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what gear is this..?
LOL I love you can tell he is at a OXXO 🤣
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Ilia fucking Malinin’s world record breaking free skate
Oh my God every bit of this is wild
-when he does the first big jump the announcers start screaming. I don't understand enough of what I'm looking at to get what about this is breaking records but the announcers screaming was a pretty big clue
-He's dancing to music from Succession????? I don't recognize all of it but some of it is definitely the theme from Succession. At one point the audience claps along to the music. And I'm not sure if it's out of support for the skater or because they like the song 🤣
-when he finishes he just lays down on the ice incredible
THAT'S MY BOY!!! I SKATE AT HIS RINK!!!
- That first big jump is a Quadruple Axel. It's 4.5 rotations in the air (you take off forwards rather than backwards, which is the extra half rotation). Nobody else in the world can do this jump it's so hard. He is the first and only person to ever land it cleanly, much less consistently. He had to land it cleanly here to have any hope of winning the World Champion title.
- Yes, he's skating to music from Succession! The audience is clapping in support because he was doing so well (also because it was hosted in Montreal and the audience was very supportive of all the skaters that evening).
- He lays down on the ice because he just broke multiple world records. He landed all 6 types of quadruple jumps cleanly, which no one has ever done at all (again, because he's the only one that can do the quad Axel), much less in a single program like this. This was an insane feat of athletic ability! If you go watch the other guys who competed against him, Yuma Kagiyama was in second place by 20 fucking points, and Yuma skated with no falls. This is Micheal Phelps / Katie Ledecky levels of smashing the competition (sorry the only other sport I know is swimming).
Some other notes for everyone:
- Ilia listed that first jump as a Triple Axel on the sheet you give to the judges, meaning that he wasn't committed to doing the Quad Axel. (Technically you're not committed to anything on the sheet but it's generally your "plan" for the program.) He also doesn't do a quad axel in the 6-minute warmup beforehand when he does go and do it in the program, so it was a complete toss-up as to whether he was going to go for it. It's incredible that he manages to land the jump so perfectly without warming it up first!
- He was 3rd coming into this skate from the previous short program. (All skating competitions require you to skate 2 different programs, 1 short and 1 long.) In order to win the title, he was going to have to skate without any falls, especially because his one strong point is his jumps and other skaters are stronger in other areas. There are many, many skaters who fall on their quad jumps, even when they're just doing one. It is so fucking hard to do even one of the 6 types of quad jumps. And he just does all 6! In one program! Insanity!
- He did a 4 Lutz - 3 Flip at the halfway point of his program. Almost no one puts a Flip on the end of their combos, it'll usually be a Salchow instead because it's much easier. The only other skater I can think of to put a Flip on the end of a combo is Shoma Uno (who was also at these championships but didn't have a good skate).
- His last jumping pass was a combo that was supposed to be a 3 Lutz - 2 Axel. He decided, in the moment, to change the 2 Axel to a 3 Axel. Nobody else has ever attempted this, much less succeeded. It is orders of magnitude more difficult to do another rotation to the second jump in a combo, at the very end of a 4.5 minute sprint no less.
In short, this kid is wild, had the performance of a lifetime, and I had the blessed opportunity to witness it.
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Book 2 au with Zuko and Katara Lee and Huamei
Katara is separated from her friends, and so she's left to travel the earth kingdom on her own. She stumbles across Zuko, who is similarly travelling on his own. They decide that pairing up and travelling together would be best
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I just finished ATLA, and about to start Korra and couldn't help but imagine the straw hats in that universe.
Would Nami be a fire bender because of her affinity to lighting with her clima-tact or would she be an air bender because of her job to understand the wind as a navigator? Or would she be none? Ohh it's so hard
If Luffy were the avatar, would he be originally a firebender? I do think so and it would be interesting to know that maybe water is the element he struggles with more; fluidity and the patience of doing a push and pull?
Ohh thinking all their roles is HARD
OKAY BUT I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS!!
Luffy: obviously the avatar but he is born as an air nomad but not a part of the temples, more like actual nomads just roaming the world. He learns he's the avatar fairly young and learns bending as he travels the world and from his nomad family which is a mixture of a bunch of benders and non benders. Dandan, is an Earth Bender as well as Garp, both of which struggle to teach him because he absolutely does not like to listen to them. He learns a lot of his fire bending from Ace. Sabo is a non bender so he teaches him hand to hand combat. Air bending he teaches himself mainly. It isn't until the Strawhats come together that he starts to learn waterbending from Robin.
Zoro: He is a non benders but was raised in the fire nation at his dojo. He trains a lot more to make up for his non bending skills and still drives to be the best swordsman in the world and take down Mihawk, who is a Firebender.
