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Where I can put my love of characters and plot to good use. Mostly reblogs right now. I hope you are having a good day!

[tainwho]

I read the hp books for the first time in a decade and it is WILD how there’s no basis in canon for Lily being friends with Remus. Mary? Sure. Sirius? Absolutely. Peter? Yup. But no Remus…

[ihopuhopwehop]

I think it came from the movies! Remus says something to Harry about his mom being kind in prisoner of Azkaban when he had to miss the first Hogsmeade trip.

[lilybohatch]

They were also both prefects during the same period of time! I like to imagine they would've had the opportunity to talk during rounds or meetings. I do wonder if they were actually friends, or if they simply had the ability to observe eachother more closely. I can see them not being able to fully engage with eachother due to their history, but in my heart, I've always imagined a secret friendship stolen during rounds.

[meliake]

rewatching Avatar is so weird because Sokka is literally the only thing keeping them alive and fed. He constantly is like,

'guys we're out of supplies/ we need to stop/ we're attracting too much attention with the flying bison we should walk' etc.

Like in the ´The Storm' when they're completely out of money and supplies the one to get a job in hopes of making money (he never actually gets paid, the world hates him) is Sokka.

In 'The Waterbending Scroll,' it's Sokka who's concerned about their lack of supplies when Aang sends them in a wave down the river, and is making sure they're careful with their spendibg when in town shopping.

He's also seen to catch fish and gather nuts (I know more often than not he fails to catch things on screen but it's implied he's the one that does most of the hunting and gathering)

It's like- Aang totally would have starved to death or gotten completely off track with often they're completely out of food and money

[fandomxgodess]

I think the little ways they show Lockwood’s recklessness right in the beginning are so interesting because of how they change. In the first episode, he forgets the chains and doesn’t pay attention when he breaks the circle of filings. That’s his first case with Lucy, it hurts them BOTH, and we don’t actually see him being forgetful about equipment after that. In fact, he’s extremely clever with ensuring they have a good flare for the Fairfax incident. Because being forgetful now means endangering the people he loves, so he stops and becomes more careful in that regard.

But his love for his friends also increases his recklessness in other regards. He offers himself up to Winkman easily and desperately to save Lucy, where before he might’ve just antagonized him. He makes stupid bets with Kipps to prove he’s the best, which I think is a way of proving himself to them. He basically intends to go against an insanely powerful ghost (Bickerstaff) on his own, AFTER BEING SHOT, to protect them.

Anthony Lockwood never stops endangering himself but he DOES begin doing it with care

[assiraphales]

yes the fellowship would die for each other etc etc but I love the concept of the interpersonal relationship drama that would unfold from months on the road. frodo & legolas not vibing. aragorn introducing his long time friend legolas to gimli (who literally hate each other at first) just to become the third wheel, and despite being the youngest of the three, the responsible one. merry & pippin trauma bond // become practically telepathic. sam feeling awk bc he doesn’t feel like one of the cool kids. gandalf’s long standing beef with pippin. boromir having major afterlife fomo. u know

[assiraphales]

another point to consider: gimli and frodo both found love on their journey (legolas & sam) but they both also had third wheels (aragorn & gollum)

[neolesbian]

i get that its popular but has anyone thought about how fucked up the truman show is? like it was really funny last week when he tripped over that bird but think about it... he doesnt know...

[leolaroot]

okay if you care so much then don't watch 🙄 people are always whining about the show but I knowwww you're tuning in. besides he's never known anything else at this point it'd be cruel to end the show. like what are they gonna do? just release him into the wild?

