#living on the avails

[filibusterfrog]

types of wizards :)

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Seek Girl Witness In Slavery Charge,” Toronto Star. December 13, 1932. Page 1. ---- Claim Montreal Men Imported Girls Into Resorts --- Special to The Star Montreal, Dec. 13. – A young girl – a missing witness – whose evidence is needed to shed light on the white slavery charges faced by three men in the court of sessions before Judge J. O. Lacroix was ordered arrested on a bench warrant when she failed to appear in court.

Louis Marchand, 51, Adelard Menard, 48, and Maurice Cote, 28, are alleged to have brought girls from small country villages into disorderly houses.

Startling court procedure took place late yesterday when Mrs. Louis Mrchand stated briefly she had seen her husband bring two girls from Montpellier into the house she kept for her sister about June of this year.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I love tornado survival guides. "Shelter in a basement or interior room without any windows. But if you're in a mobile home, just fucking die I guess lol"

[freckleshine007]

Lmk season one: “Oh no! We must defeat the Demon Bull King with our super awesome mechs (now available at your local LEGO store)”

Lmk season five: “Don’t kill yourself. There is more to live for than just your end. Nihilism will only make you more miserable. Focus on what’s happening now, the journey has always been the most important part. Also we have these super awesome mechs (now available at your local LEGO store)”

[mobius-m-mobius]

#so unserious 😂💖

[pallanophblargh]

It's nice to have salvaged "Mirrorsight" cover art. By which I mean I re-scanned it after giving the original a much needed facelift.

It's definitely one of my favorites from the series.

[ryllen]

live up ur sillies

[umboocowju]

Beast peak's disciple Shen Yuan? Yeah 😌

[an-established-butt-dent]

'Dreamers' A quiet evening

Solas x Lavellan, available as print here.

Mixed media on paper

[inkjetpaladin]

They're matching!!!! My babies 😭

S

[bizarrelittlemew]

"How do I look?"

Rhys Darby as Casper in Relax, I'm from the Future (2023)

[thespoonisvictory]

also idc I love the citadel and all its wizard hubris I love the intersection of innovation and horror and progress and crushing others underfoot AND also clothes that magically put them on themselves and Citadel Made bouncy balls and secret societies and universities!!! and espresso and arcane discovery and and and

[ueberdemnebelmeer]

THE NEWSREADER S01E03 | The White Marquis Matinee Jacket

[thethiefandtheairbender]

my hot take is that i would've been fine if natla had changed virtually everything... character names, aesthetics, plot beats, character choices, etc. IF it had been more culturally accurate and respectful.

instead natla changes virtually nothing except the removal of sokka's sexism while increasing pakku's and the general north's, while also not being willing to commit to it (see: yue breaking off her engagement pre-show with zero consequences, which also undersells their new angle of her resenting/disliking the expectations her community has for her). we get one scene of katara doing braiding/weaving with her gran gran and mother. no other elements of water tribe culture are present that weren't there in the show, and others are removed. the water tribes don't even get to explain their own culture and relationship to the spirits, the fire nation does it. iroh being called out for ba sing se by an angrily grieving earth kingdom soldier is undercut by iroh coming off looking better when he spares the man and the man still strikes him afterwards from behind. because, y'know, the show that literally has fire nation characters critique an earth kingdom soldier for being corrupted by war, calls jet an outright terrorist and remove all of his nuance, and have katara say jet is just like the fire nation to his face isn't both sides'ing an imperialist genocidal conflict at all, obviously /s.

like, what the fuck are we doing here?

if natla wanted to radically change character arcs, struggles, backstories, and plot beats (avatars having glimpses of the future and that's why we head to the north, etc) they should've just wholly committed. the httyd movies are nothing like the books, but they change enough to be their own story in their own right (literally, they only keep a father-son relationship and the setting and half the character names; everything else is different). and they told a different, but really fucking good story.

for example: why not have there be zero sexism, and katara fights pakku for the right to learn any waterbending (healing or fighting) because they see her as an outsider who can't understand their culture, the same way there are stories about indigenous people working hard to reconnect to their culture after being separated from it due to colonization? why are we doing the same things, but worse, every time?

i'm not mad at natla for not being a 1:1 adaptation. i'm mad because every single unnecessary change it makes to the characters' core backstories and personalities are less effective than the OG, are not adequately addressed in story at any point, or has things ham-fisted in for no reason (yue being able to go into the spirit world has no bearing on the actual plot, for example; it's just There, because...?).

it's not more culturally sensitive than the og; instead, in many ways, it's less, and i think that's the biggest waste of it all.

[turnipoddity]

thinking about how i watched a javanese horror (i don’t speak javanese) with a friend that speaks javanese but terrified of the movie. Spent the entire movie with her not looking at the screen and me going “WHAT?? WHAT DID THEY SAY??”

[melissaporsches]

Fuck, marry or creampie?