Behind Bridgerton: The Queen's Ball

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Behind Bridgerton: The Queen's Ball
POLIN WEEK 2025 Day Seven: Favorite Polin Scene
Someone free Luke Newton from “fans” who complain about everything he does, constantly shade him, and act like they are being held hostage and forced to be fans.
Luke Newton “fans” everybody.
Sorry but me and oomfs are hilarious and the fact none of you joyless bitches get we're joking is on you all 😭😭
Neytiri being down bad for Jake while he tames his ikran for 1 minute and 7 seconds
😹😹😹 they’re such dorks, I love them so much!!
…buuuuuuut as a Na'vi language nerd, especially after seeing the “debate” about it in the comments, I do feel very much obligated to say that this video’s usage of ma is incorrect.
The word ma is what linguists call a vocative marker. It’s a particle used before a name when addressing someone directly; you can think of it kinda like a verbal version of an @ in a chatroom.
Yes, Neytiri does say “ma Jake” several times in the movies, but if you go back and look at each time she does, you’ll notice that she only says it when talking directly to Jake, not when talking about him to someone else.
✅ Ma Jake, where did you go? <- This is correct use of ma! ❌ Hey Grace, did you see where ma Jake went? <- this is incorrect use of ma! ✅ Ma Grace, did you see where Jake went? <- This is also correct use of ma! Remember, ma is used for the person you are talking to, never for a third person you are talking about
and listen. I absolutely adore Jeytiri, they are 100% my favorite ship in this franchise. So I completely understand why Jeytiri shippers who haven’t studied Na'vi would want to latch onto “ma Jake” as a super cute affectionate thing that Neytiri does just for Jake, and am very sorry to have to burst that bubble, but…well, it’s not 😅
Addressing someone with ma is standard when speaking Na'vi; it’s done for everyone regardless of relationship, and doesn’t really have any romantic or affectionate significance. It’s not a special Jake-and-Neytiri pet name, it’s just basic Na'vi grammar that Neytiri sometimes slips into out of habit when speaking English (sorry) 😅
…or hey, if you don’t want to take my word for it, here’s a lesson with Paul Frommer himself (creator of the language!) where he explains it (among other things)! 😁
bruh are you guys unable to laugh at a funny joke without being insufferable about it??? Like damn who fucking hurt you 😭
Jake: "Damn, I'm beat. G'night, baby."
Neytiri: "I want another child."
Jake:
“I’ll cut your throat! That will shut you up!”
“You’re beautiful.”
It’s Avatar Neytiri!
Commission for @jakexneytiri !!
THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
The Israelis are still bombing the Palestinians including Palestinian Christians who are like the OG Christians so this Christmas I want to point out something:
Everything I have learned about Israel, including things I learned from people who were raised there, sounds like if being an evangelical fundie Christian was a country. It's giving cult, it's giving fundie western Evangelicism but with a Jewish twist.
Merry Christmas.
I really tried SO HARD to not make my usual line, tried to do a more simple one to make it really look like some Disney animation but... Hey, you're the judges !
Here are Neytiri and Jake from the first Avatar movie, if you want me to try to do someone else, feel free to tell me ! Might try to do more !
P.S. : Not me posting this on the wrong account lmao, sorry about that !
Hey, so I saw your post about some fics demonizing Neytiri. That has actually been one of my major fears as a fic writer, attempting to balance Neytiri's extremely valid trauma and the POV I'm writing from (that is typically flawed in some way). I was wondering, since you seem very well-versed on the topic, what do you define as "demonizing" for Neytiri? Is it ok to write from a perspective where a character doesn't really like or trust her, as long as the trauma is noted? Do you have any resources so I can educate myself to properly write this kind of character?
I really want to make sure I'm doing right by Neytiri and improve as a fic writer overall, so any advice you could offer would be very much appreciated!
Whoa, what a complicated and nuanced question. A great one! And I'm super flattered you came to me! Just one I'm going to try to answer to the best of my ability. I'm assuming you're referring to Norm's pov in your fic?
First of all, I do not want to at all proclaim to be an expert on generational trauma; I am not a person of color, and I have been lucky enough to have a very normal and healthy family. I just had a best friend growing up in an abusive household and took steps to educate myself best I could to understand the situation, which I believe anyone would do. So I'm just gonna try to word vomit out my thoughts for you, please ask questions or challenge any of what I say if any of you see anything you think is incorrect. Buckle in, this will be long.
What do you define as "demonizing" for Neytiri?
Demonizing means portraying someone as wicked or threatening, as evil or worthy of contempt and blame.
