#I hate you choice feminism

[go-learn-esperanto]

Why does waxing hurt so fucking much why did the human society convince themselves that women should only have hair on their head how did a whole society agree to this day that a woman has to do this painful thing regularly not for health but because it's more sexy or whatever

That's crazy how the hell does everyone accept that. Why does my mum say "You have to face the fact that it's gonna hurt" and keeps pestering me about having to wax how can she not stop to think "That's fucked up" because it is!!! It is fucked up!!!! Instead she'd rather say I look like a monkey and ask if I'm not embarrassed other people will see the natural and completely neutral hairs that grow on my legs. I'm not even waxing for myself I'm waxing so other people won't judge me and it hurts!

And all these pink websites explaining to you "there's no way it's not gonna hurt. You can try make it hurt less but it will always hurt. Buy our new wax beads! 35% discount on your first order!" It's almost like a bad joke, or satire. So much hearts and glitter to hide pointless suffering.

#gle original #If you like to wax your legs that's fine #I just that I don't seem to have the choice to not do that #And I hate doing it every time #Vent #women #TERFs don't even THINK of touching this one #Trans girls are allowed to also dislike shaving and shouldn't be forced to do it #feminism #I guess #Waxing #ok to reblog

[sadaveniren]

Why do you think the fandom treats Gemma and the Tomlinson sisters so differently?

Because Gemma is doing what they want and the Tomlinson sisters aren’t and despite being progressive and saying we support people for doing what they want we as a society and a fandom over all still operate under the rule of “my way or the Highway”

#I do know that some people in fandom have legitimate gripes with the twins and the way they’ve been racist #and I’m never going to argue against that #so if you send me anons talking about that I’m not going to engage because I know and you’re valid! #and I sure as fuck am not gonna say that never happened cause it did #but this specific hatred right now is not rooted in that #it’s rooted in an acceptable form of misogyny within feminism that says dumb women don’t deserve to make choices #because they are dumb and we hate them #only Good WomenTM deserve to do what they want #and THAT is a take I will fight against #every day #your beef with the Tomlinson’s is rooted in their racist actions in the past? good and valid #your beef is that they ‘aren’t being good role models’ and are ‘romanticizing teen pregnancy’ etc. I’m sorry but please re-examine yourself

[zappedbyzabka]

Listen….listennnn

Johnny in these.

He is so unbelievably Barbie doll to me—I play with his character like one lol. I see everyone saying he’s Ken (which is somewhat because CK decided to dumb him down (a lot) so now everyone associates him with ditsness), and I think there are a good amount of similarities as well—the headband, for example—but to me he’s a mix, taking the og TKK Johnny into account. Irl, Barbie would have been a bit prissy and probably even a little mean—but she is Barbie and rules don’t apply to her, so Johnny is kind of Rockelle-like in attitude but Barbie-like in looks.

And on the doll clothes note. I am so so obsessed with the fashion. After seeing the Barbie movie, I am BACK on my doll loving bullshit.

⬇️

There is a single Monster High outfit and that is because even as an older kid I looooved Clawdeen and Draculara and their outfits. I’d turn it red or blue for Johnny though. And the rest….need to explanation. Just picture it, he’d look amazing.

Obviously he’d still wear his band shirts and wrangler jeans cause he looks great in them, but he can wear these too.

#I drank a lot yesterday. I hope im making sense lol #If you don’t like/agree then just scroll past pls #Don’t be like ‘But he’s a man. He’s manly blah blah’ #Yeah he identifies as a man and therefore manly #All of his ‘manliness’ and his obsession with it was added with ck. Now—I do accept a lot of CK and it’s choice of character personality #changing. But to me his odd worry over it and need to assure himself tells me there’s a part of him deep down that DOES want to try ‘girly’ #and they make a lot of his beliefs on masculinity almost defensive toxic masculinity (I know people hate that phrase but I cant think of #another one) #Daniel is a good example of a masculine man that isn’t worried about it #He doesn’t think about it. But Johnny does which tells me logically tells me something ok #johnny lawrence #tw feminization #I GUESS #But girly clothing doesn’t take away from who you are as a guy so #nsft

[undead-potatoes]

Not loving this increasingly weird behavior in fandom where they'll look at a female character behaving in certain ways and go "ooooh that's so hashtag girlboss, feminism wins uwu", but then you look deeper into it and she's actually just behaving out of fear or deep rooted trauma

