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yo…. when jet breaks in the tea shop and accuses zuko and iroh of beinh firebenders….
do you think any of the patrons looked at zukos scarred face - obviously done by a firebender - and immediately think jet was an asshole? like
jet: hes a firebender!!!!
patrons, thinking about the backstory they concocted for zuko and iroh where their home was invaded by firebenders and they barely survived with their lifes so they could come and have a peaceful life selling tea in a city the war doesnt touch:
Ok but Zuko using the knowledge he acquired during his banishment to help him as the Fire Lord. Like making small talk with Earth Kingdom dignitaries about their local foods that he enjoyed and even misses. Like having in-depth conversations with his captains about sea currents and navigation. Like, in the middle of a meeting with several high-ranking naval officials, pointing out flails in security, like how a person can cling to a Fire Nation ship for hours at a time, or climb aboard using hatches on the upper decks, or disguise themselves as a lower ranking guard with easily accessible spare armour….
Though none of his experiences can prepare Zuko for the long, awkward silence that comes after he admits to doing or at least knowing something illegal and/or completely buck wild
fire lord zuko: you should maybe revisit the security measures around the water ducts that the sealturtles use
northern water tribe leader: that’s not necessary, no one can survive submerged in the artic ocean for so many minutes
zuko:
zuko: remember that time the fire nation attacked you
Zuko: okay first you have to promise not to get mad
Earth King: Tell me about your first visit to Ba Sing Se.
Zuko:
Okay, but before all this:
Advisors: Princess Azula did perform the astounding feat of infiltrating Ba Sing Se…
Zuko: Huh? Oh, that’s not hard. It’s pretty nice, if you don’t mind the brainwashing, but you can’t get a spicy octopus for love or money. We ate so much jook. *shudders*
Advisors:… you got in too…. interesting.
*
Advisors: The mysterious Water Tribe city at the North Pole
Zuko: It’s a pretty place, if you like ice. Lots of sealturtles. They have a really nice little sort of sacred grove thing there, too, I kidnapped the Avatar from it once.
Advisors: …. we have some questions….
*
Advisors: We still have not found the Fire Lord’s secret supplier of new weapons -
Zuko: He’s at the Northern Air Temple. (Realizing they’re all staring at him) Oh, no, I haven’t met him personally, but I have friends who have. He sounds like a very interesting guy.
Advisors: SO MANY QUESTIONS
*
Zuko: (while directing post-war reparation efforts) Oh, and we need to send a lot of people to work on replanting the forest around this obscure village.
Advisors:…. may we ask why?
Zuko: Apparently the local panda spirit is pretty mad about having its forest burned down.
Advisors, now afraid to ask: ….Yes, Fire Lord.
*
Every now and then, the curiosity gets too much and they’ll bring up something like ‘legendary sand benders’ or ‘Southern Islands’ and Zuko invariably produces some tidbit of local knowledge (either his own or gleaned from the Gaang’s stories) and six Foreign Ministers have resigned in fear and the seventh one only barely held it together when Zuko greeted an envoy from a tiny, insignificant Earth Kingdom island with ‘Listen, I am really sorry about what happened last time, I hope the supplies I sent helped with the rebuilding, do you still have that giant eel thing?” IS THERE ANYTHING HE DOESN’T KNOW.
Advisor: Before we start the meeting, I’d like to address the anniversary of Captain Zhao’s mysterious disappearance…
my last post stopped getting notes and the information is kind of outdated so im making a new post
im going to be homeless on august 15, which is my eviction date. i have nowhere to go. no family in the state im in to stay with.
i have $28 and barely any food, and most of my money is going to taking care of my pets which i might have to give away if i end up homeless, which i very likely will be.
if you have anything to spare so i can put gas in my truck so that i can at least sleep in that instead of on the streets, and to help me stay fed, i would greatly appreciate it forever❤️
We had a patient who looked like she was close to being able to come off the ventilator. There were plans to extubate her the next day. She was improving, then suddenly she nose-dived. Ruled out everything else and decided this must be cytokine storm. Her kidneys were completely shot, she had to go on dialysis. She died about a week later. I can’t stop thinking about what her middle school aged children must have been going through…one day their mom was being discharged from the field hospital because she didn’t need respiratory support, the next she went to the hospital and never came back.
As a nurse I don’t usually tell families when their loved one has died because they are either 1) at the bedside or 2) the provider calls. Sometimes I happen to catch them as they are returning from a quick trip to the cafeteria and their family member passed quickly but that’s few and far between.
But I will never forget having to tell my patient’s daughter that he had died, surrounded by me and a family medicine doctor (a PCP! On a stepdown unit!) and a respiratory therapist, only 48 hours after his wife had also passed from covid.
I will never forget arranging the visitation times of another patient who was dying NOT OF COVID, and we could only allow 2 people at a time. Please remember that covid is terrible and it kills people in a horrific way, causes unknown long term damage in many, and spreads like wildfire…. but E V E R Y O N E is suffering because of this pandemic regardless of whether you get it or not. And the longer we continue to refuse to wear masks or appropriately socially distance, the longer that every single person in this country suffers.
This is an uncomfortable but necessary read. Stay home.
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