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Pi (they/them) | 34/USA/Dinosaur Currently, lots of Tolkien and TTRPG stuff. Fair warning: I'm absolutely garbage at consistent tagging, sorry in advance. fanart @piedpica | artart @pidraws

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Sometimes you have a headcanon that is so divorced from the source material it should probably just be ofic, BUT ALSO so context dependent on canon that it makes absolutely no sense without the textual lacuna it is filling.

#this is about the series of progressively deranged leaps I have made explaining What's Up With Dragons In Middle Earth #ENTIRELY unfounded suppositions BUT only makes sense in the extremely specific context of First Age Ang and #to do this independent of the Silmarillion would require constructing Morgoth from first principles but also.#extremely out of left field within that context #anyway they're dwarves. dragons are what happens when you try to Orcify dwarves #well not to start with. but if you're Biblical Elf Satan you can get there.#apply distilled essence of Oath of Feanor to dwarf souls and then do whatever you want to their bodies #because Aulë made them and you're better than him and boom. Dragons.

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Are you a member of a labor union?

Yes, and I am an active participant

Yes, but I'm not very active

I used to be, but am not currently

No, because I don't want to be

No, because there isn't one at my job/in my area

No, because I don't know how/need help

No, because I'm unemployed

No, because I'm not eligible to join

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Sadly every attempt that the IWW has made to establish a power-base in my state has failed, and we have no active chapters because my state is phenomenally hostile to unions; we haven't had any active chapters that have lasted more than a few months for at least half a decade. It is DEEPLY fucking frustrating.

#what sunspot said #I was in a union when I worked at the USCIS service center but I left that job in 2016 and it's since been closed #I suspect I could agitate my current workplace to unionize but I suspect leadership would be. very hostile.

neurotypicalite

theres a pink blue and white flower at rhe grocery store i have to make. a joke

neurotypicalite

call that a transplant

nemainofthewater

Favourite soup type

Clear broth

Creamy

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#listen both are fantastic #but pho king of soups has clear broth

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professorsparklepants

Role swap au where Zuko was the Avatar who got frozen for a hundred years, so when he’s rescued from the ice instead of a goofy twelve year old Katara catches this mysterious teenager with long hair and a cool scar and a fucking DRAGON

Katara: BOY???? HOT BOY?????? HOT TEENAGE BOY?????????

Zuko: *speaks*

Katara: nevermind I hate him

brawltogethernow

How does Aang factor into this? I ask because the more I think about it the more I want him to somehow be trying to capture the Avatar.

professorsparklepants

Aang is 112 years old, decided he was going to be Zuko’s airbending teacher, and refuses to take no for an answer

brawltogethernow

Aang: Aw, the new Avatar doesn’t want me. Aang: *gets out a weighted net* Time for Plan B then.

professorsparklepants

JDJSHJABDBFJSH

brawltogethernow

Look, you know how you keep a net from falling on you? YOU AIRBEND IT, SUCKA. Air comes right after fire in the cycle so it’s not like the guy has any other options. Do you want a flaming net falling on you? No? Then learn to airbend. Or this tiny old man will cart you away like a trussed turkey and lecture you about the power of laughter, going with the flow, opening your chakras, and other hippie shit.

brawltogethernow

Sokka, slouching against a fence, not moving: Oh nooooooo, that creepy old man stole the Avataaaaaaaaaar. Sokka, sitting down on the ground: We should dooooo something. Sokka, pulling out his lunch: Otherwise he might actually learn something. That would be teeeerrible. Katara, indignant rage coursing through her body: Sokka!!!!!!!! We have to go look for him!!!! Sokka: Might! Actually! Learn! Something! Katara! Katara: *wavers* Katara, also sitting down: We have to go look for him…. *gets out her own sandwich* But, maybe after lunch.

professorsparklepants

I love that this transforms Aang’s role in the full Team Avatar familial situation from the baby of the family to the Grandpa with weird hobbies

My brain, immediately after the “Aang won’t take no for an answer” post:

Aang: I’m gonna ride him! *jumps on Zuko’s shoulders*

Actually, I thought a bit more about this: If Aang is “grandpa figure who won’t fucking stop teaching Zuko to be a better and more spiritually fulfilled person,” then what is Iroh doing?

And then it hit me.

Iroh: *sitting in a teahouse at a paisho table* Iroh, deadpan: I must capture the last airbender. Iroh: It is the only way to make sure the powe rof the Avatar won’t be turned on the Fire Nation. Iroh: Only then will I be redeemed in the eyes of the Fire Lord for my failure at Ba Sing Se. Iroh: … Iroh: Anyway, it’s your turn.

