🦅 DUMB BIRDS MADE IT TO THE FINALS!! 🦅

Holy Woodpecker! Dumb Birds has made it to the @GOODREADS Choice Awards Final Round!! PLEASE HELP DUMB BIRDS FLY ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP!

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Missed you 🍟🌭🥪 #Chicken #Sandwich #Fried #Fries #Sauce #WellDone #HotDog #AllTheWay #Lemonade #JunkMood #RiverviewEast #ElmwoodPark #NJ #NewJersey #DesiredTastes (at Riverview East) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgwpfKwum7L/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

5 Archeological Spots to Visit in the U.S.

#nerdy MarvinGoof & I #talkingnerdy about #SpiderManPS4 #GhostofTsushima #WandaVision #Mandalorianseason2 & we cover #movies #AllTheWay #TheSapphires #Selma #10ThingsIHateAboutY#games #OcarinaOfTime #JediFallenOrder #DeusEx:HumanRevolution #shows #TransformersWarforCybertron #DearWhitePeople #podcast #nerds https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-mhwhx-fb4bf8 #spiderman #ps4 #gaming #transformers #starwars #mandalorian #LoZ #marvel #nerd #talknerdytome https://www.instagram.com/p/CoFoRdtOT5e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The guys surprised me with a beautiful collection of unique #jackets! #ngno #spreadingHappiness thanks to @jobelin.lb. @kareem_kawtharani and his bike, @elkanaan and his love for the outdoors, @royyantoun and his passion for #Burgers. #a7labaladbel3alam #alltheway! #Lebanon #NoGarlicNoOnions (at Lebanon) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-C1ZuIAFc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#talknerdytome @pabl007gunner & Marvin Goof #talkingnerdy about #DearWhitePeople #GhostofTsushima #WandaVision #theMandalorian #SpidermanPS4 https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-mhwhx-fb4bf8 #starwars #gaming #marvel #podcast #nerds #OcarinaOfTime #SpiderMan #PS4 #JediFallenOrder #DeusExHumanRevolution #TransformersWarforCybertron #nerd #AllTheWay #TheSapphires #Selma #10ThingsIHateAboutYou #nerdy #transformers #TNTM https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn6vWO1rV4x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🙏🏼🇺🇸💙 #ThankYouBrandon #HeDidThat #DarkBrandonRises #DarkBrandon #BidenBoom #DemsDeliver #DemocracyChallenge #BidenThatThat #ididthat #ThanksBiden #ThanksJoe #ThanksJoeBiden #jfb #JoeFuckingBiden #bfd #BigFuckingDeal #USA #AllTheWay #UnitedWeStand #US (at Las Vegas, Nevada) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cii6D5MPJTb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"Quality is much Better than Quantity. One Home Run is much better than Two Doubles" - Steve Jobs In Baseball, a Home Run is a Score, but Two Doubles may not get you any Score (Rewards). A Finished Result is Better for Progression than Two Uncompleted Processes. In other words, a Completion is better than two Uncompleted Efforts. Finish What You Started, as described by the common acronym of FOCUS: Follow One Course Until Successful. #Quality #QualityOverQuantity #Quantity #Results #Result #Rewards #Reward #Progress #Progression #Focus #Complete #Completion #AllTheWay #GoAllTheWay #AllIn #StopStopping #GetUpAndGrind #KeepWorking #KeepGoing #KeepImproving #KeepGrinding #GoGetIt #GoBig #GoBigOrGoHome #ThereIsNoTry #DoOrDoNot #LiveFully #LiveFullyAlive #LiveLifeToTheFullest #LiveLifeToTheMax https://www.instagram.com/p/CgPaYq0pdVg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The first hour into the music conference thur morning I already it was worth being here. There was so much knowledge to gain from the different people there speaking to us from major producers that have worked with big names to music business lawyers sharing their knowledge, A&R reps from different labels and so much more. I'm looking forward to learning more of what they have to offer tomorrow and beyond thankful for this opportunity and insight. This is mainly a business trip but still checked out a few more sites. #event #neworleans #louisiana #business #trip #thebryantcproject #guests #speakers #learn #knowledge #alltheway #view #city #bigcity #lights #armstrongpark #intercontinentalneworleans #cuttingedgemusicbusinessconference #discovering #discover #recordingindustry #preperation #doit #appreciated #appreciation #notes #lessons #exciting #excitement #hotel thebryantcproject.net https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfvb3bZOdpu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

so on a scale of aang (killing is always wrong) to katara (killing is a statement) to sokka (killing is a tool), where would the rest of the gaang + ozais angels go?

