fuck wan shi tong. aang deserves to go back to the library and read every single text that pertains to the air nomads
i simply think aang has every right to spend hours in the library with his friends and allies, working together to copy each page of each book by hand, carefully and lovingly bringing his people’s texts back into the world! and i’m correct.
okay, but - wan shi tong only ever knew aang, katara and sokka. he didn’t meet all of aang’s friends or allies.
so what i’m saying is, after the war the gaang watch aang struggling to remember the details of his culture, the history of his people. they see him trying his hardest to rebuild the air temples alone, teaching people his traditions because he’s terrified that they’ll be forgotten. his friends hate it, watching him hurt and being unable to help him because - how could they? they were born years after the air nomads were lost. they don’t know anything about the culture.
until toph remembers the library. she knows that aang can never return, after what happened - but she can, and zuko can, and so can suki. under iroh’s guidance, they make it to the spirit world and request entry to wan shi tong’s library. their motives, this time, are entirely pure - they seek only knowledge for knowledge’s sake. so wan shi tong lets them in, and they spend hours, days, copying down ancient air nomad texts in dialects they barely understand, odd symbols written by monks on scraps of paper, diaries and paintings. any remnant of the air nomads that they can find.
exactly a year after the war ends, they give aang the greatest present anyone ever could. they give him back his history.
I can only read “dogs” and only see anything in one other. I see nothing in any other.
8/10 but fuck, OW.
c'mon everyone who got ten is lying please tell me you’re all lying i can’t see shit past the first two
1/10
Take that, teachers who gave me a skeptical look when I said I had trouble reading when they wrote in red marker.
I got 2 right everyone else be lying
8/10 but it was hard! I’ve always seen colours well though. My optician confirms.
10 outta 10
Self-indulgent aesthetic choices all around.
My piece for the IInternet Hate Machiine zine over on twitter!
https://twitter.com/ihm_sollux_zine?lang=en
man people be out there talkin about the ‘guy saves the girl’ tropes in FMAB while completely ignoring all the times the girls saved the guys. just some examples off the top of my head:
>winry gave ed an arm and a leg. literally, the entire reason he could even move around was thanks to her and granny pinako
>riza tripping mustang during his confrontation with scar in episode 5, wherein he very well could’ve died just like that
>honestly just the first half of episode 54 with riza and mustang hhbhbhbhbbbh
>lan fan cutting off her own go d dda mn arm so that ling and her could escape from bradley in episode 23, saving both their lives
>(hell ling states in that very same episode that she’s stronger than him and was more dedicated to saving their clan than he could ever be)
>mei healing scar’s wounds on several occasions
>mei healing dr. marcoh’s wound in episode 31
>winry every time ed does anything stupid ever
>lets be real ling wouldnt have survived two steps into the desert without lan fan
>lets be real mustang wouldnt have survived two seconds being a colonel without riza
>lets be real edward wouldnt have survived pretty much anything without winry
>also maria ross and rebecca coming in clutch with extra supplies in episode 51!!
>izumi kicking greed’s ass and saving ed in episode 14
>olivier saving the entirety of fort briggs with her quick-thinking and leadership when sloth showed up
>olivier absolutely o b l i t e r a t i n g general raven in episode 36, saving the world from having that creepy asshole be alive anymore
>also her technically saving several briggs men from being trapped in that tunnel by sneakily giving the old guy a broken watch in episode 38
>just olivier in general
>just izumi in general
anyway summary: all the women in FMA are amazing and strong and way more capable than any man to have ever existed and i want to hold all their handsHeck yes! Ross also saved Al at Lab 5 when she shot Barry.
Shall we also remember the time Mei sacrificed Al despite her own feelings? Had that plan not worked, she would have been subjegated to a life of grief and guilt. But she still did it, WHICH resulted in Ed getting his arm back leading him to be able to defeat father AND Al getting his body back.
Amazing addition holy shit
