#anyway the live action was bad anyways

[junpr]

I know what you are.

[shakingparadigm]

what is the theory that ivan manipulated the event where till and mizi met the wagyein?

It's not a theory, actually! It's confirmed that Ivan orchestrated the whole event. The true reason as to why however is still unknown. The information provides more context to this scene, though:

During the earlier times of ALNST the most rational explanation for this scene was that Till ran after a flower crown (presumably Mizi's) and Ivan followed him in out of curiosity. Now we know that Ivan was conveniently just standing there because he was waiting.

Side note, I find it heartbreaking (and maybe a little funny, sorry) that Till most likely didn't notice Ivan in this scene. That's just like him, isn't it. Always too busy running after Mizi while Ivan trails behind, an ever-present shadow.

I'm not sure how Ivan manipulated the circumstances for both of them to end up there, but it is confirmed that everything was intentional. What strikes me most is how they describe this particular scene:

I can't copy down what they said word-for-word (Patreon info), but they described Ivan watching "creepily" as Till and Mizi are faced with danger. We know that Ivan was familiar with the Cerberus wagyein beforehand, enough to touch its teeth and even to rest himself inside its maw. To Ivan, the wagyein is not dangerous, but to Till and Mizi, it could be. Ivan prepared the wagyein, led them there, and watched "creepily" from afar as Till fell on his knees, seemingly injured.

The closest I can get to making sense of Ivan's "scheme" is that he wanted to see how other children would react in a dangerous situation. Ivan's always been an observer, after all, and he's learned to survive by copying the more "normal" behaviors of his peers. This situation occured when Ivan was still young and had not yet developed his more charming mask, so perhaps he staged this encounter to study a situational response, to learn and mimic the emotion of fear. And what better subjects for the experiment than two of the most expressive and reactive humans of their batch? It helps that he was already fixated on Till beforehand, too. I think Ivan became irreversibly obssessed after this incident, especially since it's framed as a turning point in Ivan's life, comparing Till to the stars.

This is just my attempt at an interpretation, though. It could very well be for another reason. He most likely chose Till and Mizi specifically for personal reasons, not just for reaction. I'm still not sure on the purpose behind the whole thing.

The team wanted to capture Ivan's "dark emotions" through the shot of his stalking, which could relate to his more sinister intentions. His gaze can be read in a few different ways, though. Curiosity, interest, fear, etc. Maybe that's why they decided to redraw the shot in ROUND 6.

I think this better sells the feeling they were trying to convey.

[therubyfox]

Guys. Guys. Please. Not every adaptation has to be live action, not every adaption can be live-action, because making it so can rob the original IP of its very essence. If making everything look realistic diminishes it to the point where you literally have to animate it anyway to make it recognisable, then why even try to make it live action in the first place? What is so bad about animation that we have to make things live action because it’s otherwise “just for kids”? Why are we ignoring a perfectly good medium only to force a different medium to do what the former was designed to do only much worse?

Some things can only be done by animation, in the same way that some things can only be done by books or musicals or games. That’s what makes adapting things so difficult, and it’s what makes choosing the medium you want to write in so important.

[natasha-in-space]

So I'm replaying Ray's After ending rn, and it got me thinking that what I adore so much about Rika as an antagonist is just how damn scary she can be. I always found those who cause harm with good intentions (at least in their point of view) much scarier than those who hurt you with pure intention on hurting you. I think the best example of it is this CG in particular:

Look at that. Such a loving, gentle expression on her face. Probably kissing his forehead. Because she loves him. Heck, without any context, this CG looks even sweet, if you think about it. And yet, all that is while Saeyoung is forcefully sedated on a powerful concoction of drugs even a trained agent like him can't do anything about (and Saeyoung WAS definitely trained to deal with this sort of thing, hence it's mentioned that this is a 'special' kind of drugs). He looks miserable. Bags under his eyes, his expression pained and troubled, even his hair is paler than usual. All that as a direct result of her actions. But she's utterly blind to it. What's scarier, is that she knowingly shuts off her understanding of what's really happening. She's not oblivious to it at all. She just chooses not to see it that way. Simply because she doesn't want to.