For me, demonizing for Neytiri is the trend I've seen lately of portraying her as this unyielding, animalistic type character who's hatred of humans, Spider specifically, goes so far that she gets physically violent with Spider and eventually ends up tearing apart her family. In these fics, Jake is always a sad sack loser bystander, loving his wife too much to step in but of course shamefully knowing how wrong what she's doing is. Infantilizing poor white savior Jake Sully, being brow beaten by his mean indigenous wife into neglecting a child is a weirdly strong take in this fandom. Often Mo'at is a wise elder chiding Neytiri for being unable to get over her prejudice. Mo'at and Jake understand Neytiri as much as anyone would, they wouldn't shame her. To me, it's an extremely reductive and frankly borderline racist characterization. When paired with a sympathetic view of Quaritch, it is at best irresponsible and at worst knowingly dangerous.
Neytiri is representative of an indigenous woman. I feel like I don't have to explain why making her violent, volatile, and completely unreasonable is a little bit of a harmful caricature. In these fics, for me, Neytiri ceases to be a person. She looses autonomy to sort of represent this monolith of hatred and prejudice that has hurt our little baby boy Spider. It's crazy to me that people can't apply the exact same empathy they have towards Spider (saving Quaritch) to Neytiri (not being able to trust Spider). They are the most foil of foil characters. Their storylines are extremely similar, if I'm being honest. Essentially, ignoring the fact that Neytiri is a member of a minority community being actively genocided by Spider's people is intentionally reductive. If you can empathize with Spider, and ESPECIALLY if you find Quaritch sympathetic, finding Neytiri's actions unforgivable is racism, plain and simple.
Also, side note, the lengths people go to where Neytiri just literally will not budge under any circumstances at all is INSANE.
(I read a fic the other day where she gave Spider to child protective services behind everyone's back. That's LUNACY. She only came around after she almost lost Tuk when Tuk was suddenly born prematurely and Mo'at came in and was like "Eywa made it so you can never have kids again because of what you did, have you learned your lesson yet?" Like?? I do not understand the HATRED some of ya'll have for her, the suffering you all think she deserves. She's having an EXTREMELY NORMAL trauma reaction to surviving GENOCIDE? Examine yourselves greatly).
But where I was going was Neytiri is the same character who pushed her parents to let them go to human school, fell in love with human Jake, defended him and trusted him despite her family, mated with him and lost her religious position because of it, and then had a bunch of part human kids with him, and adopted a fully freak of nature kid born of a human she loved and respected. She has human friends, she wears and uses human tech, and she forgave Jake after he had betrayed them. Basically what I'm saying is Neytiri, despite her continuous trauma, is the most open and curious and non traditional Na'vi of all time. Girl is READY to meet new people and learn new shit, and to be open to everyone. Sometimes I think about a no trauma Neytiri and I get emotional. I think it's crazy to say she would never budge on Spider, if it wasn't for his dad I'm pretty sure she would've softened lonnnnng ago, if not having liked him from the get go.
Um, that got way too long I have too many thoughts. Second half of your question.
Is it ok to write from a perspective where a character doesn't really like or trust her, as long as the trauma is noted?
This is a tricky question, because technically there is nothing you can't do as a writer. Of course, it also means there is nothing anyone can't criticize you for writing. Like, Colleen Hoover can say she's writing realistic depictions of domestic abuse until the cows come home, I'm still going to say she's romanticizing and normalizing it in a super callous way. Neither of us can stop the other. So yeah, of course you're okay to write from the perspective of a character that doesn't like Neytiri. I just think the point will be what your prerogative is. One of my MFA professors says it in a way I like and I'm sure I've referenced before, if you aren't trying to make a point about something that might have to have a trigger warning then don't include it. I always say I would take it a step further; if your point is to defend that thing, don't do it. So for me, my big points would be try not to project my own feelings onto the character either way; if the character is wrong about something and the narrative intends to show that they will either learn, or we the reader will grow past them. But to be sure what you feel the takeway of the piece is is what you wanted it to be, I guess.
Do you have any resources so I can educate myself to properly write this kind of character?
Well, I have a few on white writers writing BIPOC characters and the ethics of that if you're interested in that. But I don't have any on specifically writing generational trauma. I guess I'd say reading and absorbing are my biggest tools; so reading books/watching movies or TV that use the speculative to translate generational trauma, and learning about and taking in the real life examples the character is based on. Read up on some genocides, and indigenous people today and how their lives are still affected. Even just watch the news; we're witnessing a very public genocide being pushed right to our attention right now. And of course, that is not the only genocide happening rn, it's just the only one we're talking about, so there's plenty of real world case studies unfortunately right in front of us.
i love looking at old promo art. look how happy they are!!!
NEW FIC!!!!
Chapter 1 of my Avatar fic is already up. I hope you guys like it 🫶🏼🩵
This is my very first ever so I'm very excited!!!!
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Tuk: Mom, what is love?
Jake: Oh baby, don’t hurt me
Norm: Don’t hurt me
both: No more
Neytiri: Love is loving your father, even if he does this every time.
milf n dilf <3