#WOW !!!!!!

[luckydiorxoxo]

Sebastian Stan attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" wearing Ami Paris

#sebastian stan #2024 met gala #met gala #WOW #Ami Paris #Cartier

[thehavster]

cat thing

#a little beastie #a creature even #wow #look at her dumb lil cat face #aurhghrhg #i wish catgirls were real #that sounds so cringe #my oc #personal art #dnd art #dnd character #tabaxi artificer #dnd oc #my art #gale of sparks

[acousticmalta]

minthara x tav commmmm closeup 🖤 for @/ragyokiryuin on twitter

#Minthara #BG3 #Tav #Wow

[case-it]

#magick #石川恋 #aishwarya rai #wolverine #spencer reid smut #wow #american apparel #slutty wife #softcore #yellowjackets

[beautifullyhorrid-art]

#void elf #world of warcraft #wow #rendorei #void

[da1stninjagofangirl]

Are they fr

#killing #lego ninjago #ninjago zane #ninjago #ninjago jay #ninjago nya #kai ninjago #ninjago cole #ninjago lloyd #dying #kills #dumb crap #i got it off line #wow #crazy #sick #rgb siblings

[alexturntable]

Charles’ instagram stories - Miami GP

#wow #what a shot #charles leclerc #f1 #miami gp 2024 #mypost #formula 1

[whereifindsanity]

instagram.com

@josemostajo

#wow #what a view

[zuko-always-lies]

Unpopular Opinion: Ursa's parenting negatively affected Zuko

One of the fascinating things about the ATLA fandom is that people are utterly uninterested in analyzing how Ursa's parenting really screwed up Zuko, even though it's pretty clear. I don't mean to attack Ursa here, because I think she had good intentions, but, although her parenting was far better than Ozai's, it contributed to Zuko's many poor decisions.

I've given a broader coverage to values Ursa extols to her children elsewhere. The general point you should take away from that is that Ursa was critical in instilling imperialist values in her children and in teaching them to respect/obey the Firelord.

However, that's not the point I will belabor here. I want to turn to something else. Let's take a look closely at the scene where Zuko tries to perform Azula's firebending routine in front of his grandfather and his father but falls flat on his face:

Ozai frowns at this news. Zuko starts off well, doing the same circular motions as Azula earlier. He manages to produce a small fire blast, which does not impress Fire Lord Azulon. When he tries to create another one, he falls. He gets back up, panting heavily, and tries again, only to fall harder. Ursa gets up worriedly and approaches Zuko to comfort him. Young Zuko: I failed. Ursa: No. I loved watching you. That's who you are, Zuko. Someone who keeps fighting even though it's hard.

The lesson that Zuko learns from Ursa here is that his gift is stubborn persistence and that he should never stop trying to meet the toxic expectations of the Fire Nation royal court and of his father(she also might have inadvertently encouraged the Zuko-Azula sibling rivalry).

How do we know this is what Zuko took away from this? These scenes are paired together at the end of "Zuko Alone," as Zuko struggles to defeat Gow:

In the flashback, Zuko is sleeping in his room at night when a hand gently touches his shoulder. He awakens drowsily to see his mother dressed in a cloak.

Young Zuko: … Mom? Ursa: Zuko, please, my love, listen to me. Everything I've done, I've done to protect you. She pulls the barely conscious Zuko into a hug. Ursa: Remember this, Zuko. No matter how things may seem to change, never forget who you are.

and this scene:

Gow: Who ... who are you? Zuko:My name is Zuko. Son of Ursa and Fire Lord Ozai. Prince of the Fire Nation, and heir to the throne. Old man: Liar! I heard of you! You're not a prince, you're an outcast! His own father burned and disowned him!

Zuko took Ursa's advice to never give up and never forget who he was to heart, and as a result even though he's been burned, banished, and declared a traitor, even though he objectively has no real chance of getting his status and Ozai's favor back at this point, Zuko is still trying to do that and refuses to let go of his long-lost position in the Fire Nation as crown prince. The smart thing to do would be to give up and move on, but Zuko refuses to do that.

We can also turn to what Zuko says to Aang in "The Siege of the North, II":

Zuko: I finally have you, but I can't get you home because of this blizzard. [Stands up and looks outside the cave.] There's always something. Not that you would understand. You're like my sister. Everything always came easy to her. She's a firebending prodigy, and everyone adores her. My father says she was born lucky. He says I was lucky to be born. I don't need luck, though. I don't want it. I've always had to struggle and fight and that's made me strong. It's made me who I am.

All of this brings me back to my main point. Ozai might have been the one who burned and banished Zuko, who abused him and declared him a traitor, who demanded that Zuko capture the Avatar, but Ursa is the one who taught Zuko the persistence that made him chase after legends for three years, that made him take reckless risk after reckless risk, that made him continue chasing the Avatar even after Ozai was having him hunted as a traitor across the Earth Kingdom.

