- State charges cannot be pardoned by the President of the United States. They have to be pardoned by the governor of the state in which the crime was committed
- the governor of Georgia does not have pardon power, that power was stripped in 1943 by the Georgia state legislature
- TV cameras are forbidden in federal court. TV cameras are permitted in state court. It’s already been stated that Donald Trump’s Georgia trial will be televised
- Donald Trump will be booked, processed, fingerprinted, and have his mug shot taken just like any other person who enters the Fulton country jail. They don’t believe in special treatment down there
- the Georgia RICO statue carries a 5 year mandatory minimum sentence which cannot be revoked by a judge
This flashback in ATLA, Azulon becoming enraged with Ozai for disrespecting Iroh and the recently deceased Lu Ten, is usually interpreted as Azulon then ordering Ozai to kill Zuko. I disagree with this for two reasons.
1: We don’t actually hear Azulon say that, it’s only referred to by Azula (who was around seven or eight at the time and might have misunderstood what she heard) and by Ozai, years later, when he is taunting Zuko on the Day of Black Sun. Neither Azula nor Ozai are reliable narrators.
2: Azulon is, at the time of this flashback, the ruler of the Fire Nation who has just lost one of his only two grandsons and heirs. What kind of monarch loses one heir and then turns around and demands the death of another, especially when losing Zuko would hardly bother Ozai?
My interpretation of this situation is Azulon ordered Ozai to give Zuko into Iroh’s care, replacing Lu Ten as Iroh’s heir, neatly removing any argument Ozai had about Iroh’s line having ended. Ozai of course would never accept this. He either lied to Ursa, claiming Azulon wished Zuko dead, or outright told his wife he’d kill Zuko before seeing him get ahead of him in the line of succession, thus manipulating Ursa to help him assassinate Azulon. I think this theory makes far more logical sense than ‘Azulon ordered the murder of his nine-year-old grandson’.
so at my new job there’s been a lot of confusion over my gender (which as an enby is great) but somehow in the confusion my coworkers came to assume I’m a trans man and even though I’m AMAB I’ve used the confusion as leverage to get them to put tampons/pads in the men’s room and add a gender neutral bathroom for any transmascs/enbies down the line and I kept thinking “this is like the ‘my gender is whatever makes the joke funnier’ thing but the opposite??” and anyway tldr here is my “My gender is” alignment chart
hitchhiker zukka au where Sokka is driving to SoCal for uni and he bumps into Zuko at some gas station in the east coast where he agrees to give him a ride there, and for the first hour of their drive together, Sokka is blasting “Life is a Highway” and screaming every word and Zuko is just asking himself why the hell he didnt just sell his iphone and take a train instead, and also how high the chances are of him dying if he jumps out of the car while its going 70mph down the express way
note: i do not condone hitchhiking
okay YES!!! i love this and i need more!!
also sokka only has the most obnoxious drinks in his car and everything is at least 50% sugar and zuko complains but still drinks it when hes offered bc he will not be dehydrated haha
also the third motel theyre staying at after theres already like gay vibes only has one bed :o
HELL yeah
Sokka has like… those big plastic cups of Hi-C Fruit Punch and a bunch of Arizona Iced Teas and dare I saw … White Claws and La Croix?? Anyway, they’re all very questionable drinks but Zuko sighs and just drinks them and tbh…. the Mango Arizona kinda hits, so he buys it whenever they make a stop st a gas station and complains abt it if the convenience store doesnt have it in stock
And when they come across that one bed situation, they keep dancing around the subject while they shower (separately) and change into PJs, and then Sokka suggests playing Rock-Paper-Scissor for it, but Zuko is too tired for that so he just says “Lets just share it… It’s just one night, right?”
WRONG
They wake up the next morning with their legs tangled together and Zuko’s head on Sokka’s chest, and there’s a really bad storm in the town they’re in. It’s so bad that the roads are lowkey flooding and there’s a tornado warning set in place, so they gotta stay there for another night. Luckily, the motel isnt too expensive so it doesn’t dent their wallets, but the one-bed thing still looms over their heads when they realize the situation they’re in.
So one night, they have to sleep in the car bc they couldn’t find a motel that DIDNT give off murder-y vibes, and Sokka is out like a light bc of all the driving (and screaming singing) that he did. Meanwhile, Zuko’s anxiety of being on an actual roadtrip with a guy he still hardly knows is keeping him up. So he just sits in the passenger seat for a while, looking out the window, until eventually, he passes out, too.
Then when he wakes up its exactly as you describe it and Zuko is just emotionally fucked.