About half of the B plots are just Iroh finding new ways to feign incompetence and bad luck so that his political watchdog can’t prove that he’s letting Aang - and by extension Zuko - get away.

@ray10k

Sometimes Iroh plays paisho with Aang, whose entire disguise during these games consists of a painfully fake mustache.

AANG WAS THE OTHER PLAYER IN THAT SCENE OF COURSE IT’S PERFECT (the moustache is just a bit of Appa’s fur tied in a string)

eternalgirlscout

i think about this post all the time and if i may, i would like to suggest keeping the banished royalty angle for zuko.

he was the eldest son of fire lord sozin, who knew the avatar was the greatest threat to the fire nation, but also knew the new one would be a firebender and he couldn’t exactly merc his own people, now could he? but he always planned to order a convenient little assassination on whoever the new avatar turned out to be and in the meantime took out the air temples so that avatar couldn’t learn the next element in the cycle. of course, when it turns out to be his son, sozin, stellar dad that he is, thinks “if you want something done right” and shoots a fire blast at his firstborn.

zuko enters the avatar state, blows up half the palace, etc etc as one does, gets a nasty scar for his trouble, and escapes, hence why he was hanging out far enough south to necessitate katara and sokka cracking open a cold boy a century later.

all this is to say 1. i think it’s a good way to maintain zuko’s background and characterization in an au like this and 2. it leads to a secret second roleswap

because this makes zuko iroh’s uncle.

Reblogging again for Katara and Sokka cracking open a cold boy.

It's been a while since I said "this person wins the internet", but today it is merited.

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(The classic XKCD comic)

stealingpotatoes

while palpatine sucks as a guy, you do have to appreciate how his wardrobe went from esteemed galactic chancellor to backalley goblin overlord after only about 3 seconds of dictatorship

litafordvsferrari

that makes me curious

do you think you could beat up your blorbo in a fistfight if you had to

yes

no

nuance i guess?

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#timtam has a strength of 8 slap that boy in an antimagic field and I would snap him like a twig

Yes. How about you?

Do you use any of these words ever

yes!

no

No clue what they mean but they look fun to say

No way, Don't and am never going to

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#bamboozled discombobulated shenanigans and skedaddle are part of the regular lexicon yes

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ok i absolutely need to know what accents u all have pls reblog and tell me or comment or whatever I must know

#General American but like aggressively so

when-you-fail-again

curiositysavesthecat

Do you think it's weird and/or predatory for a 13 year-old and a 30 year-old to be best friends if they're not family members or related by blood? Assuming everything is innocent and platonic. Nothing romantic or sexual.

Yes, it's weird and predatory

It's weird. But not predatory

It's predatory. But not weird

No, it's not weird or predatory

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unpopular opinion but I don't think there's anything weird or predatory about an innocent friendship

dianxiacantastemolecules

The question is why the fuck is a thirty year old hanging out with a 13 year old if not in their family?? The only other relation that could have them interact is through teacher/student and bring friends like that would be weird as fuck

found family? the kid not feeling safe in their house? the adult wanting to help? family / teacher / school isn't always a guaranteed safe place. should the kid and adult each have friends that are their own age too? sure. but if their friendship is genuinely innocent then I think the problem isn't them but people who project their weird and predatory thoughts onto them

the-bar-sinister

Don't forget shared hobbies?

A 13 year old and a 30 year old could reasonably meet at a tabletop gaming store, a fiber arts group, a book club....

audacityinblack

They could literally just be neighbors. This whole isolationist thing of never even talking to the people you live closest to is new and weird.

olderthannetfic

When I was 13, an art teacher who worked for my mother (who ran after school programs) got into the X-Files. This was season 1. Neither of us knew anyone else who was into it, and she wasn't very online given that this was 1994, so she had nowhere else to discuss it. I'd call her every Friday night after the episode, and we'd obsessively go over it.

I'd probably have called her my best friend at the time, though I very much doubt she'd have said the same, partly because having One Single Best Friend and being super weird about which of your friends gets this coveted spot is not something middle-aged people care about.

Some of you have very weird ideas about 13-year-olds living in hermetically sealed bubbles. Frankly, many neurodivergent weirdo 13-year-olds who grew up to be Tumblr users were far, far better at talking to adults at that age than at talking to other 13-year-olds. Many of you would have had a way happier year if you'd also had an old-ass "best friend" to talk to back then.

People really need to be more normal about intergenerational friendship.

