#jupiter rewatches atla

[tragedykery]

forgot to make a post about it but in the french atla dub zuko’s line “girls are crazy!” in “zuko alone” is translated not as “les filles” but “ces filles sont vraiment folles” which is zuko sexism erasure and I won’t stand for it!

#(translation: instead of ‘girls’ (or well literally ‘the girls’ but that’s just how french works afaik) he says ‘these girls’) #elli rambles #jupiter rewatches atla

[silverslipstream]

Nine People Tag!

Working through the last of my tag game mentions! I was tagged in this one by @starlitcrossroads, @sm-writes-chaos and @yesireadbooks, so thanks to them! All right, let's get this underway.

Last Song - Linger by The Cranberries

Last Movie - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Yes, it was my twelfth rewatch. Comfort movies gotta comfort - it's been a rough couple of months.)

Currently Reading - Just finished Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. I've been on a bit of a YA novel binge recently.

Last Thing I Searched For Writing Purposes - 'height of Jupiter-synchronous orbit.' For anyone wondering, it's 90,151 kilometers (56,029 miles)

Three Ships - I'll admit, I'm not much of a shipper, but eh, why not.

Robert Frobisher and Rufus Sixsmith from Cloud Atlas

Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan from Harry Potter

Horza and Yalson from Consider Phlebas

Currently Craving - a big plate of nachos with melted cheese, chili and salsa dip...

Currently Consuming - water.

Current Obsession - as previously mentioned, I rewatched Undergrads again recently, an animated college sitcom that aired on MTV in 2001, was hardly advertised, and developed a huge cult following in Canada through years of reuns on the Teletoon Channel. I could talk about it for hours, but I can't let myself, so I wont. :)

I won't tag anyone specific, so consider this an open invitation for anyone who'd like to take part!

#writeblr #writeblr community #tag game #nine people tag #about the writer

[low-shear-velocity-province]

After rewatching The Matrix I'm actually kind of baffled that it had such mainstream appeal. I love it, but it's just as weird and goofy as other Wachowski films like Jupiter Ascending or Cloud Atlas, neither of which have received the love they deserve.

#the matrix #cloud atlas #jupiter ascending

[altairattorney]

Just watched Jupiter Ascending with the gang and... I honestly am baffled at how misogynistic and hateful critics still are. This movie isn’t good, but there is a lot to say -- first of all, how white dudes do not know what it feels like to watch any film and not feel like your gender is being degraded, violated and hurt constantly without a chance of retaliation. This movie is a high budget female power fantasy about a poor immigrant woman who just so happens to be the chosen one. How is it that THIS one movie sucks, and not the 33094238983420 white man iterations? Huh? That aside though, other movies by the Wachowskis, notably Matrix, are NOT BETTER THAN THIS ONE. Seriously, if you doubt me on that, rewatch Matrix. Watch Cloud Atlas. They ALL have the same things: decent to mediocre script, great yet sometimes hollow visuals, very interesting basic concept that is developed from really well to ok, shitty main het romance with no chemistry. What sets this one apart, really, is only the gender and social class of the protagonist.

How come this one movie has to be the one that is bad, when if you watch the others they are at the same level? Yeah. The rare wish fulfillment fantasy dedicated to a different demographic that is desperately starved for it is the one which has to fail.

This movie was hardly a masterpiece, but I enjoyed watching it much more than I did watching Matrix and Cloud Atlas a few months ago. I didn’t feel second-hand pain from violence or hurt inflicted on my gender, or on gay people, or vulnerable people. I did not have to recognize myself in the endless sexist torture almost all media reflects straight from reality. The critique of capitalism and objectification of people SLAPPED. Sure the romance sucked for me, but straight women still need that kind of fantasy. And sure as hell, I did not feel like my gender was only created to pander to the wants and needs of men. The chaotic, LGBT+ feel of it all was so cozy, entertaining, familiar. And that is so so so much more that so many shitty, beloved by all blockbusters can say.

#Jupiter Ascending #Wachowski sisters

[novantinuum]

Tag Game

Thank you @crossroadsdimension​ for the tag!!

Rules: Answer seventeen questions and tag some blogs

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Nickname: Jen is technically a nickname, uh... People still refer to me as “Chromatic,” ala my last tumblr screenname + my name elsewhere. I have a friend who lovingly calls me Jenny. Don’t have much else, really.

Starsign: Aquarius

Height: 5′ 5′’

Last film I watched: Hmmm, last movie. Um... The Emperor’s New Groove with friends.

Favourite musician: I really dig Marina and the Diamonds, La Roux, Big Big Train, and Coldplay.