[desos-records]

The part I appreciate the most in the Lockwood and Co show is how it handles depression and suicidal thoughts in teenagers. As a theme, it’s not often (ever) done well. Lockwood and Co is the only story I can think of that depicts it in a nuanced, realistic, non-romanticized way

but first, before I get into it: [if you’re in crisis or need someone to talk to and don’t want to/can’t use your national hotline, highly recommend Samaritans, genuinely saved my life] okay, let’s go

Lockwood is the most obvious, with his general disregard for his own life and admitted suicidal ideation. Lucy struggles with her self-worth and the intensity of the emotions she’s subjected to. George worries that he doesn’t belong, that there’s something useless or wrong about him. The show depicts these thoughts and feelings in a way that isn’t overblown or dramatized, it’s all but casual. Which is how it happens. Depression or suicidal thoughts don’t crash into you all at once, they creep into your life without you noticing

But more importantly (and again, something I’ve never seen anywhere else), the show also offers counterpoints to those thoughts and feelings. It shows that there is a way out, even though you may feel trapped and hopeless. This is crucial for the show’s target demographic. Bad media depictions of depression or suicide get internalized, contribute to the stigma, and make it harder for people to ask for help. This show doesn’t do that. This show tells its audience that, yes, things are scary and painful and it fucking sucks, but it’s not hopeless. And it says it so well

In the second episode, when Lucy wants to quit, she admits something that I’m almost certain she’s never told anyone

“sometimes I just think I’d be better off dead”

And when I watched this the first time, I expected Lockwood to react the way I’ve seen people react in my own life; with silence or panic or downright dismissal. But he didn’t. He stays calm and he says something that is so so important to hear when you’re struggling under the weight of feelings like this

“I understand that”

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[avelera]

Still never over my headcanon that after 1689, Dream is petrified of Hob learning that the whole immortality thing was because he wanted to watch Hob beg for death in a century, because he fears it would mean the end of their friendship. When really, if Hob found out, he’d laugh and laugh, and take Dream out for a drink, maybe hug him, and then laugh some more. And the whole time they were out he’d be so unbearably smug about the fact he was so damn good at wanting to live that not only did he win, but Dream lost and he lost so bad that now he’s friends with Hob based on the sheer power of how much Hob wanted to live. Sucker.

(Never mind that it’s actually a huge relief for Hob that his immortality is based on a petty little wager because Dream was feeling particularly bitchy one day. There’s no grand plan. There’s no great purpose Hob’s failing at. A cosmic entity just felt like being a jerk and it blew up in his face and now he’s friends with this human mud person that annoyed him one day with his hubris. It’s beautiful. Hob can’t stop smiling. This is the best possible reason ever that he got to be immortal.)

[ironinkpen]

best thing about uncle iroh is that if you pay attention he is actually just as much of an idiot as zuko but has just mastered the art of coming across as a wise old man. the even better thing is that zuko is the only one on the planet who somewhat realizes this and no one would ever believe him because he's zuko

[ironinkpen]

like uncle iroh 100% does dumb shit on purpose sometimes to get people to underestimate him and keep zuko from capturing the avatar, but other times he just, and i cannot emphasize this enough, does impulsive dumb shit for no reason other than the fact that terminal stupid presumably runs in the royal family's blood

[ironinkpen]

uncle: "you never think things through, prince zuko!"

also uncle:

once got captured by the earth kingdom army buck ass naked bc he really wanted to go to a hot spring in enemy territory

betrayed zhao at the Northern Water Tribe with no escape plan and then spent 3 weeks starving on a boat

immediately went to a spa resort upon publicly committing treason

ate a poisonous plant and, in the spirit of Two Fish Hook Sokka, was going to solve the problem by eating another potentially poisonous plant

decided the safest place in the world they could go was the city he once FAMOUSLY laid siege to for 600 days

instead of lying low or giving a modicum of a shit about people recognizing him, overachieved himself into becoming one of the most well-known restaurant owners in said city

in fact overachieved so hard that he got an invite to meet the earth king (whose city he, again, once FAMOUSLY LAID SIEGE TO) which he fucking? accepted????

[prettybirdy979]

#no wonder zuko was constantly frothing at the mouth! he's the only one who knows the truth!#god just imagine the number of times people have seen zuko yelling at iroh#and assumed zuko was just being mean#when zuko was actually yelling at his uncle for wasting all their money bartering with pirates AGAIN#everyone assumes iroh is babysitting zuko but really they're pingponging responsibility back and forth#and zuko at least has the excuse of being 16#anyway I love Uncle Hypocrite so much; funniest motherfucker on the planet (via OP)

[non-bender-world]

Can we consider how many people Toph caused internal bleeding and broken bones?

