#the blue people one

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Okay, what kind of scene would have made avatar (the blue people one) better in your opinion?

There's a deleted scene where Grace talks about her school and what happened to it, and it's revealed that it was destroyed after some students torched a bulldozer. Among the casualties was Neytiri's older sister, Sylwanin, who was the one who was originally supposed to be their spiritual leader and Tsu'tey's fiance and unlike him and Neytiri they were actually in love. While the scene itself was deleted, it remains in the director's cut, so it is still canon.

And I was just thinking and it's like...that's it. That's the actual connection between Jake and Neytiri. Neither of them were supposed to be here, but their sibling died and now they're doing a job they never trained for with the future of the two species banking on them getting this right. Neytiri wouldn't be calm and all-knowing when she's teaching Jake these things, she's snappish and impatient, because she barely knows them herself. Wouldn’t they bond over their mutual uncertainty? Wouldn't she struggle with teaching lessons she's still trying to internalize after all she's been through? Wouldn't she and others wonder if she saw the signs right when she said that Eywa told her to help Jake? Wouldn't Tsu'tey be far more torn up over his fiance's death than the woman he barely knows getting with someone else? He was already doubting her in the finished film, but Tsu'tey would probably be the first to see Neytiri leading a soldier into their home and assume that she messed this up somehow. After all, she was never meant to be their spiritual leader. She was just the spare after the heir got killed.

Maybe she doubts herself and her ability to be the leader her sister was supposed to be. Maybe she hates herself for what happened to her home, if only she'd seen clearly, if only she'd gotten this right. Maybe she doubts Eywa, because why is this guy getting all her favor, while her sister and father die in front of her and her home burns to the ground? Maybe she hates herself for doubting Eywa, because she's meant to be better. She has to be better. She can't be a warrior anymore, she has to pray, she has to follow the signs.

Maybe it's not Jake who finally gets Eywa on her side. Maybe it's Neytiri, so used to being just the "spare", too warrior for her own good, finally getting Eywa's blessing to be who she is.

And maybe you could actually develop the obvious connection between these two and show her as a three-dimensional person with her own arc rather than just the "Chief's daughter" stereotype/plot device to enable a bland lead who gets together with her just cause. Just a suggestion.

[crowscadence]

There are two types of people. Those who enjoy Avatar, and those who hate it with a burning passion

[ominouspuff]

Fwoom (intimidatingly)

[heading-down-to-georgia]

Happy 20th anniversary Four Swords manga!!! Thank you so much for such an amazing story, and a wonderful community xxx

[aceissomunster]

discowing + jaybin ! press for quality

txtless + ref under the cut

ignore my horrible art please i drew this on ibis paint x with my finger and the soft felt tip pen brush. and my crappy penmanship.

[boccs]

I feel like tumblr should be bigger fans of The Blues Brothers. It's a movie that has everything we value as a community. Attention and respect to pioneering black musicians, open hostility to nazis, open defiance to police, Carrie Fisher with a rocket launcher and flamethrower, a soundtrack that goes hard as hell, John Belushi so blasted on cocaine that he continues to do somersaults despite having a broken ankle. It's got it all!

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

[fraycreations]

uhh...he's right behind me, isn't he?

(tried to pull this joke in cosplay with @ingo-ingoing-ingone at ALA as they were handing out missing posters, but nobody really got it dfhsgdhs)

[nientedal]

What progress at home has biden enacted? What policies of his show that he is making progress that prove he is actually different than trump?

I like to pretend I have faith in humanity, so I'll answer as if you're asking this in good faith.

Biden's DEA has lifted restrictions on telehealth prescriptions to make appointments and assistance more accessible.

He put a funding package into place to help unhoused people get access to mental and physical healthcare, as well as short-term and long-term housing.

He has attempted and is still attempting to get student debt relief through - this was blocked by Republican judges appointed by Trump, but he's still working on it.

Infrastructure repair - his administration has budgeted funds to actually fix some severely-damaged and frequently-traveled bridges.

Trying to expand access to healthcare to include undocumented immigrants who came to the USA as children (Dreamers) under the Affordable Care Act. Support for Navigator programs and outreach has also been increased.

He has vetoed Republican-led bills that were attempting to overturn environmental protections - one that would have forbidden investment fund managers to consider climate change in their portfolios (I have two degrees in accounting and this is actually huge), and another that would have overturned restrictions on agricultural runoff into our waterways.

He and his administration worked for ages to get rail workers paid sick days.

This is just some of what he's been doing. Meanwhile, Trump and other Republicans want to criminalize the lives of LGBT people like you and me. They want to eliminate no-fault divorce and force births that will kill parents or devastate them financially. They have stated flat out that they want to install a military dictatorship in the USA. They attempted to put that in motion on January 6th, 2021. They failed once. They will do better next time.

One party wants to house the homeless and expand social safety nets, while the other one wants to criminalize homelessness. One of them wants a future in which I might be able to vote to change how much of a war machine my country is, while the other one wants to eliminate my ability to vote entirely. Those are not the same. Those literally are opposites.

At the end of the day, all you and I can do is choose to do the least amount of harm possible. You and I cannot choose to do no harm. This is the USA, we sell war, you and I cannot choose to do no harm. I wish we could, my god do I wish we could, but that is not an option. So we grieve for the harm we couldn't eliminate and work to minimize the harm that is done. Despite all the crap they support, Democrats are the minimum amount of harm right now. Acting like they aren't is exactly what brought us to an election where our options are a future where we are either wading in blood or drowning in it.

Not voting for Biden will not help Palestine. Not voting for Biden will guarantee a Republican president who will make the situation in Palestine WORSE. AND it'll hurt a lot of other places as well, both at home and abroad, because Republicans are about business and the USA is in the business of war! And I would very much like that to change someday! I would very much like to someday be able to choose to do no harm! And I know what I have to do to try for that future, so what are YOU going to do? There is no standing off to the side in this. If you aren't helping pull, you're the dead weight we're pulling. Are you going to dig your feet into the mud and blood and drown us there? Or are you going to get the fuck off your ass, grit your teeth, and help us pull free?

[kagoutiss]

pelican town, ‘72

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I think of the weirdest things when I’m doing boring work and today it’s about how Avatar was just one scene away from being SO MUCH BETTER than it was.

[annimir]

They are my life now. All the characters are the love of my life, and I’m yearning for a place that doesn’t exist. If you even care.

[grapejuicegay]

I'm always gonna fight to come home to my family

[epsilonhybrid]

company dead and no more merch so here are my transparents of the meta shirt/poster they used to sell ^__^

[fashion-runways]

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[stealingyourbones]

Everyday I exist and every day I get more and more exhausted seeing the “lol Batman looks at Danny and goes “who’s gonna adopt this kid” He’s so adoptable!” posts.