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tripleskxawng · 2 months ago

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i SAY that about trying to like avatar's human* characters--i don't like jake, i probably should, i just find him a little boring. he could be so chewy. but he's not. he's like pudding.

*and transhuman characters? broadly sky people characters?

#i find it really baffling how disability never factors into the story of avatar At all #and they ALMOST went somewhere with kiri but she's Actually NOT epileptic guys don't worry #and i've seen it postured as like counter to the ecological and spiritual messaging to read her as epileptic which is crazy to me!#she can be both epileptic and spiritual like these can coexist in the story i think and yet #it's crazy that you have this character who uses a mobility device and like. if you go in starting at the second movie you'd have no clue #like you'd just think it influences him in any lasting way at all but no #which is why characters like anufi are really important as a counterweight i think #but in the movie they did the opposite they suggested a character Could be disabled and then nullify it extra-textually?#which is where i think we move a little too close to ecofascist territory #the idea that disabled people not only cannot but do not exist on pandora #like.. through eywa's intervention #the vibes are off

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