#total coincidence?

[doesntmeanitsmeaningless]

Detail from Soolking’s outfit. He was on just before Louis Tomlinson, live from fest Istanbul.

[calamitydaze]

buck meeting ali during the first big rescue he was partnered up with eddie for…… buck explicitly shown as having moved on from abby by coparenting with eddie…… buck getting with taylor practically with eddie’s blood still behind his ears…….. buck kissing eddie’s replacement after he no showed their hangout……. buck saying natalia understands him because of her relationship with death to eddie who literally restarted his heart…… buck kissing tommy after trying to blow him up with his mind for an entire episode for taking eddie’s attention away……… much to think about. the love triangle framing may only be becoming overt now but buck’s love life has always been a three person affair

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

Chase the Jews out of every country so they flee to Israel, and then vilify them for living in Israel.

Put Israel under constant threat of annihilation, making mandatory conscription a necessity, and then use that as an excuse to declare that “there are no civilians in Israel,” that the entire population is guilty, their lives and human rights forfeit, for being “complicit” in their own survival.

[faunandfloraas]

그렇게, 천천히, 우리(As we are) - Seungmin.

[waitinqroom]

maybe im overthinking it but i think the opening notes of sunday in the park with george visually resemble the general structure of the painting

[periwinkla]

Flower narumitsu art compilation ♡ I'll be honest: I can't even remember how this flower madness started in the first place. _ prints available here

[theonewhowails]

Golden Fleece

[shadowsketches]

✨🎄Happy Holidays from everyone’s favourite idiots!!!🎄✨

[yamujiburo]

Who's your favorite recurring character to draw on BCG?

Bella and Tracy

i wonder why……..

[sallymew4]

EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOURE DOING RIGHT FUCKING NOW

EVERYBODY SHUT UP IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dredgesnails]

heartbreaking: tiny men accuse man notorious for stealing enchanters of trying to steal their enchanter (he really genuinely wasn't this time)

[blasphemousclaw]

a kind of lazy trailer breakdown

I’m interpreting this opening as describing “the beginning” of Marika’s reign, her Golden age, for which she paid a horrible price: committing a “betrayal” that resulted in these mountains of bodies… it looks like maybe the killing of some creature (whose… eye we can see? maybe? who knows) might’ve given her the ability to create a rune embodying her reign? but in creating her realm of gold, that which lay outside of it was cast in shadow… or something

following the creation of Marika’s order was a war so despicable that it was kept a secret… it seems to have taken place within the realm of shadow, which may have been either created or cast into shadow at the moment Marika’s “Gold arose?”

Messmer is the one leading the “purge,” and it’s likely he’s acting within Marika’s interests since it’s heavily implied he’s her son. I wonder if this “purge” is something that must take place in order for Marika’s “Gold” to keep existing? especially because the creatures being “purged” have a lot of resemblance to the Omen and to the Crucible… forms of life that are demonized in Marika’s lands.

lastly, as Messmer’s flame burns, the buildings seem to turn to ash that floats up to this twisted tree seemingly bleeding gold. could it be feeding the tree somehow? is this tree the sinister “shadow” of the Erdtree itself? are they somehow linked through life force? does this golden arc within the tree represent Marika and the birthplace of her Order?

so many questions… Marika has some explaining to do

[zzztlk]

she is the only accurate profiling of a cancer ive ever seen. proper emotionally unregulated failgirl representation. loke a bleak but cute mirror. thank you for your service

Regan is for the homies who get a little silly with it and feel big feelings and stay back for the person who has stop to tie their shoes... much love to you

[fraternum-momentum]

did I make a sheriff oc just to draw this dialogue?

yes, yes i did. so meet Nigel.

[nattikay]

"waaaaaa James Cameron is sTEaLiNG from ATLA!!!11!!1!"

sigh yeah sorry but this is just a really stupid claim. There are some fun coincidences, but they are just that: coincidence, nothing more. If it weren't for the fact that both franchises happen to use the word "avatar", a term which neither of them owns nor invented, it wouldn't have even crossed your mind to compare them.

Oh, they both have "water" themed groups? Sure, but the concept of "water" is really the only thing those groups have in common. The Water Tribes in ATLA are arctic-dwelling peoples heavily inspired by the Inuit (plus the Swampbenders, idk if they have a formal name or how widespread their society is), neither of which are locations or cultures we've seen explored in James Cameron's Avatar (which for the sake of this post we'll abbreviate to JCA). Meanwhile, the Metkayina clan in JCA are a tropical island-dwelling people heavily inspired by the Maori and other Polynesian cultures, which likewise is a culture/location that ATLA didn't explore.

They both have an "evil" fire-themed group? Sure, but again it's not 1:1 and it's very odd that y'all are acting like ATLA invented the concept of fire=bad guys. This one's a little harder to analyze because we of course don't know a lot about the Mangkuan clan yet, but from what little we've heard, it seems their reason for being antagonists is that they've turned their backs on Eywa (the deity revered by most Na'vi clans) after a series of natural disasters destroyed their homeland and they felt Eywa didn't do enough to help them. This is a very different motivation from the Fire Nation, who are antagonists because Sozin was power-hungry enough to commit unprovoked genocide on a peaceful nation and start a hundred-year war to conquer the other two. "Fire" and "antagonists" are the only similarities these groups have.

It's also worth noting that the Fire Nation are the primary antagonists of ATLA, whereas the Mangkuan (as far as we can currently tell) are only secondary antagonists in JCA, who may or may not get involved with the actual primary antagonists, the RDA. In this sense, if we're going to force a connection between ATLA and JCA, the Mangkuan might actually be more conceptually comparable to the Dai Lee than to the Fire Nation. Both are factions of what are supposed to be a "good" group (the Na'vi and Earth Kingdom, respectively) who got involved in shady practices and wind up aligning with the primary antagonists (the RDA and Fire Nation). There are still plenty of differences, of course, and this is far too broad a concept to call it a definitive "copy", but there you go.

They both have a group of flying travelers? The Air Nomads were monks and spiritualists who migrated between their own four temples. The Windtraders—based on what very very little we currently know—are merchants who travel to various other clans to trade.

All these comparisons are based on very broad vague ideas that can potentially be executed in a gazillion different unique ways. I don't think James Cameron "stole" these ideas from ATLA, but hey, for the sake of argument, let's say he did. Let's assume that he did purposefully take the very vague very broad ideas of "water people" and "evil fire people" and "flying travelers" specifically and exclusively from ATLA. What he's DOING with these ideas is still completely different from what ALTA does with them.

Take it from someone who adores both franchises: they are completely different. One is about humans with supernatural ability to bend the elements in a fantasy universe heavily inspired by primarily Asian cultures, the other is about a nine-foot-tall blue alien race living on an alien moon where everything glows in the dark and every living being on said moon has the ability to biologically "plug in" to a global neural network. As I mentioned at the beginning of the post, the only reason anyone even thinks to compare them in the first place is merely that their titles share the word "avatar", a term which again neither franchise owns nor invented. If they didn't share this title, nobody would be calling any of these things a "copy". stop.

[hamletthedane]

Idk how to articulate this but I don’t trust any actor who says their dream role is hamlet - it’s almost always just an ego thing…….UNLESS they also dream of playing Richard II.

Then it’s apparent that they’re just obsessed with playing the most pathetically tragic sad little meow meow they possibly can