#RESPECT THAT STATUS
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watched the first 30 minutes of the new live action ATLA bc I was Curious and they have already committed three different mortal sins that I can't Not Rant about, spoilers for the first 30 minutes below the cut
1. They rearranged the order of storytelling to open with the Fire Nation attacking the Air Nomads.
And I'm not.... totally sure why? Like, my guess is either "we need to make an immediate dramatic hook for the people who have never seen ATLA before!" or "we need to explain the background for the people who have never seen ATLA before!" But the truth is, people never saw ATLA before it came out, and they were perfectly fine catching on to learning about what happened to the Air Nomads and the geopolitical state of the world in media res!! That is not an excuse!
By opening with The Attack On The Air Nomads, not only do they rob the audience of getting to do my favorite thing throughout, which is the ability to piece together backstory via being told details as the story goes on, but it also..... vastly undermines the impact that That Attack Happening is going to have later in the story. Instead of piecing together tragedy from 100-year-old ruins and getting the moment of "oh god" and imagining it, we're shown it directly upfront onscreen, which not only to me comes across as unnecessary and gratuitous violence, but it means that every time in the story that The Air Nomads Are All Dead is going to come up, instead of it being this weighty thing that we can only imagine that each small detail adds even more to that weight, the payoff was all upfront. We've seen it, there's nothing to imagine, any detail they give us is not adding to our understanding of the tragedy and increasing the tragedy to us at all, it's just a reference to the opening scene.
2. STATUS!!!!!
So 'Status' is a concept that I rant about a lot and am highly sensitive to in writing, probably bc in the gay theater camp day camps the first thing you need to teach your 8-year-olds in improv workshop is How To Respect Status if you want to have at all a reasonable adventure game; otherwise you have kids interrupting the king's big dramatic speech and hence Undermining The King's Authority and the adventure game falls apart but also so you don't get trapped in scenes where you've got two characters yelling back and forth "well I'm [this thing] so you should respect me!!" and the complete lack of respect between them totally undermines what both of them are saying and the fiction falls apart. I kind of joke but not really that I stopped watching Supernatural in like. season 8?? 9?? because there was some episode with Greek Gods and you got to the finale of the episode and Zeus was going "dO YOU KNOW WHO I AM??? I'M ZEUS. I'M A GOD. PUNY MORTAL" and Sam and Dean went "dO YOU KNOW WHO WE ARE??? WE'RE THE WINCHESTERS. WE TOOK DOWN SATAN AND ALSO SATAN'S MORE EVIL OLDER COUSIN. PUNY MONSTER OF THE WEEK" and I went "by day three of camp my nightmare 8-year-olds can do Status better than this. Why am I even watching this?"
In the first scene, the live-action ATLA severely undermines the status of the Fire Nation and Fire Lord and then continuous to do so throughout the entire opening.
The initial scene is some random Earth Kingdom spy running away with Fire Nation plans to attack the Earth Kingdom and getting captured and dragged before Fire Lord Sozin (to be?? monologued at by Fire Lord Sozin of 'HAH you fell into my TRAP, those plans were FAKE, we're attacking the AIR NOMADS' which is just. dumb. kill the spy, don't monologue at him and kill him, but also why the fuck are you letting an Earthbender spy into your presence in the first place???????) which besides the aforementioned letting?? an earthbender spy??? into his presence in the first place????? He:
is not wearing particularly fancier clothes than the other people around him; like, they're okay, but the 'total desaturation of all colors including/especially in the clothing' aesthetic that Netflix has going makes it not look very royal. that shit should have been BRIGHT red or 10x fancier to make up for the fact that it wasn't Bright Red
they are STANDING IN THE THRONE ROOM and INSTEAD OF BEING BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF FLAMES he's just STANDING DOWN THERE on the SAME LEVEL AS EVERYONE ELSE????? WHY ARE YOU EVEN IN THE THRONE ROOM IF THE FIRE LORD IS???? NOT ON THE THRONE?????? JUST STANDING AROUND???? THE FIRE LORD DOES NOT JUST STAND AROUND WHERE IS THE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE OF THE OFFICE????????????
and then beyond the absolute idiocy and letting a nobody no-name spy into his presence like that and dramatically revealing battle plans fucking idiot deserves to be assassinated for letting a spy earthbender get within three feet of him that's just extremely bad royal security, Sozin personally Murders this Random Spy. with his own firebending hands.
