#what were they thinking

[snapscube]

when the pornographic visual novel u downloaded from an old forum link doesnt have overworld fast travel or a dialogue history menu

[sunflowernovak]

still beautiful, still dean winchester is such an insane line actually what the fuck

[nan-nest]

About Natlan...

So, the Natlan trailer is out and honestly… I'm disappointed.

I waited 3 years to see my culture represented but these character designs tell me nothing about pre-Hispanic culture or Latam culture as a whole and it's heartbreaking because the map and soundtrack are lovely.

Also, it's sad that some other Latinos are just like "there are white Latinos too." "At least we're getting represented." It's almost like they don't know their own culture. Seriously, do they think that just because a character is named "Citlali" (star in Náhuatl), that's enough?

Also this doesn't feel like genshin at all, why does nations like liyue, inazuma or fontaine have beautiful designs and are inspired on 1 or 2 countries while Natlan is based in TWO CONTINENTS is just like if hoyoverse said "Africa and Latam? Let's mix them together, they are both tropical continents after all"

And it makes me sad because i was planning on doing 2 OCs for natlan both dark skined and based on mexica/aztec and maya culture but seeing those hoyeverse designs… My OCs wouldn't fit their "aesthetic" and i refuse to see my culture used as an "aesthetic" once again from foreigners that don't even care to know and respect it.

Anyways, that's my rant for tonight, sorry but i had to share my thoughts

[teaboot]

I love you Jason Todd but I KNOW you didn't design the Red Hood helmet with built-in lips sculpted onto the face like a fucked up mister potato head

[fionaswhvre]

Buddie things which are canon in the show:

•Eddie is the only one who isn't annoyed by clipboard Buck.

• Eddie loves listening to Buck rant about random information.

•Eddie was the only one who was interested in Buck's newfound math powers after he got hit by the lightning.

•Buck was the only one who cried when Eddie got shot.

•Eddie was the only one seen crying after Buck got hit by the lightning.

•Buck saved Eddie from the shooter.

•Eddie brought Buck back to life by pumping his heart.

•Eddie only entrusts Buck with his son..not even his own girlfriend or family.

•Eddie knew about Maddie's plan to keep Buck occupied after he came back from the hospital but he was the only one who wasn't on her list. Because he knew that was what not Buck wanted.

•Buck runs to Eddie after Chimney punches him.. not Bobby, not Hen when he usually shares everything with them. He knew he wanted someone he could trust at that moment, as he was hurt by a very close friend, so he went to Eddie.

•Christopher runs away to Buck when he's upset with Eddie. Not to Eddie's Abuela or Tia, but Buck.

•Christopher also calls Buck when Eddie is having a breakdown. Again, not his family, but Buck.

Things which we will get if Buddie actually becomes canon

[srslylini]

people saying "well Silco wouldn't have HAD to know Vi and Powder as kids" are creating even more plot holes and that's so funny to me

mostly cause Vi was around 10 to 12 during the day of ash and what, with the new context the Vander/Silco fall out wasn't till after that attack.

That said, up until then there is nothing that can make us assume Felicia/Vander/Silco had a fall out (especially not cause of how they made Silco react to her death?) meaning it would be incredibly weird had he NOT known the kids.

but then Vi should have recognized him and she DOESN'T. she literally, in episode three, tells Mylo and Claggor that she had no idea who it was that killed Benzo and took Vander. Again, Vi was around 10 to 12, that tells us that the day of ash was only around 4 to 2 years ago in act 1 of season 1. No one forgets someone who should, by all logic, be this integrated in ones life in the span of that time. I can give you Powder, since she was around 4 to 6, not Vi though.

god the fucking writers really didn't think this through at all.

Had they JUST made the fall out between Vander and Silco BEFORE the day of ash it wouldn't even be too bad because then we could logically assume Vi was maybe too young to remember but??? yeah no. also Silco not recognizing Vi with this context, I don't even wanna THINK about that

[melsany]

did we ever discuss the plot hole that is modeling the alien super weapon after a lion, a creature indigenous to a planet billions of light years away?and generally unheard of by the entire universe??

[lurkingshan]

The On1y One really said what if we take a slow burn romance, make it much much slower, add a bunch of weird side plots to stall for time, and then end it with absolutely no release and no resolution.

[gabbbyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

My opinion regarding his design,,, could be a cold or hot take idk

[cheeseburger505]

Nice try Mclaren but I'm still mad at you.

[souporsaladnatural]

How did they manage to accidentally write dean and cas so insanely romantically in cas' first fucking episode what the fuck

[orwellsunderpants]

Happened to go looking for fireplace screens and found this one.

I'm honestly not sure how much thought went into this before they put it out there for sale.

[oneandonlyfazimus]

In an alternate universe, Vaggie's a gay man named Peenathan or Scrotopher or something like that

[fiendfifofum]

Someone posted this graph on youtube and it made me so incensed thatI had to steal it. Josuke serving more cunt than young Joseph? Were they out of their goddamn minds? Joseph is a walking slut machine. He literally does drag and has a gay bestie. Like, Jotaro in the snake skin trousers? Sure, that's pretty ineffably cunty but FUCKING JOSUKE???

[letsgetreadytotumble]

2023 TUMBLR'S LITTEST MEOW MEOW COMPETITION ROUND 1: Bronze Age Bitch

Whose badder? Whose bossier? Whose bitchier?