#Sunny Life #cw: controversial takes in the tags I guess #spraying the BG/3 fandom with water for doing this to Lae and Shart #like does Lae hate the idea of having children or does she hate the idea of being FORCED to become pregnant against her will #just because her fascist queen demands it of her #not only is she one of the only companions who can end up with a child but she actively enjoys that role of caretaker #bc it was a choice she made and not one forced upon her #I want kids myself but I'd be terrified at the prospect of some sort of state mandated pregnancy that would be impossible to refuse #or thinking it's sooo feminist that Shart doesn't wanna be tied down to a relationship when that's so very obviously #bc she's in a doom cult that frowns upon any personal relationships like do you think those two are completely unrelated??? #don't worry about how the context changes as you go through their personal journeys just take all the early game stuff at face value #there's nothing inherently wrong with either of these things btw I just think context is important here #instead of just boiling it down to ''wow such feminism uwu'' bc it goes against whatever gender norms exists in our own world #if you read all of this hello welcome to my twisted mind #I feel like this is the kinda post that would get me hate mail if I had a big account lmao

[your-villainous-neighbour]

"Makeup is literally the best part of being a gi-" no. please leave my house.

#jesus fuck i hate twitter so much #do you not see how harmful this rhetoric is. do you not see how sad it is that youve decided #making your face look appealing to another should NOT be the best part of being a giel #it's not fuckjng t*rf rhetoric to say sit back and examine where your fixation on looking flawless comes from #if you truly are doing it only for yourselr #why do you not do it when you're home alone #why do you do it differently/to varying degrees based on who you're hanging out with #why do you not do it when you're depressed? #there's absolutely nothing wrong with make up but it's worth examining why choice feminism seems insistent #on taking the onus off women in liberation. taking the onus off women to introspect and work on internalised misogyny #patriarchy isn't just within men it's within me and it's within you #i do my makeup every morning before college. nonetheless i recognise where this comes from and I dont consider it the best part of #being feminine #there are much better parts to being feminine #even as a joke. it's fucking stupid. #''best part of being a girl is when my man tells me what to do'' see how that sounds

[vicsera]

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#its so easy to see that some of yall dont actually care about women you hust hate men #let women have bodily autonomy if i have to see that post again i will cry #i was saved by traditional femininity but if j say anything im the bad guy whos forcing everyone to be a woman in the kitchen or. something #i dont fucking know anymore dude. i dont #just leave women alone how about that #vent tw #sighs. #adding later: #OH i understand why this ideology is so upsetting #the whole’choice feminism’ is bad or whatever #its because its terf ideology DUH! #yall falling for radfem bullshit once again. Yikes! #adding later 2: #‘i dont mean to attack women i just mean that the choices youre making are bad’ cut back to two posts ago #‘anyone who believes in choice feminism are fucking STUPID BITCHES who are being MANIPULATED by MEN and actually secretly you HATE YOURSELF’ #like do you hear yourself. do you hear yourself??? #adding later 3: #see and im aware im being hypocritical of my beliefs. somewhat. im being somewhat hypocritical #because im commenting on other womens choices on how the express themselves and how they experience the world #but if i have to see that terf rhetoric behind a gauzy sheet floating in the wind one more time i Might take my head clean off

[theriverdalereviewer]

welcome to another episode of me bringing annoying twitter discourse to tumblr. today’s episode: choice feminism

#let’s skip to the verdict: fuck choice feminism #choice feminism is for people who can’t critically think #and believe everything is okay as long as it personally makes you happy #practices like makeup and grooming and plastic surgery have lately been packaged as feminist because they’re largely practiced by women #and apparently because women are ‘choosing’ to do these things and it makes them feel beautiful it’s totally fine #and never mind the bs that ‘makeup is art’ like oh yeah I wear makeup to my job interview cause of art #come the fuck on 😭 #let’s be real we do these things cause patriarchy capitalism and white supremacy have made us insecure of our faces and bodies #and they use those insecurities to convince us to spend our money on making ourselves ‘beautiful’ #and by beautiful they mean fatphobic patriarchal eurocentric and cisnormative beauty standards #so while you may think you are doing these things for you deep down you know something out there is making you hate yourself #to the point that you’re giving them money to change you #really to put it simply

[shigure]

it's not en vogue to hate women, even jokingly, anymore, but it's not like men have stopped hating women. they've gotten quieter about it in some places. speaking as an anime fan, a sentiment i've picked up on is "we left to keep our opinions to ourselves while watching vtubers and playing gacha games, so if you get into those things and get upset when the subculture is misogynist, that's your own fault - this is our only refuge." in a way i can sort of appreciate that effort of self containment, even if it's horrifying.

to that end, if a vtuber/company or gacha game does something "feminist," the hatred is swift and vitriolic. there's an impulse to extinguish it to the roots before it can "poison their sanctuary." i've seen guys spewing the same sentiment YOU thought was over - women belong in the kitchen, they have no minds of their own, and if they start acting like they can think we need to punish them severely before they hurt others or themselves. it becoming the norm for japanese companies and artists to treat women as people is literally nightmarish to them (in part due to racist wishes projected onto japan obviously), and they will become physically violent in an effort to terrify people back into their place. it hasn't stopped.

