#azuzula

yay, thank you for the ask!

ship asks

❥: who is more likely to plan something big for valentine’s day?

so i actually think they'd both plan something big, but in very different ways. wu would be the one going the traditional "all out" sort of route; a spa day booked to relieve mako's stress, a catered dinner so mako doesn't have to worry about cooking, tickets to a pro-bending game so mako can do something he loves, all that kind of stuff. mako, on the other hand, does something smaller, cheaper, but absolutely no less heartfelt, something like taking wu to the zoo and getting a 'pet the badgermoles' experience, or driving a little ways out of the city to go stargazing. because they make such intricate plans they eventually have to give up the element of surprise and tell each other so they don't double-book their holiday 😂

💘: who developed a crush on the other first?

oh, wu for sure. try rewatching book 4 and telling me he isn't crushing on mako the entire time. do it, i dare you

💚: who tends to get sick more often? who is better at taking care of the other?

wu, i fear, is sufferer of the man-flu 😔 when he gets the slightest amount of sniffles he's down for the count. mako is a decent caretaker; his bedside manner is a bit rough but he has all the basic steps down. as for mako, he's generally a pretty healthy guy, but he will often push past his body's warning signs that he needs to take it easy. which means that when he goes down, he goes down hard. wu utterly dotes on him when he's sick, but mako is world's worst patient. i made a silly post a few weeks back about how my father is the kind of person to be out mowing the lawn with a headcold... that's mako. he'll be like "my head is SPLITTING i need to get into the office so i can walk this off" and it takes wu forever to convince him that no, rest is the best treatment in this scenario, mako lay down goddamnit-

What do you think the ‘average’ meal looks like for a member of the Fire Nation Royal Family? (Can be any era/characters) 👀

Well this is a big question (thus why its taken me a few days to properly consider it).

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert about any of these things. I may have made a possible error in my (albeit quick) googling.

I imagine there would be a contrast pre vs post-colonial exploits. Sure, trade between the nations existed before the 100-year-war (to varying levels depending on the era). Yet I feel the royal family would probably go out of their way to feast upon food of the cultures they've conquered. When its taken, rather than exchanged, I believe the psychological implications would be very different. It's more satisfying and gratifying to consume the food of defeated enemies that you've stolen from rather than the consumption of food you simply bought from your neighbour. This is why I believe post-colonial Fire Nation probably had more western Earth Kingdom influences in their cuisine. And of course the Royal Family receive the the most prized and valued dishes.

But what did they actually eat?

Native Fire Nation dishes

Logically, you would think the Fire Nation would grow and farm plants and livestock similar to that of the countries of Southeast Asia. After all, the Fire Nation sits on the equator; making it a land that ought to be warm, wet and have rainforests biomes. Yet the Fire Nation was modelled off Iceland, which is very much not an island from the equator. Realistically, the Fire Nation should have looked more like Ecuador, geographically and geologically, but I digress.

So what is grown/lives in Southeast Asia?

Crops: Rice, Taro, Yam, Sugarcane, Bananas, Tea and Coffee

Fruits: Mango, Durian, Rambutan, Coconut

Spices: Ginger, Turmeric and Galangal.

Livestock: Water buffalo, Chicken, Cattle

So a traditional Fire Nation meal of a wealthy household should comprise of these things listed above (with a few fantasy hybrids thrown in of course).

Canonically we know meat is highly consumed in the Fire Nation during Aang's era. We also know mochi (a traditional Japanese dessert) and fire flakes are consumed. How traditional/recent these products are at the end of the 100-year-war is debatable.

Now what about the Northwestern Earth Kingdom? What could they be bringing to the Fire Nation dinner table?

These zones are north of the equator and thus would be colder. How much colder? Difficult to say. ATLA doesn't go out of its way to have realistic geography (*cough* Si Wong Desert should be a rainforest *cough*). So let's just keep things simple and say the northwestern Earth Kingdom is a subtropical/temperate zone. I mean that's convenient - the Earth Kingdom is broadly based on China, which is also a subtropical/temperate zone.

So what is grown/lives in China? (eastern side because the west is more mountainous and a different zone altogether)

Crops: Rice, soybean, faba beans, cabbage, radish, snow peas and millet.

Fruits: Peaches, pears, apricots, plums and jujubes

Spices: Peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon, cloves and fennel

Livestock: Different breeds of cattle/chicken, pigs and sheep.

(Specific breeds related to China, I'm not claiming ALL ancestors of domesticated animals came from China).

So in a nutshell I think the rich of the Fire Nation ate a more diverse diet post-colonisation. Even animals from Eurasia or Oceania (or both in the case of ostrich-horses) that the showrunners put in the show regardless of geographic origin, would probably end up in the Fire Nation (not that I'm implying people ate ostrich-horses... but you know what I mean).

(also love the new layout!! pfp and header are so pretty!!)

Very cool ,, I'm just gonna.... *yoink this and run away.* /j

This really enthralls me because it just makes so much sense that it can be deemed canon honestly but maybe because I'm a little biased towards Makittuq ,,, who knows. /silly

Taqukaq teaching him defense and offense waterbending.

Makittuq lecturing to Roku how to spiritbend and to heal the physical body.

I'm biting myself /pos, I just love this because it is also what I initially thought but instead of Makittuq - Roku tries self-taught :3

Also, the FTM-MTF solidarity?? Eee! <3

(as if andrew garfield spider-man wouldn’t IMMEDIATELY kick stark in the balls kdlskfnfl. tobey’s would too!! sometimes i wonder if im even watching the same movie as some of the ppl who get these takes djskdbdn)

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first of all, didn't we establish in no way home that stark doesn't exist in tobey and andrew's universes? for one thing, neither of them knew what the avengers was, and for another, they (including the villains) didn't recognize stark tech (suit and arc reactor). so like. how would andrew know to address him as mr stark

second, let's go over ages. raimi's spider-man came out in 2002 and peter turned 18 at the end of it, so he was born in 1984. similarly, since tasm came out in 2012 and peter was 17, he would've been born in 1995. no way home takes place in 2024, making tm's peter 40 and ag's peter 29 (although because of the snap, th's peter is 16 instead of 21, which means that tm and ag may be 35 and 24 respectively - we're not quite sure how the spell worked)

azuzula

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flameo-hotman

:2:10 PM · 5 hours ago

fuck i meant docs