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[ganymedian]

[slashingdisneypasta]

Absolutely nothing has ever been or will ever be hotter than a Disney Villain. End post.

[firmgripplz]

just btw nothing has made me feel more validated or seen than this message

[gunsatthaphan]

There is just something so endearing about ABAAB and I don't know what it is like objectively I know that it is not very good and I can understand why people wouldn't like it but there is just something so charming about it I actually enjoy watching it every week.

it's time to admit that it's the kind of show that's so bad that you can't stop watching aka the unforgotten night effect jhfdsk

I could've dropped it but I wanted to see where it's going and I was hoping it would get better (it didn't). I have no explanation for why I'm still watching lmao, maybe it's because I got used to the characters or because I love TeeZo so much or because I need my GMMTV FriGay Fix lmao I don't know. don't ask.

I guess the positive thing is that looking at the 2023 lineup, it can only get better from here 😬

xxx

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Me: Hmmm I like this ship a lot, but I haven't decided if it's OTP-worthy yet.

Me: *Realizes there are literally zero fics on AO3 for them*

Me: ... Dust off the old typewriter, lads. I've got a ship to captain.

[mondaymelon]

I'm just letting you have Ur boys for now

And I was a lil busy with shtuff

🪷

society has collasped

i want to be a third grader again

[sheepie-self-ships]

WHY CANT I BE IN A NORMAL FANDOM THIS YEAR GRAAAAAAAAAAAA

[kradogsrats]

me, trying to explain what Chess: The Musical is about: okay imagine four people (yes Svetlana counts, shut up), each of them horribly traumatized in a different way, having extremely ill-advised, doomed relationships with each other while being helplessly ground through the uncaring machine of global politics between hostile superpowers

me, squinting at The Dragon Prince: wait

[kaen-ace-of-diamonds]

one of my literature professors once said, “When you hear Sanskrit, you are taken to the edge of the universe.”

related: I just watched RRR for the first time and now all of you need to find the biggest screen you can and watch it too if you haven’t yet because holy SHIT GO GO GO

[safyresky]

first flesh tongues now curved TOES????? bells hells are OUT OF CONTROL lmao

[redysetdare]

The Samadhi fire was the worst thing they could've done to Mei. I'm sorry she was already shoved to the side so often and now they give her something so overpowered that it could break literally any and every plot they have and u expect me to believe they won't just shove her to the side?

I mean they already had been shoving her to the side and then when we FINALLY got to see her fight and see how powerful she could be with her dragon powers (which had been hinted at SO MUCH) she is defeated with ease. She got the samadhi fire shoved on her and then immediately got benched and used as a fucking battery (which has its own issues with the fires inconsistency but i digress)

idk it's just... so frustrating how the show has had the chance over and over again to give Mei a great arc that could fit her character but in the end did something that feels close to a character assassination. I cannot see her playing a big part in any of the story now because the fire will either be "too strong" for her to use (which goes against the end of s3) or it will have to be significantly weakened (which also goes against everything they said about the fire in s3)

idk i just cant see why they thought it was ever a good idea to give Mei the samadhi fire because it adds nothing to her character and actively makes it worse as she will likely be even more sidelined than she already is.

[superellysan]

It has been almost a year and a half since I’ve seen Private Eye Requiem (I think) and I am still livid at myself that I saw all the discrepancies and didn’t get the twist until the paint-covered wristband came out.

[tardis--dreams]

I'm gonna forget to send that counselor that email tomorrow morning i can feel it

[sweetpastelponies]

i will never forgive what they did with the cutie mark crusaders

[nonhumen]

[tuiyla]

So I was reading some of your old asks and saw you rank Korrasami above Bubbline and Brittana, which intrigued me. While I'm glad that Korrasami helped to pave the way for lgbt rep in American children's media, I also thought that the LoK writers could have given them more scenes together in Books 3 and 4. As it is, despite their cultural impact, I thought their relationship was underdeveloped compared to Bubbline and Brittana :/ So could you please expand on why Korrasami had an edge over the latter two ships in your opinion? 🤔

Also I hope that Korrasami question doesn't upset you 🙇‍♀️ I just love Bubbline and Brittana so much that I wonder what I might have missed about Korrasami that made you rank them higher than two of my favorite ships ever djdjsk

Not upsetting no worries, I just need to disclaim before I get into the meat of it that, at the end of the day, it's personal preference. It's why I never ever actually try to convince anyone. It's just whatever you prefer. I know stuff I like is never gonna be everyone's tea and I'd hate for someone to constantly be trying to convince me that stuff I'm not into for whatever reason is the Best Thing Ever, Actually. You can be curious and that's cool and I appreciate the interest, just a preamble before we start.

