#the mechanists

[comradekatara]

ppl who are like “there’s no way sokka’s art skills would improve, he’s ontologically bad at art” ummmm. dude. you realize that this is the mary sue of hobbies, right? this guy could out-westley westley. he would develop an immunity to iocane powder in less than a week because he’s just that prodigious. he became a kyoshi warrior who could best their leader in a matter of hours, and this was the first time he had ever trained in his life with an actual teacher and opponent. he mastered the sword in one day, if we’re to take piandao’s word for it (and considering his name is literally sword, he is clearly an expert). sokka looked at the rough schematics for hot air balloons after the eminent inventor in the world had spent who knows how long not able to get his idea to actually work like “uhhh…. this may sound obvious, but have you tried a lid???” he has borderline supernatural aim with a boomerang. he was dropped into a haiku battle knowing nothing about the form, and not only beat the leader of ba sing se’s premier haiku club, but also chose, completely unnecessarily, to make each verse rhyme. if he actually sat down and practiced drawing, maybe with some instruction from a trained artist, or easier beginner’s materials than ink and a brush (you’ve all seen my art, and I still cannot paint with ink and a brush), I think sokka would easily be able to produce a work on par with (if not superior to) the mona lisa by the following morning.

#sokka #suki #piandao #the mechanist #synthesis #(bc princess bride reference) #(he is sooo westley coded tho. and not just because he’s an annoying smug asshole. but that is part of it) #‘sokka cant draw’ factoid actually statistical error. sokka can do everything in the world except bend and love himself

[cigaretteboygirl]

"Cyber Svetlana" 2021. by polinatammi on instagram

#mechanistic world #fashion

[candle-scm]

my takeaway from natla is that og atla zuko is hot topic flavored gay and natla zuko is barbie flavored gay

#atla #zuko #avatar the last airbender #natla zuko really does give YOU RUINED MY DREAM JOURNAL #thinking of natla as a weird fanfic that occasionally has some oddly clever ideas #but drops the ball pretty often #makes it a lot of fun #spoilers below #we fucking died when it was revealed that jet was going to actually blow up the mechanist and bumi #like its so bizarre and weird and hilarious #even typing it out i cant believe thats a real thing #we're only on episode 3 and i'm excited to see the other wacky shenanigans #natla #natla spoilers

[leavingautumn13]

ham-to-ham combat

[i have commissions open now]

#fallout 4 #the mechanist #isabel cruz #silver shroud #ada fallout #nick valentine #sole survivor #fallout #fo4 #autumn.art #oc: dana #ngl this dlc is my favorite. sorry far harbor #adding isabel to my list of ladies who should have been companions #please click for quality nick and ada have so many details #also. sorry this is how i'm introducing you guys to nora's husband #he's a massive dork i love him #autumn.oc #old art from 2021

[vaguely-concerned]

it probably says something either sad or deeply unfortunate about me as a person, but I'm darkly amused to see some people react to the reveal of the ultimate permeability of souls in tlt as a triumphant thing -- the "you can't take 'loved' away!!!" side of it all -- when my first reaction was such an immediate wave of 'oh, oh so this is why this series is horror, I truly understand now' distress haha. ngl the final confirmation of the self not being inviolable in the deepest way freaks me the fuck out far more than any moment of body horror in the series has managed. (these two elements are of course the two sides of one thematic coin; it's about the horror of our bodies and minds and selves not being inviolable things, and about the effect of violence on them on so many different levels. violence psychological and interpersonal, physical, subtextually sexual, emotional, medical, political, a whole unlovely smörgåsbord of indignity and violation a person can be exposed to, and on a broader scale the spectrum of violence colonialism wields). The world and other people being capable of leaving indelible marks on us for good or ill through their presence in our lives is of course a pretty self-evident demonstrable truth in the real world, but somehow having it be proven metaphysically just uh. Fucks me up! 

