So Like Here Is The Thing

Is he…you know…your “secret buddy on Tatooine”? 

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On the morning of the knife fight I was scheduled to lose, I washed myself in the ritual soap and dressed in soft, loose fitting clothes as was the custom. I would not break my fast until after the deed was done.

My second ferried me to the entry point at the North, where I declared my secret name to the gatekeeper and several acolytes in quick succession. They prepared me for the inner sanctum, infusing my veins with salt water and drawing intricate sigils on my chest. I bid farewell to my second, who would keep vigil outside. I remember very little after this, but when I awoke, I felt a great weight had been lifted from my chest.

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Anyway, the top surgery yesterday went great!

once i commit to doing a proper naboo handmaidens redesign its sooo over for everyone

This tweet has changed my life btw

i like to think that if dooku was a jedi during tcw he'd be part of a special unit hunting and neutralizing dark artifacts like a normal person!!

part of my ever-growing general!dooku au

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Edit: Yes, the original Sokka sexism arc is great and important. But we don't live in a world where the live action show runners decided to include it in the same form. So:

Unpopular opinion time: Sokka unlearning sexism isn't actually a large part of his character arc--it literally only takes the opening episodes. And removing it COULD be a sign that the live action is taking seriously the complaints I've seen from native fans about the original show runners deciding to make the Water Tribes that sort of sexist to begin with. Sokka's actual character arc is about gaining confidence and leadership skills, and they have the opportunity to focus on that MORE if they change the Kyoshi episode to focus on Suki as a fellow teenager forced into a leadership/protective role in her community and rocking it rather than using her as an object lesson on sexism for a male character to learn from. Whether they will ACTUALLY do that is on them, but it took me less than ten minutes to think up, so I sure hope someone in the writers' room actually cares about using the live action to expand on new angles of the characters. Big ask, I know.

Now the real question is: did they also remove Uncle Iroh's unwanted physical advances on a literally paralyzed Jun, and all of Zuko's snipes about girls? Because THOSE are the actually "iffy" sexism parts in AtLA, not Sokka's five minute arc.

white people who are part of a minority group (for example, lgbt) need to stop thinking they can speak for the entire group and minimize the intersecting oppressions that racialized minorities face. Put simply, you will never know what it’s like to be a black lgbt individual so stop making generalizations about lgbt experience.

By making generalizations, you’re erasing the fact that everyone experiences life differently based on their socioeconomic status. Stop erasing our experiences and our suffering within the lgbt community. Many black lgbt people are excluded from our white peers and otherized due to our skin color. A white person will never know that pain.

Acknowledge our pain, acknowledge our exclusion from your communities and use your privilege to amplify our voices.

(White people are definitely encouraged to reblog, but please don’t comment!)

Just revisiting these guys as my day job is wildly busy atm and I have no time for personal art. Definitely want to do more of the ATLA AU in future!

Talk to me about your SW ATLA headcanons~