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Bxoxudbdlxufbd I readed this beautiful Fic by @hcneymooners, is soooo beautiful, I love the aesthetics, the story, everything dkxkjxkd💕💖💕💖✨💕💖
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I know we make fun of Victor Frankenstein for not actually being a doctor, but I genuinely feel like that makes him 100% more relatable
That is not a grown man who knows what he's doing. He's not a doctor. He's not a scientist. Yes, he's a genius, but he's a genius teenager. A college student. He rocked up to the college and went "I'd like to study alchemy please" and they were like "?? What the fuck are you talking about? Alchemy doesn't exist??"
He doesn't have a lab. All his books are outdated by 600 years. He's only ever had two (2) friends in his entire life and one if them is his adoptive sister. One of his professors hates him. He's got three presentations and two essays due tomorrow and he hasn't started any of them.
The creature is a three months long allnighter made in an unholy mix of hubris, sleep deprivation and spite. It's an essay finished at 3:40 in the morning after you consumed nothing but energy drinks for 24 hours straight. While writing it you felt like you were god himself creating the most perfect thing to ever exist. And then you proofread it and it's so horrible that you just straight up pass out because you can't deal with this right now. Or maybe that's just because you haven't eaten in the last four days. You wake up. The essay has stolen your clothes, escaped your dorm and is going to kill your family
Oke, So, I have no excuse, I fell in love again lol❤️🩹❤️🩹😫 they're both so cute together, right now I'm a gluttony demon devouring everything that has to do with them, I made a playlist and everything and I want to draw more but djxjflxijxkxidndo help 🥺💖💖
I'm rewatching Falling Skies and how on earth did no one think to ship Ben and Rick? Rick desperately needed a friend, and even though Ben tried and his ending was tragic, they deserved more time together.
I'm being really dramatic, lol, but I spent all night looking for fanfics and found nothing. I did find a few Jimmy and Ben ones, but they don't appeal to me at all.
Some aonung doodles pls!
alexa play chulo parte 2 ❤️🩹. He´s a little age up in here... also the armband is Ronal's. btw I try to answer as many requests as I can, I swear it's been a busy week
I hate Kiri’s character… and Spider’s, don’t even get me started.
I hate that Eywa has a face and the appearance of a Na’vi person. What is this? The Bible? The almighty god who created his flock in his own image and likeness? I hate that the entire damn movie is riddled with biblical references. I hate that everything feels like a damn fanfic made for cisgender heterosexual white men.
Why would Eywa choose an avatar to give birth to her messiah?
Why would that messiah choose to save one of those who came to consume, steal, and kill?
Why didn’t she choose to save the one who cared for her and protected her, the one who truly was her brother?
The one who gave his life trying to save the “demon” his brothers loved so much.
Simply… why?
Lo’ak attempts suicide and his scene lasts barely a minute, yet we spend the entire damn movie revolving around the tedious and absurd dichotomy of whether Spider should die or not because of what his existence represents for the future of the Na’vi. And yes, it matters in the end, but whether Lo’ak pulled the trigger or not would probably have just been another excuse to give more screen time to Kiri or Spider.
Just another narrative accessory born from the lack of human creativity.
Odio el personaje de kiri. Y el de Spider ni hablar. Odio que Eywa tenga rostro y apariencia de una persona Na'vi. ¿Qué es esto? ¿La biblia? ¿El dios todopoderoso que creó su rebaño a su imagen y semejanza? Odio que toda la maldita película esté plagada de referencias bíblicas. Odio que todo parezca un maldito fanfic para hombres blancos cis heterosexuales.
¿Por qué Eywa elegiría un avatar para dar a luz a su mesías? ¿Por qué ese mesías elegiría salvar a uno de aquellos que llegaron para consumir, robar y matar? ¿Por qué no eligió salvar a aquél que la cuidó y protegió, aquel que sí era su hermano? Aquel que dio su vida por salvar al "demonio" que sus hermanos tanto amaban. Simplemente… ¿Por qué?
Lo'ak intenta suicidarse y su escena dura apenas un minuto, pero nos pasamos toda la maldita película alrededor de la tediosa y absurda dicotomía de si Spider debía morir o no por lo que significa su existencia para el futuro de los Na'vi. Y sí, es importante al fin y al cabo, pero si Lo'ak apretaba el gatillo o no probablemente solo sería otra excusa para darle más protagonismo a Kiri o Spider.
Simplemente otro accesorio narrativo de la poca creatividad humana.
