There was a poll that went around a while ago that i just can't stop thinking about. It was asking what kind of drills people had in school, like fire, tornado, active shooter, what have you.
But then one of the options was hurricane.
Like??????
I grew up in eastern NC. You know a hurricane is coming for days in advance, sometimes a whole week if the path is clear. They just cancel school.
I love Taliesin for making Asha such a raw and unapologetic portrayal of godhood. She so beautifully embodies the dual aspects of Nature: the loving care and sacrifice for young and family, starkly contrasted against the brutal indifference of survival, the overriding need to do what you have to to live.
Does the tree care about the scores of smaller plants it starves as it blocks out their sunlight with its canopy? Does a honey badger care about the tens of thousands of bees that die as it rips apart their hive? Does the whale care about the hundreds of thousands of krill it kills as it eats? It's the brutal truth of nature: to survive, something else must be preyed upon.
There's something so honest about her philosophy towards humankind: they are our prey, in the end. They feed us. And if we need to kill them to survive, then we will. No fancy moral arguments about intrinsic evil, no set dressing about how it's for their own good, really.
No, just: They are our prey. That's where it begins and ends. And that's Caduceus's Wild Mother.
I saw this and it reminded me of some of your takes on aang
No notes. This is a perfect breakdown of how Katara was treated, right down to literally being a metaphor for the entire people Aang lost. I just wish she had been able to dump the little creep and have the ending she deserved with Zuko
"i hate captions they ruin the experience" they weren't made for you. "i can just watch the show, having to read takes away from the scenes themselves" they were made for deaf/hard of hearing folk who have the same issue with closed captions but need them to understand the media. "how can anyone like closed captions?? especially people who aren't deaf / hard of hearing..." because some peolle have auditory processing issues and other people just like to read along. you're allowed to enjoy a quality of life feature even if the feature wasn't made for you. texting was made for the deaf (originating as a TTY, teletypewriter) and nowadays almost everyone uses it because it's easier than calling. it also had the added benefit of helping mute folk and people with issues socializing / communicating verbally. even if this wasn't the intended audience when the TTY was made, we aren't cancelling people for saying they prefer texting over calling, are we?
I'm breaking my own rule against speculating and theorizing here, but I am looking very hard at the symbol of the sun on Arabasta���s flag. A flag that was made immediately following the Void Century by someone carrying the D. name. A flag for a country created by the family that refused to become Celestial Dragons after forming the world government. The family whose ancestor’s actions led to the creation and distribution of the poneglyphs.
In Bridget's arcade mode story in Strive when she gets to Ky her first remark is "Oh... You changed your hair" and considering Ky looked like this in Xrd
I like to imagine that she thought Ky was also a woman and was that's why she was seeking him out specifically