#i'm not even surprised anymore

[blqckbeard]

izzy antis are always gonna nitpick everything izzy does because they need to be on a moral high ground so they can keep justifying their behavior towards izzy stans during the hiatus

#when i joined this fandom i was confused as to why people acted like izzy was so bad #because in reality he hasn't really done something That bad #like he legit gets treated like the devil #and it's because they NEED to be superior #they need to be correct and superior to izzy stans otherwise how are they gonna justify the way they treated other people during the hiatus? #they're going to keep picking on him and us because they've made up their mind and they're not smart enough to know they can change it #and because they don't want to deal with the fact that they might've been wrong #so yeah i'm expecting even more bullshit takes to come #i'm not even surprised anymore #the izcourse #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death

[jahiaang]

noah schnapp stop spoiling season 5 challenge: failed successfully

you can find the whole interview here

#i'm not even surprised anymore #he really says 'yall know what? byler endgame' in every interview 💀 #i mean we actually can't confirm anything but at least noah's words get my hopes up #byler

[ghostieking]

internet going crazy about another white boy doing bad shit... what's new

#wilbur soot #yikes #wilbur #thoughts #white boy #i'm not even surprised anymore

[xenonmoon]

It's not a Moon Knight run if they don't spell Marc or Steven's name wrong at least once

#moon knight #moon knight comics #moon knight 2006 #xenon reacts #I'm not even surprised anymore #q tag

[lale-txt]

i planned to proofread a fic which had me in a chokehold for weeks now and which turned out so much longer than anticipated but then very important Secret Santa work got in my way and deepfried my brain

so i guess those two fellas have to wait a day longer until they see the bright and horny daylight...

with those pants it's probably easy to guess who will be starred in that fic... with some friendly rival on top of it to make the sandwich complete (´⌣`ʃƪ)

#aimed for 1.5k words and landed somewhere over 5k words LMAO #i'm not even surprised anymore #lale.txt

[ilivelikeimtrying]

My sister went out to buy a bike chain and came back with a baseball Kirby.

#i'm not even surprised anymore #she came in the house telling me 'hey guess what?' and than pulled out baseball Kirby saying 'i guess we're both autistic'

[philemonsdarling]

why can't people just be honest about their intentions? i hate being lied to so much

#i'm not even surprised anymore

[kiyaedits]

I might not do those color palette challenges for a while either... I did 5 so far and wanted to do another but...

#🤷🏿‍♀️ #i haven't gotten much reception about them #then again expected #I'm not even surprised anymore #kiyaedits #kiyaeditschallenge #just kiya's thoughts

[thatjewishzionistscout]

It’s genuinely annoying how many people want Jews to think about Palestinians during our Saders.

Well, my family, and I will not.

It’s terribly sad what’s happening in Gaza, but don’t expect Jews on a holiday where we celebrate our liberation and remember our suffering to turn it into another group’s tragedy.

No, that’s not how it works.

Sorry, not sorry.

#israel #jewblr #palestine #israel palestine conflict #jewish #antisemitism #i stand with israel #pro israel #passover #jews don’t owned you mourning anyone else on a holiday mourning us and celebrating our liberation #pesach #i'm not even fucking surprised anymore #jumblr

[royalarchivist]

I've been reminiscing about Squidcraft a bit lately, so I posted this clip of Phil talking about why he didn't join the Squidcraft 2 event on Twitter (I posted the longer version of this clip a while ago, which you can see here). TLDR: Phil wasn't invited and didn't want to ask for an invite because he felt awkward, didn't want to intrude, and also felt like his Spanish wasn't good enough.

Fast-forward a few hours and many Spanish Crows crying in the quote retweets later, and someone just gave me a heads-up about this:

Komanche is one of the organizers / creators of the Squidcraft event. I don't know if Phil would accept an invitation, but the possibility of him being invited period wasn't even a possibility in my mind, so this was a surprise! :'D

#mod talk #Philza #Squidcraft #Squidcraft 2 #I'll be real: don't know much about Komanche #I wasn't super pleased with some of the management / behavior in Squidcraft 2 #and I don't think Rubius or Quackity would participate again because of last year's experience #but still. Maybe it could be better this year! You never know #But like I said: BIG ''if'' when it comes to Phil participating #I'm leaning towards ''probably not'' but it'd be a nice surprise #Hopefully a few of last year's competitors won't be participating #Translated #Edited #Subtitles #Now I REALLY wish I'd double-checked those subtitles / translations ack #Edit: Wait Phil doesn't even use Twitter anymore so he probably wouldn't even realize he was invited LMAO welp. oh well

[anti-catradora-collection]

you know, adora being the one who always made the promises that she would stay with catra, that she would bring catra home etc. just feels wrong to me.