Song stuck in my head: It’s either gonna be “OUR HOUSE... IN THE MIDDLE OF- OUR HOUSE” or some variety of songs from Steven Universe. Half the time when it’s a SU song it’s one of my original fan songs I’ve written.

Other blogs: Oh, way too many. I’ll give the rundown of my currently active ones.

@crack-the-paragon is my fic sideblog where I ramble about stuff pertaining to that SU AU I have. (This time I’m actually writing it, too lmao, not just fantasizing about it.)

I mod @magic-luz, a URL I bagged the very day The Owl House was announced. It’s gonna be more active once the show actually comes out, ahahah. For whatever reason it already has like, 1K followers, so I think I’ll be using it to boost people’s art and gifs when the show airs.

@gem-rewatch is on hiatus rn because I have so much else going on, but whenever other things calm down I’m sure I’ll come back to it- it’s just me yelling about SU meta on an episode-by-episode basis. Currently up to Steven’s Lion, so not too far in.

@chromatic-art is my art-only sideblog. I just reblog stuff here, that’s it.

@jen-liveblogs is my brand spankin’ new liveblog place, where I’m currently liveblogging Transformers Prime. I’ll prob use it for other things later too. 

I have six other blogs besides these. I need to be stopped.

Do I get ask? Sometimes. Not as often now that I’m mostly yelling about Steven Universe, though. To be fair, most of y’all followed me for Gravity Falls, though, so... XD

Blogs following: 280.

What am I wearing: Cuffed light-wash jeans and an old cozy Greek life t-shirt.

Dream job: Forensic science. Specifically, I wanna work with DNA analysis.

Dream trip: Friendship road trip! I wanna hug all my egg friends. All the way across country, and then I’d book a flight to the UK, and I’d book a flight to Australia. 

Play any instruments? I can figure out piano by ear pretty quickly given some time, but I’m not classically trained in any instrument, no. I’m ehhh at reading sheet music. But I sing, so. My vocal cords are my instrument, really.

Languages: English and some smattering of Japanese. I’m super rusty, though. It’s been three years.

Favorite food: I dig chicken, and pickles, and olives. Also rice. Rice is rad.

Favorite song: Oh heck-! Uh... I can’t pick a CONCLUSIVE favorite, but I can give a list of ones that are favorites! At this current moment in time, songs that are really speaking to me are:

Drops of Jupiter by Train,

My Silver Lining, by First Aid Kit

Are You Satisfied? by Marina and the Diamonds

Victorious, by Panic! At the Disco

Reflections Are Protection, by La Roux

Shiver, by Coldplay

Atlas, by Coldplay

It’s Over, Isn’t It? by Deedee Magno Hall

Ode to My Next Life, by Kishi Bashi

Random facts: I was actually originally supposed to be a twin, but kinda... absorbed them in the womb? ALPHA TWIN! ALPHA TWIN! I did it- I won. XD

Tagging: @inktheblot, @the-ill-doctor, @fexiled, @endae, @nour386, @picnokinesis if y’all wanna

#jen rambles #tag meme

[tttrashmouth]

okay so we can all agreed the percy had it rough growing up

- i like to think his comfort show was avatar the last airbender 

- so at like age 15 he rewatched it and decided to teach himself the waterbending they do in the show

- it takes him awhile, especially since he starts learning towards the end of the titan war and then loses his memories

- but while on the quest (before tartarus) he gets pretty god at it and then suddenly has the epiphany that jason is a son a jupiter so technically he can do airbending

- percy explains the show to him and jason doesn’t fully get it but he basically thinks well, we’re in this for the long haul and it would probably be great to spend time with percy since he doesn’t know him that well

- percy gets jason to get some kind of watching device from leo because percy still doesn’t like him that much and since there so high up in the sky having a bit of technology wouldn’t hurt

- next time they have to land to get parts leo also manages to snag a cheap ass smartphones, like one of the ones you can get for like 30 bucks at walmart, and creates a shitty ass wifi connection for the argo 2

- so the learning begins

- jason catches on pretty quickly and gets sucked in by the lore of the show

- percy and him decide to start watching it together but not until after the war so that the viewing isn’t cut short

- then percy and annabeth fall into tartarus and everyone feels like shit

- but in his free time jason secretly practices the airbending stuff because its probably gonna be hell for percy once he gets out and the fact that jason actually learned airbending might help cheer him up

- so percy and annabeth get out and jason and him don’t talk as much afterwards, but one night percy is out on the deck after a nightmare and jason finds him there while on watch

- percy is clearly upset and doesn’t want to talk about it, so jason decides to show him the sick moves hes been practicing 

- it doesn’t heal percy or anything, but it helps him feel not as shitty

- so now theres a waterbender and an airbender on the ship, but percy and jason aren’t really content with that, they want an earth and firebender too

