#Chill out seriously

[incorrectquoteswwdits]

anyway too many of you thought you were watching the Izzy Hands show just saying

[roninkairi]

You can only reblog this today.*

*PLEASE READ THE TAGS

[3rdsday]

If I were Stan and I'd spent 30 years looking for my brother's missing journals so I could bring him home, and on the same day I finally found the second one my nephew reveals that he had the third one since the start of summer and hands it over, I'm pretty sure I would have literally started screaming and/or burst into tears right then and there. The amount of restraint Stan had to just casually flip through the pages for a bit before laughing it off is fucking insane.

[jondoe279]

atp i genuinely doooon’t care if the old guard two is the worst thing put to film i just want to see the best character of all time (andromache the scythian) and her loser henchmen and everyone’s favorite girl nile freeman again

[tigerr-cherry]

LESBIAN BLAST UR NARILAMB

[bloodypeachblog]

WHY THE FUCK DID NO ONE TELL ME ABOUT GOTH PETER?!

GUYS.

[kittleskittle]

look all i'm saying is that if yinz are going to continue to whine and harass people for shipping aloy with male characters, you gotta reserve some of that energy for the guerrilla devs themselves when they have this art hanging in their office:

wish I didn't need to make this post and potentially invite Drama but I am sick to fucking death of my friends being harassed over this and i'm not going to stay quiet while that's happening.

also this isn't meant to be an intentional flex but devs and former devs have continually - and I mean post bs dlc - liked my aloy/nil art on social media, including the official guerrilla account liking one of my pieces of niloy art on insta, so idk what to tell you other than please just try to keep to yourselves, and if you don't like something, click away!!

[vamprisms]

'is it rude to masturbate in your friend's house' a true friend and compatriot would let you nut inside of them

[yaoiadderall]

genuinely how i feel sometimes

[midmorninggrey]

Cal keeps three chickens: Beatrix, Hortensia, and Rosamund. Hortensia is a beast of a bird.

[burst-of-iridescent]

not to beat the "sokka's misogyny" disk horse even further into the ground, but while i agree with the take that sokka being sexist logically doesn't make sense, i would go further to say that the water tribes themselves being sexist is both illogical and thematically contradictory.

the flaws of each nation in atla have always been linked to their element, and specifically what those elements represent. fire is the element of power; power, left unchecked, leads to imperialism and authoritarianism. earth is the element of substance and stability; stability, prioritized too highly, creates and justifies the rigid class system and rampant corruption of ba sing se. air is the element of freedom; freedom, taken too far, becomes irresponsibility and abandonment.

meanwhile, water is the element of change... therefore the water tribes cling to antiquated ideas about gender roles instead of adapting with the times (especially when the times involve a fucking war going on).

not only is this unrealistic, it also breaks the thematic pattern of the nations' flaws being virtues taken to extremes, and how this dovetails into the show's overall message about the importance of balance. if we're keeping with the pattern of virtue and vice being two sides of the same coin, then the flaw of the water tribes has to be related to change. and here is where some of the (badly executed) ideas in the comics and legend of korra could have come into play: change, left uncontrolled, can lead to progress... but at the cost of tradition and spirituality.

(imagine a nwt cut off from the world and forced to rely solely on itself, ingenuity and creativity flourishing out of sheer, desperate need. imagine a nwt where waterbending is nothing more than a tool, used to build and defend and maintain a fortress always at risk, its spiritual origins slowly lost to time. imagine a nwt more military than community, whose architecture and technology far exceed anything the world has ever seen, who look down upon their less advanced sister tribe, and see no need for the avatar - after all, where was he when they had no one but themselves for the last 100 years?

when warned that the fire nation is coming, they show no fear; they have held strong on their own for the last century, bolstered by their weapons and wits, and will continue to do so. you need the spirits, aang implores, and is met with derision, for there is no place for spirits in a society always chasing more, greater, better. the spirits have not helped us before, avatar. why would they now? we are all we need.

when the moon spirit falls, unprotected and forgotten in an abandoned, rundown spirit oasis - so do they.)

not only would this fit better thematically, it would also ensure that the nwt's flaw plays a role in its own downfall. where the fire nation's warmongering resulted in the poverty and suffering of its own people, and the earth kingdom's corruption led - at least in part - to the fall of ba sing se, the misogyny of the water tribes is never shown to negatively impact them in any way. the north isn't defeated by the fire nation because they relegated half the population to healing. the south doesn't suffer raids or lose their waterbenders because they (supposedly) didn't let women fight. this lack of narrative punishment means that - outside of a few girlboss moments for katara - the sexism of the nwt isn't significant to the overall story whatsoever.

furthermore, while the ba sing se arc last almosts half a season, and the fire nation's actions drive the entire show, this supposed systemic oppression of women shows up for one episode in the first season before disappearing entirely. pakku is reminded of his lost love, magically turns into a feminist, and somehow the entire tribe follows suit? no one else protests, not even the other students or the chief?

and yet, though there are still no female waterbenders other than katara, or agency for kanna in her relationship, or any indication that women stopped being forcibly betrothed - the entire issue is simply swept under the rug and never brought up ever again in the show. i understand this was a children's cartoon made in 2005, and that even having female characters openly speak about and challenge misogyny was a radical feat for the time and genre, but the reality of patriarchy is that it's structural, sustained and immensely difficult to resist - if the show was going to depict that resistance, it should have done so with greater depth and nuance, as it did for many of the other difficult topics it tackled.

ultimately, handwaving misogyny away like it never existed is far more disrespectful to katara's character, her fight against injustice, and the girls who saw themselves in her, than simply toning it down or removing it could ever be.

[seri-tonin]

Something that's recently become a pet peeve of mine is when people mischaracterize Alhaitham and write him as someone who easily gets mad, especially with Kaveh. But in canon, I don't think he ever actually is shown to get really upset with him (or, for that matter, anyone other than azar iirc, and even then it was at least partially acting). A key part of his character is his ability to stay calm and rational in any situation. He never goes further than some pointed banter and teasing. Kaveh mentions in Alhaitham's trailer that he has a bad temper, but all other evidence shows it's the other way around

[cj-kenobi]

after the battle, before the pyre

[funkylittledemon]

y'all can't do a u turn now and staft supporting watcher unconditionally again plssss 😭😭 that was not a proper solution to this like kudos for rolling back the extremely stupid decision and all but they only rolled it back because of how stupid it was! they're still spending too much money on production & still don't know how to run a buisness this will happen again if y'all dont seperate the ghoul boys from Watcher as a company in ur minds

[kidokear]

I promise I'm still cooking this AU/crossover thing.

[jaztice]

half the fandom in the fantasy high junior year tag complaining about how the show didn't take itself seriously enough or they committed to the bits too hard and didn't have enough drama, meanwhile i'm over like