"you miscalculated—i love Zuko more than i fear you” 🤝 "give me one reason to think you might hurt Aang, and you won't have to worry about your destiny anymore. Because I'll make sure your destiny ends, right then and there. Permanently."
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yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.
to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!
i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.
also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.
they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.
they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.
i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.
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Can we all agree to the fact that Romeo was, with 100% certainty, a drama arts kid ??
My guy put on a whole ass mini play for you when you first enter the Opera House, in order to convey and warn you of Geppetto's scheme... and then drops in dramatically with a shit eating grin and offers you his hand like he did the perfect job at getting across the grand evil plot-- and goddammit he did !! He nailed it right on the head!
He showed us exactly what was happening! Gave us literally the whole ending plot, front and center stage!
Romeo is an A+ storyteller, actor, set designer, costumer, and all around theater kid. Adelina Corday whomst?! Step aside for Romeo !!
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in halsey’s song “colors” they establish in the chorus that the subject of the song is blue (his pills, his hands, his jeans) or grey (his hair, his smokes, his dreams). but then the bridge actually establishes that it is halsey herself who was blue and that the person addressed by the song was red (you were red, and you liked me cause i was blue). what do we think about halsey touching him and turning him purple (but you touched me and suddenly i was a lilac sky) and then it being her who lost interest (and you decided that purple just wasnt for you)? the song ends with a repeated “everything is blue”, implying that halsey themself remained unchanged by the colors, while the subject of the song is left a mess of mixed colors (you’re dripping like a saturated sunrise, you’re spilling like an overflowing sink).
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He's pointing at a star and giving her misinformation with total confidence. She knows he's wrong. She won't tell him.
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