For some reason we were given access to custom emojis on teams and it took people less than 24 hours to add the logo of the local unemployment office and start using it as a reaction when something goes wrong or upper management announces another shit decision
I think the most hilarious place to put Post-Canon Sokka would have been the university at Ba Sing Se. I think he would have made a great unhinged professor. Also, in true Sokka fashion, he should have completely dodged fame. Momo is more famous than he is.
He wants to demonstrate to the class how this thing called electricity works, so he’s going to be bringing in a Firebender, so everybody be cool, we’re all friends here… and in walks Princess Azula of the Fire Nation. One-time conqueror of the city. One of the students is currently writing an essay on how her brief rule of the city affected fruit trade. She says she considers the class to still be her subjects as she doesn’t acknowledge any pretenders to any of her thrones, but for now you’re exempted from bowing and “Your Highness” will do. It’s a really interesting lecture.
“Okay, guys - hey, listen up, everyone - I won’t be here next week, me and Aang are going to-” yeah right, sure, Professor Sokka knows the Avatar. Except, of course, the Avatar walks in sheepishly and says that Appa might have gotten into Sokka’s hybrid crops, and then you all have to sit there and watch your professor chase the Avatar around with a sword.
One postgrad student is specializing in Water Tribe Cultures. She’s currently studying the massive cultural shift that happened in the Northern Water Tribe at the end of the war - oh, and Professor, I absolutely know that you’re from the Southern Water Tribe, but it’s just that the shift started with Master Katara, and of course I don’t think that every person from the South knows one another haha it’s just that I need to ask her some questions and I thought maybe you could help me write a letter or write a letter of introduction or…
Sokka looks at her blankly and goes “yeah, she’s my sister. KATARA!” which is followed by a faint answering “fuck you!” from Somewhere and to the horror/elation of our postgrad, Master Katara bursts in and is promptly beaned in the head with a rock by Professor Sokka. Her brother. her hero and her professor are siblings and currently brawling on the floor.
The 300 level poli-sci final exam at Ba Song Se University is infamous for the airship question. It’s an essay question, worth a whole 10 points on a 60 point exam, asking for the primary influences that led to airship technology no longer being used for military purposes after its initial introduction by the Fire Nation during the day of the comet. No matter how the rest of the test changes it’s always on the exam, and no one ever gets more than 9/10 on it. Doesn’t matter how thorough your knowledge, how compelling and in-depth your essay, how many brilliantly sourced paragraphs you manage to frantically scratch out before the exam period ends. Nine out of ten, never more, with exactly one exception.
Professor Sokka.
Apparently he audited the course when he was originally a student at the university, a few years after the war, and submitted the only response to ever get a perfect score on the airship question during the first year it was included in the exam.
On a dare, you ask if he still has his exam so you can see his record holding essay, and to your surprise he does and he obliges. It’s five words long, but only if you include the source as well.
Indicate the primary cause(s) that prevented the pursuit of military airship technology after the hundred year war, with sources. (10 points)
“AIRSHIP SLICE!!” (1)
(1) I was there.
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staying hidden in the tags.
A+ addition
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
thinking about the time also with some former roommates where one of them half jokingly was like “man i love monday because the kitchen is always spotless because Story cleans it on sunday” and i was like “what are you talking about” and they were like “you deep clean the kitchen every sunday?” and i was like “? no i don’t i have absolutely no idea what you mean.”
we went back and forth for 30 seconds and it got awkward really fast because it turns out all my other roommates thought i just had a compulsive need or some sort of desire to deep clean the kitchen every sunday and they just left me to it.
when in reality i was meal prepping for the entire week every sunday and when i finished i cleaned up after myself obviously—wiped the counters down, scraped gunk off the stove, scrubbed the sink, and swept the floor.
took me 10 minutes but always left it looking great.
then i didn’t use the kitchen the whole rest of the week because i’d just grab my prepped meals in the morning and go out for all-day fieldwork.
but apparently nobody else ever cleaned up after themselves at all when they cooked. like they’d just leave food on the stove and counters and drop shit on the floor etc. and not clean it up so they thought every monday morning the kitchen was “deep cleaned” simply bc there wasn’t old food on every surface.
i was like, “………..i’ve noticed the kitchen is always messy when i use it on sundays but i’ve always figured someone just used it and didn’t get around to cleaning it up yet and i didn’t mind because i’m always about to make a mess anyway…………y'all just use the kitchen like that all week?”
and one of the guys (very funny, i liked him) looked around and realized I was the only woman* (*closeted at the time) living there and he went “this is really bad, like, optics wise.”
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