The Fireheart Weekly

Here’s my animation for the opening credits of Castlevania without the bells and whistles of compositing.

Not only did I get to develop the style for this part, but it’s the only piece of animation in the show where my original drawings aired without any sort of clean up.

Me trynna find flaws in Hunt now so I don’t feel stupid reading book 2: 

Chism: Men are taking land that does not belong to them, killing innocents, will you help us?

Sam

Faraday

Vasquez

Billy

Goodnight

Red Harvest

Horne

In college you will most likely have a roommate at some point, whether it be in a dorm, or your first apartment. Here are some little tips on how to be a good roommate (because it really needs to be said.)

Learn each other’s boundaries. My freshman year, I thought my roommate and I were going to be absolute best friends. However, tension grew when I found out she took a picture of me sleeping and showed it to our mutuals. This absolutely infuriated me, because I am very sensitive about my skin and obviously did not have make up on. I also didn’t find out about the picture because she showed it to me - I found out from the aforementioned mutual friends. The tension was palpable for a week until she moved out. I never got another roommate and had the entire room to myself. Bottom line: I felt uncomfortable in my own dorm because of her actions.

Be respectful of the other’s schedule. Is your roommate a night person or morning person? For me, I am definitely a night person. In my dorm, I would make sure that lights were out so that my roommate could get a good night’s sleep before her morning classes. Also, be mindful that your phone alarm will probably also wake up your roommate. They may be able to go back to sleep, but if you are constantly hitting the snooze button, this will probably disturb them IMMENSELY. 

Be respectful of the other’s space. For me, this means don’t have people over when your roommate is really trying to study quietly, don’t blast music in the mornings when you know your roommate is sleeping off an all-nighter, etc. Do NOT lock your roommate out of a shared dwelling when you have a friend ;) over for activities not school-related. The sock on the door thing is not a thing, don’t do that to someone. Also, not slamming doors, even if you aren’t intending to slam them. 

Don’t make decisions about your shared space without consenting your roommate first. This means decorating, having a party, etc. For decorating especially - remember that your taste is not always your roommates taste and you want to involve them so that you can each feel at home!

Share responsibilities. Taking out the trash is a big one. Be upfront about delving out chores so that there is no “ok, I’ve taken out the trash like 7 times in a row.” 

Keep it clean. Dirty dishes in the sink, trash on counter tops, not cleaning up after yourself after you cook, not unloading the dishwasher, leaving clothes in the washer/dryer, leaving stinky shoes in the common area, etc. can come across as majorly disrespectful. Be mindful that while you might not mind a little clutter, your roommate might like things kept clean and orderly.

Establish what is communal and what is personal. Will you be sharing dishes? Food? Cleaning products? Establish those boundaries ASAP so as to avoid the “dude, why are you using my laundry detergent?!” conversation. Have the who is bringing what necessity the day you agree to live together!

Return borrowed items in a better condition in which you took them! Actually, this goes for all walks of life. 

Establish house rules. When are quiet hours? What will the AC be set at to ensure that all roommates are comfortable? Who will do laundry when? If you share a bathroom - who will shower when? 

Do little things to be nice! The two roommates I had in my first apartment and I would spontaneously leave cookies out for all to enjoy, or purchase an assortment of treats for holidays! We would also bring in each other’s mail, leave little notes (even though we weren’t that close and hardly saw one another - literally never knew if they were home or not), etc. They were the best roommates ever! I loved living with them. Not that I don’t love living with my best friend now! But if you are living with basically complete strangers, do your best to develop a good, amicable relationship. 

I recently reblogged this post and saw where someone asked for a poor people’s version, so here it is!

CLEANING

Dish soap

Laundry detergent

All-purpose cleaner

Hand soap you can use your dish soap

Broom

Mop

Wash cloths / rags

Vacuum not necessary if you don’t have carpet or you can just sweep the carpet

Dustpan

Lint roller have pets? Not really necessary if you don’t, if you’re in a crunch, use any tape

Sponges you can use your rags and a little elbow grease

KITCHENWARE

Plates

Bowls

Spoons

Forks

Knives

Glasses

Mugs you need two different types of drinking glasses? Nah.

Tongs you aren’t running a restaurant

Spatula

Plastic wrap never used this in my life

Ziplock baggies I’m sure you have tupperware

Garbage bags

Paper towel just use an actual rag

Tupperware

Ice tray

Oven mitts

Potato peeler never needed this, use a knife

Mixing bowls use a regular bowl

Frying pan

Pot

Baking sheet

Whisk use a spoon/fork

Stirring spoons / ladles again, use a spoon

Tea infuser ball what is this???

