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One hand smells like pussy the other like weed. I am the scales of justice

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Your children's show unfortunately has the absolute wrong take on tackling fascism. Yeah the power of friendship angle is showing a dismal lack of understanding of Marxist theory or even intro-level Leninism. Yeah my only two interests are children's media and online leftist discourse so this is gonna be a problem.

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it is so wild to me when people act like the fire nation isn't sexist because azula's girl squad is badass when azula mai and ty lee are all such perfect representations of women living under sexism. azula is the only woman in ozai's war room, and she is a smarter strategist and a more powerful firebender than the high-ranking men we see (e.g. zhao). the implication is that she has to be the absolute best to get a seat at that table. mai is treated as a prop for her father's political ambition, raised to stay quiet and out of trouble in a way that reeks of women being expected to be compliant in service of men. she's bored and checked out and has trouble expressing her feelings because she's so used to not being allowed to express anything. ty lee grows up lost in the shuffle, desperate for attention, desperate to please and contort herself into a shape that people find appealing, and that manifests as making herself into a stereotypical girly-girl, making herself seem inoffensive and non-threatening by playing on sexist stereotypes.

azula's perfectionism, mai's detachment, and ty lee's girly persona are all ways in which women react to and adapt to living in a sexist society. they overachieve to try to break the barriers, they check out emotionally, they learn to play the role people expect. azula and her girl squad are powerful women certainly but they are absolutely women living under sexism

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katara never forgetting what her mother looks like because she sees her in sokka, and sokka never forgetting what his mother was like because he sees her kindness and warmth in katara.

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Turtle ducks!

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Kataang - Survivor

@kataang-week Day 4: Role Swap

The Fire Nation is ruthless. They killed my mother, and they could have done the same to your people.

(subtitles available) thumbnail from @kwtara

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For Role Swap, I decided to make an edit with Katara/Aang parallels, how much they suffered and how they are the sole survivors of their people. I used Katara's quotes for Aang's scenes, and vice versa to fit the Role Swap prompt.

There are some voice problems but unfortunately, some scenes have music that I just could not erase. Also, the texts have been a nightmare to make.

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this is a repost, the original is here (with far fewer notes)

Blue Claw (on youtube) dropped the hardest Kataang edit ever

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found the time to dust off and colour some sokkas! at least some concept to make sure our boy is well-dressed and protected through the episodes in season one. (i am not entierly sold on all though... hm...

you may also like: zuko, sokka, ty lee, suki,

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one of the unique things the atla fandom has going for it is the relative amount of described images and the overall accessibility of posts. it's not perfect, but i see vastly more posts with alt text or image descriptions in the atla fandom than I do outside of it. and a lot of that is due to the dedicated work of just a few individuals who add descriptions or educate on how to write them - and the gradual shift in culture that came with that ongoing work. i'm thinking of the blog atladescribed here, and a reason given for the necessity of an accessible atla fandom: "because toph would use a screen reader".

so it's particularly funny to me. not ha ha but. funny. the amount of times "but Toph is blind! XD" comes up in response to any art or idea of toph doing. anything. in a modern setting, considering the digital architecture around us should show that blind people can and do use computers

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powerpoint night with the gaang

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Mama didn’t raise a quitter but she did raise a homosexual and and an idiot

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god i love hakoda and how his tunic is just fully open chested. king

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listen having a favourite character is just embarrassing sometimes. yeah that’s my specialest little blorbo. yeah I’ve read every word of their stuff. yeah I think about them 24/7. yeah I project all my issues onto them and write fanfiction about them and have multiple playlists dedicated to them. And I’m here on your dash to once again tell you that I am still thinking about them bc I thought you needed to know that. you can just shoot me now.

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i love booping on people's blogs because then you can also boop the blorbo

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This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent power fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of whump, and/or hooking up with various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization that I personally don't like (I have neither the time nor the desire to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

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currently thinking abt when sokka and piandao hug before sozins comet...