what if during their life changing field trip toph and zuko picked up a new chill hobby

to everybody who said they’d make a bong: you’re right and I love you

even funnier: the heirloom bong handcrafted by the firelord and the best earthbender in the world actually just fucking sucks because they were idiot teenagers at the time and didn’t know anything about smoking, plus one of them was a firebender who had ridiculously well-developed breath control as well as magic fire powers, while the other was a wildly obnoxious ninety pound girl who could get high off oregano crumbs.

like, the most valuable bong in the world is nearly unusable. it’s awful. you have to practically turn yourself inside out on the inhale to draw any smoke up and there’s nowhere to hold it that doesn’t burn your hands. even worse is that it’s in the shape of Aang, the last Airbender, master of all four elements, holding a smaller bong.

#you have to suck on his bald head #katara hates this thing #aang and sokka think it’s the funniest item in the WORLD

let's boil uncle in water to reduce his essence into a tincture

one of THE scariest comedy videos i've ever seen about to hit a milestone

Cannot get over the amount of the impact Wei Wuxian had on the cultivation world as a scholar.

There’s obviously his inventions.

But also,

The fact that he created the criteria???

They use his ideas so much and so often, he had such a present and lasting impact on the world, and it makes the cultivation world’s hypocrisy even more glaring considering they curse his name to that day but he’s also their most trusted source for so many things.

i very much want there to be at least one scholarly treatise that includes the line and footnote “as defined in the criteria of ferocious ghosts set by Wei Wuxian(1), which stipulates…”

1. Better known for other work

i have repeatedly asked when he did this. how.

it has to have been after the Sunshot Campaign but before he was Yiling Patriarch, since that was the only time in his life he was an adult expert but not a social pariah, and it can’t have been accepted after his death because of the ‘still.’

meaning in that window he was publishing.

he published at least one work setting standardized definitions for different kinds of undead, and everyone read it and immediately incorporated it into their curriculae because he was The Undead Guy.

this tidbit is dropped really early in the book so at that point we don’t know how short his first life was and how brief his career as a cultivator actually ran, so it really builds him up as an expert in his field whom everyone listened to.

and then it’s like. wait. back up. you didn’t live to be 25 how the heck did you establish new professional standards for your entire society.

This is so true, WWX did this all so young!

He probably didn’t publish anything official during the SSC, but since that was likely a period where he got to do plenty of trial and error with hsi new cultivation (since he was using it A Lot) I can see him having notes and everyone absorbing some knowledge from that too. Though official publishing would’ve had to wait until the war ended.

It could be that in the post war much of his findings became officially shared, but since he’d been working on them for a while, people were already in the process of getting used to them or something like that, given how fast these would have to be implemented otherwise.

WWX also had a lot of notes and experiments lying around in his cave during the time he lived with the Wens. If I’m not mistaken, he did his compass of evil during that time. A lot of things he did was simply taken after the siege, because those are the notes that Xue Yang studied and had acess to.

Even during bad times WWX creates, it’s amazing actually.

Yes that’s incredible of him!!!

He did create the compass during that time, he mentions it in Dafan. The one reason why I doubt this was the period where this criterion was established, is that he knows about it very early on (these quotes are from Aggression, so he still hasn’t left Mo manor), and expects everyone to be using it, which isn’t the case with his bm made stuff, like the flags which do catch him off guard.

@pequenofantasma your point made me think of this, because I think it sustains this idea/headcanon that he was working during the post war a lot actually!

I think we’re all so used to putting all his inventions that are out there as stolen during the siege that we forget a bit there was time before the bm where he was free to intereact with people as he wished. And considering that he was creating even during his worst times like during his stay in the Burial Mounds with the Wen, why would he have stayed idle before that when things were calmer (even if still tense)?

This discussion is starting to endear me a lot to the idea of WWX just going about life being a scholar while he could. He had so much potential. :(

I love that we’re just remembering that despite what he may say, Wei Wuxian is in fact a scholar at heart and just loves creating and inventing and refining.

One of the things I love about post canon fics is the ones that give him a space in the jingshi where he’s just always in the middle of some project, papers everywhere, half finished projects that he’s still refining, talismans in the process of being tested and improved and he’s just so happy to have the time to do this.

