One For SorrowTwo For JoyThree For A GirlFour For A BoyFive For SilverSix For GoldSeven For A Secretnever

One for sorrow Two for joy Three for a girl Four for a boy Five for silver Six for gold Seven for a secret never to be told

Eight for a wish Nine for a kiss Ten for a chance you must not miss Eleven for a wasp Twelve for a bee Thirteen for a coffee Fourteen for tea

Fifteen for a pencil Sixteen for a pen Seventeen to hear these options once again

Eighteen for pepper Nineteen for salt Twenty for an accident in which you were not at fault

Twenty one for Jerry Twenty two for Tom Twenty three - where are all these magpies coming from?

Twenty five no seriously Thirty this is weird Forty eight from where have all these magpies suddenly appeared?

Sixty two stop counting Seventy just run Ninety nine the revolution of the magpies has begun

Two hundred no more sorrow Five hundred no more fears One thousand for how long the empire of the magpies will last in years

(John Finnemore)

The walrus vs fairy question is really funny when you live on an island Neil the seal frequents because everyone here I have asked so far says they’d be more surprised to find a fairy knocking on their door.

To be fair a giant elephant seal repeatedly showing up in peoples front yards is a bit different to a walrus knocking on your door but I mean. If a seal can, why can’t a walrus?

Just adding my Tasmanian perspective here for anyone who will happen to see it because seeing all this talk about walruses at the door reminded me of that time Neil crashed on the lawn in front of the beach public toilets and serval peoples houses. If you wanted to pee you had to sidestep the giant elephant seal…

THANKYOU FOR FINALLY SAYING THIS

Actually you know what, thinking on it, Sokka's sexism in the original was really weird and when writing fic, I had a hard time understanding where that even came from. We've been told Gran-gran left NWT because of the sexism and stayed at SWT, Hama was a fighter, Hakoda didn't condemn Katara for fighting or learning bending, there's a trivia thing where we learn Hakoda actually wanted to find a waterbending teacher for Katara. Now sure you can say fighting doesn't mean sexism wasn't present, but Sokka's conveyance of that sexism didn't work if that's the case.

Sokka specifically underestimates girls in fighting. That's how his sexism is largely expressed. Kanna wouldn't have raised Hakoda that way and in turn Hakoda wouldn't have raised Sokka like that.

He would be overprotective of Katara and stifle her as a bender, but not because he's sexist, but because Hakoda said "Hey you're our last warrior"- and this is actually the crux of his character.

One big argument people make is that Sokka's character arc with Suki apparently won't happen. But interviews state that the new focus on Sokka-Suki would be about them finding strength and solidarity as non-benders. In the original we do see Sokka trying to figure out his place and part in the war and among Gaang, he does feel insecure about his strength and ability to protect people. I think taking the new direction would connect well with the Serpent's Pass reunion.

I understand why people are hesitant but I just saw posts saying Sokka's sexism is inherent to his character as Toph's blindness is!?!?!? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU????? There's so much to unpack there I don't even know where to begin. Like this is getting ridiculous and in trying to say Sokka's sexism is good actually, you guys forget that the original was kinda fumbling its way through Sokka's sexism arc. It's not that fast or easy to make someone dismantle sexism, and the Kyoshi Warriors + Suki are playing into the idea that a woman is only equal to a man when she has combat prowess (I still kinda cringe at Suki saying "I'm a warrior....but I'm also a girl" she says that about her romantic interest in Sokka and kissing him, like why is being a girl or romantic interest associated with 'girl'?). They could've stretched out the arc and included Yue in helping Sokka learn that women aren't inferior but all talks of women's equality was restricted to combat.

I ADORE the Katara v Pakku fight and I think that was a far better discussion and showcase of misogyny and commentary on inequality. Because yes it was a fight, but it was, underneath all that, about Kanna and Yue.

It is the first time we see that actually, Kanna and Yue should get to choose because that is a fundamental right they should have. Healing was allocated entirely to women, but Katara learned it and it was never seen as an inferior form of bending. Everyone should get to pick if they wanna fight or they wanna heal or both. Katara'a fighter, a healer.

So I just wanna ask; Do you want Sokka's sexism to be there to comment on the unfairness of gender inequality? Do you want it there to give this one male character a character arc (because Sokka never talks to Katara- the one whom he hurt most with that attitude- or acknowledges his contribution in suppressing her advances in bending after this little lesson he learned from Suki)? Or do you want it there because the og did it so it has to be there? Because if it's the first, KATARA's arc does it a million times better and that's still in the show.

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE KIDS IN THE BACK!!!

so, i finished the ATLA LA the other day and like

of course it’s not a carbon copy of the cartoon. there would be no point in making it if it was going to be. if you ever want to be satisfied with an adaptation you have to go into it seeing it as its own thing. there’s going to be plot changes, live action shows are a wildly different media to cartoon shows (and i do think avatar is the type of show that did have to be animated, so much of the development came from filler which you can’t really do in live action) and when you properly take that into account, they did a damn good job.

yes, there’s some scenes and lines that i am sad didn’t make it in. but also, the characters still feel like the characters. the visuals, costumes, bending effects and choreography are freaking awesome.

i honestly think some people just want to be mad at this show without even giving it a chance because of how bad the last one is and that’s so unfair to all the people who worked really hard on it.

if it’s not your cup of tea, that’s absolutely fine. ATLA is a show that is better suited to cartoon media, we all know that, the cartoon still exists just fine. but don’t shit on people for enjoying the live action just because you don’t, yeah?

(something goes wrong) I'm going to (remembers I don't want to kill myself) drop out of law school and just draw furry porn for a living

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