Multi-fandom fangirl

Moni, MX, 22. I post about fandoms, videogames, movies, etc

[katswenski]

A mystery, indeed. My website – My Facebook page – See me on LINE Webtoon!

[hitmewithcute]

Am I the good boy? Really??

[lloonlloon]

I mean this in the most sincere, heart-filled-with-love way, this dog looks like a worm on a string

[corfee]

boku no hero academia [ending 7 // shout baby - ryokuoshoku shakai

bonus

me, watching the ending: wait a minute —

wait just a minute is that —

IT’S HIM ☁️

[gahdamnpunk]

When Zuko apologized to uncle Iroh in the tent cause he was so ashamed of his actions and what he’d done to the only person who unconditionally believed in his ability to do good >>>>>

[opinions-about-tiaras]

So okay, I’ve given this rant before but this is another good time for it.

Structurally speaking, ATLA did something important with Zuko that, in a purely mechanistic sense of narrative development, I think a lot of people don’t notice immediately, and that even fewer people who want to emulate what was done with him get.

Which is Zuko is made a protagonist VERY early, and the show goes out of its way to continually place Zuko into situations where the audience empathizes and roots for him.

This happens in literally the second episode of the series, if we count the two-part premiere as a single episode, which I think we should. The A-plot of that episode, “The Southern Air Temple,” is Aang reckoning with the genocide of his people… but the B-plot?

The B-plot is the introduction of Zhao, and more specifically, his introduction in a way that is calculate to shift the audience, whose introduction to Zuko did NOT engender a ton of sympathy to him, directly and forcefully onto his side. They want Zuko to kick Zhao’s ass.

This continues all through book one and book two. Remember, Zuko is never, ever the main villain of this series. That’s initially Zhao, followed by Azula and Ozai. (Plus various temporary players like Long Feng.) Whenever Zuko isn’t placed into direct conflict with the other protagonists, he’s always written and presented in a way that is careful, VERY VERY careful, not to make him too monstrous, and to make us root for him. He’s placed right next to Iroh, who is designed for people to like, and that reflects back onto Zuko; we want Zuko to be better than he is because we want Iroh to have good things.

Put aside for the moment whether any specific character, including Zuko, deserves their redemption. If you’ve decided you’re going to do that, you have to erect the proper narrative scaffolding around them, and it extends to far more things than “did this person not do things that were too horrible” and “is this person genuinely sorry and is working really hard to atone.” There’s a difference between protagonist and white hat, but if you want someone to eventually wear that white hat, you REALLY need to establish them as a plausible protagonist early on.

[guardianofscrewingup]

They especially shows Zuko showing empathy for others. To start with, some of his more negative actions are against things instead of people. Even though he does terrible things like set Kyoshi on fire, there’s wiggle room. He doesn’t aim for people and only at buildings. (Since said buildings are small, they can be escaped from). He kidnaps Katara but probably was telling the truth that he’d let her go if Aang surrendered. 

Then it progresses from being a not-the-worst villain to being a better person. With Song, Even though he takes the ostrich horse in the end, seeing her burn scars shook him. He and Jet steal food from the captain of the ship and give it to the other refugees (instead of just keeping it for themselves). He lights up the lanterns to make Jin happy. He frees Appa. He’s kind to Lee and fights the mercenaries terrorizing his town. And so on and so on. 

By the end of the second season he’s ALMOST ready to become a good person but he relapses at the chance to head home and regain his father’s love. Then he does something terrible (hire Combustion Man and put a hit on Aang) to KEEP it. He also doesn’t argue against his father wanting to commit genocide, something he was later ashamed of but a result of being ABUSED into compliance by being maimed the last time he spoke out. 

But even when he has what he wants, he struggles with himself because he can’t forget everything he saw, his understanding how evil his father is, or forget how human his supposed enemies are. 

In the confrontation with his father we SEE that he truly does understand, he talks about the fire nation terrorizing the world and how them claiming they were bringing greatness to it is a lie, we see him wanting to stop the suffering it caused. He apologized to the Gaang, even offering to give himself up as a prisoner if that’s the only way they’ll let him teach Aang - willing to give up his freedom and pride to do the right thing if that’s what it takes. He helps Aang loyally, with 0 shady stuff or relapses in behavior.   

But most tellingly of all, I think, is the action that gets Zuko exiled when he’s 13: speaking out because his father’s general treated soldiers that only wanted to serve their country like they were nothing but pawns, even calling them “fresh meat.” His exile, what was supposed to be the source of his greatest shame, was a direct result of empathy for his subjects and countrymen and valuing their lives in a way his father and his general didn’t. It made sense that this “weakness” would spread to the rest of the world after he had close exposure to it while disguised. 

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[oi0u98ygth-deactivated20260120]

let me hear you say YEEHAW!!

