I don't think I've seen anybody talk about how absolutely insane The Boiling Rock is from Hakoda's perspective.
Imagine getting captured, and your son tells you that you won't be apart for too long. That's sweet, but obviously your son has no resources to spare for organizing a breakout. You hope that the Avatar can defeat the Fire Lord soon - that's the earliest time you could hope to be rescued.
You get put into a temporary holding facility until the guards can sort out who is who. After a while, they put you on a prisoner transport to the Boiling Rock. Your captors try to intimidate you by telling you that it's the highest security prison in the Fire Nation, probably the whole world. It's far away from the capital.
You arrive at the Boiling Rock. It really is in the middle of a boiling lake. There's only one way in or out, and it's a gondola that takes you above the boiling lake. You meet the warden. They take you to your cell. You settle down to wait for the end of the war.
And 15 minutes later Sokka comes in like "hey dad I'm here I got the prince of the Fire Nation and an Earth Kingdom ninja leader gf ok let's go I'm busting you out"
FOUND family??? you think i just found them like this??? babes this is FORGED family. Me & the bros were scrap metal in a junkyard (very valuable, very sharp, very dangerous, uncared for) and we GOT IN THE FUCKING FIRE TOGETHER. WE did this. we said I AM NOT LEAVING YOU and melted into each other for better or for worse (it’s for better) and we are A FUNCTIONAL UNIT now. DO NOT SEPARATE. BATTERIES FUCKING INCLUDED. FOUND family my ass, we built this non-nuclear family unit from the ground up, don’t devalue this!!! it was is and will be a labour of love!!!
i don't know man, i just wish that we could [suddenly realising i'm coming dangerously close to expressing a real and earnest thought instead of filtering everything through several layers of intangible running bits] blow up the entire world. or something.
I'm never stopping from being obsessed with how the writers for Buffy said to James Marsters "ok Spike doesn't know the difference between heartbreak, arousel, pain and love and you need to express that".
And James did, he picked up the challenge that they layed at his feet and fucking ran with it, he never stopped running until they forced him to stop.
whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision
What's the evilest thing you can imagine? A vampire who is trying to destroy the world
What's even eviler than a vampire trying to destroy the world? A vampire trying to destroy the world who is a soulless demon with the face of the person you're in love with
What's more evil than that vampire? A local government official
What's more evil than a local government official? The united states military
What's more evil than the United states military? A literal god of hell
What's more evil than a literal god of hell? A white man who is a raging misogynist & also depression
What's more evil than depression & a white man who is a raging misogynist? The embodiment of evil itself. & That's a wrap folks!!
I always thought Buffy switched networks after season 5 because WB didn't want it anymore, but turns out it was because WB wouldn't go higher than a $40 million budget and UPN swooped in and offered them $50 million, so now I'm picturing this
UPN: Welcome to our network! What are you going to do with the extra $10 million?
Marti Noxon: I'm gonna make Buffy and Spike fuck a house down
so after four years of pandemic i've really taken to mouthing song lyrics under my mask bc it's a stim for me and no one could see it so it was a good deal for someone like me who has to mask (like in the autism way) all the time.
this being said i will occasionally have my mask off at the bus stop or something and i'll be wondering why people are looking at me like i'm a psycho and then i'll be like. oh. i was jamming again wasn't i.