I Will Go Down with This Ship

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The thing about Zuko is that by the end of the series, he still has a ton of recovery to do. You don't recover from a lifetime of abuse and imperialist brainwashing in a few months. I'm really not counting the time he spent on his ship with Iroh because, let's face it, Iroh really wasn't trying to undo the whole imperialist brainwashing at that point. I have a lot of opinions about that as well, but I'm getting off topic.

What I really want, is post-series Zuko learning how to be nice. At the end of the show, he's made tremendous strides with caring for others, and he's definitely starting to get being kind, but he's still not nice. He still gets shouty at people who don't deserve it, which isn't a huge deal with friends who know you and know that you're just very dramatic, but could be a very big deal if you're some poor advisor telling your teenage ruler something he really doesn't want to hear. And I know his temper significantly improved and there's no real insinuation that he's rude to servants in canon, but I still don't think he really knows how to be nice.

You very sincerely care for someone and do everything you can to help them and still make them feel terrible or scared. Being very powerful and very shouty aren't a good mix. It's important to be polite and to encourage people and speak in a way that makes the people around you comfortable. I mean you shouldn't sacrifice your own comfort for everyone else's, but it's important to be nice.

The No “I Love You” Animatic In case Tumblr can’t play the video, here’s the Vimeo Link

Link to the AO3 collection So, when @fictionissocialinquiry laid out this challenge, it was mainly for writers; but she included some extra prompts therein, and one was a line from Hozier’s “Shrike”.

I couldn’t whisper when you needed it shouted This led me to listen to “Shrike” on repeat while I feverishly started doodling the thumbnails for the animatic I got in my head (so I hope that some of that emotion from Hozier’s amazing song comes through in the final board, ‘cause I listened to it. A. Lot.). While I think it’s a bit easier for drawings to express “I love you” without any words needed at all. I wanted to try and approach the task by thinking of ways one can confess that they love someone through acts of service and tenderness versus super obvious displays of love, I guess. It came out with a sort of courtly love-ish vibe that I really ended up liking. (Though I suppose reciprocation makes it not courtly love ANYWHO…)

I’m in an Ambassador Katara/Fire Lord Zuko state of mind! I just love any love story with them in these roles. There are so many different ways to play with the set up of them as Ambassador and Fire Lord. In this one, I kind of picture that they haven’t gotten together yet (this is divergent from whatever I did in the Reunion animatics; this is it’s own thing). Perhaps they are on the precipice of realizing they want to be together… I don’t know; it’s open to interpretation. XD but what I hope I portrayed clearly is how one can show that they love another. u.u

Music: The Princess Pleads for Wallace’s Life - Braveheart: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Something quick I did a while ago! Katara from my college AU that only exists on my head, for now.💙

happy birthday @kenobiis!

Basically, do you know if university education was expected from the rich gentleman? If yes, why? I know most of them went to boarding schools (such as Eton and the rest), but. Why did Mr. Darcy go to Cambridge? He's rich, he's the heir! He doesn't need an occupation to support himself!

(I'm also confused why Colin Firth was dressed like a school master in the flashback to Cambridge in the BBC version, but eh, I'm fine with staying confused.)

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My knowledge in this area is limited, but my understanding is that gentleman would not necessarily be expected to attend university, strictly speaking, but it was very well regarded. Either university or the "Grand Tour." Austen's own rich gentleman heir brother Edward did both!

As to why? To be educated. Education was seen as inherently valuable, not just a tool to prepare for employment. (I very much agree with this viewpoint on education, fwiw.) The cynical way to look at this was that education was a status symbol, and it probably was to some extent or certain people. But texts from the time period talk about education as something that is just Good and Right. I'm sure this mindset is why gentlemen like Darcy did it.

Now, beyond this noble reason for going to university, it did have some practical benefits even for men not preparing for employment. It could help them learn how to run their estate, prepare to sit in the House of Lords, make connections with other rich people, that sort of thing. And being able to hold intelligent, cultured conversations with others was very important for gentry men and women, hence the "accomplished woman" list in P&P, and you can't really do this unless you're educated to some degree somewhere.

I'm sure other Austen blogs will chime in if I've got this wrong or am missing something important!

1. The need to be able to hold "intelligent, cultured conversations" (see above) was indeed crucial. The article below strongly emphasizes its importance and calls it "polish" or "social graces." The sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called it "cultural capital." Yes, one could get the necessary polish (cultural capital) from private tutors, but there's something to be said for repeatedly interacting with and watching a number of people in a group setting to develop it. It allowed one to be the "right kind of person" in social networks.

2. Social networks - connections or "who you know" - are also crucial for success. While these are mentioned above, I want to emphasize them. Sure, Darcy is set for life, given his vast wealth, but that could ebb if he doesn't manage it well or if adverse political circumstances appear. This is a period of agricultural innovation. One would not find out about those at university; one would meet at university people who would stay up on those things for life, and staying in touch with them would be helpful in improving one's landownings. Also, later in life there's every chance that Darcy could be elected a Member of Parliament, and connections formed at university could help when he's there. BTW, Darcy is gentry, not aristocracy, though at the very top of the gentry. He'd sit in the House of Commons. His grandfather (mother's father), uncle, and eventually cousin (Colonel Fitzwilliam's older brother), being earls, were and are nobility, so they'd sit in Lords. Being in Parliament or knowing people in it allowed one to influence legislation, especially legislation that affected land, landed estates, agricultural trade policy, etc. Finally, schoolmates have sisters, and having polish and connections means that one could also attend the "right" kind of social events to find a mate.

3. Not mentioned at all in the response is that everyone - professors and students - wore daily what we would now consider graduation regalia. (One of the pictures in the article below shows this.) Thus, the scene in the 1995 series in which Darcy catches Wickham with a young woman has Darcy dressed accurately. It shows that he's actually attending tutorials; Wickham of course is not.

* Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in 1796-97. Scholars think it was originally set between 1793 and 1795. She tried and failed to get it published, and then she let it sit for 15 years. In the early 1810s she hauled it out, revised it, and published it. (See the P&P article on Wikipedia for more.) In the 1790s version Darcy would have attended Cambridge in the early 1780s.

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a rebelcaptain fic by @viharker

Jyn's body has always been a weapon. She just never thought her body would attack itself.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: F/M Fandoms: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars - All Media Types Relationship: Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso Characters: Cassian Andor, Jyn Erso

🔥The avatar

🔥Appa

🔥His lost uncle via a sweaty sandal

🔥A secret civilization thought to be long gone

🔥The last 2 dragons existing

🔥Katara and Sokka’s Father plus Suki

🔥Katara’s mother’s murderer

🔥His honor

🔥His entire nation’s honor