what a shame that antifeminism is so prevalent that companies in other countries have to worry about violent threats and escalation if they work with a feminist artist. what a shame that nobody that's not an anime fan is talking about this, because the entire subculture has been mostly written off as unsalvageable anyway. what a shame that feminism has become a shambling corpse of reactionary ideology paraded about by corporations for a quick buck, while abject hatred continues to fester in plain sight. what a shame that it's not just an american issue, and the situation sparking this post (artist being fired for being pro-choice since the company that hired them is getting violent threats) is happening due to men's hatred of feminism in south korea.

and the saddest part of it is i see how much energy and unity these men display in eradicating feminist thought in their subcultures - the organization and commitment is impressive. i see that, and i have to reckon with the fact that i will never see that level of devotion from the rest of us in stomping out misogyny. i think about how republicans are better at organizing than democrats, i think about how feminism as a movement is more or less "over and solved" in most people's minds, and i find myself asking why are we so fucking lazy.

#we are straight up just letting this happen. you realize that right? #POST

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

So in my climate change module this year I set my students the task of writing a journal article-formatted piece about a climate change-induced/exacerbated social issue of their choice. For example! The urban heat island effect is a known issue and going to get worse with rising temperatures - but, thanks to racist and classist urban investment and planning (and historical red lining policies), it'll disproportionately affect people of colour and the working class because those neighbourhoods have fewer green spaces to absorb heat. That sort of thing.

Anyway, today my students were telling me how they found it. One told me she hated it, because it made her so angry with the world.

"I ended up researching feminism!" she told me indignantly. "The patriarchy is awful! And don't get me started on colloquialism!"

Me: "... colloquialism?"

Her: "... you know, like."

Me: "..."

Her: "What we did to the rest of the world."

Me: "..."

Me: "..."

Me: "COLONIALISM"

Her: "YES"

Anyway I haven't looked at it yet but I will be delighted if she's accidentally written a biting assessment of idioms

#the professional world of careers and tasks

[xoxokuromin]

i fucking hate people who cannot dispute your veracity but simply double down out of spite and nitpick your wording. how DARE you come across as critical or confrontational! i resist change on principle!

#choice feminism #feminism #intersectional feminism #i don't want to live on the same planet as such fking imbeciles. you cling like ahab to your ignorance. proudly! #legitimately it just makes me hate humanity

[maddy-ferguson]

before i watched barbie i saw people say stuff like if i was someone who didn't know anything about feminism gloria's monologue would've been great but alas i do know things about feminism so i was unimpressed and i thought the same thing because. i do know about feminism but seeing gifs of it recently because a good quality file has hit the internet and gifmakers reminded me of america ferrera saying that meryl streep had said she would've loved to deliver that monologue and i'm like. i hope one of you is lying. you can't be serious.

#so i wasn't disappointed by the level of feminism in barbie because i knew what to expect #and it's like...there's women and girls who don't know feminism 101 so good for them and i do think the movie as a whole is a great take on #puberty and becoming a teenager and for girls that age like i did see myself in it but it's weird to see people talk about it like it's a #feminist masterpiece is every movie about women a feminist masterpiece? yes art is political and conservatives hate the movie so it's doing #SOMETHING and at least it wasn't choice feminism-y like people predicted it would be but it's also because the feminism in it isn't nuanced #enough not to be lmao which is fine for what happens in it it's dolls discovering feminism but the way people talk about it is like. we are #not dolls why are you gagged by the 2013 feminism monologue. but yes whatever #the monologue was literally the worst part of the movie😭 #well i didn't love everything about the kens but like a singular moment i disliked the most like i was rolling my eyes so hard...because it #was cringe like even if i can see why it's in there couldn't they have made it better. i dont know how but yeah. #anyway #i also hate some of the critiques but i also hate how the general response is it's not that serious lmao #i don't know if greta thought she was making a feminist masterpiece but just because there's comedy in the movie doesn't mean you're not #supposed to take it seriously like it's pretty obvious that you are supposed to take it seriously #and like i say: brf slt

[kanelia]

Questions impossible for trans ideologists to answer:

If trans women are women and trans men are men, then what makes them trans? What is 'being trans' based on?

What makes trans women women and trans men men? If your sex does not determine if you are a man or a woman, then what does? Is it

Maculinity/femininity. Wouldn't this mean feminine men and masculine women are 'born in the wrong body' too and should go by the pronouns of the opposite sex? How can defining manhood and womanhood through masculinity and femininity be justified when these terms are just personality traits, interests, and style choices associated with stereotypes about men and women? What if I told you that almost all the positive attributes are associated with masculinity? Are we all men for not relating to femininity?

Inner feeling. What is this feeling, and how can it be defined? What if you have no inner feelings about your manhood or womanhood? What if most people do not? Wouldn't that make us all non-binary? What if you just think you are a man or a woman because your body is a male or female body?