One of the whole things that makes ~the Fire Lord~ so terrifying is the sheer amount of weight around The Institution Of The Fire Lord, the courts and the backstabbing nobles of the fire nation, both the extreme imperial politics and complications there but also the almost deification of the office itself. The Fire Lord is untouchable, I forget if it's fanon or canon that they've got a 'descended directly from Agni / divine right' thing going but if it's fanon at least canon has those vibes, and one of the biggest aspects of the finale of the whole show is the combination of Azula's meltdown making it so that even though she was 'Fire Lady' she.... wasn't particularly scarier because in panicking and banishing everyone she'd totally undermined her own power structure, but also realizing that Ozai was Actually Just Some Dude Who Sure Was Pretty Good At Firebending And A Really Shit Person And Terrifying For What He'd Done With His Power but he wasn't a god, he wasn't impossible to defeat, when push came to shove he was just a firebender and as such his power could be stripped.
Fire Lord Sozin standing on the same level as his advisors and a random earthbender spy, and then doing things with his own hands, instead of, you know, sitting on that throne behind that wall of fire while this scene was happening if this scene really needed to happen in the first place, totally undermines that sort of deification level of status that the Fire Lord is supposed to have. Sozin becomes an Evil Scary Murderer Villain, sure, but what proceeds to be established about his character is. Nothing to set him apart from "a particularly skilled Firebender." Hell not even that, as nothing ever demonstrates that he's substantially more skilled than the firebending soldiers around him!!!!!!!
And it undermines the severity of the threat of the whole Fire Nation to undermine the status of the Fire Lord and hence the Thing That Makes The Next Fire Lord So Scary. hnnnnnnnnnng.
3. Every single character keeps giving extremely stilted monologues about how they're feeling?
It just feels like Bad Writing. And it also kind of feels like incorrect characterizatons? Big "he would NOT say that" mood but also just, like. Aang giving a three minute monologue purely to Appa about how he never asked for the responsibility of being the Avatar, he just wants to be like other kids, that just feels. So Cookie Cutter. So "gotta check off our refusing the call so our protagonist is Relatable!" and also just he would not say that.
This doesn't quite bother me as much as the other ones because it doesn't feel like a fundamental undermining of the narrative and/or the setting but it is Highly Annoying.
anyways defs not worth the watch. 30 minutes of my life Wasted. some of the costumes are kind of nice tho so might go back for the costume refs.
#live action atla#netflix avatar#just some random musings but it's been a While since I've dropped any sort of writing analysis#and I kind of miss doing it#do truly love how like. the Vast majority of my media criticisms#or at least the ones that I get Annoyed enough to Go On Rants about#are the ones that break the rules of Status#bUT HNNNNG STATUS IS SO IMPORTANT!!!!!! YOU LITERALLY CANNOT TAKE ANY CHARACTER SERIOUSLY UNLESS THE CHARACTERS#OR IN THIS THE FRAMING OF THE SCENES THEMSELVES#RESPECT THAT STATUS#HNNNNNNNNNNG
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what do you mean a random guy hired by elon musk with no credentials told democrats they werent allowed to enter a government building they have legal access to and they just kicked their feet in the sand about it and said drat foiled again
i mean this 100% when i say this but we should kill these people and start over because "call your representatives" doesnt work when these useless cowards are my representatives. like what do you fucking mean you just complied with the orders of some random dick with absolutely no authority or power over you hired by an unelected bureaucrate to not enter a government building to do the one job we gave you to do. break down the damn door or quit your fucking job. goddamn
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Dressing up these three up like dolls
Got really into ancient Irish clothing and fashion a few months back and wanted to take a crack at redesigning Wars, Sky, and Twi’s outfits in the style !
#linked universe#fanart#lu warriors#lu sky#lu twilight#my art#linkeduniverse#IRELAND MENTION 🔥#I actually loved making these sm I love designing outfits :)))#But god it is so difficult to find actual historical outfit references for Irish fashion pre Christianity- hell even pre-plantation times#This has been sitting In my drafts like 90% done for like 3 months#But I finally finished it! Trying to get back into the groove of making Lu art for the gift exchange :]#Twi gets hella body hair cuz I said so#Also hair length was a sign of status in ancient Ireland#the longer the hair the more respected the warrior#The ionar (the green jacket) Wars is wearing is also a status symbol :)#Okay yap over I just love Irish history mann#Also Twi gets to wear a lunula cuz it looks good on him and also haha moon
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Big fan of the idea of Hiccup not being Berk's only hiccup/runt, he's just the only one that survived to adulthood.