Nami: I can see her going multiple ways but I lean heavily into her being an Airbender. Nojiko is a water bender and Bellemere is a nonbender. Nami I can see using her airbending mainly to help with her sailing skills and predicting the weather.
Usopp: Another non bender!! That why he likes to tinker with his machines, to attempt to make up what he lacks. I can see him trying to bond with zoro over it and zoro just being like, uh huh, sure.
Sanji: Firebender!! Obviously has ties to the royal family so he learned from the best. Uses his bending mainly for cooking and still doesn't fight with his hands. Zeff is also a firebender and taught him everything he knows still.
Chopper: a nonbender again. I've thought about him being a waterbender and that is a possibility but idk I don't see him having the affinity for water. He was born into the water tribe and learned a lot of healing things from Doctorine still as she is a water bender. But I also think of him as still being a reindeer and so idk if those fish would allow a reindeer to be able to water bend. If so, then yes! Waterbender!
Robin: waterbender! She can also bloodbend! Only during the full moon tho. She learned from her mom some basic moves then taught herself after he mom left. She has a big collection of scrolls too. She teaches Luffy waterbending which he tends to struggle with because of his limited patience. She discovered she could blood bend the night of the buster call but doesn't like using it unless absolutely necessary.
Franky: Earthbender who can also metal bend! It's how he makes a lot of his ships and weapons. Usopp gets very jealous but Franky teaches him new ways of making things without using bending. He mainly metal bends but will Earth bend if necessary. He learned bending from Tom and taught himself metal bending after he died.
Brook: Another nonbender! He was a nomad with his old crew like Luffy and that's how he learned how to make music. He's kinda just the same but nothing wrong with that.
Jinbe: obviously a waterbender. All Fishmen, mermaids, and mermen are water benders. They developed Fishman Karate to implement their waterbending into it. He teaches Robin and Luffy this way of fighting. Possibly chopper too if he's a waterbender.
I love this, but here's my take:
Zoro is an Earthbender! He comes from Kyoshi Island, his best friend, Kuina was a trainee to become a Kyoshi Warrior. He admired so much the warriors that one day he bursted into the dojo demanding to be trained. Because he is an earthbender, the sensei send him to train with the Earthbenders, however he and Kuina train together every day apart from curios eyes in secret getting each other stronger. After Kuina's accident, he decided to go and find his own pat, but not before the sensei (who knew what Kuina and him were doing in secret) named him an honorary warrior of Kyoshi Island and gift him a rare sword that legend says it was Kyoshi's before she favored the fans.
Chopper, because we don't have devils fruits in this universe, he is either a full reindeer or a normal kid. If he is a reindeer I see him be like Appa and Momo to the group, but that will mean we still need a doctor on the crew (maybe Law?). However, I like to think of him more like a normal kid. We'll, "normal" in the sense he is human. He is a orphan kid born from mixbender parents. He is from the northern water tribe (I think they are likely to be more xenophobic that the southern tribe), but he has the look of a firebender (golden eyes, black hair, pale skin —you know, instead of the blue nose —), so his look has ostrich him all his life, even though he is a waterbender himself. That has make him to be and indoor shy kid. Is Doctorine (his grandma?) who teach him healing waterbender, and even if he is the best students, he is not recognized or accepted because people think he is a firebender ready to emerge and/or because he is a water-healer boy.
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Anonymous asked:
I personally dislike kataang but narratively they were built up (no matter how weakly) were built to end up together. How was Zutara built up honestly ... no offense
How so? What is your definition of ‘narratively built up’? Is it ‘thematically of course they have to get together, because Aang is the hero and the hero gets the girl’? Is it ‘Aang had obvious feelings for her from the start, so obviously she’d have to eventually return them, regardless whether or not the work is put into the narrative for it to make sense’? Neither of those things count as build up for me so much as ‘this is the goal the showrunners had in mind, and they were willing to force it even if, narratively, it no longer made sense by the end of the show’.
For me, narrative build-up requires attention to be paid to both characters in the relationship. Both characters’ feelings need to matter, get narrative focus, and be developed through the story. It just doesn’t work if only one character gets any focus, even the main character, unless the other is a side-character who exists only to be a romantic interest. This, obviously, doesn’t apply to Kataang (though it could have applied to Maiko--there didn’t need to be much beyond ‘Mai still likes Zuko’ on her side, but unfortunately, Zuko’s feelings were never developed on-screen either; this seems to be a running problem with the main relationships in atla, although sukka managed to be the exception), which is a relationship between two main characters. Both of them are main, viewpoint characters. Both of them have eps dedicated to their own individual arcs.
