i chose my name for puns

#this is one of those 'oh yeah we're stewards of the planet' moments #the skill with which she grabbed that bird tho #apex predators who take it upon themselves to heal and repair little things…

@a-rogue-god

avatar the last airbender where sokka throws fireworks at people for maximum damage

he gets EXTREMELY offended when they add Zuko to the group because CLEARLY Aang already HAS a firebending teacher

prev tags: #bonus points if Zuko just came for the traitor bonus points because uuuuh#he also? thought the Avatar had a firebending master already?#he's got the waterbender who went from zero to epic in one season#the earthbender who keeps calling him out over his heartbeat while kneading metal between her hands#and the firebender who bends literally unlike anything Zuko's seen before. this all checks out.#what why is everyone staring at him. WHAT.#Sokka: *smugs so hard he keeps anyone from telling Zuko until the Boiling Rock*#*when he needs to VERY QUICKLY drag Zuko away from some VERY AWKWARD conversations with his father*#Zuko: doesn't know if Sokka is a firebender on his mother's side or his father's but is trying to be very supportive of Hakoda raising him-#Hakoda: ...What conversation did my son just stop me from having#later at the air temple: handmade rainbow steamers unfurl over Sokka's room as Hakoda stands supportively underneath#HAPPY PRIDE#DAD I'M NOT GAY I'M A FIREBENDER#...what.#avatar the last airbender#ATLA#Toph munching popcorn: why not both?

When you're unable to solve an IT problem at work, there really is nothing quite like having it escalated all the way up the ladder. With every step, there is a degree of smugness about how real my problem is, and that yes, I was right to have trouble with this.

You can get a minor version of this if one IT person solves it but they spend a bunch of time repeating things you’ve already tried and when they eventually solve it it’s by doing something you wanted to try but didn’t have the requisite permissions to do

Was in a situation where neither I, nor my boss knew what was causing the problem, so we ended up calling one of the head engineers, and ive never experienced anything quite as validating as the moment where said head engineer, after spending several minutes just staring at the problem, quietly said "what the fuck"

#explanation: this references the scene where Hektor the prince of troy goes to his wife after a battle and leans in to kiss his son #(who is still a baby and being held in andromache's arms) #but his son cringes away in fear of his father's battle helmet #it's a gut wrenching scene about how war dehumanizes you and separates you from the people you love #this interpretation implies that being a gamer is analogous

It’s crazy how being aroace automatically makes me so fucking counter culture. Like I’m sorry it’s very apparent to me that so much of life and relationships are based on society’s enforced expectations. I really wish I wasn’t as aware of this as I am, but unfortunately being me does put me in a position where it’s blatantly obvious that every argument pro nuclear family just boils down to “you believe this because society has forced you to believe this”

okay but imagine how inconvenient the streets of Central City, Amestris, is. Like yeah yeah country wide alchemy circle aside- can you IMAGINE the traffic? Like for the Love of Truth can we add another lane on this road?? The cars are backed up for miles! The urban planning board must be the sorriest people in the world. They got no clue what an alchemist circle looks like BUT the Fuhrer keeps showing up for an ominous visit every time they try to get a modicum of reasonable city layout. The zoning laws have got to be pure evil.

The crest of blood in the center was carved over the course of multiple years via traffic fatalities

At that point who even needs a genocide.

white kids get to have quirky racist phases black kids dont get to be kids

black kids get their lives stolen from them if they defend themselves from white kids "going through a phase"

there's this ridiculously soulmatey line in the phm book when grace is just kinda idly wondering aloud about why human and eridian technology are at such similar phases of development, and without thinking about it much rocky responds "has to be, or you and I would not meet." which he goes on to explain as (paraphrasing here) "if either planet were less advanced then we couldn't have built interstellar ships, but if either were more advanced then we could have dealt with the astrophage problem from home, so we'd have to be at around the same level to both be here, that's the only way it would make sense." what it sounds like though is "oh, that's easy: the two of us had to meet so the history of both of our entire species lined up in preparation to make it possible." what kind of tau-ceti-crossed red-petrova-line-of-fate nonsense is this.

like, do I think andy "I don't do politics" "socially liberal fiscally conservative" weir was knowingly and deliberately doing queer gender things with eridians? no, and it would feel especially absurd to say that when the contemporary scifi novel scene is so full of authors who are doing queer gender things on purpose. I think what's happening here is that weir is competent enough to make his characters gnc agender intersex gay men by accident as a result of being committed to worldbuilding an alien species that feels genuinely alien in its social and physical norms, which is the opposite tack to the "how do I create a scifi allegorical representation of an already existing human queer experience" approach that a lot of other authors take. and I can't say I don't enjoy the idea of a gay little he/they genderless rock spouse with a tomboy name who according to the movie apparently works in aquatic habitat maintenance.