OH GOD, OH GOD We're All Going to Die!

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

oh shit! I am sad for no reason!!!!!!

me, confused: we had a good day. we read some fun stories. we got to pet a cat. AND we got shit done. we are fundamentally godlike and our therapist is gonna high five us so hard, so what's going on w/ you buddy?

brain, sipping margaritas and staring off mournfully into a carribean sunset, whilst nibbling on a tiny paper umbrella: buddy im just not vibin

me: *pokes brain gently w/ their favorite reading material* hey buddy you wanna go outside? U want some belly rubs? I've got treats do u want treats? we can do whatever u wanna do...

brain: *cannot be distracted from frustratedly chewing on its own leg*

me: buddy

Behind the scenes of The Hug™

Selected Excerpts From The Fire Nation Royal Palace Servants' (Unofficial) Handbook

Or: Revisions To Normal Protocol After The Ascension Of Agni's Exalted Flame, The Dragon Of The Sun, et cetera, Fire Lord Zuko

1. Agni's Exalted Flame, The Dragon Of The Sun, et cetera, Fire Lord Zuko should not be referred to by his full titles and styles, no matter the context. This appears to annoy him. "Fire Lord Zuko" and "Lord Zuko" are acceptable, as well as "your majesty" and "my Lord".

1.1 "Lord Hotman", however, is unacceptable.

1.2. Even if the Avatar specifically requests you to address Fire Lord Zuko as that.

Two mimir

Tags: @thehistoriangirl @silcoitus @juniper-sunny @ihopeinevergetsoberr

@hizukkahere wrote an amazing poem about Zukka and I had to make a melody for it.  “The boy from the south gave his kiss to the moon And lost her again to the sky The boy from the south gave his heart to the earth And had to forgive her goodbye/ And with nothing to give the sun gave his hand The boy from the south asking why With a laugh like the rain and a dragon behind The sun promised he’d show him to fly”

I kind of imagine if becomes a folk song that people sing in the four nations and most people think it’s a myth or a metaphor but it’s actually about the Fire Lord and his Ambassador husband. 

THIS FEELS WAY TOO PERSONAL SHOULD I EVEN BE HERE?????

THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.

No. Just NO.

I’m so glad someone put it into words.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a legend, and he’s absolutely right.

And I really feel like there are parts of fandom that don’t get or don’t believe this, and I think that’s troubling.  I’ve seen arguments that people shouldn’t have dark fantasies, or that bad impulses in themselves make a bad person.  I’ve seen so much shaming over thoughts.

And if you get to a point where it’s bad to have dark thoughts and it’s bad to wonder what something would be like and it’s bad to put yourself in the shoes of anyone who isn’t “pure”, if fiction is no longer a realm where you can confront and explore, but an ongoing test of moral purity… well, maybe not everyone’s brain works like mine, but I feel like that takes away something incredibly important to being human.

Purity culture is gonna kill art if y’all let it.

Fiction is a safe place to explore whatever fucked up or dark desire that you have. You can write the most vile and fucked up shit in fiction and it be absolutely nothing you desire in real life. You can write about a serial killer who gets away with it. You can write about someone who goes on moral crusades to purge the world of all evils and still be the protagonist. You can write anything in fiction because that’s what it is meant for. 

It isn’t meant to be a social commentary unless you create it to be. 

It isn’t meant to be educational unless you create it to be. 

Sometimes a story can be just that, a story. Entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less. 

Not everything has to be deep, or have meaning, etc. unless the creator wants it to be and a lot of the purity types end up forcing something to have deep meaning or social commentary where it isn’t meant to.  Is this inherently bad? No, but these people don’t just say “But this is my interpretation of it.” they go as far as trying to force that interpretation onto everyone else, including the creator, as a means of saying “See? It means that they promote/condone xyz so they’re bad and shitty people who should spend the rest of their life in jail with/are the same as people who’ve actually committed acts of violence against other people.” 

THANK. YOU.

@ all the people in the notes saying “yes except u can’t write about (list of immoral things they don’t want to see in fiction)” congrats on missing the point so spectacularly I’m not sure I could create better performance art if I tried

What too many people fail to understand about art - which no doubt negatively impacts their overall media literacy - is that a very large portion of it is a result of pursuing catharsis. This has a much broader meaning than it sounds like it does. As pointed out by the quote above, people have an irrational desire to experience everything, even things they don’t actually want. That’s where a lot of intrusive thoughts come from - it’s just your brain fighting with itself a bit, because biology is complicated, and it’s normal.

Just about everything somebody makes comes from dealing with that inner need. Whether it’s meant to say something you think is important or is simply an idea you wanted to play with because it seemed interesting - art of all kinds comes from the catharsis of letting that desire out. When you realize that, it becomes much easier to understand that not everything (or even most things) someone writes or draws are a direct reflection of their real-world values.

Psychology and art are too complex for surface-level observation with a heavy bias to net you any accurate information about a person. There’s just too much that goes into it for all for it to work more often than a broken clock.

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