Probably Should be Studying

Day twelve of making art everyday for Pride Month. June 12: Korra and Asami from Legend of Korra!

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.

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And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

But sometimes I have to copy-paste something else besides “t,” which means I need a readily available place to copy the “t” from.

My first thought was to search “tiger” on Google, but if you can’t type the letter “t,” you just get search results about Bob Iger.

I realized words that end with “t” are easier for Google to autocomplete, so the first one I thought of was “crypt.” But wouldn’t you know, googling “cryp” takes to you to cryptocurrency results, and I REALLY don’t want my algorithm thinking I google that multiple times per week.

Then I remembered a cool place I went in London, called Cafe in the Crypt. It’s exactly what it sounds like and located below St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church. When I type in “Cafe in Cryp,” Google does indeed autocomplete it effectively! So I either keep that search result open in a tab or Google it every day.

So, that being said, if anyone works for St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church’s marketing department and has been utterly flummoxed by an IP address from Virginia that has googled their cafe hundreds of times over the past 6 months… that wasn’t a bot, that was me.

I am the Spiders Georg of Cafe in the Crypt.

Its similar to why you cannot put bad people in a class of their own. The moment you do that you stop being able to see the bad things that the people closest to you do a la "my best friend couldn't have said that racist thing, they're not evil."

The moment you think you are immune from this type of backslide into right wing nonsense is the moment you stop questioning yourself enough to keep yourself from backsliding into right wing nonsense a la "I mean im not antiscience, im vaccinated, I just think that fluoride in our water supply is imparting children's ability to learn as fast as they otherwise could without it."

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