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Vampire and his human wife after years of marriage

Charles took her to macy’s

people with bad taste are always like “yurr hurr The Beach is about zuko and mai and how they’re a great couple” while intellectuals know that Actually The Beach is about mining any and all of the untapped friendship potential of this striking exchange

One of the best twist moments in Avatar is when Ty Lee suddenly and dramatically turns against Azula at the Boiling Rock. Azula was completely convinced that Ty Lee would obey her without question forever, but Azula wasn’t the only one fooled. Mai is just as shocked when Ty Lee rebels as Azula is. Ty Lee’s survival instincts were so sharp that she never let anyone know what she was thinking, not Azula, not Mai, and certainly not Zuko.

Zuko really believed that Ty Lee didn’t understand who he was at all. He completely bought into the act that she’s just a puppet for Azula, who lives in her “little Ty Lee world where everything’s great all the time”. But the thing is, Ty Lee is one of the most perceptive characters in the show, and she’s excellent at keeping that on the down low, but she sees a lot more of Zuko than he thinks, and a lot of what she sees is very familiar to her.

Overshadowed by prodigious siblings?

Wanting to be acknowledged for the talents you have rather than the talents you don’t?

Kept in line by fear?

Spending your whole life bending over backwards to fit the persona the royal family has set for you?

So yeah Zuko. She knows you.

This characterization is definitely emphasized with Ty Lee’s acrobatics, flexibility, and ability to hit pressure points. There’s a level of subtlety and precision that is required for such skills. She had to know her own body to be able to bend it in such ways, and she has to know other people’s bodies to be able to disable them.

And pretty much from the moment you meet her, it’s fairly clear that there’s more to her than her lighthearted, bubbleheaded persona, long before she uses her battle skills. Look at what happens when Azula recruits her. 

Azula used blatant intimidation tactics to get Ty Lee to comply, ordering the net to be set on fire and all the animals released (which, for the record, would not only have endangered Ty Lee but the circus creatures themselves–I bet Ty Lee was attached to them, and that would’ve been a double threat in itself). Ty Lee is visibly terrified, but instead of calling her out or letting Azula see that she was intimidated, she says this:

Instead of endangering herself by pointing out that Azula crossed a line, Ty Lee falls back on her talk of “the universe” and “auras,” talk that canonically gets her indulged or dismissed but never taken seriously. 

She knows that Azula’s dangerous. There’s no way she doesn’t know that Azula is threatening her. But if she can keep Azula from realizing she knows that, she’s a little safer. 

Because she’s one of maybe two people Azula never considered as potential enemies–even (especially, but that’s another thread) Ozai is a threat in her mind, but Mai and Ty Lee are the closest thing Azula has to trusted friends, right up until their betrayal. 

Ty Lee’s spent a lifetime cultivating a personality that not only allows her to stands out among her siblings–it protects her from being treated as a threat. When you’re friends with Azula, that is an essential facade to maintain.  and she does it consistently enough that no one ever sees through it.

All of the Fire Nation kids are so messed up. Zuko’s just the one who gets in the most trouble, because he’s the only one who doesn’t have a mask.

I'm a Straight White Man every day of my life, on Wednesday Nights I just wanna be a lesbian!

~my friend on his Druid character who is searching for her wife

Funny story about that actually, she’s figured out that she IS a lesbian 7 days a week

We got another one girls

I can’t recommend Shimanami Tasogare enough...

for one, the manga has some of the best lgbtq+ representation i’ve seen in any manga. 

the story weaves together the divergent experiences of gay, lesbian, trans, asexual, and nonbinary characters - both young and old - as they carve out a community for themselves in a Japanese town. 

the writing and characterization feels realistic and deeply personal. i should note that the mangaka - kamatani yuhki - identifies as x-gender and asexual. 

kamatani’s art is also jaw-dropping. 

the level of detail in some panels is incredible. 

many panels take on a surreal, dreamlike quality, symbolizing the jumbled emotions of the characters.

and i can’t get over how well the mangaka captured emotion on the characters’ faces. 

for anyone looking for a manga that will move you - and push forward representation in the medium - shimanami tasogare is it ! 

idk about you guys but I think this is the best video to ever exist

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HIS NAME IS MAMESUKE. THAT’S LIKE CALLING A DOG “BEANBOY”

Really want to crochet myself a whole cardigan but I have the attention span of a fruit fly so I'm just gonna keep making beanies and flip flops for my cat I guess

The aforementioned kitty flips 🥺

one thing that NEVER fails to crack me up about the lightning thief is how everyone is like oh haha percy is so SLOW on the uptake, but it’s ABSOLUTELY not his fault nobody explains SHIT to him lol

percy: hi mr brunner

chiron: oh that’s not my name actually

percy: um okay. does mr d stand for something?

dionysus: names are powerful things. you don’t just go around using them for no reason.

percy: can someone tell me what the hell is going on

chiron: did ur mom not tell u anything?

percy’s mom: *is now dead, had been keeping secrets because it was dangerous to tell him which chiron should KNOW because HE DID THE SAME THING

*percy sees the oracle* what’s up there?

chiron: not a single living thing

luke: you’ll be in cabin eleven until you get claimed.

percy: how long will that take?

*nobody answers*

and the ALL TIME WINNER:

annabeth: Monsters don’t die, Percy. They can be killed. But they don’t die.

percy thru the entire first half of the lightning thief:

arabic poetry is so beautifully yet painfully romantic, i mean “they asked “do you love her to death?” i said “speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life" and “because my love for you is higher than words, i've decided to fall silent" could have got jane austen crying and shaking

smell that? that's browned butter, kid. you're out of your fuckin league.

OMG That is so cute!!

Also the reason that the cat did this is actually because they are mirroring their owner. If their owner treats the thing (or in this case book) with respect and has made it very clear with their actions that the thing is important the cat will take notice and mirror this behavior!

Great addition! However, this is actually because the cat is Muslim.

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