One of my green sons has outgrown his shoes, so I am taking him home to change

Safety first

Snow and evergreen. I don't know how to feel about this universe anymore.

Love on the Spectrum

Sephiroth summons meteor

the question i'm wondering now is whether suki, mai and ty lee ever get to visit the south pole, and how they're received there (especially by sokka and katara)

yes!!!! I think they would all kind of just invite themselves, except for ty lee, who is invited by aang, which katara thoroughly resents because she does not want that terrifying girl in her home, where she lives.

one day suki’s just like “so when are you gonna introduce me to your family” to which sokka is like “you’ve already met my dad and you know katara really well at this point???” and suki’s like “okay well when are you going to introduce me as your GIRLFRIEND” which sokka thinks is insane because she’s constantly asserting that she doesn’t subscribe to the valorization of the family or romantic relationships, and now she wants him to formally introduce her to his grandmother??? but he’s like okay. whatever. so he takes her to the south pole (it’s like 5 mins away from kyoshi island via air travel) and she adores his family and they adore her. and she gets really into learning about their culture, which they are more than eager to teach her, and she has a blast.

mai invites herself to the south pole when she and sokka are living together in ba sing se, because sokka gets a letter from hakoda telling him that kanna is sick so he should come home as quickly as possible just in case, and even though he doesn’t ask her to, mai is just like “of course im coming with you. i long to penguin sled.” and then katara gets really pissed and she’s like “why is she here” and sokka’s like “trust me i didn’t actually invite her.” and then katara writes a really emphatic letter to zuko complaining that mai is totally monopolizing her time with her family while she heals her gran gran (mai is just standing silently in the corner) and then zuko is like “what?!? your gran gran is sick and you didn’t tell me!!?!?!” so then he comes to the south pole and then he does actually monopolize all the attention with his drama. but i digress.

there’s another time that suki and ty lee come to the south pole to have a slumber party with katara (this is after katara has slightly relaxed her opinion of ty lee) while sokka mai and toph are off having fun elsewhere (and no suki isn’t bitter that toph didn’t invite her, after all they’ve been through together, no why would you even say that) and they play truth or dare, and suki (thinking she’s being generous) dares katara to kiss ty lee, and katara looks so repulsed by the prospect of kissing the most beautiful girl suki has ever seen, like she was asked to lick a wet slug, that suki just cracks up. anyway i think katara would host a lot of slumber parties, and this is simply one of many. but those are all the examples i could think of off the top of my head.

weather's turnin' cold

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Living that extreme vacation life (11pm burger in the most suburban bistro I've ever experienced....BUT I'M OUTSIDE BC IT'S NOT RAINING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA)

Oh yeah I forgot I haven't shown you guys the new guys yet

"Do you like salamanders?"

Why don’t I go somewhere warm, where there is the ocean and I can swim every day?

— Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 6, 2024)

Got home early cuz of a bad tropical storm 🔥

Windowsill plants and a snowy garden view.

Photo by Katia Hougaard, December 1st, 2023

If you're cold, mothmans cold. Let him in

Tropical Island Vibes 🏝️💦✌🏻🌊🩷