i like thinking abt how ppl have probably had OCs forever like even if they werent writers or artists. some boy in 1040s finland was probably imagining a little guy who tamed wolves or something. its smile to me

At least they’re honest

my hand needed smth to do

lil doodle of travis and laurance under cut

Au where Laurance is self-aware he’s a character in a Minecraft roleplay and now he’s just waiting for aphmau to return to mystreet so his part can be continued, but as time goes on and aphmau does other thing, he starts to realize that aphmau won’t return and decides to adventure out of the Minecraft world aphmau abandoned him in and sees how aphmau’s old fans have move on to other creators.

How I came up with this? Listening to Drift away covers all day.

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Rant about Mystreet Season 6

Now I love Aphmau’s channel and series, have since I was 10, but this last season of Mystreet and parts of season 5 could have been so much better. This is meant to be no “attack” or “jab” at Jess and Jason’s writing, these are merely opinions from a long-time fan. I am gonna go on a bit of a rant about the parts I personally feel could have been MUCH improved on. I would like to preface this with saying that I really do not enjoy this season and therefore do not re watch it a lot. Its also 4:40 am my time so this might turn into a sleep deprived ramble but anyways, here we go…

SPOILERS FOR SEASON 5/6 OF APHMAUS MYSTREET 

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where's the post-atla comic where some water tribesmen and fire nation nobles decide that an arranged marriage for the fire lord would help smooth out post-war relations between them, but then they realise that the princess of the northern water tribe is now a celestial body and the southern chief's daughter is super publicly dating the avatar so breaking THAT up would just be a terrible move, both politically and also for anyone who doesn't want to get frozen in a block of ice

TL:DR Zuko and Sokka are playing meatsword (in which you eat meat off a sword) when they're told that they're engaged

Sokka: I don't want to get arranged married! I like to make my own choices!

Hakoda: come on son, I mean it's not like you or Zuko were going to get involved with anyone else

Sokka and Zuko:

Sokka: can you even imagine US, holding HANDS and KISSING

Zuko:

Sokka: well it took a lot of twists and turns, but who would have thought that in working together to get our marriage called off that Zuko and I would fall in love for real and want to get married anyway? amazing how love works ❤

Aang: Sokka your two nations are furious, they both saw you guys refusing the betrothal as an act of war, you guys nearly caused an international incident over a wedding you ended up holding anyway

Sokka: haha yeah my fiancé can catch lightning with his hands 😍

narrative foils to lovers

You know what the most frustrating thing about the vegans throwing a fit over my “Humans aren’t Parasites” post is?  I really wasn’t trying to make a point about animal agriculture. Honestly, the example about subsistence hunting isn’t the main point. That post was actually inspired by thoughts I’ve been having about the National Park system and environmentalist groups.

See, I LOVE the National Parks. I always have a pass. I got to multiple parks a year. I LOVE them, and always viewed them as this unambiguously GOOD thing. Like, the best thing America has done. 

BUT, I just finished reading this book called “I am the Grand Canyon” all about the native Havasupai people and their fight to gain back their rights to the lands above the canyon rim. Historically, they spent the summer months farming in the canyon, and then the winter months hunter-gathering up above the rim. When their reservation was made though, they lost basically all rights to the rim land (They had limited grazing rights to some of it, but it was renewed year to year and always threatened, and it was a whole thing), leading to a century long fight to get it back. 

And in that book there are a couple of really poignant anecdotes- one man talks about how park rangers would come harass them if they tried to collect pinon nuts too close to park land- worried that they would take too many pinon nuts that the squirrels wanted. Despite the fact that the Havasupai had harvested pinon nuts for thousands and thousands of years without ever…like…starving the squirrels. 

There’s another anecdote of them seeing the park rangers hauling away the bodies of dozens of deer- killed in the park because of overpopulation- while the Havasupai had been banned from hunting. (Making them more and more reliant on government aid just to survive the winter months.) 

They talk about how they would traditionally carve out these natural cisterns above the rim to catch rainwater, and how all the animals benefitted from this, but it was difficult to maintain those cisterns when their “ownership” of the land was so disputed. 

So here you have examples of when people are forcibly separated from their ecosystem and how it hurts both those people and the ecosystem. 

And then when the Havasupai finally got legislation before Congress to give them ownership of the rim land back- their biggest opponent was the Parks system and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (a big conservation group here in the US) ran a huge smear campaign against these people on the belief that any humans owning this land other than the park system (which aims at conservation, even while developing for recreation) was unacceptable. 

And it all got me thinking about how, as much as I love the National Parks, there are times when its insistence that nature be left “untouched” (except, ya know, for recreation) can actually harm both the native people who have traditionally been part of those ecosystems AND potentially the ecosystems themselves. And I just think there’s a lot of nuance there about recognizing that there are ways for us to be in balance with nature, and that our environmentalism should respect that and push for sustainability over preserving “pristine” human-less landscapes. Removing ourselves from nature isn’t the answer. 

But apparently the idea that subsistence hunting might actually not be a moral catastrophe really set the vegans off.  Woopie. 

shshshsh guys they’re looking at each other

Emotion-based magic is just...10/10. Characters causing destruction in a rage, only to be horrified by what they’ve done? Excellent. Characters being ten times stronger when someone they love is in danger? Wonderful. Characters claiming they don’t care, yet their magic says otherwise? Perfect.

TIL dogs on mushrooms is a thing