[comradekatara]

oh honey they are fully dead

[chemicalmagecraft]

No but Toph was a professional earthbending wrestler with the power to feel the whole human body at once through vibrations with enough accuracy to tell lies. She knows exactly how much pressure the human body can take before important things start breaking or I’ll go buy a hat for the sole purpose of eating it.

[comradekatara]

oh, sure. she doesn’t care though. she’s 12 and she’s thriving and she loves to murder

[sussura]

Aang: I have to defeat Ozai, but I don’t think I can murder anyone

Toph: I can do it.

Aang:

Toph: I’ve killed like 20 people since we met

Aang:

Sokka:

Katara:

[panpteryx]

Toph: I mean you guys have killed a bunch of people too

Aang: what no I haven’t I’ve never killed anyone!

Toph: twinkletoes you pick people up and drop them and blow them into walls. katara hits people with water hard enough to throw them to the ground and encases them in ice. Zuko’s straight-up throwing fire at people. Sokka hits people with a club.

Katara:

Aang:

Sokka:

Toph: when you hit people really hard they often die. I mean, I feel it every time. not counting the head trauma and frostbite that probably means they die later.

Toph: ….did you guys not know you were killing people?

Zuko: I mean I wasn’t going to bring it up but she’s right

Toph: I thought we were all doing it on purpose!

Zuko: it’s all in self-defense, it’s not like we’re going out of our way to kill people, but these things happen. Sometimes people have to die to protect everyone else. I thought you understood that already

Katara:

Sokka:

Aang:

Aang:

Aang: *extremely loud airbender scream*

[melonishus]

[Aang  looks to all the other Avatars]

[All of them but Kyoshi avoid his eyes]

Kyoshi - I don’t see what the problem is

[nocturan]

It’s an earthbender thing

[mikkeneko]

aang: Oh wisdom of Avatars past, advise me on how to defeat Ozai

kiyoshi: sometimes you gotta murder a bitch, kid. don’t know what else to tell you

aang:

aang: can I receive the wisdom of a different  ancestor please? maybe one not so down with murder?

[brieblade]

@lilybohatch

[lilybohatch]

We could probably put together a full list. It'd be pretty extensive. This is one of the reasons I laugh when Batman says that he doesn't kill people.

[jedthewolfdog]

while “zuko sent to find one single person who hasnt existed in 100 years and then he actually does” can be very funny in concept, can we just talk about how fucking heartbreaking it must be for iroh? 

like. he knows this is an impossible task. and it does happen–yes! in the first episode, so maybe we don’t even think about it that much! but when ozai tells zuko to go find the avatar, it’s an impossible task. and iroh knows this. and zuko might have everything riding on this, and he’s a kid and hasn’t learned what’s impossible yet, and so he’s plugging his ears and saying “i can do it! i can do it and then dad will love me again!”, but iroh knows the only reason this specific task was assigned is because ozai doesn’t want him. he doesn’t want him back. ozai didn’t want him to betray them so he gave him a little hope, a little “of course i could still love you, you can come back, that’s a possibility, just don’t disappoint me” because, you know, he’s an abusive dick. but iroh knows his brother, and he knows 

i think as a kid, while i loved loved iroh, it was a little hard to reconcile his silly moments with his wise moments. it’s not anymore 

i’m just thinking of the pai sho tile, and how silly it seemed at the time that it was just in his sleeve. silly old man! so forgetful 

no. no, that wasn’t it at all 

because every moment he stalled, every moment he mucked up the plan, every moment he just generally wasn’t helpful, that was another moment where he could still have a chance. where he might get through to zuko. where he could delay what was suddenly now a very real possibility: 

that ozai sent zuko away, but zuko would actually come back, expecting to be loved. and that’s what iroh didn’t want to happen. winning ozai’s love was more unrealistic than finding someone who’d been dead for 100 years, in the end 

[silver-sphere]

While watching the show it never occurred to me that Iroh was stalling to avoid the confrontation Zuko would have with his father’s undeniable rejection. I always thought it was to prevent Aang from actually being captured. to save the world- not to save Zuko. But this adds such a deep and beautiful layer to it.

