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soooā€¦ this is the general consensus on the Netflix ATLA live action series, right?
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 4 months
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its true!!
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 7 months
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me: searches 'Mikasa Ackerman' on any nerdy site including Etsy
the results: fuck you you stupid little bitch here's ten pictures of Levi in a maid dress with cat ears
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 7 months
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obsessed with the kinda analysis that "this character is deeply and unequivacably a bad person" when they are reacting in an understandable way to enormous horrible stakes, trauma and consequences. and are a teenage girl
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 8 months
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i dont really know how to articulate this but its crazy just how many people dont even realize they dont care about female characters. all their faves are men. they never talk about girls without being led into it. and when you try to point this out to them they try to defend themselves that their faves are just the archetypes they like, despite clearly not caring when that same archetype is a woman. like i feel like at a certain point it is your problem with the common denominator if you cant find a single female character to enjoy
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 9 months
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Sokka: *changes his stance on stealing from <ā€œno stealing even when weā€™re desperate for resourcesā€ and scolding Katara for doing it on the grounds that it draws unnecessary attention> to <stealing when weā€™re desperate for resources while actively drawing the attention of the authorities is Ok and Funā„¢ļø> between The Waterbending Scroll and The Blind Bandit because heā€™s basically being bribed to*
fandom: I Sleep
Katara: *steals from pirates in The Waterbening Scroll, gets them in trouble, gets scolded for it by Sokka, learns her lesson to not steal any more and tries to relay that lesson to Toph in The Blind Bandit by telling her not to do what she did*
fandom: HYPOCRITE????
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 9 months
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The way people make fun of Katara for literally just talking about her mother's death while trying to connect with other people and snapping a few times for it-- she was fucking fourteen years old. A fourteen-year-old girl whose mother was murdered when Katara was a kid because she wanted to save Katara and she pretended to be the last waterbender instead. But of course. Zuko (totally justified) spends two seasons and a half talking or snapping over his trauma and his honor every episode, but god forbid Katara snaps even once. My god.
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 9 months
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Things people donā€™t talk about enough from the Hunger Games:
Many of Katnissā€™ strongest allies are women that are over looked by others (Madge, Rue, Mags, Wiress)
While Katniss has a strained relationship with her mother, her mother is never demonized. Katniss recognizes the trauma her mother went through and was willing to try to improve their relationship in CF
The rebellion didnā€™t start with the berries. The rebellion started when Katniss showed compassion towards a dying, black girl that the world had already written off as unimportant
One of the beauty trends in the capitol that Katniss finds odd is the shaving of body hair. When her leg hair grows back in CF, she expresses comfort in it.
Katnissā€™ character arc throughout the series is her understanding of who the enemy is. It isnā€™t the rich people in district 12, or the other tributes, or the other districts, or the people in the capitol. Itā€™s the government and itā€™s Snow.
Katniss never wanted another hunger games with the kids of the capitol. In that meeting she recognizes Coinā€™s commitment to perpetuating the cycle of violence. She votes in favor of it to cover her plans of killing Coin.
The violence in the books is SUPPOSED to feel random and unfair. Prim being reaped was supposed to be against all odds because in the real world, violence is indiscriminate.
Gale is a victim too and was not solely responsible for the death of Prim. He spent the first two books feeling helpless as he watched people he loved be put in danger and suffer. Coin offered him a way to regain control. At the end of the day, Gale is only 18 and doesnā€™t realize the depth of the games being played.
Katniss is great with kids and actually enjoys being around them. She says the only reason she doesnā€™t want them is because she canā€™t imagine them being put in the hunger games. Her having children in the epilogue is a sign of her healing and finally feeling safe
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 9 months
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ā€œthis female character was such a bitchā€ donā€™t care + didnā€™t ask + iā€™m holding her hand right now and youā€™re not
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 10 months
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fandom will see a female character with the most interesting backstory and inner turmoil in the entire media and be likeĀ ā€œā€¦anyways. whereā€™s the closest man we can pretend has the exact problems she hasā€
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 10 months
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yā€™all love the morally gray, snarky, grief stricken characters until itā€™s a woman. iā€™ve seen so much discourse regarding female characters who display the exact same character traits as male leads and are criticized for it while the men are praised. let women be cruel and vindictive. let them deal with their grief and trauma in destructive ways. let them be real. give them the same treatment you would give to your favorite male love interest.
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 10 months
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I just watched Avatar for the first time all the way through, and yeah, itā€™s great, but the one thing that surprised me was how different Katara was compared to the fandom interpretation Iā€™d seen and internalized before watching.
Like, before you watch Avatar, youā€™ve seen all these memes about Katara and her mom, and based on those memes, you assume itā€™s one of those lines you have to get used to hearing at least once every episode. But then you watch the show and realize that she only talks about her mom maybe five or six times per season and you also realize she only brings her up when sheā€™s trying to comfort someone or empathize with them because thatā€™s how she processes her grief and thatā€™s one way she connects with people.
