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you see it really all does come back to love. don't forget that

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I have realized that the perfect form of media must have a delicate balance between absolutely heart wrenching pure emotional devastation and the most ridiculous nonsense you have ever seen in your whole life

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the funniest (for the lack of a better word) part of the TTPD release is that taylor explicitly says she’s so fucking done with our introspection of her life and with us being invasive and we wouldn’t survive if someone did that to us, but she’s also given us her most dense album to dissect and is imo the most honest and raw she’s ever been, revealing everything to us because that will set her free.

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perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night

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Having thoughts about how Toph found people at the Earth Rumble who treated her as an equal and respected her for her skill and listened to her. How she became the Blind Bandit there and the first people to ever take her seriously were The Gecko and Fire Nation Man and the others.

And then she joins the Gaang, people who also treat her as an equal and respect her skill and listen to her, and she starts calling them Twinkle Toes and Snoozles and Sugar Queen and Captain Boomerang.

She's giving them stage names. Because gaining her stage name was the most empowering thing that happened to her up to that point. Because stage names are earned. Because the people who were kindest to her in her life (by treating her how she wanted to be treated) were people who went by things like The Boulder.

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“One can ignore an indifferent and distant God, but one cannot so easily resist a God who is so close and has even been wounded for love. Goodness, beauty, truth, and love: this is what we have to offer this beggar world, albeit in half-broken bowls.”

— Pope Francis

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saw a poll about dry/humid heat and like OBVIOUSLY everyone preferred dry heat but. would love to know what everyone considers to be “too hot”

me personally it’s a hard cutoff at 75°F. don’t need anything more than that thank you 🫶🫶🫶

#if I’m at the beach and it’s not above 90 degrees something is Wrong

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What the hell is wrong with this man WTF

He's a very realistic character actually, but damn

general fong is great because he’s our first proper introduction of aang’s central quandary of whether it’s more important to choose power or love, to choose being the avatar or being an air nomad. in “the siege of the north” aang’s full capacity for divine vengeance and destruction is revealed to us, and we see that he could easily kill the firelord if he tapped into that power. and by the time he does fight ozai, the struggle isn’t whether or not he can beat him in a fight (it isn’t even a question), but whether he can hold back enough not to kill him. general fong is a more exaggerated caricature of people like sokka and zuko who pressure aang into killing ozai; or guru pathik, who wants aang to let go of his earthly attachments to attain cosmic power; or the avatars who tell him that being the avatar means giving up any one cultural value for the sake of the world. aang cannot enter the avatar state in this way, because it would be ethically and thematically wrong. aang needs to reach a place of enlightenment, true enlightenment, through his own cultural values, if he wants to end the war in a way that actually means something. and he cannot do that by force or through rage, by attempting to cut out pieces of himself or by sacrificing the values of his people. aang needs to be able to prove that his people did have a place in this world, and he cannot do that by discarding those values when it suits him. that is what makes him so uniquely fit to be the avatar: because he’s not just ridiculously powerful (even for avatar standards), but because he’s an air nomad through and through.

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Milton Glaser, Therapy With A Tomato, 1978

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Biblically Accurate Fan

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if tumblr explodes you can address a letter to my url and place it in any hollow log. to be clear i will not receive it. but it is an action you can take