Ahsoka and Teen Rebellion
Here’s a really interesting fact about good ol Papa George Lucas. He’s a hippie-a scion of 50′s hot rod culture specifically- who loves teen rebellion.
No Seriously.
“My father thought I was going to turn into a beatnik….I’ve always had a basic dislike of authority figures, a fear and resentment of grown ups.”
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/politics-behind-original-star-wars/
Before SW, George directed American Graffiti: an early 60′s teen comedy that celebrates-and critiques-greasers, street racing, underage drinking, pranks, and rock n roll.
During that movie, a teenager, played by Ron Howard, tells his teacher to kiss a duck…without consequences.
Also, George let’s another teenager-played by Richard Dreyfuss, to vandalize an occupied cop car without consequences.
ANH is about a bunch of college hippies sticking it to the man…in space.
During Jedi, Obi tells Luke he has no choice but to kill Vader, to resolve conflict with violence. Rather than obey Obi, Luke disobeys him, chooses to save Vader with peace and love and succeeds!
So what does any of this have to do with good ol snips?
To begin with, GEORGE assigned Ahsoka to Anakin.
“[With Ahsoka] I wanted to develop a character who would help Anakin settle down. He's a wild child after [Attack of the Clones]. He and Obi Wan don't get along. So we wanted to look at how Anakin and Ahsoka become friends, partners, a team. When you become a parent or you become a teacher you have to become more respnsible. I wanted to force Anakin into that role of responsibility, into that juxtaposition. I have a couple of daughters so I have experience with that situation. I said instead of a guy let's make her a girl. Teenage girls are just as hard to deal with as teenage boys are.”
https://gizmodo.com/george-lucas-spills-all-about-clone-wars-at-skywalker-r-5033398
If we interpret Snips’ story through the context of George’s perspective, something becomes clear. I don’t think a single Star Wars character, save for Hayden’s version of Anakin, embodies George’s love of teen rebellion-and his resentment of grown ups as well as Ahsoka.
Ahsoka is hotheaded, impulsive and of course defiant. She hates being treated like a kid, fears punishment, and constantly butts heads with the adults in her life. She constantly trash talks adult authority figures-Anakin, Grievous, Hondo, Tarkin, Palpatine, Obi wan, Vizla etc.
During Malevolence, Ahsoka saves Plo by defying the council. During cloak of Darkness, Snips saves Luminara by defying her. During heroes on both sides, she agrees to break the law with Padme for the sake of peace. During that same episode, one could say she metaphorically sneaks out of her home-the republic-and meets a boy in the process-Lux. She saves the citadel mission by defying Anakin. During the Padawan lost arc, she kills an aggressive father figure. During the youngling arc, Ahsoka straight up tells the kids “sometimes doing the right thing means bending the rules”.
All of this subtext climaxes during her big arc in season 5. In this arc, she runs away from and defies a system of adult authority that wants to “unfairly” punish her. During this arc, Ahsoka defies Anakin when he tells her to come back. And the arc ends with her individuating from her primary caregiver-Anakin.
In my opinion, this rebellious subtext gives Ahsoka’s heroic feats a truly awe inspiring quality. As a kid, watching her made you feel like even the world’s biggest “brat”-an unruly child-could step up to the plate and deliver.
Unfortunately, all of this subtext only works when you are a teenager. Growing up means realizing that your actions have consequences and that all the rules teens stereotypically hate exist to keep people safe. Therefore, impulsive hotheaded, “rebels” like Ahsoka, or Korra, or KLK’s Ryuko Matoi, or LWA’s Akko, simply don’t fly in the real world.
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Kill la kill x F!reader
Ryuko Matoi walking with Mako Mankanshoku and all the other no star Goku uniforms walking to the controlling school, Honnōji Academy. Controlled by Satsuki Kiryuin, as the students finally walk in Honnōji Academy. As Ryuko and her crazy best friend Mako keep walking, they see a pretty girl walking with beautiful h/c shining in the light of sun, wait no it's brighter then the sun with a shadow as we look up it's the one and only Satsuki Kiryuin. Mako seems to notice the h/c girl as well but then the ("material gurl~") jk as the girl disappears with the other students. No one seems to notice that Satsuki saw the girl along with the elite four.