- jason knows the only real choice they have for a firebender is leo, but percy and him don’t seem to get along very well and percy. still isn’t in a good place after tartarus

- so jason thinks of earthbending and the two choices are nico and hazel, and after nico was outed to him jason is pretty sure nico doesn’t want to be buddy buddy, so he picks hazel, plus her and percy got pretty close during and after the whole memory wipe thing

- so they get hazel in on it and tell her all about the show

- shes a little concerned because he powers don’t line up exactly with what they’re talking about, but they’ll make do

- she can use gems and prescious metals in the same way they would with rocks, sand, and dirt in the show

- she picks it up really quickly, like superhuman quick, and it kind of terrifies jason and percy but the three of them look pretty epic so they overlook it

- percy and leo end up going on the one miniquest together and get along decently after that so jason brings up the idea of leo learning firebending moves

- hazel agrees, but percy kind of hesitates at first

- he agrees anyways because he is outnumbered two to one

- so when the three of them are like oh yea we know all this bending stuff and want you to learn firebending so we can look sick as hell, here let us tell you about the show leos like please Hold The Phone

- out of fucking Nowhere he pulls out these replicas of zukos swords and a real life version of aangs staff (he also tells them in should, in theory, actually work if you could bend air)

- percy starts losing his shit right away because jason and hazel know about a lot of the lore and the show and how the bending works, but neither of them have actually watched it yet

- but now, percy has someone whos in on this whole bending thing and has seen the show and loves it as much as he did

- turns out it was Both of their comfort shows growing up

- so leo wants to hesitate at first because him and fire aren’t exactly best friends he agrees because, well, exactly like the others said, it would look sick as hell

- the thing is he starts learning but then shit immediately hits the fan, the rest of the book happens, and leo dies

- this is where canon diverages slightly, because after he dies he still ends up on calypsos island and gets her out of there, but he doesn’t do that shit where it takes him forever to get back, he hightails it back to chb

- it takes him about 2 weeks

- upon his arrival back things take time to get back to normal and percy, jason, hazel, and leo aren’t really all in the same places anymore

- percy is in school because its august and the school year is starting, hazel and jason had to go back to camp jupiter to pick up the pieces there, and leo is settling in at chb 

- leo doesn’t give up though, he knows that he’ll see them again eventually so he practices firebending stuff on his own, that way the next time all of them are together he can show off his sick nasty moves

- during percys senior year he gets two weeks off for his fall break and the seven (plus nico and reyna) decide to get together and go camping

- they end up staying the beach house percy and his mom stay at (do they own it, rent it????? idk)

- once together again jason, percy, hazel, and leo all find out that each of them have been practicing on their own to show the others

- in honor of them all learning they convince the rest of them to take three days of their vacation to watch atla

- they all end up atla stans

- over the next couple days the four of them learn stuff together

- leo and jason learn the dancing dragon, not because jason get firebend, but because parallels

- they try to recreate a fight scene but, even though leos fire is powerful, leo is fighting agaisnt three children of the big three and accidently gets chucked into the ocean so they forget that idea

- instead the try to recreate aangs final form in the fight with ozai and the only thing they manage not to do is compress the water because thats not possible

- it actually ends up being really helpful for them because learning bending helps with being better and more in touch with their powers

- that halloween percy is taking his baby sister trick or treating (idk if that matches up with the timeline or not but oh well, im throwing canon after boo in the trash) and the gang gets back together for it

- leo, percy, hazel, and jason manage to get costumes that match the tradtional clothes for that nation in atla and go absolutly feral when they do

- all in all the four of them actually end up being really good friends because of it and now its like their go to party tricks

#bruh fucking..... #leo percy hazel and jason would be a god tier friend group #might fuck around and write a heroes of olympus atla au once i'm done wiriting the three others fics ive commited to #Percy Jackon and the Olympians #Heroes of Olympus #Leo Valdez #hazel levesque #jason grace #percy jackson #theos fanfic #future fic idea

[tragedykery]

ok resuming my rewatch for atla daily except in french. notes for the first episodes:

at least these voice actors are expressive, unlike the ones from the dutch dub

I like the translation of a person from a nation being a “son of [element]” (ex. “fils de l’air” for aang)

every time aang says “momo” I think he says “maman”. this has led to some confusion

french ppl talk fast (which I knew but. still)

#I also think the way they pronounce aang is funny but I’m one to talk bc in the dutch dub they pronounce it ahng #which I mean I get bc if they pronounced it the english way it would sound like ‘eng’ which means. scary lmao #why didn’t they just pronounce the aa the way you normally would in dutch tho. why the short vowel #anyway. I digress #elli rambles #jupiter rewatches atla #<- time for the return of that tag

