#love their season 5 dynamic love that theyre still friends

[marinetteplztakeabreak]

“Adrien made Kagami realize she’s a lesbian because she was not attracted to him” is boring and overdone.

Kagami made Adrien realize she’s a lesbian because she called him her “boyfriend” and he flinched and she was like “oh shoot what’s wrong” and he was like “i dont know, boyfriend is a really weird word for some reason” And because she’s Kagami, instead of being like “oh he clearly doesn’t want me” she just sat him down immediately and started googling Other Words and trying All of Them, and then she tried “do you want to be my girlfriend?” on a whim and he was like “holy shit this has awoken something in me.” And then kagami was like “oh huh i may be a lesbian.”

[trafficblr-confessions]

I don't like skyblings too much, however that doesn't mean I don't like family headcanons/dynamics

Actually im a sucker for family dynamics, me and my sister both are, and love projecting on silly cubitos a lot (funny cause in this specific duo our genders are swapped)

So I present to you: Snowblings propaganda

Its Scar and Pearl!

First of all they kinda look alike, to the point I've mixed them up in fanart before, which sounds dumb but I'm so fr like actually its happened and I find that funny.

Second, I just love their duo on DL, I lowkey wished they became chosen soulmates, I mean theyre kinda paralels? But on opposite senses?? My sister knew the proper term for this. Like- Pearl got abandoned by her soulmate, and they parted ways completely, resenting eachother. Meanwhile, Scar got cheated on, but even after the betrayal and all that he stayed with Grian and didn't yknow take actual revenge like Pearl did constantly to Scott..

Headcanon section:

Also I love that they seem like- So I think if they were actually related possibly before the series and all, maybe got separated and their memories erased by the watchers? But still met again and took eachother as found family, not knowing the truth. Also, likewise to my online sis and I, I feel like Scar is older in actual age but when you see them interact its like Pearl is the older one.

Also!! Wolf and cat duo, I think thats silly.

And I think possibly they could've hang out more even if we dont see it on camera, trust... like sitting on powdered snow at night as they talk (its mostly Pearl rambling/venting/plotting chaos and Scar being supportive, possibly also making sure she doesn't freeze to death)

Another plus! Scar was a wizard on LL while Pearl got called the witch of DL! And both got villanised a lot on the seasons they won... and they both spent their whole seasons mostly alone, with a small team up at the end...

Pearl was all alone in DL and Scar helped her and kept her company when he could, even if she was unhinged and probably insisted he got revenge aswell. Scar was all alone for most of SL and Pearl still offered him a family in the end... she wanted one of her mounders to win... and he was the last one left, he *was* an actual mounder even if just for one episode, cause she could've helped Gem win, also her best friend (who I see as found cousins, also cause of my relationship with an online cousin), but she wanted her mounders to win, and thats what Scar was, not only that, Scar was her brother, her family.

Have you also considered that Scar, Pearl and Bdubs could make the best found sibling trio ever?

I just think they're the best ever, comfort duo fr..

(A bit Pluto Scar propaganda too, shot out to my genius lil sis for the arguments) Pluto has 5 moons, Scar killed 6 ppl in the finale, but the last one was Pearl who IS the moon. Except to Scar she's more than just another moon, Pearl, who wanted him to win, who offered him a place to belong to, a family, when he had no one, even if it was short lived, Pearl who understood his loneliness, a past winner who very well understood what its like to be the villain of the server, his best friend, his ally, his family.. and the last person he saw before that so called victory.

Plus! Funny quote between my sister and I that sounds pretty DL Snowblings coded:

- "wishing for the best for you and worst for them /j" (sister/scar) - "you see? this is what siblings are for! we pray on other people's downfall… but for good reasons.." (me/pearl)

Thats all tumblr, thank you ^^

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[milfpaul]

season 1 merthur and they’re arguing and its sharp insults but its not real hate between them. their dynamic is fast and brotherly and arthur has never known someone in this way before; it scares him. season 2 merthur and arthur is someone different now, someone better and his world is reflecting that. and yet at the same time that very world is focused so entirely on merlin/merlin and his hijinks/merlin and his angst. season 3 merthur and things are changing and arthur hates to love the changes because there are new people and strangers and he’s getting older and so is merlin and so what if merlin is a bit wiser, a bit more of a man? he’s still merlin and arthur loves him. season 4 merthur and neither pretend things are still the same because arthur has a woman in his future but still merlin doesnt and, for all intents and purposes he never is going to. yet he has arthur, he thinks. and arthur is enough; his destiny is enough. everything is fucked up but merlin can at least rely on that—he can rely on arthur. season 5 merthur and its agony that they know each other so thoroughly, theyre so close but paradoxically the distance has never been bigger. there’s something lodged permanently in merlin’s throat and sometimes he walks in on arthur teary eyed but they dont talk, not really. theyre men and who knew being a man was so goddamn heartwrenching? then morgana has declared war and fuck it theyre all dying and arthur is in his arms and finally theyre theyre theyre- he’s my friend, merlin says, and honestly. that’s all there is to it. or something.

[artinandwritin]

For the ask game 6, 10, 11, and 14... hopefully those can fill your time but let me know if you need more lmao!

AGH TY for asking so many!! Im certain ill be able to fill a lot of time with those <333

6. Favourite ships; like i mentioned on your post, for me it really fluctuates what ship is in the front of my mind on any given day. Ofc, hiccstrid is a big one (theyre really good to me personally) and I'm currently also in a big snotstrid mood bc of my friend @spacenintendogs 's dragons off the coast au! (Also p l e a s e if you aren't familiar yet with dragons off the coast im begging you to look into it, its such an interesting take on a modern au and Rose's writing and worldbuilding is absolutely phenomonal). Fishlout also takes up a space in my heart, adore them so much! The dynamic is so good.

Ruffnut and her army of men is also so good, and the dynamics she has with Eret, Fishlegs and Snotlout is really fun and has a lot of potential. Tho i do also think she and Heather have potential. As do Eret and Heather! That whole group can just be mixed and matched together haha. Heather and Fishlegs ofc is also wholesome, they deserved more than this!

Due to me being so involved in the oc side of the fandom and being a really big supporter of everything oc (which is common knowledge after 4 years of this haha), I also love a lot of people's ocxcanon ships! Such as Rose's oc Ermintrude and Snotlout, @nosuda-cringe 's oc Mayeth Vang and Snotlout, and ofc the ships you've hinted and teased in otwd (zephbal save me... save me zephbal. I think about them a. Normal amount. Same with castav but i wouldnt let them save me, they need to save themselves first), plus a lot of others. Theyre all very dear to me <333

10: favourite songs from the soundtrack; OKAY so ive actually got history with this! When i was about 13-16-ish i had music classes as part of my middle school experience (lmao) and we were given the freedom to do any project we wanted. In those 2-3 years i used the httyd soundtrack twice for projects!

First I used Forbidden Friendship (that song man. That song) as like. An underbeat or smt? To add things on. Im sure it sounded horrendous and y'know the other kids in my class laughed at me bc of me using an animated movie's soundtrack, but the song did remain a favourite of mine and still is.

The second time I used the soundtrack was just after the third movie released! We were once again granted freedom and I decided to learn Once There Were Dragons on the piano! (Im not certain i still know it LMAO its been 5 years, this was even before I learned about OTWD which is in hindsight pretty funny)

Ofc once again the kids around me weren't amused and I couldn't play piano to save my life (my hands are too small to reach the octaves needed which. Sucked haha) but i had a lot of fun and the song really stayed with me throughout the years, it always brings me at least some sort of emotion <3

11; favourite locations; OH gotta be Old Berk and Dragon Island. We spend so much time in Old Berk during the shows and the movies and the form of the island is just so... memorable, in a way. In school of dragons, i always loved climbing the Great Hall up to Gothi's little hut haha. Miss that silly little island.

Dragon Island is soooo underused but i adore the implications sm! Like, the Red Death's corpse is there (and we all know how much i love environment changing giants) and we haven't really seen it since RoB/DoB. Underused location in my humble opinion.