But, for some reason, only Aang’s romantic feelings were considered important enough to actually develop.
How, again, does that count as ‘narrative build up’? Or, for that matter, how does that count as more narrative build up than Zutara, which is a relationship built on mutual development? It is a relationship arc that spans the entire series, where Katara’s feelings towards Zuko are just as important as Zuko’s feelings towards her. Katara doesn’t just change her mind and forgive Zuko because he wants her to--Zuko goes out of his way to prove himself to her, and she makes the decision herself when her feelings do change. A process we see happening on-screen.
We never get to see how Katara goes from ‘I’m confused’ and being upset that Aang kissed her without her consent to making out with him on that balcony. That, to me? Is the opposite of narrative build-up.
As for how Zutara was built up? You could obviously make the argument that everything about their relationship arc was platonic, and that’s your right--canonically, the romantic potential was never followed through (although, as members of the fandom, we reserve the right to reject canon’s reality and substitute our own; that’s what transformative works are all about). But that doesn’t mean the foundation wasn’t there. That doesn’t change the fact that the final Agni Kai is one of the most romantically-coded scenes in the show. (And before anyone comes back with ‘he would’ve taken that lightning for anyone’, but he didn’t. He took that bolt of lightning to the heart for Katara, and it was written, storyboarded, colored and animated in the most romantic way possible, from the slow-motion shot of his reaction realizing that Azula was targeting Katara, to his screaming ‘no’ as he leapt in front of the lightning bolt, to him being reflected in Katara’s eyes as the world falls away behind her, to her screaming his name and completely forgetting about the incredibly powerful firebender who just tried to kill her, because all she could think about was getting to Zuko’s side to heal him, to the focus on both of their hands in turn as they reached out for each other.......none of that shit happened by accident.)
It also doesn’t change the fact that the story of Oma and Shu is explicitly paralleled to Zuko and Katara’s narrative journey. It wasn’t an accident that Oma and Shu were red and blue coded, despite being Earth Kingdom citizens in a show where the different nations are heavily color-coded, and came from warring peoples and built a path to each other, where they were able to meet in a cave of glowing green crystal, and then, centuries later, Zuko and Katara were from warring peoples and came together in a moment of instant and intense emotional connection in a cave of glowing green crystal.
Nor does it change the fact that Zuko was the one who understood the depth of Katara’s grief and trauma and what she would need in order to heal--far better than Aang or even her own brother did. It wasn’t an accident that Zuko was the one to take Katara on that trip, and it wasn’t an accident that the scene where she makes the choices not to kill Yon Rha parallels the scene where Zuko made the choice not to kill the source of his trauma--Katara let the icicles hang in the air before releasing them harmlessly, and Zuko redirected his father’s lightning blast and sent it into the ground at his feet instead of killing him.
If none of that is ‘narrative build up’, then I have to ask you, dear anon--what is?
Freakin outstanding!
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Dear Aang…
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my loser boy gets his notebook back and immediately gets back to work 🌊
Think about it
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Back to my brief Zutara phase
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why doesn't he open his eye I actually need to know
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"PAIR OF SOULS"
Yeah! I'm finally talking about this babe!!
So, the manga artist group "CLAMP" has this term "pair of souls to refer to what is considered their "star couple"
Basically, according to their own words is a term used for a couple that reincarnates together in any universe and they cannot be reborn separately, if one of them does not exist in that universe, the other does not exist either.
As we can see, Sanji and Nami reincarnate together in any universe, be it animation or live action,
A advertisement based on a highschool AU, a ancient japan AU
As gangsters...
A princess and her guardian...
And not only that, Oda sensei has also stated that whenever he draws Nami immediately he HAS to draw Sanji, other aspect is that in EVERY universe, Sanji always meets Nami and falls for her.
Conclusion: it could be said that Nami and Sanji are the "pair of souls" of One Piece 🧡💙🍊🚬
Thanks for coming to this TedTalk...
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A finished version of this sketch previously shared. ^-^ Pose idea is based on Luffy grabbing his crew(I've included Vivi, Karoo, and Yamato as well)and jumping up in the air as they prepare for a fall. Also they're dressed in hoodies I designed for fun. Thank you for viewing my doodle! ^-^
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Holy shit since one of the last human parts of Franky is his back do you think Robin is always touching it? Massaging it or even just leaning against it? Planting little kisses all over it as Franky melts in her arms.
It's one of the last places he has full sensation so she makes sure to give it attention. She likes to trace messages on it and make him try to guess what they are. He's probably ticklish. So if anyone walks by his workshop in the evenings you can usually hear a giggling Franky as he tries to tell Robin to stop or they'll get caught.