[fairmanor]

The funniest thing about LOTR is Aragorn constantly overstepping the Elves’ personal boundaries. They come from a race where touching your heart is one of the highest signs of affection and he’s over here pulling them into bear hugs and slapping shoulders like a brawny middle-aged dad

[willkill4pudding]

LMAO wasn't Aragorn raised by Elves? He knows what he's doing

[fairmanor]

True, but the momentary panic in Haldir’s eyes here is hilarious

[niche-pastiche]

Okay but what this potentially says about Elrond and the rest of the elves he was raised by is absolutely heartwarming. Because IRL humans need a certain amount of touch and affection and hugs and stuff. It’s particularly important for things like brain development and while it varies from person to person it’s still more than what elf kids need

And it honestly looks like Aragorn is not only comfortable with this kind of physical affection, he’s used to it. 

Which makes me think that instead of looking at young Aragorn, and asking him to be more like an elf to fit in with those around them. Elrond looked at this kid and and thought to himself “how can I be more like what this child needs to thrive” 

Aragorn has been raised by Elves since he was only 2 years old. So if we’re going by Piaget’s theories of child development, that puts Aragorn, (who would have been called Estel at the time) in the pre-operational stage. Or somewhere thereabouts. So Elrond is raising this kid when he’s learning to talk. When he’s constantly asking “why?” about everything. 

Young Estel would have grown up surrounded by elves and elf children and just by virtue of not being an elf, he probably would have had to deal with feeling less capable than those around him. He wouldn’t have been able to do things like run across snow, and didn’t have the ability to see as far as they did with their “elf eyes” and I am imagining all manner of bruises and skinned knees as he tries to keep up anyway. 

And it would take some getting used to his new surrounding, but  I can’t stop picturing the first time tiny little Estel runs full tilt across the room and hugs Elrond’s leg. 

And instead of scolding him or asking him to be more like an elf to fit in, Elrond consciously sets aside his own discomfort in the face of what this child needs to thrive. And if what Estel needs is hugs, then hugs he shall have. 

Elrond picking up itty bitty Aragorn in a great big hug, and being just as uncomfortable about it, but hiding it well because this child was entrusted to his care and he will not let the boy grow up feeling unwanted or unloved.

And so Aragorn grew up surrounded by elves, but he grew up to be someone who naturally and unselfconsciously displays affection. 

I think that speaks volumes about Elrond. 

He raised this kid from age 2 to age 20 (so the majority of his formative years and well through his teens) and it was around then that Elrond’s own daughter gets back form visiting her grandmother Galadriel and meets this boy for the first time.

So I have NO IDEA what the various stages of child development would be for an elf, but I doubt their exactly the same.

Sure, Elrond might seem distant now, but there is no way Aragorn became the guy who is constantly overstepping elves personal boundaries to display affection without Elrond choosing to sacrifice his personal boundaries for the sake of a child’s well being.

[fairmanor]

This is the best possible addition to this post

[sum1tookish]

Probably one of my favorite random things about LotR is the fact that

a) Pippin did a Gollum impression in the books

b) Pippin had never MET Gollum before that point and never would

c) yet it was an ACCURATE impression, as it startled and was recognized by the orc he was speaking to

d) the only possible explanation for Pippin Took’s accurate Gollum impression is this: Bilbo, while telling stories to the eager children, must have imitated Gollum perfectly

[mirkwoodest]

Which also kind of drives home how weird it would have been for both Frodo and Sam to suddenly be travelling with what was basically the equivilent of like… rumplestiltskin… from their childhood bedtime stories.

[astrobottyotty]

Unpopular Opinion: Good Omens fans are way too overly sensitive about the Newt/Anathema plotline to the point they don’t even understand it’s point and place in the narrative. It’s funny and sweet and to be frank I think y'all just don’t get it.

[jeannettegray]

The entire point of the relationship is that Newton (the person who destroys systems) gives Anathema (the person whose every thought, action and decision since childhood has been dictated by the cult-like structure of her family) the confidence to break free and make her own choices.

