Yeah i said /lh

"Being punk is just an aesthetic!!!"No actually being punk is a subculture and political movement with certain requirements and those are fighting against corruption,helping and generally being kind to minorities and gender fuckery/trans swag.If you don't dress edgy but have our beliefs,that dosen't inherently mean you can't be a punk and if you're edgy without being a good person,you're just goth or some shit and shouldn't group yourself in with us when you haven't earned it.Hope this helps👍🏼

Some geek inspired affirmations to start your week!

ID - A yellow to pink gradient background with stars. In black writing it reads....

Geek Inspired Affirmations

Growth is hard, sometimes it hurts more to care, but it is worth it (ATLA)

I enjoy my own style and celebrate it, if 11 can make bowties cool I can wear what I like (Doctor Who)

To help make a merrier world I choose to value food and cheer and song over hoarded gold (The Hobbit)

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel - learning to communicate effectively with others can be hard but it’s essential to avoid conflict, and patience goes a long way (TNG)

As the year 3000’s Miss Universe shows, beauty comes in all shapes and sizes (Futurama)

It may be a cliche but I’m just going to work on my confidence and be nicer to crossing guards (Bob's Burgers)

Not everyone benefits from affirmations and not everyone needs/benefits from all affirmations. Take what you need from these.

Brief note:

My blog can and will vary at any point in time from extremely detailed and very self-indulgent multi-fandom geekery that can and will go from my long, detailed speculation on events like the War of the False Primarch or the Nova Terra Interregenum and all things Iron Warriors, to Sandman meta and being one of the few writers who consistently uses Death as the protagonist, to dunking on both SW canon and the fandom with equal joy in it, to ATLA and why a cartoon's fanbase is more cartoonish than the cartoon and a case of a canon throwing itself off a cliff with concrete shoes and a safe tied to it with a chain, to what have you.

And it will include both history and/or contemporary politics and how each mirrors the other. It's not an either/or thing.

I will also note that as a fan my focus on Fandom relies heavily on a blend of two things. The MST3k mantra of 'it's just a story and you really should relax' and remembering that characters in a story are vehicles to move the story, not your imaginary friend in prose. This is distinctly a minority view so I will feel free at points to go for some pretty vicious takes on people who keep forgetting that fiction is fiction and reality is reality and ne'er the twain shall meet.

if i were to give one piece of writing advice it would be this: if you have to choose between character drama and lore, choose character drama every time

"I say, my love. Shall we invite the Addams for a game night?" _ cocktails and GLOOM by Atlas Games _ Card Game . Macabre Storytelling . Hand Management 2-4 players . 60 min . teen+ my rating: 3 - worth buying new for many plays. Add to Collection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0artLwe87I4 #gloom #atlasgames #addamsfamily #cocktails #cocktailsandboardgames #tabletopgames #gamestagram #tabletop #gamestagram #familytime #tabletopgames #boardgames #foodandboardgames #geekphotos #geekphotography #geekery #geeklife #geeky #geek #geekculture #foodporn https://www.instagram.com/p/B3gFTsHBoEb/?igshid=1divgxieo5pqe

"Well it's not like you can just TELL the non-Water Tribe characters are poc too,you'd have to pay extra attention!"Aang is a buddhist monk,Ty Lee is named Ty Lee and Zuko literally has monolids

"We need to normalize kindness!"You guys can't even handle that making fun of eachother isn't a sign of love for everyone because some people can't handle it so it hurts their feelings and instead call them losers for it and prove their point that you're genuinely cruel

Love it when people act like Zuko was always a 'fuck the rules' bad boy.Guys,he spent over half the show trying to please his dad and his attitude problems came from a mix of trauma responses and being spoiled-Zuko wasn't a 'rebel' until his redemption arc,he was just a jackass

I'm too demisexual to understand the 'this ship is forced because one of the character's took a long time to start liking their love interest!!' argument.What the actual fuck are you talking about,that's literally how attraction works