OH MY GOD YES and hear me out what if Sokka wakes up while Zuko is staring at him and Sokka sees like these beautiful golden eyes just staring at him and he goes super red and so does Zuko because he just got caught staring at this guy he barely knows and over the next few days they just keep stealing glances and then like they get food somewhere and idk Sokka gives Zuko some fries and their hands brush and they both just die internally THE CUTENESS AND THE PINING IM LIVING
okay but the waiter saying they make an adorable couple and both of them just freaking out internally, sokka starts rambling abt how theyre not together and zuko just panics and climbs out the window to nope out of the situation
also consider this: fairly early on in the trip (but not TOO early on), Sokka gets a call from Katara asking how the drive is going, and somehow, either by Sokka’s own rambling or by hearing Zuko’s voice in the background, she ends up finding out that he’s giving a cross-country ride to a total STRANGER and she starts chewing him tf out over it while Zuko is on the passenger seat (they are parked. dont drive and use your phone at the same time <3) when she’s done telling him off for being so reckless and, frankly, rly stupid, she tells him to send her a selfie of ‘this Zuko guy’ so she has something to give to the authorities in case he winds up murdered in a ditch somewhere.
Sokka insists Zuko wouldn’t kill him and Zuko, overhearing only Sokka’s side of the conversation, just stares bewildered bc what the hell is his sister suggesting? But then again… he guesses Sokka IS lucky he didnt end up with a Ted Bundy in his passenger seat instead of him.
anyway. Sokka pulls Zuko into his side, snaps a selfie, and sends it to Katara, who immediately is like “Ah… I see. you gave him a ride bc you think he’s cute.” and Sokka gets flustered as hell and is like “NOOO? I DONT??” and they start bickering back and forth for a few minutes before Katara is like “Ykw? I’m hanging up now. Aang and I have somewhere to be. have fun with your boyfriend and DONT get killed. or do. actually, don’t. dads would miss you and idk maybe i would too. just a little. probably not. anyway bye.” and just like that, the call cuts off and Sokka is holding his phone to his ear in disbelief.
meanwhile Zuko is blushing bc he’s touch starved as hell and this (hot) dude he just shared a bed with like a day ago just grabbed him around the shoulders, pressed him into his side (as much as the center console would allow, at least), and almost smushed their cheeks together for a photo he then sent to his sister–the same one who he is 99.9% sure just suggested he was a serial killer and now knows his name and face and would not hesitate to go after him if anything did end up happening to Sokka. he has to remind himself how the hell he ended up in this situation while he calms his little gay heart down.
a few minutes later, they get back on the road and Sokka is like “Sorry abt my sister… she’s kinda protective and apparently not a big fan of me allowing strangers into my car.” and Zuko just says “I can understand that..” and then they drive in silence for a while. and Sokka wont admit it but he does start thinking abt what Katara said…. does he think Zuko is like super duper hot?? in the gay way? and would it be so bad if he did?
@s-suki babe, uve never been this wrong, this is an incredible addition!! not only is this in character for everyone uve also slipped in bakoda!!
oh god also the whole time theyre driving its only sokka who sings to the radio and no matter what zuko isnt even nodding his head and then one time after sokka fell asleep while zuko is driving, he wakes up and zuko is quietly singing along to the radio and sokka just fucking dies of gay bc he is crushing hard at this point and he has to strain not to move so he can keep listening to this beautiful man singing along to some cheesy love song or smth thats like way too accurate to sokkas feelings
“No one can love you until you love yourself” is like the worst possible way of articulating “if you don’t respect and value yourself, it’s very easy to become attracted to people who don’t treat you right and then justify their mistreatment, so be careful.”
so THAT’S what it’s supposed to mean. that actually makes sense.
Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs
Oh hey I need this for a research paper I’m writing, thank you!
i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:
“‘fandom’ is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture”
Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.
there are even some earlier works in fan studies but that’s what i have ready to hand.
We need kink at pride because “kink” isn’t just kink. “Kink” is:
That boy wearing jeans that are too tight
Your neighbors and their “friend” that lives with them
Having a beard and wearing a skirt
Wearing any kind of choker
Literally anything else they decide goes against the “norm”, and it can be literally anything. That is why we need kink at pride.
No we don’t. Respect ppls boundaries. If respect isn’t normal anymore what will be normal then? Anything, no matter how it impacts or scars other peoples lives? Kink doesn’t belongs to pride.
Look around you. Do you see where “No Kink At Pride” has led? Being transgender is illegal now. Exactly what people said would happen. You know what’s going to be next? Being gay is going to be illegal. Because being gay is not “respecting straight people’s boundaries”. They don’t want to see you. They want to kill you.