These three ships are indeed easily my top 3 of all time. So far, anyway. I think that ask must be a year old now haha but it stays true. First, I think it's really hard to actually compare something like Brittana to Korrasami and Bubbline, as it's a different medium and entirely different circumstances. Even though the three do mostly overlap in terms of their show's time on air (2012-2014, 2010-2018, 2009-2015) it's just difficult to say, exactly, what Korrasami's "edge" is - just that personal preference, at the end of the day. Because all three ships were major in their own leagues, that league arguably being the same for LoK and Adventure Time. And I adore Bubbline, like, to a degree that I've long tried to encapsulate and you can see if you go back far enough on this blog. I'll use any opportunity to highlight that even they paved the way for Korrasami! And not just the other way around. Before there was the LoK finale or even Book 3, there was the Mathematical controversy and Sky Witch and all that. I actually often lament that media outlets are so ready to credit LoK and Steven Universe before they do Adventure Time and Bubbline because Bubbline only got to reap the benefits years later. Bubbline was a slow burn but make no mistake, they very much created their own fortune.

Anyway, you didn't ask about Bubbline. But all that's to say, I don't measure in terms of groundbreaking representation or legacy or any of that because even with the two Western animation entries it's hard to compare. I adore Brittana but they're third probably because I was a latecomer to Glee and wasn't there as it happened, I don't have that kind of connection with it. I do with Adventure Time and I do with LoK. Bubbline are just, wow, again it's hard to summarize in a post like this what they mean to me. And yet I'd still choose Korrasami as my number one any day.

I know this isn't the best answer I could give or maybe even a particularly good one, and certainly not tangible in any way. But you just had to be there. I don't know how I'd feel about Korrasami if I wasn't there for The Legend of Korra from literally the first image revealed, if I hadn't watched every single week. If I hadn't spent the second half of 2014 in this fandom, trying to figure out where they were going with this relationship. I don't presume to know how you watched the show, but I think it's already a world of difference to watch it after it had first premiered, knowing what the ending will be. Having that expectation. We had no expectations in 2014. I loved every single Korrasami interaction as they happened, felt Book 3 was SUCH a breath of fresh air and looked forward to the girlies bonding more every week. I didn't ship them, I was telling myself, because one did not ship a Sapphic pairing in a cartoon in 2014. I loved them, of course, but I just hoped we'd get as much as possible of their friendship.

Because they were very much established a strong friendship first. That's the entirety of Book 3 on a Korrasami level for me, establishing their strong bond after the love triangle stuff is over for good. They really said, "let's make up for the previous two seasons" and they did. No shade, genuinely, but I always find statements like "they could have had more scenes" funny coming from years later. As it was happening, the fandom did the maths, and forgive me I don't remember the exact numbers but Asami spends about 90% of her Book 3 screentime with Korra. That number is quite high from Korra's, the main character's pov too, over 50%. Book 4 is a different beast but once they're reunited, even the infamous filler episode takes care to put the two together. So I don't think it's about the lack of scenes, I think it's about the subtlety of how it had to be in 2014.

But see, even back then, even when we thought this was impossible to truly be we all thought it was walking that line between subtext queer people read into and something actually intentional. I mentioned I wasn't a shipper because I didn't dare be one. By the time Reunion happened in Book 4, I couldn't help it. I knew it wouldn't lead anywhere but I've always been a shipper more interested in fleshed-out dynamics than Word of God, anyway. So I started calling myself a Korrasami shipper from that point, hoping against hope that the two would end the series - well, not together. Because again, that just seemed impossible. But at least with a bond that's so undeniably deep. And I really think it was, and is, because the writers did have to put that work in and build bit by bit because they weren't allowed to explicitly articulate the kind of attraction the characters were feeling.

And then... December 19th, 2014. I'll never forget. That's the kind of media moment I could never. The following few days, the following months and years and the eventual legacy Korrasami has now. The milestone that now, with series like The Owl House really pales in comparison. And that's a good thing because it tells us how far we've come. But Korrasami will never not be revolutionary to me and their story will never not be breathtaking. Far beyond what it meant for representation, it's what that story of polar opposites and against the odd and balance was. What Avatar is all about, at its core. And, yes, even beyond all that, what it meant to me, personally. Now that couldn't possibly be summarized here.

Again, I adore Bubbline and am holding myself back lest I go feral talking about them. Say the word and a 2k-word essay will drop lol. But Korrasami had two crucial legs up over Bubbline and that's franchise and timing. Franchise, because the world of Avatar will always be my favourite. Love me some AT, but nothing will ever compare to my inner 10 year-old watching any Avatar project. And timing, well, I've lamented it in this very post. I wholeheartedly believe AT kicked off this golden age of Sapphic animation in 2011 but LoK ended its run in 2014. It led somewhere sooner. I don't like admitting this, but by the time Bubbline kissed in 2018, it was "fucking finally." That part is what it is. It's just one factor in all this.

I know I didn't talk about Korrasami much, I'd be happy to get into the nitty-gritty of the story more and why I think it's anything but underdeveloped. This is less of a personal preference thing though still subjective, but I think they're more well-developed than either Bubbline or particularly Brittana. But you asked for my reasons, and it's that je ne sais quoi of personal preference, at the end of the day. Nothing will ever mean to me what Korrasami did. (That said, maybe you'll be interested in this little project I did a while back that covers both Bubbline and Korrasami, as well as Catradora. At least it's some of my thoughts and analysis on these characters and couples.)