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— me to my friend who discovered gay people are real for the first time

you fall

walked softly as i could / and still i stepped on all their feet / i want to apologize to everyone i see (i want to apologize to everyone i meet)

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stray (demo) - acetone

this is how it goes - aimee mann

bedroom community - glass beach

big dipper - cracker

if work permits - the format

billboard - wednesday

the place where he inserted the blade - black country, new road

dear future self - kero kero bonito

divebomber - neil finn

sober to death - car seat headrest

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shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people.

espresso by sabrina carpenter

1000 blunts by $uicideboy$

fortnight by ts and post malone

prove yourself by radiohead

good luck, babe! by chappell roan

the only thing by sufjan stevens

carolina by ts

it's not ok by this cold night

florida!!! by ts and florence + the machine

i will by radiohead

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just rewatched the first three episodes of lok and i'm obsessed again. korra is SO CUTE she's buff she's passionate she's self assured she's sassy as fuck she's the whole world to me omg.

welcome to republic city & the revelation do SUCH a good job of establishing the character of the city and really, introducing the new world!!! the revelation has been one of my favorite episodes of lok for a long minute because of its noir aesthetic, the art in the cityscaping, the insane cinematography and composition of the korra/mako & chi-blocker fight! the way that mako's revelation of his and bolin's backstory is a direct parallel to the fradulent backstory of amon!!!! (and the potential behind the firebenders-killed-my-parents stereotype as inflicted on a firebending kid,,,)

AND THE WAY KORRA IS IMMEDIATELY SMITTEN WITH MAKO IS SO FUNNY. the way that it just does not occur to mako at all to romantically like korra at all — he sees that bolin is not in their attic and automatically assumes that he's flirting with korra and is just entire amused at the concept like okay,,, then korra offers to help him find bolin and he goes "nah i got it" and i'm like dude,, if i were in your position i would literally be hanging off of her bc she's so cute wdym Nah I Got It you do not got it you are a hot trauma mess let the pretty girl help you. actually he's aro what.

also i'm yelling about how bolin was written as, y'know, an actual human being with feelings and nuance in characterization in these first few episodes. the show could never make me hate you bolin. and the way mako looks so tired all the time especially in his initial introduction just looking at his side profile, and how he word for word goes "i think i'm gonna turn in; you kids have fun" at korra and bolin STOP. mako physically picking up an equalist and hauling them off the stage like a ragdoll bc they were going to harm bolin is the truest shit of all time. sorry i still think mako should've been a girl but in that moment where he asks if bolin is alright and bolin goes "YES MAKO I LOVE YOU" i agreed bc i love him for who he is in canon too

THE SETUP FROM A LEAF IN THE WIND guys the way the airbending philosophy translates over into an entire theme of the season,, how tenzin and korra's relationship already evolves so much over the course of one episode and how they recognize their own faults and acknowledge each other's perspectives; they were always meant to help build one another into better more empathetic people. i just love watching their dynamic so much um kind of the most important part of the show. also the way that korra sees what mako does in the ring and connects it to what tenzin told her about airbending and how it finally clicked for her,,, sorry i'm once again thinking about the sheer potential that makorra could've been until it got absolutely trashed in about one episode from now LOL. (i'm joking it took about another season before that happened but still.)

talk to me please i need to yell about season 1 again and esp the first three episodes because they had so much potential for so many good things and just never got the time to explore it in its entirety,,,, AAAAAAA never getting over the visuals the personality in the animation the background paintings the music just hgnajdsgbhkbsjdgajs SEASON ONE KORRA I LOVE YOU. also my chest hurts sm what

guess whooooooo

so I don’t want to be agitating and I noticed you said you’ve been busy but I genuinely do not remember if I sent you an ask recently or if that was a dream?? so if I’ve been bugging you pls just ignore me I will not be offended 😭🙏🏼

the reason for my presence in your inbox today is because I was looking thru the mako tag and saw ur avatar mako snippet. I then began to experience Thoughts and decided you might enjoy if I shared them :33

what I’ve been thinking about is the possible dynamics of this au because. tragic backstory x avatar is something we didn’t quite get w korra because all her Avatar Trauma happened during the show. however,,, mako and bolin got that orphan swag

so for one I wanted to reference one of your older posts about mako and lin having a history across each other at an interrogation table. just imagine how she feels seeing the little brat (who she’s almost certain is zolt’s little prodigy) turn out to be the avatar who she now has to tolerate and work with to protect the city that never gave him shit.

