#there was a shitton wrong with that movie but fixing Bryke's fucking weeb ass mispronuciations was NOT one of them

[sage-nebula]

> opens the official TDP discord

> immediately sees people mocking how M. Night corrected Bryke's mispronunciation of Asian names in the live-action ATLA movie

> closes official TDP discord

#there was a shitton wrong with that movie but fixing Bryke's fucking weeb ass mispronuciations was NOT one of them #''wow Bryke put SO much research into making bending based on martial arts!!!111!'' #and yet they can't pronounce names like Sokka or Mai correctly #even tho Mai is ONE. FUCKING. SYLLABLE. #IT'S ONE SYLLABLE. AND SAID LIKE A WORD IN ENGLISH. AND THEY STILL FUCKED IT UP #AND IF THEY WANTED HER TO HAVE A NAME THAT SOUNDED LIKE ''May'' THE NAME MEI IS RIGHT FUCKING THERE #BUT THEY ONLY CARED ABOUT THE ANIME AESTHETIC LIKE THE FUCKING WHITE BOY WEEBS THEY ARE #AND NOT ABOUT THE ACTUAL FUCMING CULTURE #so while the white washing and racist implications that came with it in live action ATLA movie were terrible #(i.e. the water tribe sibs should NOT have been white and the Fire Nation peeps should NOT have been dark skinned) #M Night being like ''u know what let's bother to actually pronounce names correctly'' #was not the fucking problem with that adaptation #signed - someone who wishes TDP fans would shut up forever about ATLA for the love of fucking god