toph is hard to pin down because she’s the only character who ever actually kills people outside of the context of war. and i don’t know if she even realizes what she did, because she’s 12 and the adrenaline rush of discovering that you can actually metalbend probably supersedes any logical reasoning in that moment, but like, she did just leave two guys to die a gruesome death in a metal box. so i do think it’s more nuanced that simply saying, “to toph, killing is fun and flirty,” but like, there is a not insignificant part of her that will gladly kill as a means of asserting her power over others and individual autonomy, and has no compunctions about killing those who threaten her autonomy specifically, as it is such an acute point of trauma for her. but also, she’s twelve so like, she’ll probably develop a more nuanced approach to that quandary as she ages.

zuko’s stance on killing is mostly that he’s happy to outsource that violence and then take credit for it as long as he personally doesn’t have to get his hands dirty. like he’ll hire an assassin but won’t bring himself to admit that “end them” means “kill them,” or he’ll threaten to kill zhao and then try to save his life at the last minute. he wants aang to kill his dad but would never actually kill ozai himself, just as he wants katara to kill yon rha, but would never actually kill ozai himself. and i’m sure zuko thinks this is all because he’s a coward who simply lacks the capacity to be ruthless and effective (like sokka), but actually it’s symptomatic of zuko’s greatest quality, which is his inherent sensitivity, his queasy stomach for violence, his predisposition for gentleness, the fact that he actually struggles to deny his own inclinations and simply submit himself to a logic of brutal death and destruction. he thinks it makes him weak, but the fact that he actually has a desire to do the right thing and be a good person despite it all is truly his greatest strength.

azula is always operating from a place of survival because it was impressed to her from a very young age that she exists in a world that is unforgivingly cruel, and it is kill or be killed. she does not want to die (which is quite possibly one of her greatest points of deviation from sokka, but i digress) so she wholeheartedly submits herself to this logic, and unlike zuko, who struggles to erode his own humanity even under the threat of violence, azula is very good at becoming something “monstrous” (her words) out of fear, can contort herself into any shape necessary as long as the threat is tangible enough. so obviously azula approaches killing in the same way sokka does, no surprise there. murder is a tool to achieve her ends, to ensure her own safety and survival. it is simply a mechanism of war. but unlike sokka’s view of it, she also believes that the strong kill the weak because the weak deserve to die, and that logic she inherited from ozai.

we never see suki actively kill anyone, but she does threaten to feed sokka to the unagi, so like, even if she is (probably) joking, i don’t think suki is flat out against killing. i think she’ll kill if she absolutely has to, but would also prefer not to because she clearly values and holds a deep appreciation for life. but also, whenever there is a gap in our textual understanding of suki, i usually just fill it in by being like wwkd (what would kyoshi do), so maybe that’s why i just said. who knows

mai always makes an effort to never actually stab people with her blades, but rather pin them in place. that said, whether this is because a Y-7 cartoon simply isn’t allowed to depict blood or if it’s because mai is genuinely that attuned to not seriously hurting the people she throws knives at, i’m not entirely sure. i like to think that mai doesn’t actually want to hurt people, because like zuko, she is naturally inclined towards sensitivity and gentleness, but i think there’s also a part of her that would lock people in a metal box if she could. i think the best way to summarize mai is thus, excitement is valuable (including the heat of battle), but killing is unpleasant.

ty lee has actively refined a technique that makes her extremely dangerous without ever actually having to cause long-lasting damage to someone physically (psychologically is another story). yet another W for ty lee air nomad heritage theory, but i digress. ty lee is smart enough that she never actually has to be personally responsible and culpable for killing anyone ever, but she is also submitting to and enabling the violence of an empire for the sake of her own survival, so it’s not like she’s not complicit either. so to ty lee, killing is also a tool, but one she personally doesn’t need to employ, which is a comfort to her.