Maybe even that's why people disliked him so much, because the other kids while sickly and weak, were ultimately harmless.
Meanwhile Hiccup was actively–albeit unintentionally–causing destruction and wasting resources, but being the chiefs son was probably not getting as severe punishment for it compared to the repercussions anyone else would face for, like, blowing up a building.
Like imagine these scrawny little kids are essentially dropping like flies every devastating winter, food shortage, or particularly bad dragon raid. People are constantly mourning their children, but this little fuck always causing problems and never experiencing real consequences for it (at least in the eyes of most), always somehow pulls through (sheer spite, probably). It's unfair to blame him, but then again experiencing loss always seems deceptively easier when you have something to direct your anger at and irrational things like that are just human nature
#httyd#on the opposite end imagine the fear hiccup was living in every day wondering if he'd be next to be found frozen to death in the morning#or to get scraped off the floor after a raid (tho probably never had to worry about starvation;#despite the constant lack of respect being the chiefs son still comes with some perks)#and not having anyone to talk to about these fears due to his status as a social pariah and how busy#his father was plus anything close to/ could be seen as blatant coddling probably vanished once he wasnt like. a toddler anymore#hiccup haddock#hiccup horrendous haddock iii#httyd headcanon#isle of berk#hiccup#moth.txt#deyas dragons
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the skunk of (or from) my dreams
pose + outfit from here! partially traced LOL.

and here’s melissa. DON’T FORGET HER ORIGINS.

#mike and melissa#scott pilgrim#lol.#furry#anthro#they share NO qualities except for their HIDEOUS bobs#and their status as the object of a random loser’s affection. though melissa has much less autonomy in that respect
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Stoli is a funny little tarnished mailwoman until a man with mommy issues and red hair enters the chat ✨👐😗
#elden ring#messmer the impaler#shadow of the erdtree#oc x canon#mailwives#oc#artists on tumblr#original character#tarnished#doodle#these were totally not procrastination pieces I did while working on the main one 🫣#one may see compounded religious mommy abandonment self loathing issues#Stoli sees an opportunity#tldr stoli has no respect for statues or marika for that matter bc why are you throwing away your wonderful sons smh#whuhh originally posted this as a repost but realized this isn’t twitter lol
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did Kaiba use the Dimension Duel System to enter the Egyptian Afterlife so that he can duel Atem???
#gotta respect his commitment#aren't you supposed to be dead to enter the afterlife tho?#was atem just waiting for kaiba to arrive??#kaiba is going to update his fb relationship status to 'its complicated' and only yuugi gets what it means#i am both shocked but also not#it is not surprising to see kaiba pull of something like this#i just was not expecting him to barge into the afterlife tho#also where did atem's melanin go?#he is in the desert he needs the melanin#cide watches yugioh#yugioh#cide watches yugioh dsod#yugioh dsod#dark side of dimensions#seto kaiba#yami yugi#pharaoh atem#prideshipping
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Been toying around with the idea of pronouns as a minor game mechanic in a social manipulation game. Where there aren't any relationship meters and you have to gauge NPC opinion of you based on pronoun use and other social cues. Then I imagined getting the notification "pronoun unlocked! you can now use the informal you" and started laughing
#I bet this would go hard in japan#with all the different honorifics and pronouns to indicate social status and respect and relationship between conversants#severely limited in english but it's medieval so at least i can use thou
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RIP Clive Revill (18.4.1930 - 11.3.2025)
"It was quite an experience, and I had my doubts at one point when I thought, 'I can't do it. I can't do this. I can't find it within myself.' I had a marvelous talk with a woman who was, well, she was in charge of movement in school and she took me aside and said, 'You've got to go back to within yourself and find the truth within yourself, and if you can find that truth, never, never, never lose it because it's more than a ring on a finger. It's the absolute, innermost line within your life and your spirit.'"
