Look, I'm not forcing you to watch How to Train Your Dragon, Rise of the Guardians, The Mitchells vs The Machines, Megamind, Brother Bear, every Studio Ghibli movie, Treasure Planet, Avatar the Last Airbender, Despicable Me, Ice Age, Dinosaur, Tinker Bell, The Fox and The Hound, Gnomeo and Juliet, but you would be doing yourself a favor if you do.
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AVA/AVM Color Gang VRChat avatars !
Been working on these for awhile but the color gang has been made as vrc avatars :] !
Green, Red, Blue and Yellow's designs are all inspired/from friends !
avi links in order of appearance :]
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I know you're one for spider and Lo'ak but the on paper potential for spider and neteyam is immense - the idea that they drifted and Spider thinks it's because neteyam is agreeing with neytiri, but really it's because neteyam knows that a future chief could never be with a human. Just the idea of neteyam watching kiri Lo'ak and Spider from afar with something that can only be described as yearning - I need it
Oh anon, don't worry, locorro has a special place in my heart but I am an equal opportunity Spider rarepair shipper. I am even a Spiri shipper don't even question me. I've read Rotxo/Spider fics, I'VE READ THEM ALL. I'm not usually flexible when it comes to ships but for these guys theres so much potential because none of it is canon yet and they're all so important to each other okay I'll cry.
My special Spider and Neteyam shit I've mentioned before, but Spider is older than Neteyam and I like to think Neteyam could confide in him more than he could his younger siblings, who relied on him and he felt so much responsibility for. He did not feel like he could show them any weakness. Spider would be able to empathize in a way that Lo'ak never could, always feeling like he can't measure up. Neteyam clearly cared for Spider; he died to help rescue him and they were comfortable and friendly. Spider even teases him at the beginning. I think he just naturally had to spend his time learning from his parents and just couldn't fool around with them as much, I'm absolutely sure he missed being with them all the time and indulging their silly ideas and letting loose. I can totally see this idea of Neteyam trying to distance himself to try to keep his feelings to himself because he knows it can't work.
For me, Neteyam and Spider is this image of them up on the mountains where Neteyam has taken them just so he can vent about the pressure and not feeling like he can live up to the expectations of being perfect all the time, being a leader. What if he fails, when everyone thinks he wont? And Spider is just like "you won't fail, but if you do it's fine. No one will love you any less. And even if somehow they do, I won't, I fail all the time."
Ugh, I love it. Good ask anon, good ask.
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thinking about how aangs ligtheartedness and sillyness in the original cartoon were the whole point. beacuse he is ouut of his time, he dosent carry the same traumas, he has hope. this hope leads to doubt- imagining things can be diffrente. there is no doubt without the hope things can change. and the whole point of the show is that aang makes people doubt that they have to be in war, that they cant figth back or become more then their traumas. doubt is the thing imperalist facism (aka the fire nation) fears the most, and aang being silly makes people doubt the way that they live. SO TO REMAKE THE SHOW WITH A "SERIOUS, DARKER TONE" WOUULD BE AN AWFUL IDEA THAT WOULD MAKE THE WHOLE STORY COLLAPSE. IM SO GLAD NOBODY DID THAT. THAT WOULD BE AWFUL.
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Smirke’s taxonomy is good, actually. Fight me.
No ok but like I WILL go to bat for the Smirke Taxonomy of fears you guys have no fuckin clue what’s up. Neither did Smirke but like
OK SO. The Smirke taxonomy makes no fucking sense if you’re using it as a straight-on categorization of fears. Control and spiders? How are those the same thing? Why is FIRE its own damn category? Yadda yadda BUT THAT’S NOT THE POINT.
Because yeah, Smirke was trying to categorize fears– But what he actually did is categorize HOW THEY MANIFEST.
Like;;; human fear is infinitely varied and complex. You’re never going to be able to slot it into simple categories. We’re afraid of EVERYTHING– the unknown and the known and the concrete and the abstract and the truth and the untruth and spiders and heights and being forgotten and it’s like!! A nuanced outlook on how the fears manifest in avatars and the like is crucial for any actual study but it’s a NIGHTMARE for filing systems. Could you imagine running an archive and having to pinpoint the exact fear for every single statement? “Ooh, is this story where a man is killed by spiders driven by a fear of spiders themselves, oor more what spiders imply?” You’d never get anything done!
But What you CAN do. Is categorize the fears not by what they’re fears of, but by how they manifest in the real world. Because! The manifestations of the fears are driven by the way we as a society talk about our fear! And so grouping fear manifestations and avatars into categories based on how we talk about them is a GENIUS way to circumvent the complicated-ass fear identity question in favor of a more pragmatic, top-down approach to the varied dreads that stalk our everyday lives.
Like, when you’re addicted to something? You’re ‘caught in your own web’. When you don’t know what’s going on? You’re ‘being kept in the dark’. Having a mental health crisis, well, I think you might be ‘spiraling’, my friend!
Are the everyday struggles of life getting you down? You’re ‘under a lot of pressure,’ seems like. ET CETERA ET CETERA! I could go on! But the POINT is– the language we use to talk about and understand out fear can be used to group said fear into categories based on how it manifests, and SMIRKE’S TAXONOMY IS PERFECT FOR THAT.
And not because that’s how it was intended– No, Robert Smirke is STILL a fucking hack, I’m not disputing that. His whole ‘balance’ schtick was stupid as hell. BUT ALSO!
Because his taxonomy is so popular among avatars and such, the very EXISTENCE of ‘the entities’ as a concept has skewed the cultural zeitgeist in such a way that Smirke’s taxonomy is more correct now than it was when it was created.
Which!! Is so cool!! Like. Yes, the Smirke taxonomy is objectively a really shit way to classify fear. Most individual ‘entities’ have conflicting fears associated (being watched and watching yourself? C’mon, Eye. You can do better), and there’s some odd overlap too (there are SO MANY fears that incorporate ‘the unknown’ in some way). But when attempting to classify the physical traits and such of a manifestation/avatar? Smirke’s got you covered, baby!
To summarize: While Smirke’s taxonomy sucks ASS when you try to apply it to the psychological specifics of any given avatar, or fear, or what have you, it’s great for classifying the physical. The cut-and-dry 14 entities give a really good intro to the world of fears, work great for any kind of filing system, and give a good big-picture view of avatar politics.
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