Nothing. If it is "nothing" then why do you throw a hissy fit if someone refuses to play along when you claim to be a man/woman/none?

If sex does not determine if you are a man or a woman, then why do trans people seek to change their secondary sex characteristics to mimic those of the opposite sex?

If your sex does not determine if you are a man or a woman, then why can't a female be a trans woman?

Why is being trans gender 'valid', but being trans race is deemed offensive? What makes gender different? Is it

Oppression. If you can not be a trans transgender woman or a trans black person because these are oppressed groups, then why can a man claim to be a woman? Why can a heterosexual claim to be a gay or a lesbian? Why are poc rightfully upset over racist caricatures, but women are bigots for finding Dylan Mulvaney offensive?

Lived experience. If I can not be a trans trans woman or a trans black person because 'I could not possibly know how this lived experience would feel', then how come a man can be a woman or a heterosexual a gay or a lesbian?

If sexual orientation is not based on the attraction towards either male or female sex or both, then what is it based on? Attraction towards masculinity/feminity? What if I am attracted to both feminine and masculine human males? Does it make me a bisexual?

If there are no bodily differences between men and women, or not even such a thing as sex in the first place, then what are things like fgm, female infanticide, sex-selective abortion, and child marriage based on? Do they mutilate little girls because they go by she/her pronouns? Do they observe a newborn baby's gender identity? If a family has a little boy and a little girl, how do they determine which one of the children will have to marry an old man? Do they draw straws?

If there are no bodily differences between men and women, or not even such a thing as sex in the first place, then why should anyone even receive 'gender affirming care'? Why can't we just save money by telling people they do not need to transition at all because 'any body can be a man's or a woman's body' already?

And maybe the most importantly:

Why is asking these questions considered 'hate'?

#trans #trans gender #gender citicism #gender critical #jk rowling #feminism #radblr

[nesta-is-my-queen]

An ACOTAR curiosity for the fandom:

Do you think SJM is aware of how many readers in this fandom critically analyze the characters and their actions?

Does SJM know people despise Rhysand for keeping the people of CoN locked up and letting the women there be sold as sex slaves or brides? For performative feminism by outlawing wing clipping in Illyria but not having punitive measures to back that up? For telling Feyre she always has choice but then withholding medical information about her pregnancy and how it may or may not be fatal for her?

Does SJM know people hold Feyre accountable for the destruction of the spring court—because Feyre purposefully destroyed it? Readers understand Tamlin’s role in it as well, but it was actually Feyre that led spring to its demise. That is collective punishment. Go after the high lord and the high lord alone if you wanted revenge on Tamlin for what he did, not after his people.

Does SJM know how much people hate Cassian for being written as a male who doesn’t publicly defend or side with his mate? And that he took her to forced “wilderness therapy” while she was having a mental health breakdown?

Does SJM know how much people despised Rhysand and Cassian after the Ember Randall bonus chapter??

Does SJM know how wrong it is to write about a queer character who was abused and essentially given a hysterectomy by being stabbed through the uterus and left to bleed out - and then have a male character sideline her story and say she isn’t telling the truth?? Especially when SJM wrote her powers as “truth”?

On a lesser note, does SJM know people have the ick for Azriel after the necklace scene?

Idk… sometimes I LOVE these books… I live for the world and the good parts… but then I remember all of this and I don’t know what to make of it all…

What do you think?

#anti rhysand #anti feysand #anti feyre #morrigan #eris vanserra #acotar #acosf #fantasy #sjm #sjm books #sjm fandom #pro nesta #sjm universe #nesta supremacy #nesta x cassian #cassian #sjmaas

[qi-rong-husband]

BRAT TAMING pt.2 kinks: feminization! piss kink?! orgasm denial! master kink

this is my first time writing about a piss kink sorry if it's bad also a continuation of the other part of this I didn't know it would get so much attention.

one good way to stop getting your brat is to humiliate them of course they would hate you for it but what if...they liked it?

one of your favorite things to do to him is to feminize him. Go on dress him up he would look great in laced bras and laced panties...he looks feminine anyway

ugh, I bet his body is soft since why would he work?

one good punishment is making him beg for release wether if it's to cum or to piss (he will get so embarrassed when he does get to piss)

Feminization: "no! I am not wearing that!" he said, staring at the pair of panties you bought him. He had no choice. You made him wear it the laced panties were a perfect fit, and you could see his thighs oh so soft and tempting so perfect to mark. "this is fucking embarrassing!" he said as he tried to cover himself. The bra and the panties were an amazing sight on the brat...."gosh I love your tight cunt." when he hears these words he can't help but tighten up on your cock, he will never say it but he loves it when you call his hole that. Just maybe he actually wants to be breed.

piss kink: "No please I didn't mean it please I am sorry!" he said he was getting punished he was crying and moaning. you made fuck himself on a dildo, while his bladder was full. "You're desperate aren't you, I'll let you if you piss yourself since you are a dirty mutt and you better thank me" as you watched him bouncing on the plastic dick. The dumb brat let out a whimper he felt so full too full. he wanted to disobey but he knows better he started to bounce harder on the plastic dick, he let out a whorish moan he felt so embressed but he still thanked you. "T-thank y-you m-master" he pissed all over the floor but good for you to put towels before hand.

sorry this isn't too good this is the first time I have tried to do in the user's perspective. Anyway, have a good day or night.

