Hey um what. What goddamn business did Omashu have having a King?? Like I never really questioned it since it came from such an early Book One still-world-building episode but. Omashu is a city, for starters, and it’s a city in the Earth Kingdom. Which. You know. HAS a king.
You know I bet, honestly, Omashu doesn’t have a king. And NEVER had a king. Omashu had a succession of Governors or some shit and on the day that Bumi took the mantle he said “Fuck this ‘Governor Bumi’ stuff that’s lame. Call me King.” and when his advisors said they can’t legally do that Bumi passed a law changing his title from Governor to King, stuck a crown on his head, and called it macaroni.
And the citizens of Omashu were probably just like “alright” cuz like. Bumi strikes me as the kind of Local Town Eccentric who has a working personal relationship with pretty much everyone so all 100,000 people of Omashu heard this decree of Kingship and went “yeah that tracks” and got on with their day.
Outside of Omashu though? Good god. That’s gotta be a fucking look. At this point 112-year-old Bumi has been ‘King’ for a lifetime longer than the actual Earth King. What a look. How much sleep do you think Long Feng loses about this??? How many assassination attempts do you think he tried to carry out, only to have the Dai Lee come crawling home with the imprint of Bumi’s face smashed into their armor and some rock candy stuffed into their socks?
Ba Sing Se adores its appearance of order and structure and hierarchy and I cannot even begin to imagine their Daily Hell of dealing with Omashu’s centenarian feast-loving candy-munching batshit unhinged and utterly unkillable pseudo-King.
The Fire Nation taking over Omashu was probably the happiest goddamn day of Long Feng’s life.
me: you know what fuck this!!! I’m tired of bella and edward content/discourse!!!! they’re boring!!!!!!!
also me: but if they had just named their daughter meadow her name would have been not only unconventional but CUTE and RELEVANT to their relationship and NOT named after characters who bella didnt seem particularly CLOSE to by the time she got PREGNANT
Why don’t some people realize that the best way to care for some creatures is to humanely euthanize??
Case in point:
This just crossed my facebook feed. This poor kestrel was electrocuted and is under the care of a center in Hungary (I believe). Both its feet and one wing had to be amputated. How is this a life? The poor creature can’t perch, can’t hold its own food. It can’t be a bird.
Amputations alone aren’t bad, but trying to keep an animal alive when it can’t preform basic behaviors is cruel. Why can’t people understand this?
the scripts for cruella, riverdale and the powerpuff girls reboot have done an Excellent job at raising my self confidence as a writer; I rest assured in the knowledge that I Literally can't do worse
Oh wow congrats! That's exciting I'm so happy for you:) Publishing your own book sounds awesome, don't give up dreaming, I believe in you. I'm glad you're still writing, what are you writing at the moment? Hope you're well, S👽
Thank you☺️ I’m writing a YA book about a girl who becomes a werewolf and exiles herself while searching for a cure. I have like nine other stories swirling around, but that’s the one currently in progress. How’re you??
Hey there:) Remember me? Probably not, since it's been a while (years? Idk honestly). I've been absent for a long time and just "rediscovered" Tumblr a few days ago. I just thought of you and was wondering how you're feeling these days. Did you celebrate Christmas? Are you still writing? I really do hope so, it would be a shame to not use all that talent:) (Do you even still use Tumblr?) I hope you are doing well. S👽
The amount of serotonin this just FLOODED me with is ridiculous. I am still writing but am barely on Tumblr anymore. I fell away from Riverdale so the fanfics aren’t really coming to me anymore, haha. I’m hoping to finish a book and looking at traditional publishing (but that’s a distant dream). My Christmas was wonderful! I’m also expecting my first child next month so it’s a very exciting time all around. I hope you’re well!!