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have you seen the netflix atla trailer?

i’ve seen some gifs of it and i must say, words cannot describe how little i care about this. i am so fundamentally against this kind of capitalist nostalgia bait that even when i am the target audience for one of these soulless “live action reimaginings of your childhood! give us money!” schemes, i am simply not interested in giving that paradigm any attention whatsoever, even as i do tangentially care about some aspects of it (such as casting danny pudi and ken leung, two actors i really admire). i will say that if their costuming looked better i might be slightly more intrigued, but zuko’s itty bitty scar, whatever is going on with suki’s eye makeup (i was really hoping for peking opera makeup ngl), the all-around disaster that is sokka, and every other vaguely goofy choice being made here, just aesthetically, has already turned me off this hollow netflix investment if the initial premise hadn’t already. hopefully it generates the same response as the disney live action movies do, which is to say that only children and the terminally online actually give a shit about it upon its release. maybe if they had instead made a kyoshi or yangchen live action series based off the novels i would care more…. but then again, that would signify that their primary concern isn’t simply profit, and since it so evidently is, i shall not let it concern me.

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I love when Deborah Harkness books are like "This is the most evil person ever" and it's just a normal person who might have legitimate grievances with the main characters, and when the books are like "this is just some normal person" and it's an absolute shitstain of a person.

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i’m not butch but i believe in their beliefs

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Each main Legend of Korra villain represents a different political ideology.

Even the more minor villains like Varrick (who started off as a villain but underwent character development) and the Earth Queen represent ideologies as well:  Capitalism and Monarchy, respectively.

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Thunderstorms are nature’s most fuckable events

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I think one of the reasons I dislike zutara as a ship so much is because their friendship is so beautiful on its own without romance and such a huge sign of growth and character development. zuko and katara were one of the first m/f relationships I saw in media where the characters weren’t related or love interests. and while there are several other m/f friendships katara was my favorite character when I first saw the show and as such their friendship was (and still is) very dear to me. 

also, I know everyone loves a good enemies-to-lovers, and I do too, but y’all are sleeping on the criminally underused trope of enemies-to-friends. in almost every enemies-to-lovers story I’ve read the reason that they get from enemies to lovers is because of some undeniable and immutable attraction. but what if we didn’t have that? what if you didn’t haunt my dreams at night? what if it wasn’t a struggle to pull my eyes away from you? what if I had every reason to hate you and all you had to give me was a late apology and a promise to do better? what if forgiving you was a choice I didn’t have to make? then what? I’d have to know you on purpose. you’d have to trust me when I forgive you because I’ve thought of every reason not to. 

and I hear some of you saying “oh but that could be a great enemies-to-lovers story too” and maybe it could, but you’re missing the point. the reason zuko and katara hits so hard for me is because they didn’t have to be friends. they both had other friends and other family and they both would have had happy and full lives. but they got past it anyways. and it didn’t have anything to do with romance or love. it was purely growth and self-improvement. zuko didn’t apologize because of a crush on a cute girl, he apologized because he regretted what he did and was maturing into a better and kinder and more thoughtful person. katara didn’t forgive him because he was hot, she forgave him because she understood that her anger and hate was poisoning her and she wanted to move on. 

tl;dr: the beauty of zutara’s friendship is that they became friends because of growth and maturity that had nothing to do with romance and throwing in that they were attracted to or in love with each other cheapens the significance of their character development and shows that romantic love is the only way to overcome personal challenges.

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“you should be the bigger person” absolutely not. i’m cursing his entire bloodline.

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not to sound like a medieval peasant or a catholic but i resent anti-carb propaganda so much like bread will never be evil it is holy it is divine it is one of life’s most simple yet decadent pleasures. love is stored in the bread

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I think this is so neat and to all my trans followers - if you ever need help remembering just how valid and real you are, please look at this!

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to you all, trans people have always existed and will always exist, you're valid and loved and completely accepted with me and I support and love you to the moon and back and beyond.

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If you’re LGBT reblog and tag with your opinion on beer.

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Making a new rule for straight creators along the lines of "don't kill off your lesbian couple it's homophobic" but this time it's "if you're going to put a lesbian in your show you can't make her a cop"

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This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation

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I just wanna know

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Please please please reblog this and put in the tags your music recommendations. I’m not talking about big artists and bands either— what’s a niche group, band, or artist that you can’t get enough of? What song or album do you enjoy the most? Why?

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also obsessed with the people trying to justify buying hogwarts legacy by donating to trans orgs. babygirl you are buying indulgences. martin luther is rolling in his fucking grave right now trying to get out and nail his 95 theses into your head. you are so fucked up by the culture of performative activism that you believe that you can undo/compensate for real harm by doing something good somewhere else. they don't cancel out. you have still done real harm, no matter what you do to make yourself feel better about it. i hope your guilt never leaves you no matter how hard you try to wash it away.