#dom reader #dom male reader #sub character

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

To anyone considering not voting this year or wasting their vote on a meaningless third party vote, just a reminder: THIS is the garbage that the nazi virus polluting the human species with its existence that supports Donald Trump stands for and believes in

This is the garbage that Donald Trump and the nauseating brainless cattle that are his allies want to INFECT America with like a cancer

Voting for anyone other than the Democrats will allow this DISEASE upon the human race to come into power

Also on a side note, to the nauseating goat-fucking trash of the Heritage foundation: My reaction towards a "Feminist movement" that was against the pill or against "Recreational sex" would be: "I utterly fucking despise every last one of these moronic fucking cunts and their garbage ideology"

Because the only form of feminism I care about or support is feminism that is sex-positive, pro-choice and pro-LGBTQ.

Also the only "True purpose" of sex is to have any kind of it you want, as much as you want with as many people as you want to have the most number of orgasms possible

Maybe if these joyless nazi cunts had actually every got fucked properly in their miserable worthless lives they wouldn't be such a pathetic bunch of hateful little dipshits

#Sfw

[comradekatara]

okay, so I did just spend the entire day watching NATLA. I had no choice but to watch this all in one sitting with my friends because I knew that if I attempted to watch it alone, or in increments, I would simply never get past episode 1. and I was right. it, of course, sucked so bad. I intend to write an actual, articulate review of the show as a whole when I have time, but for now, here is a list of the notes I jotted down on my phone (including some quotes from my friends as we watched), cinema sins style (pluses indicate details I actually liked, however minuses are far more frequent; points I considered especially significant are bolded).

– NO COLON to signify the central tension of the entire show!!!

Episode 1:

+ Love Aang’s eyebrows, just a very cute kid in general

+ opening fight scene kind of serves

– Sozin does NOT

– This clunky exposition is so strange considering they clearly already assume we are familiar with the entire show

– What’s going on with Kyoshi (ie, where is Roku)

– Where is Katara narrating????

– Hideous fonts

+ AANG SO CUTE <3 (he’s giving Dewey!)

– He can just fucking fly without his glider I guess?

– Airbenders saying wow at airbending (ding!)

– Aang’s uggs

– Sky bison…… L (update: I lowkey came around on Appa, but only bc Momo was so fucking busted he looked incredible by contrast)

– Gyatso’s mustache L (update: many such cases going forward)

– What’s going on with the accents???

– Aang cannot fucking act for shit I’m so sorry to this adorable baby boy

– Depicting a literal genocide as an action scene. Fucking awful

– Aang actually trying to head back during the storm defeats the whole point of the whole inciting incident of his entire arc????

+ Waterbending Avatar State sequence in the storm actually looks cool

– I hate White Sokka

– I hate shein Katara

– They do NOT act like siblings

– I hate White Sokka

– Where is Katara I miss you baby girl

– ZUKO’S SCAR IS AWFUL

– Katara has no agency or passion or rage or emotion whatsoever?!!?!?

– Acting is SO BAD

+ Clunky exposition works for Zuko because he does have a propensity for monologuing all his intentions

– Sokka, however, does NOT

– How can Sokka be “the last man” of the Southern Water Tribe if there are like. Dozens of other guys only ever so slightly younger than him just standing around.

– Kanna just saying Katara’s monologue because Katara is a nothing

– WHY DO FIREBENDERS KEEP ATTACKING AT NIGHT

– Clunky ass exposition “he had to grow up fast” give me a fucking break

– Who the fuck is this white guy

– Katara has no motivations at all?? She’s just chopped liver I guess

– The cadence of every actor is so bad

– They can’t decide whether they want to be the cartoon or their own thing and instead they’re just nothing

Episode 2:

– KANNA JUST GIVES HER THE SCROLL?!?!? KATARA DOESNT GET TO SHOPLIFT. OR DO ANYTHING

– MILF ALERT!!!!

– I hate you straight nepobaby suki

– She’s so fucking weird

– White Sokka has a bad face and a good body. He should have a strikingly beautiful face and a scrawny, malnourished body. L

– Aang being afraid to airbend makes no sense

– Where is Sokka’s fucking Kyoshi Warrior feminization!!!!

