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Yall I need help. My marvel darlings please. Any fics where the reader is like the dominant one in the relationship. I’m talking the reader is talking to this boy and is like “yes mama!” And she talking to him crazy but he loves it🙏 if it’s a lil toxic I’m okay with that. Love an established relationship.

My clients are: Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Joaquin Torres, Thor, Loki, Bob Reynolds and honestly if u don’t have recs for these guys I’ll take just about any other man just help me out here

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tower fics are so back baby

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It’s always the bitches that’s writing smut for the first fucking time😭😭😭 writing like they got a gun to their head and of course it’s like one fic like that 😭😭😭this is why I am the way that I am. This is why I’m a degenerate

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Tumblr is like an archive of my noncontextualized nonsense/lide. I’m dramatic as I want bc anonymity is freedom. Freedom is freedom tbh. I’m getting there bare/bear with me. Freedom is freedom. Hmmmmm. I live in the moment now. Hmmmmm.

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Some of my past posts YIKES

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It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

This is kinda insane. My prime years was after civil war came out

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I hate when people say they want things then don’t take initiative but are lowkey hoping someone else or the universe magically does something for them. I take initiative not bc I want to control but bc I want shit to happen and imma do what u cha to facilitate it. Don’t complain about how I do things if you don’t do anything to get shit find urself. Complaining without action is just some sort of entitlement. Put up or shut up. I don’t wanna hear it

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Right now, I’m in a phase where I don’t feel like talking. I’m content with being around people. Just want to share the space. Don’t really want to respond. I just wanna be silent. I don’t really care to dig deep or explain why I feel this way. I just want to beeeeeeee without attributing anything to it. I’m not mad or sad or whatever I’m just existing.

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I can’t be famous in this capitalist society it would be too damn hard to be myself. I want to be weird with no consequences but if I want that I’d have to stay anonymous but I don’t want that anyway I will keep being weird. RYAN COOGLER IS HOT AND I LOVE HIS STACHE AND LIL FIVE OCLOCK DHADOW THATS NOT A BEARD BUT NOT REALLY FIVE OCLOCK SHADOW

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Ryan Coogler got the meanest mug and it’s so beautiful like he’s serving face. I love when men have long hair or braid their hair like YES BITCH. He’s so fine. Let me get into him bc I KNOW their r fics out there somewhere…

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I want to read sinners fanfic but I feel like all yall just nasty and horny and nasty and I don’t wanna read a gangbang fic rn that’s not my type of time. Or there is nothing at all bc many reasons I don’t feel like listing.

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I’m not sure if I will watch the live action. I really have to think about that so I won’t comment on it.

As it pertains to the cartoon, I think the parts of Katara that they do make fun of in the show is her motherly nature and her optimism(ember island players). I think Katara could be feminist/progressive buzzkill archetype if her actions and reasoning weren’t validated by the plot. When she is righteous during the Haru episode, she isn’t laughed at, but ignored bc her hope and optimism is seen as fruitless and naive. To me, it reveals mire about how true surrounding characters feel about the world than how the audience is supposed to see Katara. In the ember island episode, her optimism and hope is absolutely mocked as that episode is a spoof of its own show. In the painted lady episode, Katara is mocked by her own brother but it serves purpose: the contrast btwn her optimism and Sokka’s pessimism. And katara’s optimism and perceived naivety always wins. There are many more examples but I don’t think Katara is mocked for laughing sake. She is mocked to reveal the lack of vision and optimism in other characters. Katara is the moral mouthpiece for the show, more and better than Aang, and he’s the avatar.

And as for Suki, she is mocked to show how stupid Sokka was. I don’t think they were mocking her for being a female warrior.

Now toph, they absolutely mocked her. The exaggerated the more dirty parts of her to emphasize her tie to masculinity. The armpit joke and the closeups to her feet and the contrast btwn how clean Katara is and how dirty she is in the ba sing se tales episode. The mocking there was sorta fruitless or served no real purpose.

One of the more popular takes I hear about the live action ATLA is that Katara doesn’t have her fire. Is that true? I don’t trust this fandom and their takes. They decontextualize their takes, react to headlines, don’t read and barely understand the og show as is. Like I heard them complaining about the new toph news and they said her main thing is that she’s not feminine and I’m like? HUH. Toph rejects infantilization, she’s infantilized bc of her disability, not femininity. She has no problem being dressed up, she just so happens to be tomboy. Her story is about her disability and the real question to me is, can the girl act well enough to portray this character?

As someone who has sense, what is the truth?

Toph doesn't like to be dressed up, but as I said in my other post, it's more complex than that, and you're right that it's about being infantalized. Like I do want to make it clear that I hate it when people feminize Toph in fan art, something I see often which feels fetishistic, but I don't think that's the same thing as an actress in an adaptation saying the character will be "slightly" more feminine.