#clive revill#rip#death ment tw#character actors#classic tv#the legend of hell house#avanti!#bunny lake is missing#the new avengers#columbo#modesty blaise#the assassination bureau#the private life of sherlock holmes#a severed head#jason king#murder she wrote#murder‚ she wrote#star trek: the next generation#star trek tng#star wars: the empire strikes back#the empire strikes back#charlie muffin#the black windmill#arthur of the britons#a New Zealander‚ Revell somehow avoided the fate of many of his countrymen (becoming a go to rentayank on British tv) and forged a#respectable stage career‚ including stints on Broadway and with the RSC. an almost ubiquitous face on genre tv‚ particularly in the US‚#Clive never really made it to 'star' status but graced many a popular series as well as appearing in some significant films. i usually look#for something to rec with these actors‚ something maybe a little less well known; I have to say The Legend of Hell House is a spectacular#brit horror that has slowly undergone reappraisal over the last decade or so. he also had notable (and fun!) roles on TNG as Guy of#Gisbourne (4.20‚ Qpid) and as the final murderer in the original run of Columbo (The Conspirators). just shy of 95 is a fine age tho. rip
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girlbossing too close to the sun.
#art#ive literally just been treating this game as a library simuator#i walk from bookseller to bookseller opening up all of their books#vivecs sermons are either a highlight or the point at which i stop reading#ive been trying to convince the ordinators that imitation is the highest form of flattery but it hasnt been working#let me wear your helmets please theyre so funny..#posting morrowind in 2024 isnt a cry for help but youre not wrong to be concerned.#morrowind#almalexia#vivec#im going to explain the chitin armor give me a moment#so the bonewalker nerevar on the shrines is adorable and it was only after drawing it however many times that i realized#it looked relatively close to a modified chitin armor#and so i modified chitin armor a few times and this was probably the cutest result#i also know i drew almalexia relatively pristine and untouched by years and vivec not so much but my thought process was#vivecs role as if not a favorite then the most accessible divine or the most “hands on” in a manner of speaking#acting in ways visible to the general population or actions explicitly brought to their attention#like not that almalexia isnt doing anything she is#but the dissemination of information regarding that is very different etc etc etc#anyways to a certain extent a god is the face on a shrine or in art or upon a statue or carving#but vivecs presence is interwoven with the geography of vvardenfell especially and his actions and writings with pubished materials#and the arts and culture and customs etc etc etc#so to me the face of a god you know and feel a commonality with or a god that walks alongside you is a face you would recognize#and vivec is already otherworldly looking enough#the simple mark of the years on his skin in some way grounding him in reality felt more right#that and i think the ways in which he and almalexia care about outward appearance are slightly different- they prioritize different things#and the ways they present outward power and their embodiment of their respective attributes share some similarities as they both have that#important preoccupation with physical power and physical strength to a certain degree#oh my god nobody read this i am yapping so bad.#tes
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Quan Yizhen, watching Xie Lian make out with a ghost: What an effective way to exchange power, did you see how he got super strong sooo fast?? :D
Mu Qing: Oh for-
Pei Ming, uncle extraordinaire: That's right bud. Very efficient! But see, when two people love each other very much-
#bro really said “not before marriage son”#this whole sequence is such a fever dream#just riding around on a xie lian statue half the size of a mountain and fusing your colleagues into a sword#wielding that blade with the power of friendship#as you do#qi ying my beloved#he is me at any function like idk where i am or what we're doing but i'm happy to be here#my guy beats even mobei-jun at the autism game put some respect on his name 😤#heaven official's blessing#tian guan ci fu#tgcf#tgcf spoilers#xie lian#hualian#mu qing#quan yizhen#pei ming#ive heard of the ho ho thing before which is pretty iconic but this was so much funnier to me
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There’s something so jarring about how Hanush turns up at the end of KC2 and, whilst being friendly and complimentary to Henry, immediately puts him in his place as only a blacksmith - but it’s like, the appropriate way to speak to someone in what is meant to be Henry’s role as a squire; he sets him a menial task and reminds him of his duty to obey him, and his responsibility of looking after Hans.
It just contrasts so much to all the class differences Henry and Hans have overcome over the course of the game to get to this point in the romance where they view each other as equals and then in rolls Hanush with a fucked up sword being like. Not equals! Don’t forget he’s a servant!