Honorable mentions to Berserker Island and the weird treasure island from rtte season 1. They really slayed haha

14; favourite animation style; everyone knows i'm a big hand animation girlie so I have to go for those little moments in the franchise where more 2D animation is implemented (like in Fishlegs' leadership dream and the Boneknapper special). The keyframing and the subtle movements are really worth analysing and i absolutely adore how it's used. A real treat for us animators! (Special mention to the animation that's been going around from the live special, so good)

As for 3d styles, I have to say the first movie. It has a very raw edge which i love and it gives everything a great feeling. Plus, the animation error during forbidden friendship they left in the final cut owns me <333

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

tbh i always thought amity should have been the one to give hunter a haircut. aside from being snippy/standing next to each other they haven’t really had time to interact after eclipse lake. and like, that episode was phenominal in building up their dynamic and picking at both their characters. even after the rest of season 2 and thanks to them i feel like although they haven’t interacted much, theyre definitely one of the pairs out of the gang that has the most potential to be super close.

but they don’t talk post eclipse lake, so the most we’ll probably get is a short exchange in the finale where they’re like “we cool?” “we are” “sick” *epic battle sounds* and that’s disappointing! they probably would have planned more with these two in a longer season 3 but man it would have been so cool to have amity see hunter freaking out over how much he looks like belos and help him with it. amity furthered her reconciliation with willow by helping her with her hair. it would be a nice parallel to see her reconcile with hunter by helping him with his hair as well. love is stored in amity’s hairdressing and whatnot.

like all season 1 she was under the influence of her mother and her green hair symbolized that. and in season 2, she changed her hair with the help of her siblings to symbolize how she isn’t under her mother’s control anymore and how she’s ready to grow for the better. hunter struggling with belos’s control over him parallels her. and amity would recognize herself in hunter’s desire to stop looking like belos by changing his hair. by thanks to them, she already resolved most of her baggage with her family, so she could help hunter resolve his baggage as a sort of “passing of the torch,” doing for him what her siblings did for her.

hunter went through a similar arc to amity where he realized the way he’s been taught to treat people isn’t good, and the kindness from his new friends taught him to change for the better. it’s not exactly like amity’s arc since his actions were more forced by dangerous situations while amity had more choice in befriending the gang, but theyre still similar. but anyway by eclipse lake, hunter was going through something similar to amity, but he was like 4 or 5 plot points behind her in character development. so when amity offers to be friends with him during a time of crisis, he doesn’t take her help and instead doubles down on helping belos. but by thanks to them, hunter has basically completed his “redemption” arc and is fully on the gang’s side. so at this point, when amity offers to cut his hair, he would be comfortable enough to accept her help. it would be a peace offering from hunter as well, accepting amity’s help when he attacked her for it before.

if they had a full season 3 they might have spent an entire b-plot of an episode on just the hair cutting scene. and if amity was the one cutting hunter’s hair, it might even be important enough to their character arcs to be an a-plot, with a few related scenes added. but alas, there are so many other prioritized arcs in the shortened season 3 so we probably won’t get a lot with amity and hunter becoming friends. i certainly wouldn’t want them to focus a whole subplot on it if there’s so much else to tie up. ah well. the hunter-amity reconciliation arc is canon in my heart. and in my ao3 account.

[princemick]

what are your best f1 fic recs

okay okay, I've done a bunch of fic recs before so I deff recommend looking at them first

BUT here's basically my like 10 fav fics of all time that ive reread or litteraly obsessed about. the ones in red are the ones that I like, see as my personal canon yk.

okay I just finished putting them all in n it might b a few more then 10 but still. yk, okay.

some things you choose by trailsofpaper

(sewis, 5+1 things, mutual pining, angst with a happy ending)

pleaser by alltimecharlo

(martian, sugar daddy au, porn with plot, college student seb)

You Don't Remember Me by FormulaFerrari

(webbonso, amnesia au, angst)

all the while you were stood here waiting by likelylarks

(maxiel, mutual pining, getting together, oranges)

it's lights out and away we go by lewisshamilton

(lando/charles, stripper au, angst, slow burn)

can't stand the heat by toastandvegemite

(dewis, omegaverse, just good, very good dynamic)

License to pretend by Sonnenscheintraum

(nicky/mick, spy au, mutual pining, fake/pretend relationship)

the alps by grandprix

(yukierre, pining, hurt/comfort, getting together)

seasons (waiting on you) by empireoffclouds

(sewis, friends to lovers, slow burn, pining, 2008 til 2017)

It's Friday I'm In IKEA by carocoffee

(dantteri, friends to lovers, basically dan has a realization in an ikea)

yeehaw! by hungerpunch

(dantteri, trans dan!, first time, cowboy dan/biker val, porn without plot)

good to you by TheNorthRemembers

(maxiel, friends to lovers, sike kink, miscommunication, messy)

Hard Year / Good Time / Socks Up / Foot Down by bestliars

(sewis, amnesia au, established relationship, angst n comfort)

hoping for you to come make my world new again by misonikomi

(sebchal, soulmates, mutual pining, miscommunication)

The Cloud That Settles by antimonyandthyme

(sewis, friends to lovers, idiots in love, getting together, the monaco fic)

The mountains, the lake and the mist by Jean____Ralphio

(alex/mick, arranged marriage, royal au, moto gp/f1 paddock, slowburn)

lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all by Quagswagging

(mixed ships, regency era, family, courting)

summer sun after the rain by gentleau (iwanna_seeyou_undoit)

(maxiel, kidfic, found family, fluff, retired drivers)

Oh fuck you, darling by individualist (and the whole series)

(toto/christian, married, 4 + 1, secrecy)

Saltwater and Gasoline by Kaytheologie

(charles/bono, porn with feelings, slow burn, praise kink)

how good it feels to be needed by hibivrooms (hibiscuswings)

(carlando, personal chef carlos, friends to lovers, slow burn)

pointless by stuckonspidey

(schulott, exes to lovers, angst, theyre both dumb)

a secret language (i can't speak with anyone else) by Anonymous

(schulott, friends to lovers, hurt/comfort, callum learns german)

Misalignment by Azzy

(sewis, jealousy, lewis comes out n sebs confused abt it personally)

it doesn't come that easy anyway by greeneyeddisaster

(sebson, college au, slown burn, pining)

[commander-gloryforge]

ok i'm making a post about all my ships for real

theyre not even going into detail about teh character dynamics theyre really just. for me to remember that i DO have gay people in love. cursive are either broken up couples or ships that wont sail/cant really be called a "relationship"

Aurora Leuchtfeuer + Léa Grey (human/human) - they got together pretty much right after the Personal Story was concluded and Aurora joined a guild called Legend's Rise where she met Léa. They stayed together until like... I wanna say Season 2? They're still on good terms though

Azura + Mirella Goldhauch (sylvari/norn) - gfs forever. Azura is the leader of Legend's Rise, Mirella is the... co leader? Technically she was promoted to leader but really. Whatever. Got together during HoT I think, are still together!

Naymarin + god how is her name spelled again Kasawary ???? (sylvari/sylvari) - met in the dream, stayed together 5 ever. Mine and my best friends characters. They kiss and smooch.

Temmie + Wrennih (+Iira) (asura/asura) - formerly part of the same krewe. Wren decided that his beloved gf is a little too violent and unethical and he left the Inquest and her. They're on good terms. The kind of good terms where you do want to burry yourself when you see your ex in public but you also don't have any beef with them

Dean Skygleam + Rian Starbloom (human/sylvari) - No idea what I was going for with these guys. They're underdeveloped so far and they do hate each other and also fuck nasty but like no idea what their story is to be honest.

Rhea Hauntingvoice + Junko Haloglow (charr/human) - Better known as HolyHaunt, a emo music duo. Rhea is gay in love with Junko. Junko is really busy playing bass and talking to the ghosts in their head.

Periya + Helena Desertsong (sylvari/norn) - THE BEST GIRLS EVER travel the world and the mists and kill the same enemies again and again to help commanders from different timelines. THEY KISS

Vinzz + Ambrose (asura/human) - Vinzz has a gay crush on Ambrose and Ambrose wants to leave the room right now. Kind of a joke ship but also weirdly cute.....

Song Byungjoon + Zia Promisebreaker (human/human) - underdeveloped but they will be gay at some point :) both inspired by Ateez songs so they have that going for eachother.

Corvid Pyrevoice + Bragi the Limited (asura/norn) - they are part of a boyband. and gay. Bragi belongs to @moonlit-grove :)

Rifthunter Elisa + Demonologist Demian (human/asura) - THE ULTIMATE PAIR MY FAVORUITES they hate eachother soooooo much i swear they haaaate eachother for reallarrartgagggfgffg

[euphausia]

🎶 💛!!!!!

