I Find It Really Cute Just How Much Mikey Looks Up To Leo

Me at just…life?

dead girl walking reprise x atla

Jirou: Is that- Are you reading ‘Pride and Prejudice’?

Kaminari, not looking up from his book: Yeah?

Bakugou: Wait, Dunce Face can read?

Kaminari: While one might propose that my manner and academia indicate illiteracy, you shall find their suggestion to be a mere stereotype prompted by those who are unable to comprehend there are many forms of intelligence.

Everyone: ...

something that’s easy to overlook about the timeline of “sokka’s master” is that sokka only trains with piandao over the course of two days. and the second day is devoted entirely to crafting his space sword. piandao tells sokka that he is “worthier than any man [he’s] ever trained” after just one day of knowing him. and the gaang are beside themselves missing sokka after less than a day of him being gone. this episode demonstrates sokka’s value, both on his own merit and as a member of the group, but the fact that he accomplished so much and was so deeply missed after only ~18 hours is especially telling.

Me: There’s no way Kaminari’s just a side character! Horikoshi draws him so beautifully!

Horikoshi:

my friend: what’s one of your favourite characters?

me: regulus black

friend: the guy whose only source of screen time was through a picture?

me: r.a.b

friend: now that i’m thinking about it, did we even see him on screen?

me: regulus. arcturus. black.

friend: why are you like this

me: regulus!!!!!

Ya for sure

A reformed villain becoming the protagonist’s protective older sibling is infinitely better than them becoming the protagonist’s love interest and you can’t change my mind

thinking abt how in “bitter work” when sokka sees aang and he’s immediately like “do you have any meat.” like obviously the answer is no. aang is a vegetarian. why would sokka ask that? it feels kind of obvious to just say “well he was hungry and desperate,” but honestly, that explanation doesn’t really sit right with me. sokka spends that episode stuck in a hole, and he occupies his time by bargaining with the universe. he’s basically doing an extended bit for his own amusement. when he asks a vegetarian monk if he has any meat moments after swearing to become a vegetarian himself, he isn’t really asking aang; no, he’s making that joke for himself, and for god.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that if you read a lot of sokka’s jokes as self-aware bits that he is performing for his own entertainment out of boredom (or letting himself be the butt of the joke for the entertainment of others) everything else about his character starts to click into place too. there are definitely areas in which he lacks self-awareness (his own self-worth is a big one), but he has always understood his role in the universe—and if you can’t be the hero, then you may as well be the fool.