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Or you hear the infamous line, ā€œthen you didnā€™t love [our mother] the way I didā€ and you prepare yourself for one of the worst character assassinations ever only to see the scene after nearly three seasons worth of context and realize she was kinda right. Sheā€™s been the mother, the nurturer, the comforter. Sheā€™s been patient, gentle, and accommodating where everyone else has gotten to be insensible and reckless and childish, and the one moment where she allows herself to feel her grief, suddenly sheā€™s this evil bitch and not, yā€™know, a 14 year old girl whose been thrusted into adulthood in a way no other character has. A 14 year old girl who should be allowed immaturity and raw emotion and anger instead of the patience and grace sheā€™s been forced to extend to every character without even the smallest amount of gratitude or even consideration in return.
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Or you see all of the clips where Katara puts Aang in the ā€œfriendzoneā€ and you expect to have this wishy washy back and forth where Aang is putting his feelings out there only to have Katara neither commit nor express any clear reciprocation or rejection. Then you watch and realize that, as cute as the ship is initially, that thereā€™s never a point where Aang returns any comfort or grace to Katara despite her always doing this for him to the point of coddling. That for as much as Aang says he loves her, he never seems to outgrow his perception of her so he can recognize her as someone who feels grief, anger, and pain as much as she expresses love, kindness, and maturity. And instead of having moments where he learns to see her beyond her strength or compassion, youā€™re instead given moments where Aang forces his feelings onto her, both romantic and non-romantic, and Katara is expected to justā€¦shoulder those feelings the way she shoulders everyone elseā€™s.
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Katara is the most misunderstood character in the show. As much as people recognize the complexities of Zuko, Sokka, and Azula, they struggle to do the same for Katara because they see her struggles as somehow lesser, and therefore, less deserving of sympathy. They can handle her so long as sheā€™s being endlessly patient and loving and kind, but the moment her endless love, patience, and kindness runs out, sheā€™s suddenly this annoying bitch who canā€™t shut up about her mother or reciprocate Aangā€™s feelings. But Kataraā€™s trauma does matter as much as anyone elseā€™s. No, she wasnā€™t banished from her kingdom. No, she didnā€™t lose her entire community, and no, she isnā€™t the only one who lost her mother. But the difference between her and everyone else whose experienced loss because of the Fire Nation is that sheā€™s never given time to process her trauma. Aang gets to lean on Katara constantly. Toph gets to express her feelings to Katara, and yeah, Sokka also lost their mother, but unlike Katara, he isnā€™t put in the position of being a substitute for everyoneā€™s parent. He even admits that he sees his sister as a mother. The only characters who ever comfort Katara or allow her to vent is Zuko and her father and thatā€™s, like, three scenes in a show where the other characters are consistently given opportunities to seek out Katara for unconditional support.
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The fandom interpretation of Katara has been so bastardized that even those who havenā€™t watched the show know her for this fanon version and not for who she is. Sheā€™s such an interesting character beyond her fandom limitations, though. Sheā€™s brave, hot-headed, and hopeful as well as gentle and caring. She wishes to learn waterbending, not only because she wants to fight in the war, but because she wants to continue her cultureā€™s practices because, and people often forget this, she also lost an entire subculture within her already fractured tribe. And she wants to defeat the Fire Nation both because of her deep love and empathy for other people, but also because she wants to avenge her mother. But because some of the fans have reduced Katara to a bitch who constantly whines about her mother and friendzones Aang, you wouldnā€™t know any of this, and it sucks because sheā€™s the only character whose been dumbed down to such an extent.
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 10 months
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You can't be an assassin and straight.
It's too homoerotic of a profession.
What do you mean, you're hunting other men?
You're bathing in their blood and hiding your identity from the world and you have bad relationships with your parents?
You're fighting other assassins who are holding their knives to your pretty throat and hurling chairs at your head and stabbing you in the thighs? You're bleeding and dying in each other's arms? Your dying breaths are commingling and your life force is dwindling, and all you can do is clutch each other tightly as you spiral into oblivion, but at least you're not alone, in the end?
This is the queer experience.
More queer assassins. Diversity win, that man who tried to kill you is pansexual.
If you agree, check out my new novel series.
But if you don't, it's ok to be wrong.
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 10 months
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Hawks is an abuse apologist for being friends with Endeavor
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 10 months
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We need to keep that ā€œwe put your girl in the fandomā€ post going until the end of tumblr
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 10 months
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yeah we put your girl in the fandom and they villainized her beyond comprehension. yeah sorry they took out all the nuance and made the argument completely black and white. yeah my bad. we canā€™t reverse it. sorry.
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historialiferuinerreiss Ā· 10 months
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personally i think "hes like a woman to me" and "he can come to girls night" are incredibly fun and funny and i frequently talk about characters i like in that way but some of you use that as a complete and total subsitute for ever having to care about or think about women and it shows
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