a wizerd of sorts

[bentwizerd]

Symbolic representations of Carmy's avoidance and the consequences of his actions: the fridge, the scar on his palm, fire, the caged bear (add more if you want !)

We see all of these separately in the first two seasons, and then they are all given significance in the continuous montage of s03e01 "Tomorrow". The way this episode is filmed is genius.

[parttimeyearnersstuff]

MIKE FLANAGAN please come back home. Mike Flanagan's love-stories-disguised-as-horror-stories-because-what-is-horror-without-love-and-what-is-love-without-horror-and-how-each-time-we-fall-in-love-we-create-a-new-ghost-and-how-horror-stories-were-once-love-stories-and-how-love-stories-were-once-horror-stories-and-how-one-wouldn't-exist-without-the-other please SAVE ME. Mike flanagan save me

[bwaybby09]

The Thunderbolts really said, “I’m going to defeat you with the power of friendship and this gun I found.”

[bentwizerd]

I have been ruminating on this for weeks now, and I haven't heard many others talking about it, so I will.

I'm a Minnesotan from Minneapolis. It may sound silly, but watching Daredevil: Born Again for the first time right around when ICE murdered Renee Good made a lot of things fall into place for me. I have also been a fan of Daredevil for a long time, so the series, its characters, and themes are not new to me.

It isn't a coincidence that the police in Daredevil: Born Again (and Daredevil in general) seem to echo what we are seeing with ICE now. Life imitates art because art is political, because art is human. 

Daredevil asks what happens when corruption runs rampant. When fear mongering, propaganda, and manipulation take over the system and ignore the people. It asks what it looks like for normal people to fight corruption, to fight the evil of the system oppressing them. Sure, Daredevil and his moral struggles are the heroes, but so are the every day citizens, the people interviewing, publishing articles, protesting, and protecting their neighbors and families.

Since the murder of George Floyd, I've ranted at many a friend about the idiocy of the blue lives matter movement adopting the Punisher logo. Not only does the Punisher kill cops, he kills them because they are part of the system that killed his family, stealing his life from him. They seem to have missed the entire point of the Punisher's character---this is what happens when the government turns on the people.

So in DDBA, what does Frank Castle do? He helps Matt fight corruption and evil, and he kills a shit ton of Kingpin's corrupt cops (mind you, he's already done plenty of this in Daredevil and The Punisher), because he knows what he's fighting for and he knows who he is fighting.

Kingpin is a master manipulator, a man who recognizes his corruption and uses it for his gain, topples protective systems and endorses murder. He creates his own "elite task force" of cops he knows are also corrupt to do his bidding. He uses violent crime to force people to comply to his vision of the world, which only benefits him. Seem familiar yet?

DDBA was created before all of this happened, of course. So was the original Daredevil series, years before. It's not a coincidence. Corruption is not new. Oppressive systems are not new. People resisting the evil they see in the world around them is not new. Fascism is not new. Dystopian stories feel familiar because the creators of dystopian stories understand that those are the futures in store as a direct result of our current systems. If you have to watch Daredevil again to see it, you probably should.

[forasecondtherewedwon]

Having a normal Sunday night (weeping through the end of The Umbrella Academy).

[bentwizerd]

Thinking about the time Arthur was literally roofied and Yellow was just pissed that he was a lightweight

[badhellsiteaccount]

statement of arthur lester regarding fucking everything

[snake-spire]

Time to Fear assign Malevolent characters:

Arthur: The Hunt

John: The Eye

Kayne: The Web (I can see him as The Slaughter but I think Web fits him better)

Parker: The End (saw a post about him and I can see him as The Slaughter too)

King in Yellow: The Spiral

Larson: The Corruption

Oscar: The Lonely

Noel: The Stranger

The Butcher: The Slaughter

Danial: Melanie

[bentwizerd]

Kicking my feet bc I am fascinated by thinking abt these assignments 😁🥰

[rylandsgrace]

Literally 😭

[bentwizerd]

Expected this to say "no matter what kind of day I'm having carmy will make it worse" and both would be correct 💀

[melandrops]

go on girl share us your screentime on wattpad

[mifink]

theres this pipeline from being a gravity falls fan as a kid to being a malevolent/tma fan as you grow older and im not even surprised by it. you guys had to enjoy nerdy weird shit when you were kids to enjoy whatever the fuck happens in these podcasts. me included. my fate was sealed when i saw bill cipher at age 10.

[bentwizerd]

Arthur: Tell me what you see.

John: I see-

Arthur: Must be nice.

John: ...

[wolfythewitch]

the vast

[mouse-doubleo100]

‘there’s no platonic explanation for this’

buddy you wouldn’t believe what kind of platonic explanations im capable of

[bycaprinae]

Wouldn't expect less for Season 6 🙏

Based on a conversation i had on twitter

[justthoughts1310-deactivated202]

Sokka may not be a misogynist, but the Netflix live action ATLA is:

There really is no cartoon/anime for female empowerment like the OG ATLA and LOK cartoons.

The creators of ATLA wrote the manifesto on how to create a masterful series on female empowerment and equality that is not cheesy or hocky.

In this show, women and girls are not a monolith but immensely diverse. There's no correct way to be a powerful, talented and bold woman or girl within the avatar universe.

You can be hyper-feminine like Ty Lee and Asami.

You can embody more traditionally masculine qualities like Korra and Toph.

Or you could just be a typical woman or girl falling more in between like Azula, Mai, or Suki.

You see the exact same thing for the male characters. There's no right way to be a man. There's many ways to be a man, and this idea flies in the face of patriarchy.

I say that the Netflix version is misogynist, because it's not enough to be a powerful woman. One must be allowed to be unapologetically, unabashedly and boldy powerful.

Which is what happens in the OG ATLA. Sokka's misogyny was actually a part of his character arc, because every time he was misogynist his misogyny was met with the answer that women and girls are phenomenal, that women and girls are living their lives and largely unconcerned with the opinions of men.

If you read the Kiyoshi novels, you learn that surprisingly enough, the least patriarchal amd misogynist nation in all of Avatar is the fire nation, and the misogynistic nation in all of Avatar is the northern water tribe.

The reason I say that the women in these shows are unabashedly powerful is because aside from Sokka and the master from the Northern Water tribe, no one ever questions why or how they are powerful. They expect it.

Zuko is Ozai's first born son, yet Azula is his pride. When Ozai imagines the future, he imagines it with Azula as the fire lord. He names her after his father. He trusts her to go find the avatar once he knows the avatar has returned.

Sokka and Katara effectively lost both of their parents, but Katara the youngest steps up as the mother and becomes the glue of the group. She's the one who becomes both an immensely powerful bender and healer.

Suki loves Sokka, but when we are introduced to her. She is unconcerned with him. Her and the other Kiyoshi warriors are the protectors of the village who go out into the world to do good into the world.

We see the revseral of all of these tenants in the Netflix show.

Ozai has hope for Zuko at the expense of Azula who he sees as a nuisance. She is no longer am obvious prodigy.

Katara is seen as a child who will not grow up by her brother who is now behaving as a father figure.

Suki is infatuated with Sokka and she follows him around Kiyoshi island when he arrives.

These woman are powerful but restrained and undermined in this power. Suki becomes concerned with the opinions of a man, and a random man at that.

What the OG ATLA taught to all women, girls, boys and men is that you never have to apologize for being powerful, intelligent, kind empathetic.

This is a very critical point that cuts to the heart of the OG ATLA that Netflix has missed.