Measuring cups

Strainer

Cutting board

Coffee maker not necessary if you don’t drink coffee

Kettle I’m assuming this is for tea? You can use a regular pot to boil the bags in

Toaster put your toast on that baking sheet and stick it in the oven

Magnets

Dry erase markers

Sticky notes

Microwave

Wire sponge use your dish rags

Trash bin

Recycling bin

Rubber gloves

Silverware organizer

Measuring spoons

Aluminum foil

Wax paper you’ve got aluminum foil, it does the same thing

Can opener

Bottle opener not necessary if you don’t drink

Containers for salt, sugar, flour, etc. use the bags/containers they come in

LIVINGROOM

Sofa

Rocking chair (you know you want one)

Loveseat you really only need like one thing to sit on

Coasters

Blankets

Throw pillows

Coffee table

Book shelves only if you have a lot of books is this necessary

TV Netflix/hulu on phone, computer, etc.

TV stand

Floor lamp only need if you don’t have an overhead light

End table

Stereo system / radio none of this is super important and it can wait

BEDROOM

Mattress

Box spring

Bed frame I personally love the mattress on the floor look

Linens how are these different from sheets??

Sheets

Comforter

Hangers

Laundry hamper put your dirty clothes in the washer / only necessary if you do your laundry outside of your apartment

Trash bin just hang a Walmart bag on your doorknob

Curtains the windows should come with blinds

Pillows you only need enough for you and your partner if you have one

Pillow cases

Night table get like one or two of those $1 plastic locker crate things and stack them beside your bed and there ya go

Alarm clock Who doesn’t just use their phone?

Lamp only necessary if you don’t have on overhead light

Dresser only necessary if all of your clothes don’t fit in your closet / put undergarments in those same little locker crates

Coat rack

Desk / vanity

Comfy chairs

DININGROOM

Dining table just get those little tv dinner trays/tables from Walmart     and eat on the couch

Minimum of 2 chairs

Coasters

Placemat

Tablecloth

Tea lights /candles and candle holders

BATHROOM

Face clothes

Soap bar

Body wash

Shampoo

Conditioner

Tissues use toilet paper

Toilet paper

Plunger

Toilet cleaner

Cold, flu, pain, and allergy meds

Hydrogen peroxide

Antibacterial ointment

First-Aid kit

Tweezers

Nail clippers

Band-aids

Shower rod

Shower curtain

Toothbrush

Toothpaste

Floss

Period products

Bathmat step on a towel

Air freshener

Trash bin

Towel rod use the shower rod

Towels

MISCELLANEOUS

Elastic bands

Stapler

Stables

Paper clips

Needles and thread only necessary if you repair/customize your own clothes

AA / AAA batteries

Light bulbs

Extension cords

Scotch tape

Duct tape

Shovel

Rake (if you have a yard)

Stain remover

Jar of quarters for laundry mat

Screw drivers

Hammer

Nails

Sticky tack

Screws

Box cutter / X-acto

Pliers

Wrench

Pens

Paper

Pencils

Pencil sharpener

Eraser

Welcome matt

Shoe rack

Coat rack

Flashlight

Flashlight batteries

Watch batteries

Rechargeable batteries and charger

Safe place to discard dead batteries

Candles

Matches

Lighter

Mini travel fans

Real fans

Emergency Survival kit

Fire extinguisher

Landline phone

Window air conditioner

Carbon monoxide alarm should be provided by your landlord

Fire alarm ^^^

FOOD STUFF

Mustard

Ketchup

Mayo

Salt

Pepper

Baking soda

Flour

Eggs

Milk

Bread

Olive oil

Tea

Jam

Peanut-butter

Coffee grounds

Cereal

Rice

Pasta

Vegetable soup

Tomato sauce

Frozen vegetables

Crackers

Chickpeas / lentils

Apples

Oranges

Granola bars

Juice

Hot chocolate mix

Frozen meats

i got a bit TOO invested in our extraordinarily long Fall of Magic game. Which ended up being a very sweet found family RP. 

Anyway, i played a very stand-offish shapeshifting assassin with the chosen name Fawn, Fox of Mistwood. 

