Monthly reminder that Azula only lost to Katara because of plot armor
This Katara libel on my dash?
the entire gaang jumped azula and she was fine and she damn near killed aang while he was in the avatar state AND even iroh didn’t wanna go against her….do you legitimately think azula couldn’t take on katara 1v1 and most likely kill her if it wasn’t for her lil plot forwarding breakdown….
Azula was always unstable and didnt like loss. We see that through her entire character arc where anything less than perfection isn’t good enough, to the point where perfection didn’t even satisfy her. The bitch was strong but she was crazy, and let her guard down.
It’s hubris sis, they’ve been doing this since ancient Greece dont act high and mighty because you dont understand Hamartia.
Also let’s not forget that Katara is an insanely powerful waterbender. Like her skill is unique at her age. She stops rain out to like 20 feet away from her and mastered blood ending after only working with internal water for about a day. We see Zuko even be scared of her power and impressed by her restraint.
There is only one bitch who matched Azula’s raw bending power and her name is Katara so gtfo.
Also in that scene where Azula got a (lucky) shot at Aang in his avatar state, someone was kind enough to bring up that Katara was going to to toe with Azula and nearly ran her into the ground until Zuko came to help her ass. So no, if anyone could beat Azula it was Katara
Bitch, Katara was about to fuck up LEAGUES of Dai Li agents when Aang went into the avatar state in the Earth Kingdom. Zuko knew he couldn’t face Azula alone on her best day so who did he ask to come with him? Katara. This is a girl who went up against a waterbending master and held her own so well that it made a culture change their values and customs. Don’t you EVER disrespect queen Katara like that.
fuck off with ur Katara disrespect. not in my house.
Steve Rogers, who has recently woken up in the twenty-first century, googles “advice for the modern era” and accidentally discovers My Brother, My Brother and Me.
“We asked you to send in questions related to World War II and Superheroes, because this week our special guestspert is… Captain America??? How did we get Captain America on the show???”
“Please, call me Steve.”
“I legally don’t think I can do that, sorry.”
G: Rogers, can I call you Rogers, Rogers?
S: …Do you want to?
G: –NO!!! Fuck. Oh shit, I said fuck in front of Mister Captain Rogers, FUCK
S: Oh, can we swear on the radio now? Thank Christ, it’s about fucking time.
J: we’re….*gurgling* we’re not on the radio, exactly
T: Captain Mister Rogers Captain Sir could you say bad words again so I could keep it as my ringtone?
S: Sure thing, pal. *pause as he leans in real close to the mic* …Shit.
G: *audibly clutching his entire face* Oh My God We’ve Corrupted Captain America
S: I know of a few people who might say they had a hand in it too
G: Sam The Eagle Is Going To Fly Down And Strangle Us With an American Flag
T: Isn’t Sam the Eagle a muppet?
S: I know that reference! Little known fact, ‘Sam the Eagle’ is what we call the Falcon when he’s grumpy.
The documentary is a good hour or so along. We’ve already covered the inception of the comic and the fandom’s early days. I am sitting on a red leather armchair, holding a half-full glass of wine and looking thoughtfully at a pipe. I appear already mildly tipsy.
When I start to take a sip of the wine I just make a face and spit it back out into a potted plant, which makes you wonder whether I’m actually tipsy or if this is just my natural demeanor.
“Bad vintage,” I say. “Bouquet. Palate. Where were we? Oh, right. So, all of that, that’s why whenever I make a lyricstuck for a new fandom–hm?”
A muffled voice off-screen gently questions whether it’s still a lyricstuck if it’s not a Homestuck fandom product. I scoff gently. Take another sip of wine and immediately abort the activity in the same manner as before.
“Well, there’s a lot of debate about that. I personally think the term transcends fandom–we made it, after all! We built this medium!”
A montage of classic lyricstucks scrolls across the screen, each longer than the last.
“Oh, we weren’t the first to put pictures with music, but we were the first to stretch your Tumblr dash to inconceivable lengths in the pursuit of that combination! Back in the days when Read Mores were a sin, even on 76 panels of murderstuck set to My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light Em Up) by Fall Out Boy.”
I pause and sigh. “Of all the options, I had to pick the one with a title almost as long as the song.”
Another pause. The background music swells gently. I turn to sit sideways in the armchair, but there isn’t room for my feet so I stop and turn back to the front, spilling the rest of my wine on myself in the process. I don’t appear to notice.
“But…you know, for all the weird shit you could say about lyricstucks or the fandom as a whole, no one could make crazy big art projects like we could.” I stare wistfully into the distance, shaking my head a little.
THIS IS THE SHIT I’M TALKING ABOUT??? WHY AM I BEING TAUGHT CONVOLUTED, UNCOMFORTABLY NSFW FIC WORLDBUILDING IN A CLASS
I wonder if drones would be unparasitized trolls, then. Un-altered. SOME probably squeak through, resistant, from the Mother Grub’s overtaxed, infected reproductive equipment, ready to serve the Hive. Meanwhile the Mother Grub would be endlessly producing, under parasitic influence, weaker or “worker” susceptible grubs, as vessels for the parasites. Visible troll “genetic lineages,” such as they are, would be parasite-based on an unchanging “troll” template–the carried parasites are selected for and against as normal while out and about in their ornery host, and then loop back in again thru the slurry fed to the Mother Grub to combine out and express new variations and traits (psionics, sun resistance, blood color, body conformation, temperament). Maybe that’s why, like some fungi, it’s important for two trolls to combine their slurries before transport–an obligate 2N intermediate stage for the parasites.
ANYWAY I also like this because it makes troll slurry really, really, really gross. I guess human spooge is already kind of gross since there’s living wiggling cells with flailing tails in it but our sperm are pretty tame compared to “MULTICELLULAR PARASITIC ORGANISMS MIND-CONTROLLING YR TROLL BF/GF TO BE STARFARING AND SOCIAL, ALSO THEY HAVE MINISCULE YET UNSETTLINGLY STABBY GENETIC-MATERIAL-INJECTION APPENDAGES AND IN ALL LIKELIHOOD GO FOR YOUR PORES.”
YES. And this can get even squickier combined with the troll-bulge headcanon?
THE PARASITIC IMPERATIVE ALSO EXPLAINS WHY THEIR EJACULATE IS SO COPIOUS ssssssince all the infectious organisms/parasites I know about so far basically go hard on the R-strategy
I feel like all of this is going to get even more horrifying somehow when you consider their reliance on biotech.
And how does this interact with the rainbow drinker fungal headcanon?
Trolls being extremely sought-after hosts by a bewildering variety of Alternian parasites!!! (Ties into Alternia just being really frigging dangerous for Trolls in general!)
OH GOSH! And another thing about this that just occurred to me: this headcanon can easily makes human-troll hybrid babies possible, though again; kinda squickily 😐 I’m not really a fan of human-troll hybrid headcanon’s personally, but it’s occurred to me now and I just can’t not share the possibilities u_u
just moving along like everyone else 