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whuh uh huh we got a patch

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if anybodys wondering why i havent drawn anything its because im too lazy to charge the fucking apple pencil

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looking forward to a3

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Tropical Japan by Ippei & Janine

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one thing avatar 2 does actually portray pretty well is that capitalist militaries are not actually very good at warfare and warfighting, in the strictest sense.

they excel in slaughter, a process the bourgeoisie have perfected into industrial science. their marauding 'peacekeepers' act as slaughterhouse hands in the operation of their very well-oiled machine, never themselves in much more danger from a called-in airstrike than from meat-processing machinery. in a rare tragedy they might lose an arm or leg, and certainly might have some psychological issues if they quit, but their job is to kill, not to fight.

this is something revolutionaries have taken great notice of regarding the process of actually defeating these apparently all-powerful militaries: it's actually really easy to escape a slaughterhouse if you shoot the people operating it

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Forget about torturing your blorbos, putting them through the wringer. I'm putting my blorbo in perfectly ordinary, pleasant situations. Their tortured personality will cause them anguish anyway, making an absolutely mundane scene into the most dramatic, agony filled affair as though the world is ending and it's all their fault

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i mean it could mean nothing. it may not even happen lol. i just like overthinking

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thinking more about the avatar and disability stuff and i know some shit is going to happen with spider and his rebreather in 3 based on script leaks (i mean i guess netayam hatches from a cocoon onscreen in some 2 script leaks and that shit did not happen so who knows) and liiiiike. i just feel like it doesn't look good for every bodily challenge a central cast member deals with in this series to be miracled away.

i hesitate to call spider's dependence on a rebreather a disability because like, it definitionally isn't for humans it's standard to breathe oxygen lol. but at the same time it's a reliance on medical equipment that differentiates him in his community. i don't think it defines him at all and i see why they would want jack champion to Not be masked up in every other scene but..i don't love the optics of every biological challenge these characters face being solved through eywa counterhealing with a..Hyperability. is that a thing?

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Weezer Blue Album (Sarentu Remix)

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i said i would stay silly with it and here i go again

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the more i think about earth and humanity in the avatar setting the more questions i have. like what do people think of the RDA? it's nongovernmental i guess but it seems to operate LIKE a governmental org. activist survival guide (i know its non-canon) says this

and i believe at least the second part holds up, or i see no reason why it shouldnt. so its a QGAE that was possibly originally made up of silicon valley startup chuds. can we start calling DOGE this?

anywauy i feel like people on earth generally would not love the RDA the same way nobody likes doge besides some extremely specific types of freaks. it has to be to some extent taxpayer funded--doge is, anyway. to me its not really a question of whether RDA is perceived positively or negatively on earth because im almost certain everyone whos not a total techbro bootlicker would feel ambivalent at best about a fundsucking entity like this. i would say the mood must be complacently resentful. as many are with doge at the moment.

and sure unlike doge it brings in money (or much like doge, depending on how you look at it--all those NPS employees and grants and scholarships that arent being paid anymore to make Number Go Back Up, lol, not really sustainable as eventually you'll just run out of things to slash but hey thats the name of the game isnt it? clear cutting until theres nothing left) but how much of that is cannibalized by the organization to develop cool new types of science bulldozers lightyears away from the planet funding it? i feel like at least people would be grumbling about this

so more than that my question is in what way does this resentment manifest? is it productive or reactionary, basically. is it "my tax dollars are going to the RDA to fund space imperialism! i hate space imperialism!" or are there people who are all like "they are taking your hard earned earth money so that the xenos can learn DEI pronouns in jungle school"

presumably a mix of the two but i'd like to know what the presiding mood is. probably depends what future blue app you're using

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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?

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to be clear i'm not hating i just find the broader cultural context of Big Movies really interesting

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i think a reason i like avatar's human characters so much, or at least try to, is that this franchise sometimes dances dangerously close to an anarcho-primitivist flavor of ecofascism of the light human extinction variety. beyond that i would regard it as kind of an ideological hodge podge because in the movies alone you have that + the paternalistic imposition of western values through sully as a leader + the magical native trope + the symbolic christianization thing going on with eywa/grace/kiri and these all kind of all both mesh together and contradict at once. it feels coherent on a watch because it dazzles you but at the same time i feel like the message is confused

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(backseating you at the mortar and pestle) man you aint even squarshing it

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i see people drawing recoms smoking normal earth style cigarettes a lot which checks out and is funny enough on its own because in the hands pf a human that has to be a comically large gag cigarette. but also it's the year 21whatever and its probably more trouble than its worth to grow tobacco on pandora and manufacture cigarettes. theres probably some pandoran equivalent but i feel like smoking pandoran leaves has some other connotation. i think they have rda-issued vapes full of some juice made in a lab that probably also functions as an industrial strength pesticide.

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I want more female characters who are just so bad at comforting others. Not for lack of trying or caring, they just get so so awkward when someone's upset, and they try to repeat things they've heard even if it doesn't necessarily apply to the situation, or they accidentally say the wrong thing and make it worse. If someone cries they panic and throw every single comfort technique down at once and it only helps because it's such bizarre behaviour