Azula and Zuko both hear this and instead of Azula being happy she is terrified because she knows how much Ozai wants the crown and is having mini breakdown because her worth always been in how Ozai treated her as a prodigy and his favorite but she knows he’ll discard her and cue world few shattering slightly, Zuko meanwhile is panicking and seeing Azula panic and hey that’s not happened before oh no ok *big brother instincts activate* and is just ‘let’s run he can’t kill us if we’re not here’

Which leads Azula and Zuko to stowaway on a fire nation ship their not paying attention to where it’s going or what it’s doing just that it’s not here.

So when Hakoda finds 2 kids on a fire nation ship they manage to get the best of both with very obvious trauma is just like ‘…yeah nope’

Just Azula and Zuko being raised in the water tribe.

Sokka and Zuko are the best of friends, Sokka says girls can’t be warriors once and then has half his hair burned off by Azula (he amends that very quickly) Katara also thinks it’s hilarious. Katara and Azula are polar opposites but still friends (Katara is 98% of her impulse control)

Just Hakoda and Kanna being super positive and loving and caring influences in their lives and helping these 2 actually grow up happily as siblings.

(Also they don’t actually realize their members of the royal family for a long time and when they do are just like…yeah fire lord definitely needs to die like so much)

The group still find Aang of course and decide to travel with him.

Zhao is the main one chasing them to capture both Aang and Azula (because Ozai doesn’t really care about an heir but Azula was a prodigy and is useful)

Zuko and Sokka are a pinning mess, the 2 of them having hopeless crushes on each other (Katara and Azula having been calling each other sister and Katara has the wedding already planned if one of them would just SAY SOMETHING already!)

In the Northern water tribe it’s not Sokka who gets a crush it’s Azula who for once in her life becomes a fumbling mess and is just heart eyes (when she’s not trying to murder Pakku with Katara she doesn’t like him even after he agrees to teach Katara just sits there watching the lesson staring at him with evil eye Pakku is slightly afraid for his life) Zhao never gets to kill the moon spirit (the group have 2 very pissed fire benders and no one kidnapped Aang)

Azula:Yes murder

Aang:No murder

Azula:Ok but counterpoint  …Yes murder

Zhao is the one stuck chasing them through book 2 because he’s not dead only none of them take him seriously and he’s just so done with all of this ‘should be the moon slayer but no i’m stuck chasing a gaggle of teenagers across the earth nation’

Iroh’s still there he didn’t really have a reason to stick around the capital so instead is just full time chilling as a white lotus trying to take down his brother.

1. He ran away from his responsibility as the Avatar and got encaved in ice resulting in the airnomad genocide. A bullshit reason. Aang was a 12yr old monk who only just mastered airbending, found out he was the Avatar sooner than he was supposed to (they’re not supposed to know until they’re 16) and then found out they were planning on seperating him from his mentor. He was an upset child that ran off and because of stupid coincidence he got into a storm, resulting into his Avatar spirit kicking in and protecting him. It’s not his fault that it lasted for 100 years and it’s not his fault that a dictator decided to eradicate an entire race.

2. He crumpled up the note for Bato containing the map to Hakoda’s camp. Katara and Sokka promised to Aang that they would stick by him. They were his new family. They said so themselves. By telling Aang this they not only agreed to accompany him to the North Pole, they agreed to help him save the world. Of course they would want to see their dad, but their responsibility is to Aang first now. Aang was excluded the entire evening at Bato’s. He tried to include himself in the conversation several times and got dismissed. He has a right to be upset by that. Then he hears that the people who promised to accompany him and who promised they were his new family might leave him to go see their father. Once again, Aang has the right to be upset. Crumpling up the note and hiding it was a shitty move, but Sokka and Katara’s reaction was shittier. Instead of letting him explain they yell at him and tell him to go to the North Pole by himself and with that, save the world by himself. They went back on their promise. This situation was a miscommunication on everyone’s part. Solely blaming Aang is not only wrong, it’s bullshit.

3. He pushed his beliefs onto everyone. Show me a scene where Aang forces Katara and Sokka to eat vegetarian. Show me a scene where Aang forces everyone to meditate. Show me a scene where Aang gets upset when people eat meat in front of him. You can’t. Why? Because this statement is simply not true. The only scene you could possibly pull up is Aang begging Katara not to choose revenge. He tries to help by telling her he knows what she’s going through. He tries to help by giving a metaphor that the monks taught him, because it helped him. All of this comes from a place of love, not a place of wanting to force everyone into airnomad beliefs like Zuko suggests. Aang never tells Katara explicitly “I forbid you from going on this journey and executing your revenge.” He even acknowledges that this is a journey she has to make. He just asks, because he knows how toxic revenge is. He tries to relate to Katara by going “how do you think I felt when the sandbenders took Appa.” This is a valid point to make bc he nearly killed all of the sandbenders in a blind rage fueled by revenge. Katara stopped him then, now it’s his turn to stop Katara.