Rika is the type of antagonist that will cup your cheek into her warm hand with the most loving of smiles on her face, all while you are getting elixir poured down your throat. Even whispering to you that you're doing great, that the pain will soon pass, and that she can't wait to see you reach the happiness she knows you deserve. I won't be surprised if she even cried genuine tears of compassion during some ceremonies for her believers. All while being the sole reason behind their suffering.

And that's... God, that's terrifying to me. I love that about her.

Rika Kim, they could never make me hate you

[newfangledsoul]

I think the thing with Sokka’s early sexism being removed is less about his character arc (tho that’s important from a character standpoint), and more about the audience seeing that character arc.

Of course Sokka says iffy and sexist things, he’s acting like an entitled teenage boy. Many entitled teenage boys exist. I’m sure many of them watched Avatar growing up. The point is that these boys see Sokka doing what they do, and that they see Sokka is wrong to do so.

The purpose of an arc like Sokka’s isn’t to create a character who is sexist and who the audience shouldn’t like, who says iffy things and needs to be censored now that we’re in a more “civilized” age, it’s to be a teaching tool to the young target audience of the show. To show little boys that acting like this is wrong, and that girls can be just as strong as boys (this is where the Kyoshi warriors come in). Sokka is a great character because he goes through a genuinely hopeful sort of growth; his arc is something we hope teenage boys with his attitude go through in their own lives.

Taking away this arc deprives the story of one of its core ideals: teaching children what’s good and what’s bad. If they never see Sokka behaving badly, if they never see him being proven wrong, if they never see their hero who acts like them growing and changing for the better, you deprive them of a phenomenal role model who they might genuinely be inclined to base their behavior off of.

Shows like Avatar were so great because they showed growth. Sokka learns to overcome his biases, Zuko learns to overcome his pride and comes to understand what honor truly is, Katara learns to channel her temper into drive and not let anger overtake her, and Aang learns to uphold his principles even in the face of more convenient—if morally questionable—methods.

I think nowadays people (Hollywood) tend to forget that shows for children are often meant to be teaching tools, and not just entertainment. They forget that people—even kids—are flawed and so characters must be too if the audience is to learn anything from watching them on screen. It’s not enough to take an animated show and make it pretty and expensive, you have to translate the substance of the show, too. Otherwise you lose any purpose or power it might have had.

[quietwingsinthesky]

Dean is such a paradox for me because on the one hand, I have been actively triggered by him in the show, there are moments where, intentionally or not, the writers managed to create a portrayal of manipulation and abuse and control issues that it sets off actual alarms for me. And on the other hand, I would not have him any other way. There is something — not comforting, that’s too soft a word — about knowing where Dean’s actions stem from, having seen and learned all that we do about his childhood neglect and parentification and the trauma he goes through repeatedly in the show, and that he doesn’t come out clean. He comes out a goddamn mess who ends up hurting the people around him in reaction to his own pain!

There’s a reality there that’s. Almost nice, actually. Distressing to watch, but it is a fucking mess, it’s a good mess! He’s got zero healthy coping skills and a healthy relationship with say, his brother, is terrifying because it leaves him open to abandonment!

I’m not sure I’m wording this correctly. There is a way to be a good abuse victim. Take the pain, martyr yourself on it, and then, even if you have no support or idea how to, then you have to become a Good Person who never hurts anyone the way you have been learning to your entire life. Simply toss everything that shaped you out the door and emerge a saint with a tragic backstory. And Dean is not that. And that’s so fucking good. Everything that he has gone through continues to effect the way he treats the people around him, and he can’t fight the behaviors he might recognize as harmful because he also sees them as protecting him (or protecting Sam by keeping Sam with him.)

And sometimes, idk. It feels good to see a guy who didn’t heal the “right way.” Who mostly didn’t heal at all, just keeps the wound open because it’s easier that way.