^fav sng and fav dynamic^

asking for a singular favorite sng is kind of like pttng me through a meat grinder so i chose one frm each.. which was still rly hrd. i love the personer trcks :bandage p1 - saeko senseis theme p2is - kashihara (specifically the psp version) p2ep - the round sun (specifically the psx version) p3 - changing seasons reload p4 - pursuing my true self p5 - life will change

as for the fav dynamic. well sorry i cldnt choose. the p2is cast..... theyre childhood frnds its the sweetest. all of thm are close w each other separately. like eikichi and lisa constantly fighting but thn eikichi being the mst defensive of her... or tatsu and jun hvng personas based on their keepsakes frm each other... jun and eikichi going to the same school and jun cllng him michelle. all of thm looking up to maya and calling her big sis. and theyre even closer whn its all 5. whn 1 of thm vents all the others cry guhhh THEY LOVE EACH OTHER THEYRE BEST FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!! thm reuniting was so sweet and god thm hvng to prt again alkmoist made me die irl..doomed family. ughhhh p2is was sooo good at mkng thm actually feel like besties they make me feel ill. BUT ALSO.. yeah SEES persona 3. they wrnt close at frst and some of thm had beef w each other. like yukari and mitsuru or junpei and the protag for example. but they grw closer throughout the story and once again it jst seemed so real. comparing their dynamics at the strt vs at the end is jst crazy theyre so protective of each other they get each other theyre closer thn family i cnt typoe any mor ecuz im gttng dizzy jst thnkng abt it. the scene of thm all crying whn the protag comes bck after sealing nyx????? so good. and once againtheyre close separately too jfybtghjnmksdzdsbdwim gona thrw up I LOVE THEM HANGING OUT OFF SCREEN AND HAVING HISTORY INDEPENDENT OF THE PROTAGONIST!!!! AND I LOVE THEM STUDYIGN TOGETHER AND GOING ON WALKS AND TALKING ABOUT DUMB HIGH SCHOOL SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tradetobest]

dee's march 2024 fic recs!!

once again, i am late!! BUT ... its finals season so... also i guess i did less reading this month rip but,.... READ THESE

(FIC ROULETTE 1 2 3 4 5)

rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints by anonymous

pairing: jack eichel/connor mcdavid rating: E words: 32k summary: For all the draft hype and semi-annual questions about it, that’s all there ever was between him and Eichel. No friendship, no rivalry, just a one-minute maybe in a crowded hotel room on a team that was never as relevant as Connor wanted it to be. Even if Eichel had meant anything at all by it at the time, he’s surely forgotten about it by now. **** Jack Eichel is traded to the Pacific Division and Connor McDavid is being super normal about it

OUGHHHH..... id been subscribed to this fic SINCE august 2023 and WORTH THE FUCKING WAIT LET ME TELL U!!!! literally perfect mceichel. yes.... yes go over to his house with a flamingo..... yes "does he want me to show up..... idekk" and then the friend is like "yeah hes been fucking insane obsessed w you this whole time thank gawd yr here bro" OUGH..... theyre perfect to me

scar tissue by anonymous

pairing: tyler seguin/jamie benn rating: T words: 12k summary: Jamie still remembers when they were practically living out of each other’s pockets, the memory twinging like a muscle he hasn’t used in a long time but that his body hasn’t forgotten. It was probably inevitable that they’d see less of each other once Jamie formally requested that they no longer go into the field together but it still hits him sometimes. The tangible feeling of loss despite it having been his own decision in the end. Tyler didn’t speak to him for a month after he found out. 

SPIES!!! SPIES SPIES SPIES!!! you know i am ALWAYS down for a bennguin fic and OUGH this one was SO fun..... i LOVE "trying to protect you by letting you go" and then it SPIRALS. sooooo good. twirls hair.

Hello, You've Reached Mr. Handyman by crookedsilence

pairing: jack eichel/connor mcdavid rating: T words: 5k summary: His first thought is that this has to be a prank. Because, despite the distressed clothes and faded red toolbox, there is no way this guy is a legitimate handyman.

OUGH...... OUHHHH.... CONNOR MCDAVID YOU ARE SO .... TO ME..... cradles this fic's connor in my hands.... you do not know how to fix a cabinet...... idiots to lovers at its FINEST i love it so muhc

who can grow me by thekookster

pairing: brady tkachuck & matthew tkachuck rating: T words: 6k summary: But Brady had laughed like it was a joke, and then Brady’d said, no you’re not. C’mon, you’ve never been like that, and then Brady’d gotten upset and said but wouldn’t it be easier if— And then Brady hadn’t talked to him for five months. — After Matthew loses in the Stanley Cup Final, Brady takes him to a cabin for a weekend. They have a lot they’re not talking about.

READ THIS FIC. OHH MY GOD.... this one went DIRECTLY into my recs such a great exploration of family dynamics and like. If Coming Out Goes Badly. when i recced this to an irl they went "brady wouldnt say that" and i thought it was funny but this fic is so worth the He Wouldn't Fucking Say That.... OUGH...... WHO CAN GROW ME A NEW BROTHER................ what if i sobbed

See This Through by impertinence

pairing: sidney crosby/evgeni malkin rating: E words: 32k summary: Sidney's drunk when he orders a Russian bride. He doesn't expect anyone to show up - and he definitely doesn't expect that person to be an awkward-looking guy who barely speaks English.

MAIL ORDER BRIDE FIC......................... OUGHH...... op..... op you know exactly what i want in life fr.... please read this yall it slays

[psychicbergara]

A few days ago I visited a friend I haven’t seen in a while. We used to watch Buzzfeed Unsolved together and both loved the show. But apparently he hasen’t watched any Watcher content, so I showed him a few videos. He liked the Watcher shows for their quality and the effort that went into making the content. However he said he won’t continue watching Watcher videos in the future. One reason for this decision was a certain observation he made. My friends favorite always was Shane and while watching Watcher videos he was quite surprised, because in his opinion Shane has changed. He even said, that Shane seems fake in some of the videos, like he is acting/ performing more than in the old Unsolved days.

I was very astonished by his claim. I kinda get where he is coming from.??? But tbh I’m just sad that Watcher can’t become what Unsolved was for us.😔 Anyway I think I just needed to vent.

im sorry anon but i literally cannot disagree with you more fkdhdjdh and i dont mean that in a harsh way because i can understand where you’re coming from and it’s sad that unsolved is over and things arent quite the same— i get that

but to say that shane is fake and/or performative in watcher videos simply isnt true. other than puppet history videos where he quite literally has to perform/act, he isnt being fake like at all. they do mention in videos that ryan and shane ramp their personalities up by like x1000 so it can be entertaining, but that’s not fake, it’s just them doing the most and theyre still acting like themselves.

and obviously i dont know shane personally so i cant make the most definitive statement, but him being different than he was at the beginning of unsolved is just him changing as a person. i do believe he grew to become a lot softer than he was at the start of unsolved and/or he’s just revealing that part of his personality more.

his relationship with ryan also changed, they understand each other more, he likes that ryan believes in ghosts and they play less into that antagonistic dynamic they had in earlier seasons of unsolved. in weird wonderful world, tourist trapped, puppet history, top 5 beatdown, etc, they still have a competitive dynamic but shane has said a lot lately that he doesn’t like to argue with ryan. and so he doesnt do it as often. their banter is still there obviously but you can tell it’s with a lot more care. and shane seems to be typically a chill and calm person and you see that a looot more in watcher videos versus his chaotic nature in unsolved. he’s also a pretty private person and he likes to keep some things to himself.

and with watcher not being the same as unsolved— yes unsolved will always have a place in our hearts and it truly gave us the best, funniest moments, but watcher isnt meant to be the same!! it’s something new and exciting and fun and their shows are creative and amazing and hell, ghost files isnt even here yet. the boys are doing something new with it and i hope you‘ll watch it!! obviously our tendency is gonna be comparing it to unsolved, but we’re giving it a chance and i wholeheartedly believe it‘s gonna be so much better under ryan’s creative control.

so this turned into a long essay im sorry fkjskd i didnt mean to rant but what im getting at is that shane is being more himself in watcher videos than being fake or performative. idk if this long response will convince you otherwise but i hope it helps a little bit.

[jubberry]

ship tag game-

Rules: Answer with gifs then tag five people!

1. favorite ship?

Well these two has my heart rn.

2. first ship?

It really is about drinking your respect women juice for me. I really loved the dynamic between these two, and I loved how they played off with each other and helped each other grow.

3. first ship you were crazy for?

