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[julietwiskey1]

What is your take in why Azula is as mistreated by the fandom and writers as she is? It's understandable to glorify your fave character like they do Zuko in fics and comics but why do they feel the need to bash on Azula?

It's kind of horrifying how passionate some people are about hating on a fictional 14 year old girl.

My personal theory is that Azula reminds people of parts of themselves they don't like so they subcounciously project their self loathing onto her- I found out that's why my sister disliked her.

I do think that you are onto something with your theory. It not hard to demonize what you dislike about yourself by hating a proxy. Though it would take a great deal of self awareness to recognize that.

My short and simple explanation is that the narrative hates Azula so the audience hates Azula. That’s really it for most people.

Throughout the cartoon she was always portrayed as a great danger to both Zuko and the gaang. The narrative goes out of its way to show Azula negatively as much as possible. And when it did start to humanize Azula towards the end it was too little too late.

The story also showed Azula as the more successful and preferred child over Zuko. And in the Fire family attention was a rare commodity, only one could get it. So unlike Katara and Sokka Katara’s success didn’t make Sokka less loved or accepted, and he was still able to shine. This does not hold true for Azula and Zuko. So Azula not being in her place is set up as cruel and mean to Zuko in a way that it shouldn’t. The story demonizes Azula for not being the subservient sister society expects of her.

This is how the writers wanted people to see Azula. And the fandom at large gets its cue from the writers and will mostly follow what they lay out.

Which I think is the major flaw in the writing of the show. Things between Azula and Zuko are shown as a zero sum game, as in both Azula and Zuko can’t share or succeed. So Azula’s success is always Zuko’s failure.

So the writers made it so only when Azula fails can Zuko succeed. Azula lost her friends and Zuko gained his. Azula lost her composure and Zuko found new balance in bending. Azula lost her crown and Zuko gained his. Ursa loved Zuko and Ozai loved Azula.

The narrative wants to prove Ozai right for some dumb reason.

People also like to bash on villainous characters as a kind of grandstanding. As if showing her punished, abused, and so forth is a sign that they know what’s good and bad. And that they are a believer in heavy handed justice to fictional characters because they themselves are good. After all good things should happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people, it’s what people want. After all who has heard of such things as mercy.

What concerns me more is why the writers would be so cruel towards her. After all they are the ones who really started the hate and why so many people do hate her. Part of it I think is sexism. While a younger sister can outshine her brother they still need to be caring and put fist their emotional well being.

Sorry for the ramble answer. But I think this is a rather complex question with more variables than I can cover.

[rish-you-were-here]

Happy pride

[8pxl]

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[marisatomay]

Kind of in awe at how very casually brutal a read this is

[anyataylorjoys]

seeing so many fellow creators' gifsets getting under 180 notes with an average reblog to like ratio of 1:3 is so disheartening. less and less people are putting out content cause it seems that no one cares anymore.

If you truly care about supporting creators at all, I encourage everyone to have a tracked tag in this economy whether you make content or not, you probably have mutuals who would love to share things with you and can't.

[paintinganangel]

Zendaya wearing custom Loewe, Challengers (2024)

[wine-dark-soup]

so much of the criticism towards dawntrail is straight up unhealthy and people would feel better by just cancelling their subscription for a few months.

Like, at some point i dont even want to see if your points are valid criticism or not, if you're out there, disgusted by the mere thought of logging in but feel like you have to anyway, and keep posting negative rants because you can't keep the game out of your mind by virtue of logging in everyday even if you don't want to, i think it'd be better to just stop playing altogether. I mean this in the most gentle way. Play another game or whatever else. Come back in a few patchs. Get the whole thing out of your mind. Let yourself process the story instead of ruminating on it. You'll be able to move on that way

[hajihiko]

Trainwreck in double speed

[artfucksmylife]

Here you go, more Falin hair chewing!

[eddiegettingshot]

sorry the whole eddie should choose buck thing is just so wack to me LMFAO like first buck got with taylor when eddie got shot and then buck said to eddie “she really sees me” and then buck told eddie “i kinda can’t stop thinking about him” after acting like a freak and people genuinely act like it’s eddie’s responsibility to pull some kind of meredith grey pick me choose me love me shit when he’s been right there for buck all along, including buck in his life in a way he does with nobody else, showing buck how much he wants and needs him around, saying the things he knows buck needs to hear. yeah i don’t think so lol. let buck rub a couple of brain cells together for once

[lizzibennet]

personally the appeal of friends to lovers to me is that i like the idea of a person realizing they’ve always been a little bit in love with that friend, but they needed something to make them aware of it, to point out that that nice, warm feeling that they love about that person isn’t just friendship and perhaps hasn’t been for a long time. i love the idea of “of course i love you, i always have, how stupid of me to not have seen it before.” in that sense, i don’t think it makes sense when people say colin just starts liking penelope in s3/episode 4. the whole point of building up a friendship into a romance is to portray that these characters have deep feelings for each other that may or may not be romantic but that end up melding into a romance in the end. he’s only just understood his feelings but he’s clearly felt them for a long time. the fact he doesn’t understand being a rake doesn’t emotionally fulfill him and processes that through part one is telling, to me, that he’s only now beginning to fully understand what he feels, not only towards pen but also towards himself, towards life in general. so again, i think it makes sense that things become clear to him now, that doesn’t mean they’re just starting to happen now. i think that read of him is really superficial tbh

[somewhereincairparavel]

I find it ironic that the fandom hates Jason for "having no personality" but Will solace was at his peak popularity in the fandom during the time BOO was out, that was before his personality was even properly established in TOA. Will's personality was 90% fanon before TOA was out, because the fandom cared enough to give him one even when Rick didn't establish it well up until later on.