Ryuko POV Me and my small friend Mako are walking to their class as they walk we see the same (h/c) girl from the entrance as our teacher Mr. Aikuro Mikisugi starts talking "Hello class this the new student introduce yourself" then the girl with (h/c) starts to speaks and bows "hello I'm Y/N L/N nice to meet you all"she straightened up, she smiles and I blush a light pink tint appears on my cheeks as I look away and cover my mouth.
Mako's POV
My eyes go wide as I tap on Ryuko's shoulders she has a blushing a tint of light pink "Ryuko doesn't the new girl Y/N look pretty!" I shout forgetting the rest of the classmates "Yes, she's kinda pretty could use a bit of help" I know Ryuko is hiding her true feelings the bell rings "Come on Ryuko let's eat!" As I whip out my lunch out my "Compartment" we start walking to are original eating spot
Y/N'S POV
I know those two were staring at me I thought. I walk over to Ryuko and Mako "hey can I eat lunch with you? I don't really know where to go.." as I rub the nape of my neck embarrassed. Ryuko was about to speak before Making cut her off "Sure you can! Right Ryuko?" Ryuko sighed but nodded. I see Ryuko blushing, and I giggle which cause Mako to blush too. "Y'all look cute when you blush~" I say then mister Aikurō Mikisugi saw the whole thing he then spoke "y'all can leave now" I turned around and nod at him "let's go y'all" as we walk to the (I don't know that one spot in the anime great anime by the way.) We sit in a row then there's a shining light again as Ryuko grabbed she guitar case she looked mad.
Me: part 2?
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Miraculous Ladybug Rewatch Episode 70 Ikari Gozen
So what’s everyone’s blood type?
I’m still disappointed in this fandom for the lack of Mireille x Aurore content. The perfect rivals to friends to girlfriends.
”Once home of royalty, now home of art. The Louvre museum! Aha, victory!” “Alix, that’s your home” “I know”
Uh Juleka? Where you going?
“You know, Mother, Adrien Agreste is participating in this… game”
“Gabriel Agreste has many admirable qualities, but this only goes to prove that even he is flawed by being too permissive with his son”
“In some ways, he is more blind than I am. I mean look at Paris the reason it’s like this is because he wants his wife back”
“Kagami? My new friend?”
“No way! She's brilliant, strong, cute, beautiful, knows how to use a sword, and makes girls like me realize their not straight”
“Nope. Nu-uh. Not doin' it! Uh-uh!”
“She's so weird. It’s really cute”
“Kagami! Woah! This must be fate! I mean, what were the odds of you and I being paired up? One in ten million at least. Right? So awesome”
“You didn't look too happy about being my secret friend, though. I saw you turn around and walk away just now” Exposed.
“Hey girl! I sure hope your partner's as cool as mine; meet Wayhem. Though for some reason he keeps saying “Kill Every Last One Of Them!”“
“Do you prefer to be called by your whole name, or a nickname?”
“Thank you, Marinette. Uh– Your hair is… very shiny”
“What is your blood type?”
Is this how we make friends?
“Everyone in Japan knows their blood type, it tells you who you are. Mine is O, which means I'm independent, optimistic, strong-willed and intuitive” Yeah i don’t know my own blood type.
“What's your favorite season?”
“Summer, cause it's nice and hot”
“Or spring, cause that's when nature awakens”
“Or maybe the fall; the colors are so gorgeous that time of the year”
“But then again; winter inspires me so much”
“You're indecisive, scatterbrained, irresponsible, you have a split personality: typical AB”
Exposed again.
“Let's say you found out about some special chocolate ice cream; you really want to try it, but someone else gets there first”
“Do you, A, steal it from them? B, get another type of chocolate ice cream, even if it's not as good? Or, C, never eat chocolate ice cream ever again?”
I’ll take B cause never eat chocolate ice cream again? I will die.
“You've done a great job fishing”
*Laughs in Spiderverse*
“She placed her trust in you when she gave you her phone. And you didn’t have to steal it”
“Huh–? Zero messages except the ones from the contest”
“And there's only one number in her list of contacts: her mom's”
“She doesn't even have Adrien's number?” *Cries in Japanese*
“Oh no! She's got my phone. If she sneaks a peak, she'll see the messages Alya and I were sending each other”
“Do all humans really sneak through other people's things?” Umm... Maybe?
Happy Kagami.
Sad Kagami.
“How tragic it is to feel unloved. Alone, deprived of friendship” Adrien says hi.