[tragedykery]

rewatching sokka’s master and holy shit I love sokka so fucking much oh my god jesus christ in heaven fucki ng shit

#elli rambles #jupiter rewatches atla #godverdeklote. jezus fokking christus op een stokje #<- sorry for being cringe am I still cool or whatever

[tragedykery]

I love “return to omashu” for how it establishes mai and ty lee as characters and hints at the problems in their relationship with azula. and also the “pentapox plague” is one of the most underappreciated atla plot lines

#jupiter rewatches atla #side note I wanted to point out some things with the use of screencaps but netflix doesn’t let me take them. bitch #how do u guys take screenshots tell me your secrets #elli rambles

[tragedykery]

[ID: two screencaps from atla s2e3 “return to omashu”. mai and ty lee are walking alongside the palanquin azula is being carried in. ty lee teasingly says something to mai, who looks away, smiling. ty lee looks at her smugly. /end ID]

TY LEE: [Turning to Mai] It’ll be interesting seeing Zuko again, [teasing] won’t it, Mai?

MAI looks away as a smile plays upon her face.

while this is obviously meant to just be ty lee teasing mai about her crush on zuko, I love to interpret it as either a) ty lee not knowing if mai has a crush on him and saying that to gauge her reaction, or b) knowing she doesn’t and deliberately dangling that fact in front of her. all while azula thinks she’s just genuinely teasing her about her crush

#ty lee #atla #return to omashu #ok just doing it like this instead of with screencaps. I wanted to do that exchange between mai & michi and the one in which azula #forces mai to call off the deal to exchange tom tom for bumi (bc for some reason ppl interpret that as mai not caring about her brother???) #too but those feel weird like this instead of with screenshots (which netflix won’t let me take) #elli rambles #r #jupiter rewatches atla

[tragedykery]

I hate you wan shi tong I hate you “knowledge for knowledge’s sake” I hate you elitism in academia I hate you ivory tower scholarship I hate you the privilege of being able to detach facts from reality I hate you devaluation of physical and verbal forms of knowledge I hate you creepy-ass owl spirit

#wan shi tong #atla #avatar the last airbender #elli rambles #jupiter rewatches atla #repetition #r

[tragedykery]

I want to make a post analysing mai & ty lee’s appearances in return to omashu but idk how to word things. hatred and rage

#uhh ​just pretend this is a post like that instead #convo between mai & ​michi hint at family dynamics (father patriarch career important. mai told to suck it up. value affluence & power) #ty lee comment iroh knows he’s a lot more than just ‘funny’ & hides his intellect (takes one to know one). iroh (sexist) wouldn’t realise #the same about her #way ty lee agrees to go w azula (spiritual nonsense) very telling for her character #flaws in azula’s relationship w mai way more subtle than those in her relationship w ty lee but definitely there. force her to give up #her brother #different interpretations ​ty lee comment abt zuko. figure out if she has crush or know she doesn’t (in which case deliberately mean to mai) #either option under azula’s nose #‘please tell me you’re here to kill me’ yes morbid sense of humour but also tell azula she doesn’t value her life (‘azula can shoot all the #lightning she wants at me…’) so she can’t use it against her/threaten her (the way that did work with ty lee #(bc unlike mai ty lee does value hers; survival even main motive during show)) #<- those are the notes from my notes app. uhh figure it out ig #I did end up making a post abt that last one #*second to last I mean #elli rambles #ohh wait can’t forget this one: #the way mai runs. something’s wrong with her I think 💞💖 #jupiter rewatches atla

[tragedykery]

where’s that post by shira about yue. the one that’s like maybe she won’t die this time

#I’ll give you three guesses which episode I’m at :’) #elli rambles #jupiter rewatches atla

[tragedykery]

my verdict about “the great divide” is that it sucks

#elli rambles #jupiter rewatches atla #where’s that post nina made about it

[tragedykery]

I just remembered this but a while ago I mentioned to my brother that aang & katara have three kids and at first he was horrified (“aang is twelve!!!”) but then he said he thought there should be one girl, one boy, and one nonbinary kid, and that their names should be gert, geert, and gerda

#elli rambles #bumi? no he’s called geert now. and he’s nb #he’s anab #assigned nonbinary at brother #brother tag #jupiter rewatches atla #<- sure this goes there since it was technically during our (re)watch #also btw those names are somewhat of a meme between my siblings and me. just bc they’re so horribly dutch

[tragedykery]

we finished the (re)watch!! now we’re watching the movie and cringing at how utterly horrible it is

#what I’ve learned is that it’s futile to try and teach a 12 yo nuance #(yes that was about azula) #elli rambles #jupiter rewatches atla #brother tag