#about stuff i’m passionate about

[mimikyu-chr]

in my head there’s a constant image of Nico getting passionate about something, waving his hands about while he talks (like every Italian) and accidentally smacking Will right in the nose. And making everyone around them burst out laughing.

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

I hate people who are like “AI allows me to do these things I wanted to do but can’t because I suck at it” do you think that every person before AI didn’t suck at what they were good at? Do you think it’s worth stealing other people’s passions so you can pretend you’re good at something instead of trying?

[sokkas-therapist]

Ok so I decided I am going to post that “atla live action hot take” I mentioned

Click below the cut if you’re interested in hearing my take on the whole “taking away sokka’s sexism” thing

1) nobody is glorifying sokka’s sexism by saying it should be kept in the show. It’s quite literally the opposite. The original series did a great job using his sexism as a lesson; any time sokka made a sexist remark in the first 4 episodes it was made abundantly clear that he was wrong, and as soon as Sokka was proven wrong he admitted that he was misguided, apologized, quite literally bowed down on his knees to ask for forgiveness, and even asked to learn from the kiyoshi warriors, and excepted wearing their traditional uniforms, further surrendering his flawed perspective of societal gender roles. A wonderfully executed example of writers using their characters to teach viewers a lesson: which was, in this case, that sexism is wrong. Sokka’s sexism was not left unresolved, so why take away a valuable lesson in the show??

2) if you take away a character’s flaws…then they don’t have development. A character can’t learn and grow from their mistakes if they never make mistakes.

If a charecter starts off perfect and unflawed then they are surface level and lack depth or the ability for an arc.

And no, this is not saying that Sokka didn’t have many other admirable qualities like his intelligence and adaptability etc.. He 100% had those qualities. But one of the coolest things about the original atla series was their ability to flesh out side charecters and give them depth. A charecter who is simply smart then becomes smarter, or adaptable then becomes even more adaptable, lacks depth and internal conflict.

Sokka’s sexism was the starting point for his internal conflict. Sokka wasn’t just sexist to be sexist, or because the entire southern water tribe was misogynistic (and we know for a fact they weren’t, because if they were misogynistic, then Katara wouldn’t have been shocked when the North denied her waterbending training). He was misogynistic because being seen/accepted as a “man” and a strong warrior was all Sokka wanted after his father left him behind. In reality, we know his father was only trying to protect his son from the horrors of war. But to a young and impressionable child, Sokka internalized this as him not being “man” enough, so he dedicated himself to becoming the person he thought would make his father proud. He was always reaching for this unattainable standard he set for himself, which lead to him having a skewed and toxic view of masculinity that he took out on the women around him. He associated being a worthy warrior with being a traditionally masculine man, and leaned way too far into fulfilling the gender roles men and women are told to play in society in hopes of gaining his father’s approval. We see him do this by suppressing his feelings of inferiority as a nonbender, along with all the aspects of himself that he thought could be seen as “weak” or “feminine” (ex: his love for shopping and poetry and art that we see develop up until the literal end of the series).

So clearly, the vast majority of sokka’s charecter development that deals with internal conflict stems from the toxic view of masculinity and gender roles that he adopted after being left behind by his father, which caused him to outwardly lash out toward katara and Suki with misogynist comments. So taking away the sexism we see in the first few episodes eliminates important context that makes sokka’s character development throughout the entire series significant, not just an “iffy unnecessarily bigoted message”, because it was quite literally used to show that sexism was wrong.

I wasn’t going to say anything about this at first but seeing so many people display a fundamental lack of understanding for the premise of character development and the usage of charecter flaws to promote positive messages in media set me off. Just…WTF????