“I'm a friend of Kagami's, I'm right here with her. I'll put her on the phone”
“Kagami doesn't have any friends. Why do you have her phone?” Adrien says hi again.
“Oh I can assure you, ma'am, I am a friend of Kagami's. We've been teamed up together for a game”
“A game?! But I forbade her to!”
“A game? Did I say game? Oh no, I meant a grab… to grab– I invited Kagami over to grab some orange juice with me”
“She'll be back home soon, I promise” *Cries in Japanese again*
“Ikari Gozen, I am Hawkmoth”
“Ma'am, please don't punish your daughter. Ma'am? Hello?” “Gabriel what the fuck do want now?!” “Did she just say Gabriel Agreste?”
“I actually think you might wanna hide someplace where she won't find you” “What did you do?”
“Oh god I've seen Attack on Titan”
Yeah no one saw that.
“Well hopefully that won’t lead to a really cringy episode”
“We're coming, Kagami”
“Kagami?” He sounds so concern.
“You really think it's time to invite me to the cinema?“
“Sorry, kitty, only got one ticket, I'll come back soon” *Screams in Ladynoir*
“I had to find a cover now that Hawkmoth knows my identity” The confusion the fandom had cause this episode aired before Feast because season 3 airing was a mess.
*Screams in Dragon*
“Greetings, young lady and good day to you. Fear not, I am Longg, the Dragon Kwami”
“You're a what?” “A Kwa-mi” “ “So you’re a genie of the lamp?”
“Allow me to tell you about the many feats a magic being like myself will help you accomplish once the magic words have been spoken”
“Ladybug has hopes that you will defeat Ikari Gozen with panache”
“Using the element of your choosing Wind, water or lightning”
“But firstly, let me tell you about her plan”
“Lonng, Dragon Up!”
“Wait! No! Not yet!” Just like Adrien.
She dabs.
“Nice to meet you, Chat Noir. I am Ryuko”
“Wait as in Ryuko Matoi?”
“What are you doing? This wasn't the plan”
“What plan?” “Ah, you just transformed before letting your Kwami finish explaining. I made that mistake too”
“No, stay behind with Chat Noir. This is a personal matter between a mother and a daughter” “Oh my god! This is the final battle of Kill la Kill!” “If you compare this to Kill la Kill one more time, I'll Lightning Dragon your ass right now”
“No! I’ve been eaten by the titan!”
“Hold your breath. Aim at the bokken”
“Wow, you're a fast learner”
“I have good teachers” “Like me?” “No”
“Ugh! I haven’t felt this much pain since Kagami was born” Okay, I'll leave.
“What's happened to me? Where is Kagami?”
“Your daughter is nearby, ma'am. She'll be here soon” “Kagami i know that’s you! I’m blind, not deaf!” “Well this is awkward, right my lady?” “Yeah” “Adrien what are you doing here? And you’re that girl who had Kagami’s phone!” “Well this got even more awkward”
“I understand that you want to make friends, but friendships can prove disappointing sometimes” Tomoe, who hurt you?
“Now I understand why Adrien considers you a good friend. Though I'm still convinced that i killed a lot of his brain cells when i was akumatized the first time”
“By the way, I've been thinking about this blood type thing. Isn't that a bit like the Zodiac thing? What's your sign?” “Dragon” “No way! I'm snake” And I'm a pig.
New Hero: Ryuko. Identity Kagami Tsurugi. Power: Elements.
Gotta get back, back to the future.
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Tell me some things you love abt yang!!!! 💗
ARE YOU ASKING ME TO GUSH
WELL THEN
first of all her fashion sense is on point? like i love all of her outfits. even the atlas one from the newest season i started out not being a huge fan of but it’s grown on me. but just. real talk everything this woman wears looks amazing on her. the biggest shame is that the Hunter outfit (the one she had in v2 for like 2 episodes) probably isn’t gonna be animated in the new style, because that’s my favorite one.
also, jesus, can we talk about that confidence? that poise? this woman walks back into a nightclub where last time she beat the shit out of everyone and trashed the place, and she just. walks back in with that grin and says “GUESS WHO’S BAAACK” absolute queen and legend.