This probably won’t matter to anyone, or maybe the topic has already been settled by everyone and I’m simply working over plowed ground, but I don’t care. I have to spit these thoughts out somewhere or they’re going to rot slowly and none of it will have been worth it —so dramatic. And before the third part, comes out, I have to say what I think about what the second film left me with. (A little late, sorry.) Especially regarding the characters Lo’ak and Neteyam, and also Neytiri. I might change my mind later, but for now I stand by this. Needless to say, this is going to contain spoilers.
My problem with the predictable in The Way of Water.
Don’t misunderstand me, I love this movie; my most deeply rooted ship so far comes from here, and my opinion probably has a lot to do with that, but that doesn’t mean what I have to say is invalid.
When I sat down to watch this movie for the first time and the characters were introduced one by one, I knew it from the very first moment: Neteyam, the older brother, was going to die. Maybe it’s because of the amount of stories and narratives I’ve consumed throughout my life; when you’ve seen too many movies, patterns and narrative structures start becoming more and more obvious. And this movie is no exception.
Neteyam, embodying the archetype of the perfect brother, and Lo’ak as the troublesome one. Both “competing”—even if not strictly explicit—for the approval of their father, a “military man” and war hero.
At this point, Neteyam’s premature death becomes increasingly obvious and expected once you quickly realize that the new protagonist of this installment (The Way of Water) is, essentially, Lo’ak, the younger of Jake Sully’s two sons. The detail that they are both boys is, of course, important; later it will be more relevant in my analysis.
The narrative device of “the death of the perfect brother as a catalyst for the troublesome one” is as old as time, and in The Way of Water, it shows a lot. I’m not even sure I want to say this is necessarily bad, but when a character’s growth depends so heavily on an external tragic event, it’s immediately noticeable whether that event is earned or simply placed there as a shortcut.
What I mean by this is that Lo’ak’s story and his relationship with his brother lack nuance, and Neteyam’s death, instead of being the final push in an evolution that was already underway, becomes a mere narrative crutch. A dramatic shortcut not particularly impressive for the audience.
When there are no surprises, death stops being a genuine emotional blow and starts feeling like a textbook step.
And the conflict intensifies even more for me when, in the final scene, Jake and Neytiri use the connection with the Tree of Souls to visit their memories with Neteyam. This scene seems profoundly powerful to me, but the intensity and emotional weight of the moment becomes blurred by how little narrative coherence Neteyam’s arc actually has. In other words, it feels like we’re being pushed, as the audience, to be moved by a character we genuinely know nothing about.
Do we know what Neteyam’s ambitions were? What he felt about the pressure of being the heir to his father’s role? The eldest son, a future leader? No. Nothing.
But…
On the other hand, the idea is there, you can see it: Jake and Neytiri visiting the fragments of what their firstborn was, killed by a war that was supposedly already won. It must be profoundly painful for them—both for the man, son of colonization, who found his place once again and tried to save it, and for the woman, victim of that same colonization, who found love in one of the very creatures that oppressed her people. The guilt stirred in both of them should be the true protagonist. The culminating moment for two characters who were still figuring out their roles in this war, especially as parents… but once again, Neteyam becomes a catalyst for other characters.
And this can be a double-edged sword, because when a character grows thanks to a poorly built and predictable tragedy, the growth can feel artificial to the audience.
However, there is one case where this narrative shortcut works perfectly, and that is with Neytiri. (In my opinion.)
This is where my analysis crosses a different threshold.
I keep thinking about how this movie could have had a far richer and more powerful story if only the central arc had revolved around Neytiri. Far more interesting narratives could have been explored, such as her forced adaptation to Metkayina life and the guilt of leaving her own clan, constantly in tension with her role as a mother and the need to protect her children from a war that has them in its sights. Her relationship with each child, especially with Neteyam, the firstborn, as an extension of her own bond with Jake.
In this scenario, Neteyam’s death wouldn’t be a “functional” event for Lo’ak, but a devastating moment in Neytiri’s arc: the breaking point that would redefine her relationship with Jake, her view of the war, and her place in the world. The climax would have a more coherent emotional weight, and the fury she expresses in the final battle would be the natural culmination of a conflict built from the beginning.
This belief—probably influenced by a couple of TikTok edits of Neytiri’s face looking at baby Neteyam in Jake’s arms, the Olo'eyktan, in front of their entire clan—details that might go unnoticed in the cinema, makes me even more certain of what I’m saying.
Because I believe that kind of attention to detail isn’t arbitrary. Even in the final scene, there is an almost imperceptible moment where the camera frames Neytiri in the background, watching Jake interact with the memory of child Neteyam; it feels like we’re seeing from her point of view.
But all that it’s not enough: her character ends up relegated to the background, almost like a passive spectator, overshadowed by the children’s protagonism and by Quaritch’s arc —which, personally, makes me want to take a nap. Sorry.