(Also I know I wrote a summarized version of this in the tags for another post but I wanted to expand upon it more and make this a separate post)

[dimidarling]

The new Superman show is all well and good but I don’t want to see any of you watching it acting like it’s the first time Superman has ever been nice/kind/sweet/interesting/a person outside the suit. As if the DCAU Superman hasn’t been here for years and years, and the Legion of Superheroes cartoon Superman hasn’t been here for years and years and various comics Supermans haven’t been written to be the most compassionate people ever, and some live action Supermans being down to earth and kind. It’s cool if this show makes you enjoy Superman in a way you didn’t before! I def want more media to focus on him as the good person he is, not the muscle suit popularized in some circles. But know it is not the first media, and especially not the first cartoon, to show him this way. Also don’t woobify him I’m begging on my knees to treat him like the grown ass man he is orz

[stuckinapril]

I’ve always loved medicine bc it’s the perfect intersection of science and humanity—the two things I value above all else in this world. Truly adored it since I was in the cradle. But now I’m thinking about how so much of my journey to neurosurgery will have to involve KILLING my feelings essentially bc how do you survive otherwise

[leonardalphachurch]

every time rwby stuff gets recommended to me i remember how fucking obnoxious i find it that that fandom has quarantined off all criticism into its own tag. i’m so happy rvb is a hater fandom and we put all our grievances in the main tag i think i’d die otherwise

[missxfaithc]

Okay I gotta bone to pick with Markiplier about something.

In his livestream breakdown for WKM, way back when, he made a big deal of saying how if something wasn’t expressly stated in the story, then it wasn’t canon. Like, even if he verbally said it later on, it still wouldn’t technically be canon, unless the story itself was added onto to reflect as much.

But then, by the time ISWM came around, he added in a bunch of cryptic shit to fuck with the fans and when people naturally began to theorize and be like “ohhh I see some plainly laid out connections here between this scene/character/line and something in WKM” he was just like “nahhhh none of that shit means anything. You’re looking too much into it”.

Like… bruh. You were the one who told us that the only things that mattered were the things actually stated in the story itself. Like, he made the conscious decision to put parallels in the story between some of Engineer Mark’s decisions/lines and some of the things Damien said in WKM. The same thing goes for the parallels between Mrs. Whitacre (or however you spell her name) and Celine.

People also pointed out, at the time, how Engineer Mark’s whole speech at the end to the Captain about how tired he was, and how sorry he was could be representative of Actor Mark finally taking accountability for his actions in WKM.

But then Mark was just like “nope. They’re two completely different people. ISWM is a completely different story from the WKM thing with completely different characters. Actor Mark isn’t a part of this… except maybe he is”.

Like ??? 😩😩😩

Please, Mark, just give us something. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t simultaneously say that “only the things in the actual story are canon” and “I just added that shit in there to fuck with people”. Those two statements severely contradict each other.

Unless he changed his mind and that’s no longer how he wants us to view these stories??? I guess???

Idk, fam. This is no shade to Mark. I just find it kind of funny in a weird way and also kind of frustrating.

The way I see it, there are 2 ways to look at the Markiverse. You can examine the stories themselves on their own and draw your own conclusions thusly. Or you can listen to Mark’s explanations and get the version of the story that he either intended or wanted, regardless of whether the content itself expresses as much.

Again, this isn’t me criticizing Mark (well, mostly 😂). I just love the universe (multiverse, I suppose now) he’s created so much, and I love discussing it and theorizing about it. I just find it interesting how different a story’s content can be sometimes in comparison to how its creator views that story, and what message they want people to take from it versus what message it’s actually sending.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that at one point during the livestream breakdown for ISWM, I’m like 99% sure Mark said something along the lines of “yeah this story isn’t connected to WKM at all” and then like before the end of the stream he also said “I’m sure I’ll get back to finishing that story eventually” (in reference to everything that got started in WKM). So like…??? Which is it? Are the character arcs started in WKM actually finished or not? My man’s out here changing the rules on us again during the SAME livestream.

Also I saw someone in my replies mention those godforsaken masks that came from WMLW and yet to this day have never gotten an explanation. Mark E. Plier, Sir, please… I am begging you 😩 just put us out of our misery and give us SOMETHING we can work with.

[sunshinechay]

I think one of the things I love about Between Us vs Until We Meet Again is that Between Us is quieter.