As for Katara, yes and no. I do think the live action misses a lot of the magic of the original show. And in general I hate unnecessary live action adaptations, and Netflix's atla is largely unnecessary. But I also hate reactionaries and a lot of the hate I see is just patently ridiculous. The Katara stuff is another example.

Katara's character doesn't stand out the way she does in the original show. She's fine, but just fine. However, accusations that the show deliberately removed her fire are just silly and frankly, insulting to the actress in a way I'm not comfortable with.

You also have to remember, once again, that all of these characters were originally cartoons. I love Katara's righteous anger, but in the original, it is often played for laughs. Part of Katara's character is a joke about how she's a feminist buzzkill. People tend to look at the original show and say that it's more progressive than it is, and Katara's character is one of those things, and the things I as an adult love about her character are also the things that a lot of kids (who, remember, are the target audience) hate about her, because those things are mocked by the show. Just like the show makes a joke out of Toph being a tomboy or Suki being a warrior. The way I've seen people describe live action Suki "lusting" after Sokka is just...something else, let me tell you. Guess a woman can't be in a relationship with a man unless she teaches him how to respect her first, amirite? God forbid she just like him and assume respect will be given anyway, instead of giving him a relationship as a reward for respecting her. The live action spends less time on Sokka learning to respect Suki but also answers the question of why Suki likes Sokka better than the original does.

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Saying that removes much of Katara agency too. It’s funny bc Katara has no agency within the Kataang ship but here we are. Kataangers unknowingly treat her like a tool and disregard the relationship btwn her a Zuko that fundamentally changes after southern raiders. They praise Aang for that episode say Zuko is feeding into the dark side of her when Aang was being all preachy and morally righteous anyways I digress that point.

Zuko goes as far as to raise his kids to break generational curses. His daughter, in lok, refuses to aid republic city in their fight against kuvira bc they don’t want to contribute to what she believes in senseless violence. He raised her bruh. He taught her that. (At least I think this was season 4 I could be wrong but she fasho was like to republic city for military aid for something).

i hate the implication that shipping zutara means that you're downplaying colonialism. not only do comparisons between historical examples of colonizer-colonized relationships (e.g. sally hemmings and thomas jefferson) fall flat since 1) zutara originated as a desire for zuko and katara to enter a consensual relationship 2) zuko atones for mistakes and his contributions for being an agent of colonization. plus it comes out of this assumption that many of us aren't poc and are oblivious to the effects of colonialism.

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I haven’t seen the show and I’m glad ur talking about fully contextualized. People talk about the live action ATLA and it feels decontextualized and now I see why. Of course they decontextualized the article w Miya too and went buck wild w their own narratives to suit their agenda. Thanks for the context. I’m not sure I’ll watch the live action still, but at least the info I have is less fragmented.

I just saw an article on Twitter that stated that Netflix's live action ATLA adaptation is going to make Toph's character more feminine. People on Twitter had really strong reactions to this, so I decided to read the article first before assuming what this meant. The actress who has been casted as Toph (Miya Cech) did mention that one of the changes to Toph's character is that she is slightly older (because of the actress's age), and also that the character is going to be slightly more feminine. Miya stated that she wanted to work in a more humanizing environment, and that she did speak to the original voice actress for Toph. Both of them have very similar methods for how they approached their portrayal of Toph. I still don't want to jump the gun when it comes to any of this, especially because I do think that some of the more original bits of writing the live action Netflix ATLA writing team came up with kind of did work at times (Iroh being more of a grey shaded character, the 41st regiment idea, Lu Ten's funeral, Bumi's feelings of abandonment, the Gyatso scenes, etc.). I wanted to know, what are your thoughts about this?

Okay, so I'm of two minds about this.

I love Toph, and I will also defend gender nonconforming girls to the death.

However

The complete uproar I'm seeing over this is pretty ridiculous. As you pointed out, Miya said that Toph will be "slightly" more feminine. Older is obvious, because Miya is an adult. Which also informs Toph's character because a lot of Toph's behaviors stem from her being a kid. Which doesn't mean that all tomboys need to grow into feminine women, but in the original show, Toph is a kid. She's one of the boys, yeah, but she also enjoys getting to feel pretty, has crushes, and is desperate for female companionship, as her relationship with Katara shows.

Miya is also correct about the original show being a cartoon and I'm seeing people pull this phrasing waaaay out of context to imply Miya is saying that gender nonconformity is "unrealistic." That's not what's being said at all, and I hate to break it to y'all, but Toph is a cartoon, and her lack of femininity is often played for laughs in the original show. The girl literally rolls in dirt. Like, it's obvious why that won't translate to live action well, the same way Sokka's over the top sexism wouldn't, or Katara bulging her eyes when Sokka makes a sexist joke or smacking him upside the head. It's a GOOD thing that the show is deciding to take these things more seriously instead of having us point and laugh at how haha funny it is that Toph doesn't like to wear dresses.

