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Katara is canonically Indigenous. She is from the Southern Water Tribe, which is based on the Inuit.
Little Creek is canonically Lakota.
my sweet girl enya, who's been by my side since botw :')
some in game photos of her below the cut!
Juleka: Honey, what are these?
Rose: Shoes?
Juleka: I know they're shoes. What's in the shoes?
(Two mice pop out)
Rose: Oh. It's Mr and Mrs squeakers. They live in your sneakers.
I just want to show everyone these pictures I took of my cat this morning
Did you know that AO3 allows fics with homicide in them? There’s a whole tag for Major Character Death and even more tags so you can find exactly what kind of character death you want to read.
Don’t they know that murder is illegal? You just know there are a bunch of homicidal maniacs out there who love to read those stories. They write them, too, in between killing people.
Anyone can read the stories on AO3! Kids can read them! They’re getting exposed to stabbing, poisoning, even guns! And they’re writing the heroes doing the killing, too! That’s basically telling kids it’s okay to go out and murder their families. It’s promoting violence and encouraging homicide and if we don’t do something about it soon, you’ll be murdered next!
The devil came to my house and tried to burn it down, which is why this post exists in the first place.
I saw Goody OP writing darkfic with the devil.
oh my god you're so right
I FUCKING TOLD YALL THIS SHIT WAS COMING AND YOU DIDNT BELIEVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
this has always been the pushback to AI art. tbh i dont care whether AI art is "real art." whether it's real art or not, it's going to have the effects on the people in industries replace. Its the modern day equivalent of self checkouts, but it cuts deeper (personally).
in a larger sense, replacing human artistry is such a tragedy. there are more artists out of all of us (including ALL human artistry, theatre, animation, writing, drawing, painting, fabric crafts, jewelry) than modern day neocapitalism has to do with. to accept this change in automation of jobs is not just an ideological triffle, it has major implications of how we perceive art, how it affects our art, creation, and the world around us. especially in this upcoming wave ,signalled by the above, of AI art overtaking the many people who animating and painting/illustration is their art and passion.
yesterday i was hiking with my dog and passed by a family with their 14 yo princess of darkness trotting behind them in very unsuitable clothes and uncomfortable shoes that clearly weren't meant to get dirty on forest mud. oh the quintessential teenage experience of doing something in a way that is stupid and sucks because it's important that it's your own way 🫡
The experience of being a teenager, especially, is relentlessly being forced to do things by authority figures who have arbitrary power over you. As a result "Okay, I'll do it, but I'll do it in the least compliant way possible" is a persistent and entirely sympathetic element of being a teenager
Okay as someone who professionally works with kids, I'll weigh on on this and say: the thing about defiance and "brattiness" is they are defense mechanisms for having no power in your life.
Kids and teens do not have power in their life. Even in the most ideal of circumstances. They can't really make informed choices about voting or houses and especially in America, the entire social structure is hostile to letting them go where they want to go.
So OP is absolutely right and put it beautifully. "it's important that it's your own way." I've seen preverbal babies force their shoes off their feet in response to a completely unrelated obligation because I can force them to take a nap but I can't make them take a nap AND nicely keep their shoes on. It is arguably a pretty stupid defiance, but defiance isn't about being smart.
It's the scream of a person without power insisting if they have no choice but to do this, they will do it their way! And that's more important than practicality. It's more important than being reasonable.
I firmly believe that deep down adults aren't less bratty or defiant than kids are- they're just given more leeway and power so they're more used to having control and use that to cope. The average 30-year-old would absolutely have a meltdown in the pasta aisle if they were regularly dragged to places they didn't want to be by another adult who they were never allowed to be away from or choose where they were going besides very limited exceptions.
(also disclaimer that in using the term "bratty" I am by no means condemning this behavior. It's born of a frustration that is completely understandable.)
also thinking about this gif my bf found
#someone should make a reverse gif and just write TESTOSTERONE so we have both (via @localcryptideli)
oh hey I know how to make gifs now, I could do this!

















