Seeing as I just did a sweep of my newest batch of followers to root out spam bots and instead found queer hating TERF blogs who appear to have legitimately followed me for fandom content (as opposed to hate follows), here is your free warning:
I’m trans and queer and loud about it, and if you don’t like that, you’re gonna have a bad time here. Just move along.
people think “adult jokes” in kids shows are just sexual jokes failing to realize that sokka telling toph “you have to work here for longer if you want to qualify for vacation time” is the funniest thing i’ve ever heard. i don’t think the southern water tribe even HAS that kind of economy
I love that Leverage really goes out of it’s way to show us that just because you break the ‘rules’, it doesn’t mean you’re breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think that’s the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.
#there was a time when parker wouldn’t have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)
Leverage hands down has the best character development I’ve ever seen.
This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc I’d had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).
But somewhere along the line they just… Disappeared. My mom says they’re not being paid and they’re not in collections. It’s almost as if someone out there did…exactly what Parker did.
Ever since I saw this the first time, I’ve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.
Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I don’t remember the exact process but basically there’s a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But it’s also entirely possible for people to just… buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that it’s possible to exploit it for good sometimes.
Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that he’d bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.
yes! if you want to help with the medical debt crisis in the US and have some extra money please donate to RIP Medical Debt if you can. They’re completely legit and really do what they say - you really CAN relieve an incredible amount of debt for the needy with even a small donation. I’m a monthly donor and receive a quarterly report of the debt they’ve abolished, and it truly is amazing. Based on those reports the average amount of debt abolished per person is actually I would say about $600 - which means, if you’re doing the math, that with a $6 donation to RIP Medical Debt, you can potentially pull one person out of a poverty spiral - maybe even one family. For six dollars. that’s a pretty good deal, I think.
today is great day to create something, to fill the void with a piece of yourself that wasnt there before and to push back against the darkness. you can create a song or painting or sandwich or a walk in the park or even a MOMENT. use this mighty power to defy the cosmic nothing
Someone about my Athabaskan Jet headcanon, probably: but you can’t just make Avatar characters Alaska Native!!!!!!!!! They’re only supposed to be Asian if they aren’t Water Tribe, who are still cultural influenced by Mongolia and China!!!
Me: fuck you Sneers is part Haida now and Suki is part Yup'ik. Try it again and Chit Sang is next.
@peony-pearl asked me to elaborate and i’m finally in a headspace to do so.
I’ve mentioned before the fact that the Alaskan Subcontinent is much closer to Northern Asia than people realize and, though not the majority, there are sizable Asian populations in urban Alaska. To speak from my own experience, one of the biggest cultural shocks moving to the lower 48 from Fairbanks was the lack of Buddhism (no Buddhist nuns in the store i worked for, no vegetarian substitution options in restaurants, no altars in any Asian-run restauants or stores, etc) and another was the lack of ladies speaking Tagalog with each other or on the phone. So if anyone needed any irl precedent for fantasy Asian kids to have Alaska Native heritage, there you go.
Snears is Haida because he reminds me of a Haida boy i went to school with. He was a metalhead and a brony and hated folgers brand coffee and kept a notebook of deliberately bad poetry, and though Sneers doesn’t get much personality, i like to think it leans a bit in that direction
Suki being Yup'ik has a little more to it. The people of Kyoshi Island look a bit like the people of the Water Tribe but are, in fact, their own people, similar to the Yup'iit and Inupiat. Also, like Avatar Kyoshi’s iconic gear that the Kyoshi Warriors reference in their own, Yup'ik women’s dance regalia also includes fans and a headdress, as shown in the photo below:
Not sure about Chit Sang just yet, but i like imagining an AU where he and Hakoda know each other through an Indigenous activism network