I'm just here

Her Ladyship, Katara of the Southern Water Tribe

and then I thought about what it must have been like for the first humans to let a fucking wolf, maybe only a few generations from the wild, behold their infant child. Like man can u believe that? Maybe this alliance is only a few years old and sure you’ve seen the wolf’s kids but now you’ve got one of your own. And even though you’ve seen this wolf tear out the throats of creatures that could kill you, this wolf is your family. This wolf is your friend, you love them and they love you and you gotta show ‘em the new kid, look, friend, I had a child. I know you are wild and dangerous, but look at this, my most precious thing, sniff him, give him a lil lick, his children and your children will be bound together for thirty thousand fucking years because I love you

Rated T, 1575 words

In an attempt to encourage Cora-san to start smoking less and less, Law offers himself as replacement for his cigarettes. Cora-san sets Law back on his lap. He noses the spot right under Law’s ear. He grazes his teeth over Law’s nape and nips at the skin, trailing a path of little bites from one side of his neck to the other one. Law sighs in his arms and leans back against Cora-san’s chest. To other people’s chagrin, this keeps happening while they’re out in public.

Water is way more hydrating than soda, but soda is more hydrating than nothing. A balanced meal is way more nutritious than ice cream, but ice cream is more nutritious than nothing.

Something is better than nothing. Some hydration is better than no hydration. Some nutrients are better than no nutrients. Some produce is better than no produce.

Idk where I was going with this I just noticed the similarity

It's absolutely intentional! Following the same logic as in Akai Kotou (adding a link for the curious folks out there!), Sun Warrior Zuko chooses his markings to resemble those of the Painted Lady, a retribution/protection spirit of Fire Nation rivers.

This is also my not-so-subtle way of drawing attention that the Sun Warriors' warpaint and the Painted Lady's patterns actually do resemble each other in canon.

But a major stylisation of it was that flat, shiny, Tim Burton/Disney CGI. The world was dripping in this. Everything was that oversaturated, over-polished, over-worked CGI.

But every time they collected/destroyed another Mcguffin, that CGI went away. But by bit it transitioned into real sets and practical effects until there is no noticeable CGI at all. Because that’s the system they were fighting - they weren’t being allowed to see what the real world looked like.

Decay and rot and broken infrastructure were being essentially photoshopped over because our villainous leader had no interest or ability to maintain things. It was only ever a temporary solution thought up by someone who thought that transforming a pack of wolves into humans to be her elite guard force was, in fact, a good idea.

(It was not. There was a whole subplot about the secondary antagonists in-fighting and being driven insane by the disconnect between how humans and wolves think and act where the one which were cubs when transformed were desperate to return to something they’d never experience and the patriarch/matriarch of the family knew they were too changed to ever survive as wolves again - definitely stolen from Terry Pratchett)