In support of the OP, let me clue the reply poster in to some of how the worldview of conservative bigots works:
If you are trans you are a sex pervert
If you’re gay you’re a sex pervert.
If you’re the world’s most chaste and godly nun praying in a convent, who has a lesbian thought once while delirious from a fever, you are a sex pervert.
If you’re a family with a white picket fence house, a breadwinner, a stay-at-home parent, two cars, a dog, and whose politics are right wing… if you happen to be a same-sex couple, you’re sex perverts and probably pedophiles.
If you’re a closeted, self-hating, self-hurting, self-repressing queer going through every torturous form of conversion therapy, who condemns the other queers, who screams at the people who seek abortion help outside Planned Parenthood… you are a filthy, irredeemable sex pervert, a danger to children, and the most sympathy you deserve is transient pity if you admit to struggling.
There is nothing you can do, no behaviour you can engage in, no thought you can have, no clothes you can wear, no existence you can lead that is not an unacceptable sex perversion in the minds of these people. Your existence is kink, and you cannot appease them into thinking otherwise.
The bigoted conservative mind cannot conceive of queerness except as perversion, except as hedonistic degenerate thrill-seeking. They don’t know another reason to do any thing, except as an exercise of power over someone else. Their entire world revolves around this idea. Everything is power, everything is control.
Therefore you can never appease them. Your mere existence is to them a totalizing threat, to their worldview, to their sense of normalcy, to their positions of social power, to their patriarchy, to their holiness. The only thing you can do that will ever satisfy them is die.
Which leaves us with this:
Either we have solidarity with our queer siblings - yes including the ones you don’t understand, yes including the ones who have that weird sex that you think is fucked up, yes including the cringe annoying ones who “make the rest of us look bad,” yes including the fucked up problematic ones who need to change and make amends, but who deserve their human rights whether or not they ever do that.
Because to the bigot, to the conservative, you’re every bit as much of a pervert as Jenny Piss Kink and their polycule of submissive puppy-masked gender sluts. You throw your bricks when they come for Jenny, because when they come for the Piss Puppy Polycule, they’re coming for you too.
“If respect isn’t normal anymore what will be normal then?”
IDK how to explain to you anti-kink chucklefucks that you seeing something that make you uncomfortable is NOT disrespectful and it is NOT a violation of your consent. That is EXACTLY the rhetoric that queerphobic bigots use to make us illegal. Seeing gay people and trans people makes them uncomfortable? Make us illegal. The idea of a man in drag makes them uncomfortable? BAN IT.
Discomfort does not mean disrespect. Your disgust is not a moral measure, nor is itgrounds to ban anything.
“…No matter how it impacts or scars other people’s lives?”
Look. If you’re so fragile that seeing a man in a puppy mask is going to scar you? Stay away from not just Pride, but ALL irl queer spaces. If seeing someone with a collar and a leather harness is going to scar you and “impact your life” so badly that you are hurt? STAY AWAY FROM PRIDE AND QUEER SPACES.
And don’t think I don’t notice that y'all DON’T say this about other shit. Women dressed in bikinis at the beach? Fine. Almost-naked men on magazines? Fine. Straight and ciss people wearing the exact same shit??? FINE.
But no. Because you’ve decided that kink is bad (usually without knowing fucking ANYTHING about it beyond “uwu I read 50 Shades and don’t know what real life nuance is and I’m a radfem who thinks all sex with men is abuse”), someone being openly queer and in leather is “scarring”.
Which is. Again. The. EXACT SAME RHETORIC CONSERVATIVES USE TO MAKE US ILLEGAL.
You can now be convicted of a sex crime for being in drag around children. The laws are vague enough that simply being trans can be considered a sex crime against children (and you KNOW that’s how it’ll be used).
If you are STILL. After ALL OF THIS. Peddling your “no kink at pride/ kink is abusive/ kink is gross and nasty and impure” rhetoric? After the direct, horrific, bigoted results of it are being plastered across our news feeds?
As far as I’m concerned, you’re as much of a bigoted, queerphobic fascist as the people trying to make trans people illegal.
idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little
Alternatively: it’s not killing the mood at all but it’s totally making both of them giggle like they’re twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.
The more that I think of it the more I’m seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.
Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can’t see and hiding all your weapons under the sink
…Oh
second alternative: you go to hide all your weapons under the sink but there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink.
awkward
It’s not that there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that there’s so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like “I can explain!” and you’re just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like “I can also explain.”
Married version is shoving your hand in your partner’s clothes when you’re out of weapons because you KNOW where their spare is. Or wearing a weapon in a spot you can’t draw from yourself because its now spare storage for your spouse’s weapons.
ALT