Also, what does "slightly" more feminine even mean? I saw someone saying that doing this would "take away the point of Toph," as if all Toph is or ever will be is her eschewing of femininity. But there's another important aspect to Toph, and that's her disability. The problem with the role Toph is forced into by her parents isn't that it's feminine, it's that they denied her agency. They wanted her to be feminine in a way that's helpless and doesn't take up space. If Toph were sneaking out every night to go dancing with heavy makeup, do you think her parents would like that better? Of course not. I'm more interested in the question of what femininity means for Toph as a disabled girl, because disabled girls always have to live in that liminal space.

I also suspect that Miya, like a lot of young actresses cast in similar roles, is wary of being typecast. I mean, look at how Maisie Williams was treated for her role on Game of Thrones. Even after her character grew up and had sex with a boy she had loved since season two, many people did not accept it because tomboy characters are supposed to be genderless beings. A standard which, again, is also applied to disabled girls.

Also people are still repeating the point about the show "removing" Sokka's sexism when they very much did not do that. He's still weird about Suki being a warrior, and the show still has him learn to respect her, without the simplistic "girls can fight, too" moral. Also the way people talk about Suki in the live action is really gross and misogynistic and makes it clear how much she has to fight for respect in the original show in the first place, which is evidence that it wasn't as progressive as people like to pretend it is.

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Speak on it. Everything u said is facts. How can something that’s not canon impact the canon so much. Why are we talking abt something that is supposedly so racist n ableist w the casting? Stop pouring into these things. All pr is good to them. The studios don’t care abt ur call out posts. It’s traffic to them so the new seasons r getting renewed. U won’t catch me tweeting or tiktoking abt the live action n u certainly wont catch me making shit up and then getting mad at my own hypothetical

Fellow zutaraians, idk how to find yall on tumblr this algorithm is shit but on TikTok, we getting dragged for the live action, which I refuse to watch even illegally, because apparently the writers are pro zutara? This info is unconfirmed and unless I see it with my own eyes, I won’t believe what some TikTok commenter says.

The reason for the dragging is because this tiktoker reposted tweets talking about the live action casting of toph. This is confirmed: toph is supposed to be older and more feminine in the live action. ans tiktoker SPECULATED that the creators may push taang instead. now zutara is getting dragged in the comments bc of proximity and its the most popular non canon ship. then u have pick me zutara stans who want the approval of the antis and canon loyalists sayin "im a zutara shipper but i dont what that to be canon to the livee action or taang" like girl bye who cares what u want. zutara stans be minding their business n then the canon loyalists and the antis drag us. we been quiet mostly. the live action can do whatever it wants idc. they can continue using the cartoon as a bouncing board instead of a mirror (thats what adaptations r supposes to do but i digress) and i wont care bc im not watching something that will not entertain me and make me mad bc im not braindead. Just Leave zutara Stan’s alone.

Anyways what yall think of this 😭😭

(Personally idc what they do w the live action bc I’m not watching. Why would I make myself mad. Yall love misery and its company bc yall will circle jerk each other and say oh u hate the live action and its decisions but keep pouring into it by giving it energy by talking abt it but yall do that with everything u don’t like: pour into it but thats another conversation)

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It’s always our fault 😭😭😭 “zutara fans r writing it aghhh” girl bye. Atla, and I love atla, canon ships suck. All of them. Also how can something not canon ruin a show like I hate antis😭😭 I don’t understand hate watching.

Fellow zutaraians, idk how to find yall on tumblr this algorithm is shit but on TikTok, we getting dragged for the live action, which I refuse to watch even illegally, because apparently the writers are pro zutara? This info is unconfirmed and unless I see it with my own eyes, I won’t believe what some TikTok commenter says.

The reason for the dragging is because this tiktoker reposted tweets talking about the live action casting of toph. This is confirmed: toph is supposed to be older and more feminine in the live action. ans tiktoker SPECULATED that the creators may push taang instead. now zutara is getting dragged in the comments bc of proximity and its the most popular non canon ship. then u have pick me zutara stans who want the approval of the antis and canon loyalists sayin "im a zutara shipper but i dont what that to be canon to the livee action or taang" like girl bye who cares what u want. zutara stans be minding their business n then the canon loyalists and the antis drag us. we been quiet mostly. the live action can do whatever it wants idc. they can continue using the cartoon as a bouncing board instead of a mirror (thats what adaptations r supposes to do but i digress) and i wont care bc im not watching something that will not entertain me and make me mad bc im not braindead. Just Leave zutara Stan’s alone.

Anyways what yall think of this 😭😭

(Personally idc what they do w the live action bc I’m not watching. Why would I make myself mad. Yall love misery and its company bc yall will circle jerk each other and say oh u hate the live action and its decisions but keep pouring into it by giving it energy by talking abt it but yall do that with everything u don’t like: pour into it but thats another conversation)

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