It also drives home to me just how perfectly Muir has captured the dilemma at the heart of human connection and intimacy: the fact that the thing that gives us life and meaning is also capable of harming us so deeply. the same thing that can be so beautiful — even in a bittersweet, violently transformative form like with the creation of Paul — when done mutually and consensually and compassionately, is the same process that means someone like John can touch someone else's soul and 'after he's put his fingers on something, you'll never find anyone else's fingerprints on it; too much noise'. I think the text itself — the whole series, because to me this is what it is ultimately about, this tension between individuation/self vs. love/connection/enmeshment — is far more ambivalent in its treatment of it than saying it’s inherently a good thing or inherently a bad thing. The only thing it says for sure is that it is always a thing, that thinking you’re ever getting away from it is the height of futility, and that through being alive (or even through being dead lol) it is something you have to engage with in some way no matter what. Contact with other people is deeply necessary — without it we sicken and die. it can be the most beautiful and meaningful thing in a human life, and the most unspeakably horrific. All of these people are searching for some way to be whole, whether in total self-contained sufficiency on their own or in melding with someone else as their ‘other half’, and stumbling around in the dark they reach for each other and score deep wounds into the thing they’re trying to touch even when they don’t mean to. Taken to horrific extremes with the form of lyctorhood John guided his disciples to when they were ‘children — playing in the reflections of stars in a pool of water, thinking it was space’, because while people hurt each other all the time with differing levels of intentionality behind it, what John did was deliberate. It weaponizes the misapprehension of what closeness must be and destroys everyone involved in the process… and all because it leaves John the one sun their ruined lives have left to orbit around, because that’s the closest thing his soul will allow to connection. He doesn’t understand that to truly touch something you have to truly let it touch you back, and then wonders why he’s never satisfied.   

‘The horrors of love’ has been memed to death, I know, but… yeah. That is what it is, isn’t it.

#the locked tomb #the locked tomb meta #the unwanted guest #the unwanted guest spoilers #I wrote most of this right after reading tug for the first time but it's been so hard putting exactly what I mean into words #this is my best shot so far haha #I feel like a lot of a people have approached this lil 'revelation' a bit too... idk mechanistically? for my personal taste #I think it's far more thematically and metaphorically true than a scavenging hunt to see who's been rubbing off on who #spiritually. of course. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[pollokeiser2]

FUCK YEAH!!!!

#atla #avatar the last airbender #atla live action #danny pudi #the mechanist

[selfish-solace]

these are my official thoughts on hit fallout 4 dlc "automatron"

#op #the mechanist #isabel cruz #fallout 4 #automatron #fo4 #fallout

[palin-tropos]

all those analyses people make about Harry’s Electrochemistry being more than just wanting drugs and in fact being one of Harry’s most important skills for staying alive are coming to mind as I’m reading this old treatise on anarchist morality by Kropotkin

“One man gets drunk, and every day lowers himself to the condition of a brute because he seeks in liquor the nervous excitement that he cannot obtain from his own nervous system.”

“When a woman […] takes off her own scanty rags to cover another woman who is cold, while she herself shivers on the deck of a vessel, she does so because she would suffer infinitely more in seeing […] a woman starved with cold, than in shivering […] She escapes a pain of which only those who have felt it know the intensity.”

the pursuit of pleasure takes more forms than just wanting food, it is in fact the impetus for being alive

even the insects, he says! eat a leaf yum yum etc. and remember Electrochemistry is the check to pass to be able to interact with the phasmid…

#i’m anarchoposting again #I just think this is an interesting angle to take with electrochemistry! #the treatise is dated and has some Flaws tm but #some things I like about it are acknowledging addiction as a response to a physiological deprivation #and also not treating animals as mechanistic! but acknowledging they also are driven by feelings #this has borne out as true in biological studies

[sagechan]

i feel like Omashu in the live action was the absolute worst city to put Teo in, accessibility-wise, because the entire point of his "new life in the air" was that he could start from a high point on the Northern Air Temple's cliffs and take off unassisted to soar through the surrounding sky. he had autonomy over his gliding. Omashu is built from the ground upward, the exact opposite—there's no high point for Teo to take off from, and (at least in episode 3 that I've watched up to so far) we don't see exactly how he's supposed to be getting up into the air from the low point where he and his father are living. idk the whole episode felt so crammed and then suddenly Teo and the mechanist were there and it made absolutely no sense to put them in that city of all places.

#am I wrong? am I missing something? is this explained in the next episode and I just need to watch it? idk #teo atla #the mechanist atla #atla #avatar the last airbender #natla spoilers #live action atla #netflix avatar the last airbender #atla spoilers #netflix avatar spoilers

[highfantasy-soul]

Ready for a hot NATLA take?

