If the roads are going to have construction for longer than 4 or 5 months, I believe that there should be a law that the construction company needs to hire around 1 attractive person for every 10 yards, alternating male and female, at around $25 an hour just to stand there and look super sexual.
That way we will have something nice to look at if we’re stuck in traffic, and it will be a tax on the construction company so they will hurry the fuck up with whatever they are doing.
I like the way you think. ;)
(head of a corgi on alternating pink and blue backgrounds, text above reads “what do you call a woman that has a lot of sex?“ bottom text reads “her name“)
by which I mean I WANT TO KNOW MORE
I mean the worldbuilding— the WORLDBUILDING— it’s so amazing but so far it’s only hinting at this much deeper socioeconomic current and I need to know everything right now oh my god
like, first of all, the existence of the Equalists - what are they actually protesting? At first I was watching today’s episode and being like, “this concept of the ‘bending elite’ is bullshit, because if benders are so ‘elite’ then why are Mako and Bolin dirt-poor-working-class being shamelessly exploited by the pro-bending institution, why is Mako working in a factory to make ends meet, how can anyone be elite when they are engaging in GLADIATORIAL COMBAT for a fucking living? and if the benders are so ~elite~ then WHY ARE THEY ALL IN GANGS”
but then I realized— holy shit, this is a world that has INDUSTRIALIZED bending. Mako works in a factory, in a power plant, doing assembly line work— but it’s assembly line work that only a firebender could do. How many other jobs keeping Republic City running are bender-only? How much better do those pay than jobs not specific to benders? Do they at all? Or is the Equalists’ protest simply a frustrated attempt to pin the blame for a deeper-running employment problem on a class that’s really easy to blame?
And, well, benders ARE really easy to blame— I mean, IRL people will tell you “get a college degree because no matter what job you’re looking for, if it comes down to a guy with a degree and a guy without they’ll take the guy with the degree”
Now imagine that a fourth of the population (or whatever, I wish I knew how bender genetics worked) IS BORN WITH A FUCKING COLLEGE DEGREE
and you can start to see the Equalists’ point
BUT it’s not clear yet the extent to which that’s actually a problem, as being the ~bending elite~ doesn’t seem to have helped out Our Heroes much at this point and there’s not a wide enough picture yet of the world or the differences between classes (outside of the existence of bender-specific jobs, the secluded Airbenders, and the Equalists’ general pissiness) to determine whether non-benders are actually facing real economic oppression in comparison to benders
BASICALLY I JUST WANT GRAPHS
GIVE ME A GRAPH OF THE BENDER VS. NON-BENDER LABOR MARKET
GIVE ME PILES OF STATISTICS ON THE FUNCTION OF REPUBLIC CITY’S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR
GIVE ME DATA ON PER CAPITA INCOME FOR BENDERS VS. NON-BENDERS
I WANT TO KNOW
from now on instead of saying “good night” to people
I’m going to say
“the night is dark and full of terrors
sweet dreams”
When will Tumblr add the “I Know I Do Not Share Your Lived Experiences and Do Not Mean to Appropriate Your Cause by Expressing My Appreciation for This Post, But as Privileged Person, I Want to Let You Know That I Learned From This and Think You Articulated Your Point Well” button, so that I can tell my fantastic friends all of those things in one simple mouse click?





