The Best Way Out is Through

Just an idiot trying to get through life ~ Welcome to my multifandom blog ~ I occasionally make my own edits and stuff -

[ming85]

Been rewatching Avatar and still have so much love for these characters. I enjoy thinking of Iroh meeting Zuko’s dragon, sometime after The Search. It would be a nice way of bringing the symbolism of the dragons in their story come full circle. 

[azulas]

— Fire is also life, not just destruction.

[otterbender]

[kakuriyo]

[chenalii-deactivated20210920]

in love with everything about legend of hei ;_; 

[vahshu]

🌸° ✧ Studio Ghibli : S p r i n g ✧ °🌸

“Spring: A lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.”

[bakanoshuuya]

If artists were Pokémon I would have the abilities Slow Start and Defeatist.

Slow Start because it can take ages for me to get going.

Defeatist because when I finally get going I often give up because I get easily discouraged when things don’t turn out as good as I’d have liked.

[bakanoshuuya]

So basically this is me if I were a Pokemon:

[bakanoshuuya]

If artists were Pokémon I would have the abilities Slow Start and Defeatist.

Slow Start because it can take ages for me to get going.

Defeatist because when I finally get going I often give up because I get easily discouraged when things don’t turn out as good as I’d have liked.

[darkespeon]

[bakanoshuuya]

She didn’t like the plot twist - like, at all 😳 In her words, she’s “bewildered.” Like she doesn’t get how he could’ve been the bad guy all this time. I think she felt a bit betrayed.

The thing is, I know from watching it almost 3 times that there’s plenty hints that Sam actually was the bad guy...but it never really explains HOW he even got into the whole bad guy thing and having multiple fake identities and stuff. Even I felt a bit bewildered by it myself, like I couldn’t understand that he could have been doing criminal things for years. I do hope they give it a proper exploration and explanation in Season 2 and not just have it as a plot twist for the sake of a plot twist (I’m sure they won’t do that though - I mean how could they just drop such a big shocking piece of information about Sam and not address it again?)

Anyway, I worry that she may not enjoy the last few episodes and that this plot twist will leave a bad taste in her mouth. She did enjoy a good bit of it up until this point! I think I may end up being the only one excited about Season 2 in the house. I guess I kind of expected she wouldn’t like the series as much as I did, because it felt kind of personal to me, almost cathartic in terms of the things Sam and Guy are going through and how they helped each other through that. I feel particularly attached to them because I relate to them, but of course not everyone will have the same connection with them (and it’s because I’m so fond of these characters that I like the series so much)

[bakanoshuuya]

We’re starting Episode 10 now 😳

[bakanoshuuya]

Ok so at dinner time as I was picking up a bag of lovely fresh sliced pan and I managed to spill half the bag of bread into the soup we were having for dinner. The best part is that my Mum said “it’s like having a chickeraffe in the house!”

[neitike]

Galar Corsola or:

How to talk about the impact of climate change + the trash in our ocean: Nintendo style

[bakanoshuuya]

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who followed me recently ❤️ I got quite a few new followers with all my Green Eggs and Ham posts! 😭💚 🍳 🐷

I won’t be as active for a while with end of term exams next week but I’ll be back after that!

[nuttersincorporated]

Follow up to this post; the main reason I’m glad that Guy and Sam are adults in Green Eggs and Ham is because it’s so rare for adults to be the protagonists in children’s cartoons. That can be harmful to how children think about adults and growing up.

In cartoons, unless the adult is a superhero or galaxies defender, they are either boring and out of touch or the antagonist/villain. Children and teenagers get to be the chosen one, go on epic magical adventures and save the world. Adults very rarely even get interesting hobbies.

I think it’s part of the reason why so many children fear growing up. Adults seem like another species. Children live in worlds of imagination and most media aimed at them makes it seem as if that disappear as soon as they grow up.

I honest to God once heard two teenagers on the bus talking to each other and one said, “I don’t want to live much past twenty-five because after that, it’s just growing old and dying.”

It’s so refreshing to see adult protagonists in a show aimed at children. Especially because they don’t have everything worked out.

Life doesn’t end when you hit 21. You might not get the job you want and things won’t always work out but there are still adventures to have. Your journey isn’t going to end when you are legally an adult.

This is a message that I think we need to see more often.

[bakanoshuuya]

How to make friends:

Step 1: Set “Backflip” as your ring tone.

Step 2: When your phone rings, those who recognise the theme song will find out that you like Green Eggs and Ham.

Step 3: Profit. Your new best friend will come to you. You already have something you can mutually connect on and get excited about. The ice has been shattered to pieces.

[bakanoshuuya]

Ok y’all already talked about how the “there’s only one room left, you’ll have to share” fic trope is in Green Eggs and Ham...but why is no one talking about this other fic trope? The one where Person A&B are stuck in a box or other tightly enclosed space?

(And of course Sam has gotta have his usual smug expression on)

[bakanoshuuya]

Bonus: I managed to get these really goofy-looking screenshots. Matching icons for you and bae?