The Crippled Metalsmith

softowl:

re: azula

she is definitely fascinating! she is a very well-built character and someone who is never doing something for no reason. you can understand her pretty much every time she shows up. the way she is is definitely a result of her upbringing—she had to survive somehow and she taught herself…

softowl:

korybing replied to your post: re: azula she is definitely fascinating!  she is…
I love Azula for the same reason I love Vriska. There’s so much going on in her and she takes in information, comes to a completely terrible conclusion based on thinking that everyone is just like her, and does terrible things, thinking she’s right.

we were watching some episode where azula is being horrible and I said “god, she’s awful,” and andrew said “she’s the vriska of avatar” and yeah I totally see it!  i think the big difference, for me, that makes vriska someone i would want to help and azula someone i would want to run far away from is that vriska is like just ONE notch more self-aware, more able to see, on some deep level she loves to deny, that she does a lot of shit that hurts people. and down there at that level she KNOWS it’s not good to hurt people, not least because she gets hurt too.

whereas azula doesn’t seem to have that kind of self-awareness, which i suppose befits royalty—she doesn’t need to have it.  but i mean, you’ve got it dead-on—she always assumes everyone is just like her and that her vision of the world is objective reality.  she’s definitely an incredible character and perfect for the show, but she hits just close enough to home for me to really loathe her.  which is really effective, honestly.

vriska>azula>joffrey baratheon

softowl:

specialwolf:

softowl:

since we finished the 2nd season today we’re backtracking to the first

any consensus on which episodes we should watch and which to skip?  (i only watched the first season once so while i have pretty good recall for seasons 2 and 3 i dont remember 1 very well)

wait why would you skip any episodes of it? are you trying to speed-watch it?

no, but some episodes are really ANIME WACKY!!!!! and that is not something andrew has much tolerance for (i’m not a big fan of it either).  and now that we’ve already watched (or re-watched for me) the entirety of season 2, there’s a fair amount that’s already self-evident (e.g.: AANG IS THE AVATAR??? APPA CAN FLY???)

The Freedom Fighters were my favorite part of season one, then of course the battle of the North

Shifting Powers

secondhandact:

Rating: NC-17 (whipping)
Pairing: Rose Lalonde/Karkat Vantas
Prompt: 
Notes: Apparently I like floggers. Maybe it’s just me.
Like everything that came before, this is a different writing style, and I like being able to use lots of different ones.

Enjoy!

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i was super skeptical about this pairing at first, but this fic ended up being super sexy, and I can totally see this being a troll custom

myu2k2:

These have been done for the The Silliest looking-Hair in Homestuck [Hairnalysis Thread] on the MSPA.com forums. With the nearly 5K notes on the previous set, I went a head and done 6 more of them as a gift.  Please check out the forum thread if you have any questions/comments and feel free to make your own *especally if you think mine are wrong XD.*

renaris:

faun-songs:

A response to THISVirgin Mary Bro/Jesus Dave and records as hallos

XD HOLY WHOA ROSE ARE YOU SEEING THIS
WOW, faun, this is fucking excellent! Little flipped birds and records and holiness and completion and records and this is AMAZING you are amazing everything is amazing and I am basically in love with you this is perfect

renaris:

faun-songs:

A response to THIS

Virgin Mary Bro/Jesus Dave and records as hallos

XD HOLY WHOA ROSE ARE YOU SEEING THIS

WOW, faun, this is fucking excellent! Little flipped birds and records and holiness and completion and records and this is AMAZING you are amazing everything is amazing and I am basically in love with you this is perfect

farewell-kingdom:

Les robes géographiques, Elisabeth Lecourt

gobetti:

kitten-burrito:

incineraptor:

dxrshiift:

Jake English?
 

More like Jake Long, American Dragon

also played by dante basco

WHAAAAT.  :U

Oh, this is not a coincidence.

Hussie you’re a genius.

For those who think I rant about the patriarchy and misogyny too much

From: Julia Maddera, Georgetown University ‘13.

To the first man, who I met by the Eiffel Tower my second week in Paris, when I didn’t know better. Who took me out four times, who waved little red flags that I tried to…