I love the hilarious “Zuko as the avatar” aus and all but guys
Guys.
Azula as the Avatar
Prodigy Azula. The one who firebending came so easily.
Now imagine Azula accidentally airbending or something
Imagine her journey going from the perfect fire nation princess that her dad wanted to being what he wants to destroy
Now imagine 13 year old Morally Righteous Even When It’s Dangerous Zuko learning that his father wants to kill his little sister no matter how horrible Azula is to him
What I’m saying is imagine their ship ending up in the south pole because Iroh stole his niece and nephew and a ship and the three of them are the run from the fire nation
Imagine Azula hating everything about this but meets Katara and despite everything Azula finds herself bonding with water tribe girl because they’re the same age and their moms are gone and their brothers are annoying af
Idk how but the brother and sister teams end up having to travel around the world and teach a very pissy Azula all four elements and how to care about other people
Maybe Sokka and Zuko make out in the background
Anyway I don’t have time to write this but PLEASE IMAGINE THIS WITH ME
Technically they are just for show. Since I can float through magic, which is really easy. I can fly with my wings, but it’s a lot more clumsy. I’m not aerodynamic.
the distortion of “there is potential profit we did not earn” as “there is money we lost” is fascinating and disgusting to me. “megamediaconglomerate lost $1,000,000,000 to piracy this year” is a flat out lie. it is not true. they did not have a billion dollars, that they now do not have. they felt entitled to one billion dollars, that they did not have, and still do not have. it’s an infuriating perversion of the truth
cant believe i lost $1000 when i told some guy at walmart to give it to me and he said no
vast majority of people who pirate would simply not watch the media if they could not pirate. The money that pirates have would never have been the companies in the first place
i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.
he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.
it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.
weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it
The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.
Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.
The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.
They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.
ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.
However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.
Think about that.
The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?
Jango Fett in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Sorry but something just hit me. Mandalorians are often only seen fully armored. Some clans go to the lengths of even never taking their helmets off in front of strangers, but my point is, they mostly wear their armors ar all times, and even when they’re out of it, they’re dressed in the tight long sleeved shirts that go under it and fully covers their skin.
And Jango. Jango is just openly exposing his arms to his very handsome Jedi guest. Carelessly showing off his wrists and forearms and gloveless hands like a flirty tease. Holy moons above. We stan a thirsty man(dalorian). What a legend.
This man(do) was down to……..clown, and wanted Obi-Wan to know that right off the bat.
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.