The live-action DID include an adaptation of The Great Divide episode.

Instead of Sokka identifying with the war-like, meat eating, not prim and proper tribe and thinking 'yeah, I identify with them, therefore I'm on their side and will argue they can't be wrong' he identified with Sai, the mechanist where Sokka saw reflected his desire to be more than a 'great warrior' but also to use his mind and ingenuity to help his friends - therefore he didn't want Sai to be wrong.

Instead of Katara identifying with the prim and proper, well prepared, educated and clean tribe and thinking 'yeah, I identify with them, therefore I'm on their side and will argue they can't be wrong', she identified with Jet the freedom fighter where Katara saw reflected her anger, pain and desire to fight back against the fire nation as well as create a community to help people who were harmed be healed - therefore she didn't want Jet to be wrong.

The live-action was able to take the theme and lesson from one of the most maligned episodes of the animated series and reframe it within other plot lines to make it so much more poignant and nuanced, pushing forward a lot more character development than 'Sokka is dirty and lazy, Katara is uptight and prissy'. The live-action took the lesson and actually tied it to Katara and Sokka's core character motivations that will have arcs for them rather than surface-level character traits that never really change.

Anyways, the live action adaptation of Avatar the Last Airbender is really good and y'all should watch it - or rewatch it with an open mind to why they combined/altered the story elements they did. The writers clearly understand this world and the story the OG was trying to tell.

#avatar the last airbender #atla #natla #natla spoilers #netflix avatar #sokka #katara #jet #the mechanist #the great divide #honestly shocked when I made that connection - I'd seen what they were doing on the surface but now that I'm rewatching the animated show #it struck me how that story aspect I liked so much in episode 3/4 was directly from The Great Divide

[comradekatara]

he’s gonna put his whole pudiussy into this role as he always does and no one will even care because the show will be bad. this is so fucking tragic please cast this man in projects worthy of his enormous talent please god im begging😭😭😭

#he should have an egot by now #in life we have this. we have you #(the mechanist netflix flop) #sorry i know i said i would never post abt this #and i wont #but danny pudi is an exception ok #iykyk #natla

[spookietrex]

I got new compression gloves and ankle sleeves and I actually slept through the night for the first time in months.

My mobility aids now include:

- a purple foldable cane

-a blue walker with a glow in the dark dinosaur basket I made (2 wheels in front)

- a blue rollator (4 wheels)

- a blue wheelchair

Hell yeah! I can leave my house. I got a disability lawyer. My PCP confirmed she understands I can't work and is willing to help me get disability.

#things are looking up #mobility aid #actually spoonie #low spoons #spoonie #spoon theory #spoons #🥄 #disability humor #disability #disability advocacy #invisible disability #disabilities #disabled #actually disabled #physically disabled #physical disability #eds zebra #hypermobile ehlers danlos #pots syndrome #living with pots #fuck you pots #potsie #pots #fibromyalgia is a syndrome (set of signs/symptoms) and not a like. known disease process #and they can't explain why you actually feel that way because we don't know what fibromyalgia is mechanistically #fibro #fibro problems #fibro pain #fibromyalgia

[cerastes]

I still think Mechanist is one of the strongest individuals in Terra canonically because he is immune to Doctor’s silly distortion field. Not even they can make Mechanist get caught up in their goofy bits. Mechanist, by virtue of being immune to the bit, can accomplish things few others in Terra can.

#arknights #mechanist ak

[falloutconfessions]

"I'm lowkey happy Bethesda was a bit sloppy with writing Fallout 4 and its DLCs , because they left a lot of holes in the stories that can be filled with headcanons and fanfictions."

Fallout Confessions

#You could say their heads were in Far Harbor #fallout 4 #dlc #fallout confessions #far harbor #the mechanist #nuka world #fallout 4 add ons

[azulaang-chakras]

#Aang #Katara #Sokka #Appa #Momo #Iroh #Zuko #Zhao #Jeong Jeong #Teo #The Mechanist #Pakku #Yue #Bato #atla #polls #Hakoda #Arnook

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

Avatar: The Last Airbender Live Action Thoughts!

-First of all, ya'll need to leave those child actors alone, they are babies and they didn't write the show, nor was it their idea to do it. I have seen way too many people body shaming children; leave them alone they all did well!

