whatever your opinion about aang not killing ozai, I think we can all agree that ozai would have literally rather died than live the rest of his life as That Guy Who Got The Shit Kicked Outta Him By A 12-Year-Old Pacifist Monk.
me: aang is a very powerful avatar and the fact that he was able to mostly-master all the elements at such a young age means he would be a terrifying opponent!
also me: avatar roku’s spirit spends at least 30% of his time haunting ozai, slapping trash can lids together & yelling “you got beat up by caillou”
Starting tomorrow, I’ll be cross-posting all original posts on Dreamwidth. Granted, I don’t quite know *how* that works yet, exactly, but I’m a quick study.
I’m still not sure if that’s where I’ll definitively migrate, too, but I’m at least semi-comfortable with the layout so it’s a good place to start saving my rambling, no?
I’m Poplitealqueen on there, too. Look for the hot germ guy from Osmosis Jones icon.
I didn’t think Ninjas were real, just spy’s and sometimes assassins but no one you’d specifically call “ninja”
Ninja is something of an affectation from later eras being backwards projected onto history. However, there were a number of groups that specialized in infiltration, sabotage, assassination, espionage and other “irregular warfare” tactics, often passed down in familial lines. The Iga clan of the Tokugawa period is a notable example.
The general distinction for the historical ninja groups as opposed to someone who just performed irregular warfare (like a guerrilla or a spy), was that the ninja in question had to be a mercenary, operating outside of the feudal hierarchy, and had to be a professional, so no slitting throats as a side-hobby.
Hey, wanna know why the modern idea of ninja is “wears black clothes”?
These are “Kuroko”.
Kuroko are men and women fully dressed in black and that wear tabi on their feet. They are Kabuki theater stagehands. When they are on stage, the audience is supposed to ignore them, pretend they aren’t there, as they are “special effects”, not people per se on the stage.
Well, see, some Kabuki plays liked to play with this idea.
In certain plays, a notorious character will suddenly get stabbed by a Kuroko and die. This is shocking to the audience because Kuroko are just straight up not supposed to exist as people or characters in the play, but suddenly, one of these special effects just murdered someone. Then, they’d remove the face covering veil and reveal they were one of the characters all along.
It was a meta manner of narrative, basically. A plot twist, if you will.
That’s why the modern image of Ninja was derived from Kuroko: Unexpected Assassins, striking when no one is supposed to strike, and gone like the wind, just like that.
“Ninja” actually looked like this:
Just your regular run of the mill peasant.
That was the entire point.
To not be noticed. To be one with the crowd.
Espionage history !
As both a ninja AND a theater kid- this pleases me
I love the picture from the stage up there – your eyes do sort of just slide right over the Kuroko helping the actress stand and show off.
I’ve seen this concept before and it is SO MUCH better with pictures
Hey all, I know there’s a lot of what the heck is going on issue, and here’s some information I gathered:
You can post, people can see it on their dash, but when you go to a blog, it is not on their first page.
You can only access it in their archives.
Or on another page, but it is out of order.
This is frustrating, especially if you’re NOT an explicit blog.
As a content creator, this is extra frustrating.
I’m positive this is a bug as they fix the filtering systems, however, here’s what I suggest in the meantime:
Stop your Queue/Don’t post new creative content (or do so, but know it won’t show on your first page)
Update your bio to let followers know that you are indeed active and where to find new posts
Send an email to staff, such as this:
Hello,
While my recent posts appear on the dashboard, they are not appearing on the first page of my blog. Instead, they can only be accessed through the archive or on other pages, but out of order. Is this currently a sitewide bug due to correcting the filtering system? Have I been muted, and if so, what would be the reason for this and what can I do to correct it? As a content creator this is detrimental.
Thank you and best regards,
(Your name)
I’m sure this will be fixed as it appears to be a widespread issue. But until then, let’s stay calm.
This is also why you’re getting ghost posts on mobile.
real talk tho, if Bilbo ever told Thorin that he was handsome or something along those lines, Thorin would probably turn red and just look at his feet and mumble a thank you while grinning like an idiot.
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