#the great divide

[james-farrow-did-nothing-wrong]

I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich, I hope you're scared of only ordinary shit

🎨:moncuries & moonsnqil

[mydeadgaywizards]

“Come with me, Reg. Please?” Sirius knows Regulus’ answer, but asks again anyways.

I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich

Regulus sighs and shakes his head. “You know I can’t.”

I hope you’re scared of all the ordinary shit

Tears leaking out of his eyes, Sirius pulls his brother into a hug. “Stay safe. You know where to find me if you ever need me.”

Like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin

Regulus nods, and Sirius gives him one last glance over before picking up his bags and slipping out the front door.

And not your soul and what He might do with it

It’s not until Sirius is long gone and Regulus is alone in his room that he finally lets the tears fall.

[highfantasy-soul]

Ready for a hot NATLA take?

The live-action DID include an adaptation of The Great Divide episode.

Instead of Sokka identifying with the war-like, meat eating, not prim and proper tribe and thinking 'yeah, I identify with them, therefore I'm on their side and will argue they can't be wrong' he identified with Sai, the mechanist where Sokka saw reflected his desire to be more than a 'great warrior' but also to use his mind and ingenuity to help his friends - therefore he didn't want Sai to be wrong.

Instead of Katara identifying with the prim and proper, well prepared, educated and clean tribe and thinking 'yeah, I identify with them, therefore I'm on their side and will argue they can't be wrong', she identified with Jet the freedom fighter where Katara saw reflected her anger, pain and desire to fight back against the fire nation as well as create a community to help people who were harmed be healed - therefore she didn't want Jet to be wrong.

The live-action was able to take the theme and lesson from one of the most maligned episodes of the animated series and reframe it within other plot lines to make it so much more poignant and nuanced, pushing forward a lot more character development than 'Sokka is dirty and lazy, Katara is uptight and prissy'. The live-action took the lesson and actually tied it to Katara and Sokka's core character motivations that will have arcs for them rather than surface-level character traits that never really change.

Anyways, the live action adaptation of Avatar the Last Airbender is really good and y'all should watch it - or rewatch it with an open mind to why they combined/altered the story elements they did. The writers clearly understand this world and the story the OG was trying to tell.

[piniatafullofblood]

watching that one ATLA episode with the two warring tribes and watching ATLA as a teenager is so different because Sokka says “I only sided with them because they fed me” and I don’t go ‘oh silly Sokka’ I go ‘oh shit he’ll do anything to assure himself that he’ll have another meal huh’

[yeehawfrogboy]

THEYRE SO GORGEOUS

Anna looks a literal goddess and Nate just skgndkskckdhfskslrllfdk 😫

[chicken-wayng]

Rhaenicent+TheGreadDivide, Luke Combs

[doegirldaydreamer]

[houseminyard]

jean i hope you settle down i hope you marry rich i hope you’re scared of all the ordinary shit like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin and not your soul and what he might do with it moreau

[asterixlabs]

[rafole]

their sabatek or our igalenka

[that-one-dude]

Ulysses: So I ask you now, Courier, in this crucible of uncertainty: Will your choice of company be the man, or do you decide to entrust your future with the bear? Courier six: What the hell are you on about?!

[atla-confessions]

Never thought I’d see the great divide on someone’s fave list. I never disliked it or liked it

I think it gets a lot of hate because 1. it contributes literally nothing plot wise and 2. of all the show episodes, it's up there in cartoonish quality.

However, I really like it as an Aang episode. It's imo the first look into what being the Avatar will really mean. He's caught in a conflict he must solve simply because he has the capabilities to, and in solving that conflict, he is singularly lonely. While Katara and Sokka are each with the tribes, taking sides and breaking rules, Aang is by himself with a crippled guide who just wants to sleep. Where everyone gets to break the single rule they were given, he does not, and yet it is up to him to fix the situation they're in because of it.

He is a literal child put in charge of two towns worth of adults who are acting far more childish than he ever has. But, he is the avatar, and keeping balance/solving conflicts is what he does, no matter how alone it ultimately leaves him.

Also, I just really like the 'the same story told from different perspective' trope, and the fact that it ends with Aang coming up with his own version of the story to get the children to get along, only for him to be lying because he got sick of their asses, is hilarious to me. I will never be over the little "You could call it luck, or you could call it lying." He's such a little bastard I love him.

(I'm a sucker for the moments when Aang decides he's just fucking done with people)

(also also, I just unironically love the canyon guide, he's my spirit animal)

X

[mydeadgaywizards]

whatever you do, don’t imagine “the great divide” by noah kahan from remus’ pov after he finds out mary obliviated herself

[stereotypicalswiftie]

The Great divide by noah kahan (unreleased)

A message from Remus to Mary when she decided to obliviate herself rather live through the pain of all they had lost.

I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich

I hope you're scared of only ordinary shit

Like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin

And not your soul and what He might do with it

Did you wish that I could know?

You'd fade

To some place

I wasn't brave enough to go

[donovankinard]

i hope youre scared of only ordinary shit!!!!!!!!! like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin!!!!!!!! and not your soul and what he might do with it!!!!!!!!!!!

[memehex]

The Great Divide may have been a silly little episode but that doesn't make it bad. Plot obsessed folk who want 8 episode seasons wouldn't get it