i feel like the fandom only really talks about katara and being "motherly" (heavy quotes on that) in the context of why it's untrue and not a fundamental part of her personality, which is fair! but also can we talk about how 14 year old katara was doing most of the heavy lifting between her and sokka? and maybe even the entire swt? (which does make sense since it's made up of mostly elderly and young children) because it's canon that she washes and mends his clothing, among others ("I <even> wash all the clothes!", "I've been doing all the work around camp [...]") while he's "off playing soldier", and considering the fire nation had no reason to return to the swt after the last raid where kya dies, i'm assuming that he wasn't all too busy? i mean maybe he was off fighting a polar bear or something? but we need to talk about how she was pushed into responsibilities that she shouldn't have had to shoulder on her own at like, what? 10?
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Damn, Renfield's wellbeing is really hanging from a threat right now. A threat that Dracula doesn't want to pick up. It is really sad to see man try and try to accomplish the same thing while giving the same results.
I know that Renfield is supposed to be perceived as this dangerous character who abandons God and his own person to chase after the evil Dracula because something something ableist victorian stereotypes about how mental illness is a punishment and an inconvience for everyone else except the person. But it's still pitiful how he doesn't even find joy in counting flies anymore, or even try to. I wonder if he thinks if he had done something to upset Dracula, when the actual answer could be that Dracula just went somewhere else to eat before coming back.
It also looks like Seward is treating Renfield like an experiment in all but name. He still calls him his patient, and tries to talk to him about what is he thinking, yet he doesn't pay attention to the details of what Renfield is saying. This is just a plot situation because Seward doesn't know that vampires exist, but with how Renfield talks about Him, wouldn't that make Seward ask himself why Renfield talks about god as if it was an actual person?
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I know the chief advice for artists is to create for yourself, but I don't usually write just for me. I mean, I rarely write things I'm not at least a little invested it -- I choose the pairings, and the plot, and of course even when I'm writing for someone else it's going to have a piece of me in it. But when I'm writing, I'm pretty well always doing it with an audience in mind. As a general rule, I don't feel particularly compelled to write things out just for me. I'm usually content to just leave them as daydreams and fantasies, rather than put in the work of putting it onto paper. Writing is meant to be read, and I'm not really in the habit of rereading my own writing (I should. I know I should. But I don't, really)
But I think I'm going to take the time to write something really, terribly self indulgent. It's been... A year? Two? Since I wrote something just for me. I think a return to my roots would do me some good. Time to kill the reader in my head and write the most egregiously self-fulfilling fic I can come up with.
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the mdzs manga announcement is a double edged sword bc on one hand i'm so so so so hyped to have a comic-style adaptation that isn't the manhua bc i'm. allergic to the webtoon-esque vertical scroll style + prefer b&w comics to colored ones stylistically. and also japanese manga means maybe japanese anime adaptation which means even more mdzs figures bc the jp figure companies will finally be forced to acknowledge it exists which means maybe we'll get more of characters who aren't wangxian please i beg of you i want lsz at the very least. on the other hand it's big news for the people who watched the jp dub of the donghua w english subs and i absolutely resent that.
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