and besides the early momboss and detectiveson feelings (linzin reconciliation?? kyalin reveal????) the other dynamic is just mako and republic city as a whole. this was actually kind of touched on in canon w how korra had to acclimate to the entirely different world of a revolutionizing industrial city, but instead it would be mako learning to cherish the streets that had chewed him up and spat him back out.

another reason this would be cool is bcuz it already happens in the show as well. despite mako’s character being completely abandoned after the love triangle, his becoming a cop kind of shows that he has grown to want to protect his city. being a police officer in the atla-verse means you have a real devotion to your city—under a boss like lin, you just get replaced realll quick if you don’t (eg, those two guys who pissed on mako when varrick framed him for domestic terrorism or whatever was going on there).

it also can’t be only for money, because if it was he would’ve gone back to probending; something he was just indifferent towards. anyway, what I’m trying to say is that somewhere offscreen he had that development in view as he grew to want to protect the city for more reason than that it would keep he and his brother safe. so essentially, in the avatar mako au, he goes through that development earlier, when he’s still a kid.

this would probably also affect his personality. if he was taken care of earlier on, he wouldn’t have stonewalled himself away out of distrust for the rest of the world. so basically he’s a snappy, sarcastic little bitch by canon because he never taught himself to bite his tongue or die—it also parallels him to korra (cough and katara cough) a bit more which I thought was nice.

I just totally lost my train of thought but uhhhhh,,, sorry for the long ask. hope you’re doing okay :)

much love

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HI SNAILON!! i'm sure you saw my very late response but yeah dw you did not hallucinate that ask kjsdffgkjfsdh

anyway!!! i'm enjoying your avatar mako thoughts so much omg. mako and bolin really do got that Orphan Swag:tm: and i do love a good trauma backstory avatar. (still no one could ever compare to korra but shh we all know she's the most superior avatar of all time in our hearts…)

woah i forgot to think about the potential of lin & mako's relationship in the context of the au as a greater entity. aughhhhafjkhafdhk she's probably be pissed as hell at the start; i feel like tiny avatar!mako is absolutely the stiff bitter kleptomaniac sort specifically designed to get on lin beifong's nerves like no one else and that would agiatate her SO MUCH. but i think that over time as she starts to see him for what he really is and sees a little more of the good in his heart, she'll… actually she'll still treat him pretty harshly because now she doesn't like that she sees herself in him, but she has a greater amount of empathy for him and in vulnerable moments, i think that she would actually turn out to be the adult figure that mako would be most willing to seek out, surprisingly.

also yes i'm really excited to explore how mako rekindles an actually kind relationship with this halfway awful city. i really want to steep it in culture and i think i'll project my experiences in taiwan onto it because it's such a place of all time. the idea of hole in the wall restaurants that could not possibly meeting the hygiene standards and the owners are tough and impersonal but also they're the most natural people to be around, and the food is the best you've ever tasted for the cheapest price possible as you hop from sagging overhang to sagging overhand, never sitting down for a full meal but something about the perpetual motion is so comforting. anyway. republic city taiwan allegory. just really want to write about that, roughly.

