The Optimistic Authour

‘Don’t cry, Meryl.’

today i’m sad about that one line from the creator’s commetary about how zuko is a tsungi horn prodigy and the little letter zuko, aged 7, sends iroh in “legacy of the fire nation” where he very politely requests that iroh come home and teach him pai sho tricks, because that casts such a different light on their interactions in book one.  it was never iroh trying to push his own favorite things - pai sho and music night - on an uninterested zuko, it was iroh desperately trying to reconnect with zuko by recreating the activities he knows zuko used to enjoy.  zuko, aged 7, once begged iroh to come home and play board games with him and now zuko wants nothing to do with him and you know that eats iroh up alive

Pretty sure this says “…was one of the first asleep” 🥲😭

Continuity, my beloved

— Peaky Blinders S06E01 

Dear friend across the river My hands are cold and bare Dear friend across the river I’ll take what you can spare I ask of you a penny My fortune it will be I ask you without envy We raise no mighty towers Our homes are built of stone So come across the river And find…

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