#but man am I bad at math

[oneatlatime]

The Chase part 2

Apologies for the technical problems. Battery power must be conserved for necessities, which unfortunately does not include Avatar. But the power's back on now, so!

Picking up from Toph treating a senior citizen like a snooker ball...

I do like how Mai's not shy about participating in Ty Lee's nonsense.

The way Zuko Jr. says "I'll follow this trail" is very menacing.

We're continuing last week's cowboy theme.

This village has the same menacing single windchime as the village in the Spirit World Part One did.

This was may more satisfying than I was expecting! It was completely unfair how easily the Fire Nation ladies defeated Sokka & Katara so getting Appa'd was a nice payoff.

No disability unmocked this episode. Also nice stance from the lizard.

This whole scene with Toph and Iroh has the most beautiful backgrounds. I sense phone wallpapers in my future.

Forget about the visuals, every line of this exchange was golden. Two towering pillars of wisdom and emotional maturity meet for tea and not a soul goes untouched. Also a nice moment of calm in an otherwise frantic episode.

Can this PLEASE be the rock bottom for Zuko. I can only take so much more second hand embarrassment.

Fully-provisioned princess of the fire nation v. sleep-deprived half trained avatar v. starving outlaw who seems to have forgotten to bring his swords, the only weapon he's good at. Place your bets, folks!

Zuko in a nutshell.

Ok so we're getting the whole gang back together.

The whole whole gang.

The whole whole whole gang.

How the hell did they mess up six on one?!?!

A princess can't surrender with honour when she doesn't have any!

That was kind of Katara to offer to help. I didn't expect that.

Final Thoughts

This episode doesn't let up once. Even the break with Toph and Iroh having tea doesn't do much to dispell the rising tension from the chase. The musical stinger that plays over the title card was a surprise bit of foreshadowing in that way.

That tank thing was neat. Shame about what it contained, but that's a really cool design.

Poor Appa was once again the MVP this episode. It was uncomfortable watching him get so exhausted.

It seems like the thin veneer of level-headedness cultivated by Katara over the last season or so is indeed quite thin. It was interesting to see how the different characters reacted to being tired. Sokka was alternatively amped up and completely chilled out, Aang got quiet (until he felt Appa was being insulted), Katara reverted to her early season one characterisation. It's hard to say with Toph, because we've only known her one episode (it feels like more) but I think she just got more Toph-like.

Please let this be the end in Zuko's experiment with independence. He's not good at it. He needs uncle. Points for trying, but he failed, so please bring uncle back.

Sokka low key wins this episode. He's the one with sense, the only one who stays clear-headed when it counts, and it turns out that clear head of his can defeat the pokey thing Ty Lee does.

I don't know how much time is supposed to have passed between picking up Toph and the start of this episode, but I can't help but feel that Toph really got the short end of the stick here. She did give up everything, even if much of what she gave up was not that great for her personally. And in return she got to travel in a way that completely blinds her and get yelled at. Meeting Iroh was a nice consolation prize.

Now I kind of want a story where Toph doesn't come back to the Gaang and instead goes around unleashing bending hell on the earth kingdom.

Was there no b plot or c plot this episode? Everything kind of collided in the final couple of scenes, which I did not see coming.

Frantic is the word I keep coming back to for this episode. Everything fit together nicely. I'll definitely rewatch it when I have the chance to do so in one sitting, without unforseen technical problems.

#the risk I took was calculated #but man am I bad at math #atla #avatar: the last airbender #avatar the last airbender #the chase #laptop was at 31% so I wasn't taking any chances #Note to self: stop putting of looking at a backup power supply #stupid utilities company is currently doing “intermittent network repairs” which apparently translates to killing the grid #every saturday and wednesday #but never the same time on those days #I'm going to clean up part 1 now

[vixenfold]

Ah, fuck.

#raifort vc the risk i took was calculated #but man am i bad at math #Dash com

[crabsnpersimmons]

#the gif is me trying to math my way through a social interaction #but man am I bad at math #and socializing #also hi paggylyn! #ask the crab

[thewolfisawake]

A B-side

There was no such thing as absolutes. That was a creed that he had abided by for much of his life. That meant that it could not change. It would not. But fate didn't seem to work that way. Which is what leads to the night's festivities, delivered by the kindest hand was the cruelest of intention.

He knew one day he would have to watch his lord, his Bheinnan, walk away with someone else. Part of him wanted to refuse, allow himself to hear of the revelry secondhand so he could wallow in his misery. But part of the fae couldn't deny him, it was his duty, his yearning. After all, he was one to be by Mhiorbheinn's side.