LOOK IM FUCKING OUTING MYSELF RN BUT YOUNG ME RLLY LOVED THESE CROSSOVER SHIPS

and hiccunzel was the first pairing (and this crossover community in general) where I really made friends and built our own community. It was nice because it was really just a very creative space where anything goes, and it was really cool to just edit and stuff and talk about hcs or potential stories with characters that have never met.

For this pairing, I just really love the whole nerdy friends to lovers relationship, and the trope of the dragon + princess in the tower. It was just a lot of fun.

4. newest ship?

I can't find any gifs of them cause idk the name of the monster, BUT WTF WAS GOING ON WITH THESE TWO.

5. Ship You Like But No One Else Does?

I SHIP THE MOST OBSCURE BULLSHIT PAIRINGS but i do think these two would be so cute. People mostly dont like them cause no one knows they exist. I honestly have more obscure pairings but they dont have gifs so I cant share (in fact...... this was my old gif... so technically.......... they still have barely any content)

6. ship you wish was endgame?

I honestly just wish Miranda was bi. Shep and Miranda has soo much amazing chemistry, I just love how they feel like theyre on the same level. I think Miranda is an interesting character in general, and contrast with her issue with perfection + Shep as a construct, if she is a person or not, would be a nice discussion. It would be an interesting dilemma to delve into, esp in a hurt and comfort, romantic relationship. I really think jennifer hale and miranda's va had soo much chemistry and theyre such a missed opportunity.

And I just want shepard to have an ice queen wife!!

7. Ship You Wish Had More Screen Time?

I wish That never happened in general and honestly made me stop watching cause I hated it so much. These two are sooo sweet and they deserved more time together.

8. Ship You Want To Have More Screen Time?

Hope i see more of these two being soft

9. Ship You Wish Was Canon?

LOOK you cant expect perfuma to make her a cactus crown and huntara wearing said crown and expect me not to love them. That is the cutest shit and these two had such a great episode together, it wouldve made a LOT of sense for them to be with each other at the end.

10. Ship You Want To Be Canon?

They really should have been a polycule and I am just gonna go off on the fact that thats exactly what happened at the end of the season.

[hinasho]

okay so final thoughts on the letter for the king now that i’ve finished it

POSITIVES:

the worldbuilding -> although there were a few moments when i got turned around (i had no idea who the red riders were working for until tiuri summed it up for the Other Kids in that village scene), it was overall very very well done. dagonaut and unauwen allied together to take over eviellan bc they thought they were better than them. and magic is a Thing except not everyone can use it and eviellans are the most sensitive to it. like once you understand that, You Got It. it was very easy to grasp.

the relationships between characters -> especially between the “danger knights”. it was nice seeing them argue, play, annoy, and support each other. those 5 without a doubt felt like a family (but i guess not that much since iona betrays them?? idk). and i like tiuri’s bond with, well, everyone: his mom, lavinia, ardanwen, and even arman at the end. i also shipped queen alianor and prince iridian before that relationship went down the drain (or maybe theres still hope since viridian’s out of the picture now). and viridian and jabroot’s dynamic was really well written too.

the outfits & set design & cinematography -> all the places genuinely felt like places and not stage sets. you can definitely tell money went into this. and the outfits, now when i say that, i dont mean “the outfits were gorgeous” like if i were complimenting the show Reign, i mean “the outfits were pleasantly consistent”. ill explain. in a lot of other “historical” pieces, it’s obvious the costumes are modern. in Vikings, i remember a scene where the main character is straight up wearing smthg i’d wear today. and in The Great, one of the guys is jogging while just wearing an exercise hoodie you could probably pick up from the mall right now. so i was pleasantly surprised that all of the outfits in TLFTK looked medieval, including their pajamas. and as for the cinematography, there were a LOT of beautiful and aesthetically pleasing shots. they were very pretty :)

the different storylines/subplots -> although delivering the letter & the dark vs light fight were the main plots, there were TONS of smaller but just as interesting storylines going on! i love love loved!!! that each character got their own individual arcs. tiuri, viridian, and lavinia aside: iona is an orphan with trust and family issues, asshole arman had to choose between his father and his friends, jussipo & foldo’s parents were in danger of being killed, alianor was in love and fully prepared to marry iridian until the twist came that she was instead betrothed to viridian, iridian went through the cain effect hates his own brother, tiuri’s mother may possibly be a shaman/have magic powers, and etc. everyone has their own backstory and/or development, it was great to see!!!!

the worldbuilding pt 2 -> i know i already mentioned it but it absolutely deserves a second shoutout. i felt fully immersed in the world and it genuinely felt like the characters were traveling. like it didnt feel like we were just switching scenes, but that we were really following tiuri & lavinia as they moved from place to place. 

the magic -> its interesting! it seems very nature-based, with the mountains, voices in the trees, fire snakes, and etc. but there are still quite a few things we dont know, like why are eviellans more sensitive to it? are sentient/magical animals normal, or is ardanwen special? arman and queen alianor seemed in disbelief when encountering magical things, so is magic so scarce in dagonaut & unauwen that some people have never even seen it before and dont think it exists? the magic is definitely smthg i hope they expand on in the 2nd season.

viridian’s “im not the evil one” mindset -> villains that dont think theyre villains are some of my faves and i loved that he was one. when he and jabroot had that conversation where he said he was pretty sure tiuri/lavinia was the darkness and that he was the light?? GOLD! like this dude genuinely thought he was doing the right things. he wasnt just a cartoon, evil craving villain. i absolutely loved that.

NEGATIVES:

the last episode (L.E.) -> oh boy. oh boy boyboyoyboyboyoy. what the FUCK was all that??? i was so disappointed by so much its unbelievable. and even now as im typing this, i’m remembering even more things that upset me abt it. ill break it up further into bullet points:

L.E. -> why did they switch the hero at the end??? that was awful. writing wise, character wise, every kind of wise. the show convinced us this entire time that the protagonist of color was the one with the power, and then took that hope away just to give it to the white woman. and like someone else said, they literally sidelined her own storyline to do it too??? lavinia had her own things going on with finding her mother and helping her hometown get money. tiuri having to overcome his timidity and frailness and be The Hero literally fit perfectly, and yet :/ 

L.E. -> the gays that were very obviously written by hets. this ship was obviously thrown in last minute like pls... there was no build up to them whatsoever at all. if they truly wanted to have a lgbt character on the show, then they couldve been introduced much, much earlier. this was literally just for Woke Points. and even so!!! you know what relationship had so much potential and couldve flowed more smoothly to get together/be revealed to be together??? JABROOT AND VIRIDIAN!!!! the ingredients were all there! viridian was nonstop asking for jabroot in his first to middle scenes and then iona’s “viridian’s always talking to his friend” and jabroot begging viridian to stop bc he was afraid for the world and for him like come on!! but instead they pair together a couple with barely any romantic chemistry? sighhh anywaysss

L.E. -> bury your gays trope. kinda continuation from the point above, but its just so wild how they hurriedly added gays in the last episode just to kill one of them off literally 5 minutes later. its like they included them solely to fulfill the trope on a “how can we fuck this finale up even more?” bingo card. 

L.E. -> that ending fight???? LMAO im sorry like the cgi was definitely beautiful. no doubt about that. but oh my god was that the most anticlimactic finale duel i have ever seen in my life. it was literally lavinia & viridian just.... staring at each other. for like 5 minutes. and that was it??? their “battle” was just... bad. cgi was great! everything else about it = just bad. already talked about this but it really shouldve been tiuri who had the magic powers, and also? the darkness wasnt even that scary gotdamn. i think it wouldve resonated more, this “ohhh nooo the darkness D:” feeling if darkness!viridian idk seemed more menacing. all he did was fog up a small room. the people in the town probably had no idea any of that was happening bc.... well nothing really happened. it was still sunshine & rainbows outside. all that build up just for him to be “defeated” (or not, we all saw the birds) by a Look im screaming like, thats hilarious.

okay thats it for my issues with the last episode. moving on to more general stuff:

soooo when are dagonaut and unauwen gonna be seen as the bad guys? i was waiting for there to come a point when tiuri and co. would be like “omg wait... its kinda fucked up these places are conquering this other place. maybe... theyre the ones that actually need help?” but it??? never came???? i dont understand. dagonaut & unauwen both are straight up colonizing eviellan. like everyone was perfectly fine with viridian destroying towns and massacring entire peoples, but only saw him as bad when he came into their own castle and turned into the literal embodiment of darkness. now, this COULD have been portrayed to show their hypocrisy and unfairness. that wouldve been fine if it was purposely written like that. but it wasnt and nobody really cared about eviellan or their people at all. even tiuri, who’s personality is all about being kind & considerate, never expressed any concern over his homeland being literally butchered.