– Sexist ass show

– STOP IT KYOSHI STOOOOPPPPP #NotMyKyoshi

Episode 3:

– This one rebel leader guy is giving Katara more than Katara

– Why are the colors so bland

– Sokka being scientifically minded makes no sense bc that trait (which, um, is actually quite crucial to his character) hasn’t actually been established at all up until this point (or retained beyond this one episode)

– This guy is giving jock who happens to be good at engineering, when Sokka should be a NERD who HAPPENS to be good at FIGHTING

– Azula and Mai are NOT GIVING

– Azula should present as sure of herself and incredibly poised. It’s actual crucial to reflecting how she has been shaped by abuse

– And Mai should be razor sharp (both physically and figuratively) and not give a fuck about any of this!!!

+ Katara hitting herself in the face was funny

– Redemption for beautiful Jet (my friend: “I love seeing a beautiful man die”)

– Freedom Fighters are GIVINGGG

– How can Kya “watch the sun rise every day” if they literally live in the South Pole

– They don’t understand Sokka’s daddy issues AT ALL. The simple fact that he’s actually communicating them is egregious

– The first time Katara actually gets angry is for Jet. But not even for the right reasons.

– The first exchange that Katara and Sokka have that makes any sense is in ep THREE (of 8)

– “Sokka was right. You are the bad guy.” WHO WROTE THIS 😭😭

– Jet is only going after the corrupt and collaborators…. So, um… he’s literally right???

+ The fight between Aang and Zuko is actually SO GOOD and understands their dynamic (sidenote: they’re the only kids who are actually giving their original characters at all)

+ Aang reading Zuko’s diary is so fucking funny

+ I love you Danny Pudi <3

Episode 4:

+ I love the interior of Bumi’s palace. Statues of Flopsy

– Omashu is in India now I guess and also everyone in the world lives here

– Bumi’s hat!?!?

+ The nomads sound like Fleet Foxes

– Katara and Sokka are literally switching roles in this tunnel

+ This one Earth Kingdom soldier is really serving.

– The fact that he’s ostensibly framed as in the wrong here though is INSANE

– Zuko is supposed to be ten here 😭 that’s a grown ass man with a BA in Econ

– Sokka’s necklace is plastic

– Katara and Sokka being like “we never used to fight at home” ……. WTF!?!?

– KATARA WOULD NEVER SAY THAT TO SOKKA SHE WOULD BEAT HIS ASS INTO THE GROUND EVEN IF HE WAS RIGHT

– Adults keep being so mean to Aang :((

+ Zuko’s hair is great

+ I like that Bumi gave Aang his bison whistle(?)

– Bumi’s anger is….interesting

Episode 5:

– Canonically 13 year old Zuko is also a grown ass man

– “How was I supposed to know she was a Fire Nation soldier” ummmmmm maybe due to your INSTINCTS and CONSTANT PARANOIA

– They keep alluding to escapades offscreen without actually depicting any of their grounded bonding moments so we have no reason to care about any of these characters whatsoever or their relationships with one another

– Sokka good with kids and names??? Preposterous

– Zuko kinda gay asf

– Zuko calling someone an idiot and Sokka never once does . Sounds fake

– Oppressed peoples are just a mouthpiece for oppression instead of real human beings

– Instragram ass makeup

– Aang isn’t having any fun

– Aang feels like he has no agency whatsoever because he only ever does what the adults around him tell him to do and never does anything of his own accord. Let him have a sillygoofy time!!!

– Constant clunky exposition and no understanding of its own narrative… it’s truly like if ATLA … was LOK.

+ JUUUUNE

– Hitting on Iroh for #feminism

– “I always thought I was spiritually attuned. I don’t know how he got in here though” is actually so Katara. Finally an actual Katara moment

– Wan Shi Tong goofy asf Guardians of Ga’Hoole ass CGI monstrosity

– What is with Sokka’s fucking white people references (all you need is love, bye bye birdie, etc). White devil I need him dead

– Sexy Kitsune for the furries

– Fox accuses him of making jokes to deflect “What? I don’t do that” WELL. HE DOESNT IN THIS VERSION!!! (Alluding to a character trait that they don’t actually depict is crazy. He literally says everything he’s feeling at all times in this and barely ever says anything witty. It’s like they’re TAUNTING us.)

– Kya sounds like she’s from the Upper East Side

– Why won’t they let Katara DO anything!!!

– Too economical with their storytelling leads to no real depth whatsoever

– Putting Katara’s flashback in Book 1 undermines the whole point of TSR

– I HATE YOU WHITE HAKODA

– If Sokka is so bad at ice dodging in this then why did they give him the mark of the wise ??????? None of this scene makes sense

– Why is Sokka CRYING (he doesn’t DO that)

– Koh looks so bad

– Aang doesn’t actually know how to fight Koh he’s just such a wooden actor that he happens to get away with it

– First Roku mention????? Lmfao

– Gyatso talking to Aang is so wack but at least he’s being nice to him

Episode 6 (aka the best episode by far):

+ Zuko just drawing an eye on the page is so real actually

– Azula’s flames aren’t even blue

– And she’s not mysterious or imposing at all!

