![]() ![]() ![]() Toph led a very sheltered life of female nobility, learning to be seen not heard. So he’s very much Junior as to what it means to be a leader. Sokka is mostly self taught as all paternal figures he could have had teach him left for war at a young age. He finds out Aang really IS a literal child. Can you imagine from his perspective exactly what it was like to join the Gaang? The people who’ve thwarted him all this time, really ARE just children. He understands what it means to be a leader. He’s the leader of a small batallion of fire nation soldiers. His uncle has been secretly grooming him while aboard the battleship WHICH Zuko runs. He knows he could potentially rule the firenation one day. This is a character who’s been prepped for leadership for years. He became the missing piece the gaang sorely needed because he IS the central father figure taking care of the toddlers. Which is a pretty accurate approximation of daily conversations with a toddler. Parent, forced to play bad cop, to keep the children on task.Īnd my absolute favourite (without missing a beat): My favourite thing about Zuko joining the Gaang is how seamlessly he assumes the position of: if you can’t handle “likes” and “y'know?"s then you certainly won’t be able to handle the ways in which multilingual speakers can use one language’s grammar while speaking in another, you won’t be able to handle AAC, you won’t be able to handle discussions with people with verbal tics or stutters… like you’re not going to be able to engage with a lot of language and therefore your understanding of language is not going to be enough, currently, to really get into studying the ways in which power interacts with language or analyzing creative writing on a granular level of phrasing, word choice, punctuation, spacing then you aren’t prepared to engage in deeper conversations about language. Until you stop needing communication & language to be just one specific way for you to view it as skillful, authoritative, persuasive, educated, etc. I feel like if anyone suggested that I should remove them from my speech at this point I would genuinely just be like “alright well you’re not ready to engage with the topic I’m discussing yet.” There was a time in my life where I painstakingly trained myself out of using “likes” and “ums” for public speaking, and then when I started learning about like basic linguistics and shit I realized that fillers are completely normal and useful parts of language and now I use them even in text all the time. The Anatomy of Story by John Truby is a really good book by the by, if anyone’s interested in this sort of thing. But when a wizard and a company of dwarves invite themselves to dinner, Bilbo finds himself joining their quest from the shires of Hobbiton to the legendary Lonely Mountain, the home of a long lost treasure, and quite, possibly, a dragon. Bilbo Baggins is a respectable hobbit in Hobbiton, never making any trouble or having any adventures.How: A company of dwarves, a wizard, and an ancient map and key.Who: Bilbo Baggins, a respectable hobbit of Hobbiton.What: Means (that achieves the goal/need).Ooh, this is actually kinda a neat thing, because you can think of it as a checklist:
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