i agree about the point of cop!mako :P even though i have complicated feelings about his assumption of a role that had been one of the primary institutions that enforced the system of how he and bolin lived as kids, i also think that he views it as a twisted form of redemption for himself as a child that i frankly think he doesn't have to assume moral culpability for, but i also understand that it's the sort of tangible thing that i think a guy like him would need to ever feel worthy enough of living. i have a lot of thoughts about this that i will have to condense into actual words sometime later…

i'm a big fan of mako actually getting to express his salt. i think that canon mako (and bolin, to an extent) takes a great amount of effort to restrain the Absolute Heathen that he was raised as in order to fit in with this impossible to understand high class society. (it's actually a point i'm going to explore in the fic with this version!) but yeah i feel like there's a lot of carefully trained-out language and habits that must exist in both mako and bolin who are trying so hard to not be perceived as the children they were, because their public images are very dependent on the exterior that they put out to the world. they need to be passably proper to get a fanbase which might land them support from higher up people which might land them a sponsorship which might enable their team to actually rise above as underdog which might lead them to win the pot which might let them finally build a lives for themselves. anyway. honestly avatar!mako would absolutely be hypermonitored by tenzin about his vocabulary and habits (coughing at this excerpt i wrote some time back: "He forces his breath to settle in his chest and forces himself to be grateful that he doesn't have a cigarette that he can lose himself in; he doesn't need Tenzin catching one more of his bad habits to take away from him."). but i think that in the presence of korra who will piss him off SO MUCH he won't have the same qualms about trying to fit into high class society because he'll have settled into this actual protection and stability provided to him by adults for the past several years, and he'll allow himself more to slip back into cussing her out with the vehemence of a Trained Asshole. it'd be funny trust.

i dont think i enunciated that very well but i have also had many thoughts on language and habits that mako and bolin forced themselves to eject for the sake of their precarious position in society. i think that it's also an ingrained part of them that when they're older along in life and have more stability, i like to imagine that they might end up casually incorportating back because their lives don't depend on their manners LOL. older mako would be only half the foul-mouth that his younger self was but asami would still be extremely mortified tbh. and bolin would just be COMEDY ohh

Rewatched Infinity train recently and I still love it to bits!! <33

I didn't originally plan to draw something for each book but I decided to for an upcoming trend on Twitter :>

hiiii lychee :))

as you can see I have too much free time on my hands. but I have a decent amount to say today, so prepare yourself

I’m gonna try and keep this organized and maybe short so 1: do you have any more thoughts on the avatar mako au to share because it’s been rolling around in my brain a lot and I want to know what you have to say about it bcs the way your brain works is so. hajdhskapxn/pos

2: mako learning to draw by engraving his parents’ faces in the dirt of an alleyway over and over and over for years even as he starts to forget their faces. mako who wishes he could’ve afforded paper and charcoal at eight to put down something permanent, something accurate. mako getting their family photo from yin and giving her the scarf, redrawing the picture on the nicest paper he can find to give to her as well. artist mako,, save me artist mako,,,

3: more fem mako thoughts but makorrasami love triangle/eventual polycule(?) except they’re all girls. I just feel like the pining after your team captain who you now do know is gay except it’s because she’s dating a rich girl who’s also very hot is just a whole lot more fun than what they had going on in canon because. girls but sports au. sooo in love w that. also I don’t think makorra would get together in b1 like canon did for a couple reasons. for one, the girl trauma in addition to general trauma of being a homeless orphan. touch and gestures of affection from a person she doesn’t know well yet would probably be a no-no, and korra seems like a very touchy person, just in the natural way that her space is yours and your space is hers. also her energy? like obviously mako would come around but korra in b1 is so much more excited about the world than mako and I think that would kind of, like, intimidate her. (<-also reasons makorra could’ve worked later on but not when they happened) but as the series progresses, korra mellows and mako gets used to her. it works.

but then how does masami happen so early? because asami is the moon to korra’s sun. she’s calm and a careful thinker and after korra’s exuberance breaks down mako’s walls a little bit, asami would be able to slip in being everything mako imagines herself wanting. also more than financially stable. so masami becomes a thing, and korra is jealous, but she’s not sure of who which I personally think is so funny

but yeah that’s basically it. I always love how you take my silly little commentary and give actual thoughtful replies, it makes my day 😭

with love

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snailon! good to see you here haha i totally didn't die for like two weeks what fjsgjhjkgfhs (i'm so sorry i took so long that you thought you imagined this ask hhh)

