#& how much people who are like “he shouldve just killed him bc he's a fascist” & aang needs to stop being a baby make me wanna scream

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brb bowing down & worshipping this post

It’s time for people in the fanbase to finally accept that Aang was in complete control of the avatar state in that battle with Ozai. He was furious and his rage is clear as day, and he had every right to be. It’s tired to see people crediting Aang’s anger to Kyoshi or whatever all the time. The jokes are funny, but not here, not in this battle.

Aang enters the avatar state right after Ozai says this to him: “You’re weak, just like the rest of your people. They did not deserve to exist in this world, in my world. Prepare to join them—prepare to die.”

Aang reaches out from under those rocks and grabs Ozai, and then when Ozai tries to burn his face in the place he burned his own son, Aang smacks his hand away and then blasts him into a rock pillar with airbending, the first element he uses against him once in the avatar state is the same element Ozai just called weak. There’s a reason Aang surrounds himself with an air bubble, and there’s a reason Aang’s airbending is so violent and unrelenting in this fight. He literally airbends so violently that he erodes a rock pillar all the way through in like 2 seconds. It’s a blatant display of the power airbending actually possesses, a big fuck you to Ozai who starts running away like a coward.

Aang is coming face to face with a man whose family line is directly responsible for wiping out his entire race of people, his entire culture. They took everything from him. He had nothing but Appa and the clothes on his back and his glider. That was it. That was all that was left of their genocide, a genocide justified by the view that Air Nomads were undeserving of life, that they were the weakest of all the nations. Imagine how full of rage he must have been. And still, he does not kill him. Not because he can’t, but because he won’t let the Fire Nation complete their genocide against the Air Nomads, he won’t allow himself to be robbed of his own culture, a culture that exists through him only, now. I feel like people really just don’t understand Aang’s character, and they definitely never give him the credit or praise he deserves.

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damn ok time for mod fs first movie review. were reviewing jokers trick 2019 buckle up (spoilers are in there too btw) ...... also PLEASE read the whole thing b4 u go ham on my ass

ok i will sum this up here. if i liked this movie. i didnt because i did. no i didnt <3

ill start with things i actually liked about it. from a technical standpoint, this movie is beautiful. great visuals, costume and set design, score, and acting. the feeling this movie came to give was both fear and freedom and i was most definitely feeling that. not only that, but the themes actually exceeded my expectations -- i expected this to be a mess of incel propaganda, but its theme of oppression and revolution were solid and actually very good for all those crazy leftists like myself and admin!

plus..... god do i just love stories of traumatized characters that get to go ham and get revenge and shit. and like i know that sounds funny when its about mr the “marginalized clown” joker but he actually is shown to be disprivileged in a way that is relatively realistic and relatable. his experiences as a poor mentally ill person and survivor of child abuse actually seemed like a possible thing that could happen, at least to me. and him getting revenge on the bourgeoisie is perhaps a little bit epic

......and heres where it gets shitty lmao

good god this wouldve been SO much better if they had casted a person of color to play arthur. or if it had been directed by one. bc good god, it seems like they really wanted to compare his experiences with poc. like i said he is legitimately marginalized but the oppression he faces should NOT be compared to the struggles of poc. different forms of oppression shouldnt be compared and instead us minorities should stand in solidarity with one another !!! it kinda felt like thats what they were trying to say too but they did NOT do well at it lol if they wanted him to be as oppressed as us pee oh cees then they shouldve just...... made him one lmao

and also..... i feel like they made him so sympathetic in the beginning that his ~dive into madness~ just made no sense for his character. arthur is actually a really sweet guy and even if hes kinda socially awkward pretty much everything he does comes from the heart. him killing the 3 businessmen made sense because he did it from the heart -- he did it because they were hurting him and making a woman beside him uncomfortable. he rarely actually wanted to harm people and whenever he did (up until the end) it felt justified in some way, like he did it to defend people he cared about.

HONESTLY I JUST WANNA REWRITE THE WHOLE ENDING LMAO GCKJSHLJCS.......... if it were up to me id portray him more as someone who views his crimes as his duty and doesnt see what hes doing as wrong, even though it falls into more of a morally-grey area. he kills and fights cops, rich people, fascists, and abusers because he wants to help all the people theyve been hurt by. hed still keep the funny, flamboyant mentality and persona, but do so from the heart and only want to play the leader of a revolution because he feels like he has to, because thats how much he wants to help people who have been hurt the same way as him. if they had gone this way it would be more of an in-character and unique take on this classic character, AND more of a real morally grey character than just making another “this man commits atrocities! but its ok because hes sad :o(”

all in all there was a lot of stuff i liked and a lot of stuff i didnt. id recommend it to anyone with a strong stomach bc theres lotsa death and blood and also to fellow mento ewwness people who just wanna go ham

anyway this is way longer than i intended thanks for reading and we are all clowns xoxo