viridian was... he didnt really do much. its weird and hard to explain. he was the main one terrorizing places and then became the darkness and etc etc. but in the middle of all that, most of his scenes were just nothing? all he did was brood and be edgy. we rarely even saw him plan or leave his tent. like 90% of his scenes can be summarized as him just going “man this place sucks siri play mcr while i play the knife game with my hand” and thats it. we barely saw him do things. like im not saying the white boy colonizer shouldve gotten more screentime, but as a character the scenes he did get felt lackluster. especially since he was supposed to be “the big bad”. 

so yeah those were most of my thoughts on it. there were a LOTT of things i think the show couldve written better (almost all, if not all, of the dark skin black characters with speaking roles were violently killed??? and really. why does no one in this show give one hoot about the eviellan victims of colonization?!?!). but i also really did enjoy a lot of the show too. despite the show’s flaws I’d still recommend it to people and I do plan to watch the next season whenever it gets released. i enjoyed the majority of it and think it has tons of potential

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tell us about the roller derby AU!! <3

(tysm anon bc this got me to get my ass in gear abt actually writing it all down fdskl;fjla ALSO shout out to zom for leaving a reply <3 ty both omg)

OKAY, first things first. This started bc I was thinking abt the Sirens doing Derby together (OBVIOUSLY Harleys idea) BUT 3 players isn’t enough for a team (you need 3 blockers, a pivot and a jammer afterall) so this team HINGES on the fact that GCS had that brief team-up with Talia and Zatanna and the pure Chaos of them permanently joining the sirens in the mainverse is something I want to explore sometime in the future but ANYWAYS they also need a team to play against and I’m Nothing if not Consistent so OFC this is Sirens vs Birds

cue Same Age-Range College Setting, Roller Derby Focus AU. Everyone’s attending Uni at Gotham State and yes I have majors in mind too, for the Sirens we got undergrads Harley: Psych, Ivy: Botany, Selina: Art History, Talia: Anthropology, Zatanna: Theater. For the Birds, (grad student she’s fast-tracking) Babs: library science, (undergrads) Dinah: Music, Helena: Undeclared, Zinda: doesn’t actually Go Here lmao

now u might be saying “wait a min randy, that’s only four birds. DIDNT u JUST say u need 5 players for a team?” And yes. Yes I did. The Birds is actually a BIGGER team than the Sirens and includes anyone who has ever been on the BoP team ever. They’re all here! And there’s a lot of them that rotate in and out of the roster but for the sake of simplicity we’ll focus on those four as Main members.

So let’s talk positions, play style & other stuff!

so Harley is the Jammer, don’t fix what isn’t broken. I like the idea of Talia being the Pivot bc ofc she’d want to be in charge. Which leaves Ivy, Selina & Zee as the blockers

 YES Selina plays damn near as dirty as Harley does lmao. In fact if we rank them by how often they play Renegade vs Regulation, you’ve got, Harley, Selina, Talia, Ivy (all at varying degrees of being FAR at the renegade-end of the spectrum) and Zee is more like just Right of center in favor of Regulation (but not above elbowing an opponent or ‘accidentally’ tripping them up if they’re REALLY close to winning) 

Derby names MOSTLY follow their costumed personas, like Poison Ivy and Catwoman, but then there’s also Gnarley Quinn (currently taking suggestions for Zee n Talia tho bc... well they DONT have names other than their own really lmao)

For the Birds, Zinda is the Jammer, Dinah is the pivot, Helena is a blocker, Babs is actually the team manager & former pivot. Harley gave her a BAD injury during an end-of-season bout and kicks off the rivalry btwn the teams at the start of the plot. (Other birds in the rotation play blockers and jammers as needed. Helena will step up as pivot if Dinah can’t make a bout)

All the Birds PRACTICE regulation derby but....  well, when you put on your skates and the ref blows the whistle, what happens next can’t be helped (but esp after babs’ injury if its a Sirens vs Birds bout they’re out for BLOOD)

Yes their derby names are the same as their hero names, and yes ppl still call Babs Oracle even tho she doesn’t put on the skates as much even after her knee heals

Outfits and Skates:

okay, so OBVSLY zee & dinah are still VERY much the Fishnet Queens™, but i can totally see Harley, Selina & Zinda joining them. can’t have derby w/o SOME ppl wearing fishnets after all fjldka;s

also i know that derby’s sometimes a bit more butch and some ppl take issue with Zinda’s miniskirt but listen i am GAY and a SUCKER for vintage inspired looks and really? skirts and skates go hand in hand BEAUTIFULLY. the skirt STAYS for zinda

actually im a sucker for bombshells!Ivy’s dresses too, i know the big fandom push has been towards making her more butch but LISTEN.

wait, do i actually just want to see Bombshells on skates is that what all this is about. im gonna scre-

everyone else’s looks im still trying to figure out in my own brain but tbh, any artists out there who feel like doing their own spin on superhero inspired looks for these guys im *eyes emojis* would LOVE to see that actually would love to see that A LOT

imagine everyone color-coding their wheels, though, omg i need that

outside of derby i think Harley & Dinah would be rlly into jam/rhythm skating, Zee, Selina & Talia would like artistic skating, and Helena & Zinda would be into speed skating. Ivy and Babs like supporting their friends & esp their gfs but actually they’re trying rlly hard not to show them up bc theyre both pretty good at jam/rhythm themselves fjdkls

Now for the Extra Relationship Stuff:

Obvsly almost all of the sirens have dated each other at some point. Whether in the past or over the course of going to uni together. Cue even More Drama when Talia and Selina break up and Both start pursuing soon-to-be-drop-out Bruce (the dropping out is unrelated to the drama itself but I just think it’s funny if even in an AU setting Bruce drops out of college aksjak)

also listen ever since i read those GCS issues with Talia and Zee I’ve NEEDED to see Selina/Talia/Zee so so so badly. its my AU and its happening some fucking how i’ll make it work shut uppppp

Also I’m gonna throw in some real slowburn HarlIvy bc once again it’s MY AU AND I DO WHAT I WANT.

Yes Dinah and Zee become star-crossed/rival-to-lovers in this. Havent actually decided which way I wanna go bc starcrossed is Fun, but rivals gives me DRAMA and with them both being diff arts majors could Add to that aksj

the Birds marginally have their dynamics together better than the Sirens, but every so often there’s some communication issues bc yes, we need all the Drama in this!!! I demand it!!!

So yeah, if/when I ever plot this out, it would be something with equal focus on changing relationship and team dynamics, and then focus on how well each of the teams are doing leading up to the Big Bout where the Birds are out to Avenge Oracle. And do they succeed? I guess you’d have to read to find out lmao

Coming to a fanfic site near you...... eventually.......

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im distracting myself from the impending doom of a six month hiatus and everything that... happened in MAG160 by thinking about all the Wonderful possibilities for jonmartin dynamics post-159 because I’m a sucker for pining and minor miscommunications and dumb fanfic tropes and I’m dragging all of you along on this ride with me!

1) They’re Both Just Chill: there’s no miscommunications, no misunderstandings. despite what peter said about them not knowing each other super well (and maybe he raised some valid points, despite being an asshole) they DO know each other well enough and had a deep enough connection during the look at me/ i see you, jon scene that they both just (for lack of a better word) Know. they look into each other’s eyes in the middle of the Lonely and they see the love there, and the hurt and the pain and the anger and everything, but they do see the love. and they recognize that, oh, we’ve been so dumb this entire time. and there’s no big Talk, no awkward stumbling around the question, they just move forward from jon and martin to jon-and-martin because they’ve wasted enough time already, haven’t they? they can’t afford to waste any more time at this point, and hey. they kind of have bigger problems going on, right?