– I HATE the makeup in the show

– The pacing is AWFUL and STUPID, no consideration as to WHY information is revealed when it is narratively/thematically

+ Okay he’s really giving Zuko lmfao

+ Ken Leung has made Zhao feel like a real person (but no one else is doing that ???)

– Low-budget fantasy C-dramas have costumes one million times better than this.

– What is with Iroh’s obsession with boats

– Quirked up old man Roku

– Zuko flashbacks don’t read as significant because his scar is nothing and he’s the same age

+ Aang and Zhao scene is great

+ I’d follow Zhao into battle

– Other friend: “This is the best episode so far and it’s because Katara and Sokka aren’t in it”

+ Blue Spirit mask actually looks like a theater mask

+ Using the original Blue Spirit theme!!

+ This episode actually slays

– Their commentary on narrativization is solely relegated to Zhao and no one else gets to participate in this thematic conversation, not even KATARA

+ I love the sassy gay scribe

+ LADDERS SCENEEEEE

+ Zuko canonically having good handwriting is so real

+ Aang and Zuko conversation is great

– Why does Aang keep assuming Zuko is compassionate and wounded when he hasn’t displayed any compassion, remorse, or pain

– Iroh stepping into the Agni Kai goes against his whole character

+ Ozai kind of rules tho

– WHY IS ZUKO ACTIVELY FIGHTING OZAI!!!!!!!!

– Zuko’s backstory makes no sense

+ Zuko’s thotty little collarbone

– Ozai’s scene here undermines the whole point of Zuko’s banishment

– Such bad dialogue it’s crazy

– How do the 41st division not know why they’ve been on this boat for the past 3 years when every piece of dialogue in this show is otherwise expository as fuck

– What’s the point of Gyatso leaving. They don’t explain it at all

Episode 7:

– The NWT is so grey and underwhelming. My favorite location in the whole show. Can’t have shit in Netflixworld.

– BECAUSE AANG JUST HAS VISIONS OF THE FUTURE NOW I GUESS

– PAKKU AND YUE LOOK SOOOOO BAD

– Yue looks like a Euphoria character in a party city wig

– This isn’t how Azula fights!!!

– I hate what they’re doing with Azula so bad

– Mai sucks too

– Their journey doesn’t feel earned at all because they didn’t hang out or learn anything or do shit

– Why is Yue in the kitchens if she’s a princess

– And why is she WATERBENDING

– Why isn’t she repressed!!!!! She shouldn’t BE “ordinary”

– Why is Sokka explaining his duties!!!! He doesn’t SAY SHIT!

– Why isn’t the guy playing Hahn playing Sokka and vice versa (I’m so fucking serious)

– YUE’S A FOX????? WHAT

– All the offscreen battles where we’re supposed to assume character development actually happened. Sure.

– Hahn being nice and respectful to Sokka makes no sense

– MILF Yugoda! (How would she know Kanna. Update: I guess that doesn’t even matter here )

– THEY DONT UNDERSTAND YUE OR HAHN OR WHAT PATRIARCHY IS. AT ALL

– Kuruk is too serious and Roku is too playful. It should be the reverse. Playing into racist tropes :/

– His eyes are way too blue I’m sorry to this man

– They all look like they know what iPhones are.

– Yue is so annoying . L

– This whole Yue Sokka scene is the most annoying thing I’ve ever fucking seen in my life. And entirely antithetical to their whole deal

– “My friends” this “my friends” that, except they never actually hang out. They just keep calling each other friends but they never actually show it in a believable way.

– They want to be edgy but they actually never fucking shut up about the power of friendship like we are all five years old. I think when they said they were “appealing to a Game of Thrones audience” what they really meant was just that they are also bad, incredibly misogynistic writers who depict sensitive topics without any care or nuance.

– I actually like the Fire Nation boats

– Zhao is working with Azula??? She wouldn’t KILL THE MOON

– Azula would never ask Ozai to do things she would wait for his command at all times!!!

– Since when is Sokka wise and emotionally mature enough to hold this conversation with Katara, and why isn’t Katara being impulsive. This fight is so planned out; all the excitement is lost.

– Her completely blank expression as Pakku humiliates her. I hate you SHEIN KATARA!!!!!!

