#if you're seeing this jet

[hdra77]

i love seeing all these cool ship names the community makes they're either really cool or really silly or both at the same time and ive seen some other pretty oc ship names too like falling star,voidspawn,cosmic web and then theres me: heart attack.

[monwillica]

more spelling with ben

"J is one of the most f*cked up letters that there is"

[kawaiichibiart]

I need more fics of Zuko working at a teashop with Iroh (be it Pao's (iirc) or the Jasmine Dragon) but he's just really fucking short. Because can you imagine, be it Jet, Katara, anyone who's met Zuko (either as Zuko or as Li) stumbles into the teashop, makes a scene and comes off as a bad guy because they bullied this little boy?

I think I've read just one fanfic where this was a thing and I need more people to adopt the idea.

I just think it'd be funny if Katara tried to do what Jet did (let's say this happened a few days prior to Azula capturing Ba Sing Se), left because she realized no one believed her, returned later with the rest of the Gaang, Sokka tried backing her claim, he ALSO gets reprimanded for making stuff up about a little boy, and meanwhile this is all happening Aang and Toph are having a delightful time with their new friend "Li." Should they do something? Maybe. Will they? Nah, anyways Li what tea would you recommend?

[rayz-gamma]

(COWBOY BEBOP × RICK AND MORTY) art by @nso_cartoons

[eijiroukiriot]

why do you see bkg as trans?

i've had this ask sitting in my drafts since like august BECAUSE i knew if i did the question justice it was gonna get VERY long and pretty personal - if i'm gonna talk about it then i gotta talk about it in all earnest. and you've given me the floor to talk about it. so!!

at first i had these typed out as two separate points but i think they go a lot more hand-in-hand than that, so to start - when i think about my own gender and why i can't bring myself to identify fully with womanhood a lot of it is because there's something that feels so free about masculinity. mostly just like because of womanhood on a societal level a lot of my experience as a girl forever has been "you need to think about how your existence makes other people feel. you really need to present yourself in a way that's pleasant for other people. the way you look, the way you talk, the way you conduct yourself - people are entitled to having a say in all that. and if any of that isn't living up to the way it's supposed to be, then that's a fault of yours." here's a vent post i made when i was 17:

which is mostly really superficial examples of the suffocating expectation of girlhood but it's also so blatantly about bkg. in the moment my thought process was more like "i'm so deeply unsatisfied with so many parts of being a girl, it sounds like there'd be so many less people to answer to if i were a boy" but it's funny reading back on it bc it's like "dude are you just talking about bkg". but then who's a better example of choosing to stomp through life exactly as loud and rude as he wants to be without answering to anyone than bakugou katsuki!! honest about his thoughts in any case!! free to speak as bluntly and rudely as he wants!! never putting up with shit that makes him feel unlike himself!! walks with big wide steps and wears stupid baggy clothes and doesn't care what people have to say about it and doesn't feel worse if they do disagree. grins crazy blasting himself through the air. fights with big windup swings and shouts all the while. huge huge presence and so unafraid to assert it. named himself great・explosion・murder・god dynamight. i think i project a big sense of defiance onto bkg's character because everything he is just feels so defiant to me. there's just a lot that i admire about boyhood and bkg feels like the embodiment of it to me

and then you've got bkg himself, who like- isn't even fulfilling the "doesn't feel worse about himself if he is genuinely not the greatest or kindest" part of it!! bkg's character is so centered around figuring out who he is and like navigating through the mortifying ordeal of existing and not actually liking the person you are and trying to figure out where to go from there- he really thinks he has so much to prove...both in the sense that he DOES want to project this big image and also that he really can't cut himself a break. and then he freaks out when he's not becoming the person he wants to be and picks a fight with deku over it and totally breaks down and picks himself back up and forces himself to seriously rewire the entire view of himself and others that he's had his entire life - he's 16 - and goes to all this teeth-clenching effort to be a better person and has highs and lows and wears himself raw and then comes back to life. well the quality of the later part of his arc is very debatable. but his character is so about just figuring out who he is and kind of failing at it a lot of the time. and then eventually figuring it out and getting confident and stable in it. he makes friends who rib on him because they know he's got a good heart under it all, and moreover he lets them. he gets good at shouting something back and carrying on. you see the amount of conscious thinking it takes him to take some of those steps - rethinking his relationship with deku, the god am i really fucking doing this scoff before he gives kirishima back the money - but a lot of it is just steady growth. growing up. genuinely getting more comfortable and more okay with himself over time. but there's also all these little failures along the way because he's just a kid figuring it out, and also genuinely this anger towards the world for not understanding it when he does assert himself (sports festival....where deku also specifically notes that he knows he's not as confident as he wants to be!)

i haven't really closely reread bnha in a sec so a lot of this is probably a lot of projecting (i know it's undeniably influenced by the picture of bkg i have in my head) and i probably also didn't really clarify anything, because in the end everything bakugou is feels very trans to me. "the image you have of bkg katsuki in your head can actually be so personal" etc. digging into my archives i found this post from years back where i described basically the same stuff about bkg being a teen figuring himself out and saying "so yeah he's trans" without being able to hit it more on the head. kirishima is my favorite most special boy of all time, and i love him in so many ways, but bkg is my cringefail stinky teen boy in w the unshatterable determination to actually go MAKE himself the person he wants to be, no matter how many missteps he makes on the way there. it brings me a lot of comfort to imagine him being a self-made man as a part of the because gender is so confusing and questioning can be so intense. i'm 23 and i'm typing all this about an anime boy so i hope it's evident what a soul-bearingly honest answer this is bc otherwise oh haha embarrassing. but yeah i love that kid. i hope every little victory and day where his voice sounds good to him and glance of his top scars in the mirror feels like one of the high points on the journey

