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I don't know how to articulate this well, but I really fucking hate the way a lot of thin writers write fat characters. Like how men write women "breasting boobily" there is something so dehumanizing about how fat characters are often written. "He waddled", "he lumbered", the writer of the book I'm reading always mentions this characters "fleshy hand" when he does something with his hand. Like, we already know that he's fat. There is no need to describe everything he does as "doing it fatly".

sulkybender-retired04042026

*fishes this absolute treasure from the tags*

comradekatara

atla just so happened to write one of the most insane and complex brother sister relationships in all of television, and yet for some reason everyone focused on zuko and azula instead, even though they are basically just normal siblings, and as such not even that interesting ..

comradekatara

their dynamic is more fraught and tragic than you could ever comprehend……

this☝️ is just a typical sibling interaction

adrenaline-revolver

katara and sokka are what happens when you are your brother’s mother and your brother also tries to be your father. you love them, you hate them, you’re half of them, you can’t stand them, you look after them, they keep you safe.

azula and zuko are both just gifted kid burnouts with a dad that only loves the winner.

tanoraqui

#yeah when they're not trying to kill each other azula and Zuko are p normal. #katara and sokka on the other hand spent the majority of their childhood trying to raise each other #and were also the ONLY kids in their age group that they ever interacted with. #they are so. they're so. #''i don't remember what my mom looks like I just picture katara'' WHEN HE HAS HIS MOTHER'S FACE. kills me. (@professorsparklepants)

wordfather

they're a problematic character TO YOU. they're problematic to me as well but I'm being weird and horny about it so it's different

winged-void

just remembered that my middle school bullies were named Chase and Hunter. what was up with that. what was going on there.

transjudas

never take for granted the moments when you’re not nauseous

the-enchanted-little-star

spellsaves

it’s frustrating to see analysis of orpheus and eurydice’s relationship end at their love for each other when the entire purpose of that love, narratively, is to introduce the political themes of the musical. you won’t fight for a better future if you don’t see one ahead of you, and eurydice didn’t until orpheus showed her, and that was why she fell in love with him. when his support becomes intangible to her, she loses herself to despair, but then he shows her again, and then the chorus, and then persephone, and finally hades. everyone was so lost in their personal tragedies that they couldn’t look past them to see their sorrows reflected in those of others, and in that they could not find connection and solidarity, and in that they could not conceive of finding people with hands that they might join to lift each other up. orpheus is overwhelmed by his personal tragedy and succumbs to it, and only then does he fail to reverse it. meanwhile, his showing the path forward and uniting the chorus up until the moment he turns allows them to resurface alongside persephone, having found hope and support and the willingness to fight for both those things in him and in each other