my name is autumn or rudy!! i use she/he pronouns and i like to draw, write and make music! i mostly only share my art pieces publicly though. i don’t use this app a lot but i’m starting to become more active on here!!!
i like ghosts uk and other six idiots projects, umamusume: pretty derby, rhythm doctor, music (see my music i enjoy section), eastenders, 60 seconds/parsecs, the thick of it, detectorists, wolf hall, bbc casualty, homestar runner, politics (especially uk politics. slowly learning more about us political history though.), horses in general, miis and a ton of other things! please give me recs for more britcoms for me to watch i really love britcoms.
music i enjoy: tmbg, xtc, madness, the cardigans, ween, the specials, the english beat, the selecter, thompson twins, pinkpantheress, white town, spandau ballet, fishbone, operation ivy, talking heads, kate bush, blur, squeeze, strawberry switchblade, joost klein, duran duran, prince buster, new order, etc.
i am a selfshipper. my romantic f/os are julian fawcett mp (ghosts uk, nonsharing) and ada paige (rhythm doctor, also nonsharing) <3 two completely different characters but who caresssss. please don’t interact if you romantically selfship w them!! thank you!!! familial and platonic selfshippers can interact!!!
please keep in mind before you interact with me i have social anxiety and ocd, which means i might be awkward and prone to paranoia. it is nothing against you if i act like this!! do not worry!! i may be forgetful too since i suffer from frequent brain fog and memory gaps sorry.
i block freely and i use the block button quite a lot #curatingmyspace. please don’t take it personally if i block you. don’t interact with me though if you’re a zionist, a reform uk/maga/restore britain/any fascist party supporter, if you romantically selfship w my f/os (nothing personal against you i promise it’s just my boundaries!!) or if you’re an edada (edega x ada) shipper it makes me super uncomfortable i’m sorry.
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#autumn art — my art
#autumn thoughts — my thoughts can range from random ass shit to vents (will always tw them though)
#autumn photos — any photos i post from random shitposts to (rarely) photos i take irl
#fawtague — my bbc ghosts selfship
#med drama — my rhythm doctor selfship (really proud of that name)
#oshi — any posts of my oshis (fine motion, symboli rudolf, ada paige, unironically simon farnaby, etc.)
Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs. Kitty Higham (BBC Ghosts)
Azula
Kitty Higham
Remaining time: 6 days 4 hours
Propaganda below the cut:
Azula:
She is often given very little grace for her actions in comparison to her brother. I think people tend to forget that the only reason Zuko gets his redemption arc is because his banishment gave him access to an environment outside of his abusive home, as well as a support network who helped re-contextualize his experiences. Comparatively, Azula is younger than him, she's a girl in a patriarchal society, and she is systematically denied access to support and education that would inform her of the issues with how she is treated. Yes, the way she treats Zuko and her peers is often cruel, but she is also only 14 years old and lives under the constant threat of neglect and violence from a man who intentionally encourages competitiveness and conflates violence with authority. Any apparent delight she takes in Zuko's mistreatment is experienced alongside the understanding that if it wasn't him, it would be her. She does plenty of horrible things throughout the show, but I think her inability to understand the morality of those actions is more of a tragedy that people like to give credit for.
She is a child! Give her access to a support network, therapy, opportunities to learn about new people and places and the world outside of the bubble she has been kept in her whole life. She deserves a chance to deconstruct her experiences, to learn that how she was treated was wrong and that she deserves better, and that she has the opportunity to makes amends for her own actions and to break the cycle should she choose.
She's treated as an irredeemable war criminal and abuser at 14 while Iroh, a 50 something-at-youngest man who spent most of his life participating in a century of imperialism and besieged Ba Sing Se for 600 days before hanging up his hat as a general only after he personally lost his son and then proceeded to not actually take any steps whatsoever towards ending the war despite being the rightful heir, is a beloved fandom figure. People deny her humanity in every way they can at every chance they get and think she deserves to be psychiatrically abused and is incapable of being redeemed. Even a lot of the people who think she can be redeemed think more or less putting her on a leash so she can be Zuko's guard dog is "redemption." People won't even acknowledge that she's also a victim of her father's abuse.
Despite being a fourteen year old child soldier, she is adultified constantly. This usually comes in two forms - as an evil seductress or as evil incarnate, worse than even her father, Ozai. Some people even claim this fourteen year old girl SLEPT TO THE TOP. Or she is painted as evil and irredeemable despite her breakdown on screen. She is constantly hated on in order to prop her brother, Zuko, up.
