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Art by rimri4mm on X

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Colonel Keith Kogane and First Lt. Lance McClain!

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haymitch saying that “to her credit effie stayed by my side” and effie continuing to stay by his side for the next 25 years😭😭😭

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The misogyny and racism towards Luz is insane like what do you mean she is consistently, successfully kind and supportive towards Hunter as he continues to only benefit from her compassion, while Hunter consistently lets Luz down, drags her into traumatic situations, makes her efforts to go home harder, pivots the situation towards his feelings, or else just soaks in Luz’s encouragement without offering the same.

And yet I’ll see far more fanon about Luz making Hunter feel like shit over his Hollow Mind secret than I’ll see people acknowledge and explore how Hunter canonically made Luz feel like shit over her Hollow Mind secret onscreen. Like help pls are we gonna talk about what that cracker did or will Luz always be doomed to fail him no matter how much she’s done meanwhile Hunter always gets the excuse of being traumatized and manipulated (If it’s even acknowledged!!!) like Damn I don’t see that effort for Lilith!

Fandom always manages to pivot the subject to Hunter’s feelings and it gets to a point where they can create pointless subtext about his hands yet need canon to explicitly spoon feed them that Luz feels guilty about helping Belos meet the Collector because it led to the coven system and the sigils that shaped her friends’ entire existences (hell, spawned Hunter’s entire existence) for the worse as well as the Day of Unity and them being trapped in the human world while all their loved ones and home are at the whims of a seemingly genocidal all-powerful entity. Luz literally saw people die because of this in Hollow Mind. But nahhh let’s pivot the discussion to Hunter’s feelings of guilt over purely hypothetical murders we have zero confirmation of him ever doing!

This may seem silly but like. I saw that trend about a character coming out with a horrible secret while their friends expect them to come out of the closet. And my first thought is Wow Hey that works with Luz! Not only does she have a horrible secret that tears her apart from within but the others actually pick up on it via her behavior and on top of all that has an actual canon onscreen Coming Out scene! Her sexuality is in the story and not as acknowledged by the creator a Word of God statement!

Luz’s secret and her revealing it is ultimately treated with way more pathos and focus and struggle and the guilt lasts into the finale, whereas Hunter had a much easier time with his secret and its reveal isn’t even that big of a deal for good reason and his final storyline isn’t even really about that! It’s about, again, how he keeps pivoting the topic to his own trauma and being a dick towards his supportive friend for it!

But then I internally groaned inside and knew. I knew. That the popular TOH take on the latest meme would be about Hunter. It happened with “Not what I’m called” and all of the other funny trends. The one that gets reblogged the most isn’t the one with Luz or some other character that’s more fitting or at least more prominent within the actual canon. It’s the Hunter version.

I’m not even checking TOH’s tag and I see a Hunter version of the Coming Out meme with a few thousand notes and nothing on Luz. Huh wow. What a surprise.

Don’t even get on my ass about how I need to be the change I see in the world!!! I contribute to the Luz discussion way more than 99% of fandom I’m allowed to have breaks and backup and support! I’ve said it before but if you think some aspect of Hunter some angle for him is unexplored you just need to take a nap and when you wake up ten other people have already done it in their own compelling ways. If you want to see people explore the foundation of the main character’s arc by god you end up having to do it yourself or it doesn’t happen!!!

And with the recent discourse over how Tumblr is overwhelmingly white and people acknowledging how it’s been hostile to PoC and harassed them off of this site and all of the wonder of Why is this so White is Tumblr’s own damn fault. Yeah. Nobody will take this seriously. Nobody will want to take this seriously until years later the white people and their supporters will scratch their heads and wonder, how did it get to this? If only we had been told how to prevent it!

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Ekko isn’t the stepfather. He’s the father who stepped up.

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Still on the timebomb bus and I'll be on it forever.

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oh ekko you would've loved isha so much:(

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Me 🤝 Spider= = Having crazy Stepmom issues lmaoooo———I need to her to be crazy like thisssssss!!

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Varang has such a pretty face! I needed to draw her 💜

I hope you like it 🥰💜

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Varang

(I think I'm finally getting the hang of rendering dont wanna jinx it tho😭)

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🔥Time to wake up🔥

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WHO IS SHE, HOW DID THEY FALL IN LOVE, DID HE ASK JAKE FOR ADVICE, DO THEY HAVE A FAMILY, ARE HER AND NEYTIRI BESTIES I HAVE TO KNOW.

That explains why he has alot of olangi accessories. I NEED MORE NORM he's so underrated

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the voices... of course, I had to make this AU??!

> more

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Calm before the storm - imagining Varang before the disaster destroying her home, curious and carefree.

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ENID BEING JEALOUS

THIS IS LIKE A FUCKING FANFIC

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Do you ever wonder if Silwanin had a bonded? She was a few years older than Neytiri (probably 4-6 if not more judging by the comics, where Neytiri was around Tuk’s age and Silwanin looked like a young teenager), so it’s safe to assume that, since the average age where children become adults is 15-17, at the moment of her death Silwanin had already underwent both iknimaya and uniltarion (+ she was probably around Tsu'tey’s age, and he was already an experienced hunter at the time of the movie). Neytiri herself, being 16, probably had already passed her rites of passage. Iknimaya is mandatory only for hunters, and that wasn’t Silwanin’s role, but that doesn’t mean that only hunters can do it, and I don’t see why she wouldn’t want to get an ikran.

I wonder, how did her iknimaya go? It’s likely that both Tsu'tey and Neytiri were present, maybe even her parents as well, with Tsu'tey advising and guiding Silwanin kind of in the same way Neytiri did with Jake. Imagine Silwanin and Tsu'tey flying together during her first flight like Neytiri and Jake did. Imagine Silwanin taking Neytiri to fly with her before she bonded with Seze, and then flying together once she did. Imagine Silwanin and Tsu'tey having little dates on ikranback through the Hallelujah Mountains. Imagine the three of them soaring together through the skies along with their other friends.

Imagine her ikran sensing the danger the day she was killed, rushing through the forest to protect her (like Tanhì did with Kiri), only to arrive and find out it was too late. And ikrans bond with only one Na'vi throughout their lifetime. Imagine her bonded retreating to the Hallelujah Mountains because the grief is too overwhelming, and what’s the point in staying at Hometree if Silwanin is gone, anyway? Only Seze and Tsu'tey’s ikran sometimes still approach her, having been so close to her in the past. From time to time, Neytiri and Tsu'tey catch a glimpse of her still roaming the skies above Hometree, almost like she’s hoping to somehow catch sight of Silwanin. And when Eywa called all of her children to protect their home and drive the invaders away, the same invaders that took away her bonded, she answered.