Little interests

The weather is dry so this one scar is SO FUCKING ITCHY

“Hey I dare you to touch it”

Absently brushing your hand over a scarred anrea and going OH SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT- oh.

”Wish this one looked cool instead of like a stubby lil worm”

Got a cool tattoo but part of it went over an old scar and that part blew out and stretched weird :(

Having a scar that DOES look cool but it’s in a weird place where you can’t show it off

Getting to meet someone else who ALSO has a bunch of neat scars and getting to swap stories ad show off the gnarly ones

OK this one isn’t funny or cute but some scars stretch out pores n shit and develop blackheads or whatever Super easy and it’s annoying as hell and I feel like nobody talks about that

Scars missing pigment sunburn super easy and tHEN THEY’RE SUPER GODDAMN ITCHY AGAIN

I swear to god I don’t remember where that one came from. Yes it’s relatively large but I’ve lived a busy life, what do you want from me

Nice to have something to run your finger over and fidget with when nothing’s going on, like a worry stone but it’’s your you

Scars from happy silly memories where you were goofing around with friends or roughhousing or something

wondering what the fuck that weird seam in your clothing is before you remember

“Yes I WOULD like to get a tattoo there but it would cover this scar and I LIKE that one “ :(

"See this? Yeah, they had to scrub gravel out of there. Imagine if that was your FACE."

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations

this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:

[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]

why do i bring this up?

It’s completely different than anything we’ve seen from other metal benders, who bend metal with sharp movements like the derivative of earth bending that it is

But her college had fencing equipment but no team, so she started coaching them. But she fenced lefthanded. She ended up with a team of fencers who almost ALL learned to fence lefthanded.

A small % of fencers are lefthanded, so even very good fencers are often NOT USED TO fencing lefties.

So her dinky little team of mostly newbies came in and fucked severely with teams of much more experienced fencers who couldn’t cope with fencing leftie after leftie. Her one protégé who was also very tall just laid waste to nationally rated fencers.

Whereas I, a very shitty fencer, can hold my own against my wife no problem, because I’ve fenced her from the start.

her power isn’t even

something physical.

"yeah I'm stronger than other women, I have super strength, yeah I'm faster I have super speed, yeah I can eat more than most without gaining weight, my metabolism has to support enhanced healing...."

I feel like the real problem would be things generally ignored as issues by superhero comics. Like body dysphoria because the character wants to be curvier in order to look more feminine, but being a superhero burns a lot of calories and they can't get the fat reserves... or (for every gender character with physical enhancement super powers) having trouble losing weight or building a 'shredded' look because their super-strength is such that it's hard to challenge themselves enough to appear as strong as they are and so they look approximately average.

Trying to fit societal body ideals on top body dysphoria while being a superhero could be a cool thing to play with especially because female superheroes all fall into similar idealized shapes, it would be nice to have a woman hero who isn't automatically inexplicably busty and curvy when real life athletic women generally don't look like that.

Trump outlawed feminine hygiene products.

I went to Walmart and it wasn't even empty space, they'd just filled in the shelves with deodorant and shaving cream. I eventually had to ask an employee where the sanitary napkins were and they were like "oh! Legally we can't stock those anymore, Trump outlawed feminine hygiene products."

And I was like "that tracks" and left to meet up with my family at the park.

I only cottoned on to it being a dream when my dad showed up to the park looking cowed and wearing a corset over his T-shirt.

Grandma claimed it was the punishment she had dictated because dad had said "that sounds like a women's problem" when he heard about the new law.

they will now actually take notes of things that really happened in your fic, they make it sound personalised and genuine, but there's a way they talk that feels weirdly artificial, there's always a vague mention of some 'ideas' they have, if it raises your hackles trust those instincts and tread carefully, because ultimately-

they will ALWAYS LEAD YOU TO A SECONDARY LOCATION

suddenly changing up their writing style is a big red flag, wanting to take you off platform to some other site showcasing their 'art' is an even bigger red flag, REAL ARTISTS DO NOT DO THIS

no matter how genuine they sound, trust NOBODY advertising their art in your comment section, trust NOBODY who wants to take you off platform, NEVER go to that secondary location