WHAT IF – i will pick an important choice or event in my current project and write three sentences (or more?) about if it’d gone done differently!

Well this is going to take a sad turn.

For context

They found Sihtric in the cellar, in a dark, damp, hole that served as a store room for the church. He was bound in heavy chains with a strip of rough cloth covering his eyes.

Finan was the first to reach him and made low soothing noises as he reached out and gently uncovered his lover's face.

They found Sihtric in the cellar, in a dark, damp hole the priests used as storage. He was slumped over in a corner, bound in heavy chains and perfectly still with a rough spun sack over his head. He didnt need to breath but he usually did, a habit to make the humans around him more comfortable.

Finan was the first to reach him and lifted trembling hands to pull the sack from his lovers face, uncovering blank, unseeing eyes. It was only then that Finan saw the thick wodden stake, driven deep into Sihtric's chest and piercing his heart. They were too late.

Your welcome 😁

Maybe Grandpa Joe Wasn't Faking

A lot of people look at the scene in Willy Wonka, when Grandpa Joe starts dancing, as evidence that he was faking his condition the entire time.

However, I have an alternative Take:

Given Grandpa Joe seems genuinely surprised he is able to move about and dance after 20 years, it's possible that when he started developing joint and muscle issues, he was simply told he would become immobile and useless, and he felt he had no choice to accept it, especially given his wife's condition and the condition of the others he lived with. It would have been very easy to believe that "well everyone else ended up like this, so Grandpa Joe is just the next one to fall down this hole." However his condition wasn't as bad as he was told, so when he finally has an endorphin and adrenaline rush, he was able to do quite the dance.

HOWEVER, he still struggles to get his slippers and all that, and for the rest of the movie he walks with a hunch, only very rarely being able to be completely straight. Notice immediately after his dance routine at home, Grandpa Joe is somewhat stumbling and becomes stiffer; likely the adrenaline wearing off. Further more, the only other time we see Grandpa Joe move without issue is after stealing fizzy lifting drinks, which essentially puts him under Zero G conditions, meaning he's not feeling any resistence.

Hanlon's Razor states “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

A likely scenario is that Grandpa Joe was mislead on the severity of his condition and thus lost out on 20 years of living normally due to a bad diagnosis and neglect.

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1765391777580912958?s=20

PLEASE GD IF YOU LOVE AND WANT TRAINS

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

for the last time i DON'T have ADHD!!!!!!! i'm just always daydreaming because of the witch's curse, i make impulse choices because of the wizard's curse, i only forget things because of the sorcerer's curse, i get everywhere late because of the amulet's curse, my place is a mess because of the skeleton's curse, and i'm tapping my foot because i'm feeling the rhythm of life babey! what do you MEAN you found my protective runes in the laundry again

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Human Casey Doodle

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Just as awkward and bony as he remembers

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this is incredibly bruce and damian coded.

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i feel like the reason aang isn’t as adored and beloved as he should be is because he’s the protagonist but he’s also not an archetypal western classical hero. i don’t agree with the entirety of that “avatar aang: feminist icon” essay because i think the role of patriarchy and gender in atla is more complex than what that essay posits, but he definitely complicates the masculine ideal of heroism and generally does not conform to patriarchal notions of masculinity. which is very deliberate, especially as contrasted with sokka and zuko’s explicit struggles with the imperialist/colonial standards of an aggressive, militaristic, and chauvinistic masculinity. aang is subversive because he represents an absence of war in a world ravaged by it. through his link to a (somewhat more) peaceful and harmonious past, he represents a better possible future. as katara would say, he brings people hope.

but people don’t like that he’s not visibly edgy or tormented like zuko is (even though he’s a far more tragic character than zuko is, just fyi), that he isn’t “cool” (even though he’s literally the coolest kid ever, just fyi), that he “gets the girl” (even though if anything, she gets him) despite being twelve and bald and nice (the horror!). katara is the more classical hero of the narrative, as its narrator and its catalyst, the adventurous revolutionary who gradually learns to control and use her powers and eventually becoming a force to be reckoned with. zuko is the classical anti-hero of the narrative, his “redemption arc” constantly hailed as one of the greatest character arcs in television. so people expect katara and zuko, as very obvious narrative foils who parallel each other every step of the way, to be the obvious couple, because based on every romance narrative we’ve been inundated with throughout our lives, within our patriarchal society, they “just make sense together.”

but as much as katara is a protagonist in her own right, aang is the show. the title quite literally represents the central thematic tension of the entire narrative, the colon illustrating the implicit divide between his duties to this brave new world in desperate need of justice and balance, or his duties to his extirpated culture as the last true voice among them. aang is the central figure because this tension represents the crucial ideological battle happening across the entire show. aang is the avatar because he is the only person in the entire world whose values have not been shaped by war.

people constantly laud zuko, in particular, for being the most interesting, complex character in avatar. but i personally don’t even think that’s true. which isn’t to say that zuko isn’t fascinating in his own right, of course, but rather that he’s certainly not the only complex character this show has to offer. he just happens to monologue about his anguish constantly. but aang wasn’t raised as an imperial prince, and so he approaches the world, and his own pain, in a very different manner. the reason he immediately goes to ride giant koi on kyoshi island, mailchutes in omashu, and otherwise goofs around after learning of the shocking ramifications of his people’s genocide is because that’s how he copes with his pain. unlike zuko, who never stops talking about his aches and yearnings, aang represses his trauma and hides his tears behind a mask of upbeat cheerful goofy twelve year old antics.

until he can’t anymore. until he snaps. both katara and zuko wear their hearts on their sleeves, and that includes their rage. but aang’s rage is dangerous specifically because it represents that he has been pushed past his limits, that the conditions of this world in which he is a perpetual stranger, temporally displaced and dispossessed, are intolerable. that peaceful reconciliation is impossible. and the fact that he persists beyond that breaking point, over and over again, to firmly and resoundingly establish his ideals even as they conflict with everything he has learned about this world, a world that is not his own even as he can never return to the world he once knew, is what makes him so unique, so powerful, so beautiful.

i know that aang isn’t the typical hero, neither narratively nor aesthetically, but really, that’s the entire point. the world, our world, needs something other than what we have now. we need someone who will not succumb to the ideals of domination and victory through violence to assert themselves. we need someone who stands firm in refusing to kill the firelord, even as everyone he knows tells him otherwise. we need someone who knows that darkness cannot be vanquished through more darkness, but can only truly yield to purifying light.

and sure, aang is a child, and often acts childishly. sure, he’s not conventionally handsome and alluring. but one thing i will never understand is how that somehow negates his appeal to the masses. because even if you don’t appreciate how crucial he is to the themes of this narrative you all seem to love so much, how can you not love his adorable little face? his precious little laugh, his zest for life, the infinite well of love and kindness he holds in his heart? people who hate aang are crazy to me. because you are, quite literally, hating the world’s most precious baby boy.

Law never changes

I have never played smash bros in my life

(Edit: I did a part two ayeee ✨ you guys are persuasive (affectionate))