Another point I’d like to make with this one: everyone else was pushing their beliefs onto Aang when they were trying to force him to kill the firelord. They never asked kindly like Aang did, they said “you have to.” Why? Because they believe there is no other way. Aang believes otherwise because once again, revenge is a toxic notion.

4. He didn’t kill the firelord. Are you seriously wondering why a 12yr old pacifist monk in a kid’s show didn’t murder a man on screen? Really? I’ll refer to number three to tell you exactly why this is bad: it’s other people forcing their ideas and beliefs onto Aang. I’ll also refer to a few other Aang posts I’ve made where I talked about how this outcome, where Ozai isn’t dead, is better than a scenario where he is. His supporters would have used him as a martyr to demonize the Avatar. The same thing happened in the Chin village with Avatar Kyoshi. She killed their dictator leader, and 300 years after that they still hated the Avatar (not just her, all Avatars) and even charged Aang with murder. Killing Ozai would have backfired immensily. The cycle of violence wouldn’t have ended, it would have continued. With Aang showing him mercy and taking his firebending away he broke the cycle and a new era of peace could begin.

5. He’s immature. This is a short one: he’s a CHILD. He’s not supposed to be mature. Think back to how you were when you were twelve. Think back on how twelve yr old boys behaved when you were at school. Aang might have the responsibility of the world laying on his shoulders but he’s still twelve, you should at least expect him to act his age, even if he sometimes has wisdom beyond his years.

6. He lied in the great divide. Lmao pls don’t act all high and mighty here. Everyone has told a little white lie to save themselves once in a while. Yes Aang lied to those clans about that age old ceremony, but it ended up solving a 100yr old fued. Sometimes lying to make people feel better is good. I’m a very honest person but I have told lies to make people happy or to save my own skin. It happens.

7. He’s a bad father. This was started by LoK, when two of Aang’s kids, Bumi and Kya, suggested that they were neglected by him because Aang took his other son, Tenzin (the only airbender) on trips without the other two. At that point Aang and Tenzin are the only two airbenders known to exist. Aang wants to keep his culture alive, it’s why he started the Air Acolytes, therefore he must have been thrilled to finally have another airbender to share his knowledge with. I don’t think we can fully blame Aang for spending more time with Tenzin while trying to teach him about airnomad culture. It’s Aang’s job as the Avatar to keep the balance and without airnomads the balance is disrupted.

Then we have the fact that kids memories are often blown out of proportion, or not reliable bc they don’t have all the facts. For example, I remember several times in my childhood where I was left out by my older friend when she found someone her age to play with. Those are the memories I have of her. But through looking at pictures and hearing stories from my parents, I realized there had been several times where I wasn’t left out by her and that we got along great. I don’t remember those, I only remember when I was left out. There might have been plenty of trips that Bumi and Kya did attend, but they only remember the ones where they felt left out bc they didn’t come. Kya and Bumi are also older, there might have been years before Tenzin was even there where they had Aang all to themselves. But they don’t remember that. And even if Kya and Bumi were to come on these trips, they’d probably be complaining that they were boring bc Aang would only be talking about his culture and teaching them about it. Then the complaint would be “dad would drag us along on these boring trips just to teach tenzin airnomad stuff”.

Let’s all also remember that Aang is in fact the Avatar, as in, one of the most important people in the world. He must be a busy man. And while yes, your children should be your number one priority, the Avatar is an exception to this rule because his responsibility is to the world first. Not to his wife, not to his kids. Aang has struggled with this before (choosing to save Katara over mastering the Avatar state) and probably struggled with this later in life too.

This is a long way to say that you can’t judge someone’s parenting over one scene in LoK where Bumi and Kya aired their frustrations about Aang to Tenzin in a moment of stress. Later on Kya even showed them a happy family picture, and they didn’t seem to think Aang was that bad anymore. People definitely jumped the gun to claim Aang was a bad father after hearing one (1) complaint about his style of parenting.