okay i actually have not thought about it for a hot minute but get this… i get like 40 hours a week back because no more percussion! so i have so much time!!! dude i'm going to rewatch lok AGAIN and then brainrot some more. avatar mako's love hate relationship with the entire fucking world is the only thing about it in my head. i'm sorry i don't have a lot to say about this au right now :(( it'll happen,,, one day,,,,

oh! (sobbing!) personally i am a fan of aspiring writer mako but also artist mako is extremely valid and i love the hc's you've built around it :)

girl for girl for girl makorrasami is really the best version of it tbh! love all your thoughts and actually that's a hilarious angle of korra getting the Sapphic Confirmation but it's not a good thing bc the love interest is actually dating a girl who is NOT korra except oh shit this girl is also super hot and attractive. what the fuck is this. korra my favorite girl in the world ever you're allowed to like all the girls in the world if you want and no one has the right to fault you for it.

anyway thank YOU for always sharing your thoughts with me!! i love to hear it and i'm sorry there was such a delay bhjfjgfh i'll get to your other ask soon promise. my commentary is a little bit dead today but i wanted to get this out instead of leaving it rotting in my inbox forever because i promise i have been turning it over in my head for a minute now :P have a good day snailon!

“Lets go home.” Claudia & Soren

i just Know that modern wulf is an avid taylor swift fan and ulf is ashamed to be related to him for that (a connoisseur of music, if you will) (he's that pretentious rym user who believes modern music is a blight upon the earth). it's the only reliable way to distinguish them if they're trying to pull the switching bullshit on anyone

i had a friend in elementary school who promised that we'd be here at the end of high school together. she blocked me three years ago on a whim and i haven't heard of her since. we don't go to the same high school like we said we would but i don't know where she goes. i could walk to her house and knock on her door any day i wished but i wouldn't. we once wrote out a friendship contract on paper and she told me a secret that she hated everyone but me. then she made me cry for meeting people she didn't like but she was the only person to ever wipe away my tears after the fact. there were girls in the bathroom who said i could have lunch with them while i ran paper towels under the sink and i said no thank you. she was good at both silence and putting words in my mouth and i was good at crying. and she was good at dictating my friendships and i was good at complying to hurt other people through unexplained rejection. i was a ghost to her when around other people worth talking to in another language and now i'm still a ghost to her forever. there's no record of us; did i ever exist? i hate her and everything she was to me but she was my only friend for so long and sometimes i'd like to blame her for how messed up i am at friendships with anyone. i don't know how to ask for anything from anyone and i'm afraid the presence of my very body is an intrusion and who am i if not a drainage for hurt. maybe i still miss her because it was comfortable to have someone to latch to. i wonder if she ever thinks about me.

korrasami!!! i like them very much

spontaneous thoughts of edvin in twenty minute scribb. idc flanaenkger he's kinda asian in my head forever and i'll never explain why

Another aspect of the Gaza Genocide that I want to talk about is the complicity of Internet banking and crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe.

I have seen multiple Gazans raise enough money to leave for Egypt, but the banks and the crowdfunding websites freeze their money or cancel their funds for "suspicious activity" or whatever. Every day that passes in Gaza supplies get more scarce, conditions get more deadly, and the price to cross into Egypt gets more expensive. I've seen people, like ghost-90 here on Tumblr, raise the full amount to get their entire family out of Gaza, but their money gets frozen for so long that the original goal is only a fraction of the price now needed to cross the boarder.

These financial institutions should not be allowed to get away with contributing to the death toll in Gaza. They are intentionally keeping people trapped in a kill zone by withholding money that is rightfully theirs.

I'm so pissed and angry that every avenue for relief for Palestinians is being cut of left and right. It is vile that Gazans are being extorted for 10s of thousands of dollars by the Egyptian gov just to save their family's lives, but even when they play by this corrupt game, the world still finds a way to make them suffer.

My heart is with every Palestinian for the rest of time, from river to sea you will all be free. 🇵🇸❤️

no bones beneath your skin

do you think you can get silly with it

hi you! i'm ngl my comprehension of this question is in the negatives, but i'm going to say mayhap?