She is clever and ambitious. She was able to restore her brother's honor, conquer Ba Sing Se, and kill the Avatar in one fell swoop. Evil actions? Yes but damn she did it well. She's been abused all her life and deserves a chance to heal from her trauma. She's the only one we see in the series wield blue flames, immensely powerful. She slays every outfit and scene she appears in. Insanely quotable. "Do the tides command this ship, or do I?…Then I think you should stop worrying about the tides, which have already decided to kill you, spend more time worrying about me, who's still mulling it over."
I don’t know if this counts as Azula propaganda, but some people are using the actress who plays her in the Netflix remake as the face of NATLA’s mishaps, such as using her exaggerated facial expressions in YouTube thumbnails. They hate her because she’s a bad actress and doesn’t look enough like Azula because she has a rounder, human face.
Azula is such a classic case of 'if she were a guy you would adore her'. She is a traumatised victim of abuse raised in an environment where the "affection" of her only remaining parental figure was conditional on her ability to achieve perfection in every aspect of her life (something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve, right?). She's isolated, intentionally pitted against her brother, obsessive, and is one of the (if not, THE) most skilled firebenders of her generation, despite being raised under a patriarchy that consistently devalues women. She's so wondefully complex, has some of the best lines in the show, and she's assertive and confident. But because she's never afforded the opportunity by the narrative to reframe the way she has been treated as abuse, to learn and grow and to form healthier bonds in the way that her brother is allowed, she's irredeemably evil and a bitch and we should all hate her (at least, that's how some people seem to think.) Her emotional breakdown at the end of her final fight with Zuko and Katara is one of the most harrowing scenes in the show, because it is such a painful and tragic example of a child who has been driven to the brink by an absusive upbringing and is now trapped completely alone with their pain. Why is it that Zuko's experiences and destructive reactions to trauma are given so much grace and he deserves the chance to redeem himself, but his younger sister is "getting what she deserves" when her trauma brings her nothing but suffering? Well, we know the reason. It's misogyny.
And this is just in reference to the animated show! The absolutely horrific things that have been said about the live action actress is genuinely disgusting. Fat shaming, a slew of abuse over her acting choices, the near constant commentary on her body (Mai's actress has also suffered a lot of the same treatment.) I remember when the first season came out and the amount of discussions going around about how she wasn't "pretty enough" to play Azula, as if these grown adults were genuinly offended that this ACTUAL CHILD wasn't attractive enough for them. There's so much commentary going around about the writing in this show and how the characters are being represented, but whenever Azula comes up it is an actual struggle to find any discussion about her role in the story that doesn't devolve into a poor-taste dissection of her appearence.
Free her!!!
Kitty Higham
Kitty is a well-liked character by a lot of the fandom, but she is often sidelined and infantilised by fans. Her being black and very possibly neurodivergent very likely makes things even worse for her. Despite her being said to be “of age” in canon (her age was later confirmed to be 23), many people in the fandom would headcanon her to be as young as 12 (the actress playing her was in her thirties) due to her somewhat naive and optimistic personality. Fans who shipped her with other characters would often get harassed (note: the characters being men that were commonly shipped with other men in the cast) for shipping an “underage” character with an adult. Kitty canonically shows a lot of interest in romance and sex, but a lot of people in the fandom choose to ignore this and make her out to be an innocent little girl who doesn’t even know what sex is.
Kitty is such a lovely character full of hope and optimism despite the lonely and neglected life she lived before dying and becoming a ghost. She’s constantly bringing joy to the people around her.
PLEASE VOTE KITTY ‼️‼️ the overt misogynoir i’ve seen in the ghosts fandom regarding kitty makes me so mad and we genuinely need to discuss it more. adding onto the propaganda too a lot of people dismiss her backstory and the racism she faced when she was alive from her sister. it’s insane how a lot of it comes from cap fans too when cap and kitty have a really close bond and their dynamic is super sweet. AND JULIAN FANS TOO. i’m julian fawcett’s #1 fan and lover but. a lot of you suck really bad.
now realising my ocd is slowly ruining my friendships and making me an unlikeable human being and i’ll never have a good friendship ever again because of it LMAO
the murdle puzzle books are so cute bc wdym it's actually a super queer universe with nonbinary criminals and gay detectives and that love to say ACAB every chance they get and constantly critique capitalism. detective logico i am charmed by you
okay so i think the reason i cannot sleep to save my life and the reason i’ve felt so sick is because i’m having a flare up for FUCKS sake give me a break
