Went outside my fandom bubble and saw people being cancelled for shipping two characters who tried to kill each other once damn is this the limit nowadays
Trying to kill each other is a reason to START shipping characters
When I get a follower named some shit like “trinityhyett202“ and it’s a woman in a bikini
Can’t stop thinking about an au where Zuko turns traitor in the first month of his banishment. Except, he’s gotten very good at acting to maintain the ‘royal image’. As such, Uncle Iroh believes him to be a lost cause and joins him in the hopes to negate the damage Zuko is ‘causing’. Iroh is also pretending to be loyal to the Firelord while helping the white lotus in secret. A very interesting vigilante has emerged acting as a spy on the fire nation, mute, swords, and a mask. The Blue Spirit is notorious for being difficult to track down, but it’s the goal of the White Lotus to recruit them. Cue 3 years of shenanigans with Zuko desperately pretending to be a spoiled angry prince dedicated to Ozai and Iroh taking on his General Iroh persona while both of them are committing treason behind each other’s backs knowing that they can’t slip up in front of each other. Finally, after years of searching the White Lotus is able to get a meeting with the Blue Spirit. Trust is a two way street so Iroh reveals himself as the Grand Lotus.
“UNCLE?!!!”
“NEPHEW?!?!”
Possible alternative: Instead of this resolving anything, the now think the other is infiltrating the White Lotus so now they’re both trying to pretend to be working with the other to destroy the White Lotus from the inside out, while trying to convince the rest of the White Lotus that hey- that other person is duping you, and now there’s an extra level to this fuckery.
Bonus if Bumi is the one they’re both trying to convince and Bumi knows the truth and has know who the Blue Spirit is this whole time but finds it hilarious and goes out of his way to keep this mess going for entertainment
Every time I see a video of a cat that’s just meowing constantly, I think about how they developed meowing exclusively as a way to communicate with humans.
Past kittenhood, I mean. Kittens meow for the same reason human babies cry; to tell their mom “I have needs and wants and I’m so so small and I hardly even know it!” But adult cats have other ways to communicate with each other. They only continue to meow because they realize it’s the only part of their language that gets have anything close to the correct response from humans.
Anyway. Whenever I see videos like this where a human and cat are doing that sort of call-and-response routine, like-
*human talks at the cat like its a person*
meow
*human talks at cat like its a person*
meow
-so on and so forth, like I dunno, it just hits different somehow. Like it’s not the same as dogs barking at humans, dogs barking is a “natural” dog instinct (to my knowledge), but adult meowing is a specifically domestic behavior. They developed it for us. They know we can’t really understand them, the same way the mom in this video knows the cat can’t understand her, but they meow at us anyway. And this cat’s plaintive meows are it begging to be set free of the grooming torture, obviously, but sometimes it seems like it’s just a call and response.
Like you’ll see a video of a human talking at a cat, and the cat meows back between sentences, and the cat is like lying with its eyes half closed or sitting with its back turned to the human and it’s meowing back anyway and you stop and think about it and realize that they’re doing the same thing.
The cat and the human talking at each other when they don’t need anything from each other, that’s- that’s just conversation. It’s literally cross-species small talk, because both the cat and the human are engaging in it just for the sake of hearing a response back.
They can’t understand each other at all, but they continue to communicate purely for the sake of communication. For the pleasure of each other’s company. For the sake of socializing with each other. We don’t even understand each other, and it’s still small talk.
And you think about that and you remember again that adult cats without humans don’t meow and it’s just their human company comfort language and you cry.
Oh fuck I’m so sorry I didn’t realize I reblogged this from you lmao
objectifying men in armor will literally never get old. like, work it shiny boy. hit ‘em with that old razzle dazzle you fuckin trash can. hottie! (tucks $5 into your cuirass)
Throws in some gold coins at the neck opening and hear it rattling all the way down.
*missing the charging port on my phone* don’t think about it don’t think about it don’t think about it
my two favourite things about this
everyone knows what this is
the scene was an adaptation of a scene from the original novel where instead of a charging port on a phone, it’s a winding key in a pocketwatch. I like to imagine people having this exact same kind of thought when they missed the watch keyhole 100 years ago
*person from the 1800’s missing the pocket watch keyhole* don’t think about it don’t think about it don’t think about it
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