2) I Really Loved You, You Know: ok so this one i’ve seen in quite a few fanfics and speculative posts about this one, and jon misconstruing how martin uses the past tense when talking to him in the Lonely, and can i just say....... it’s very good. you have jon, who’s been desperately trying to reconnect with people, especially martin, this entire season, who dives headfirst into the Lonely after him, and maybe he heard martin’s tape with elias from the end of s3, maybe he knows about martin’s feelings for him, maybe he at least suspects, and maybe he doesn’t; but the point of the matter is that he goes into the Lonely after martin because jon’s in love with him and i think we can mostly all agree that at least by MAG159 (and we can argue about WHEN he realizes it, later) jon is aware of his own feelings for martin. but he follows the man he loves, and he finds him, and he’s begging him to follow him out of the lonely, to come with him, and martin tells him that he loved him. really loved him. loved him, as in past tense. which, like, if you think about it? that’s SO heartbreaking. but jon keeps after him ANYWAY, and he breaks martin out of the Lonely’s grasp and they walk out side by side and then you’re left with jon, who is terrified on SO many different levels, and thinks that he failed, again. that he was too late with martin, too late to be his friend, too late to save him from Peter, and too late to love him, and he saved him, he did it, but it’s still heartbreaking, right? and juxtapose that with martin, who’s just been literally pulled out of his own loneliness by the man he’s been in love with for three years, and he told him he LOVED him and jon Didn’t Respond. and like? all the hurt and the pining and the trying to take care of each other despite everything and despite your own hurt that can happen there? SUPER good

3) Clueless Jon Doesn’t Know He Has A Boyfriend: this one kind of crosses over with #2 but it’s a little lighter and a little more fun. essentially you have martin, who says he loves jon and assumes jon heard his tape with elias where he outed martin entirely and sees jon come into the lonely to save him and hugs jon while crying when he comes to his senses and walks out of the lonely hand in hand with jon and thinks, quite reasonably, that ok, they’re dating now. and you have martin “caretaker” blackwood who’s worrying over jon and taking care of him and letting jon take care of him, and making him eat and they do all this vaguely date-y stuff because the world is kind of maybe ending, but hey! martin’s in love and hes going to enjoy it goddamnit. but then one day our beloved archivist, jon “emotionally obtuse” sims, has nearly a breakdown and he starts rambling on about how he’s in love with martin and he’s sorry and he wants there to be something between them and how he doesn’t want to change anything and this is terrible timing and he doesn’t even Know if martin feels the same way but he needed to get this off his chest etc etc etc and martin’s just like “i thought. i thought we were ALREADY dating.” which is.... hysterical if you ask me

4) Jonathan “Fuck The Lonely” Sims: kind of the opposite of the last two, in which jon is LESS of a moron than anyone expected! jon “the archivist” sims actually... thinks! he listens to the tape of elias and martin from MAG118 and reevaluates every interaction he ever had w martin after he wakes up from his coma and realizes that martin’s in love with him, and not only that, but HE’S in love with MARTIN, but has no way of communicating that to him until 154 and that whole conversation is just jon trying (and failing) to say “i love you. i love you and i know you love me and lets just say fuck this place and go. please lets just go the two of us, say you’ll come with me. i love you.” and martin. doesn’t understand. but then 159 happens and jon follows and they have That Moment and jon thinks that Finally they’re on the same page and meanwhile you have martin, who’s PEAK in his pining time, fresh out of a good year of self isolation and pure loneliness and needs a while to pull away from Forsaken and thinks that he’s alone in his pining after jon, because jon never said anything about the tape with elias, or martin saying he loved him in the lonely, and is completely clueless to the fact that jon thinks theyre straight up dating and are just taking it Slow. and then one day jon is like “hey ready for our date later” (they had dinner plans or smth but this is the first time he outrightly calls it a Date) or he kisses martin briefly on the forehead or cheek or smth and martin is like “WHAT IS GOING ON” and jon is just. baffled cause he’s not used to being the oblivious one in the relationship

5) Just Full On Pining Hours: theres some crossover here with both #2 and #4, but specifically this one is where BOTH jon and martin are full on in love and are idiots and think that the other person Doesn’t Love Them Back :( possibly featuring: jon focusing on the past tense of “i really lovED you, you know,” martin comparing jon going into the lonely to save him to jon going into the buried to save daisy/ cutting the bullet out of her leg to save melanie from the slaughter, jon being dumb and thinking all the statements he’s heard about martin’s “feelings” are elaborations/inaccurate/only in the past/etc, martin being so stuck in the lonely he pulls away from jon on instinct, jon caught up on what peter said about them not really knowing each other and MAD second guessing himself and questioning what his feelings for martin are really based on, both martin and jon throwing themselves MAJOR pity parties about falling to the power of the eye/the lonely respectively, jon going into “im a monster and im the worst and ive lost my humanity” mode and thinking he’s not Worthy of being with martin in the first place, martin being haunted by his time with peter and the lonely and keep falling back into the habit of pushing people (jon) away “for their own good,” etc etc etc etc! just a lot of sad pining hours bc these guys have been through a LOT and it’s hard to just drop straight into a healthy relationship (or Any relationship) when there’s so much baggage and history there in between

6) Run Away With Me, by Carly Rae Jepsen: I said what I said. i want them to be happy and so what if they run away and blind themselves and leave the archives and live in some house in another continent and never think about any of the entities again? i get to make the rules, its my fantasy au world and jonny can’t do anything to hurt them here

[zuzuslastbraincell]

Katara!

KATARA KATARA KATARA

why I like them

oh god where do i even start. katara just contains so many multitudes - she's sweet and feminine and caring and attentive but she's never reduced to just that, she's never just 'the girl', she's also allowed to get mad, to be petty, to laugh at her brother, to be headstrong and stubborn, to express vulnerability, to cry and to laugh, to make ridiculous facial expressions and *be* very expressive. she's dealing with a lot of trauma not simply from the loss of her mother but that loss represents also how her tribe have been decimated by the fire nation, how she's the last waterbender, how all this pressure exists on her shoulders (but also pride, but also determination, to bring it back) and that is expressed subtly throughout the series with the same depth and love that male characters are afforded with regard to their respective traumatic experiences. and despite all this she never tries to stop making the world good? She's always pushing for change, she's always wanting to make things better, she's relentless and doesn't give up when it comes to her vision for a better world... she has such a big heart. and that coexists with a deep anger in her, and deep hurt. Not to make an ocean metaphor so early on but she's as deadly and deep as the ocean but she chooses to be kind and warm and that's so powerful.

why i don't

honnestly while katara's instincts to mother people are a sad symptom of how she was forced to grow up to soon and automaically asigns herself a role of emotional responsibility she has mixed feelings about, i know that if katara tried to mother me, i would be annoyed. but that sounds more like a me problem.

favourite episode

oh it's either the episode where she beats the fucking shit out of pakku or it's the southern raiders. the first one because it's so gratifying to see how she's grown and developed as a bender and really come into her own. the second because... god i love how *messy* the southern raiders is, and it really taps into what i love about katara - she's flawed, she runs off on an ill-thought out revenge mission with zuko, she's got a great capability for darkness as she quite seriously considers murdering a man she has every right to loathe and to kill - but she chooses against it, in the end. it would not be right for her, if not him. she chooses what's right for her in the end.

favourite season

I'm gonna be a wee bit controversial and say book 1 had the best conception of katara's arc from student to master and really saw her grow and flourish, from someone yelling at her brother' oafish prejudice to a real master, that really solidified her as an idealist and presented that as the strength that is, that showed her struggling with petty jealousy of aang's progress and had her stumble in ways that made her character comeplling and interesting - like what an introduction to her character! book 2 had some fantastic moments but i can't think of anything particularly remarkable about hee character arc - largely because it tied into aang's romantic arc i think at this point. book 3 had some absolutely fantastic moments (scam queens katara and toph!! painted lady!! southern raiders!! the final agni kai) that really shone but also book 3 lays a lot of groundwork for fanon i hate (e.g. katara as the mom friend - wish that headcanon would die tbh)

favourite line

fuck there's a lot of good ones but my underrated fave is when sokka says he's kissed a girl before but she's never met her and katara says 'Who? Gran-gran? I've met gran-gran' and it's bruuutaaall

but my favourite serious line is 'I will never ever give up on people who need me'. powerful.

favourite outfit

water tribe anything!! and i actually think her book one/book two braids are her best hair. underrated katara hair. personally she looks just adorable in her parka in the flashback to when she was like. eight.