adora never left catra. as much as this series shows that catra is the abandoner, it loves to tell the opposite and do some victim blaming with adora. that second scene basically tries to tell us that "adora left catra and now is trying to save her back" when the series itself shows that adora never even left catra to begin with. about the promise, it simply was made to make people believe even more about what i said previously: "adora is the abandoner" (just like the first scene).

now, what did catra promise? absolutely nothing. she never even apologized properly for being an abuser and war criminal, why would she promise anything like adora does? it would be so much more meaningful if catra made a promise that, for example, she would change after properly realizing what she did wrong and actually fulfilled that, with a proper development, but that didn't happen.

because of course adora has to apologize for everything and carry this relationship in her back. i mean, it's part of her character to apologize for everything, but what exactly did catra do for adora that wasn't at least toxic? yes, she stayed with adora for once at the end and then proceeded to lie in her own confession, victim blame adora, and insult her as an idiot (thing that adora had internalized).

#i'm not even surprised by spop's writing anymore #anti catradora #anti spop #spop critical #spop criticism #spop discourse #spop salt #anti c//a #anti c/a #spop #she ra #anticatradora

[mah-o-daryaa]

For a show that's progressive, one-of-a-kind, ground-breaking for its time, and relies on "Show, don't Tell" a lot throughout the series, it bugs me how ATLA (or, more specifically, Bryke) preferred to tell the audience that Aang is a master airbender without showing us why. I mean, Toph, Zuko, Azula, and Katara are all shown practicing and improving their mastery in bending (although Katara has become rather overpowered), so why can't Aang have the same treatment?

Yes, Aang may be a child prodigy, and he did get airbending tattoos from inventing the air scooter, but I personally think that inventing an airbending technique (which demonstrates impressive ability and skill) is a way to gain the arrows prematurely, but isn't a requirement. Nothing in the show ever suggests just how far he's mastered his native element, let alone the other three. In the beginning of Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King (3:18), Aang says he thinks he still needs to practice his firebending more (which in hindsight makes sense, as he's just started relearning it from the dragons five episodes ago), and Toph notes that his earthbending could use more work too. Right off the bat, Aang is two elements away from complete mastery of all four, but later on he's seen practicing waterbending with Katara, implying he hasn't mastered it either.

We don't even see Aang practicing his airbending by himself post-iceberg, preferring to show off to random girls (like in Kyoshi Island). He just learns the elements, but doesn't really learn the philosophies behind each element. In this regard, he makes Kuruk and Roku look venerated in contrast. (To be fair to Aang, he had a specific deadline to master the four elements before Sozin's Comet that no other Avatar besides Wan had to deal with, but couldn't he try to make an effort to learn from the other nations?) Additionally, compared to Tenzin and Zaheer, Aang doesn't stand a chance against either of them (even though Tenzin is his son, but since Tenzin wasn't the Avatar, he could focus on upholding the Air Nomad culture and legacy). Even Jinora could go toe-to-toe with him at similar ages. He isn't really that impressive in any of the elements, to be honest; we've seen what a master of any specific element can do in both ATLA and LOK, as well as in the novels.

The main thing people often get wrong is that mastery isn't a final goal; it's a specific mindset. As in Pai Sho, what separates true masters from everyone else is that true masters always look for improvement in their strategy or skills. That's why Aang isn't a real master of the four elements: He always takes the easy way out, never trying to better himself or improve what he can already do.

I think this quote from Zaheer perfectly sums up what I've been saying: When you base your expectations on what you see, you blind yourself to the possibilities of a new reality. Even though it stems from his anarchist beliefs, it is genuinely one of the more insightful pieces of wisdom in the franchise because it promotes progress, a constant theme in life. Toph was able to invent metalbending because she wanted to "see" a reality where she could be recognized for her own talent in spite of her blindness; Zuko could learn firebending from the dragons because he could see a reality where he would regain his honor and fight alongside the Avatar, and so on. By contrast, Aang only takes things from surface-level, not putting any effort into understanding the true meaning of being the Avatar.

Speaking of Pai Sho, guess which Avatar constantly improved his/her abilities? Kuruk. Unlike Aang, Kuruk readily asked his companions, Jianzhu, Hei-Ran, and Kelsang, to continue teaching him, ever after he mastered the four elements that he was required to do, saying they would all benefit from the experience (the "true master" quote I mentioned above was actually said by him). Not only that, it was even inverted; sometimes they taught Kuruk, other times he taught them (which technically makes him the first known Avatar to teach bending to others). He was right, as during their lifetimes, they were the most powerful benders of their respective elements in the world!

