#even in 2011

[zuko-always-lies]

The Zuko/Azula Shipper’s Guide To/Optimistic Interpretation Of AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER – a.k.a Contentbending In Pursuit Of Flamin’-Hot Incestuous Love, a.k.a. Delusions Of Zucest – Part I Of V: Episodes 1-27

so I'm not a zucest shipper but this series is actually a really interesting, very detailed deep analysis of Zuko and Azula's relationship in the series, from all the way back in 2011. Obviously there's a Zucest lens applied to it all but there's a lot of interesting things even if you're not into Zucest. This is written by @shipcestuous, who is still on tumblr, but I found it quite accidentally (trust me, I was not looking for incest content). Obviously, I don't agree with anything they say, but the level of detail they go into is quite impressive.

[moonlit-tulip]

It's often noted, in discussions of the Death Note anime, that it's much weaker than the manga in its rendition of post-timeskip events partly for pacing reasons: the pre-timeskip parts of the anime adapt ~6.5 manga-volumes in 25 episodes, while the post-timeskip parts adapt ~5.5 in 12 episodes, so a lot more important detail-work is lost and the whole thing ends up feeling kind of perfunctory.

Much less often noted as far as I've seen, but nonetheless also true, is that the Death Note anime removes some important characterization-nuance from Light, starting right near the beginning, whose presence elevates the manga to be substantially better than the anime even before the time-skip.

In particular: the Death Note manga is, at its core, a tragedy in classic "character who has everything falls into ruin due to a fatal personal flaw" style. Light is a brilliant student who, in the future ahead of him, has the potential to do practically whatever he wants. He's driven to ruin by the fatal flaw of unwillingness to admit, either to others or to himself, when he's made a mistake. This flaw is an essential piece of his characterization, in the manga. And the anime pretty much entirely skips over it.

As portrayed in the manga, Light's decision to become Kira—which ultimately leads to his downfall—is made in the following way. First, he finds the Death Note, and is led by morbid curiosity to write a name in it, killing someone. Then, still not really believing it, he kills a second person too. At which point it hits him that he's killed two people. And at that point, after a viscerally-horrified breakdown about what he's done, the inability to admit mistakes kicks in, and he proceeds to rewrite his own value-system such that it yields the result that killing those people was actually okay, and in fact morally good. Because the alternative would be for him to acknowledge himself as having made a terrible mistake, and that, more than anything else, is something he's unwilling to do if he can see any other option at all. And then, having convinced himself that those two murders were good, he proceeds to reason that, if they were good, then doing more like them is good; and thus he becomes Kira, leading eventually, far down the line, to his ruin. The anime, by contrast, substantially deemphasizes this flaw of his, portraying him as much more calmly put-together through that series of events and thus making him come across as having been tempted in becoming-Kira-ward directions all along.

Similarly, in the anime, when Light leaks a bunch of information to L about his identity by using non-public information acquired via police channels, he declares that actually this was deliberate as a means of baiting L out so he can kill him, and the anime presents this declaration pretty uncritically. The manga, by contrast, presents it as an extension of that same character-flaw: Light is unwilling to admit to having actually just straightforwardly messed up, and therefore makes up a new plan to view himself to have been following-all-along, thus leading him to take more risks in his game against L going forward and thus, once again, helping him along the path to ruin.

Et cetera.

Compared with the manga, then, the anime's version of Light's characterization ends up less interesting. And, moreover, it introduces a plot hole, when the Yotsuba arc comes around! It makes it much less clear why an amnesiac Light would be so straightforwardly aligned against Kira. In the manga, this is pretty clear: a Light who never killed anyone wouldn't have rewritten his values to consider killing people to be good, and therefore would look at Kira as straightforwardly evil. And, in fact, his amnesiac self has trouble taking the possibility of his having been Kira previously, even as the evidence starts building up, because becoming Kira would be a mistake according to his value-system of the moment, and this leaves him having a very hard time contemplating the possibility of its having in fact happened! Whereas the anime, by deemphasizing Light's big flaw, makes his amnesiac-self's differences from the way he is for most of the story up to that point come across as much more out-of-nowhere, much less narratively well-founded.

So, overall, the people who talk about the Death Note manga as superior to the anime specifically post-timeskip strike me as somewhat understating things. The manga is superior to the anime pre-timeskip, too, via that extra layer of characterization and a resulting improvement both in character-interestingness and in plot-coherence. And thus I consider the manga to be very much the definitive version of Death Note from start to finish, despite the anime's relatively-higher popularity.

[ahappydnp]

now that dan and phil have established it's not gay to share underwear with your bro can they unprivate the british pancake video

[sauftpink]

we've lost the plot ..