But that couldn't always be true. As on this night, the watchman was anywhere but alongside the noble. This was an event primarily for the nobility rain fair-weather well-wishing and nauseating praise. Instead, he remained just out of sight but observing, memorizing every movement and gesture as if he would forget in the course of a night.

Or maybe it was him etching each acrid moment atop those of sweet, blissful nostalgia carved in his heart. Nights of moonlighting as a confidant with concealed silvered blush alongside the false embarrassment of the intended as their arms intertwined with his. The threadbare banter laid underneath the cover of a painted sky to be met with an amusingly irritated remark. It clashed with the irritating titter of partygoers and din of the music. Of the flit of touches far too gentle that embraced worn hands and captured frost laced breath. It dimmed under the casual cavorting and the warmth of the crush that remained just out of reach.

You knew it would not last. Yet he sought him out regardless of that thought. Slipping a moment he noticed Mhoirbheinn without a keeper. His heart threatened to flutter for once in its still life, perhaps because it was so close to its warden. The warden that captivated with nary an effort yet so woven within his being...he wasn't certain he'd survive it being undone.

It was inevitable. It was. He knew that. They knew that. But why? Why did they foolishly hope for a different outcome? Why betray the creed that had protected him so thoroughly? Why did he wish for nothing more than for those hushed words of honeyed lies and moments of fervent desire to be encased in amber, trapped in stasis and untouched by destiny, even so?

"May your fate be blessed, my dear Mhoirbheinn."

It was solemn confession. It was a futile wish. It was accursed upon his tongue. And it condemned them both for so falling so uselessly.

#{Mhoirbheinn and Balmoral} #ow ow ow #I know it was my decision #but oh it hurts #It hurts so much #the risk was calculated #but man am I bad at math #arcxnumvitae #{My Heart is Yours; Always and Forevermore} #{Balmoral Drabbles #writings

[starlikesilences]

Just got my bivalent and flu vax today, bc I thought it would be good to get them over with together!! so I wouldn’t put one off!! aaaaaand now I have no side to sleep on.

Brilliant.

#vaccines #the risk I took was calculated #but man am I bad at math

[sanctus-ingenium]

gatecrasher

#setting: inver #macha voice: the risk i took was calculated. but man am i bad at maths #monster design #artists on tumblr

[nightmareonpeachstreet]

I didn’t even chug my drink I just took several big drinks in a row and my tummy still hurts. I just didn’t want to spend the next 20 minutes drinking it I wanted to go to sleep but alas....

#my weak bitch disease strikes again.... #this was a terrible idea I can't sleep if my tummy hurts #the risk I took was calculated #but man am I bad at math

[xcherryerim]

Have you ever wonder

how many donuts can be stacked around Futturman’s cock?

Well, I have the answer for you! (keep in mind i am super bad at math)

Futturman is around 10inches to 10.5 inches (soft).

For this experiment let’s say it’s 10 inches, while a glazed donut from Krispy kreme is usually 1 1/4 inches, bringing out a total of…

8 donuts!

but you’re probably wondering, “what about when it’s hard?”

A post of medicalxpress.com states that when hard, the cock usually grows about 3 inches. Making it 13 inches for futturman.

Once we divide 13 inches by 1 1/4 it brings our total to 10.4 making it…

10 donuts in total!

#i am so sorry #yeah i swear is around that but yk i’m bad at math so if i get it wrong sorry #now i have a penis photo in my phone smh #josh futturman #josh futterman #josh futturman x you #josh futturman headcannons #josh futturman smut #josh futterman x reader #josh futturman x reader #josh future man #josh hutcherson supremacy #josh hutcherson

[dog-beast]

some midst x troubled bird memes

to take the edge off

#i will probably make more of these bc they were fun #and yes i know the whole “but man am i bad at math” but it's funnier this way #when Weepe ultimately kills her I'll put the rest of the text on #lark midst #imelda goldfinch #jonas spahr #midst podcast #midst

[creekfiend]

Whenever antivaxxers talk about how getting the Actual Disease is better for your immune system i think about how I was born just a little too early for the chicken pox vaccine and so I got Actual Chicken Pox and 20 years later a horrible case of shingles gave me a debilitating post viral condition from which I shall never recover

BUT VACCINES RIGHT. THATS DEFINITELY THE ISSUE

Sometimes people talk about vaccine harm and cite the very issues that I have and live with every day, issues I am very sympathetic to. And I think to myself. Vaccine harm isn't fucking contagious, you cowardly turnip

