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every time someone is like ok make your christmas list im like well suddenly it turns out ive never desired anythign in my fucking life

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Beforeby *Nymre

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Ok I forgot to take Minthe into account and that honestly affected my thoughts about Hades, but he is still the most decent out of the Big Three.

Greek Mytho-logic

Zeus: *Cheats so much his wife isn’t even surprised anymore* *Copulates with whatever living being that has boobs and a family/future* *Is literally and figuratively a homewrecker* *Turned Io into a cow to hide his blatant infidelity from Hera, goes wrong for everybody* *Endangers his demigod children both directly and indirectly* *Never paid child support*

Poseidon: *Did the do with a mortal (Medusa) inside Athena’s Temple* *Athena is his niece* *He escapes unpunished (kinda) while Medusa is turned into a snake monster with a degree in sculpture*

Hades: *Ruler of the Underworld, did his job* *Named his three-headed beast dog the equivalent of Spot, Spot* *Has the most (to not say only) stable relationship with his couple* *The only “cruel” thing he did is punish that one guy for sneaking into the underworld to try to sleep with Persephone, Hades’ wife who knew 0 diddly about that guy*

A lot of the Ancient Greek/Rome population, Historians, Disney, great part of society today: Yeah, Hades/Pluto was evil.

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do you think Suki ever uses the “you burned down my village” card to get Zuko to do shit for her

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the Fire Lord having an elite team of badass warrior women as his bodyguards would probably raise a few eyebrows if everyone didn't immediately recognise that Zuko is gay from the everything about him

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do you think Suki ever uses the “you burned down my village” card to get Zuko to do shit for her

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Sokka and Zuko have one big fight after they get together and it's over who gets Aang as his best man

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i remember seeing ATLA meta some years back (that, unfortunately, seems gone now) suggesting that Aang is overlooked in favor of Zuko as a mixture of culture clash and people being intimidated by Aang’s character arc.

Zuko is, superficially, a more standard protagonist; he goes from being explicitly on the wrong side, going through much suffering and having it beaten into his head that his entire family are abusive monsters who have wrecked unspeakable pain and suffering on the world, and eventually choosing to turn against his father to side with the Avatar, and thus the world as a whole.

Aang, conversely, doesn’t get much credit for his character development. Possibly, this is because a lot of this is subtle; the series doesn’t loudly announce or spoon-feed Aang’s growth to the audience, though there is a great deal of difference between season 1 Aang (who comes off as far more timid, indecisive and trying to avoid things that upset him) to season 2 Aang (willing to consider abandoning all Earthly ties in be able to save the world) and finally season 3 Aang, who famously is willing to get himself killed to uphold the values and most held beliefs of his people.

But the thing about Aang is that a lot of people seem to have found him unapproachable, though he goes through just as much conflict and stress as Zuko; Zuko just happens to do it in the ‘hotblooded, reckless and loud’ way that tends to be more widely relatable.

Zuko is a straightforward warrior/rogue who wouldn’t be out of place in a shoenen series. Aang was created specifically as a trickster archetype, and he even proudly remarks on how he solves as many conflicts as he can by being clever. Zuko goes straight at things; Aang doesn’t mind straight up making up a story just to fool people into not fighting already.

Aang doesn’t explode like Zuko; he internalizes things or represses them. He shuts his feelings down and tries to do what he thinks helps others, ignoring his own feelings in the process. He denies things, or tries to ignore them in other ways.

And there’s the fact that Aang is wise in a way that a lot of fans don’t really seem to get, or even approve of. He gets a lot of flack for advising Katara not to seek vengeance against her mother’s killer, on the basis that it won’t actually make her feel better, though the episode itself all but points to ‘HE WAS RIGHT THE WHOLE TIME’ as its basic thesis. Aang has an old sort of wisdom that, I think, makes him come off as unapproachable compared to Zuko.

Zuko, after all, is defined by not really knowing what he wants and chasing after things he thinks will make him loved, only to realize that it doesn’t make him happy. Conversely, Aang more or less knows himself; its why he is the hero of this story. He wants to help others over his own self interest, and he’s at peace with the person he is; his main issue is coming to terms with the duties of being the Avatar, and reconciling those duties with his principles and values. And the way this is done, seems off-putting to people.

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this is a renaissance painting 

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Noooo bro... the soundtrack is playing your recurring musical motif but this time in a minor key to indicate you've turned evil :( aha

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you're in his dms I'm helping him rescue his father from a maximum security prison we are not the same

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I get that being frozen for 100 years is a tough thing to go through but honestly Aang should have used it for comedy more

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okay so about Save the Cat and that fall

While rewatching, I’m starting to feel like I wasn’t giving fair credit to that ledge that Prime threw Catra off (and which Adora jumped off as well)

Because the angle in that scene is a little bit more from Adora’s (behind her shoulder) perspective and it doesn’t show as much of the fall

But Hordak throws Horde Prime down the same ledge, I THINK??? and

(and he’s still falling after that screenshot)

That’s a multuple story building right there, and I mean multiple as in A LOT OF FLOORS.

And that fall clearly DESTROYED Prime’s current body.

Like NO SHIT Catra is dying from that fall it’s a miracle she’s still breathing at all. I struggle to imagine how much her body must be damaged realistically (I mean sure they wouldn’t show a pool of blood on the kids show but I bet it would’ve been there otherwise)

Which also brings me to the point of holy shit Adora how did YOU survive that fall 

I mean yeah, she’s She-Ra, but in that particular moment her body is human (we all saw her clutching her ribs after being thrown against a tree in the first episode)

And if you look at it - she can’t stand and has to CRAWL to Catra’s body.

Which PROBABLY means that she’s also hella injured by that fall (she’s clearly better off than Catra, but she’s still broken in many places I bet) - which, obviously, doesn’t matter to her at the moment at all

SHE’S LATER JUST HEALED BY TURNING INTO SHE-RA I THINK, but in conclusion - Adora got slammed into the ground after falling from a height of a multiple story building (THAT KILLED HORDE PRIME’S “PERFECT” BODY, MIND YOU!!!) and didn’t bat an eye because Catra was dying a few meters away from her.

Am I crying again? Maybe.

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Only the Avatar could master the four spicys, but when the world needed him most, he vanished.

Peppers are the spicy of the fire, mint is the spicy of the ice, carbonation is the spicy of the air, and vinegar is the spicy of the water.

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Hey- hey seymour- Whats a good way to come out to my mom as bi-

‘Hey Mom, would you prefer if I had a boyfriend, or girlfriend?.... PSYCHE YOU CAN HAVE BOTH!”