Ugh I will always love the concept of Katara using blood bending to revive Zuko after the last agni kai, mostly because it makes no sense to me that Zuko was able to bounce back so easily after being struck by lightning, but also because the way the show treats bloodbending is just odd to me. It was a defense mechanism created by a traumatized victim of some of the most devastating parts of colonization, and although I understand that Hama was supposed to symbolize the "bad parts" of waterbending and was important for Katara's growth in realizing that the world isn't entirely black and white, its still disappointing to me that the show never explored the gray areas of blood bending, especially since that episode was, as I stated above, about understanding the gray areas of the war. Katara using blood bending to revive Zuko would add so much to the last agni kai in demonstrating that she has truly realized that "good" and "evil" are relative concepts, and Zuko being saved by both a defense mechanism of a survivor of colonialism and a type of bending used to terrorize his people would have even added to his arc, as the narrative required him to save and subsequently be saved by the physical embodiment of everything his family sought to annihilate.

Also, if we look at blood bending as a cautionary tale about if oppressed people suddenly had power over their oppressors, Zuko willingly giving Katara that kind of power over him and Katara using that power not for evil but for good is a great way to explore the full circle of both their arcs.

platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine

this beautiful baby is the son of ibrahim abu raida, the 25 y/o executive director of the al nasser charity in gaza, an organization working to distribute food to the displaced. they have many different ways to donate linked on their instagram (linked above) and also have a personal gfm to help with their own rebuilding efforts that is over 80% of the way to its goal.

JUICY DRAMA IS WHAT SNAPS HER OUT OF DEMON POSSESION. I LOVE THIS LESVIAN

You guys I just realized that what I’ve always wanted out of werewolf fiction is a story where lycanthropy isn’t a purely human condition

Like this dude wakes up from his wolfbender and his room is full of all these fucking chickens from local farms that he initiated into his pack. They all start clucking and crowing at the moon and when it’s full they all transform into these tiny little weird bipedal wolves with wings.

I don’t remember making this post but it’s going around again and I’m losing my shit

Imagine becoming a werewolf because you got attacked by a fucked up chicken

A wildlife rehab centre discovers that one of its patients is a lycanthrope when the full moon hits and their wolf transforms into a slightly different wolf.

Oh! What if that’s how the wildlife rehab realizes they have an invasive species in the area. They’re rehabbing arctic wolves and one of their arctic wolves turns into a more southerly gray timber wolf and that’s how they know there are werewolves hiding in the hills on their property. They trace the source and learn that the disease wasn’t even transferred by biting, but by the fact that their arctics and the weres were sharing the same moose-carcass. What a fascinating development in wildlife studies!

If you're in the need for some kind of magical artifact of magic for your setting, consider Fresnel Lenses which are used in lighthouses:

These things are Alive.

Fun fact:

They used to float (and some still do) on a bed of MERCURY.

It's a means of reducing friction during rotation, and one of the lighthouse keepers' jobs used to be cleaning and straining impurities from the mercury.

So yeah that probably did contribute to erratic behavior more than a few times.

The intrepid heroes as muppets

Zuko: There’s something off about her. I can’t explain it but she’s slipping. 

 Azula:

some of my favourite sign fails <3

new purpose

(don't tag as ship)

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I just think Sokka would be a very important person in Kya’s life for multiple reasons but especially as a queer role model

god i see what you do for others…….

just normal royal advisor things