[supremechancellorrex]

One of the major disappointments I had with the Avatar live-action was the storyline and characterisation of Azula. Not only does the show take vital minutes that could have been spent on Katara, but Live-Action!Azula fails to feel very strong and threatening presence wise. There's a lack of mystique, mystery and reveal with her. The live-action has laid her bare a little too early for comfort in my opinion. Narratively, I think we know her *too well* now. It doesn't help she lays her feelings on her face pretty bare to see.

Where she seemed more promising in Episode 3 with her cool dispatching of rebels and plotting with Zhao, I honestly didn't really enjoy her scenes after. Also, I know this is a tall order, but I found Azula's martial arts not as strong as Zuko's actor, which is jarring for her plotline. I found her lightning reveal a little lacklustre. She's just like, wham, lightning.

Azula's Conflict

Part of Azula's original characterisation in the cartoon was she was able to keep her feelings close to her chest like a cold flame, it was smarter that way. The entire point of her characterisation is she appears the perfect royal vessel blessed with all the gifts, but she actually was hurt and mentality unstable and masking this trauma. Yet, in the live-action Azula ragefully beats and loses control in a training session fight against a servant to the point Ty Lee and Mai, her friends/underlings of a lower social station, dare to protest and physically pull her off in full view of everyone. Meanwhile, Ozai reads her like an open book for most of the season. She feels like more of an underdog, like a vicious little poodle monkey kicked every time Ozai praises Zuko, and being so obvious with her feelings in front of Mai and Ty Lee, and an entire courtyard of subjects and everyone. Apparently, Royal Family members are so much so obvious, a lowly person like Zhao thousands of miles away somehow even knows Ozai is testing her. What did she put in those silly letters? It feels like Live-Action!Azula is cottoning on a little too late on how to really play the game for someone so smart, and that would just be unacceptable in such a traditional, Imperial Confuscianist-like environment.

What Azula deals with in Season 1 of the Avatar: Live Action is a conflict Azula would have more likely had at age 10, realising a textbook answer isn't enough. By having her have this at 14, it does make her feel more slow and less of a prodigy with a strategic mind. The writers decided to do the Season 1 timeline and have something for Azula to do at the same time, but the conflict they chose for her does change her characterisation in ways so far I'm not fond of or at least confident is for the better.

Aluza, A Meaner Zuko

My problem with Azula isn't that she's "sympathetic", more she just doesn't feel like herself. She had a different way of dealing with things in the original show; she'd learned from a young age to be more generally closed off and in an imperial, authoritarian environment. In this environment, where composure is everything and every movement needs to affirm the Mandate of Heaven that is your existence and your divine right, Azula learned to restrain her self-expression where in contrast Zuko had difficulty and was punished for it. As someone who knows people in real life who are very difficult to read. Live-Action!Azula was far too obvious and readable for the characters around her at this stage, especially given the upbringing she would have had. In most of the cartoon, she does have a tighter hold on her feelings and that is more realistic due to the position she has in the culture she was born into. Although we see sparks of insecurity in the cartoon, which hint towards the original Azula's inner issues and trauma, generally she is very composed and tactical.

Trauma can often manifest in unique ways depending on the individual. People with trauma can actually be very hard to read. Similar to how an injured cat will instinctively give no sign of pain to not show a predator any sign of weakness. Zuko lashed out with his trauma, but Azula reacted in a different way in the cartoon. That was part of her characterisation. And, I'm not talking about how Azula is becoming worse and Zuko better, I'm talking about how they react to Ozai and things not going their way. In the live-action, now both just lash out, complain, get angry and have to have someone intercede. Azula is more vicious, but the reactions are more similar now than they were, and I personally feel it takes away from what were key differences between how the characters would react to problems growing up. She was a different person. Now I don't think the cartoon got it all right, I think they were clumsy with Azula's character arc at points in Book 3 especially in my opinion, but she just had more of a presence and there was a certain nuance and dynamic to her troubled and calculating personality that I feel is lacking in the live-action.

Live-Action!Azula also didn't feel very "Royal" to me in the live-action, feeling less like a girl who believes in her divine right to rule and more just a mean girl in high school. There's something often intrinsically cold and distant about people in Royal Families, their environment, the "Never Got Enough Hugs" syndrome and its mentality, even for the ones that act out. The type of people that make children march miles behind their mother's coffin in full view of thousands of faces for saving face, tradition, and duty. I'm not sure they nailed it. This Live-Action!Azula lacks a certain spark so far, and what I know of Royal Families, from the UK and Japan to the former Royal Families of China and Korea, I'm not convinced of her characterisation here as a character with a background as a princess.

Villain Crafting

Azula felt intimidating because Ozai had twisted her into what on the surface to others and even herself was a "monster". Perhaps the cartoon's mistake was not delving deeper into this characterisation more and instead focusing just on the badass spinning kick blue flames moments and smirks a bit too long, as some people didn't get Azula had a sympathetic and tragic side, but I feel the live-action's mistake is adding in details not true to Azula's character and peeling back the mystery of this character too early, because now it feels like the viewers know they know a lot, right off the bat, and storytelling wise in Season 1 it just made this Azula come across as less interesting or even authentic to me. It won't be surprising to anyone this Live-Action!Azula has a mental breakdown now, it will be predictable and more like her usual tantrums instead of a shock that shows a deeper truth.