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the "my favorite character did nothing wrong" mindset is completely unappealing to me because i love thinking about all the things my favorite characters did wrong

thecrumbez

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

erratic-dragon-fruit

out of the tags with you

lujinarchive

Hotpot squad

#atla

smilindesperado

I’m afraid A Knight of the Nine Seven Kingdoms has awoken something in me (my first Game of Thrones rewatch since the show ended)

smilindesperado

Update: I DID start rewatching Game of Thrones and I forgot how much it hurts 🥲

#like I KNOW what happens #but Ned 🥲#ROBB 😭#just finished 3x09 and I need a minute

gihdrawingss

TOPHHHH she's so hot 3/5

Hope u like it 💕

#atla #atla spoilers #aang the last airbender #atla movie leaks #obsessed with tophs metal helmet she genuinely is that bitch

hammersanvil

Rewatching Book 3 of ATLA and cringing at how dumb the Iroh fanservice plot twists are:

"Iroh lied about killing the last dragon before Zuko was born because he wanted to protect them! They actually deemed him pure of heart and worthy to learn the truest form of firebending🥰" .......... even though he continued to be a violent general in an evil genocidal empire long after that...? I'm questioning the dragons' wisdom now.

"Actually Iroh and all the other old guys in the show are senior members of a super secret society working for the good of the world!!" ..... even though one of them flat out refused to teach the Avatar waterbending for misogynistic reasons, another refused to teach the Avatar firebending for personal reasons, and Iroh was an evil war general barely 6 years ago so I suppose he's only a recent member?

muffinlance

I love AtLA as much as anyone, but yeah it is, uh. Pretty abundantly clear that the White Lotus didn't exist in the writers' room until at least season two, and they didn't have a full idea of its role in the narrative probably until season three. The timeline on Iroh "Did A War Against All The Rest Of You" Azulonson joining and being trusted so high in the membership is also. Very questionable.

Which is all to say I think it would be perfect if we got to the season three end game and realized Iroh was actually still an errand boy initiate in the White Lotus. And Piandao pulls aside the main tent flap to reveal our Supreme Grand Lotus:

Gran-Gran

Canonically traveled the world without Committing A War, thus reasonably having met and networked with most of these other people in a positive way? Check

Saw the Avatar and told her only grandkids to go help that kid ASAP, don't worry Gran-Gran's just going to stay riiiiiight here while you're gone and definitely not relive the excitements of her youth? Check

Would recontextualize Pakku's constant sour grapes face (and his reaction to seeing Katara's necklace) to "my ex left me and now she's my superior, if I don't train her grandkid she will mobilize a global movement to Kick My Ass"? CHECK

Gran-Gran for White Lotus Grandmaster 2026

#okay yeah I’m on board with that #atla

frellingstarburst

#girl gang #atla

aidashakur

there's not a single casual bone in my body. everything means something to me

comradekatara

personally I think that while being handed a white lotus tile by a high-ranking member of the order qualifies as an invitation to the white lotus, an official induction involves a lot of convoluted rituals no one can actually recall the origins of because their society is so old. and all their rituals are super dorky, of course, because they’re a bunch of dorkass losers. and eventually sokka is like “FINEEE I’ll join but only if I don’t have to do that. or that. and that.” and iroh is immediately like “deal” and then pakku is like “of course the dragon of the west would gladly trample all over our ancient order’s sacred traditions” and sokka is like “uhhh im having second thoughts idk if i rly wanna be part of a little club with these guys” but piandao is does really convincing puppy dog eyes so ultimately he relents.

#this is canon #to ME #atla

lilliyoona

#jon x ygritte #game of thrones

cat-esper

"there's no platonic explanation for this" WRONG my characters are staving off the heat death of the universe through the power of friendship

zukkaoru

[ID: the Sue Sylvester "I am going to create an [x] that is so [y]" meme edited to say "I am going to write an platonic friendship that is so intimate" End ID]