The Stucky is Strong With This One

All summer and fall, beavers gather up branches with the leaves they actually eat, and store it in the deep end of the Pond, where the cold water and limited oxygen keep the leaves fresh all winter, so when it's negative 20 outside, a beaver can take a dip out of it's lodge, grab some refrigerated leaves in the (relatively) warmer water and go back to it's cozy little nap hole while everything else is out there suffering and eating bark or the like.

Child cries, adult asks why, child provides story about why they cry.

Child comes home from school, adult asks how their day was, child tells stories about little snippets of what they remember about the day, or what they learned, or why dinosaurs are cool.

Every human exchange is a portion of telling a story. It's why everyone thinks they can be a writer, because everyone already tells stories, so it must be as simple as just writing it all down, right?

This is What We Do.

So here's the thing:

Fanfiction is Humans Telling Stories in Common Languages.

So someone - I'll leave the name out - happened to be a Human Telling Stories in a Common Language, using ideas and monsters and plots that Other Humans Already Knew, because they were from Human Stories Already Told.

That same someone then went to a court and got a court to terrify actual GENERATIONS of humans into Not Telling Stories in their Common Language. Because she didn't want them to Tell Stories Like Hers.

This same someone decided to incite hatred and vitriol and death threats against anyone who Broke Her Personal Rules, including simply performing Story Analysis on her work. She didn't want people to Read her Stories and then Talk About Them.

She was really out there, on every platform, using her voice and freedom in every way, to... Stop everyone else from doing the exact same thing she enjoyed doing.

Not only that, she profited off of doing so.

And we're supposed to be sad that this particular person and their toxic energy isn't on the planet anymore?

There are only so many things one can resist.

This means that at the same time that cowboys were reaching their end, so too were samurai.

I couldn’t find the og post so I had to yoink this off reddit, but: 

Japanese. Tentacle. Porn.

Alright everyone sit your asses down and shut up I’m finna learn y’all a thing

Ok so in the early 1900s there’s this dude named Franz Ferdinand and then there’s some peeps that wanna kill him. They all get together one day to kill him while he’s in his car. The first one was a pussy and chickened out and the second one threw a grenade but forgot to factor in the delay so it blew up way passed his car so he took cyanide and jumped into a river but the cyanide was expired and therefore useless and the river was like six inches deep. The rest of them were like “fuck this” and went to get a sandwich. However, Ferdinand’s driver took a wrong turn and was like “oh well I’ll just turn around at this sandwich shop” and the guys were like “oh shit isn’t that the guy we’re trying to kill” and they shot him starting WW1.

The Germans got their asses handed to them in WW1 causing them to get all butthurt and put hitler into power. Around this time Japan was trying to take over eastern Asia (basically just a small portion of China but its the thought that counts) and Germany was like “hey do you guys wanna be friends and take over the world together?” And Japan was like “hell ya my dude” and WW2 started. Also Italy was there. Anyway Germany/Japan/Italy all got their asses kicked and much like post WW1 Germany, Japan got a much stricter government. Their new strict government outlawed porn but the people of Japan were horny and one guy was like “hey guys do you remember those American soldiers that were just here kicking our asses? Well they brought these things called comic books so maybe we could make porn in comic book style” thus the birth of hentai. But then the government tried to ban that because it still showed dicks and dicks weren’t allowed so they started drawing porn with any relitively dick shaped object, the most popular being tentacles. It became so popular that even after the porn ban was lifted people continued making tentacle porn because it was such a widespread fetish.

So there you have it:

The Spirits: Oh look, the avatar.

I'm so glad you asked anon! Here's a long ass reply. Let's talk about Ty Lee x Zuko (TyZu?)

First their outward personalities have that opposites attract going on for them. Ty Lee, outwardly, is this very bubbly (at times can even be described as this ditzy) girl who talks about auras, energies, and the universe. Then, at the opposite end you have Zuko, a boy who's easy to anger, loud, and genuinely hostile demeanor. Zuko is someone who takes everything seriously and pairing him up with someone who doesn't seem to take anything seriously at all is fun. The dynamic of the Moody One and the Happy One is a pretty common trope and I think it's an interesting thing to see with pink and bubbly Ty Lee and dour asshole Zuko.

However, this pairing doesn't just go skin deep. No siree. What makes this pairing super interesting to me is that their inner selves and motivations kind of complement each other too. You have these two characters who feel like they have to prove themselves. Zuko wants to get his honor back and he will do whatever it takes to make it so. Ty Lee wants her independence, wants an identity that's only for herself and not a matched set like her sisters.

In a way they have a similar problem with family, you look at Zuko wanting to prove himself at par or better than Azula. You have Ty Lee who literally joined a circus just so she can set herself apart from the rest of her family.

The way they project themselves to world is opposite to each other too. Zuko wants to show the world that he's strong and he's powerful so he tries to project that. Sometimes his arrogance and hubris causes him to fail. But with Ty Lee, she projects this air of smiley nonchalance. Like she has no care in the world and that's by design. She wants people to think that so they can underestimate her and let their guard down because as we see in the beach episode, she's always watching.

Speaking of the beach episode, remember when Ty Lee said "I know you" to Zuko. So, what if after the whole debacle at the bon fire, Zuko decides to figure Ty Lee out too? Zuko who puts up no facades so Ty Lee sees right through him, takes a step back and figures out who Ty Lee really is what parts are an act and what parts aren't. Zuko does this because he's angry that someone would have the gall to even think that they knew him and what he's gone through. What if along the way Zuko does relate to her because of the aforementioned reasons above and they find someone who understands. Ty Lee gets someone who finally sees her and her hidden depths which makes her lose her footing. And Zuko would have someone who could actually understand him.

[ID: A digital drawing of Zuko and Katara from Avatar the Last Airbender. In the first image, Zuko and Katara stand back to back in an open field of grass during the day time under clear skies, they’re both posed in water-bending stances. In the second image, the first panel, Zuko looks over his shoulder at Katara as he wears a smirk on his face. In the second panel, similarly Katara is looking over her shoulder, returning Zuko’s smirk with a knowing smile.] ty jeb for helping me with the image description!!

Several minutes later there comes a moment when her and Zuko are in sync—it’s fleeting but Katara catches it with a trained eye and her heart skips a beat. She doesn’t know why but something about it makes her nervous, and seconds later she realizes it’s because of how well they work together. She’s so used to being alone and doing everything herself—being the only waterbender in her tribe, being the only cook, cleaner and caretaker for everyone—that sharing a moment with anyone scares her. 

Yet as Zuko slowly but surely begins to match her movements, the thought of sharing moments of peace with someone who accepts her for who she is doesn’t scare her as much anymore.

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