– This fight is so dull and lame whereas in the original that fight scene literally changed my life as a kid????? #NotMyKatara

– “The Legend of Aang” EW

– Why isn’t Aang waterbending at all. Book 1: “talking about water in completely abstract, hypothetical terms”

Episode 8:

– Iroh telling Zuko how to break into the North Pole is undermining the one moment where he actually demonstrates his intelligence as an independent person

– Stupid ass liberal feminism I hate you

– So they are sexist but also not. Makes sense

– What the fuck is with this moon backstory shit. Who needed that

– Zhao going to the Fire Temple instead of Wan Shi Tong’s Library for info on the moon completely undermines the point about the role of knowledge in imperialist conquest

– Kuruk looks like a Star Wars force ghost

+ THEY KILLED MOMO (kind of made me laugh a lot, so… points for that I guess)

– But they could only feature him for all of five seconds bc they don’t have the budget to constantly animate his mangy rat ass

– Why is Yue helping MOMO instead of ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS

– They want me to believe that White Sokka has compassion for that little rat when I simply do not believe that this man cares for anyone or anything or even has a soul.

+ Zuko and Aang’s situationship/chemistry is crazy. They’re both kind of slaying actually

– That said, the kid who plays Aang is not a very good actor, he’s just adorable and has big ears and a Dewey voice. And the kid who plays Zuko has the easiest acting job in the show because Zuko is actually so over the top and dramatic that overacting feels authentic to this one character in particular (and no one else).

– Bending fights look stupid and feel thematically insignificant

– This red filter looks so bad

– Why do they keep dragging out fast paced scenes to explain everything so that they’re now boring af

– Hahn is just……. Okay go off woke feminist king. Sure. Why not

– All the exposition is so clunky and slow and undermining the actual point of the scene

– Not only is this not visually interesting, it also doesn’t translate tonally, and the primary actors can’t pull it off

– So NOW Iroh kills Zhao. Okay

– Zhao wouldn’t respect a teenage girl this much, even if she is the princess

– Koizilla looks bad :(

– RIP Ken Leung the Cunt Slayer. 5ever in our hearts </3

+ It’s actually so funny that Ken Leung apparently didn’t even know what he was auditioning for because he was by far the best actor in this show and nearly singlehandedly redeemed it. I love this guy so much.

– Me: “This isn’t a show. This is a farcical simulacrum of real art.” Friend, far more concisely: “This is a fucking joke.”

– Katara and Sokka barely even seem like they care about each other. Look at how they massacred by boy (and girl)

– Yue and Sokka alluding to fucking offscreen WOULD be a slay if they weren’t both annoying as fuck…

– Oh so NOW Katara talks Aang down from the Avatar State. Yeah. I buy that.

– “You’re not just the Avatar you’re my family” really? Because you’ve barely even talked

– The sequencing and pacing of the Siege of the Noth was nonsensical.

– “My daughter always made her own choices” NO SHE FUCKING DIDNT!!!!! THE WHOLE POINT OF HER CHARACTER. WAS THAT SHE COULDN’T!!! Shallow fucking libfem bullshit they MASSACRED my girl!!!!!!

– Why is Arnook comforting Sokka when Sokka should be comforting HIM

– Also Sokka would never express his insecurities to Arnook in the first place. NOT MY REPRESSED KING????

– Why is Sokka giving emotional support and Katara giving tactical support -_-

– They really think that “Gotta let go of the past to have a future” is such a fucking smart line they used it twice

– Conquering Omashu wasn’t a STRATEGY it just happened CONCURRENTLY because their imperialist regime is incredibly powerful … This show doesn’t understand its own politics at all.

– Azula has no poise or swag smh

– Aang doesn’t even know about Sozin’s comet because Roku didn’t tell him…

– It’s crazy that a show written in the 2020s is actually SO MUCH more sexist than a show written in the 2000s.

– TDLR; I hate you capitalism, I hate you Netflix, I hate you White Sokka, I hate you SHEIN Katara, I hate you heterosexual nepobaby Suki, I hate you girlboss Yue, I hate you visibly insecure Azula, I hate you whatever is going on with Mai, I hate you CGI Momo, I hate you wack ass pacing, I hate you clunky, idiotic dialogue, I hate you complete and utter lack of consideration into what made this show great in the first place, I love you Danny Pudi, I love you Ken Leung.

Which, in fairness, is all pretty much exactly what I expected this show would be. But at least actually watching it did indeed verify all my assumptions (although what they did to Katara specifically was even worse than what I had assumed, dear god), so I will be writing up a more in-depth review soon so that I can actually try to unpack why this show is such a dumpster fire, and how that reflects larger trends in media. But for now, all I can say is, I can’t believe I sat through 8 hours of this fucking garbage knowing it would be bad and it was. I’ve been saying this show would suck ass since the second it was announced, and yet it somehow managed to still prove worse than even my incredibly pessimistic expectations. A soulless, shallow, offensive work of profit that cannot even attempt to justify its own existence. I need to kill White Sokka with hammers.

#natla #‘’spoilers’’ under the cut #lmfao #in the immortal words of bloodbenderz: ‘it was bad’