Ramblings of a Mistwraith

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Older Iroh, Zuko and Toph - my faves! (๑˃̶͈̀∇˂̶͈́)و⁾⁾˚*

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QOTD: Have you guys already seen The Legend of Aang leaks or are you waiting for the official release?

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He loves the creatures and he's so genuine about it...

honestly i haven't really liked the snippets of "only the drifter with their 10,000 years of therapy could unite the hex" theorizing i've seen because...i just don't think the drifter necessarily understands human emotions very well, and i definitely don't think albrecht, who clearly intended the time loop outcome (or he wouldn't slap a big neon sign saying "MAYBE YOU SHOULD TIME LOOP" up right before he kills you), does either.

albrecht entrati: i'm dropping subtle hints that the drifter should consider a time loop to befriend the hex in order to save them. also albrecht entrati: BEFRIEND THE HEX TO SAVE THEM. I'M SHOOTING YOU NOW SO YOU'RE GOING TO DIE IF TIME STAYS LINEAR. WONDER HOW YOU COULD SOLVE THAT. BAM!

but the secret is that the special power drifter has isn't really being extremely emotionally intelligent in a broad way. the main challenge with the hex in the first few convos, when they're in their outwardly most fractured state right after the first reactor raid, is "don't rise to anyone's bait and don't be needlessly cruel to anyone." all you have to do is not over-react. and that's a hundred percent something the duviri tales, and the implied countless loops dealing with every courtier's meltdowns, actually can and do teach.

personally i assume this mainly works because the drifter just tunes them out, a la the courtiers, whenever they start obviously lashing out. like even in the KIM when someone starts snapping at you the best response is usually the textual equivalent of "uhhhhhhhhh okay man u good?" or "okay yeah fair". basically the drifter wins by doing this

The most notable traits for Taln was his dependenability and his iron will. The more he suffered, the stronger he became until something snapped in him and he ceased to be a person and became a sapient seal. He didn't break, so he could not break. It was too late. His humanity was replaced by his mythology as the Bearer of Agonies.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

Don't let fear or feeling doomed stop you. If you're overwhelmed that's okay, but take a break, take a breath, talk to someone about how you're feeling, and continue.