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Releasing a clown into a room of Bens is like dropping a coyote into a pen of cats
one aspect of avatar canon i feel like isn't talked about nearly enough is the fact that zuko canonically has prophetic dreams
like during zuko's Morality Coma in season 2 he has an incredibly vivid dream about two red and blue dragons, and then in season 3 he just fucking. meets the exact same dragons for real? there are slight differences in how they look but otherwise he genuinely just dreamed about ran and shaw months before actually seeing them in person? and it's never elaborated on but huh???
zuko: yeah i had some weird fever dreams. there were like these two dragons circling me, and the blue one sounded like azula and wanted me to die or whatever, and the red one sounded like you and was telling me not to do thatโ
iroh, the only person in this house who should know what those fucking dragons look like: hey What
zuko for sure keeps having dreams like this for YEARS without connecting the dots that it's weird spirit shenanigans. aang eventually has to point it out to him and even then he thinks it's Uncle Bullshit for several more years
so what youโre saying isโ
Zuko, freshly scarred: I had a dream that Uncle and I were clinging to a piece of driftwood for weeks before we ended up at a lovely spa and tended to and all my injuries were healed up
Iroh, years later, on week two of driftwood era: maybe I underestimated the sense of humor that the spirits have
a collection of my fav tags on this post--
#I think there are explanations other than prophetic dreams but this is funnier#like for example him looking in the mirror and seeing air nomad tattoos is probably#just a manifestation of his anxiety around helping aang and what that means about him#but considering Zuko's grandfather is a former avatar and he later joins aang#that is a very funny dream for him to have#I vote Zuko has been having prophetic dreams this whole time but they involve a lot of symbolism#and he Does NOT do symbolism#so he's just like hm. yeah that was weird#and then when life poetically mirrors his prophetic dreams he doesn't even notice#This never comes up during his life time but some historian eventually uncovers his dream journal and finds it pretty blatantly#predicts every major event from his lifetime and beyond#and it ignites massive debate about how this foreknowledge was affecting his decisions as a head of state#hint: it wasn't (@an-android-in-a-tutu)
#listen not to read too much into the one line about love among the dragons#but zuko definitely knows about poetic symbolism but he doesn't believe in prophetic dreams due to thinking it's old man stuff for his uncle (@rogha)
#zuko thinks the curtains are blue and nothing else#prince โโฆwhich could mean nothingโ zuko (@averagemrfox)
#apollo throws the dodgeball and it just bounces off zuko @noccolibroccoli)
#Zuko being the spiritโs favored Normal Human (along w Sokka)#and him doing absolutely nothing with it#bc it never strikes him as relevant#(as opposed to Sokka who knows about the spirits but actively chooses to ignore them)#(out of spite and non-belief) (@seaglassdinosaur)
#sokka who had Multiple close encounters with spirits. still thinks theyโre total bs#๐ซฑ๐ฝโ๐ซฒ๐ผ#zuko who has prophetic vision and thinks theyโre total bs (@aneclecticmoonchild)
#zuko ๐ค sokka#yes I've had encounters with the supernatural no I don't believe in it (@emkini)
#he's that guy#the one who has prophetic visions but also impostor syndrome so he's like 'ugh it's just weird dreams'#'prince zuko have you considered maybe you have a gift--'#'there's only one gifted child in this family and she's a massive pain and also better than me at everything actually' (@aethersea)
#zuko gets into a coma everytime he makes a right decision bc the spirits gotta congratulate him somehow#theyโre proud#do good and see the future as an exchange (@newbie-i-guess)
Does anyone have the fucking tiktok video of the overly enthusiastic rich bearded guy showing off his new hiking shoes in his Mansion and the Woods, but then another dude duets with it to make it look like he's escaping from being held prisoner please please
edit THANKS @smellslikebot
Fuck it, this is going on the main blog
bro thinks he needs to sneak his way into a weekend trip with them
In retrospect, one thing I kinda like in ATLA is how Zuko never tells the gaang how he got his scar.
It would have been cool to see their reactions to Zuko's story and see how their perspective on Zuko changed. And I have no doubt that he tells them about it at some point. But this way, it doesn't come off as emotional blackmail, with him trying to paint his actions as 'Yes, I hunted you across the world, but I actually had a really good reason."
If he did, he might have had a better chance of joining the Gaang, but he doesn't. In traditional Zuko fashion, he takes the most challenging route possible.
Zuko takes full accountability for his actions, even though they came from a place where he felt he had no choice. Because at the end of the day, he realized that even though his father put him on his avatar's path, he was the one who zealously attacked them at every opportunity. He isn't letting himself off the hook for anything.
