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best thing about uncle iroh is that if you pay attention he is actually just as much of an idiot as zuko but has just mastered the art of coming across as a wise old man. the even better thing is that zuko is the only one on the planet who somewhat realizes this and no one would ever believe him because he's zuko

like uncle iroh 100% does dumb shit on purpose sometimes to get people to underestimate him and keep zuko from capturing the avatar, but other times he just, and i cannot emphasize this enough, does impulsive dumb shit for no reason other than the fact that terminal stupid presumably runs in the royal family's blood

uncle: "you never think things through, prince zuko!"

also uncle:

#no wonder zuko was constantly frothing at the mouth! he's the only one who knows the truth!#god just imagine the number of times people have seen zuko yelling at iroh#and assumed zuko was just being mean#when zuko was actually yelling at his uncle for wasting all their money bartering with pirates AGAIN#everyone assumes iroh is babysitting zuko but really they're pingponging responsibility back and forth#and zuko at least has the excuse of being 16#anyway I love Uncle Hypocrite so much; funniest motherfucker on the planet (via OP)

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(background):

As a kid, when your parents are poor, you're poor. If they don't have money, that means none of you have money. But if someone's parents are rich, that doesn't necessarily mean the kid is. Sometimes rich peoples' kids aren't rich kids, they're just some rich freak's exotic pets that can talk but aren't allowed to.

That’s… not how class works

OK, so- my partner was adopted by a rich woman when he was a baby. She's from a prominent family, practically royalty where we're from. She certainly had the means to send him to fancy private school, give him good food, nice clothes/toys, premium healthcare... she chose not to. According to her he was lucky to be "adopted out of poverty" at all and should have been content with what she deigned to give him. And she reminded him of this constantly, all through his childhood.

She dangled the promise of uni in exchange for good behavior and good grades- with terms and conditions, of course. And filling her laundry list of demands was something like pulling teeth whilst jumping through hoops. In the end, did he get to go to uni? Of course not. (And certainly being queer/trans on top of it all did not help things whatsoever).

He cut her off after high school, and when I met him a year ago he had been working as (the equivalent of) an UberEats driver for a living for the last few years, including through the pandemic. (Sixteen hours a day for the equivalent of $6 (six) USD, not including the gas for his shitty rundown scooter; caught COVID twice, suffers from chronic fatigue to this day).

And to this day he still has to be selective about which of our ~leftist anarcho-commie~ friends he divulges this part of his background to- cos all they hear is "raised rich" and then suddenly he's not One of Them because "well teeeeechncially :^) you're from the oppressing class...". Like.... shit, man!

Social rules don't mean shit when it comes to abusive parents. Even rich ones.

Probably especially rich ones.

people are totally on board with the concept of "sufficiently rich people are above the law, and this is bad" but refuse to connect that to the concept of "this also includes laws that protect children from abuse and exploitation"

like we understand "the ruling classes get and maintain their wealth through cruel exploitation of those less powerful" and we can't wrap our heads around "a lifetime of this cruel and merciless behavior being valorized by your peers probably doesn't predispose you to suddenly changing gears once you have a helplessly dependent child that's totally under your control."

like yeah the rich are our enemies in this ongoing class war, absolutely, it's an Us or Them situation to save the planet. but if you don't give a shit about saving the enemy's children too, i don't think very highly of your motivation or your methods.

oh, here's a relevant example I saw just the other day:

Here's a link to a round-up of responses to the budget by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, if you're looking for the lefty response:

This site is so easy

Today's aesthetic: cosmic horror tabletop RPGs from the 1980s whose creators wrote the "madness rules" by simply plagiarising a list of disorders and their descriptions from the DSM-II and turning it into a d100 lookup table, except the DSM-II still listed "homosexuality" as a mental disorder (it wasn't removed until the DSM-III), with the result that there are several published tabletop RPGs where there's a small but non-zero chance that seeing Cthulhu will make you gay.