This concept that it is still "weird" even if it isn't predatory is cutting kids off from community and from the concept of safe adults. And I think it's really really important to have that outside of spaces where people can legally control you.

And as far as what the adult gets out of it. Basically the same thing you get out of any other friendship? Teens are people just like adults are people. You may not be on the same maturity level, but that doesn't mean they aren't fun to hang out with and talk to.

Also, is ‘friend of the family’ not a thing any more? At thirteen I was good friends with a 27-year-old whose family had been friends with mine for three generations at that point. Our generations were a bit out of sync (due to differences in when people had kids) but it didn’t stop us being friends.

I don't think there's anything weird or predatory about them being friends, intergenerational friendships and social groups are great, more 13 year olds should have regular interactions with non-family adults especially in a peer setting.

I think the specification of "best" friends pushes it into territory that is weird, and while not necessarily predatory, certainly potentially deeply unhealthy for one or both parties. It suggests that one or both does not have equally close friendships within their own age cohort, which in turn suggests a deeply isolated child or socially stunted adult. Neither of which is someone that the other should be looking to as a primary confidante or companion. Intergenerational friendships do not negate the need for socializing with similar-aged peers.

Yeah, it's the "best friends" that is weird. It's not necessarily bad, but a 30 year and a 13 year old being mutual besties is weird in the sense that it is very unusual.

#a 13 year old who considers a 30 year old their best friend isn't that weird #it's the other direction that's unusual #like. I'm almost 35. the stuff I ask of my bestie are not things it would be at all fair to ask of a middle schooler

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chekhovs-raygun

Aldi Cowboy Wants To Know

Do you take your cart's quarter back or just pass the cart on to an incoming shopper.

I'm American and I pass my cart to the next guy.

I'm American and I return my cart to take my quarter back.

I'm NOT American and I pass my cart to the next guy.

I'm NOT American and I return my cart to take my quarter back.

I'm the cowboy. Yee-haw.

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#if there's someone coming in - especially if they are rummaging dispirity in their pockets/purse - I will frequently pass them my cart

lavidaextraordinaria

What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?

My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually

Yeah this is actually pretty much exactly what is going on. It’s why anti-oxidants are such a big deal. Bonus fact: oxygen oxidizes stuff in your cells or, in other words, it’s not toxic, just setting you on fire very very slowly.

sarah-mcelroy-deactivated202601

What if there are aliens out there but they subsist on entirely different substances and they’re just scared as shit of us and our crazy ass hell planet? Once in a while some alien anthropologist type suggests checking out the people on this inhabited planet out towards the galaxy’s edge. The other aliens just look at the naive academic with horror. No!! We do not go to that world. That is where the DEATH BREATHERS live. They recreationally consume poisons and are more or less composed of biological fire. Their atmosphere is made of rocket fuel. We must leave the DEATH BREATHERS in peace. Do not go there. Do not.

I tend to always reblog posts about humans being terrifying weirdos to aliens.

@brainsforbabyjesus

brainsforbabyjesus

okay but…that is actually what went down on earth about 2.5 billion years ago.

Earth was doing just fine with a mostly nitrogen/carbon dioxide atmosphere and everyone was happy to go on living in anaerobic bliss and then cyanobacteria suddenly hit the scene, altered the atmosphere composition so that there was a ton of oxygen gas and killed practically everything (97% or more of all species on earth).

We are literally descendants of the DEATH BREATHERS and cyanobacteria is our deadly mother.

digitaldiscipline

The cyanobacteria holocaust is so big, it doesn’t even have a cool name; it’s just called “The Great Oxygenation Event”; the *second* most apocalyptic extinction event in our planet’s history is the one that’s called THE GREAT DYING (the Permian-Triassic event, about 252 million years ago).

This shit makes like the rock-throwing that wiped out the dinosaurs look like kindergarten.

OH HOW I LOVE THIS POST. It makes me so much happier about being alive. I AM BURNING VERY SLOWLY. *hugs it*

And once again, the internet makes learning history and science a thousand times more interesting than school ever did.

tsvrcm-deactivated20161229

I love shit like this.

department-of-fagriculture

I was totally having thoughts along these lines and along comes tumblr to pretty much sum it all up. Bravo~

madeofmxxnlight

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

How the fuck dare you put this post on my dash in 202fucking6

#fun fact: this tongue-in-cheek description of redox reactions has garnered me more anon hate than ANYTHING else I have EVER posted #also: hi OP! glad to see you're still alive also. looks like the oxygen hasn't gotten either of us yet

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