oh and. you KNOW i love me a strong woman, and what’s yang if not strong? like, THE powerhouse character of her team. and the worf character but let’s not go there lmao. she can easily lift a speaker 4 times her size. SHE CAN WRECK A TOP GRADE MILITARY MECH WITH ONE PUNCH. if i were to list yang’s feats of physical strength we’d be here all day but just. wow. bench me pls
but like also she has a lot of emotional strength too? like here’s a strong female character who can suplex you AND work through her problems as a multifaceted well written character. like i’ve already gone on at length about how i think yang is THE best character in rwby and her character arc is my absolute favorite, and i won’t budge on it. she went through trauma and came back swinging. i love when they do that. i loved when simon the digger did it (multiple times), i loved when matoi ryuko did it (multiple times), and i loved when yang did it THAT ONE TIME. if they make yang go through that shit again i’ll RIOT. NO MORE HURT FOR MY BABY. ONLY LOVE.
i’m making plans with @/dokiquents rn to marathon rwby together and i guaran fucking TEE that i will be YELLING when that scene in the vault happens. you know the one. i don’t wanna spoil anything in case chii reads this bc it’s kind of a huge one but like. that’s one of my favorite yang moments. she just. UNGH. SHE REALLY DID THAT. i think that might’ve been the moment where i definitively decided, “yeah, she’s the best character”
and i can’t WAIT for the next episode to drop this saturday because yall know i’ll be in the front row with eyes peeled for my sunny little dragon cause i wanna see her KICK SOME ASS!! YEAH!!!! I LOVE WATCHING HER KICK SOME ASS!!! AND SHE DOES THAT A LOT SO I’M WELL NOURISHED WITH THIS GOOD FUCKING FOOD
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March of the Magical Girls - [OFFICIAL PLAYLIST]
March of the Magical Girls - [OFFICIAL PLAYLIST] feat. #Kill_la_Kill, #CardcaptorSakura, #Symphogear, and #YuYuYu
As promised, here is the official playlist of March of the Magical Girls in its full form. If you’ve been waiting to check out the series of videos all in one go, here’s your chance!
First up, Riley breaks down why Ryuko Matoi is TOTALLY a magical girl while talking about her favorite anime, Kill la Kill.
Next up, Rila wants to talk about the return of her favorite magical girl anime as a…
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i got a fun game: how many followers will i lose?
i’m going to list all my sideblogs, organized by fandom
* - not really active at the moment
** - p much dead at the moment
Legend of Zelda
@spiritedtrident - role reversal au (prince link/hero zelda) Mipha, from Breath of the Wild
@midonacrepsecula - Midna, from Twilight Princess/her BotW era descendant Eosa, fan OC, the latter also affiliated with above au.
@feefifofedup - Fi, of the role reversal au.
Steven Universe
@deepwatersrun - semi dependent AU Lapis Lazuli
@dancefxryxu *- fan gem
@sapphireaglow *- dependent Saphire
Homestuck
@hemoknighted - dependent AU Karkat Vantas
@myladymuseofspace - AU Calliop
@2xcherubkind - a VERY AU dependent blog for a Cherub who used to be Caliborn and Calliope.
Hollow Knight
@fragiledelicacies *- semidependent Divine
Zombieland SAGA
@zerogoandgogo *- Zero-gō (Yamada Tae) and Go-gō (Yugiri) run Franchouchou’s tumblr.
Undertale/Deltarune
@kingoflances *- semidependent pacifist ending Lancer.
Samurai Jack
@disgraceofaku **- AU Ashi
Bayonetta
@mxthshadxws *- semidependent Jeanne
@flyxngsquxrrelshadxws *- semidependent AU Loki
Sailor Moon
@pallapallapallas **- PallaPalla/Sailor Pallas blog.
Houseki No Kuni/Land of the Lustrous
@differentkindofgemology *- Rutile
Sally Face
@larryfaceintheplace *- dependent AU Larry Johnson
Adventure Time
@sciencexcandy **- dependent Princess Bubblegum
Kill La Kill
@kinkagori *- indie Gamagori Ira
@lemonsforbreakfasttacksforsnacks *- heavily AU dependent Matoi Ryuko (feat. Senketsu)
Splatoon
@squidifighter64 **- fan squid
OFF
@gardiendelaviande - semi dependent Hugo
Hylics
@stupendoustimetravelluminary - dependent Somsnosa
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cosSLAYer of the Day: 8th June 2021
cosSLAYer of the Day: 8th June 2021 feat. Kqueentsun
Ryuko Matoi by kqueentsunPhoto from @gilphotography
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