[jin-zixun]

Reasons Nie Mingjue tries to kill Jin Guangyao:

JGY saved his life (while being unable to do the same for others)

He didn't think working as a spy to win the war would actually include having to do bad things (unlike the killings NMJ performs which are always 100% justified because NMJ is 100% moral and has the right to make that call)

JGY won't kill himself

JGY won't perform extrajudicial murder of his shidi, favored by his father (which would also get him killed)

JGY won't die

JGY talked back to him and won't just completely agree with his assessment (that JGY should just die)

It's the only way for them to have peace (says the guy who suffers from extensive murderous rages and came back as a corpse to continue killing people against the guy who oversaw the biggest public safety project and expansion we know of and kept the peace for over a decade)

JGY tells their mutual friend/sworn brother that he's concerned about NMJ suffering from said extensive murderous rages

JGY bought nice things for NHS

Reasons Jin Guangyao tries to kill Nie Mingjue

Doesn't want to be killed by Nie Mingjue who keeps trying to kill him

[clownowo]

questions...

[onefey]

where's my reaction to them announcing the zelda movie's development where i said if it's bad i literally dgaf . that's basically how i feel about the whole minecraft fiasco that's filling my dash

[puppyeared]

Atla live action 😐

[soyboywenzie]

Being the daughter of Alicent Hightower would be a special kind of hell. That woman would not rest until her self-insert daughters were either married to an old Lord allied to the Greens or sent away to become Septas. Also, she would never abide any daughter of hers acting like a mini-Visenya. Alicent would work overtime to ensure that her daughters were exact copies of her with none of the "queer Targaryen" attitudes.

like being alicent’s child is not for the weak, as we seen. she isn’t a good mother, she’d expect you to be perfect all the time and the smallest showing of weakness makes her rant about how every sacrifice she’s made means nothing because you aren’t acting the way she wants.

and that’s the funny thing to me, because fics were the oc is a carbon copy of alicent in looking is one where im like, she’s fucking hate that kid because they’d be a direct reflection of her that she cannot fight, that she cannot hide. aegon looks like her but he’s everything she not and worst than what she thought rhaenyra was. helaena is her only daughter who is so different from her in every way that she can’t even try to understand. aemond is a carbon copy of the man her friend is devoted too. we do not even know if daeron is around. but the daughter who looks like her, the one who is a pure reflection of her stolen youth??? my god, save that girl.

alicent wants little septons and septas who can be scared and intimidated and then be modeled like she was with otto and she could never get that. someone said that in otto’s hand alicent was a stradivarius but aegon in alicents hand is a butter knife and that’s the best way to talk about them. she wants all her children to be Stradivarius’s but they are all cheap silverware that will get replaced the minute they aren’t usable anymore.

im ranting again, oops

tdlr: she wants a certain thing and can never get it, because her children aren’t her. they cannot close themselves up and whine about duty and sacrifices because they’ve never had to. she’d send her children to the highest bidders even begrudgingly because the ‘stability’ of the realm matters more than their happiness. exactly like it was for her.

[persephoneflowerpetals]

the disneyparks instagram dropped a video and hades is there as a face character his costume reflects the lighting and some comments are comparing him to handsome squidward my typing barely reflects my emotions rn

YOOOOOO OKAY OMG

I LOOKED THIS UP IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE I’M ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW HADES CONTENT LMAO AND….YOU’RE ACTUALLY SO RIGHT HE LOW KEY LOOKS LIKE HANDSOME SQUIDWARD 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Here’s the video btw lol

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But HOLY FREAKING MOLY DUDE

I’M SCREECHING!!!! LOOK AT HIM!!!! Why is he an odd mixture of weird and handsome?? Lmaoooo but I have to be honest when I say that the make up and prosthetics are 10xs better than some of the other live action Hades costumes I’ve seen from Disney! Also I just recently watched this video last night about the history of Hades costumes (they didn’t mention the hocus pocus shows though which kinda bothered me because I feel like that still counts but whatevs lol) so yeah, kind of funny coincidence! For example:

These are from the Villains Unleashed and Villains Unite shows from back in the 2010s…I’m sorry but I hate these sm like Hades honey I love you but you’re scaring the children…and me lmao:

This is from a show they did on the Disney cruise lines (the weird foam hair I can’t 😂 I’m so sorry but, this looks like a Halloween costume lmaoooo, like this is dollar store Hades 😂):

And then this is from their most recent Hocus Pocus Halloween show this year (I didn’t even know they were doing their Halloween shows already but I mean it’s basically fall now and stores have been putting out Halloween stuff a lot this month so I guess it doesn’t surprise me that much lol). I will say this doesn’t look bad and he actually looks decent and practically human lol! But he’s kind of a background character in the show and meant to be seen from far away since he’s on a big stage at night, so there’s not gonna be a TON of detail for this costume, especially since he’s running and dancing around the stage lol:

So yeah, I’d say besides the actual walk around mascot Hades, this is the most accurate live Hades we’ve gotten and he doesn’t look entirely hideous lmao! And he actually sounds like Hades a bit too (y’know, despite the big fake sharp teeth hindering the poor guy’s speech lol, he’s trying his best and he is so valid for that! Good job, dude! You’re doing awesome!)! Some of the other actors I’ve seen doing Hades at live shows don’t really sound like him lol. I mean, I know they can’t just call up James Woods and ask him to dress as Hades for every live show they do lmao, so they gotta take what they can get y’know. But I know Disney does their best to be as high quality as possible when it comes to their parks and their shows, like the princesses and other live characters are SO accurate to their animated counterparts it’s crazy, so you’d think they’d do the same for Hades but I suppose with Hades being so unique in personality and looks, it’s hard to replicate lol.

So, anyway, my random costume review aside lmao, HE HAS HIS OWN AREA NOW FOR THE HALLOWEEN OOGIE BOOGIE BASH 😭💙 AAAAAAA THIS IS EXCITING NEWS AND IT’S CALLED FREAKING “HADES HIDEAWAY” LIKE BABY YES PLS TAKE ME TO YOUR HIDEAWAY AND KEEP ME THERE FOREVER I BEG YOU 💙💙💙 ALSO I LOVE THE WORM MARTINI AND THE DETAILS WITH THE THRONE AND PROJECTED HYDRA IN THE BACK AND THE PAINTED VASE!!! AND OMG THE COLOR CHANGE THEY DID WITH THE LIGHTING AND THE HAIR!!??? WOWZA

Ugh I swear if I wasn’t broke af (and not on the other freaking side of the country because apparently this is in Disneyland in California and I’m on the southeast coast 😭 fingers crossed they do a Disneyworld version of this??? 🤞) I’d take all the money I have and fly out to Disneyland in October to go see him because like…omg 💙 I’ve always wanted to meet the Hades character in the park (and I’ve literally never even been to any Disney parks before because my family couldn’t afford it so low key I’m a “fake Disney fan” 🤣) but the problem was that he doesn’t talk since it’s a walk around mascot kinda thing and not an actual person, so when you talk to him he doesn’t talk back and I think it’d just be so much more fun to actually have a conversation with him lol.

But seriously…I LOVE THIS AAAAA WOW!!! THANK YOU ANON FOR SENDING THIS TO ME BECAUSE THIS MADE MY DAY!!!!

[mxtxfanatic]

I’m wondering something though -

When Xie Lian and the others learned of He Xuan’s background, it was made clear He Xuan had extremely bad luck.

“Although this scholar He’s family was very, very poor, he was a talented man. Since his youth, he was frighteningly intelligent and picked things up quickly and expertly. He was also widely known as a good son; there was really nothing bad to say about the guy in any respect. Unfortunately for him, he was also very unlucky. For him, nothing good ever lasted.”