iroh (technically you didn’t ask about him but he’s fascinating so i can’t just leave him out) used to view killing as a tool, and now views it as an inviolable taboo because it took him like over 50 years to recognize the inherent value of human life and the grief of losing a loved one. so it’s not that he grew up in a “kill or be killed world” that fostered his need to kill to ensure his survival, but simply that he grew up in paradigm that dictated that “killing is the path to attaining glory” and he was good at killing, and thus glorious. but then he experienced the consequences of that worldview firsthand, and had to completely recalibrate his own logic of conquest and domination. and so now he’s still capable of violence in equal measure, but is less willing to exercise it for purely shallow, destructive reasons. yay..??

jet actually does think that killing is fun and flirty. anyone who disagrees with him deserves to die because he is simply right about everything. sokka? closet fire nation sympathizer, obviously. guy he met on a boat who said “hey im not really interested in joining your child militia”? well he’s probably the prince of the fucking fire nation (okay he was right about that one but he had no way of knowing it so). he watched the rough rhinos burn down his house and murder his family with a smile on their faces, and a part of him that day calcified and decided that the only way to truly reclaim his power was to beat them at his own game. so he does everything in his power to control the people he can, to control his narrative, to refine his logic in a way that makes him the uncontested hero no matter what. but in truth, it’s quite simple: he wants power because he has none.

haru exists somewhere between “killing is a statement” and “killing is a tool.” killing is a tool because it functions as a statement. killing is a statement because it functions as a tool. violent resistance is necessary by any means necessary, but you know, in a nice way. he’s basically just the model of the “good” colonized subject who fights for collective liberation instead of personal empowerment, so it makes sense that he’s introduced before jet as like the emblem of what katara should do (how she should fight, what she would fight for) versus what she shouldn’t. which is like, perhaps a simplistic reduction of “good” vs “bad” methods of resistance into “our noble collective action” vs “their senseless terrorism,” but like. lol. what can you do

( post — @trattcria // takenaka )

"urgh. fine." tome relents easily. she's lucky she brought her wallet today—maybe unlucky, depending on how you look at it. but rules are rules! can't mooch off takenaka's allowance all the time, no matter how much she wants to.

his telepathy, though, she will handily mooch off of.

she digs out her wallet with enough keychains to bludgeon a man, then starts for the door, waving takenaka along.

"well, c'mon, now. you're my rearguard, aren't you?" really, she wants to hang out while lunch period lasts.

Alltheway Player

“As I Wanna Be”

No Pen No Pad

dead electric morning, every nerve standing on end because i woke up yesterday + stayed woken up alltheway until this morning and there is terror in me, terror in every single cell and i am afraid and afraid and i cannot sleep for it. i want to put my fear entire in my mouth where it is safe, where i can bite down on it at any moment, where i can swallow it down over and over again until it digests but my fear lives in my lungs instead + because it lives in my lungs it lives in my blood and my heart and my whole entire body shaking shaking with it- a convulsion half like a death rattle cough + half like a laugh + the laugh scares me more and whatever the part of me that isn’t me or the fear says

“You have to laugh at it. You have to laugh at the way you stand outside a door and pantomime knocking without ever making contact because otherwise you would scream or cry and that would be worse to explain then the laughing or the knocking you’re not doing. Sometimes you stand there hand raised and stop yourself before you can kick or collapse against or headbutt the door, anything to tell someone to open it, and you have to laugh because your laugh is silent anyways when you laugh like this. You have to laugh because you scream silent too and when you drive yourself to tears to knock on the door even then the knock is only the first step and every cell of you is still being circulated full of fear from your lungs. But the laughing keeps it all from shutting down before you knock.”

dead electric night and it is quiet in the winter as the clock ambles towards dawn and i am still all alight. Still too much in a body, too much to breathe right + laughing laughing laughing silently because there’s nothing else to do and it really does seem funny when i can’t sleep from it. Might have to shut myself down the hard way. Might have to cover the eyes and the mouth until breath hisses against the suction against the palm and my eyes seal shut. if i can make myself small and quiet and hold my breath until the ribs are tight around it the fear goes away before i can. and when the fear is gone i can breathe in and out and in and out and the only thing that pours through me is pure elation + when i laugh there is no scream i am trying to avoid just an absence of fear unfamiliar + when i am done laughing now i can finally sleep.

OH HYSTERIA // PD

A Loaded Dessert Pizza! #chocolate #alltheway. #chocolatepizza https://www.instagram.com/p/CfJN9enomVU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

@turtles-alltheway-down this is for u (the godkillers series, while not following up currently on shirase & chuuya, is about redemption, reunions, and revenge.)