But nobody cared enough to give Jason a fanon personality to make up for his canon absence, simply because they weren't interested and wrote him off the moment he was written as Percy's rival.

So if you put it that way, the majority of the fandom just hates Jason because he's Percy's equal. Which is why literally no one in the fandom wants jason to be loved or recognised, they just downplay him every chance they get, because he is seen as Percy's competitor and wants him to be bashed, so that Percy always has the spotlight, that's why the fandom always maintains the reputation of Jason's character as a "loser knockoff percy" and dont bother giving him a fanon one, Because they want jason's existence to be used as a punching bag to uplift Percy's achievements. That's what I take away from observing all the Jason slander lately.

The majority of the reasoning for his slander almost ALWAYS includes Percy in it, as far as I've seen.

There are many characters that many fandoms popularize and love even if they don't have proper personalities in canon or even when they are just characters in passing. And i don't see why jason is the only exception to that treatment

Saying that you hate Jason because you are salty that he's Percy's rival is basically like saying you hate him because he exists, which sounds ridiculous lol.

This is basically like a "if they wanted to, they would" type of situation, Jason is just unfortunate that he didn't get the fandom's love for anyone to give him any fun fanon personality at all

It's sad considering the possibility that Jason would've been so loved if he were just a mere side character, that way people wouldn't have hated him for "rivalling" Percy.

I guarantee you half the hate he got would've never existed in the first place if he were just some insignificant character in the series, because the fandom would've effortlessly shoehorned a personality of their own onto him and showered him with love instead of complaining about it.

Jason has LOTS of fanon potential, the fandom just don't want to utilise it :/

[ahollowgrave]

-- all saints' wake.

[bobby-rising]

If someone can’t see the genius in the Light ancient being an actual book worm, then idk what to tell them. Condolences for your lack of whimsy and joy. Couldn’t be me though.

[naivety]

So long as the political and economic system remains intact, voter enfranchisement, though perhaps resisted by overt white supremacists, is still welcomed so long as nothing about the overall political arrangement fundamentally changes. The facade of political equality can occur under violent occupation, but liberation cannot be found in the occupier’s ballot box. In the context of settler colonialism voting is the “civic duty” of maintaining our own oppression. It is intrinsically bound to a strategy of extinguishing our cultural identities and autonomy.

[...]

Since we cannot expect those selected to rule in this system to make decisions that benefit our lands and peoples, we have to do it ourselves. Direct action, or the unmediated expression of individual or collective desire, has always been the most effective means by which we change the conditions of our communities. What do we get out of voting that we cannot directly provide for ourselves and our people? What ways can we organize and make decisions that are in harmony with our diverse lifeways? What ways can the immense amount of material resources and energy focused on persuading people to vote be redirected into services and support that we actually need? What ways can we direct our energy, individually and collectively, into efforts that have immediate impact in our lives and the lives of those around us? This is not only a moral but a practical position and so we embrace our contradictions. We’re not rallying for a perfect prescription for “decolonization” or a multitude of Indigenous Nationalisms, but for a great undoing of the settler colonial project that comprises the United States of America so that we may restore healthy and just relations with Mother Earth and all her beings. Our tendency is towards autonomous anti-colonial struggles that intervene and attack the critical infrastructure that the U.S. and its institutions rest on. Interestingly enough, these are the areas of our homelands under greatest threat by resource colonialism. This is where the system is most prone to rupture, it’s the fragility of colonial power. Our enemies are only as powerful as the infrastructure that sustains them. The brutal result of forced assimilation is that we know our enemies better than they know themselves. What strategies and actions can we devise to make it impossible for this system to govern on stolen land? We aren’t advocating for a state-based solution, redwashed European politic, or some other colonial fantasy of “utopia.” In our rejection of the abstraction of settler colonialism, we don’t aim to seize colonial state power but to abolish it. We seek nothing but total liberation.

Voting Is Not Harm Reduction - An Indigenous Perspective

[treesinspace]

The Quinton Reviews video was actually the first time I ever heard of The Beverly Hillbillies, but Quinton's dad talks about it as if everyone should know it, like the Simpsons. My theory is that maybe it is because I didn't grow up in an english-speaking country, and I'm curious!

If you have no idea what youtube video I am talking about, I would still appreciate your vote! Just vote whether or not you are aware of the sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies"