#ali is angry

[bubblegumflavor]

Everything about this scene is everything

(The Karate Kid 1984 deleted scenes)

[alissonbear-ker]

Hi friends I know it’s been a rough night. Let’s shamelessly and disrespectfully admire our No. 1 Team Asset to cheer ourselves up.

[alyssaforevermore]

Fuck Lee Sung Jin, Steven Yeun and Ali Wong for standing by someone who admitted to raping a woman on a podcast in 2014 (aka long before they hired/worked with him). No amount of saying “it was acting” can walk that shit back and excusing it as a “fabricated” story makes them garbage.

[Context - TW for details of SA]

[theghoulboysblog]

sending you my love, bb <3

thank you very much anon! :) 🫶 god, i was making sure to be a blog reminding people to take care of themselves cause i wanted to be a shelter in the storm of anger, but now that the worse is (likely) over and we’re working towards rebuilding our fandom, i just wanna finally talk about some things and say that it’s been an emotional roller coaster with so much fighting, rudeness, and RACISM GOOD GOD!!!

i wanna be clear that i am not an asian poc, and the majority of the hate was toward that specific group so my heart goes out to the asian community very much! :(

i am however a black poc, so imagine my surprise going online and seeing people saying that shane is purer cause he is white instead of a person of color! like excuse me WHAT ??? 😐

it’s just like, i already hear enough irl and in general online areas about how people think white people are kinder, safer, more selfless, etc. i don’t ever really take it to heart because it happens so often.

but there was something about the fandom that i love and have looked too for so long becoming so incredibly offensive that just made me so upset. cause like, it just made me think, “wow! is this what you guys have thought of poc this entire time??? :(”

i just really fucking hope that this fandom can heal, love, and BE BETTER.

[bobbys-not-that-small]

ali hadji-heshmati = soft boy

[shirkshingatumadre]

So... I'm Doing A Comic, But...

I CAN'T DRAW THE OTHER ARM!!!!

AND IT'S ALREADY PASSED THREE FUCKING HOURS!!!!

[thyandrawrites]

Seeing the panel where the todoroki family is gathered in the hospital and seeing everyone except Natsuo with Enji because it seems like Rei, Fuyumi and Shoto is ready to forgive but there's a panel where Natsuo was far away from them and standing alone because he would never forgive Enji...I just want to say how I admired Natsuo for staying firm and not letting his hatred to let down. That kind of behavior I want but people always tell to forgive the abusers because they are your "parent"blabla

Were you referencing this scene?

I'm not the best at commenting on panel composition, but the choice to draw Natsuo far enough away from the group that his expression is cut off is deliberate enough to be striking. Then there's an entire panel just focused on him, and his gaze is downcast, his expression contrite and conflicted, and there's all that white space around him. He's not looking at his father, and the next panel shows why: he's thinking of his big brother, the one who should be there, and yet is still missing.

I really like that Natsuo's allowed to be angry, to be distrustful, and to be unwilling to forgive. That speaks to me, and I bet it does to so many people. Sometimes, reconciliation isn't the best option, not even when it comes to family. Sometimes especially when it comes to family. And that's okay.

I like that Natsuo's character challenges the idea that lack of forgiveness equals unkindness, because despite his anger, despite his hurt and his grief, he's not unkind. He doesn't want reconciliation for himself, but he recognizes that Fuyumi needs it for herself and makes an effort to support her regardless of his personal feelings. And that makes him so, so kind.

Yet, at the same time I don't really read the scene above as Natsuo being different from the rest of his family, the odd one out that is drawn far away because he just can't let things go. That would frame him as the same scapegoat that Touya used to be, and I don't think the Todofam plot needs to end on a repetition of that cycle, necessarily.

Yes, I hope Natsuo will get to stay angry and not forgive his dad even when Touya comes back eventually, but that blank space right there, next to him...

Honestly that always looked to me like the space naturally filled by one more person. The one notably missing. It makes for neat visual storytelling imho. It's not that Natsuo's the most impacted by that loss, but Natsuo was the closest to Touya, used to room with him, was his confidante when Touya had no one else to turn to, and spoke on Touya's behalf after his disapperance, playing the role—in Touya's absence—of the one continuously reminding Enji that there's more to atonement than playing the hero. That cleaning up your act for your pride isn't the same as doing it to make up for your actions to your victims.

