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Can you make an incorrect quote about Shinso and Kaminari?

Hitoshi: Hey Pikachu, how are yo-

Denki: You know, I never felt like a Pikachu. I feel more like a Jolteon. I don’t know why people refer to me as Pikachu.

Hitoshi:

Hitoshi: Kitten, do you not feel like a Pikachu, because you don’t feel like the main character? So you instead go with Jolteon, because he isn’t very important in the show?

Denki:

Hitoshi:

Mina: *In the bushes getting the tea*

Hitoshi: I’m getting Aizawa.

rough animation of this x

He’s just baby

it’s so fucking tragic how sokka can’t recall his mother’s face but he can remember exactly what the emblem on the flags that raided his village when he was a child looked like.

“I think your girlfriend is taking care of it.”

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book 3 Episodes 14 & 15 THE BOILING ROCK

tbh, i never thought lars and sadie were going to end up together. 

like. the writing was always on the wall that they don’t work, even if they care about each other / want the other to be happy. they’re better as friends. sadie was never what it took (nor should be made responsible) to push lars in a better direction. even when they were together, lars didn’t become the emotionally open person sadie needed. and i never got the sense that you should just mash them together once lars had grown a bit. that’s not who they are now.

there was never a strong throughline of sadie obsessing over lars in space, because it wasn’t about her or their relationship - it was about his growth. sadie needed to try to move on and live her own damn life (even if that made lars initially upset). her growing separately, into someone who is primarily concerned with what she wants & needs, always felt like the right move. and from there… they’re friends, yeah, but they don’t have the basis for a real relationship. sadie should never be lars’ prize for his growth. 

there may have been a time she was happy to put herself in that position - always waiting for him, passively hoping for him to get better… but going off on a tour of self-discovery, with new interests and a new partner? that seems to be a much better message - she deserves a life not dependent on his growth. agency in her own story. all without making lars a shallow ex-boyfriend stereotype, who can’t accept change. once? yes. but not now. he’s got his own life. of course he’s going back to space, that’s where he found himself. he’s got every incentive to go - and sadie has every incentive to stay on earth. 

so having her always be looking up, waiting for him to return, maybe even growing old like that… felt wrong. acknowledging that “growing apart” can sometimes be a good thing for both parties seems, to me, like a much more mature conclusion. it respects the characters they’ve become. they aren’t right for each other, without that being either’s loss. 

and of course, steven feels like that’s another instance of him failing to fix something… but this was never his to fix. it’s about them, not him. it’s private.

Sokka is the member of the Gaang that scares me the most because while Katara, Toph, and Aang are all extremely powerful and talented they all consistently trained with immense dedication and effort. Meanwhile Sokka learns fighting techniques in a matter of days. He's a skilled welder but this never comes up after a couple of episodes. He's instictually good at haikus??? He's a skilled inventor and scientist but I have no idea where LEARNED it in the first place. I imagine he grew up hunting and trying to defend his village. He fucking invented the submarine during the series. Sokka is TERRIFYING not because he's more powerful than any other member of the group but because he picks up skills so quickly. If he had the time consistent training and instruction he would too powerful

(Yes you do…)

Bonus: ft last ronin Casey’s

to celebrate 1300 followers, a bit of detail on my sokka owns a knick knack store au, first mentioned here:

sokka does a portrait of the month series. every month he’ll paint a different “historical figure” and sell prints

the first one he does is zuko, newly crowned fire lord after fire lord iroh abdicates. zuko sighs and complains more and more as he’s sitting for his portrait because he has work to do sokka, not that you would know anything about that, running a silly store instead of focusing on your actual job—

sokka just stares at zuko silently until zuko realizes he’s messed up.

zuko sits very quietly and stays still for the rest of his portrait session. he also pays for production of the first set of prints.

zuko’s portrait ends up being him looking directly at the viewer, eyebrows furrowed like he’s going to scold them, but mouth open in laughter. sokka hangs it up next to the cashier’s area.

the second portrait sokka does is aang cause avatar, duh. before sokka starts painting, aang is a ball of energy, all over the place, but once sokka starts aang channels all that energy into talking. he sits perfectly still, but his mouth is going a mile a minute.

the end result is stunning. aang’s body is facing slightly off to one side, with his head turned over his shoulder closest to the viewer. he’s glancing off into the distance, one eyebrow raised, gleefully smiling.