Kuruk also had an intuitive connection to each of the four bending philosophies, which to this day remains unrivaled by any other Avatar, and was also one of the first people to suggest the idea that the four elements are connected (homeboy's literally a younger Water Tribe Avatar version of proto-Iroh, I'm honestly not going to be surprised if Iroh actually learned his belief from Kuruk during the former's visits to the Spirit World over tea and Pai Sho matches). If you ask me, Mone, learning the cultures and philosophies of the four nations is way more important than mastering the four elements, because the Avatar isn't just the bridge between the four nations; he/she is also the symbol of a unified world, and the franchise is saying that only one Avatar even bothered to do that? In my opinion, if we go by this rule, that easily cements Kuruk as the greatest Avatar in history!

Aang, on the other hand, never does this. Instead, he puts the Air Nomads on a high pedestal (which in turn causes him to place Katara on a high pedestal), and doesn't respect or learn from other nations' philosophies. He openly disrespects SWT culture and actively makes sure Tenzin doesn't have any exposure to the culture that Tenzin still belongs too, and worse, he pushes his own culture on other people's throats (remember the time he forced a homeless couple to "give up on hope because it's a big waste of time"? Or the time he forced Katara to not murder Yon Rha?) and values his own nation and values above the rest of the world (like the time he refused to kill Firelord Ozai because "all life is sacred", even though he has actually killed before, but if he doesn't kill Ozai, the latter's going to burn the entire Earth Kingdom to the ground!). That doesn't sound like something the Avatar is allowed to do, but Aang gets away with it anyway because ... hero?

There's actually another Avatar who focused on his/her own nation above the rest of the world. Avatar Szeto, Yangchen's predecessor, became a government official in his homeland, the Fire Nation. Under his tenure, the Fire Nation transformed from a fragmented, disaster-stricken state to the centralized, technologically-advanced nation we know of today. Unfortunately, this led him to neglect the other nations and, shortly after his death, the four nations were caught in a political event known as the Platinum Affair, which Yangchen had to deal with, eventually kick-starting the cycle of the current Avatar fixing their past lives' mistakes, while leaving problems for their future selves to fix. This problem might have even led to the growing ambition of Firelords Zoryu and Sozin as dictators, with the latter starting the Hundred Years War.

Aang not only valued his own nation's values above the others, he also forced said values on his non-Air Nomad companions; signed anti-miscegenation laws and tried to forcefully deport Fire Nationals from the colonies to return the land to the Earth Kingdom, even though they had already blended in with Earth Kingdom citizens, didn't wan to be separated from their families, and Zuko perceived the citizens of mixed heritage as his own subjects; refused to let his family practice SWT culture, even though his children could benefit from being members of both cultures, not just one or the other, and set an example for mixed-race families around the world; refused to teach Kya and Bumi Air Nomad culture because he thought they weren't airbenders and therefore "not real Air Nomads", even though they were just as Air Nomad as Tenzin was, if not more; and forced Tenzin to uphold the legacy of an entire nation on his shoulders. The fact that this was all written by complete accident is the cherry on top, representing just how badly Bryke screwed up.

... On a completely unrelated note, The Other Side of Paradise by Glass Animals (which is also one of my favorite songs) is definitely a Kuruk song. The last third of the song in particular sums up his tragic journey as the Avatar so well, and I always think of him while listening to it.

#atla #atla critical #atla comics critical #aang critical #mah rambles #fighting back #kuruk #yes I've done it again #to no one’s surprise #you miscalculated #I love Kuruk more than I hate Aang #if no one gets the reference I'm going to be sad #avatar cycle #past avatars #past lives #anti bryke #yes I'm going that far #I can't even be mad at lok anymore #the seeds for who the gaang would end up as were already planted in atla #so I'm going to the root of the problem

[thenonbinarydetective]

There's something that always bothers me about people saying "Barbara going back to being disabled" doesn't matter if it's positive, negative, or neutral. It's the "going back" part because it's just not true. She wouldn't be going back, she would just be without assistive medical technology.

In the closest real-life example, not everyone who uses similar technology is considered "cured" as the removal of the device would mean they are no longer enabled. In only a few cases have I ever seen "cured" but that's potentially dependent on injury/cause of disability where it was possible the device just made recovery easier and there are many different causes to SCIs/paralysis/similar conditions. Others have no chance of recovery but have a chance of being enabled. But still not fully becoming an able-bodied person. Even some of the ones who recovered their ability to walk were still limited in what they were capable of (and therefore still disabled)

So honestly now, it's just coming to me how bad representation the chip is of similar realistic treatment and disabled people who use that treatment. Before anyone is like "But Barbara's isn't real" I know that, but now I'm literally seeing people say the same shit about REAL PEOPLE who have had nearly THE SAME TREATMENT because they're letting poor representation in a comic book determine how they view this course of medical treatment.

