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i have watched appa's lost days and i love how atla is kind to animals in general and to appa in particular. it loves him so much, elizabeth ehasz does, and knows that the viewer loves him too. and it is crazy to think that people keep praising this episode and then go and eat meat. it is even crazier to think that they proclaim themselves atla fans, say that it is their favorite show, not just their favorite animated show, but their favorite show of all. but i cannot understand what makes them say so when they do not even share its values. atla does not condemn characters who eat meat and it does not even fully condemn sozin. but it does treat the air nomads' ethics as the ideal. it does the same with guru pathik's ethics, and with aang's when he defends his culture's values. and then you see people who are supposed fans turn to powerscaling, writing po/.rn, eating meat, being all filthy. and they say that atla influenced them as children, but that influence is nowhere to be found in their lives

#guru pathik asking appa 'may i attach it to your horn?' proved to me that i am still capable of tender emotion

fuckyouozai

bryke once said that the importance of zuko asking ozai “where is my mother” at the end of the series was not that this was a mystery which they ever intended on solving, but rather that it was an indication of the reversal of power dynamics between the two of them. it was to show that zuko was no longer afraid of ozai and could no longer be manipulated by him. the answer does not matter! and in fact if you continue that logic back to the last time this question came up in the day of black sun, we see ozai dangling the thought of ursa in front of zuko SPECIFICALLY in order to manipulate him and keep him there. the idea that ursa was alive was something he said to make sure zuko didn’t move until the eclipse ended and ozai could kill him

if that moment was solely about manipulation, as the reversal is used to indicate that zuko can No Longer be manipulated, then the textual evidence really strong suggests that no, ursa is not alive. ozai was lying to him. he was manipulating him. the search is a retcon

#this is so important to me that i need it on my main at least for now #ozai lying to zuko about his mother being alive in order to kill him. its so evil in the best way possible narratively

#hertha thiele #dorothea wieck #mädchen in uniform #favorite

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#music #one of the coldest dark ambient albums

In short, to the extent that their antagonism becomes embittered, a paradox occurs: the antagonists resemble one another more and more. They confront one another all the more implacably because their conflict dissolves the real differences that formerly separated them. Envy, jealousy, and hate render alike those they possess, but in our world people tend to misunderstand or ignore the resemblances and identities that these passions generate. They have ears only for the deceptive celebration of differences, which rages more than ever in our societies, not because real differences are increasing but because they are disappearing.

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning René Girard

#rené girard

The appearance of a rival seems to validate the desire, the immense value of the object desired. Imitation becomes intensified at the heart of the hostility, but the rivals do all they can to conceal from each other and from themselves the cause of this intensification. Unfortunately, concealment doesn't work. In imitating my rival's desire I give him the impression that he has good reasons to desire what he desires, to possess what he possesses, and so the intensity of his desire keeps increasing.

As a general rule, quiet and untroubled possession weakens desire. In giving my model a rival I return to him, in a way, the gift of the desire that he just gave to me. I give a model to my own model. The spectacle of my desire reinforces his at the precise moment when, in confronting me, he reinforces mine. That man whose wife I desire, for example, had perhaps ceased to desire her over time. His desire was dead, but upon contact with mine, which is living, it regains life. The mimetic nature of desire accounts for the fragility of human relations. Our social sciences should give due consideration to a phenomenon that must be considered normal, but they persist in seeing conflict as something accidental, and consequently so unforeseeable that researchers cannot and must not take it into account in their study of culture. Not only are we blind to the mimetic rivalries in our world, but each time that we celebrate the power of our desire we glorify it. We congratulate ourselves on having within us a desire that "will last forever," as Baudelaire put it ("l'expansion des choses infinies"), but we do not see what this "forever" conceals: the idolization of the neighbor. This idolatry is necessarily associated with the idolization of ourselves. The more desperately we seek to worship ourselves and to be good "individualists," the more compelled we are to worship our rivals in a cult that turns to hatred.

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning René Girard

#see how the philosophers say the most obvious things and get praised for it #rené girard