EvanescentDream93

30+| ISFJ | Might have seen me on Fanfiction.net or AO3. A place for my fanfics and all my other fandom related stuff. Main blog: @zozo3193

[rowlfthedog]

[walk-up-songs]

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[hosseinis]

the thing about the mummy movies is that you really spend most of the time thinking "wow brendan fraser's character is so cool" or "man oded fehr is so mysterious and heroic" when the fact of the matter is that these two

are the absolute most batshit insane heroes in the entire franchise

these two are intellectual loner siblings with archeology backgrounds who read and speak ancient egyptian, hire a dude directly out of prison to take them to a lost city of gold, and fight mummies literally with their bare hands. twice.

no one in these movies stands a chance against the carnahans. frankly they're lethal in how willing they are to make the absolute and most undeniably deranged decisions. jonathan pickpockets a dude on fire. evy's resurrected from the dead and immediately remembers how to use sai. they're racking shotguns from a cliff in this scene and then proceed to blow away half the antagonists.

rick and ardeth should be so lucky

[segamascott]

Why the fuck are you 30+ on tumblr

this is my house?

[grungixfungi]

[battydeville]

Death is Temporary, I’ll love you forever 💕⚡️

IG: BattyDeville

[fictionadventurer]

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

[datasnake]

Other examples of “blamed for things their copycats did” include Watchmen (blamed for the gritty antihero comics of the 90s) and Madoka Magica (blamed for excessively edgy and grimdark magical girl shows).

[fictionadventurer]

Four years on, and I think you might be the first person to add this type of comment to this post. After receiving so many comments that are like “THG is nowhere near on the level of LotR” or “THG didn’t invent YA dystopia”, it’s so refreshing to see someone understand exactly what I meant by framing THG as “a work blamed for its copycats”, and expand on it with examples that I didn’t know about.

It’s so rare to get an original comment on this post. Thank you so much.

[sharkprisms]

the way Mira isn't mean

the only people she is consistently aggressive towards are the demons that kill people. that is it. that is all.

she's not mean to Bobby. she's not mean to Rumi. she's not mean to Zoey. she isn't mean to her fans. she only got "upset" with the doctor when he was trying to her up in her business but she was laughing and chatting it up with him like twenty seconds earlier

like yeah haha mean lesbian Mira but...no...she's very sweet...like consistently nice to other people that aren't just Zoey or Rumi

[chessman-protocol]

//Hums--

[himitsu-png]

An important choice (The idea by @inuxi)

[inuxi]

What do you mean when you say flirting doesn't work like that?! See? It worked for them!

[qirarey123]

Zutara × Kpop Demon Hunter au

[sorceressmyr]

zutaraweek2025

Day1 : Royalty

Fire Lord Zuko & his Lady Katara from the Water Tribe.

I haven't draw them in a long time so forgive me if they look so stiff 🥲🙏

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Thank you 🙏

[demaparbat-hp]

Damage.

Quote by @desertbcrnnobody

[draxofoy]

did someone say paintedspirit as rujinu 👂🏼

when i saw that one post on twt I knew I just HAD to bring that vision to live but i can't draw for shit 😭 and it's such a coincidence that I saw @intrlight 's tiktok post of their OCs in KPDH universe and I KNEW it was fate 😌 Immediately contacted them for a commission and that's how these babies were born 🧎🏻‍♀️

[kachuusha]

zutara is one of those ships that feels organic because of how their individual arcs developed and eventually converged. the foundation was convincing because it was rooted in their individuality rather than motivated by a simple "these two characters should end up together."

there are plenty of canon romances that feel lacking to me because there are writers who just decide what pair(s) they want to become endgame rather than taking into account how their characters will grow individually in the long run? are they actually compatible, or the writer just like the idea of them becoming canon?

so for zutara's case, even if people say "but it's not canon or endgame", they still cannot erase the fact that there are parts to their stories that were intrinsically intertwined. the connection and bond they formed ever since that fateful encounter in the catacombs and when they saved each other during the comet was something unique to them and their dynamic. and this will always be more compelling to me than "but this ship is the canon endgame"

I think it was also one of the reasons for the zutara community's longevity and why we are blessed with amazing metas. the fanworks are also creations that delve deeper into the foundations we had in the storyline but left unexplored due to what became endgame.

[catsith21]

I love your take on this, “…the foundation is convincing because it was rooted in their individuality.” That hits so hard!

And Yes! They both feel like fleshed out people on their own and don’t need the other character present to prop them up because of this. They both can stand on their own, which makes it all the more rewarding when they share a scene together!

And the fact that the plot gives both of these two time to come into their own through their individual efforts is something so rare, and amazing. I’m literally at a loss for words on how to describe it, but I guess what I’m trying to say is that their story beats allow them to intersect in crucial moments of their narratives and they each show up in each other’s lives as a slightly different version of themselves each time they meet.

Katara and Zuko’s narratives are each their own, but still we would not get the same story if one were removed from the other’s arc!

[kachuusha]

this exactly! hence zutara feels like a well-rounded ship despite being fandom. the potential for romance is not exactly dependent on building up that they will end up together at some point in the story but their character arcs!

[kachuusha]

what gets to me when it comes to zutara is that zuko is perhaps the first person who joined their group who made katara feel that her feelings over certain things can also be deemed a priority. I think this is a big gesture, especially for katara, someone who always puts others before her. he made her feel that her grief isn't something that should be swept other the rug for the comfort of others.

he offered to help her find closure, something that no one else had done before? and zuko didn't tell her what to do to achieve it, katara had all the say in the matter.

while the storyline in book 3 calls for a "zuko field trip", and others might reason out that "because zuko wants to earn her forgiveness", none of doesn't negate the fact that he still prioritized her feelings? I don't think people are putting things into perspective that what zuko did takes effort.

zuko empathized with katara and made an effort to get to the bottom of what is gnawing at her. I don't think zuko was even expecting anything in return? I mean even the hug itself surprised him.

[kasumitanart]

“Give me your body.”

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[ID: an illustration of Soshiro Hoshina, a thin yet muscular young man with fair skin and a dark bob cut. He's wearing the Numbers Weapon 10, an armor with light purple undertones, a long mechanical tail and Kaiju No. 10's signature eye in the middle of the chest plate. Hoshina can be seen wielding his twin swords - one over his shoulder and the other next to his hip. He's glaring at the viewer over a black mask.

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[tiramisooooh]

hoshinaヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ

[kianamaiart]

Just got back from a trip! Shaking off the rust a bit 🌟