#you get so used to Henry being treated with a lot more respect than he’s maybe owed due to his status#idk plays into how I think even devoted to Hans Henry would struggle with wanting to accept Zizka’s offer#and going back to the castle with people who are very aware of his class and status and history and being treated differently#Henry is extremely devoted but can I see him wanting to settle? hmm. no. bc I want another game!#kingdom come deliverance#kcd#Henry of Skalitz#Hans Capon#Hansry#Hanush of Leipa#Hanush I don’t TRUST YOU. kinda get it tho#kcd2#kingdom come deliverance 2
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everyone can always tell which of Alfred's things he bought himself and which were bought by Arthur because Arthur WILL be buying him exorbitantly priced bespoke pieces and brands God himself couldn't afford while Alfred has a backpack older than a Gen Z that he bought from a street vendor who handmade it from an old pillowcase.
#hws england#hws america#aph england#aph america#ukus#usuk#hetalia#hetalia world series#-#its vital to me that arthur and alfred see wealth and status and STUFF completely differently#al values creativity and sentimentality and whimsy#arthur values STATUS and POWER and how things tell others abt those things before you even have to open your mouth#alfred 'if u need to convince someone to respect u thru clothes they dont respect u' jones#vs arthur 'i obtained power and riches through blood sweat and tears after a life of wanting and u WILL look at me and now what im worth'#kirkland#oh the dichotomy#re: ukus#.txt
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Noa de Acutis + Being Intimidating
#noa de acutis#neri de acutis#jacobus egrativi#rook de riva#viago de riva#andarateia cantori#teia cantori#antivan crows#My Rook de Riva both respects and is deeply wary of this woman ngl#I do think this implies that Noa is the head of de Acutis though even though she obviously defers to the Talons#and her brother Neri at times acts as a scribe for Viago and Teia so there's definitely a status difference there#If you meet a Crow with as much grey in their hair as Neri has you should take it as a warning#datv spoilers
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Look at my evil princess. I love her so much. She's an unstoppable force of chaos that is simultaneously bent on assimilation. She is the worst person ever yet I am always rooting for her. Companies rise and fall based on who she wants to invite to dinner. I want her to destroy the world.
#bertha russell#the gilded age#I love her so much#she is a great anti hero#because I hate her less than the other society ladies#her money is unethical af but she is trying to change an also unethical status quo so let's go I guess#she's a great palate cleanser after Little Miss Perfect Marian (I don't hate Marian she is just an ingenue objectively)#I am such a bad lesbian#I tried to watch Gentleman Jack like a Respectable Sapphic and it stressed me out and I couldn't watch season 2 after checking the plot#and now I'm invested in “HBO's worst show” The Gilded Age#though in my lesbian defense: look at my princess and you will see the appeal#Also the Russells are exactly what I want to see for lesbian rep and what I hoped s2 of Gentleman Jack would be#Like two people who are in love fighting a social sphere that doesn't like them through Unethical Capitalism and Love#sometimes having minor spats but mostly working together as a united force#which I guess isn't what the diaries say so they couldn't do which is fair but still disappointing#to be clear: the show was really good just not to my personal taste#I just want ONE SHOW where we get to have lesbian leads with a Russell-type romance#I love her bird dress also#and her bangs in this photo look like they were made in the Sims 4 /neutral observation
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the thing that sets apart hua cheng from most other devotee/worshipper-type relationships in other media is that hua cheng would actually throw himself on his knees and crawl across the floor if xie lian wanted to, he would demean himself without shame because shame comes from the perception that you have done something wrong or foolish in another's eyes, and hua cheng would never see his god's will as either, nor care for anyone's else's opinion
#i was so happy when i read tgcf because this is what i mean when i want hopelessly devoted love interests#too many of these (dark) fantasy male love interests dont even treat her with basic respect#like what do you MEAN they drag her around and demean her#theyre often assholes at best and abusers at worst#there is no devotion or worshipping to be found#''he would kill for her'' but would he make peace with his enemies for her?? would he SAVE his enemies for her??#hua cheng would#hua cheng also wouldnt dream of ordering xie lian around#he told xie lian once not to get involved with the wind and water master but when xie lian did that anyone#all he said was ''thats okay baby i told you before: just do what you want to do ill be here for you either way<3''#he only intervenes more forcefully for xie lian's protection and he clearly HATES doing that#sorry for the vent but im tired of seeing the worshipper trope done so badly!!#where are the statues!! the murals!! the devouring need to be with them!! why arent these men on their knees!!!#hua cheng#tgcf#heaven official's blessing#tian guan ci fu#xie lian#hualian
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