TreasureSEAker

Mine was buried even deeper, under Devices -> Typing -> How AI has helped you.

What could have been...

Really cool art by the talented @heyhopperart! <3

For: my father didn’t tell me how to live (he lived and let me watch him do it) [Ao3]

The good days go like this: Sunshine and laughter and new sensations on his skin - this is the tickle of grass, that is what jumping into a lake feels like. Games of catch that break the sound barrier. Parties (that are sometimes boring, sometimes scary, and always smell weird, but - ) where his dad ruffles his hair and shows him off. There are no tests, no lab coats, no bland white rooms. Because no one says no to Soldier Boy. The bad days go like this: Sunshine and anger and new sensations in his body - the bruising grip fingers can have, the sharp words that make pangs deep inside that doesn't touch any of his organs or bones. Hurt that has nothing to do with figuring out and improving his limits, nothing to do with betterment (betterment makes it worse, on those days). There is no Vogelbaum, no lab coats, and pain is not limited to bland white rooms. Because no one says no to Soldier Boy.

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

As preserved by the Royal Archives

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My good hotman Zuko,

It's Aang! Sokka let me borrow Hawky. Please feed him before sending him back.

I'm writing to ask if it's okay for me to drop by. Except I'll probably be there by the time you get this, because Appa flies faster than Hawky. Still, it's polite to ask!

Write back (or don't.)

Hot regards

Your friend Aang

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Revered Avatar Aang

Hawky arrived two hours after you left. Never send me "hot regards" again. Like I keep telling you, language has changed in the past 100 years. It doesn't mean what you think. Future historians will think we were having an affair.

It's always okay to drop by. Hawky has been fed.

May your inner fire warm you (write that down somewhere)

Fire Lord Zuko

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Hi

need 3 fire benders (zappy) + few construction workers + a lot of copper

Delivr to harbor

sokka

how about this: when i was 9 and my stepdad beat me until i passed out and i told my friends at school, my teacher over heard and i was interviewed by cps. they also went to my house when i was at school. when i got home, my step father was waiting on the couch, and told me who visited him that day. he told me if i ever snitched again he would beat me to within an inch of my life.

how about this: my mother locked me out of the house when i was 14 and when i cried so loud the neighbors called the cops, the cop told me i should have been respectful of my mother who was trying to sleep.

how about this. the demon you know is less scary than the demon you don’t.

children in abused households are raised to fear the idea of being taken away. children in abusive households see that help makes things worse.