Don’t get me wrong, I love UWMA. I love the idea of messy imperfect people finding love so true that they would find each other over lifetimes. The idea that that love won’t fade with time or become something else. I love the idea that Korn and In believed in each other so much that they would want to be together forever, without reservations, despite any and all mistakes they may have made in their lives and I love the idea that when all is said and done, Dean and Pharm love each other because they’re Dean and Pharm and not because they used to be Korn and In.

But Between Us isn’t like that. It’s quieter story about two boys who find each other and like Korn and In or Dean and Pharm, choose each other. It’s a quiet love story between Win and Team. Two boys who find solace in each other, who learn to forgive themselves. Two boys who find each other at the perfect time.

Both stories are about trauma still sure. Even outside of In and Korn’s death and reincarnation, UWMA is also about generational trauma and the things families do to each other and how it can effect them for years to come. Families are just as imperfect as people and I think UWMA does a good job of showing how families can hurt each other but also how they can come back together and find a new normal, a new understanding, a new way of being a family.

Between Us is about the trauma that occurs against us, but also the trauma we do to ourselves. Team lost his cousin and best friend and spent the next 10+ years punishing himself over and over. Win internalized all of his families problems and dynamics and truly believed himself to be unworthy of things like love. Of things that will stay with you, but only if you let them, only if you grab on with both hands and hold tight. These traumas are not the fault of Team and Win mind you, but there is still that aspect of retraumatization by the person themselves.

The resolution to those traumas can be different as well. For Dean and Pharm, they have to overcome what happened to them, but they also have to find a way to bring their families together in order to heal from In and Korn’s death. It’s a big thing and involves a lot of people and time. It’s messy and imperfect, but it’s important all the same.

Win and Team aren’t like that either. Their journey towards healing is also quiet, still involving a lot of unpacking of trauma and time, but ultimately it’s something they do for themselves. There are other people involved, but it is for all intents and purposes, a solo endeavour of learning to forgive yourself, of learning that you are worthy and you are enough.

Between Us is quiet in a way that I think is perfect when set up against UWMA. Sometimes you want the big sweeping, epic romance of love across time and lives, but sometimes you just want to watch two people fall in love and help each other on their paths through life.

Both stories are imperfect, but amazing in their own way. I’m really glad they both exist and that I got to experience them both.

[peaches2217]

Confession: I don’t know the first thing about Sonic, but so many of my mutuals or blogs I follow are posting about it and are super excited about it right now, and honestly it’s really nice to see 🥹

[itspileofgoodthings]

so funny because my emotions are a strength of mine (also their strength in particular is a strength) but they’re also a huuuuge weakness and downside and pitfall as well, and not just because they make me suffer. they also just, like, get in the way of so many good things.

[h-f-k]

You guys it’s the day after, I thought we were done talking about whoever Taylor is fucking

[quibbs126]

Oh yeah so yesterday I was working on a Psychology project where we had to diagnose a movie or TV show character

And I think just out of context, my project being about a guy named Captain Sunshine dealing with PTSD just sounds funny

[karmathehalflander]

obviously the official Boyf Reinds ship song is Video Games by The Young Professionals but please consider these

. You Always Make Me Smile by Kyle Andrews (makes me think of them for some reason? Idk I just feel it? I think I saw an edit or something years ago)

. Loser by Julian Moon (fits in every single way omg, amazing, literally made for them)

. Vintage by High Dive Heart (perfect vibes, lyrics are immaculate)

. Nintendo by Todd Carey (it’s cute, I think it fits them well)

[fantomette22]

Also kind of funny how people say i’m quite discreet and don’t talk a lot when i’m afraid i talk too much (maybe too loud or too fast) and afraid i ended up annoyed them. (Can smn explain pls xD)

anyway it’s late i apologize if it doesn’t make so much sense it is late)

[stuckinapril]

how did u become this productive and academic and cool.. what age did u start..

Built this way babeyyyy

[heartbreakfeelsogood]

sorry to be a bitch but some of you say you love mania and still treat it badly. you say you love it but still think it’s lesser than other fob albums. you might think you’re hiding it but i can tell