Finally, I choose to conclude this extensive analysis with a more direct critique, which may seem aimed more at the industry in general, but is connected to everything mentioned above. (The decision not to include Kiri is intentional because I believe she belongs to a different type of analysis.)
This second installment chooses to maintain Jake’s nominal protagonism and shift the emotional focus onto Lo’ak, a choice that—beyond the narrative—responds to industrial logic. Keeping Jake as a central figure and projecting the youth arc onto his son ensures a continuity that “sells” better to a mass audience, and avoids adverse reactions from sectors that reject the idea of female protagonists in established franchises. In this sense, Neytiri is relegated to the background, the male protagonists lack interesting nuance, and their narratives become inconsequential—something already seen, and something that will keep happening without being questioned.
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Probablemente esto no le importe a nadie, o tal vez el tema ya está saldado por todos y simplemente estoy trabajando sobre terreno arado, pero no me importa. Tengo que escupir estos pensamientos en algún lado o se van a pudrir lentamente y nada habrá valido la pena —tan dramática. Y antes de que se estrene la tercera parte: “Avatar: Fire and Ash”, tengo que decir lo que pienso sobre lo que me dejó la segunda entrega. (Un poco tarde, lo siento) Especialmente con los personajes de Lo’ak y Neteyam, también Neytiri. Tal vez cambie de opinión luego, pero por ahora me sostengo en esto. Está de más decir que esto va a contener spoilers.
Mi problema con lo predecible en The Way of Water.
No me malentiendan, amo esta película, mi ship más arraigado hasta el momento sale de aquí y, probablemente mi opinión tenga mucho que ver con este aspecto, pero eso no significa que lo que tengo para decir sea invalido.
Cuando me senté a ver esta película por primera vez y los personajes se nos fueron presentando uno a uno, lo supe desde el primer momento: Neteyam, el hermano mayor, iba a morir. Tal vez sea por la cantidad de historias y relatos que he consumido a lo largo de mi vida; cuando uno ve demasiadas películas, los patrones y las estructuras narrativas empiezan a ser cada vez más evidentes. Y esta película no es la excepción.
Neteyam, encarnando el arquetipo del hermano perfecto, y Lo’ak, como el hermano problemático. Ambos “compitiendo” —aunque no sea estrictamente explícito— por la aprobación de su padre, un “militar”, y héroe de guerra.
A esta altura, la prematura muerte de Neteyam se vuelve cada vez más evidente y esperada al dar cuenta rápidamente que el nuevo protagonista de esta entrega (The Way of Water) es, en esencia, Lo’ak, el menor de los dos hijos varones de Jake Sully. El detalle de que son varones, por supuesto que es importante, después tendrá más relevancia en mi análisis.
El recurso narrativo de “la muerte del hermano perfecto como catalizador para el hermano problemático” es viejo como el tiempo y, en The Way of Water, se nota demasiado. Ni siquiera sé si quiero decir que esto sea necesariamente malo, pero cuando el crecimiento de un personaje depende tanto de un evento trágico externo, se ve enseguida si ese evento está ganado o si está puesto ahí como un atajo.
Lo que quiero decir con esto es que, la historia de Lo’ak y la relación con su hermano carecen de matices, y la muerte de Neteyam, en lugar de ser el último empujón en una evolución que ya estaba en marcha, se convierte en una simple muletilla narrativa. Un atajo dramático poco impresionante para el público.
Cuando no hay sorpresas, la muerte deja de ser un golpe emocional genuino y pasa a sentirse como un paso de manual.
Y el conflicto se intensifica aún más para mí cuando, en la escena final, Jake y Neytiri usan la conexión con el árbol de las almas para visitar sus recuerdos con Neteyam. Esta escena me parece profundamente poderosa, pero la intensidad y emotividad del momento se ve desdibujada por la poca coherencia narrativa que posee el arco de Neteyam. Es decir, parece que nos empujaran, como público, a conmovernos por un personaje del que realmente no sabemos nada.
¿Acaso sabemos cuáles eran las ambiciones de Neteyam? ¿Qué sentía acerca de la presión de ser el hijo heredero del puesto de su padre? ¿Hijo mayor, futuro líder? No. Nada.
Pero…
Por otro lado, la idea está ahí, se entiende: Jake y Neytiri visitando los retazos de lo que fue su primogénito, asesinado por la guerra que se supone ya estaba ganada. Debe ser profundamente doloroso para ellos, tanto para el hombre hijo de la colonización, que encontró su lugar una vez más y trató de salvarlo, como para la mujer, víctima de esta colonización y que encontró el amor en una de esas mismas criaturas que sometieron a su gente. El sentimiento de culpa que se remueve para ambos debe ser el verdadero protagonista. El momento cúlmine para dos personajes que aún estaban decidiendo su papel en esta guerra, especialmente como padres… pero una vez más, Neteyam se convierte en el catalizador de otros personajes.