OTP

katara/personal fulfilment

katara/happiness

katara/fulfilling her goals and dreams

katara/loving minor background character who is never named

there's some ships i like in AU situations - yuetara is actually one i lov, especially with waterbender yue, i just love the whole sea/moon thing as well as katara and yue rebelling in loud/quiet ways, being girlfriends who refuse to have their lives defined by the expectations of older men, who have a great sense of duty towards their nations and won’t let gendered expectations stop them.

and most of you know i like the messy drama of katara/azula in a lighter AU situation where they're like, school or academic rivals, and the legacy of imperialism isn’t quite so personal (and azula makes better choices, obviously), but it’s not as much as i “ship” them as i just find the potential dynamic interesting, they’re both driven by a sense of duty for their home, it’s just that means *very* different things depending if you’re SWT or FN.

none of them are OTPs though - they’re more just fun thought experiments

brotp

katara & sokka - absolutely love their sibling dynamic its amazing. both have been impacted negatively by the shit in their lives and are not always dealing with it in functional ways but theyre there for each other, through thick and thin, always have each other's backs, they roast each other and bicker and sometimes make stupid decisions and sometimes lash out but at the end of the day their love pulls through, they’re able to work past those conflicts.

katara & aang - honestly while i feel kataang was just so poorly executed in the show (listen guys I just can’t after ember island players, i know that was a bad episode, but i can’t) & i cant imagine katara wanting to leave the south pole after the war for long spells (it would have to be long distance love, lots of profound and heartfelt letters and occasional visits, if anything, but i dont know if that’s what katara wants or needs? so maybe it wouldn’t pan out?), but regardless, i really do think these two had a life-changing friendship where each really represented hope for each other, that's at the core of it, they both truly believe in each other, and inspired each other. katara & aang good.

a headcanon

chief katara anyone?? chief katara?!?! 

oh oh OH i also think that katara, while primarily a combat bender during the war, actually takes to healing a lot more after the show and gets proper healing training at some point with the help of a trained medical expert and maybe yugoda. tbh i feel like the show was a bit dismissive of healing as an ability - i feel like having that is *extremely* useful in any combat situation, you always have a medic on hand - but i understand why katara, who wanted to be recognised as powerful regardless of her gender, and wanted to hold herself in a fight alongside sokka & aang, pushed for combat waterbending training because that is what 'powerful' looks like to her in the moment. obviously katara is capable of incredible healing feats (see: saving aang) but i think given we see her as a healer in lok (not a decision i necessarily disagree with) would mean a shift in focus. i think katara actually comes to realise she likes healing a great deal, but really she excels in all aspects of waterbending and is the south’s most respected master who helped rejuvenate southern style waterbending  

unpopular opinion

the main reason people think katara is straight is because we see her have very few meaningful interactions with other girls outside of toph. ATLA as a show is a bit romance obsessed, and very heteronormative in that regard, and so interactions with minor characters almost always line up with a potential crush for sokka or katara, and later, zuko (suki, haru, jet, yue, song, jin....). we rarely see katara build friendships with other girls and it’s such a damn shame.

(anyway bi katara for life)

a wish

the version of the puppetmaster we saw was actually fire nation propaganda, i feel like katara would have felt deep compassion for a prisoner of war and after maybe some clashes, would have agreed to help smuggle her out of the fire nation and secure passage home for hama, and tried to assure her that she still has a place there. the treatment of hama in that episode was awful (but also hama was written to be almost cartoonishly evil, very much an evil witch in her cottage in the spooky woods? like the whole horror movie / spooky story opening was such a big tell) and tbh i reject the thesis that we saw ‘katara’s dark potential’ in that episode completely, or that bloodbending as a power is inherently dark, or katara’s use of it to stop hama ‘corrupted’ her. I feel like katara might feel this way as a teenager perhaps but with time (she can be a little black and white at times), and especially with more training as a healer, i think she might realise that’s not the case, she’ll realise that she was right to try and oppose hama, her elder (she was lashing out rather than really trying to oppose the fire nation), and it wasn’t a betrayal of her or her beliefs, but also her use of bloodbending wasn’t wrong or evil inherently at all? and maybe she’d find ways to use it for healing purposes? anyway my wish is that, i like the idea that they meet again, speak about their differences, reconcile a little / come to an understanding, and katara learns more from hama again

an oh-god-please-don't-ever-happen

anything where katara’s character is reduced to a comforter or a healing device for a man and his trauma. particularly zuko. (they don’t have that dynamic in canon thankfully, zuko would never, zuko respects her too much)

5 words to describe them:

idealistic, hard-working, powerful, headstrong, kind

my nickname for them:

chief. or comrade. :^)

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Okay now that I know I won’t be clogging people’s dashes buckle the fuck in my dude and I should stress that I literally would not be talking about this as much as I will be if I didn’t genuinely enjoy the show. I’m gonna go season by season and just Rant

S1 has the serpentine as the bbeg and like, as far as villains go they’re p lit. They’re early enough that they haven’t been done to hell, things are fresh, the characters and dynamics are being fleshed out, and all in all s1 is a pretty solid season. There’s some fuckery that gets brought up re: how the FUCK aging works and what the actual timeline of Ninjago is and how Wu and Garmadon fit into that timeline, fuckery that LITERALLY NEVER GETS RESOLVED IN A SATISFYING WAY BC ITS REVEALED IN A LATER SEASON (s8, dw we’ll get there lmao) THAT THE ONLY REASON THE FIRST SPINJITSU MASTER, WU, AND GARMADON LIVED AS LONG AS THEY DID IS CUZ THEYRE BASICALLY DEMIGODS AND ITS IMPLIED THAT LLOYD WILL ALSO LIVE FOR A LONG ASS TIME WHICH MEANS ONE DAY HES GONNA OUTLIVE ALL HIS FRIENDS AND EVERYONE HE EVER LOVED WHICH IS A FUN THING TO THINK ABOUT AT NIGHT But anyway I digress, s1 also coincidentally introduces Lloyd (he wasn’t in the pilot episodes that set up the rest of the series) and the existence of Evil Dad Garmadon.

S2 is where Garmadon starts acting a lot more Evil and a lot less Dad. He’s the main antagonist for that season, and I actually read somewhere that the show was originally slated to end after s2 which high key explains the fuckery of literally every single season after this lmaooooo. Much like s1, I really can’t find much to complain about, the first two seasons are pretty decent as far as I can remember

Season. Fucking. Three. Where the fuck do I start??? I hate season three for entirely personal reasons revolving around the STUPID GODDAMN ROMANCE WRITING. okay lemme back up and explain a thing first so, Jay is dating Nya and they’re fine, they’re going steady, aND THEN????? THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON INTRODUCES BULLSHIT LOVE TRIANGLE FUCKERY FOR ZERO GODDAMN REASON, BITCH I HATE LOVE TRIANGLES AND I HATE THEM EVEN MORE WHEN THEYRE DONE FOR NO GODDAMN REASON!!! AND THEN. AS IF THAT WERENT ENOUGH. THEY SHOEHORNED A ROBOT ROMANCE BETWEEN ZANE AND PIXAL AND I KNOW I RANTED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT WHEN I WAS ACTUALLY WATCHING BUT I DIDNT GO INTO ENOUGH DETAIL!!!! THEY MADE THE OTHER NINJA OOC IN ORDER TO PROP UP THEIR SHIP!!!!!! AND AT ONE POINT ZANE GOES “its like we were…made for each other” AND I HAD TO FUCUCJDHVE I HAD TO SCREAM INTO A PILLOW BRO, IM SO TIRED!!!! NO THE FUCK YOU WERENT!!!!!! YOU WERE MADE FOR YOU AND PIXAL WAS MADE FOR PIXAL AND IF YALLS WANNA BANG BOLTS THATS FINE BUT DONT IMPLY THAT EITHER OF YOU WERE MADE INCOMPLETE!!!! THATS AN INSULT TO YOUR MAKERS AND YOURSELVES, MOVE ON, PLEASE AND THANK YOU. anyway that season also killed Zane (for the first time, but not the last) (spoiler alert lmao) and like, not to be an emotional little shit but I did cry a bit at his funeral.

S4 is honestly one of my favorites, even though the romance crimes continue (the love triangle bullshit is continuing and honestly I maintain that Cole, Nya, and Jay should all have gotten together and in my personal canon they DID, and also Kai has a forced romance) the VILLAIN makes up for it imo. He’s campy!! He’s funny!! He’s a clown!! He’s serious enough that if he says “I’m gonna kill you” HE MEANS IT and that’s so fucking refreshing!!!! S4 is honestly 8/10 just for the villain alone, don’t like that it retconned the SHIT out of the elemental masters and how many different elements there are TO master but eh, it’s ninjago, shit is stupid.

