like! people always reference pride & prejudice as the archetypal “normal girl falls for mysterious brooding antihero” story but they overlook the part where lizzy drags darcy so fucking hard he leaves town and then apologizes for talking to her the next time they meet even though they’re at his literal house
He didn’t just allow the peasants to steal from it, he deliberately hired guards to protect the field, making it seem valuable and ordered them to be lax in their patrols, so the valuable crop seemed like easy pickings, and even ordered them to accept all bribes and let the peasants go should the guards accidentally catch someone in the act of stealing the potatoes.
He want out of his way to make the damn things seem like the most valuable, but easiest thing to get hold of, in the world.
Literally the only way the fire nation fought enemies was with slow technological veachiles (drills and air boats) and fucking AMBUSHING PEOPLE. AND IT WAS MAINLY AMBUSHING CIVILIANS (against the Geneva Convention). The fire nations army is full of war criminals
a waterbender sends a wave at you and you defend with fire? congrats dipshit now you’ve turned that attack into steam in your eyes at best or boiling water on your skin at worst
guys will try to impress you by telling you they know everything about dragon mythology and folklore and then not even be able to tell you the difference between a wyrm and a wyvern
“And as a woman I have no way to make money, not enough to earn a living and support my family. Even if I had my own money, which I don’t, it would belong to my husband the minute we were married. If we had children they would belong to him not me. They would be his property. So don’t sit there and tell me that marriage isn’t an economic proposition, because it is. It may not be for you but it most certainly is for me.” Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig
watching: Scrubs; Community; Mr. Robot; Rio Olympics; Uncontrollably Fond reading: The Raven Boys; The Dream Thieves; Blue Lily, Lily Blue; The Raven King; The Cruciblelistening to: Alexander Hamilton Soundtrack; Wiped Out!; You're A Man Now, Boy; Regional At Best