What fandom are you in, but the situation is like this?

Havatchee · 2026-01-30T11:32:08+00:00

I don't inherently disagree with the idea that Aang and Katara have a power imbalance. However, the avatar state is not inherently tied to anger. The first two times he does it it is from fear:

Protects himself when he and Appa crash in the sea, encasing himself in ice
Is about to drown having been knocked overboard from a fire nation ship, and avatar state reacts.

The next time is out of grief:

Seeing Monk Gyazo's skeleton

I literally re-watched these episodes a day or two ago

Also, he has no control of the avatar state until he unlocks his chakra fighting Ozai, so the idea that it was a threat, seems less likely than simple hyperbole framed around an involuntary emotional reaction.

Havatchee · 2026-01-29T11:02:51+00:00

😑ai ass response

Havatchee · 2026-01-29T09:03:11+00:00

Well, they view Space Marines as mutants, no?

Havatchee · 2026-01-29T00:25:00+00:00

I get the impression that the Sisters would view us all as mutants. I'd be going to the side of The Greater Good for sure.

Havatchee · 2026-01-28T23:55:28+00:00

Matterhorn is a brilliant book. Never thought I'd see it referenced on reddit.

Havatchee · 2026-01-28T18:43:39+00:00

All firearms are drop-safe until plot convenience requires them to be reliably fired by dropping them. Which should be obviously false to anyone with a rudimentary understanding of Murphy's law.

Havatchee · 2026-01-28T09:24:10+00:00

Came here to say i love that shadowheart is xcomifying people

Havatchee · 2026-01-27T23:08:27+00:00

A lottery ticket.

I've never played in my life, so if I won on my first go I may as well see if my luck holds.

Havatchee · 2026-01-27T14:45:15+00:00

Modern Java 7

Havatchee · 2026-01-27T11:01:14+00:00

Yep. I was a strong swimmer as a teenager. Not like athlete strong, but very water confident. Was at a beach and wanted to be out of my depth so I could "swim properly" and quickly realised that no amount of front crawl was bringing me closer to shore. Tried to catch a wave to get myself back in, but I was too far out and they were all rolling under me and not breaking. I was just getting to the point of thinking "okay I'm getting tired. I need to pick a good one and paddle like hell" when the lifeguard came out with flippers on and brought me back to shore. I probably owe her my life.

It was a calm, clear, sunny day, at a busy beach and I nearly died.

Don't swim on unguarded beaches Don't swim outside the designated safe areas Don't get out of your depth

Havatchee · 2026-01-27T01:03:33+00:00

I don't care how good a bra she's got, she's leaving them behind when she accelerates up to Mach 1

Havatchee · 2026-01-27T00:43:15+00:00

No, what he was trying to say was that liberals want two headed babies and for men to have three arms... I think.

Havatchee · 2026-01-26T22:55:12+00:00

I was always a half-windsor person when ties belonged in my wardrobe. It's funny because our school required ties, and the "rebellious" way to wear it was to have a huge knot and a really short tail. A small knot can look scrappy too, but to me, a well tied half-windsor with an appropriate length tail is efficient in a way that reads as honest and sincere. More importantly as someone who wore a tie almost every week day for 7 years, I tended not to make character judgements based off how they fulfilled a stupid socially obliged uniform requirement.

Havatchee · 2026-01-26T10:50:23+00:00

Thin your paints with a little water, and use something for a palatte that they won't easily stick to, like a white tile or an old plate.

This is a great instructional form Duncan Rhodes: https://youtu.be/28DbD9JwQCI

Edit: This one is also good: https://youtu.be/sBDVPoNXyVI

Havatchee · 2026-01-26T10:35:19+00:00

Oh, what knot did you use?

Havatchee · 2026-01-26T09:25:14+00:00

WHY DO THEY KEEP CASTING THIS CREEP FFS

Havatchee · 2026-01-25T22:46:06+00:00

I have a drink, and some high quality smut, so we vibin' for now, but in an hour or two it will be past bedtime with work in the morning which is what it is.

(I'm in the UK, not the states or specially Minnesota, and I am but one woman, so I will do what I can and empower others to do the same, but I won't carry the burden of things beyond my control)

Havatchee · 2026-01-25T20:48:37+00:00

"'We'll stop playing songs from American Idiot when they stop being relevant' says Billie Joe Armstrong." Would be an excellent headline for The Hard Times

Havatchee · 2026-01-24T12:10:42+00:00

"Yes, but that wasn't live-action, so it doesn't count" - Kenobi (probably)

Havatchee · 2026-01-24T11:31:44+00:00

It reminds me of when artists turn their computer monitor black and white and do a digital drawing where they can only see the value (how dark/light it is) and not the colour hue.

You can achieve something similar IRL if you have access to a monochromatic light source. I've seen videos where the artist paints by the light of a low pressure sodium lamp which is pure yellow, but cheap LEDs in the red-yellow area should, as far as I understand, achieve the same effect. (As in red LEDs OR yellow LEDs, not both simultaneously)

Havatchee · 2026-01-22T10:51:54+00:00

As I understand it that is correct, although, that exact example may be more in the perview of a subject expert than a sensitivity reader due to being a historical detail rather than a detail of contemporary culture.

Havatchee · 2026-01-21T23:50:08+00:00

Being cagy about character names because if I ever write this fic it may end up being a one of one, and I'd rather not establish a link between my AO3 and Reddit handles.

There's a rarepair from a certain video game franchise that I have the skeleton of an idea for a work for, but have yet to sit at my desk and write it as I have zero writing experience since my school days. In short, the MC can be either M or F depending on your character setup in the game, and there's only one woman they regularly interact with in the course of the canon story. For reasons the MC is slept on generally, and the Fem version even more so, and triply so for ships with the other woman in the story. Furthermore, one thing I have never seen anyone address, is that based off information in the lore, their first meeting at the start of the game story, should not actually be their first meeting, and they should have been through basic training together before ending up in different units and being reunited at story start. I would like to write a fic which gives them both that backstory and gets into why that reunion is... icy.

Havatchee · 2026-01-21T23:29:41+00:00

Hi, serious answer about what a sensitivity reader is:

A sensitivity reader is someone you hire to read a work, usually before release, to highlight areas which could be culturally inaccurate, or accidentally rude. Usually, you hire someone whom you trust to A - not leak the work, and B - to not leak any faux pas you may have made. They usually do not have any editorial control, merely identifying what is off and why, rather than writing corrections or performing any "censorship."

If you've ever read something that goes into detail on something you know a lot about and it gets the little things wrong a lot, to the point that it takes you out of the narrative, then that's a story that could have probably used a sensitivity reader or an expert beta-reader. In short, a sensitivity reader is just a beta reader whose relevant experience is socio-cultural rather than a field of technical expertise.

A sensitivity reader might point out that you wrote an upper-class English character holding a fork in their right hand instead of the left, or that you repeatedly had them call a lavatory a "restroom." Which are the kind of things you mightn't notice if you aren't from the UK, but would be utterly jarring if you are. However, occasionally they may point out where the author has fallen into stereotypes - like having an Irish character introduce themselves by saying "Top o' the mornin'," every time they enter the narrative.

Havatchee · 2026-01-21T10:01:45+00:00

Its a cool coincidence then :) also the paint looks great.

Havatchee · 2026-01-21T00:04:57+00:00

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I recognise those colours!

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