#zuko is so funny to me because at multiple points throughout the show if he had any manipulative bone in his damn body #he wouldve gotten somewhere #blue spirit? why are you throwing fire. the avatar is talking with you. LIE. #its so fucking funny bc the gaang is like 'zukos EVIL he is PLAYING you' guys zuko doesnt know how to do that. #full honest truth confessing insane shit in front of them. he didnt even gaf about being friends or being FORGIVEN it was abt the goal #'i need the avatar to take me into their group so i may aid in however possible to stop my father' that was the goal. truly was like #'take me as a prisoner if this is the way i can help' HES CRAZY (@ponytailzuko)
nothing scarier than activity on an old post.....where did u find that thang
oh shit we got december tomorrowโฆ
you're lying
WE GOT DECEMBER TOMORROW
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!
WHAT THE FUCK ITโS CHRISTMAS EVE WHY DID SOMEONE REBLOG THIS
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!
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ITS THE FUCKING MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN
โฆ what day is it again?
Oh how the year has gone byโฆ.
i have midterms tomorrow and here i amย
Happy 10 year to Ponyo loves Revolution
may we all live and love as a form of revolution for another 10 year
HAPPY RETURN OF VERGIL DAY!
Or Happy Rebirthday to our dearest Vergil!!
i canโt talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didnโt hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today
these 2 looks basically defined my sexuality and iโm not afraid to admit it
things pirates of the caribbean got right:
1. will and elizabethโs love story
2. elizabeth becoming pirate king
3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that arenโt tailored to be revealing and impractical forย โsex appealโ just because theyโre women
4. hans zimmerโs entire score but especially the iconic โheโs a pirateโ main theme
5. When the movie came out, morally-gray characters like Jack were actually not really a thing yet in pop culture, and itโs not Piratesโ fault that there are a ton of stupid shitty copycats out there.
6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabethโs lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldnโt be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldnโt tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). Itโs one of the most accurate corseting scenes Iโve ever seen.
7. Willโs hat.
8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, thatโs fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.
9. Thereโs this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. Itโs a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Willโs storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.
10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.
11. And letโs not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.
12. The governorโs death scene. Holy shit.
13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didnโt. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and thatโs that.
14. Youโve got to admit that wedding was unique.
15. The introduction of fantasy elements to historical fiction outside of Tolkein-esque fantasy, and how it contributed to and expanded the Fantasy Media boom weโre still enjoying today.
1. They had a woman of colour play a goddess.
2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!
3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasnโt helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.
4. Elizabethโs lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).
5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and werenโt just white men.
6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.
7. The pirates accepting their King is a woman without much fuss.
Pirates is amazing I will not here a bad word
Davy Jones CGI is legendary and a ton better than some of the stuff done today ๐
Iโm pretty sure that female Chinese pirate was a nod to a real, documented female pirate king who was Chinese and had a whole fleet of ships at her disposal but I canโt remember her name rn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih
My favorite part about the Bretheren Court voting wasnโt that they were against Elizabeth for becoming King as a woman and newcomer. They were pissed at Jack for being a chaotic neutral who broke the decades long tradition of an egotistical stalemate by voting for someone besides himself.
Also, the deleted scenes from Black Pearl and At Worldโs End that divulge more of Jackโs troubled past, like how he was branded as a pirate by the East Indian Trading Company because he stole a ship full of slaves and freed them.
โPeople arenโt cargo, mate.โ
The CGI looked good because it was used sparingly and worked on hard by a team that was probably paid well.
The ships, most stunts, and people were real.
Davy Jones was 95% Bill Nighรฝ with dots on his face for the tentacles to be added later. All the acting and menacing was Bill.
The skeleton crew in POTC 1 used motion capture, then they took photos of the actors in costume to create skeletons over them.
When itโs raining on the ship: theyโre on a real ship on a sound stage with water being poured over them.
When Calypso turned into the million crabs they got โgreenscreenโ balls to drop on the set and everyone to get the flow of the collapsing mass correctly.
In the 3rd film when Jack was hallucinating miniature versions of himself, they made giant hair for the โminitureโ shots for him to hold on.
And when he was surrounded by other โJacksโ they were real people dressed like him with Depp doing the close ups.
These people did everything phycial that they could.
And only when they had to, they turned to CGI.
Also Jack pretends to be a carefree asshole, heโs not. He cares about people. If he didnโt care he wouldnโt have saved the slaves or Elizabeth at the start of the film, or 50% of the stuff he did in the films. And thatโs what th3 copycats miss: Jack says heโs an asshole with no heart but his actions speak louder than his words and his actions say he cares.
Also all the wardrobe & like 90% of props and environments were real and really looked like that. And had been meticulously designed and created and embroidered.
