What the sneef? I'm snorfin' here!

can y'all imagine the fire nation soldiers' reactions if toph was sent to one of those "fully metal and inescapable" prisons in the middle of the ocean like katara and haru were on in s1e6.

the other day i saw a tiktok of a woman talking about how her hyper-militant abusive parents would sometimes punish her by “taking away her name” and referring to her as a prisoner number. genuinely terrible stuff, obviously. but i skimmed the comments and. listen. i truly DO NOT mean to dunk too hard on this person, like they could be a kid or something, but.

This is why it's important to Include stuff like this in fiction, especially ya fiction. It can be a lot of sheltered and/or indoctrinated children, in the case of a lot of rural "Christians", first introduction to these types of concepts in a way they can understand.

I was once listening to one of the ten billion animorphs podcasts out there, with two hosts, one who'd read Animorphs as a kid and one who was reading it for the first time as an adult. For those who don't know, Animorphs is a war story in which a handful of children have to secretly hold off an alien invasion until the "good" aliens arrive to save Earth. It starts off with fairly clear-cut Bad Species of aliens and Good Species of aliens but as the series goes on it becomes clear that there is no such thing as a good, clean or glorious war, that a clean Good Side and a clean Bad Side is usually propoganda, that heroism is a matter of circumstance and that war will chew up and spit out even the victorious; there are no winners in war, just the side that lost less.

This year I taught 7th grade in a poor area of the southern US. When the social studies and English teachers started their WWII/Holocaust unit they asked the students if they had ever heard of the Holocaust and a handful raised their hands. When they asked if they had ever met a Jewish person almost nobody in the 150-person grade had. This was mind-boggling to me as somebody who grew up in New Jersey with a Jewish apostate grandfather. I remember first talking about the Holocaust in class in 6th grade and actually learning about it in 8th and 9th, but that kind of knowledge was practically part of growing up.

the “affirmations” the official shark week instagram posted are really funny. like yeah Mecore tbh

“should I do this for people of all ages?”