[mythalism]

watching sozin's comet pt. 1 and the question of violence against ozai is genuinely so masterfully done. aang's hesitance to use violence by killing ozai isn't presented as an objective moral high ground. in fact, literally every single other character in the show, the other main characters, the past avatars and even yangchen, all tell him: you have to kill this guy. "only justice will bring peace". sokka straight up tells him to get over it and slices a watermelon representing ozai's head in half without remorse. everyone clearly tells him it is not morally wrong for you to end 100 years of violent imperialism with his death. and he doesn't say, "no. it IS morally wrong and im right and we should vote ozai out!", instead he says "but this is not who i am". the message is not that aang should not kill ozai because killing ozai would be wrong, and by extension that fighting imperialism with violence is wrong. instead, its that aang should not kill ozai because it would be a betrayal of himself, his beliefs and of his culture. in refusing to kill ozai and as the last airbender, he is preserving his identity as an air nomad against the title of avatar, something he has struggled with the balance of since the very first episode. and, his refusal to forsake their cultural principals is a form of resistance against the imperialist genocide that cost him his people in the first place. yeah, they had to make it work like this because its a show for 7 year olds. energy-bending is kind of a cop out because it shows up so late with so little explanation. but compared to any other media that has tackled similar issues since.... ive seen nothing nail else it so hard

[univemma]

[orangechickenpillow]

happy fathers (?) day

[raininyourblackeyes]

Those were the times when ice dance involved both dancing on ice and engaging the audience...

[cleopatragirlie]

Valentino Rossi early 2010s instagram selfies you will always be famous

[stingray-art]

i loved how creature they looked in their first appearances in the manga!!

for the black and white enjoyers like myself:

[lunar-years]

[futuretrain]

the current state of batman comics

[canisalbus]

Hello, I'm not sure if you're aware, but tumblr is going to start helping midjourney gather data for their AI. You're one of the artists I follow here pretty actively and I wanted to warn you to maybe start nighshading your art before posting it here so it doesn't get swept up!

I've seen a couple of posts about it. Feeling disappointed but not that surprised. Also not excited about having to start nightshading/glazing my pieces but if there isn't going to be any serious regulations regarding data scraping and ai "art", there aren't a lot of choices.

Thank you for taking the time to warn me just in case, it was very thoughtful of you!

[lokigodofaces]

Okay, all of us Loki fans always lament the fact that the scene when Frigga officially hands the throne to Loki was cut. And for good reason, the acting and dialogue add a lot to the story. But there is one thing that people specifically are upset about that while that scene certainly helps, it isn't necessary to make this point.

In the scene where Sif and the Warriors 3 find Loki on the throne, sometimes we act like it truly does look like Loki usurped the throne because we don't literally see the scene with Frigga in the final cut. Except Loki literally tells them (and the audience) what happened. He says that Odin fell into the Odinsleep and Frigga was so grieved that she refuses to leave his side. Since Thor was banished, that means Loki is the next in line for the throne as interim king. Loki told them the truth, not his fault that they immediately were suspicious of him for *checks notes* allowing his mother to stay at his ill father's side, following the line of succession while knowing that it would be temporary, and not going back on Odin's last decree because as I said this is temporary so imagine Odin waking up to Thor having been banished for only a few hours.

Yes, I love that deleted scene, but I think it adds more than just "oh yeah Loki didn't usurp the throne" because that is already explained in the scene with Sif and the Warriors 3. I think that scene certainly added to it but it wasn't absolutely necessary. Because anyone with a basic understanding of hereditary monarchies should understand why Loki was on the throne.

I genuinely think that the people that think Loki usurped the throne just don't understand the movie. And I doubt one extra scene would make them understand it. I don't think this is a problem with the movie itself taking out one scene. I think this is a problem with the audience not having media literacy and being so convinced this is a standard hero/villain dichotomy that they can't realize that Loki's character is much more complicated that simply being a villain. I doubt a single scene would make people realize Loki isn't a throne usurping power hungry villain. They'd probably try to say that scene was Loki manipulating Frigga into handing over the throne or something ridiculous.

[skitskatdacat63]

Seb 2011 Spain vs. George 2024 Austria

I know a lot of other people were saying this, including me, but I don't think I saw anyone make a direct comparison? So here you go!! Yabba-dabba-doo!!

[https-b0nb0n]

I'm bored, so I just made this-

For context that straight, I just made a tweetpost that Tails shares his Brazilian voice actress with Jewel (from Rio) from last night. [https://twitter.com/SonicSimper/status/1927724813960778177?t=Fz22ck1tlOOMTBj6M-KfzQ&s=19]