To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution
Katara: "I didn't know members of the Fire Nation navy were all required to be good swimmers."
Zuko: "Again, we are an island people. We're surrounded by water."
Katara: "But Zhao-"
Zuko: "Was an idiot. We need Tui and La just as much as the water tribes do."
sorry for being annoying [remembers that practicing gratitude instead of shame is better for my mental health and my relationships] thank you for letting me be annoying with you
The author's barely concealed fetish being slowly edited out in each successive draft as the characters evolve away from it and it meshes less with the complex themes being explored, forcing the author to start a new work barely concealing the fetish.
i want to be loved correctly or left alone