TLDR: No Barbara Gordon wouldn't "go back" to being disabled without the chip. Writers and fans aren't good at writing disability and it shows

#I'm pretty sure the only one that has 'guaranteed' by it's own claim to be a cure is Neuralink which is Elon Musk so..... #take of that what you will #barbara gordon #oracle #batfamily #batfam #batman #dc comics #Like I'm reading legitimate research articles about this and in only a few cases has 'cure' been used to describe the process #also why am I reading research articles? well if comic writers aren't going to be nerds anymore someone has to be lol #but really who's surprised a bunch of people don't give an actual shit about disability even when they pretend to #not my disabled ass that's for sure #disability #actually disabled #actually I should say the only other things calling similar tech 100% cures even if the chip were to be removed are also clickbait #I feel like I shouldn't have to mention that but really I do

[hilacopter]

definitely not salty that earth day is trending but passover isn't no not in the slightest

#definitely not upset because i know exactly the reason why passover isn't trending #when any other year the goyim of tumblr would be flocking to wish us a happy passover #it's almost as if tumblr doesn't like jews anymore #i'm just surprised they're not even pulling the “happy passover to all ANTIZIONIST jews” like they did with hanukkah #i'm probably reading too deep into this #maybe it'll be trending later idk #jumblr #lukas rants #hila has spoken

[tiny-tf-faces]

:0

I didn't even know there were this many tf fans on tumbrl

Welp, I definitely chose the right website for this thing then

When I started screenshotting tiny faces, I had no idea it would one day become my biggest contribution to society. Not complaining, though!

Thank you (yes, you, the person reading this post), for your time, your attention, your delightful additions to my posts, the faces you've contributed, or just the overall good vibes :) You are much appreciated!

I still have plenty more to post, and there is more source material on the way, so let's hope I can one day reach 1000 faces

Until then, drink water and remember you're all really cool and awesome!

#not a face #at this point i'm not even that surprised anymore but this still feels unreal #i guess the main takeaway from this is that if you can't do something entirely new or better than everyone else #then the key to popularity is to repost cropped versions of existing content #just like a yt shorts channel #jokes aside i'm really happy this has resonated with so many people #every interaction i've had with people on this blog has left me with the warm fuzzies #exept that one ask about pinterest 'findings' but we don't talk about that one #just like we don't talk about the pineapple

[cringefailnatsuo]

Nah man because what the hell was this?

First of all, I love how these panels establish a clear difference between Hawks looking at Dabi and Hawks looking at Dabi. In the scene from 240, Hawks is looking at Dabi as he's thinking about completing his mission and contacting Endeavor for backup. Like dude? You're literally staring into Dabi's eyes and thinking about Endeavor and it never crossed your mind that they have the same eyes? Chapter 267 drives this point even further by putting a close-up of Dabi's eye after he reveals his identity to Hawks. You can clearly see Hawks having an "oh shit" moment after the reveal as he truly looks at Dabi and realizes that this one piece of crucial information has been right in his face the whole time.

And second of all, this just highlights how Dabi truly is Hawks' downfall during the raid.

The whole point of Hawks' mission was to gain intel on the League so that the heroes don't make any hasty decisions and have the upper hand in apprehending the villains for good. The fact that the HPSC president specifically told Hawks "we severely underestimated the enemy" and yet he did the same exact thing is, quite frankly, hilarious.

And in retrospect, given the knowledge that we have on Dabi's past from chapter 350, Hawks could have figured out who was behind the nomu, where they were kept, and so many other things about AFO's plan for a successor if he had paid more attention to Dabi.

#bnha #dabi #hawks #dabihawks #canon dabihawks is riddled with irony and that's why it's so great #ok but also i want to know why the hell hawks looked into dabi's background and stopped looking into it when he hit a dead end #like that's so suspicious and he didn't bother digging further? #no 2 pro hero backing down from a challenge?? #i wonder how long it took for hawks to give up searching on info about dabi #honestly i'm surprised hawks underestimated him so much considering that fire is his one (1) weakness #and dabi is one of the more mysterious members of the lov since there's no info about him in the hpsc database or whatever #anyway the 'you should have been keeping both eyes on me' line hits different when you realize that dabi was keeping his eyes on hawks 24/7 #seriously the dude went through the trouble of locating takami tomie just to hear this dude's tragic backstory #and dabi copied hawks' move that one time in like 351(?) and someone called him fast or whatever #god i fucking hate narrative foils #ugh these tags are getting LONG but who even reads the tags anymore? #hello i make one original post per month and have now met my quota