Y esto puede ser un arma de doble filo, porque cuando un personaje crece gracias a una tragedia poco construida y prevista, el crecimiento puede sentirse artificial para los espectadores.
Sin embargo, hay un caso en que este atajo narrativo funciona perfecto, y es en el de Neytiri. (en mi opinión)
Acá es cuando mi análisis cruza un umbral diferente.
No dejo de pensar en cómo esta película podría haber tenido una historia infinitamente más rica y poderosa si tan solo el arco central hubiera girado en torno a Neytiri. Se podrían haber explorado narrativas mucho más interesantes, como su adaptación forzada a la vida de los Metkayina y la culpa de abandonar a su propio clan, en tensión constante con su papel como madre, y la necesidad de proteger a sus hijos de una guerra que los tiene en la mira. Su relación con cada hijo, especialmente con Neteyam, el primero, como extensión de su propio vínculo con Jake.
En este escenario, la muerte de Neteyam no sería un evento “funcional” para Lo’ak, sino un momento devastador en el arco de Neytiri: el punto de quiebre que redefiniría su relación con Jake, su visión de la guerra y su lugar en el mundo. El clímax tendría un peso emocional más coherente, y la furia que expresa en la batalla final sería la culminación natural de un conflicto trabajado desde el principio.
Esta creencia —probablemente influenciada por un par de edits en TikTok del rostro de Neytiri mirando a Neteyam bebé en brazos de Jake, el Olo'eyktan, frente a todo su clan—, detalles que en el cine quizá pasen desapercibidos, me hace estar aún más segura de lo que digo.
Porque creo que ese tipo de atención a los detalles no es arbitraria. Incluso en la escena final, hay un momento casi imperceptible en el que la cámara encuadra a Neytiri al fondo, observando a Jake interactuar con el recuerdo de Neteyam niño; parece que estamos viendo desde su punto de vista.
Pero todo eso no basta: su personaje termina relegado a un segundo plano, casi como una espectadora pasiva, opacada por el protagonismo de los hijos y por el arco de Quaritch —que, en lo personal, me da ganas de echarme una siesta. Lo siento.
Finalmente, decido concluir con este extenso análisis con una crítica más directa, que podría parecer más hacia la industria en general, pero que tiene que ver con todo lo mencionado anteriormente. (La decisión de no incluir a Kiri es intencional porque considero que entra en otro tipo de análisis.)
Esta segunda entrega opta por mantener el protagonismo nominal en Jake y trasladar el relevo emocional a Lo’ak, una elección que, más allá de lo narrativo, responde a lógicas industriales. Mantener a Jake como figura central y proyectar el arco juvenil sobre su hijo varón asegura una continuidad que “vende” mejor a un público masivo, y evita reacciones adversas de sectores que rechazan frontalmente la idea de protagonistas femeninas en franquicias establecidas. En este sentido, Neytiri queda relegada a un segundo plano, los protagonistas masculinos carecen de matices interesantes y sus narrativas se vuelven intrascendentes; algo ya visto y que se seguirá viendo sin ser cuestionado.
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Por fin tuve tiempo libre. Si no lo sacaba de mi sistema no iba a poder continuar con mi vida.
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I just watched "The Long Walk" and it left me so distraught I couldn't stop thinking about it.
Horrible, HORRIBLE.
Why am I so susceptible to these kinds of stories? I'm going to cry forever.
And the ending…
Like, the moment he fires the gun, everything disappears… What does it mean?
Only one thing for me: time stopped, people ceased to exist, and he just kept walking.
He's gone.
Why am I always late to this kind of thing? The movie came out months ago. My god.
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The second episode was TOO MUCH. I mean, reading the scenes in the book is different; time moves more slowly, you have time to process the information.
But in the show, it was like the book's memories appearing one by one in my head, just as I had imagined, or maybe even better. All at once. And I was surprised by how much I remembered from the book's scenes. I'm not even that big of a fan. Listen, I read those books when I was bored. I had fun, no doubt. Entertaining and with just enough drama to keep me hooked without overwhelming me with a whirlwind of anguish.
What I'm trying to say is, I'm having a great time watching this 🤪🤭
In their last moments together, they were so IN SYNCH😭
I wasn't even going to watch it, but the incredible avalanche of damn gay sex gifs convinced me. I mean, can you blame me?
The funniest thing is that I read both damn books without knowing this series was even going to exist, like two weeks before I found out it was coming out. Just fate.
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no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood