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Ended up renaming both this account and my main account:

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if madoka and homura in a Chinese traditional fairy tale

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Avatar: The Last Airbender - 20th Anniversary

(commissions open, nerds)

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Making some 80s ponies ⚡️🐴

Firefly is up first!! :)

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Sailor Moon | 美少女戦士セーラームーン

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Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.

Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.

And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:

They all fall to their deaths.

Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.

It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff.

Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took at step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.

Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.

It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.

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Have to admit this movie is still nostalgic to me, plan to rewatch it soon.

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20 years ago today the first episode of Avatar The Last Airbender aired, and my life was changed forever. I can’t begin to say how much this show means to me

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whether you call it an "AMV", an "edit", or a "fancam", all of us, across generations, want the same thing: videos of The Character set to music. and i think that is beautiful ❤️

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avatar: the last airbender premiered 20 years ago!!

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Me with Eric x Saveli and Sophie x Xiaoai which I don't have fanfics for though made YouTube Amvs. lmao

Everybody love my rarepair with 0 fics on ao3 and no fans besides me and those I hypnotize

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All five Sailor Moon arcs as depicted by 靄羅

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"Kaname-san, I'm a magical girl now, too!"

This scene is so understated yet so charming, and I loved coloring it! I love the earlier timelines where Homura hasn't been completely broken by the weight of her wish yet.

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Ichigo Momomiya

— Tokyo Mew Mew New ☆ Episode 07

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「 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 」

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I finally made a full videos after 3 years and it happens just happens to what would be Flower Angel’s 11th anniversaryand Xia Anan’s birthday.

I have to say I really miss this series nowadays as I haven’t really found other good donghua these days, hence why I’m posting less on this blog.