So yeah, I think Natsuo's purposefully drawn slightly off to the side because of this: more than anyone else in the fam, Natsuo still makes space for Touya's memory. He still makes it a point at every turn to honor it by doing right by him, standing up to the things Touya would've stood up for himself if he were there.

"I'm bringing him up because Touya would want us to talk about it. About what it means for us that the world sees his facade of heroism and glorifies him, while we are here, with mom, to see the damage he's done to us to achieve that fame."

Or again,

"Touya would see right through how performative your determination to atone really is. You never really gave a crap about his pain, either. Neglecting us and calling that worry over Touya's health."

Times and times again, Natsuo reminds everyone that Touya might be gone, but his presence isn't. His influence on them wasn't, shouldn't be, as worthless as Touya seemed to believe it was in life, and they ought to respect who he was. And that means not betraying what he would've wanted.

Touya wanted accountability. Natsuo wants it too, for his brother.

I think that's why, when Enji starts ugly crying and the others feel bad for him to varying degrees, he's the only one unaffected by his father's tears. I also reckon that's why he's the one reminding Enji that this truce doesn't mean forgiveness. It's not mean spirited. If anything, I think it shows in full Natsuo's kindness.

Tl:dr; I like to think that Hori drew Natsuo slightly far away not to underline that Natsuo is hellbent on not forgiving, but rather because Natsuo's just... The one consistently acting like Touya is still part of the family unit, still present, still alive, if in memory or in spirit. And he's the one constistenly making room for him, physically and metaphorically, because to him his brother was never truly gone. Let alone now

[josselyn1021]

[iamnotawomanimagod]

I think if there's one thing that truly, truly exhausts me about fandom now is when people very vehemently and passionately take sides and hate certain characters over others and dedicate entire blogs just to how much they hate those characters

it's not even in a "be nice, let people enjoy things" kind of way, like that's whatever, I don't need anyone's permission to enjoy anything.

it's more that it's just exhausting. it's just so much work to hate a character like that, especially if you're the type of blog to seek out empirical evidence to back up your viewpoints.

it's one thing to dislike a character and to talk about it. it's another thing to start like, a full-blown campaign trying to get other people on your side. aren't you tired?? don't you have like, actual real life things to do? go clean your room.

[softtdaisy]

I just notice that when he’s angry and speaks French Charles has a stronger accent than usually and I find it cute

[nookisms]

Apparently if you inhale things that would give you two different copy abilities it will randomize from ALL the ones you have?? That's pretty cool they didn't used to do that

[skindyedblue]

I need to have a whiney child moment.

My pain has been at 4-5 since Sunday. During a normal multi-day flare up I can manage by keeping my mind busy between pain-naps. But with the post-concussion symptoms I'm having I can't do any of those things. I can't read or write or listen to my audiobooks or podcasts. They make my brain smudge-y or experiencing vertigo and nausea and I'll have to lay down in a dark and quiet room, and then all I can focus on is the pain.

I'm tired of this. I have shit I need to do but I can't without this concussion and flare up messing with me. I have errands but I'm not cleared to drive yet. I want to sleep more than 2-3 hours at a time and I can't. I want to work on D&D prep - the BBEG fight is the next weekend for fuck's sake - and I can't without making my head hurt. It's taken me about an hour to type this out. My life feel full of can'ts and I'm sick of it.

Between the concussion, my dumbass tooth, and pain flare I would really appreciate it if my body could stop existing until it got its shit together.

[alipopsie]

obsessed with the way trent was decommissioned and ludinus' first response was "well, guess someone else is gonna have to be the Worst old man around here"

[saraali-19]

Why is dou think im Not a Pegasus

[katesharmasheart]

I always laugh at this scene cause she's giving extreme indian aunty vibes with the face she pulls in the beginning

she was straight up channelizing her inner aunty vibe

[cryingforcrocodiles]

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLkPRb2j/

One month later: BREAKING NEWS! Tottenham sack manager Ange Postecoglou!

😭😭 - Sources say he was ABUSIVE and UNETHICAL with his coaching style

i like his funny words... little aussie man...

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