In the book, Anathema’s inner thoughts show that she doesn’t even find him remotely attractive when they meet for the first time, but she just literally shrugs it off and fucks him anyway because that’s what the prophecies say and so that’s what she must do. It never even occurs to her not to do it, because her entire life has been shaped by the prophecies.

If the prophecies say she has to do something, she does it. If the prophecies do not say anything, she focuses all her attention on studying them anyway just in case. She is utterly and completely dependant on them.

And then she finds Newt. A guy who, in the book, is described as not opposed to believing in God, per se, but unwilling to commit before first having a chat with Him. The guy whose entire existence is the embodiment of the cog in the machine.

She starts growing fond of him for real when he shows himself to be supportive, encouraging, and 100% has her back even when it could fuck him over. In the epilogue, he has fallen hard for Anathema, and she is going to marry him because she thinks the prophecies want her to. But, knowing full well it could sink the relationship (the only one he has ever had), he asks her the question nobody else has ever asked her in her entire life. “Are you sure this is what you want?”

Newton was the very first choice Anathema made for herself in her entire life. In that moment, in that place, for the first time ever, she trusted herself with the unknown and took a chance.

I understand the distaste for the “boy and girl fall in love at first sight” trope, as it so often goes hand-in-hand with compulsory heterosexuality. Two people of the same sex have fantastic chemistry and shared backstory, but then they end up married to some person of the opposite sex they made eye contact with once.

But in the case of Newton and Anathema, the whole point of their relationship is “break the system and take a chance.” It’s no coincidence that Neil Gaiman, who fully supports the queer community and has made a career out of breaking harmful expectations, thinks it’s a very sweet relationship.

[sainamoonshine]

All of the relationships in the books are about defying expectations, falling for the “ennemy” and realizing they’re not at all different from yourself, finding comfort in the people who are there for you even tho that’s not what’s expected… 

Anathema and Newt are both descendants of people who literally killed eachother, and Newton was very concerned about Anathema’s blind following of the prophecies and ended up helping her make the decision to break free from her pre-defined role. Meanwhile, she is the absolute unbreakable strenght that this spineless guy has always needed to FIND his own role.

Madam Tracy and Shadwell? She’s everything he’s defined his life around, even though not in the way he thought it would turn out. But she’s always been probably the only person who could stand him, and while he’s been going through the words and the movements of “go away sworn ennemy” for years, he did always eat her meals and also was ride or die to protect her when he thought there was a dude in her appartment. I mean, he’s a creep and my less favourite character, but the intention of the “ennemies who end up being the only person for eachother” thing comes out loud and clear through them too.

Yes, the serie spends a lot more time around Aziraphale and Crowley (the OG slowburn), but the very same themes of their romance can be found resonating through the entire show and all the characters. 

The entire point of the book and show, and not just the relationships but everything the story is about, is about breaking free of expectations, finding yourself, and finding the people that form “your side”. 

[obaewankenope]

[cloudbends]

I just thought of something.

Zuko poured every member of the gaang tea in "the boiling rock - part 1", meaning he probably brought some tea with him on his journey to the Avatar's aid.

I realize now that he probably took that tea with him because he was going to break iroh out of prison and travel with him to seek for the avatar, but already found him gone in his cell, and wanted to bring iroh the tea he adored so much to have on his journey and I got really sad.

This also puts him sharing that tea with the gaang in a whole new, meaningful light.

He's sharing this link to his uncle with the gaang.

[royaltealovingkookiness]

It’s one of my favourite ways Zuko “channels” Iroh during his time with the Gaang. And yes, when he packed, he made sure to pack Iroh’s favourite tea-pot and tea, because they were going to escape together, and he was hoping to bring Iroh to teach Aang firebending, because Zuko couldn’t imagine anyone better to teach the Avatar.

[royaltealovingkookiness]

In Atla: the boiling rock 2, even though mail saved zuko and co., I felt that she saved zuko because she 'loves him' and not that she felt that his actions were right. If the group sans zuko were caught in the gondola, do you think she would have saved them? Even though mai had her moment, it didn't make sense. Your thoughts?