the third ‘portrait’ sokka does is toph, as she’s the only one in town at the moment (and also a badass in her own right). instead of doing a formal portrait that toph wouldn’t be able to see, sokka works for weeks on making his own little statue of toph from the shoulders up.

toph definitely doesn’t tear up when she holds it for the first time.

sokka’s arms hurt, both from sculpting so many copies and from toph’s punch after she doesn’t cry over the statue.

the fourth portrait sokka does is suki. he does the initial portrait in one go while she’s practicing her forms, a powerful image of suki with her kyoshi makeup and her fans, mid pose. he does the formal portrait from memory of all the times they’ve fought and practiced alongside each other.

the suki portrait is amazing, although people seem to think sokka was trying to do kyoshi herself. suki isn’t offended, she just takes it as a compliment.

the fifth portrait is of katara. this one is done entirely while katara is practicing her bending. the first draft gets dowsed with katara’s water when kya startles her by being pushed off a wall by bumi.

the final portrait is an image of katara with two orbs of water circling her head, joy clear on her face. the light shining through the water makes her face look like it’s glowing. (sokka sneaks kya and bumi into the background, falling off one of the garden walls)

the sixth portrait was supposed to be of iroh, but the old man cancels the meeting so many times that aang convinces sokka to do a self portrait. sokka does a caricature of himself for his part.

however, aang thinks it’s unfair that sokka will do amazing portraits of everyone but himself. he rifles through sokka’s works until he finds a self portrait sokka did. he’s in front of the shop with little kids surrounding him, laughing his head off with a toy in his hands. aang sneaks around, buys a bunch of copies of this painting, and replaces the caricature with his choice

sokka is embarrassed and angry and refuses to speak to aang

...but then his self portrait sells out the fastest of them all

and now people know he owns the knick knack store ugh aang this is all your fault

once again, sokka has aang to thank for his store’s success. aang is unbearably smug about it.

iroh has all five portraits and one statue (as well as the eventual portraits of mai, azula, and ty lee) in the same small room where he keeps his memorial to lu ten, his wife, and the others he has lost. they remind him of the joy he has found in life as it is now.

I was wondering, do you think sokka witnessing yue turning into the moon spirit ever had an effect on his view of spirits and the 'skeptical' approach to mysteries he sometimes takes during the series? (not that science and spirituality are opposed, necessarily, but sokka tends towards a more skeptical approach before considering spirits/supernatural are involved in a mystery). would he lean into skepticism, away from it, or more generally reconsider his position on spirits in light of events?

this is a really good question because i feel like i’ve seen a lot of people point out, usually facetiously, that it shouldn’t make sense that sokka is a skeptic considering he’s friends with the avatar, spent a day in the spirit world, watched his girlfriend turn into the moon, found wan shi tong’s library, and generally has seen some shit. like... what exactly is he skeptical of? y’know? 

well. 

sokka would have to be willfully ignorant not to believe in spirits. he’s quite literally been to the spirit world (not that that ever got explored and that makes me salty beyond belief where is sokkated away, the movie, dammit! but i digress). sokka knows that spirits exist. he can see the moon. 

what sokka is skeptical of is not the existence of spirits, but the idea that spirits are mystical, and thus, we should deify them. sokka believes in spirits because he’s kissed (at least) one (we don’t know what happened in the spirit world ok), but what sokka does not believe in is mysticism. mysticism runs directly counter to sokka’s entire worldview, which is essentially boils down to the scientific method. (for more on that, i recommend this delightful lecture by feynman. don’t worry it’s only 10 mins.) 

sokka knows that spirits exist well enough, but he doesn’t think that they can’t be explained, simply that he does not yet know the explanation for their behavior. the reason that the spirits are revered by humans is because they supposedly work in mysterious ways, but sokka doesn’t inherently respect the spirits (he respects yue, but that’s not the same) because he thinks that’s bullshit; the spirits must operate on a plane of logic that we have simply yet to understand. 

but sokka is aware that there’s plenty he doesn’t understand (like socrates). if anything, his familiarity with the spirits makes him more of a skeptic, because what he is skeptical of is the notion that they are exotic and intangible, and he knows that that’s not the case. sure, maybe the physical laws of the spirit world are different from those in their dimension (that’s the only explanation for bending, after all), but that doesn’t mean it can’t be explained through math, only that humans have yet to discover it. (and if anyone could, it’s sokka.)