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lightdancer1 · 9 months ago

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LOL LMAO at people who think hating on Iroh is actually describing the character:

The real Iroh was the Shoigu of the Fire Nation who happily conducted a genocidal war of aggression and was BFF with the genocidal Rough Rhinos and presumably the people who did rape, butcher, and burn in the Water Tribes. He pulled a Gaza/Mariupol on Ba Sing Se, and fundamentally is the kind of slimy cowardly hypocrite to be unwilling to face his own brother in a fight but perfectly happy to tell Zuko to put his rabid sister down when he, who has the power to stop the omnicidal maniac who wanted the entire world to burn did not see that as a sufficient problem.

The only reason he 'liberated' Ba Sing Se in methods right out of the Second Indochina War to a point you expected to see him squatting there saying "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" was butthurt that his niece did at 14 what he couldn't for 693 days with a huge-ass army.

Cartoon Iroh was also a perv who molested a woman, at a purely petty level, and given what people like him got up to in real life General-Prince Iroh, Dragon of the West, was probably much worse than that when his every whim was law.

The problem the canon has it tells you this man who spent 90% of his life as daddy's golden boy hatchetman putting nations to the sword changed when he spends the end of the First Season arranging for the murder of the Moon and never accepts his responsibility in that at multiple levels, and ultimately is again the same cowardly little fuck who demanded the next generation do what he was unwilling to do.

Mako dying was a tragedy and at a Watsonian level it means the fandom is blighted with Saint Iroh, who is so much less interesting than the actual character described here, because he's a bland boring magic grandpa who casually kicks 14 year olds off boats neck-first.

#iroh #iroh critical #yes I went there #we have multiple examples of real life large-scale sieges #that is what real war is #that is what Iroh spent his life doing for most of it #would you accept Erich von Manstein or Yermolov in polite company? No? Then you know how he'd be received in-universe #that Iroh is a fascinating character with multiple layers #the sweet uWu genocidal fuck who gets to demand other people do what he won't and is treated as a paragon #not so much #give the dragon of the west his fangs back

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infinitelystrangemachinex · 1 month ago

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The stewards of the old world are always keen to give you a glimpse of their might... According to legend, the ancients built specialized chambers to seal away false prophets.

The Arcane is waking up.

#arcane #melvik #mel medarda #mel arcane #viktor #viktor arcane #spoilers #arcane spoilers #arcane s2 #wake up friends - mel and viktor are doing that thing again #I was mentally out of commission after act 2 but after sitting and thinking about this? season 1 parallels were crazy. but this. is INSANE #by the way - this is nowhere near all of them. i did not include dialogue. this MIGHT be HALF of them. i hit image limit here #at this point i don't know whose fight is gonna be crazier. viktor and jayce's or viktor and mel's lolololol #i support mage on mage violence #okay real talk. why are mel and viktor explicitly paralleled more than basically any other characters #it's bc this is the story of the Arcane literally. they are piltover and zaun's only mages respectively. the Arcane is waking up etc.#the macro narrative is about different kinds of magic rising to power again in a place like piltover/zaun which is a refuge from mages #and it's about how they clash - or work together - because the history of the rune wars is repeating itself #also viktor was a false prophet and mel... may not be #it's because the Arcane speaks through them and the show is about what that means and the consequences

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oshamirs · 5 months ago

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Osha & Qimir + HANDS

#ITS ABOUT THE YEARNING #i cant believe this is real. not gonna lie. just being completely honest #*#oshamir #oshmir #osha x qimir #the acolyte #the acolyte spoilers #theacolyteedit #star wars #starwarsedit #osha aniseya #qimir #im gonna need like a couple business days to let the fact sink in that i basically got what ive always wanted. in star wars. in my star war

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stealingpotatoes · 25 days ago

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Just thinking about the fact that Kanan told Ezra his real name in Season 4 Episode 7, which means when Cal mentions the name Ezra's gonna be like WHAT!?

thats so funny bc it means cal's the one person who doesn't know about the double name thing