noodles and tea byler art is actually the only reason im alive

In FirstPrince heaven! Thank you so so much @noodles-and-tea!!! I shall treasure these stickers and mini prints always. Your art is always incredible and I'm so glad to own it in some way. ❤️

I wish there was a tumblr feature where you could see how long people have viewed your posts and vice versa because I’m gonna be honest there are some artpieces I have looked at for a solid hour of time and all that the amazing artist knows is that I liked it? Liking it does not express my love I need you to know that I stared for this for an hour

“mia why did it take you 45 minutes to make an instant noodle”

well uh

well

look i got more ingredients in my kitchen than good sense okay

I had a brain wave tonight. Given how much older Iroh appears than his brother, I have always thought it was very likely that Iroh was either an adult by the time his brother was born, or very close to it. And what we see if Iroh's adult past paints him as a military leader who led from the front, and was not afraid to spend years on end in the field. So it's not improbable that he might have been only rarely present when Ozai was growing up.

Ozai bitterly resents his brother, who Azulon clearly favored, while scorning Ozai. He privately denigrates his brother and later blames him for Zuko turning on him in a way that shows he likes to blame Iroh for things. Ozai's picture of Iroh has much more to do with what it's useful for Ozai to believe about his brother, then it does with who Iroh actually is. This would be much easier for Ozai to do if for most of his life, he were able to project what it was useful for him to believe onto an absent Iroh.

It's a whole lot easier and more comfortable to maintain a psychologically useful image of someone if they aren't there to contradict it. And this has fascinating implicatations for the other two people we see Ozai most eager resent and blame, Ursa and Zuko, both of whom he banishes. And even better, when Ozai banishes Zuko, Iroh goes with him.

This must have been the most mentally comfortable Ozai has ever been in his life, with all of them safely gone and unable to break his useful images of them, but still alive so he could resent and blame them as needed. And this offers a plausible unconscious motive for Ozai to do something as stupid as sending his accomplice in murder and treason, a potential heir to his throne, and an alternate claimant to his throne, who also just happens to be an accomplished military leader, out from under his direct control.

duke, heading into the kitchen:

doug, watching from the couch as the kitchen suddenly starts lighting up like someone is arc welding in there:

duke, walking out with a steaming mug of tea:

doug, turning to elaine who is doing a sudoku with her legs thrown over his lap: "your son-"

elaine, raising an eyebrow: "My son?"

doug: "He's your son when he does something freaky."

Do you have any smb artist you would recommend? I'm having trouble finding new artists in the fandom to follow

Uuuhhh okay I KNOW I'm going to forget a few, so please forgive me if I left out anyone obvious. @katlyntheartist and @jell-o101 have really good ongoing SMB comics, as does @insert-goofy-trash-noise (who is fairly new to Tumblr as far as I can tell, but I'm loving their stuff so far.)

Of course I can't forget @cherryfennec's beautifully rendered, wonderfully colored, extremely professional looking art. @luigisgreenoveralls? Top notch bro content. LOVE the way they draw my boy Luigi, especially. @elitadream has developed an A++ version of the Mario universe. If you like Mareach, you'll LOVE elitadream's stuff. (@akiiame-blog's art is also really cute if Mareach is your cup of tea)

@uroad7 posts a lot of really good bro-focused Mario art and has a wonderful and unique style.

@noodles-and-tea and @weevmo have some Mario stuff, but even though they don't post a lot of Mario nowadays their art is so top-notch I don't mind following them for the sake of the ride.

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So toady's prompt for Amphibuary 2024 was "common" and my take on the topic was how frogs along with cats and snakes are commonly depicted as familiars for witches. These three best friends are taking the day off and enjoying an nice cup of tea/coffee at their favorite cafe.

Zhongli closed the door shut with one of his hands, the other one resting on your cheek.

"You aren't going anywhere, my wife.. I still need to know if your friend was right.. with the amount of children we are going to have."

He leaned in and whispered against your lips; "She told me we are going to have.. as much children as two whole football teams. Is that correct, my mate? If so, we should start now then so I can fulfill any of your desires."

~ 💐

THAT IS NOT WHAT I SAID I SWEARー

*sweats* love. darling. husband. as much as i love you and as much as i may have inherited my mom's absurd fertility, i don't think that would be??? physically possible???

heres cute fanart!

for if your are being traumatized my the bald mikes or are stuck in the duffers basement god this tag is so weird but i love you all to death

mike with a guitar is somethings so personal to me🤧 we love to see it

oh dont mind me, just on my biweekly rewatch of the reddie songs ever animated by the reddie artist ever. aka the best videos on all of youtube

raph was having some anxiety about leo being the leader, and mikey came over to comfort him but quickly conked out cuz he has a cold.

i have a cold so they do too. share my pain blorbos.

Brightheart (Warriors) stimboard ☽ - ✰ - ☾ ☽ - ✰ - ☾ ☽ - ✰ - ☾

5 headcanon for Azula is significantly older than Zuko. What happens when Aang is forced? Obviously Zuko would be too young to be banished. But does something happen to Azula? Does she turn to the Avatar to help protect her brother from their father?

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I presume you mean when Aang is found?

1. When Ursa leaves, her son is a babe in arms. When Aang is found, that same boy is a six year old, learning his first lessons in firebending, and learning to write his first characters. But something is already apparent. He isn't leaping ahead with the lightning speed of his sister at that same age. And that might not have been remarked upon, if not for something else. Little Zuko is... soft. He gets angry and upset when birds of prey kill turtle-crabs on the beach. He tries to sneek abandoned owl cat chicks under his bed, and is distraught when they don't make it, because they were too young. He puts himself on the side of the weak and vulnerable, and tries to protect them from the powerful and from the uncaring universe. And in doing so, he earns his father's scorn.

2. Azula couldn't tell you if it happened gradually or suddenly. She remembers both a sense of sudden dislocation, and change to a new reality, with new rules, and also a gradual creeping dread, as the world, their father's world, shifted around them. All she knows for sure is that one of her very woest fears has come to pass. Zuko is no longer a little ball of potential that she is being measured against at all times. Now he is weak, and pathetic, and she promised. She promised she would protect him, and teach him what he needed to know, and how can she, when their father is so big, and so powerful, and Zuko doesn't even understand what she's trying to teach him, and it makea her so angry, when he just doesn't get it... And she feels like he must have, the day on the beach, with the turtle-crab and the hawk, and she can't help worry that someday her dad will realize she's pathetic and weak too.

3. When the Avatar is first found, he is Zhao's problem. Azula never thought much of Zhao, but by all reports, the Avatar is a twelve year old child with training in only one element. It doesn't occur to her that Zhao will fail to capture him. But he does. Again and again. And after the debacle at the North Pole, Azula finds herself kneeling at her father's feet, telling her it is her turn. She must find and capture the Avatar.

4. And she must capture, or preferably, in her father's eyes, kill, her uncle. Because her uncle disappeared a less than a month ago, and showed right back up, at the North Pole, helping the Avatar and opposing Zhao. Her father is of course outraged at his brother's treason. Azula's thoughts are more tangled. And more wounded. He would leave to help the Avatar, a stranger and an enemy to her people, when he barely deigned to notice his own niece and nephew. And that's the thing, isn't it? Azula's whole life has been marked by the presence of so many people, so many adults, who either didn't notice what her father did to his children, or just let it happen. Her uncle is just one more. Only her mother ever tried to protect her.

5. Azula has to leave her brother behind, in her father's care. Which is why, for her, the goal isn't just to capture the Avatar and deal with her uncle, it's to do it as fast as possible. Which is why she goes to Mai and Ty Lee. And if she has qualms about threatening Mai's baby brother to remind her of what she has to lose? Well, it's her own baby brother on the line.