[airenyah]

not ben pulling one of the funniest moves jet lag has ever seen entirely on accident

[walterdecourceys]

I haven't even read Romeo and Juliet but I know enough to know that West Side Story really fumbled the whole point of it because THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ALIKE IN DIGNITY. Like...the Jets aren't just racist, they're also transphobic (more explicitly in the remake) rapists. The moral of this version comes across as "don't let your poor naive sister-in-law fall for a shitty white boy who is friends with racists (and beat a brown boy almost to death once)".

honestly yeah this is one of my complaints about it re: adaptation.. once again i think it serves the story but i do think it's very hard to make romeo and juliet about race relations or something similar and do it well because like. the point of r&j is that the conflict there is ultimately meaningless and that both families hate each other essentially for the sake of hating each other or some long-gone perceived slight. which obviously if you try to apply that to actual systemic racism comes across as tone-deaf at the very best

although that said i do think that like. and i am very much not a #jetapologist or anything i still think they're kind of awful but they do retain the original themes of cycles of violence in r&j very well. it doesn't mean nothing that they're supposed to be the sons of polish & italian immigrants, or that the very first scene includes them also being berated by the cops - they've also been victims of the system in some ways, and they're also like seventeen and don't really realize that their actions have consequences yet (although again seventeen is definitely old enough to understand that rape is bad. PLEASE do not take this as me saying otherwise) which is something that's especially clear in scenes like "cool" when it's obvious that most of them have never actually held a gun before. like there's more than one social dynamic going on with them. but that also doesn't mean they're on the same level as the sharks & it obviously doesn't excuse them being super racist lol

All Of That Said. i don't think the jets and the sharks are alike in dignity lmao. like you still do see some arguably unnecessary instances of cruelty from the sharks (i think. i don't quite recall) but it's nowhere near to the extent of the jets and it's also pretty clear (imo, to my recollection, etc) that the jets provoked them first. so like tl;dr i think there's definitely some nuance there but i still agree with your point that's one of the main reasons i feel like west side story drops the ball purely adaptation-wise

[rovethings]

Honestly tired of the Taylor Swift private jet discourse like yeah she owns a private jet yeah it's wasteful and unnecessary but why do people get so worked up over that like... you all know that's common among rich people right? That your favorite famous pop singer most probably owns one too right??? That if we're going to hate on her for this unnecessary use of earth's resources we should do the same for your precious idols... right?

[jellogram]

Also the point is not that Taylor Swift never does anything wrong and that it's inherently sexist to say that she has. The point is that men do (and have done) everything that she does, and yet the deep personal hatred for her that some people express goes way beyond what I see men usually face. You can be absolutely justified in your criticism, but if you only wage that criticism at the women who are at fault, then yes you are being sexist.

[op3ra]

this might not articulate well but I feel like the way a lot of tumblr talks about taylor swift is . misogyny

[laugtherhyena]

Playing Bomb rush cyberfunk has been a crazy experience so far because i feel like I've been enjoying the game just as much as I'm not doing so

[alexjcrowley]

Physically fighting the urge to make an edit of Eduard Limonov and Iosif Brodskij to Girl, so confusing

[yakny]

"the morally ambiguous man before him, encompassing the blurry line between coercion and persuasion"

I present to you: The Handler

[downintheseine]

i always think I can't hate amanda palmer more than I already do, and then she comments on tswift's latest album positively (even tho it's obvious she's lying and really has nothing good to say about it) just because she knows that talking about her will create engagement on social media. how fucking low can you even get woman.

[darkshrimpemotions]

What's so funny to me is for all the people who decided to gloat over Taylor not winning last night, on some weird high horse about it and needlessly pitting women against each other once again, Taylor herself was on her feet before anyone else, wholeheartedly celebrating the winner.

[innocentimouto]

Can Jet be considered a villain?

I think people see him as that, especially since he was fighting the heroes of the story in his first episode. And the sides matter to how many people view whether a character is good or bad. This is also why I think people mistakenly think he redeemed himself at death. Because they see him on the same side as the heroes and then assume that means he's good.

It's the same thing that happened with Zuko. So much of Zuko's "growth" was just him being forced to do things because of no other choice or him willingly doing things for his own convenience that coincided with good. The biggest example would be joining the Gaang after the Invasion. Of course he did. The Avatar is alive, meaning he would have no reason for being allowed to stay in the Fire Nation. And Iroh was imprisoned. It would be easier to switch sides.

So people view Zuko as good for working alongside the Gaang even though it was for his best interest. And they view Jet fighting alongside the Gaang as a change and "redeeming" despite it also coinciding with Jet's interests. And also something he has done every episode??

Jet helped Katara, Aang, and Sokka against the soldiers. Jet helped all the orphans living with him. Jet helped the refugees on the ferry have a decent meal. Jet helped Zuko and Iroh have a decent meal. Jet tried to help the people of Ba Sing Se when he thought they were being infiltrated. Jet tried to help Katara and the others find Appa. Jet apologized to Aang for fighting him. Jet comforted Katara when he was dying.

HOW did he redeem himself at death? He's always been helping people!

Anyway I think he could be more anti hero :)