#and let me be clear

[murszi]

I really like terrible characters who are pieces of shit and have no good qualities. I would enjoy every horrible thing they do and every horrible thing that happens to them with a smile on my face.

[oorangesoda]

It’s funny to me (and me only) that Cal generally can find a way to like most people, but there are definitely a few in the valley he just, CANNOT stand. As in avidly avoids them like the plague. Only interacts with if he absolutely HAS too.

[rarilight]

the good thing about my supporter server is I could walk into any channel and talk about raritwi and no one can do anything about it

I WONT!!! but i COULD!!!!

[ohtobeleah]

glen was absolutely the “hey mom look” *holds out a lizard* kid growing up. that is a child who brought home stray animals if i have ever seen one.

Surely. He gives off major reptile kid vibes.

[do-angels-dream-of-starry-seas]

EXTREMELY fun tags in that last poll that suggests Ten groomed Rose

I mean they're wrong but that made me gasp and instantly intrigued

[holybatgirlz]

Me knowing full well I’m about to be a massive bitch to a good friend of mine because her new boy toy is a sloppy drunk

[sweetsynth]

Sometimes I think about my social work instructor who said you shouldn’t ask any men about their experiences with toxic masculinity because not all men experience toxic masculinity

[dykebilbo]

last post reminds me of being a kid and saying i wanted to be an artist when i grow up and an older cousin told me i would end up like her friends with art degrees: miserable and working at a BAR (which obvs id never been in a bar but must be pretty bad from the way she said it!)

or when the same cousin asked me what my favorite color was and when i told her yellow she was like "yellow's such a gross color!!!!"

wait, you know what? fuck that cousin in particular

[twothirdsgenius]

AHHHHHHH

[catmask]

does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.

[pangur-and-grim]

this lesbian keeps flirting with me in my creative writing class, and I'm fumbling it. she told me I didn't have to get sheets from the front of the class today, and that we could sit beside each other and share, but I said "no 😡 I want my own sheets."

and then one of the hand-outs was a poem she wrote about sexually dominating a woman into eating her out. LADS, did I need my own sheets that badly??

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Being someone who read Under The Red Hood and came out with the firm belief that, for Jason, it's not about killing Joker, it's about Jason wanting proof Batman would choose him over the Joker (bc shelia chose the joker). Makes seeing any other media where it's all about just wanting the Joker dead is a teeny bit frustrating. to be honest

Jason could've killed the Joker himself, really, really easily. Jason kidnaps the Joker before the confrontation. I can't open my comic for a reference right now, but it felt like he had the Joker for quite a bit before the confrontation. He had him. He beat him up with a crowbar. He had every single opportunity to kill the Joker himself, but he didn't because that wasn't his goal. Make no mistake, he did plan for the Joker to be dead by the end of it, but do you see what im trying to say here

Edit: If I knew this post was gonna get 1000+ notes I would've tried to word it better or something, this was a rant I made on the way to the grocery store 😭

It's not about making Batman kill either. When Batman says he won't kill, Jason adjusts and goes, 'Let ME kill the Joker or kill me to stop me' instead. The test is all about Batman choosing him. The whole final confrontation is Jason's first death again. The parent, The Joker, and the explosives. It even ends with Jason unable to move as a bomb goes off right next to him again because the parent didn't choose Jason. And instead tried finding an option that'd benefit them and (consequencely) letting the Joker walk, again, lol, lmao <-in agony

[hinamie]

alongside someone like you

[likelikedirtycute]

I believe you have good intentions. But what you said was this:

…did he violate her? This would imply ill, malicious intent on his part.

Take a second to think through what you wrote and how it applies to real life examples of assault and rape. You know that statement perpetuates rape culture.

You’re right that in real life, the victim gets to define their experience for themselves. But in a fictional narrative, that doesn’t apply, and there is no reason not to call a violation what it is.

Acknowledging that this fictional instance was a violation doesn’t mean yelling at a 12 year old that he’s a rapist. Again, I believe you have good intentions, but try to examine why you have such a knee-jerk reaction here. Why does even the abstract idea of acknowledging that a young boy violated a young girl feel equivalent to yelling at him that he’s a horrible rapist forever?

When we’re talking in the abstract, not “to” either character, why is the first thought about how he would feel if it was said to him, and not how she would feel having her sadness and frustration validated? (And you can argue that if Katara were real, she might not want to call this a violation, since it doesn’t get addressed on screen either way. But she was canonically sad and angry - that’s shown to us extremely clearly on screen.)

When you say “acknowledge the behavior is wrong” - that’s what we’re doing when we talk about this fictional event as a violation. If Aang was a real person, talking to him about why this was wrong would have to include acknowledging that another human being’s autonomy was violated, and that he did that.

Again, that doesn’t mean yelling or saying he’s irredeemable, but the desire to shy away from acknowledging the truth of what happened is one of the ways that rape culture is perpetuated. Part of teaching the lesson and allowing children to grow is being clear about what they did wrong.

I also want to mention the part about “under the assumption that said child reciprocated said feelings.” Imagine if Aang, or any 12 year old boy offers a friend tea or a snack. He really wants to have a snack with his friend, and he genuinely thinks his friend will want to as well. Friend says “it’s not the right time right now.” He says “well when is the right time?” Friend says “I don’t know, I’m confused.”

If you asked the 12 year old, whether it’s Aang or a hypothetical child “Do you still think your friend wants a snack right now as much as you do?” - what do you think he’d say?

If those words aren’t said, if there’s no communication or very ambiguous communication from either side, then yes, that’s is a situation where someone might misstep because they believe the other person feels the same way. It still absolutely can be violating, and that’s why it’s best for the person wanting to initiate contact to communicate. But that’s the kind of thing that a child might not realize as they are first navigating these things, because even adults sometimes think they are reading someone correctly and it turns out they’re not.

That’s what you’re treating this situation as, but that’s not what happened. Katara’s words were clear and would not be understood as reciprocation in any other context. If Aang was under the impression that Katara returned his feelings, it’s because he made a decision that what she was saying wasn’t real or didn’t matter. Him believing his feelings were reciprocated isn’t a justification or even context for the violation - it is a fundamental part of it.

"You can like Zutara without disliking Aang" Sure I can. But why do I have to?

I think I'm justified in disliking Aang. "He has good traits" If someone treats their partner poorly, it is very well justified to not like them, and even if they are a nice person to everyone else but their partner. That's even worse.

Aang violated Katara twice during the show. "He's 12" But she was 14. That is a VERY good reason to not like him. If this was any other show, you would never let it slide. But because he's 12 and squishy, it's okay. But what about Katara? Are you forgetting the person he hurt?

The way he treats her in their married life is insane too. People forget Aang grew up to be an adult but don't hold him accountable because he's the Avatar.

Also, "Katara could never hate Aang" but why couldn't she? If a friend of mine were to kiss me without my consent, am I not allowed to hate him for what he did because he's nice? If a writer were to write Katara to hate Aang it would be logical. It would be her full right to. He violated her.

[sandflakedraws]

re : how each brother reacts learning that they can't go back

you'll have to pry the "all the Brozone Bros knew what happened at the tree" headcanon outta my cold, dead dead dead hands.

[theorangepdf]

THERE IS STILL TIME giovanni's room, brokeback mountain, i saw the tv glow