Anonymous asked: "ok i can view your blog now and also i was planning on writing a sorta time travely universe hopping fanfic where someone from a universe like ours goes to an alternate timeline, the fallout timeline, but i'm not so sure now because you're so thirty for canada content"
time-hopping canadians sounds great but ultimately it’s about what you’re most invested it! take it from experience, writing what others expect soon runs out of steam. follow your dreams, friend, and others will enjoy them!
sometimes there’s videos that make me happy to exist on this planet
i’d reblog this even if it was a still image
I know it’s a sesame street clip but seriously, who is the target audience for this?
does it matter?
Actually, it does matter and the target audience is, indeed, small children.
No, a little kid isn’t going to get that it’s a send-up of Hamlet’s soliloqy.
On the other hand they’ll see this as a kid.
Then later on, they’ll see people speaking with rolling thunder in baggy pants and neck frills and think, oh yeah, I saw something like that when I was little, and they’ll have this TINY mental hook to hang it on. They’ll be more willing to listen. It won’t be as this weird new thing to be rejected.
Consistent cultural reference over time gives context to explore source material, basically.
Raise your hand if you think of long braids, a boobie chestplate on a rabbit and opera music when you hear the name Brunhilde (who is so wooovweee)
Did you know any Wagner at the time? If you’re an American, you probably didn’t. When you learned about the Ring cycle later, you had that context.
There are people who know this material a lot better than I do who can give better examples, but you get the point.
Hell, for that matter, I didn’t know much about Celtic folk tales until I started reading @seananmcguire‘s work.
It’s so wonderful that Sesame Street is put together by people with actual training in how developmental psychology works in young human beings, and not by internet randos who can’t see the immediate practical applications of a thing and so assume that it has none.
Anonymous asked: "god i just want to view your blog i can't even see your answer it justs this blog may contain sensitive content and i'm an adult i don't understand"
Anonymous asked: "you're hotot on ao3 right? i like your fallout fanfics with a canadian main character but i was wondering if you were actually canadian. that sounds stupid now that i type it out... sincerely, an albertan that wants to write about an albertan fallout oc."
Hello yes I am, and thank you! :0 I’m not Canadian but I lived in Montreal! Never made it to Alberta tho. You should 100% write about canadian OCs and then link meeee because I am thirsty for pre and post war Canadian fallout content.
There are a lot of times I feel like just…flipping the vegan script.
It’s not ‘polyester’ it’s plastic
It’s not ‘vegan leather’ it’s plastic
Its not ‘faux fur’ it’s plastic
Plastic is a pollutant and causes far more damage to the environment both now and in the future than leather or wool.
Please stop telling me that the Plastic Lyfe is the only life, it is not. My leather shoes will last a decade where pleather is lucky to last 12 months. Leather (and wool) decompose and are renewable. Plastic is neither of those.
THANK YOUUUUUUU~
A single wash cycle of plastic-based fiber (polyester, poly fleece, faux fur) may release 700,000 pieces of microplastic into our waters. Nasty stuff.
aw dangit
Wool is the most environmentally friendly fabric despite being an animal product.
Using wool isnt even harming sheep
and hey while we’re at it there’s literally no reason to oppose the production and use of honey
poildecervelle asked: "Hi, I'm glad you're back here ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Can you draw Deacon dancing to distract raiders while Glory infiltrates their base plz ?"
I introduced a friend to ATLA a few nights ago, and they had only
known two things about the entire show: the cabbage meme, and that Aang
apparently wants to ride every large and dangerous animal he can
possibly find. We got through the first five or so episodes, and my
friend noted that Aang is exactly what a 12-year-old would be like if
given godlike powers, and that this is literally just what he
could do with airbending. He can’t even wield any of the other elements,
and he’s one of the most powerful people on the planet, because he’s an
airbender.
And that got me thinking.
This snippet from Bitter Work is one of the few pieces of concrete information we get about the airbenders, at least in ATLA. Iroh is explaining to Zuko how all four of the elements connect to the world and to each other.
Fire is the element of power, of desire and will, of ambition and the ability to see it through. Power is crucial to the world; without it, there’s no drive, no momentum, no push. But fire can easily grow out of control and become dangerous; it can become unpredictable, unless it is nurtured and watched and structured.
Earth is the element of substance, persistence, and enduring. Earth is strong, consistent, and blunt. It can construct things with a sense of permanence; a house, a town, a walled city. But earth is also stubborn; it’s liable to get stuck, dig in, and stay put even when it’s best to move on.
Water is the element of change, of adaptation, of movement. Water is incredibly powerful both as a liquid and a solid; it will flow and redirect. But it also will change, even when you don’t want it to; ice will melt, liquid will evaporate. A life dedicated to change necessarily involves constant movement, never putting down roots, never letting yourself become too comfortable.
We see only a few flashbacks to Aang’s life in the temples, and we get a sense of who he was and what kind of upbringing he had.
This is a preteen with the power to fucking fly. He’s got no fear of falling, and a much reduced fear of death. There’s a reason why the sages avoid telling the new avatar their status until they turn sixteen; could you imagine a firebender, at twelve years old, learning that they were going to be the most powerful person in the whole world? Depending on that child, that could go so badly.
But the thing about Aang, and the thing about the Air Nomads, is that they were part of the world too. They contributed to the balance, and then they were all but wiped out by Sozin. What was lost, there? Was it freedom? Yes, but I think there’s something else too, and it’s just yet another piece of the utter brilliance of the worldbuilding of ATLA.
To recap: we have power to push us forward; we have stability to keep us strong; we have change to keep us moving.
The air nomads brought fun to the world. They brought a very literal sense of lightheartedness.
Sozin saw this as a weakness. I think a lot of the world did, in ATLA. Why do the Air Nomads bother, right? They’re just up there in their temples, playing games, baking pies in order to throw them as a gag. As Iroh said above, they had pretty great senses of humour, and they didn’t take themselves too seriously.
But that’s a huge part of having a world of balance and peace.
It’s not just about power, or might, or the ability to adapt. You can have all of those, but you also need fun. You need the ability to be vulnerable, to have no ambitions beyond just having a good day. You need to be able to embrace silliness, to nurture play, to have that space where a very specific kind of emotional growth can occur. Fun makes a hard life a little easier. Fun makes your own mortality a little less frightening to grasp. Fun is the spaces in between, that can’t be measured by money or military might. Fun is what nurtures imagination, allows you to see a situation in a whole new light, to find new solutions to problems previously considered impossible.
Fun is what makes a stranger into a friend, rather than an enemy.
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