Since you mentioned you actually like masami, have you considered lesbian!masami? What do you imagine their dynamic like? For some reason I see them like this: Asami is a big fan of fire ferrets, especially Mako. She says that Mako is very skilled, turning the tides of matches in her favor, that she's very inspiring - maybe she means even more than that to her... Basically Asami is trying to keep her flirting vague, but it turns out even more obvious somehow. And Mako's kind of confused, she doesn't really get what Asami sees in her, but she doesn't really mind, because Asami had been nothing but supportive, and she's very beautiful too. (hold on, now I'm thinking about lesbian!makorrasami)

hi anon! indeed i'm one of those very few batshit insane people out there who do like masami :P in short — i think that the two of them could be such an interesting pairing, in that they represent total opposite ends of the equalist ideology and could have been such a fascinating point to hinge on in s1.* they're both so extremely lonely in their own entirely opposite ways; they're just two kids who don't know anything about being normal in this society because of the inherent weight of their living. they were really sweet to one another when their desperately needing hearts were in it and i feel like they had a fundamental shared understanding of feeling sort of detached from who they should be and who they are. i love them for the tragedy of what they could've been, and i genuinely believe that if korra hadn't careened headfirst into their lives, they might've worked out with time.

anyway lesbian masami! i actually never Really thought about it in my head but they would be so enjoyable. i already love asami's dorky probending fangirlisms and i think she would be even more over in her head about this really attractive girl who's straight-up carrying her underdog team. she would be mako's biggest fan. asami sato is the only person in the world with the social ineptitude (affectionate) boldness to immediately ask out someone she ran over with a moped and that would definitely translate over to her flirtations. which is to say — it is not very subtle despite her futile attempts to be normal around this very hot very talented very flustered girl who she is definitely not a massive fan of. i can definitely see asami's interest going over girl!mako's head a little bit at the start; i think while she has an immediate recognition of asami's beauty, it takes a while more to actually register how lovely of a person asami herself is and begin to fall for her, whereas korra is more like an unshakeable storm.

also. girl for girl for girl makorrasami. you get it,

*tangent i accidentally began in response to your ask that wasn't what you asked for:

i'm pretty sure people have talked about it, but the fact that asami is an extremely wealthy nonbender and mako is a bender in utter poverty being at such opposition is just such good setup for a nuanced discussion — what does it actually means for nonbenders to be "oppressed" when the show repeatedly displays benders to be rejected from society and nearly all characters from wealth are nonbenders; what exists in the system that has made it so the criminal doings we see portrayed are exclusively from benders; the mildly implied but consistent stigmatization of outward firebenders in specific, while nonbenders from the fire nation get a pass; is the imbalance rooted in a more classist society rather than revolving around this arbitrary "oppressing" magic system, whose cultural role is rapidly diminishing and functionality is being replaced by industrialization. this isn't to say that nonbender oppression can't exist, and i don't think that it's exactly the other way around (nonbenders oppressing benders, that is) — the police force still seems to be composed solely of benders, though that's debatable considering that evidently it's not a metalbending job exclusively, and the council of the city is also solely benders. but asami and mako by principle pose a lot of interesting challenges to the ideology that amon pushes and i really wish that they could've dropped the love triangle in exchange for perhaps this subject. yeah, i still want more mako&bolin&asami backstories respectively as well as greater expansion of republic city, korra's cultural clash into the city and her adaptation to it, and allowing room for krew relationships to develop; but also ultimately i think that actually exploring the validity of the villain's perspective would be a better use of screen time. i wish that masami could've had the full season to themselves (maybe with korra accidentally pining for them both on the side haha) so korra would have a real life example demonstrating the opposite of amon's viewpoint, rather than the show consistently framing her to exemplify what's wrong with the system and refusing to actually acknowledge the various points they've casually incorporated that oppose it.

i struggle to enunciate my thoughts precisely as i spontaneously shit these words out on the screen — i'm not really qualified for this discussion — but i just really wish that s1 had expanded further on the fantastic premise it had. it's still my favorite season for reasons i'm not sure i could express, but it could've been so much more than what it was. and masami deserved better. whether they could've ever been endgame or not, they did mean something to each other and it makes me sad to see how brushed aside it is in general :P