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Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing. 

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A little Rae appreciation post

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worship

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I quit my job for a sapphic blog.

Well, not really. I was put on leave, but then I decided, “I’m just gonna go for it and publish this blog in time for Pride month”. So, I did.

Sapphic Sans is a passion project of mine, one that I’ve been working on for almost a year now. I started it because I wanted to share my sapphic work with anyone who might be interested in reading about some gay werewolves and vampires. It is now LIVE and ready for viewing.

I have books that I plan on publishing under my real name and these are the stories that are too personal or too bizarre or too thirsty to associate with my career, so I’m putting them up here.

I don’t expect this to go big or anything, but I would like to get the info out there to those who might be bored and would like to wind down with stories and essays about sapphic characters.

Check it out when you’ve got time at https://sapphicsans.wixsite.com/sapphic-sans. There’ll be a lot more to come as time goes on.

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More punks 🤎

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Sick and twisted that the Oscars continue to snub Revolutionary Girl Utena just because “it’s a tv anime” and “it came out in the 90s” what happened to feminism?

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one of my favorite parts of Utena is how much of an absolute weirdo Anthy is

like, you start the series and Anthy seems like the typical anime damsel in distress, she gets slapped around and barely says anything, and you’re like “ok I get the gist of what her character is”

but then you find out she keeps snails in her pencil case and a mongoose in her dresser and crammed a giant inflatable octopus in her closet just for the hell of it/to mess with whoever tried to open it and you’re like oh something is very off about her actually

and then you keep watching and you realize how much of an absolute agent of chaos she is and how everything she does is to purposely fuck with someone in some way and you find out she is genuinely the funniest character in the whole show while also being arguably the most tragic and complex and then you’re like oh she’s perfect actually

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The Rose of Versailles | ベルサイユのばら (1979) dir. Tadao Nagahama & Osamu Dezaki

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Someone needs to inform the (rightly) pro-piracy tumblr users that it is no longer 2014 and some of the services they are recommending will turn ur computer in a broken microwave that serves bitcoins to shitheads.

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Second of 8 sketch animation commissions. The Talini character belongs to Anodyne. I decided to make this bunch of commissions in a single style and format.

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Rose of Versailles def had some influence in Utena

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April 2, 1997

On this day, twenty-five years ago, the first episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena was broadcasted in Japan.

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happy birthday revolutionary girl utena. best anime of all time