Our boy is so creative and so full of desire to keep making things better for people. It’s great.

headcanon that his insane academic productivity post-war served as both reason and excuse to avoid his expected duties as JC's right hand

If you're 20 or younger, and you want a binder, need a new one, get one now.

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hey y'all this is open to public comment for the next 54 days (from 12/25/25). If you have a minute, go make some noise.

I’m about to buy and read the crow plastic romantasy book

Help

Welcome to the fae future, where you can never use a vibrator again.

He recognized her as his ~mate~. She’s Australian, so she keeps casually calling him “mate” as he gets increasingly flustered.

I genuinely cannot tell if this book is terrible or brilliant.

I have many questions. For instance, if his job is to destroy plastic but he spends most of his time hunting monsters, does that mean the monsters are made of plastic? How does that work?

I GUESS

@teomodo

people who don't follow baseball are missing out they don't even know about the mariners etsy witch

Yeah

Uhhhhhh wait is this the same Etsy witch?

there's an etsy witch somewhere who's spent the last six years thinking they were good enough at cold reading and bullshitting to make this witchcraft scam into an actual career, who is only now discovering that they do in fact have magical powers

Network Effect is funny for many reasons but my current favorite is that fact that Perihelion masterminded its own ‘true love’s kiss wakes the sleeping princess’ moment by basically having the evil sorcerer who cursed it kidnap the prince and plop it in front of “sleeping princess this way” sign it painted in a language the sorcerer can’t read. The sheer audacity

Asshole Research Transport indeed

something about leaning on you in the feed

My two greatest fears are permanence and change

Wait I forgot about the strong as fuck ice mummy

Daddy. Daddy no. Daddy you can’t be here. You—*The temperature plummets. The crackle of thawing ice draws nearer*—Daddy you have to run

the authors open fetish that complements the themes of their work

important plot device thats also just authors fetish. call that a jackoffs gun

PSA: AO3 HAS BEEN INFECTED WITH AI BOT COMMENTS.

Have you seen one of these dipshits? If you post regularly on ao3, chances are YES, but more likely you didn't notice nor suspect it was a bot. Sometimes they start off nice, or even praise you before getting nasty out of nowhere, like so:

But much like Grok, their newest obsession is nazism.

I don't know where they come from, or what purpose this could possibly serve other than suicidebaiting random people in the internet, I guess; but apparently they've started parroting names from real users to send these comments and shifting their general length to go by undetected. Maybe those are scrappers trying to train 'reviewbots' to be sold as part of some scam service promising to give feedback for newbie writers, who the fuck knows.

Here are more examples of the tone and backhanded compliments you can find in these:

If you regularly post on AO3 or interact with writers in it, please pass this along so they don't feel insane receiving bombs in their inbox. This is ridiculous.

And this is why we turn off guest comments people. It's only going to get worse from here!

you spend so much money on art at con and you go "ahhh job well done, i have supported artists and also gotten nice decorations for my enclosure" and you trick yourself into thinking this is all there is to it. WRONG! one squillion dollars for frames

I went through an art phase of painting on glass, so I bought a bunch of different random framed stuff at thrift stores/ yard sales/ swap meets. $5, take out the drawing of a town soley populated by office max's, and bam! Free real estate, hemit crab style. I literally just put some white paper behind my work, or turned around what was in there for the glossy background.

Then recently I wanted to get a poster framed for my dads birthday - did some thrifting, nice big silver wood frame for $8. THEN I brought it to a framing place because I wanted to see how much it would be for them to make the background matting look nice and learned 2 things.

So in conclusion nice frames are possible. Oh! Also people often give away art of all sizes via fb marketplace/estate sales/free cycle. Maybe because the nice but heavy framed asthetic stuff doesn't make the cut when moving. Maybe because people often have different art tastes from their dead relatives. Anyway. If you're not in a rush, you can find something that either fits, or fits close enough that you can leave the og art in and it will act as a border around your piece.

I do wonder sometimes about the story behind the massive handrawn town-of-all-Office-Max's in the ornate gilded frame.

my moms reaction to my bat incident tonight