The biggest problem in Zuko's life is that he refuses to let go of his dream of regaining Ozai's favor, that he refuses to accept that Ozai doesn't love and move on and find something better to center his life around, and from what we see Ursa played a huge role in this, because she taught Zuko to never give up trying fulfilling the expectations of Ozai and the court, no matter how many times he failed. Ursa wasn't intending ill, but her parenting had a huge negative effect on Zuko's life.

#Ursa #Zuko #Ursa meta #Zuko meta #ATLA #avatar the last airbender #ATLA meta #zuko alone #Fire Nation #Fire imperialism #Fire Nation royal family #Ozai #Ozai's a+ parenting #Ursa's A+ parenting #Azulon #Look I actually wrote something that might have broader approval #wow #we'll see

[justbeauties2]

#seltin sweet #wow

[swevenfox]

Commission

WoW Guild lineup for private client -

#my art #wow #tauren #wow tauren #warcraft #warcraft tauren #minotaur #bull #bulls #thunder #storm #commission #never thought i will see the light end of the cave #but finally finished

[envelopandkissme]

zendaya in custom margiela by galliano inspired by christian dior haute couture spring 1999. headpiece by philip treacy, makeup by thee pat mcgrath herself. NO NOTES……

#WOW #zendaya #fashion #margiela #john galliano #galliano #margiela by galliano #pat mcgrath #met gala #2024 met gala

[kingfredericks]

codependent friendship save me. codependent friendship. save me codependent friendship

#THIS WAS INSANE LIKE #ALSO PRRYHAS COMMENT BEFORE BASICALLY SAYING SHE SAW THEM AS FAMILY #GOD CAMILLA AND PALAMEDES YOU ARE EVERYTHING TO ME #im serious this is everything i want in a friendship #mutually assured self destruction #god #wow #cinema! #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #campal #nona the ninth #tlt

[pastel-beez]

I literally got the *worst* illness I've had in about 20 years for my 30th birthday. Happy birthday to me, Holy shit

#im alive #just #wow

[sabotourist]

You know I was talking with my friend a while back and in light of restoration... Can we just talk about how good Doc is? How, in s15, when the others retired, he went on to find other ways to help. How he has failed over and over, gotten shit on over and over, gotten his mind fucked with over and over, and yet that man never stopped trying to help people?

Even at the very end.

#rvb #he saved donut #and he saved wash #my two favorites #doc #my darling dear #i owe it all to you #you have my heart my whole heart #killing him off was fucking bold #especially like that #wash lived because of doc though #donut lived because of doc #he got so much crap and yet #he never stopped trying to help #even when it cost him his life #rvb doc #frank dufresne #docnut #docington #also hear me out: medic donut #the fact that he hadnt even been back with them long before he died #wow #ouch #rvb restoration #rvb spoilers #rvb restoration spoilers #rvb season 19 #red vs blue restoration #doc youre a real one

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

For reference if you're a non Warcraft fan or haven't been keeping up with WoW, Warcraft has blatantly racially coded fantasy races like the trolls have jamaican accents, wear tiki masks and grass skirts, and practice voodoo in Jungles, whilst the tauren (Minotaurs) have feather headdress, smoke peace pipes, have totem poles and tepees, ETC.

Warcraft's so called new "woke" writers have doubled down on the "PoC coded monsters are evil" stuff with the very few good characters from those races being depicted as the "good ones" because they reject the savage ways of their people and side with white humans.

They've also whitewashed any bad actions from white characters.

Around the same time, Mathias Shaw was confirmed as gay, we got 2021's Shadowlands where:

There was a story with the pure and good white colonizers vs the completely evil savage natives that deserved to be wiped out because they didn't want to share.

Confirmation that the gods that the white races worshipped were real, whilst the gods of the tauren and other PoC coded races were fake.

An afterlife where all spirits are converted to bodies resembling caucasian humans.

A POC coded character (Zul'jin) that fought against the white colonizers that stole his land and treat his people as vermin to be exterminated, being one of the only characters being sent to Hell, whilst white characters whom did far worse weren't.

Real world revered voodoo loa Dambala being depicted as a God of evil that players are sent to kill.

So I think more people should've voted negatively on Mathias Shaw because whilst the character himself isn't racist, he's closely associated with horrible racist writing that thought throwing a white gay character in to their broke ass script script would somehow make it "woke".

I encourage people to interpret the poll options in whatever way they want, whether that's the character's writing, the strength of the representation, or their overall feelings on the media. I've talked about this before, but at the end of the day I am not trying to be an arbiter of what media is good and what's not, because I am simply not qualified to be. I sincerely appreciate when people send in asks like this detailing the issues with a piece of media so that other people can be more aware in the future. All posts like this are tagged with "media critical"!

#i'm never gonna pull a media for being problematic and I'm sorry about that but that means setting some boundary for what's acceptable #and I don't want to be the judge of that #by posting a media here I am *not* agreeing with any statements made by that media #in fact i'm entirely unfamiliar with probably >80% of the media I post here and only know a further ~15% in passing #also I know you didn't call me out specifically I'm just saying that to cover potential comments on this #but yeah all of that is extremely disgusting and upsetting so thank you for making that known #media critical #wow #world of warcraft #asks #not a poll