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The face that launched a thousand ships sent two thousand greybeards south

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Heartwarming: This trained soldier with a license is to kill is barely 7!

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Somehow, sometimes trying to be nice to them ends up being more stressful than some anbu missions

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Ok i wanna talk about avatar yun. Idk what the general fandom consensus is about him and i honestly dont care. I am very sympathetic to yun. He was an orphan promised everything, raised as the avatar, expected to excel. He was trained endlessly in sometimes cruel ways. But he still managed to be a happy silly guy for the most part. Until the day he found out he was lied to, an important secret had been kept from him. One of his guardians, one of the men who had told him he was the avatar, had secretly and genuinely suspected it was yuns friend and servant for a while but especially after certain events. Boom, one betrayal. Then his other guardian dragged both him and his friend off to some demented spirit to determine which of them was truly the avatar (another mini betrayal) and when it was discovered to be kyoshi instead, he was immediately discarded and sacrificed to the spirit, which was a HUGE betrayal. Kid found out he wasnt really the avatar AND now he has felt betrayed by TWO of his guardians/mentors and one of them has just completely discarded him like trash with no hesitation. And then he had to survive father glowworm with no prior knowledge (EATING him was. A choice. But ok whatever works ig) I think anyone would snap to some degree after ALL that. While i dont condone mass murder, i am very sympathetic to him and i think his story is truly a tragedy. Like should he have slaughtered an entire town? No probably not, but tbh they were being really fucking rude to him for no reason at all i think that may have been the final straw that broke his already fractured and incredibly unstable mental state. All that said. His death was in fact the only real option, poor yun, poor kyoshi, poor rangi. And i dont see enough people saying poor kelsang, he deserved better too.

PLEASE share your thoughts in the replies ik i said i dont care but id actually LOVE to hear what others think of yun, the avatar who wasnt.

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rewatching Avatar is so weird because Sokka is literally the only thing keeping them alive and fed. He constantly is like,

'guys we're out of supplies/ we need to stop/ we're attracting too much attention with the flying bison we should walk' etc.

Like in the ´The Storm' when they're completely out of money and supplies the one to get a job in hopes of making money (he never actually gets paid, the world hates him) is Sokka.

In 'The Waterbending Scroll,' it's Sokka who's concerned about their lack of supplies when Aang sends them in a wave down the river, and is making sure they're careful with their spendibg when in town shopping.

He's also seen to catch fish and gather nuts (I know more often than not he fails to catch things on screen but it's implied he's the one that does most of the hunting and gathering)

It's like- Aang totally would have starved to death or gotten completely off track with often they're completely out of food and money

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The Matriarch Isn’t the Villain. She’s the Mirror

I often hear a discourse where Celine in K-pop Demon Hunters, Alma in Encanto and Ming in Turning Red are seen as vilains. They’re the ones who restricted the younger generation, hurt them, and are ultimately responsible for their pain, trauma and self-doubt. They’re framed as the real villains of the story. But I’d like to differ.

These are stories of intergenerational trauma. They are women who survived, repressed, and tried to protect their families the only way they knew how: through control, perfectionism, and emotional suppression.

And yet, when the next generation begins to reclaim joy, freedom, softness — they become the obstacle. Not because they’re bad people, but because they’re scarred. Their minds cling to survival strategies, unable to recognize that the environment has changed.

Alma is still stuck fleeing the colonizers.

Ming is still afraid of her true self.

Celine believes that fear and mistakes must be hidden.

It’s not about hating these characters. It’s about how unprocessed trauma twists love into control. How survival, unexamined, turns into rigidity. These women were never given space to process their own pain and they project it onto their daughters and granddaughters.

And here’s something we rarely say enough: intergenerational trauma can create toxic patterns but that doesn’t always mean there was abuse or conscious harm. Even when their love becomes suffocating or controlling, these women are not necessarily “abusive parents.” They are daughters of silence, fear, and sacrifice. And they were never taught another way. It’s important to make that distinction, especially in a world that often pushes a binary, punitive reading of family dynamics.

They’re the product of a generation that was told to endure. But endurance without healing becomes its own kind of violence.

What’s powerful in these stories is that they don’t end in vengeance. They end in confrontation and transformation. The confrontation is necessary: the younger generation refuses the silence. Refuses the shame. Refuses to carry a burden that wasn’t theirs to begin with.

The house is destroyed in Encanto.

Mei accepts her full self.

So does Rumi.

And in the best cases, this confrontation allows the elder to soften too. Alma opens up. Ming listens. And I’m hoping in the sequel, Celine will open too.

Maybe that’s also why these stories speak so deeply to POC audiences. These aren’t stories about cutting ties. They’re stories about how hard it is to transform them, to protect ancestral bonds while refusing to perpetuate inherited pain. In many racialized families, collectivity, loyalty, and intergenerational duty are sacred... even when they come at the cost of personal boundaries.

And sometimes, Western individualist frameworks read these tensions as dysfunction or villainy. But for us, they’re just the difficult truth of growing up and trying to do better.

These women aren’t villains. That would be too easy. They embody the fragile, necessary work of bringing change without breaking the thread. These stories are about refusing to inherit their pain without reflection. Because love, without accountability, is not enough.

These stories show us that each generation has something to learn from the next. And the new generation must also break free from the chains they inherited while preserving what is meaningfull.

But it’s not just their story.

One day, we’ll be the older generation.

And we’ll need to be humble enough to learn from the ones after us.

So don’t be a fool.

We may be Mei, Rumi, or Mirabel today.

But tomorrow, we could be Ming, Celine, or Alma.

And when that time comes, we’ll realize how hard it is to unlearn what once kept us safe.

So let’s have compassion for all these characters.

Because these stories show us not just how the cycle of generations works, but how it can make us better, stronger, and more connected... if we’re all willing to go through the change.

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If you’re curious, I’ve written more on K-pop Demon Hunters:

A post on the mental health themes woven through the songs — right here.

A breakdown of Celine-Rumi in comparaison to Gothel–Rapunzel dynamic — here.

An analysis about Rumi, Jinu, and the danger of sinking together — here.

Some book recs for each of the K-pop Demon Hunters characters — here.

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What breed is yours?

Stoner white guy and rock eating goth girl ,What's yours?

Himbo.

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you want what

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the yamanaka clan are so funny to me...

they're literally like: yes hello we specialize in flowers and interrogation 💐😊

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the possibility that love is not enough

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POV: your spouse comes home from the mines but wears a glow ring :(

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Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

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Portrait Commission❤️🐉

Baela the Brave and Jacaerys the Just; Lord and lady of the seven kingdoms❤️ I was asked to depict Baela and Jacaerys (had he survived) post dance of the dragons and had a lot of free rein so that was fun!

Referenced my lady jane, SapphireAndSage (Etsy) and EnchantedTudorRose (Etsy).

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Tom Glynn Carney bts of HOTD S2

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Excuse me, my prince asked for no pickles.

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"Simon Strong is pro daemyra" Simon Strong is pro getting this crazy man out of his house