how non-discriply the song is ordered, it feels like it has no real genre, like it could be from the credits of a very simple shoot-em-up or a game like Super Mario Bros 2.
Overall, this simple, nostalgic-for-nothing song is like a auditory tucking you into bed, and I love it for that. 10/10, would cry over lost times again. <3
I don’t mean any of this in a weird way but if we’re interested in breaking down binaries, we can’t cling onto the binary of cis versus trans. If gender expectations are as constrictive as we say they are, then this imagined class of people who are okay with gender expectations 100% of the time with no complications is just that. Imagined. It’s similar to “neurotypical” as an imagined class of people who are completely comfortable with the social and mental expectations of their jobs and would never understand what it’s like to get overwhelmed or feel out of place. The unintended implication is an obsession with labelling and pathologizing that says that it’s not gender or workplace norms that need to be interrogated, it’s you.
The truth is that you can be outside the binary without formally committing to calling yourself nonbinary. I am a cis gay man who feels most comfortable and affirmed when I’m free to wear earrings and garments I bought in the “women’s” section. I tell people my pronouns are he/him because it’s the simplest explanation, but they/them and even she/her are comfortable, even validating, in the right circumstances. There are a lot of cis gay men just like me. Am I actually nonbinary and just in denial? No. Being a gay man is deeply meaningful to me. Am I encouraging nonbinary to start calling themselves cis and questioning whether they’re actually nonbinary? No, and I feel more comfortable in my own manhood knowing I have the option to leave. I just want us all to define ourselves on our own terms. I want celebrate common ground and shared queerness with trans people and not have to overstate our differences. We treat it as a political and moral obligation to fine tune our labels for the sake of establishing who’s allowed to say what, who’s allowed to relate to who, and I have to ask: Are we committed to breaking down boundaries or not?
If I was a popular Tumblr blogger, I could go on here and say “my yaoi balls and my yuri nuts hurt” and receive notes one million billion. But alas. The peasant must toil the field.
terribly charmed by my sibling sending me a voice message that just said “i just always take ibuprofen at the wrong time. i had a headache all afternoon, from three to eight pm and then i took an ibuprofen half an hour before the headache went away! i could have just saved an ibuprofen!”
I can’t decide what’s funnier, if this was a genuine candid photo of the father’s shock, or if he was an excellent sport and was like “hey folks, know what would be hilarious…”
“Yknow, Ted, the guys at the bar are gonna wanna know what it was.”
“Bring the photo! It’ll be funnier if you bring the photo.”
Story Time!
My father, who is an identical twin, has two older sisters who were also identical twins. My grandfather’s favourite way to tell the story was that in 1956 when he was awaiting the arrival of 🤷♀️ Child™️, the doctor (who, in the small town where we’re from, had delivered my aunts a few years earlier) came to the lounge, lit a cigarette and took a seat next to him.
“Clifford… how are ya?” the doctor greeted.
“I’m alright… yourself?”
“Good, good…good, so how many ya want this time?”
My grandfather, even in the retelling of the story heaved the most world weary sigh and said, “…how many ya got?”
I’m curious, and have heard things about the younger generations, Gen Zs and especially Gen Alphas, not receiving as much education or lessons on how to use computers (as in desktop/PCs or laptops) beyond the basics, or internet safety and etiquette. No idea if this is true or not. So poll time!!
In this, I’m asking about if you received, or are receiving, actual, official lessons/classes on both internet safety/etiquette and how to use computers beyond the bare basics. For example, in school my class had dedicated lessons for both of these, that included signing up to educational sites that mimicked social media so we could learn how to navigate them in a monitored environment.
And to avoid any confusion, the generation categories are:
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