-I think Gordon makes Aang just as cute and small and powerful as I always saw him as!! He manages to joke around and be fun even when the storyline is a lot darker and more serious.

-I really wish Sokka was able to be more of his goofy and silly self. I understand why he isn't, and his humor is more sarcasm and dark jokes, but I saw glimpses of him in there! His excitement when he was with the Mechanist, engineering and getting to do something other than be in charge. Also when he has any older brother convo with Katara or Aang. I'm hopeful with time he'll be able to loosen up!

-(Speaking of the Mechanist, my boy Danny Pudi was SO GOOD, I love him, him and his little son).

-I wish Aang would practice waterbending with Katara :( those scenes of them practicing together were always some of my favorites in the series. Just beautiful kataang moments. I'm glad they addressed it but I missed those moments.

-I don't understand how you guys can't be having fun watching this, I get so excited waiting for little moments of lore, or when Jet and Katara were fighting in the forest I was sitting in front of the TV like "WHERE'S SMELLERBEE AND LONGSHOT. OH MY GOD NO IT'S PIPSQUEAK!" It's just so much fun! The colors are beautiful, the effects are gorgeous, and the plot and characters are entertaining. Think about the piece as it's own thing and enjoy it!

-Adaptations are just that; adaptations, and things will be changed! I think so far I haven't minded their changes, I understand why they've been made. There are things to criticize, but I think this is pretty well done.

-Zuko is fantastic; I think all the child actors are fairly good but Dallas' pissy attitude and the faces he makes are so so fun! I feel for Zuko and I'm scared of him when he shows up, and he's just as annoying and bratty as ponytail Zuko should be. His physical motions are fantastic!

-TEO WAS SO LITTLE?? Oh my god, like as a kid I thought the cartoon version of him was kinda hot so when they wheeled that tiny baby in I was HORRIFIED.

-Idk why YOU ALL weren't scared of Lizzy Yu's Azula, but her little smile in her intro scene gave me a lil chill. Maybe it's because I was away when the show first came out so I saw post after post about how bad she was, but I just.... Thought she'd be worse?? She did really well! Ya'll better be careful though or Gaten Matarazzo will come for you, that's his girl.

-So far the mushing of plots has made sense to me. Yes, I miss the silly filler episodes and the traveling the Gaang did, but it allows us to sit in a scene longer, and to colorize the world better, when we're in one place and one plot for longer. I think that's important for this type of medium and this amount of episodes. They might be able to justify more next season if this show does well enough.

-I am OBSESSED with Zuko and the 41st division oh my god, what a fantastic and well thought out addition. The reveal, and they're bowing for him when he comes back was DEVASTATING.

-They we're GIVING us Sokka and Katara best sibling moments, I loved all of them. They are so cute, they just mean so much to me.

-I don't feel Appa or Momo as characters like I did in the cartoon. I'm hoping this can change, because rn they surprise me every time they get on screen. I'm like "WHAT- oh it's Momo, he's here." How are we going to feel Appa's loss as much as we did in the cartoon if they continue to like barely be in it.

-Ken Leung SLAYED as Admiral Zhao, I watched him go literally insane as the episodes went on.

-Aang's imposter syndrome and feeling of failure being focused on I will always enjoy, even if I hope he can be silly next season too. His entire character arc this season just made me want to cry.

-Bro the coloring during the the Siege of the North was A M A Z I N G. The way the color faded in and out with fireballs and the monster koi passing nearby, just so pretty. It looked awesome.

-Making Yue a waterbender? The best. Her freezing Sokka in place so he can't stop her? Heartbreaking.

-Iroh and Zuko paddling off looking for bestie Lt. Jee?? Okay.

-They really grew this show up for us adults that watched it in 2005 and focused in on the really painful moments, themes, and details.

#listen i just feel like i can tell how much they all care about the series and it makes me want to like it #i'm liking it!!! #it's good! #i love all the children #aang #sokka #the mechanist #katara #jet #smellerbee #longshot #pipsqueak #zuko #teo #azula #appa #momo #admiral zhao #yue #uncle iroh #lieutenant jee #gordon cormier #danny pudi #dallas liu #elizabeth yu #gaten matarazzo #ken leung #avatar the last airbender #live action atla #melissa og