Certainly, the narrative tells you exactly that’s what Mai is doing; she saves the boy she loves.

But of course, all this is happening within a context, and there are some questions that I wish the episode addressed better.

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[ohmykorra]

[royaltealovingkookiness]

This scene in retrospect though - there is so much to unpack:

Both Katara and Sokka are reacting very strongly - Katara freezes, curls herself up like a scared child and cries inconsolably, while Sokka tackles Aang from a place of pure anger. After knowing their backstory and how their mother died, their reaction makes perfect sense. Katara is not only reacting to the physical pain, but taken back to a real childhood trauma, and Sokka is not only a protective big brother, but reacts from a place of previous loss. 

For Aang, however, fire is still a game; the trauma of the loss of his people is not connected to the element inside him in a visceral way, like Katara’s and Sokka’s loss of their mother is. Experiencing Katara’s and Sokka’s trauma-filled reaction is what changes Aang’s perception - which then leads to his fire-bending block. 

At the same time that Aang loses his ability to firebend, the injury unlocks in Katara the ability to heal. And I think this not a coincidence that it happens in this very moment, when she is hurt by fire. Kya died to protect her daughter, the last waterbender of the South. And Katara has to live up to this sacrifice. 

Book 1 Katara sees herself as a supporting character in the Avatar’s story - she believes in him unquestioningly. Aang hurting her drives home that he really is just a kid, who can and will make mistakes, and who cannot shoulder alone being the saviour of the world. And unlocking healing  (Jeong-Jeong tells her it’s something that great benders of the water tribe have) also strengthens Katara’s belief in her own abilities and puts her on the path to become a master, a lead character in her own story to bring hope to the world. 

[royaltealovingkookiness]

I have mixed feelings about "The Headband". While I liked how the children were indoctrinated in the school,I think the whole "no fun allowed" made no sense. I mean, don't people in fascist regimen have fun? I understand forbidding some works,like Hitler did in Nazi Germany. However,I believe they didn't turn into robots.

I don’t have mixed feelings about it, it’s straight up one of my least favourite episodes. It really didn’t fit in tone after The Awakening, was  a terrible filler episode, in the worst meaning of that word, with no character development and some serious OOC stuff that immediately derailed the narrative of Book 3. 

Yes, you are point on - it makes sense for the Fire Nation to have a rigid school system that teaches obedience and discipline above all, and discourages all critical thinking.  But again - you are 100% right - even an authoritarian regime would allow people to have fun and even seek to use such cultural events to further it’s propaganda (think of the play in Ember Island Players!) and to divert people’s attention of politics or domestic problems.

And it wasn’t even that the Fire Nation was not allowed to have fun - it was specifically a prohibition of dancing, with the only narrative reason that someone really wanted Aang to have a reason to throw a cave party. 

Otherwise, we see the Fire Nation throw festivals as early as The Deserter. It shows them having a fondness for theater and the performing arts (so why is dancing singled out as a big no-no? It’s never explained)

We see Zuko’s crew having music night and dancing (and surely Book 1 Zuko would have never condoned something prohibited on his ship)

We see people chilling and having fun on Ember Island, gambling and enjoying games through The Runaway, we see kids cos-playing in the theater…etc.

So, yeah, the prohibition of dancing in particular feels quite arbitrary and out of nowhere. Then again, Book 3 unfortunately did a very poor job of introducing Fire Nation culture and politics for a string of messy, experimental episodes. 

Looking at their flair for the dramatic, I would actually expect them to throw pretty lavish and elaborate festivals.

[emletish-fish]

Agree with everything, especially the bit about the flair for the dramatic. The Fire Nation isn’t a dour and dowdy place. It’s full of drama llamas. It would make sense that their festivals were over the top.

[bulletproofteacup]

Honestly, I have a headcanon of Fire Nation school being super wild and fire filled the second supervision is missing. Like can you imagine angsty, hormone-filled teens not challenging each other to Agni Kais? Because I sure don’t.