Volume 4, Chapter 53 page 28

———

If the Reverend of Empty words can only shout misfortune upon its victims (and their loved ones) causing them to despair so much they commit suicide, does this mean He Xuan had bad luck all on his own even without the fate switching? 🤔

Or does the Reverend actually draw bad luck to his victims? This would actually make a lot sense but from how Xie lian explains things , this isn’t how a usual venerable works and explanations about the Reverend do not explicitly state this. 🤔🤔🤔

He Xuan couldn’t have had bad luck all on his own without the fate-switching, because his fate was to ascend. However, I think a full answer to this question would need to be a meta, cause I think that a core point of tgcf is that fates are not set-in-stone from birth, that fortune is what you make of it rather than what makes you, and that we shouldn’t fall into traps of letting superstition rule our lives, thoughts, and morality. The Reverend of Empty Words specifically chose prey amongst those with great fates, and most of those people had terrible ends. The Reverend was only able to speak on Shi Qingxuan—who had a fate of wealth—once before his family masked his presence, and yet the family still went into decline and lost their fortune. Were all of those fates fake? Was Guoshi not as good a fortune-teller as he so claimed? Or is all of this more changeable than people want to believe?

[themostefficientwaywithwater]

I think the main reason WW's Ganondorf is so different from the others it's because he has learned that his battle against the Goddesses is not a matter of everyone against him/the gerudo but rather a everyone against the gods.

Besides Demise's curse, Ganondorf has always been flooded by his wish of revenge: revenge against the hylians who marginalized his people, revenge again the hero who slayed him, revenge against anyone who opposed him. He doesn't fight for a just cause because he believes the world is unjust and the only way of surviving is by being unjust in return.

But in the Adult Timeline, after the events of OoT and breaking his seal, he discovers an awful truth: it's not that the world is unfair, the Goddesses are. Just to seal him again, they flood the whole kingdom they were supposed to protect, killing most of the hylians population and condemning a few selected survivors to struggle in tiny islands isolated from the rest by a huge sea warren of fishes but filled with dangerous monsters. Even the other races had to undergo drastic changes in their bodies to survive un the aftermath of the flood. That's when Ganondorf understood that the Goddesses weren't just unfair: they were uncaring, and willing to sacrifice anything to torment anyone who wronged them.

I think this is why Ganondorf, even thought some of his actions are still deplorable (launching Link to drown at the sea, kidnapping girls, allegedly destroying a village...), we see that he's less willing to actively hurt people (in the final battle, he has TWO clear opportunities to kill Link and Tetra, and in both times he just incapacitates them, and besides whatever happened in Windfish island we never see him sending his monsters to attack people, just kidnapp a few of them). In fact, he's motivanted by a more "noble" cause: to bring Hyrule, or better said, his idyllic version of it, back from the seafloor. This could be because he has stopped seeing hylians as the "other", and has started to consider them as being from the same band, just a bunch of mortals trying to survive the whims of the gods, who play with them as if they were mere chesspieces.

So, in a sense, Ganondorf is not really much different from its other incarnations. He's still full of hatred and rancor, but It has been redirected. Not against the royal family, who exiled his people to the deserts. Not against the hylians, who lived si much better than them and even had the gall to call them thieves when they were just trying to survive. Not against the hero and the princess who defeated and sealed him when he tried to reclaim what he thought he deserved.

It's the Goddesses.

The Goddesses that drowned their people to "protect" them from him.

The Goddesses that decided it was okay to let two children fight against him as their champions. Forever.

The Goddesses that decided he is the one and only Big Bad Guy of the story when they have commited more atrocities than him, both by action and inaction.

[your-fave-is-christian]

I have a dumb question, and I really hope this doesn’t sound rude. What’s the logic for some of the characters? Like, if they’re the “hero” in their storyline, but they don’t seem to follow Biblical doctrine… does that even count? I’m sorry if that sounds snotty; I don’t mean to have an attitude.

No, you're fine!!

Short answer: I don't know, I'm not the one sending in the characters 😂

But really I would say there's not necessarily a consistent logic that they have to fit. That's part of the beauty of Christianity, isn't it? Anyone who repents and believes is welcome; it's not limited to any certain type of people. For the characters people are sending in here, I think there are a few categories. There are some that fit what you said, who already hold Christian morals and who one could easily headcanon as being Christian within the story. Sometimes people send in villains who they want to have redemption arcs and become Christian. Sometimes it's characters who are Christian; mostly it's characters people would like to see become Christian.

[james-is-nasqueer]

anyone else seeing some distasteful kurt busch dwi takes or is it just me