#i almost got in a real physical fight wjth a man about this once. i am not proud #sick #YOU CANNOT GIVE A BAD POST VACCINE REACTION TO SOMEONE ELSE. #YOU VERY MUCH CAN SPREAD VIRUSES THAT WILL MAKE PEOPLE SICK FOREVER #SO LIKE.. #do the fucking math

[xerith-42]

Writing Advice of the day: Let your characters be cringe! Sometimes they have a genius idea, an actually coherent thought, but they completely botch the execution due to an oversight. Maybe the idea was dumb in the first place, and they thought it was the newest innovation of mankind. Sometimes they're trying to sound cool and don't realize they don't or get interrupted and lose their patience. Let them be confidently wrong! Someone asks them for a piece of information, and they say something that is factually incorrect, but they believe it and you must have a foolproof argument with supporting evidence to convince them otherwise. This isn't about characters being flawed, that's an entirely different thing, but that even in the most serious and dramatic and dark story TM, there needs to be moments where characters are just human and kind of bad at it because every human is kind of bad at being human.

#the risk i took was calculated #but man I am bad at math #fanfiction #writing #writers #character design #writing advice #red vs blue #literally all of my writing advice comes from red vs blue #character writing #text post

[daincrediblegg]

#y’all I am. literally so unbearably unwell about new meat prison hari for some reason #couldn’t tell ya how but he’s really doing something for me #is it the prospect that he might change his thinking on emotions being insignificant? that in his century in the time out box he might have #figured out something of how he fucked up just a little? how he’s softening up to gaal a little and maybe starting to feel bad??? #is it the idea that a man so absorbed in math can finally understand the balance he needs in his own life not only for his plan to be #successful but also to allow himself feelings for individuals that he’s been repressing the whole fucking time??? #is it the prospect of this man being as tender as a chicken strip??? yeah you bet it is #hari seldon #foundation #I’m gonna go throw up I’m too emo about it #I love it when an idiot like that goes soft and it’s such a rare thing I really hope they let jared do it #and not yoink it away from me this time

[wistrearchived]

semi hiatus from september 25 - october 14 because it’s midterm hell week and i’ve got quizzes, assignments, and exams galore! i won’t be around much, writing will be queue based and i’m scarcely on discord. sorry for anyone waiting on replies! please wish me luck to survive these trials :’)

#psa. #i haven’t been writing that much anyway so LMAOOO #thank u for ur understanding 😭😭😭 #im so sorry i promise im not intentionally ignoring anyone #im just having a Rough time right now :(( #[ 𝐢. ] ooc › the risk i took was calculated‚ but man am i bad at math.

[milfweirdal]

#there goes my hero... watch him as he goes... #graceful and majestic as usual #weird al #photo #real ''the risk i took was calculated but man am i bad at math'' energies #op

[emblazons]

This album feels like the studio who produced perfect albums like The National’s High Violet & Trouble Will Find Me decided to produce the musings of a 16 year old girl trying to sound more sophisticated than she is her diary and I’m not sorry for saying it.

#I know she’s the queen of the world but. Jesus Christ #‘everything comes off teenage petulance’ << at least she knows on some level Lmao #bestie you had 20 years to have an interesting thought and instead every single track is about men doing you wrong #and how foolishly you deal with that fact instead of evolving in…literally any way as a human being? it’s like 2013 aesthetic tumblr in her #full expected the ‘the risk I took was calculated but man I am and at math’ meme to show up LMAO #how many times do we have to be told a genius of our era is nothing but a WW dragging us along for her bad relationships? #it was fun 4 albums ago. now it’s just getting obnoxious ☠️ #the me tag

[childotkw]

What does wemond feel though, will he go in for the kill this time?

Ahh, see, you think he would - and even Aemond talks a good game of wanting to kill Lucerys in the beginning. But those two weeks he spent thinking he actually had were some of the worst in his life. He never thought he'd ever really succeed in doing it - and he never thought about the consequences of what killing his nephew would do to him.

The quiet grief and mind-numbing ache he endured during that time will haunt him forever.

Finding out Lucerys is still alive and is definitely gunning for him reignites Aemond's spirit. He was completely lost when he thought Lucerys dead by his actions. Now he chases the rush he feels when he encounters his nephew.

It's branded across his soul. He never wants to lose Lucerys again, but like hell will he leave the boy alone. He needs Lucerys, needs to fight and throw himself against him, again and again and again because it's the only way he feels alive anymore.

#anonymous #HOTD #ruination au #lucerys velaryon #aemond targaryen #lucemond #aemond: i took a calculated risk but man am i bad at maths #lucerys to aemond: you want to fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid #that is it #thats their whole dynamic