what I like most about this is that it could go either way and still work perfectly. I like to think Zuko owned the pink one and Katara made the blue one for Sokka forever ago, and then when Sokka got too tall and Zuko peaked height-wise at thirteen, Sokka just gave him the blue nightgown as a gift
And then Zuko thought he needed to give Sokka a gift back and so he gave him the pink robe and Sokka never takes it off.
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K, but Ed's face watching his strange little Golden Retriever boyfriend run off into the trees, limbs flailing like he's going to faceplant at any moment because that boy is uncoordinated...
He missed him so dang much.
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how old is casey in these comics?
I'm not really sure.
How old is he at the time of the events of the movie? 16? 17? I don't know, he looks 17 to me.
And my comic takes place a few years before the movie, so I think he's about 14? Maybe 13? Something like that
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wally: how old are you again?
human currently being attacked by sally: 14!
wally: SAVE THE CHILD!
ok but. consider. Does Wally Know What A Child Actually Is. does he know how ages work.
the kid: 14!
Wally: fourteen what
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So as we all know, ages in MDZS are...strange. And for all I know this point has probably been made a thousand times so please bear with me and correct me if I do make a mistake.
Anyways, the beginning of the book has a very strange statement:
"He had originally come to assist Jin Ling: the boy was fifteen this year," where "he" of course refers to Jiang Cheng.
Now this kept striking me as odd because we all know the timeline. Wei Wuxian attends Jin Ling's one month celebration, Qionggi Path happens, three days later Nightless City happens, three months after that, the first siege happens and then thirteen years pass and then we arrive at this. So, at the most he would be like. Thirteen and a half. Not more than that, right?
So I went to ask Wikipedia:
"In pre-modern times, sui was calculated from the time of birth. A person was one sui as soon as they were born. At the Lunar new year, they turned two sui, and every subsequent new year after that, they were one more sui."
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most sites say similar things.
Which alright I have heard it before......but wait. If we are considering the Jin Ling who we all have been calling a thirteen year old till now, then that means that our lovely previous generation also goes down by a full two years by that same logic.
....I mean, for the sake of continuity, everyone would need to follow the same system but otherwise uh. The previous generation would have been fighting a war at the nominal age of seventeen aka fifteen.
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Feeling like posting the hot take that more people would ship/be inclined to see romantic undertones with the Doctor and Donna, but Catherine Tate and David Tennant are the same age and she doesn’t look twenty. (NO HATE to those who don’t ship it!!! Or who never would! This is more about the fact that Donna isn’t fifteen years younger than he is so I think some of that plays into it.)
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I think as we grow up, we have to be really conscious of romanticizing the world we grew up in in order to scorn how the next generations are growing up.
Nostalgia isn't inherently bad, but especially in political spaces, be very wary of this idea that there is an Ideal Past we must Harken Back To.
It sucks to feel left behind, but such is the human condition. It isn't bad to feel nostalgic, but that doesn't mean that these new generations are inherently "lost" and "need to be saved (by you)", and I think that is very important to remember and try to be conscious of.
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It’s wild how shipping culture has changed so drastically over time on the internet.
In the old days people shipped characters who either had only one line of dialogue with each other, never even met, or not even from the same piece of media. It was the wild west and sure some ships were uncomfortable but people had the mindset to just block the tag and stay away from ships they didn’t enjoy.
Nowadays? It’s more like people have to clarify that their ship isn’t canon compliant, character adjacent, and story irrelevant otherwise they get a flood of comments saying “but this character isn’t like this in canon” and some people legitimately get angry if you’re not following the canon.
Like- shipping and fandom culture from what I understand it is about engaging with media in a way that caters to you. And if you don’t like a ship or show just… block the relevant tags and don’t engage in the ships? The internet isn’t supposed to cater to us- we have to cater ourselves to our internet environment. And no matter how many times people may harass others over a fandom or ship they don’t like, those ships are not gonna disappear.
The internet has just been getting worse when people have decided to place morality in their opinions by saying things like “if you enjoy the ship then you support (insert horrible thing here that’s usually completely unrelated to the ship itself)” when it used to be “eh, not my thing” and people just moved on.
And for the record this isn’t about a specific ship or anything- just an observation of how fandom has evolved (and regressed) over the years and I find it fascinating from a sociological perspective cause we still don’t know how having the internet from birth affects the development of kids and how that affects how they interact with others- isn’t that scary?
I know that’s slightly unrelated but the way people engage in media has been changing over they years and that also involves fandom and the maturity level thereof in the internet space and someone smarter than me could probably write a whole thesis paper about fandom culture and how the internet has hindered the social development of people and how that affects community specifically from a fandom lens.
Just- for your sanity younger internet children: it’s not worth harassing others over something as trivial as ‘it’s not canon that this character kisses another character.’ Just find ships you like. Block ships you don’t. And just enjoy your time doing what you like!
You can’t control the internet but you can nurture your little corner of it.
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Thinking again about Linda staring Wally down during their HONEYMOON and saying "I'm not having sex with you until you're back to normal, stop looking like a teenager and sort out this event silliness, that's not the man I married". (Sins of Youth you will always be hilarious)
Anyway Wally is 100% the Most Thirty-Something of his age cohort and Linda supporting him and the kids about being a Happily Married Thirty Something is the funniest shit ever, given he's the one of the group with the most control over his age presentation.
The rest of the NTT cohort still all running around pretending they are anywhere between 21 and 30 years old depending on the story, while Wally's going "yeah I'm a married Midwestern Dad in the trades (both mechanics and Speed Force trade skills) what of it?"
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