(Amusingly, one such game was later re-used as the core system for a licensed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles RPG, and the madness rules were carried over verbatim, with the result that seeing Cthulhu can also make your ninja turtle gay.)

Well NOW I'm wondering why in the world a TMNT RPG kept the madness rules at all!

Palladium Books is not known for giving careful consideration to whether a particular game-mechanical subsystem is appropriate – or even relevant – for a particular game before deciding to go ahead and include it.

(They did remove the random madness table from subsequent printings in response to complaints from parents who'd bought the game for their kids, but they didn't bother to update any rules which referred to it, so the second and later printings of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness just have the occasional dangling reference to textually nonexistent mechanics.)

the new madness is the players being gaslit about the existence of the madness table

i actually dont think there's anything funnier than people watching a show or whatever bc they heard it allegedly had gay people in it then getting upset when it includes incredibly normal genre specific tropes that they personally dont like, like maybe you should have checked that before you watched it king and then they get mad at the show for being the show that it is instead of embracing it for what it is. like I'm so sorry that axe murderer 30000 had axe murderers in it and didnt have a happy ending and was really violent but i do think there are some context clues around it that could have let you pick up on that

In case anyone forgot, doesthedogdie.com does still exist.

that is a french man

Ahsoka doing an inverse of the "oh no tomboy character has to wear a dress" trope.

Ahsoka has to attend a state diner or something with bank clan members theyre trying to get dirt on to prove their sabotaging the republic.

And she's fucking stoked.

She gets to act like a fucking girl for once! Not a commander in a skirt but an honest to God pretty girl.

She does a whole spa day to get ready. Rex is trying to relay mission intel and she's doing a sugar scrub. He looks really fucking confused as to what's going on but doesn't ask.

Fives however is not as polite and wants to know what the hell she's doing.

"Sugar scrub" she catches his completely clueless look. "Basically, I'm sanding my face". Que all of the men looking very concerned bc why the hell are you sanding your face?. " makes my skin really soft.

Then she proceeds to have to explain her whole face care routine. Like, this is so remove dead skin. this is acid; it eats dead skin out of my pores. This is clay it dries up skin oils. This is a water based moisturizer.

And that's all before the make up.

By the end of it three of the men are just quietly watching her outline the shape of her marking with white liner. The false eylashes freak them the hell out.

And Ahsoka is having the time of her life. Bumping some cantina music and spritzing herself with b&bw perfume. She gets to wear something other than her durable battle dress. She gets to wear heels!!!

She has to do a test drive for her heels to make sure her feet won't cramp out on her halfway through dinner. So she's strutting down the hall in her pjs and heels.

Obi-wan is politely amused by her giddy stumbly stride.

Then she has a whole strutting down the landing ramp moment with her dangly earings and new dress. Very middle school dance vibes.

Also possibly I think we as a fandom should explore the effect that a male dominated field like the military would have on Ahsoka's perception of feminity especial as a pre-teen in an all-male lineage. Especially as a commanding officer that enjoys being referred to as sir.

OP I hope you don't mind but this reminds me of the final panel from this page of Girl Genius:

omg so we have 1 seeing dog and 1 blind dog and whenever there's a toy they both want, the seeing dog takes it and just...stands very still. immobile. she KNOWS he will try to wrestle it from her but she has figured out that if she does not squeak it, then he will not find it. leading to this.

"god....grant me the strength to not squeak the squeaky toy"

that’s a hard yes

i hope this hasnt been done yet

I dont get it

Harleys and Lalondes?

Science and magic?

Guns and ro-

Homestuck Heritage Post

Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck.  Not bad luck.  I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!

“See him face”

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oh no, something spicey is going on here. guys, get a room

I have to confess I'm always a bit fascinated when I see an artist posting huge quantities of Homestuck fanart, then I creep their archive and it turns out they only got into it, like, last month. It's interesting to see how people interpret the various characters' designs without the context of fifteen years worth of fandom discourse bullshit constraining them. A decade ago that blonde Vriska would have gotten them hounded off the Internet, and now it's just a thing you can do!