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A piece for my love of Fruits Basket!

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idea from @thecoll3cter

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Is it just me, or are there less comments being written on fics nowadays? I get to a fic on AO3 that was posted weeks ago, and it has like 30 kudos but no comments yet. It happens more and more now. Why is that?

I don't like it.

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Winter, spring, summer and fall Four seasons, four loves

for zukka week day 3 // song lyrics

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Zuko is the first person I saw myself in completely. The way trauma shapes you. How it makes you angry, and makes you loyal. How it makes you hate yourself. How you don't need to be limited to any of those things.

It makes you loyal: the way he comes crawling back like a kicked dog, until he knows he wouldn't want to be loved by anyone who treats him that way. It was cruel and it was wrong.

I'm always amazed that this show was made but I'm especially amazed that Zuko was made, that his childhood was given full color and shape. For everyone growing up in a house where the screaming made you cry, there's Zuko, reminding us we can be more than our worst moments, shrinking in our rooms, hoping for a warm glance from the person we're still terrified will hurt us.

I don't want to be loved by people who terrify me anymore.

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you motherfuckers better be lifting with your legs and not your back

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idk, I'm rewatching avatar and something I noticed. people will study and analyze and dissect Zuko's character arc and why it was so perfect and dadada and I personally don't remember anyone pointing out the biggest, most obvious reason his character arc worked so perfectly. from the very beginning, Zuko had an enemy he was working against that was even worse than him.

as soon as the first fight between Zuko and Aang is over, we meet Zhao, who is so so SO hateable, we Want Zuko to Beat him. ideally, the avatar would not be caught, but if he HAS to be caught, the audience would rather have Zuko catch him than Zhao (and later Azula). Zuko even goes so far as to save the avatar like, 8 episodes into the show? specifically because he's working against his enemy, Even Worse Villan. we see him doing something good (saving the avatar) while keeping it in character (it's for a selfish reason) so we dont really know how to feel about him (do i like him because he helped? Or hate him because he's selfish?).

the show never makes Zuko The Sole Villan Responsible for all the Protagonists Misfortune. They never really ask you to direct ALL your hatred towards him, so when they start asking you to root for him it's not a total 180 whiplash tonal shift. i mean, you've rooted for him before.

They humanized him, gave him morals from the get-go, gave him a tragic backstory and a likeable companion and fleshed him out and so on but. I don't know if everything else would have gone down as well if Zuko didn't have someone worse around to make him look less bad by comparison.

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warning!! modern ‘poetry’ is turning our daughters into beautiful bisexual men!!

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God bilingual people are so cool. I'd love to be bilingual someday.

#I am technically bilingual but yes I would rather die than try to speak to a native Hindi speaker #I literally sound like a third grader trying to speak Hindi

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please enjoy the funniest ao3 comment i've ever received

#real

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life is so much better when u stop hyperanalysing urself and realise u can’t hate urself into being better u just have to accept ur a lil weird n fucked up slightly but it’s not that deep just live

#so true #thats really how it be

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you ever take a uquiz and realize halfway through that you don’t respect the author and their opinion is useless to you

#REAL

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breaking: lil nas x to rebrand as lil nas twitter