S5 was…interesting? OH WAIT I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT S3 INTRODUCED A GARMADON WHO WAS A LOT LESS EVIL AND A LOT MORE DAD, HONESTLY I THOUGHT IT TOOK A LOT OF THE FLAVOR OUT BUT THATS JUST ME LMAOOO. anyway s5 killed Garmadon, and I was a little sad cuz I like him okay??? I just think he’s NEAT, he’s got big dad energy, he was teaching Lloyd some shit that just got DROPPED and literally was never brought up again which is honestly a theme in Ninjago. Ninjago drinking game: take a shot every time they introduce a plot point or ability and drop it at or before the end of the season. WHICH THEY ALSO DID IN S5 WITH A DIFFERENT POWER ACTUALLY, so all the ninja are masters of Spinjitsu right, well s5 introduced the concept of Airjitsu which only Spinjitsu masters can learn and it lets them FLY and they used that for seasons 5 and 6 and then they nEVER BROUGHT IT UP AGAIN EVEN THOUGH IT WOULDVE COME IN HANDY FOR S E V E R A L DIFFERENT SITUATIONS ACROSS THE SEASONS, ONE OF THEM WOULD BE FALLING TO THEIR DOOM AND MY ASS WOULD BE YELLING “YOU CAN FLY, DUMBASS” - anyway, they do that again later lmao it’s fine. But what’s low key NOT fine is they made Nya the WATER NINJA!!! Like I’m not mad she has powers, except I kinda am, she was doing just fine as Samurai X and honestly the only reason she has super special ninja powers is for plot reasons. Also Cole got turned into a ghost, but by s7 he’s????? No longer a ghost????????? And that’s NEVER addressed or reasoned away, so like. Cool lmao

S6 didn’t happen. Like, canonically, s6 ends with wish fuckery that undoes the entire season and none of the characters remember anything that happened except Jay and Nya because S6 is the season where they get back together so they remember all those events for???? Feelings reasons?????? Unclear, moving on. The actual bbeg for S6 was a djinn with a vaguely Spanish accent, and to this DAY I don’t know why they made him have a SPANISH accent. Djinn are Arabic, not Spanish!! They’re not central or South American, either!!!! Your villain design makes no sense, do better

S7 had MORE time fuckery, and retconned what happened to Kai and Nya’s parents and hmmmhmhmhmhmhm that makes me Upsetti Spaghetti :3 not just the retconning, but the fact that they LITERALLY brought them back oNLY TO NEVER MENTION THEM AGAIN!!!!!! LITERALLY!!!!!!!! Okay so at the VERY very beginning, like pilot episodes beginning, Kai talks about their dad like he died/left fairly recently, BUT s7 contradicts that and claims that both of their parents were essentially abducted when Kai and Nya were little kids, which makes me question what in the fresh fuck two little kids were doing for all those years alone. SETTING THAT ASIDE FOR A HOT SECOND, their parents were also apparently good friends of Wu’s and old war buddies (from the Serpentine wars, which is YET ANOTHER bit of the timeline that doesn’t quite add up but honestly I could make a whole other post about that shit). But if they were such good fucking friends, why didn’t Wu check in every now and again??? What the fuck was Wu doing that was so fucking important that he couldn’t have been assed to visit his friends ONCE in like TEN MOTHERFUCKING YEARS and realize “oh shit, they’re not here and there are two tiny children running around unsupervised…My Kids Now : )” LIKE????? WU YOU LOW KEY SHOULDA LOOKED OUT FOR YOUR FRIENDS’ KIDS BETTER, THEY COULDA DIED BRO!!! Uhhhh the time fuckery also results in Wu getting yeeted ahead in time a bit and the ninja gotta find him

Season. Eight. I have…mixed feelings about this one. The beginning absolutely SLAUGHTERED me, and not in a “this is so fucking funny” way. No, the beginning made me feel like I was being flayed alive with just about every episode because Ninjago was back on its forced romance bullshit and this time it was Lloyd’s turn on the chopping block. That hurt my soul cuz like, look at that mans color scheme, he’s CLEARLY alloaro, why are you forcing romance on my aro man, why would you hurt me like that, BUT ALSO BECAUSE HE AND THE GIRL HE WAS BEING SET UP WITH HAD A LITTLE HEART TO HEART REALLY EARLY ON AND IT WAS THE MOST QUEER CODED SHIT!!!! IT DEADASS READ AS A CONVERSATION BETWEEN AN OUT AND PROUD QUEER AND A CLOSETED QUEER AND THEY MADE!!! IT!!!!! STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! The only thing that kept me watching at first was wanting to find Wu, and then I started enjoying myself once Cole found a plot-relevant baby and had fatherhood thrust upon him. Everything went from “ehhhhh” to “holy shit this FUCKS” once it was revealed that Rumi (Lloyd’s love interest) wAS PLAYING HIM THE WHOLE TIME AND WAS EVIL AND HAD AN EVIL GIRLFRIEND!!!!!! LITERALLY IMPROVED EVERYTHING ABOUT THE SEASON FOR ME, I COULD EVEN FORGIVE THE WHOLE “let’s resurrect Garmadon, but as evil as possible” BULLSHIT!!!!!!

S9 is a continuation of s8, Garmadon is back and 1000% Evil, 10% Dad, but none of the Dad energies is directed at Lloyd - it’s all directed at Rumi, and honestly I could write a whole ass post on just RUMI cuz that’s honestly my DAUGHTER and I LOVE HER and I’m MAD SHE DIES AT THE END OF THIS SEASON!!!! SHE DESERVED THERAPY AND TO LIVE WITH HER GF AND MAYBE SOME CRIME. AS A TREAT. RUMI DESERVED BETTER AND LOW KEY IM GONNA WRITE A FIC ABOUT IT, BUT ANYWAY WHERE WAS I

Ah right, so s9 has the four major Ninja stuck in the original dimension with no way home, while Lloyd has no powers (cuz he almost died last season) and has to somehow lead a resistance against Garmadon (who has taken control of Ninjago City and is working on the rest of Ninjago). Actually, s9 is pretty cool. Like, the end of s8 and into s9 are low key my favorite episodes, and I kinda wanna rewatch them now -

S10 is a FUN one. Garmadon got got last season, but he didn’t DIE, so he’s in cold storage and now there’s Another Threat and he’s the only one who knows wtf they’re up against so they let him out and he works with them. The funny part is, he is still Very Much Evil and doesn’t quite Get emotions like he did when he was, uh, human lmao, sO HE WOKE UP EVERY DAY DURING THAT SEASON AND DECIDED TO CAUSE PROBLEMS ON PURPOSE. IT WAS THE FUNNIEST FUCKING SHIT. 1000000/10 MY FAVORITE GARMADON, he ended that season by literally fucking off into Ninjago and they never decided to track him down 😭😭😭😭😭and I’m so SAD about it dude

S11 has another Serpentine as the bbeg, though in the setup to that they retconned how the fucking Serpentine tribes and history work??? I think???? Also Wu was a good 150% angrier and generally Done with the ninja’s shit, which was honestly refreshing tho I’m not quite sure I liked what the refreshed view was, but whatever lmao. S11 also had the ninja get yeeted to the dimension farthest from Ninjago, and honestly - okay, so they didn’t all go at the same TIME, Zane left about a week or two before the others did but there was time dilation fuckery afoot which I’m not too mad about cuz low key it makes sense. What I AM mad about is that they didn’t play the angst up to its full POTENTIAL!!!!!! Zane was EVIL in the other dimension!!!! Okay so I’m Ninjago he was only gone for maybe a week or two, but DECADES had passed in the other one, and all that time Zane was alone and disconnected from everyone he knew and loved, with a staff that boosted his power while slowly corrupting him and Turning Him Evil to help him, and like???? The thought of Zane trying to find a way home, trying to get SOME sort of message back, while he has to use the staff more and more to help him survive the long, lonely decades, so that by the time his family DOES show up its too late??? BRO. B R O. THAT JUST HITS DIFFERENT, BUT NINJAGO DIDNT DO THAT!!! THEY MADE HIM EVIL DUE TO MEMORY WIPE!!!!!! MEMORY WIPE IS BABY SHIT COMPARED TO A LONG, SLOW CORRUPTION!!!!!!

S12 was alright. It went into Cole’s mom, touched on some of the adventures she had had, threatened another forced romance (this time on poor Cole, just leave my mans ALONE) but thankfully didn’t follow through this time, introduced cool new powers that honestly hasn’t been elaborated on since that’s the most recent season I think lmao

Anyway thanks for reading and letting me rant!!!! I have,,So Much More I could talk about, PLEASE ask me about Rumi, some of my headcanons re: Garmadon and Wu’s dynamic, the Serpentine, my top five times they butchered Kai’s character for Plot Reasons, or anything else I brought up here that you want me to elaborate on!!!