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the tldr and most important thing to know is: i do not recommend you plan, discuss plans, or use any kind of hyperbolic (or not) language about violence to government officials or anyone in that vicinity on discord. please use signal instead.

a discord trust & safety employee is technically able to see any message you’ve sent under your account, going all the way back to the beginning of your account. unless you have manually deleted a message, it is viewable to a tns employee. now: it is a tremendous part of being on a tns team that we did NOT invade user privacy without cause. cause was usually: another user reported something you said, and we thought the reported message indicated you might be doing something elsewhere that was illegal (for example: a user says “i’m talking to this girl but she’s in high school lol.” i would then try to find evidence as to whether or not there was a child safety issue there. in this example, we’d require clear admission of age from both the user and the alleged high school girl, and then clear evidence of sexual talk between them, and go from there.) finding evidence required looking though all of that user’s messages.

most of the tns team, as i know them, are pretty resolute about not going further in looking than would be needed for action. most of the tns team that i still speak to is very much on the side of blue. your general conversations are probably perfectly safe, and we were very good at figuring out quickly if someone has reported you maliciously. i don’t believe you need to worry too much about your porn and fanfic and all that.

HOWEVER: reported content must be investigated, and discord can, and has been, legally subpoenaed to turn over user information. again, this has nominally been in Very Evil cases (CSAM and grooming, school shooting threats, murder admissions, etc.) but that could change, either at the federal level, or at the discord policy level. discord, like any social media company, could easily be pressured or forced into taking on different internal policies that could get you in serious trouble if you are organizing violent or “illegal” resistance. if that happens, there is a scenario where this incoming administration is given access to your messages.

again: please do not organize your political or social resistance on discord from now on. please use signal to ensure your maximum safety. do not panic if you have already talks about things on discord: you can easily delete your messages, and that WILL remove from an employee’s view. do that and use signal from now on.

They never starved, you know? Sokka went hunting or fishing whenever they stopped long enough-- and even if the catch wasn't as much as he wanted to, I don't recall them ever going hungry.

When they were low on money and supplies, Sokka got a job on a fishing boat (Storm Episode). Or asked for food and money, as thanks for saving the village (Hei Bei Forest/spirit-kidnapping episode). Or something similar, the make sure that even if supplies were low, the pot was never entirely empty.

That's a skill.

Contrast that with Zuko and Iroh. Their first attempt at fishing caught barely a mouthful. They went hungry often-- even AFTER they began to resort to begging and stealing. They couldn't forage because they didn't know how to tell the edible from the poisonous.

It's easy to view Sokka as just the funny guy: he cultivated that part of his image, even. It's EASY to say that elite fighters with Royal tutors and private schools, etc, are better educated or more skilled than some teen from the Southern Water Tribe.

But when push came to shove? When it came to personally ensuring that nobody goes hungry while they're on this epic cross-country quest?

“Ugh, you always think just because you’re the oldest you get to eat first,” Katara chides him. She rolls her eyes and grumbles under her breath about how boys are annoying and she wishes she had a sister.

of course you do!! it’s a dunkleosteus, it’s an ancient deepsea fish from the late devonian period, and it has an exoskeleton!! it’s about the size of a great white shark, and unfortunately it is extinct but it is so so amazing!! i’ll attach some pictures below :)

LOOK AT THAT THANG

anywayyy love ya! i watch your otter cam all the time how are they doing?? i love them so much ANYWAYS im rambling ily bye :3

Woah, that Dunkleosteus is mega-cool! We get why you love it—the armored head is pretty metal.

You don't owe anyone anything

Meaning: you do not have to make yourself suffer for the convenience of others

We owe each other everything

Meaning: we could not survive without each other and everything we do to help another is crucial to ensuring our own continued survival

Lily Moth (Polytela gloriosae), family Noctuidae, Sri Lanka