Disney canโt make shit like that anyore and itโs sad tbh.
ok all this stuff about king of the pirates is good but thereโs only one person whoโs gonna be king of the pirates after Gol D. Roger (pronounced Gol DEE Roger. the navy calls him gold roger)
what th
IโVE BEEN TRYING TO find this again for THREE YEARS but once Free! came out I couldnโt google ANIME SWIMMING CLIP ANYMORE
This is such a god damn amazing piece of animation
This will always be my favorite gifset. Ever.
im morally obligated to reblog this every time i see it
itโs back on my dash and Iโm not complaining
ITS BACK
All rise motherfucker is my new favorite thing.
THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN
IโVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS FOR SEVEN YEARS
DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW HARD IT IS TOย ?????
That last fatal scream tho
THE TERROR IN HIS SCREAM OH GOSH
iโm crying
I will always reblog this on the off chance some other poor soul has been searching for it
ITโS BACK
HOYL SHIT ITS B A CK
ITโS BACK?? ON MY DASH?
re-blogging again xD
what was that we were just saying about still having posts circulating from ridiculous numbers of years ago? ๐
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!
WHAT THE FUCK ITโS CHRISTMAS EVE WHY DID SOMEONE REBLOG THIS
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!
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ITS THE FUCKING MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN
Crack AU where Anakin can all of a sudden hear the background music that we all hear. Those pleasant chats with Palpy become a lot more ominous. Though Anakin admits that the fights have become a lot more epic. Thoughts?
Hahahahaha. Love it!
And okay, my first though was โand the galaxy was saved because even Anakin Skywalker would struggle to keep trusting Palpatine with that music playing in the backgroundโ
Anakin think heโs gone COMPLETELY insane (maybe heโs finally been electrocuted too many times and its fried his brain). He doesnโt tell anyone though because he can still fight just fine justโฆ everything is a lot more musical. He doesnโt want to be thought crazy and taken off the front lines.
Once he figures out what the various musical cues mean he actually finds them useful in figuring out how dangerous a situation is. Also battles are so much cooler now and boring landscapes are slightly less boring because at least now they have mood music. Yep, he can live with this.
(Although he is always confused why the ominousness that is The Imperial March starts playing at some of his decisions)
*cracks up*
Anakin: Iโm so worried about something. I should probably keep my feelings to myself and attempt to solve my problems by working with Palpatine. He seems like he has my best interests at heart.
Music:ย DUN DUN DUN, DUN DA-DUN, DUN DA-DUN!
Anakin: [pauses] [looks around] UhโฆOK. I mean, Iโllโฆgo talk to Obi-Wan?
Music: [hopeful woodwind instruments]
Anakin: โฆand be open and honest about my life and what is bothering me, and try to work out a non-violent resolution to my problems?
Music: [Force Theme plays]
Anakin: [smiles] All right! Huh. This is helpful.ย
Positive reinforcement at its finest. ;D
#lol#iโm just imagining the force throwing its metaphysical hands in the air like โsubtlety obviously isnโt working with this one so have a whole#symphony of hints young reckless oneโย (via @likealeafonthewind)
Iโm crying from laughter, this is beautiful.
Anakin: *fucks up*
The Force: Son, pleaseโฆ Guess Iโm gonna enable the hints menu.
THE HINTS MENU. *dies*ย
Maybe Obi-Wan hears the music, too, and then the day is saved.ย
Obi-Wan: [walking away] Welp, guess itโs off to kill Grievous Iโm sure Anakin will be fi โย
Music: [Duel of the Fates]ย
Obi-Wan: OMG not this shit again [runs back down the hall towards Anakin]
Anakin: [running back towards Obi-Wan] Obi-Wan I just heard that Ominous Music again and also I secretly married Padme and sheโs pregnant and I havenโt slept in 6 days and I keep thinking sheโs going to die and I AM FREAKING THE FUCK OUT and if you leave I will 100% end up killing everyone and โ
Obi-Wan: โ oh my God! OKโฆitโs OK, I heard my own ominous music a second ago when I was getting ready to leave and so I wonโt and weโll fix th โย
Anakin: โ I heard mine when I thought about maybe talking to the Chancellor instead of yโ
Palpatine: [sidling up behind them smugly] Everything all right, gentlemen?
Music: [scary ass music from the opera scene]ย
Anakin and Obi-Wan: AHHHH
I randomly thought of this post again today and it made me laughย
For the record in that last line I always pictured them clinging to each other in fear like Shaggy and Scooby:ย
ACCURATE OH MY GOD
@deadcatwithaflamethrower
I would so read this.
@forcearama
Palpatineโs face is killing me.ย