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SPIRITED AWAY 千と千尋の神隠し(2001)

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[ID: A digital illustration of Fire Lord Zuko holding a golden egg, his cheek against it. The atmosphere is dark, the egg lit up gold, along with Zuko's eyes and scar. End ID]

found a wip from a year ago ill definitely never be touching again

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Corollary to that last post: sex doesn't have a monopoly on intimacy, and I do get frustrated when every instance of Weird Fantasy Intimacy gets interpreted as an inevitable and self-evident metaphor for sex, even in instances where that isn't really an appropriate or sensible reading. It can be a very limiting viewpoint that ignores the breadth of possible intimate experiences and types of relationships, and even where it is applicable insisting on a one-to-one correlation can feel like an overly simplistic lens of interpretation. Fantasy/Sci-Fi Intimacy can mean a lot of different things!

But also sometimes it's really hot. Sorry.

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GUINEVERE

Merlin 3x10 | Queen of Hearts

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Bonus:

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The Good Place 3x06

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this is the worst fucking day of my life, and yet i am not surprised in the slightest.

toph is an icon for disabled people. she’s one of so few blind characters who is a hero and whose disability is not her weakness or fatal flaw. while it does make her life harder, as any disability does, it also gives her strength. she is the greatest earthbender of her generation. she invented a whole new subsection of bending. the people behind the live action production had a chance to make history just by doing the bare minimum: casting a blind actress to play a blind character. they couldn’t even do that.

not only that, but they’re making her “slightly more feminine” to “humanize” her. as if there weren’t so many young girls out there who looked up to toph because she was weird and didn’t fit the mold. in “tales of ba sing se” she tells katara, “i don’t care what i look like. i’m not looking for anyone’s approval. i know who i am.” to have a female character who doesn’t conform to beauty standards is so important especially right now with the prevalent beauty influencer culture.

while the original cartoon’s representation of women wasn’t perfect, it was diverse. katara and ty lee were both feminine. they liked to dress up and look pretty. toph is not feminine. she grew up forced to dress in formal clothes and style herself a certain way and decided to liberate herself from that. all three of these women are incredibly strong and incredibly talented at what they do, and none of that is impacted by their appearance or gender presentation.

every day, my hatred for the netflix version of avatar grows.

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Gwen's birthday month and celebrating the news of Beyond the Spiderverse 🥹🥹

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Across the Spider-Verse, 0:50:47, Frame 73063

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they gave me a day off yay

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Oh for fuck’s sake, people calling out racist writing in fanfic isn’t “censorship”. I say this as a fic writer but some of you need to get off your high fucking horse.

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How am I only just learning this!?

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this line delivery has lived in my head for 10 years

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THE INCREDIBLES (2004)  —

dir. Brad Bird.

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ID: a light purple background with bold black text that reads "Do not respond to my Doylist Criticism with a Watsonian Explantion or your personal headcanon / popular fanon." End ID]

here's a simple image if anyone wants to put it on your Doylist posts to ward off the ~ popular fandom headcanons ~

Also, here's a bonus one:

[ID: a simple image with a light purple background and bold black text on it that reads "Do not repond to my Media Critique with 'this work has an unreliable narrator, therefore no critique is valid, but all praise is correct.' That's not how an Unreliable Narrator works and has absolutely no relevancy to my critique." End ID]

Pro Tip: if someone is critiquing a writing choice or an author's choices, you coming barging in proclaiming your headcanon is x, y, or z does not have any actual meaning or impact on the text itself and how others are interpreting it.

and last but not least:

[ID: a light purple background with bold black text that reads "I do not care what the Author Said On Twitter. If it does not exist in The Text Itself, it does not matter to a critique of The Text Itself", with the last four words in italics for emphasis. Below that, it says in paraphansies, "This is what 'Death of the Author' actually means: Critiquing a text based soley what is contained in the Text Itself, regardless of the Author's Intentions or any meta commentary they may make on Social Media." End ID]

Making it its own post for easy reference. Please feel free to use these images (as long as you include the attached image descriptions as indented or plain text below them) on your media critiques to ward off the hordes of fans who think any critique, (even the most surface-level, plain facts-based summary) is some kind of dire personal attack against themselves.

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i made a guide to help with ao3 tagging :)

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@prequelsnet prequels appreciation week: day 5 — found family

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