So excited to finally be sharing my @zukkabigbang2024 fic, betaed by the amazing @kartoonkrazy and with wonderful art from @lizardlicks (link incoming)!

Featuring culture sharing, culture confusion, gossip, a very sassy Kanna, a very over-it-already Katara, meeting the parents when you and the parent are both world leaders and also you have issues with parents, and Sokka's daddy issues.

To all the people who on my other longfics kept going 'wow, I cannot wait for the conversation with Hakoda about this one!' to which I kept going '…about that.' -- this one's for you :)

I love them so much

binge watched the entire show in one day and now i cant stop thinking about these gay ass hockey freaks help me

one of the best edits i have ever seen by uhbucky on tiktok

i like this show in a cool ironic detached intellectual way btw

Marie Curie's notebooks are crazy once you think about it. They're so radioactive they have to be sealed in a lead box. Imagine a world where atomic theory is forgotten and a dude just goes "yea there's a book that details the secrets of the universe, the machinations of the creation of existence down to its barest essentials, but if you get close to it you fucking die. The more you read it the more your body slowly disassembles into mush." like wat excuse me

i think. the way that shane tells his mom i'm so sorry i tried i promise i tried really really hard. (to not be gay? to not love ilya? both & everything & also to be the best little boy in the world hockey edition) sort of twists me up inside.

yuna saying "forgive me" and then he DOES say "i forgive you mom" thus acknowledging implicitly the pressures she placed on him and the constraints he lives within even if it wasn't deliberate/her fault/she knows and tells him that he has nothing to be sorry for.....

even more fishy Spocks from mermay - TOS Spock this time :3 ft. Bones with a tonsure.... (becus it's medieval too. layers to this.)

i've been thinking about how there's not a single mention of ilya displaying or showing anyone a photo of his mother at any point and i'm wondering if he just simply doesn't have any. if his father was angry and ashamed enough, wanted to scrub the memory of her away in their home, i wonder if he destroyed as much evidence of her existence as he could, if her necklace is literally the only thing of hers that ilya has to remember her by.

and if potentially somewhere amongst his father's things, passed on to ilya's brother, who had no desire to comb through everything, there's a jewelry box hidden somewhere with a few photos and personal things from her that might resurface one day and eventually make its way into ilya's hands.

(possibly through his brother, if he ever scrounges up an ounce of remorse for the way he treated ilya for so long)

(maybe through his brother's wife, who might come to realize she cannot keep staying with him and putting herself and her daughter at risk, needing ilya's help but worried he won't unless she uses these memories as a bargaining chip)

(or, and i have a special place in my heart for this, through his niece, who keeps the box hidden and safe until svetlana visits moscow and she can hand it to her to give to her uncle, along with a letter she writes to him tucked inside that says in the vaguest way possible that she knows what it feels like, hiding for so long)

Rose's brothers must've been sooooo excited to hear she was dating Shane Hollander. Not just the best of the best, but like the squeaky cleanest nicest least fuckhead of a fella in The Show is with my sister??! Fuck yea! Does my new brother-in-law need a new agent? Rose?? Rose. Rose. My AHL buddies asking if we can get playoffs tickets. Rose. Rooose. You never use your clout for us maybe our new brother will. Roooooose.

Everyone's all "ohhh 2026 bring back physical media" until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we're not on the same page anymore

I made an illuminated manuscript skin for AO3? So im doing my part!

Of course I switched my Ao3 skins to this.

A few days into the 2 weeks cottage vacation where Shane is getting his gut rearranged, his soul sucked out sloppy style, and cuddled in front of the sunset or a fire on the daily and Shane is having like 3 genuis ideas a day to not only progress his and Ilya's relationship but to also secure their future together, if they stayed 3 weeks shane might have gotten ideas that could solve climate change, 1 more week and shane might figured out how to give us world peace

HEATED RIVALRY 1.02 | 1.04

This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.

"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?

"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?

"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??

I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"

#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.