This is mostly a Zutara shippers problem(ofc it is,they're the root of everything wrong with the fandom and it's been like this since the 2000s)but i've seen it happen often enough with other shippers and it is replacing Aang's place in Zuko's life with whoever they ship him with.I want you to read this and internalize it:I don't care who you think Zuko is in love with because it dosen't matter no matter what-AANG is his best friend.Not Katara,not Sokka,not Jet,AANG.He's the one who saved him from his own inner darkness and Ozai's clutches,he's the one he looks out for the most,he's the one he has the most positive opinion on,he's the one he has the most fun with,he's the one he trusts the most and he's the one he'd choose over anyone else if it came down to it.Not a single one of these things is romantic for them and that's the point.Zuko's number one is Aang and not because he's his s/o but his brother and you have no right to erase his healing journey that's one of the best in all of western media so you can make it about his dating life instead,as if abuse victims can only get better if they 'settle down'.Fuck outta here with your amatonormative and lowkey ableist too bullshit

Katara:*Talking about all the unhinged direct action she wants to take against the Fire Nation and other oppressive groups*

Aang:You are INSANE.We should kiss

"They don't know what gender is!!!"Yes the fuck they do,they're full of it and i'm using the general 'they' because nonbinary does not mean they/them exclusively every fuckdamn time like y'all think it does.'He's like a girl to me' and 'She's my boyfriend' but then you don't respect he/him girls and she/her boys and bigender has never entered your vocabulary.Good LORDS

Tall with black hair and light eyes✔

Started off as a sweet,cheerful kid but then an event in his mid-teens happened that traumatized him more than anything else in his life which was made even worse thanks to him already having some trauma beforehand and led to him becoming evil✔

Hates his dad but seeks out his approval,has a super genius younger sibling who's black and red-coded like him and seen as 'better' than him who he's enemies with and is a total mama's boy✔

Has a strong sense of justice but didn't always know what's actually good or bad✔

Coping mechanisms are anger issues,bad social skills,off the charts snark and not knowing how to handle genuine intimacy/affection✔

Respects women and acts tough but is secretly also a big dork✔

Redemption arc was also a healing journey and about him earning it by working his ass off to be good again and he became a Team Dad thanks to it✔✔

Bi transmasc with his type being people who can stand up to him✔

Goth AutismTM✔✔✔

Edit since i keep getting these niggas on this for some tone deaf ass reason:

I do NOT think it's fair for Zutara shippers to hate Zukka for a chunk of the fandom popularizing bad tropes and being mean-spirited like sorry not sorry but you're calling EVERY Zukka shipper misogynistic racists and queerphobes as if you're not the ones who came up with 'Fire Lady Katara' and 'Momtara x Dadko' and mocked Aang for trying to emphasize with Katara's mom dying with her by comparing it to him and Appa being the only living beings from what happened to the Air Nomads and call him all sorts of vile appalling shit that should NEVER be said about a fucking 12 year old because he's feminine and silly and not the perfect love interest 24/7 and takes pride in his tibetan heritage AND stripped Katara of all her accomplishments and nonconformity and layers and anarchism because you see her as worthless if she's not Zuko's arm candy while also making degrading comments about her sex life because she had kids with a guy you don't like with added anti-biracial kids propaganda as a bonus AND are so unsympathetic to Mai because she's Zuko but a girl so you're not into her that you unironically think she's a wench plus don't even actually care about Mailee seeing as it has way more evidence than Zutara on every level yet you only see them as a sidedish to prove you don't hate women AND even Zuko dosen't get speared because mans deadass ended the series with everything he'd ever wanted INCLUDING being a better dad than Ozai was to him to AANG but none of it matters apperantly because he choose what was best for himself after 16 years straight of abuse instead of some random ass crush you THINK he had for not even technically a year.You do NOT get to talk shit about Zukka stans,they're just a normal noncanon mlm ship fanbase with a small side of bad eggs,Zutaras are an entire rotten eggs ile from a supermarket that's been abandoned for almost 20 years because it never actually opened but old people who complain about 'kids these days' keep thinking it'll open one day despite it being announced a million times it never would and saying it's elder abuse in response

🤝🏻🤝🏾🤝🏿The besties!!!!!