there is an easter egg in classic 90′s point-and-click adventure game for 6 year olds, freddi fish and the case of the missing kelp seeds, where if you mess with the game’s .ini files you can watch a fully animated scene of the main character freddi gleefully feeding their best friend to an eel, entrails dripping from its mouth as it does so, and while this sounds like a bad creepypasta it is actually a 100% real actual thing they really actually put in the game
Iroh: Remember your Breathe of Fire! It could save your life out there! Zuko: I will. -The Siege of the North, Part 1
When Zuko was in the cooler, he stayed warm using his “breath of fire” technique, thus allowing him to firebend -Avatar Wiki
I hate when people call Zuko a weak firebender or say he was the weakest bender of Team Avatar, because I think people tend to forget that besides mastering Lightning Redirection, he was also able to bend and survive in extremely cold temperatures. This was thanks to mastering the Breath of Fire technique that Iroh showed him. So Zuko, despite being a late bloomer who was suffering from ptsd, was still able master the techniques that Iroh, a renown master firebender invented. Zuko wasn’t a weak bender, he is proof that what Pakku told Katara was true:
You have proven that with fierce determination, passion and hard work, you can accomplish anything.
Raw talent alone is not enough.
Zuko might have had raw talent, but because of his fierce determination, passion and hard work learning firebending he survived an explosion on his ship. Beat Zhao (twice).Took out combustion man. Redirect lightning against his father. Took down Azula (before she cheated.). He never let the fact that bending didn’t come as easily to him as it did to others stop him.
He didn’t let the fact that he probably had a limited range of vision stop him either. Zuko never let his setbacks in life stop him from becoming a badass firebender. In fact he was one of the most adaptable benders on Team Avatar.
Zuko’s drive to be the best that he could be is what lead him to find out what the true meaning of firebending was, and once again Zuko mastered a new technique. Nothing about him or his firebending was ever less than or weaker than the others. Zuko is a powerful bender because he never gave in and he never gives up.
this argument is very insightful but I’m really disappointed in the Avatar fandom as a whole for not realizing that Sokka is *clearly* the weakest bender of the group.
I once applied and interviewed at a bookstore cafe for a barista position. It was way closer to my home, and I had almost a decade of experience working in a coffee shop at that point.
Got to the interview, and it turned out they didn’t want a barista, they wanted someone to spearhead their new cafe, as the cafe that had been in the store before didn’t want to resign their lease with the bookshop. They wanted to put their own cafe in its place, all new menus etc. They needed someone experienced to train their new staff, to handle window displays, to communicate with the bookstore owners about changes and needs of the cafe, to be able to handle inventory and ordering.
Okay, I had basically done most of that stuff at my previous job. I asked if cafe positions would also be required/trained to work the bookstore.
They would. They would be required to run the book sale counter, stock and reshelf books, and help bookshop customers find things. They would also–despite having an outside cleaning company–have to help maintain bathroom cleanliness. They’d have to take out trash, and clean spills, and vacuum.
Wow, that’s a lot, I said. Is this a manager’s position, then?
No, I was told, it wasn’t, but there was a chance that after a training period it might become one. And that made me pause, because I’d been working as the front-of-house manager at my cafe, and I knew how much work that entailed, and what kind of money I was making, and it was only the commute that had me looking for a new job.
So I asked what the job paid.
$8. E I G H T D O L L A R S. Per hour. Barely above minimum. For all of that work. For someone they expected to get an entirely new cafe up and running, and then also do the work of the bookstore and the cleaning company as well.
I thanked the woman for the interview, said I’d have to talk to my significant other about the impact a four dollar pay cut would have on our finances, and that I wasn’t sure it was the job for me. She asked me to sleep on it, and she’d call me the next day.
This is a job I was way more than qualified for. I had years of experience doing exactly the things they wanted. It was a convenient location, close to my home–I could walk there if I absolutely had to. I did not go home and talk about that four dollar pay cut and what it would do to our finances. I knew as soon as she told me that not only was it not feasible for us, it was downright insulting. That little money? For a frankly ridiculous list of responsibilities and expectations?
She called back the next day. I thanked her again, and told her in no uncertain terms that my time was worth way more than what they were offering.
And whenever people bitch about Millennials being lazy, not spending money, not buying houses…whatever the complaint of the month is…I think about the very nice lady who conducted this interview, and how confused she was that I didn’t want the job.
Terfs: wombyn are their ovaries!!! Ovaries make a wombybybynnn. Accept that u are a womynbdgnn you have ovaries !!!!
Me, a trans man on the danger list for ovarian cancer and is going to get them removed in the distant or near future:
not for long
You’re still female whether you have ovaries or not lmao
You heard it here first folks!! Females are females regardless of whether or not they have ovaries, so trans women are women regardless of their lack them. Well said :)
You played yourself like a damn fiddle, fool
i love watching terfs run circles around their own logic:
“you need ovaries to be a wombyn!!!”
transman: guess who got that shit removed I’m a Real Boy™ now
“nO not like that you still have a uterus that makes you female!!!”
ciswoman who’s had a complete hysterectomy: guess i’m not a woman then
“tHAT”S NOT WHAT I MEANT if you have a vagina/vulva you’re female!!!”
transwoman who’s had bottom surgery: oooh i’ve got one of those does that mean i’m a Real Girl™ now??”
“NO YOU DON’T HAVE OVARIES OR A UTERUS”
literally everyone except terfs: *squints*
i especially love to person in the notes who brought up needing to have “female muscle/fat distribution patterns” like I have some incredible news for you about exactly what Hormone Replacement Therapy does…
If you have xx chromosomes you are a woman, if you have xy you are male. You can’t change them either. Thank you for my insightful commentary about how dumb that original woman is to now make a real argument that cannot have any weird loopholes.
A better way to explain the fake argument is, if you at one point in your life had a uterus and ovaries, you are a woman, if you at one point in your life a penis, you are male.
If you can debunk this without saying I’m transphobic, please, do it. I don’t want to spread around false information. Thank you and have a wonderful day ;)
Boy do I have some news for you about how common having a chromosomal difference is. Btw have you ever had your chromosomes checked? I bet not. (Also there are 6 chromosome types. Not 2 :* )
Boy do I have news for you, I was talking about sex cromosomes. Which, there are only two of. Proof?
Modern scientific consensus is that biological sex is a combination of a variety of genetic traits, many of which are ruled by early environmental factors in how they express.
The numbers of RECORDED abnormalities are fairly limited, but even if the statistics are accurate, if anomalies were only 0.6%, out of 7.6 billion people on the planet, there’d be over 45 million that are not within the binary paradigm.
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.
