EVERY SEASON FINALE OF AVATAR HAD A CRUCIAL ZUKO/KATARA FIGHT
IN SEASON ONE, AS ENEMIES, THEY WERE FIGHTING AGAINST EACH OTHER AT THE NORTH POLE
IN SEASON TWO, AS COULD-HAVE-BEEN FRIENDS, THEY FOUGHT IN THE CRYSTAL CATACOMBS OF BA SING SE
AND IN SEASON THREE, AS COMRADES, THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AGAINST AZULA
LIKE HOW IS THAT NOT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING EVER
people who dont even care about language: how can you just CHANGE grammar??? add new wORds?? unacceptable!!! language must never change!!!!!11 kids these days cant even spell!!
people who study language: ANARCHY!! ANARCHY!!!! LANGUAGE IS FLUID AND WORDS AREN'T REAL!! change! the! grammar! rules!! burn a dictionary!!! NO ONE CARES!!!!!
my friend jacob was telling me last year how back in the 70s corporations didn’t actually do research on what kids liked nor talked to children, like, literally ever, so they just had to kinda run with ideas and see what stuck and as a direct result you got junk like turbo teen
y’know speaking of things that are clearly important and haven’t been addressed yet
i remember a while go people were speculating whether this large blue gem (and the white one from serious steven) were diamonds defeated in the war. obviously we know now that’s not the case. but, like, who are they?
they’re obviously SIGNIFICANT, but haven’t been addressed since they got bubbled. they’re notably larger than the average gem, too. although, now, we’ve seen someone of about the same size…
the other significant difference with the blue and white gems here is that they inhabited and could manipulate structures/environments. is this something all gems could do if trapped in a building, or only larger ones like these? we’ve seen a gem trapped in a pillow that could create pillars out of sand, but that might be more akin to lapis controlling water while inside the mirror - a gem that can manipulate an element. otherwise we’ve only ever seen gems become corrupted monsters (and it seems very clear by now that corruption is different from trapping a gem in an object.)
so, yeah! if these ladies aren’t diamonds, who are they? is there a link between their inhabiting buildings and bismuths being architects, creating structures? or are they only related by size, with these two being larger, specialized gems, but in totally different ways?
When modern media wants a group of baddies to look badass, it’ll often borrow design elements from Nazi uniforms. It’s not hard to understand why; the Nazis famously had their uniforms designed by professional fashion designers, including runway mogul Hugo Boss, and it worked wonderfully in terms of giving Nazi troops a stylish and intimidating public image.
What’s less well known, however, is how ridiculously terrible those uniforms were for any purpose other than looking smart.
Let me give you an example: suspenders. Back in the 1930s, the modern tactical harness hadn’t yet been developed. Instead, soldiers would wear a sturdy pair of leather suspenders in order to help distribute the weight of their ammo belts (which could be substantial - bullets aren’t light!). Hitler didn’t care for that - he thought it would make his troops look like farmers. Instead, he commissioned his uniform designers to come up with a complicated system of internal suspenders that could be worn under the uniform jacket, with metal hooks projecting from special holes near the jacket’s waistline. The idea was that the ammo belt would rest on the hooks, thus allowing it to be supported without disrupting the jacket’s clean lines.
The problem? The system’s designers, being accustomed to crafting for the runway, had completely overlooked that soldiers sometimes need to move quickly. At any pace quicker than a brisk walk, the ammo belt would bounce off of the hooks and slide down the wearer’s torso, often tripping him in the process. Worse, news of the issue didn’t filter back to the high command until the uniforms had already been widely distributed, so it was impossible to fix in an economical fashion. The Nazi troops eventually resorted to wearing external suspenders over the internal suspenders in order to keep their ammo belts in place, thus entirely defeating the purpose.
Then there are the cold-weather jackets, made infamous by the Nazis’ disastrous Winter Campaign against Russia in 1941-1942. At the time, the standard cold-weather jacket in use by most armies consisted of heavy quilted fabric stuffed with torn-up cotton. Hitler didn’t like that at all; in his opinion, it made it look like his troops were wearing blankets. So he had each soldier issued an individually tailored winter jacket made of suit-grade fabric and lined with fur (sourced from civilian clothing seized from death camp inmates, because of course it was).
You can probably guess where this is going. Predictably to anyone who’s not a Nazi fashion designer, the fine fabric of the jackets wasn’t tightly woven enough to stop the wind. The fur, meanwhile, harboured lice and fleas, stank abominably when wet, and was impossible to launder in the field. They’d managed to issue their troops dry clean only winter apparel, in a campaign that would send them far from their supply lines. That the weather ended up killing more Nazis than the Russian army should thus come as no surprise.
And these aren’t outliers. Virtually every element of the Nazi uniform made up for its smart styling by being ridiculously impractical. The officers often had it worst of all; their uniforms were expertly tailored to make their builds look trim and powerful, at the cost of being stuffy, uncomfortable, and difficult to move around it. Indeed, some officers’ uniforms were so smartly tailored that they couldn’t sit down without taking their pants off. Yeah, let that image roll around in your head for a moment or two.
The upshot is that whenever I see baddies in a movie or a TV show with clearly Nazi-inspired uniforms, my first thought is less “whoa, badass!” and more “these men are about to be murdered by their own trousers”.
There is some deeply undignified part of my soul that is taking deep and abiding comfort in this.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