[micdotcom]

Watch: SNL roasts Trump with “Racists for Trump” ad

[jackafz]

Honestly whoever is writing these SNL skits….. Finally SNL feels vital and important again, satire wise

[daydreaming-of-puppiess]

[destinyrush]

[sassystarlightcollection-deacti]

Lmao all of the moods

[demumbridge-deactivated20200301]

why is this so fucking funny

[newtonpermetersquare]

Magnets: I want to commit diamagnetic

[squided]

how did I never once think to use tape fuck

[rubykgrant]

one time as a kid I forcefully shoved two magnets together, and these were the strong magnets my dad used in his shop to pick-up missing little metal bits, and I held them really tightly in the palm of my hand, went up to this one kid who legit said things like “I think black cats are bad, they should be drowned” and drew crosses on the notebooks of kids if she found out they didn’t go to church, I told her “Hey. I’m a witch. If you don’t stop trying to hurt animals and picking on kids, I’ll use my magic to throw you into the sky”, and when she dared to doubt my powers I told her that I had two “rocks” in my hand that I could send across the playground, then I opened my hand the the magnets shot off in two different directions (we were over in a spot that was empty, so no other kids were around, nobody got hurt), one of them stuck to a drainpipe and the other stuck to a fence. This kid SCREAMED, and ran to the office, and I guess had her mom pick her up from school, and then she wasn’t there for a couple of days, finally her mom called my house and claimed I had “traumatized her daughter by performing a terrifying magic trick”, and when my parents asked what I did I just said “I showed her a magnet and she flipped out. She’s not gonna be happy when she finds out about gravity, either”. eventually this kid came back to school and always made a point to come up to me and say “Hey, my mom told me not to talk to you!”, and would just be like “Good job, you already screwed that up”

[iliveinmyblanket]

Holy shit

[30-minute-memes]

25 and it got me excited

[pajy-moved-deactivated20240311]

bitches dont know about my astiankuivauskaappi

[itsensakaljastaja]

that thing looks ridiculous. Why not just put it in the cabinet above the sink??

[cursologist]

Every single finnish person is laughing at you peasants

[infernalfae]

its a dish drying set up?? im not about to put wet dishes in the cupboard? who does that?

[sukkanen]

hi

welcome to finland, this exists in every single household in finland

[dandlilioncub]

I am so fuckin jealous

[favatrice]

me saving my ships from bad writers

[nightofthecreeps]

Mini Rey and Mini Kylo Meet the Cast

[satyriconmp3]

[cosed]

eating bread dipped in soup unlocks new emotions

[cinthi-lante]

that 16th century peasant feeling

[utopians]

when I become an eccentric billionaire I'm going to buy every house in 10 square blocks of unremarkable suburb. I will have them all furnished and decorated except for (and this is key) one house in the dead center. this house I will put up for sale at a ridiculously reasonable price for the area. once it sells, and the new owner/couple/family moves in, the plan will spring into action.

every single house besides the one in the center within my 10 square blocks will remain uninhabited. I will put all the lights inside on timers so that it appears that people are living in there, I will have lawns mowed when I'm sure everyone in my victim house is at work/school, I will have decorations put up during the holidays and cars moved there and parked in driveways when I'm sure that the owner/couple/family in the house at the center is not there to witness it happening. I will produce all the superficial trappings of life without a single person actually being there.

who knows how long it'll take them to realize that something is wrong? when their kids are playing in the yard, and they notice they've never seen another child around here even once, despite the four-bedroom family homes all down the street? after a few weeks, when they realize the lights in the house across the way click off at exactly 9:45, on the second, every single night? when they've been living there for a month and a half and they realize they've never seen a single car park in front of another house? when they want to greet their neighbors and not a single house in the whole neighborhood opens its door?

when they do realize that they're completely alone here, what would they do with that fact? what would you do if all at once, as you stood in a crowd, you realized that every single person around you was a mannequin? it's unnerving, sure, but enough to warrant a move? how long will they live in this idyllic ghost town before it gets to them? can a person survive in a dollhouse? Thank you. *I wave to the crowd as I walk offstage at my ted talk. one person gives a halfhearted round of applause from the back. a talk about sustainable ecosystem management was scheduled for right now and no one knows how I got up here.*

[nilim]

Ok, so I was reading this news story:

So far so normal, right? But then:

Like what. And then:

Like, I think Alaska State Trooper Ken Marsh wants to be a romance novelist. 

[bunchastuffs]

where’s the part where the State Trooper takes the rescued man to his work cabin/station for some food and rest before heading back to civilisation, but there was only one bed?

[boccs]

You left out that the survivor’s name is literally Tyson Steele.  If that’s not the romantic lead in a gay romance nothing is.

[sevdrag]

Did Chuck Tingle write this

[accio-prongs]

physically im here but mentally im dancing with a vampire in a ballroom while tchaikovsky plays in the background

[colossalfauna-moved-deactivated]

y'all will circlejerk yourself to the mysticisms of faeries and elves in european countries for centuries and take it as fact but the second native americans ask you to respect our spirituality and culture suddenly you're all aetheists

[colossalfauna-moved-deactivated]

non natives can, should, and will reblog this.