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#tonari no kaibutsu kun

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save me characters who are still hated and mischaracterized in 2024 for the sake of a fanon ship save meeeee

#oh my poor children #atla

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aang comes out of a coma and the first thing he does is ask a girl on a date you can hate the game but you can't hate the player

#atla

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gordon is such a perfect casting for aang 🥹🫶

#atla

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A tragedy in three acts. AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER | 1.03 Omashu

#say the line cabbage man #atla

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reluctantly watching the live action avatar and a lot of it's inoffensive and fine and i get the structural changes like it's all whatever, it looks fine, kinda sfx golden light set design chique but that's the film world we're in right now whateverr. but there are some truly unforgivable character choices that are just tanking my interest. aang is too focused. katara is toothless. zuko is not a jerk. sokka respects women. they're hitting us with leaves on the vine instantly, i wanna earn leaves on the vine. it's been four episodes and there's like ZERO setup for character growth, it feels like it's gonna be a plateau trajectory for everyone, i dunno. I'm pretty bored. why do we keep doing this i don't wanna keep doing this. why is show writing now oops! all exposition! why do we split up the gang to jump between a million plot lines every episode. when is the next season of severance. please, when will i get more severance? the bear? season 3 of the bear? is anyone out there, can anyone hear me? is severance ever coming out? can we talk about severance?

#the actors know what they are doing but the writers and directors not so much #and you can only work with so much #they have to insert so much info in so little time and yet they chose to do it so poorly #it's MID #still like it tho #atla

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( SPOILERS AHEAD) Things that will haunt me about the new live-action Avatar, the Last Airbender show:

Iroh being confronted by his past as a fire nation general and war criminal. Of course, Iroh is a cog in the machine of war that he’s part of and he’s changed his ways since, but that doesn’t change what happened in Ba Sing Se under his leadership.

Sokka overhearing Hakoda being disappointed in him. Y’all were worried that Sokka wouldn’t get as much characterisation in this version. Well, we got this and it broke my heart.

Katara witnessing her mother being executed in front of her. She immediately covers her mouth to keep herself from screaming. Her mother died so she could live, and so even as she cries, Katara quiets herself so her mother didn’t die for nothing. What a terrible responsibility to place on yourself.

Zuko sitting with Iroh next to Lu Ten’s casket. Cue that goddamn instrumental of Leaves From The Vine. This version really understands and cares about Zuko and Iroh’s bond.

Gyatso telling Aang that even if he had come back that night, he wouldn’t have been able to make a difference. It wasn’t his fault. This broke me. We hear from Katara in TLOK how much the Air Nomad genocide affected him through his entire life, despite everything he achieved. He never recovered from the guilt of wondering “what if”. He carried it his entire life…and Gyatso waited as long as he could in the spirit realm so he could free him of it.

Ozai’s face as he burns Zuko. Iroh looking away, Azula watching as a mixture of emotions go over her face as she witnesses her brother be mutilated, Zuko’s cries…girl I was struggling. Then we cut to Ozai’s expression and my heart plunged into my stomach. To me at least, and several others, it looked like he was trying not to cry. Ozai has done more terrible things than you can count…but he’s still a person and you have to sit there and watch in horror as some tiny, humane part of him revolts at the monstrous act he’s committing and his son screams in agony.

I know this show is getting a lot of criticism and that’s fair. It’s not perfect. But there are definitely parts of it that will stick with me for a while.

#atla

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twitter // ko-fi UNCLE send him to the principles office and have him EXPELLED!!!

#atla

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still on the atla casting topic why the hell are people so mad about the looks of the actors that play ozai's angels?? and calling them horrible shit left and right too! i mean, why does it matter so much? why is a teenage girl not looking like a fucking animated character such a turn down for you??

creep behaviour!! teen girls will never rlly be free

#atla #mai #azula #ty lee #netflix

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there's many things wrong with netflix's atla live action. not gordon cormier tho. he's aang 100%. i wish him all the best, today and always.

#he looks like a very bright kid #hope nobody takes that away from him #im also excited? anxious? to see mai and zuko's development #something needs to be salvageable in this mess i hope it's maiko #it'll probably suck too but anyway!! #atla #aang #gordon cormier #netflix #zuko #mai

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#kim hyanggi #hyanggi

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The soldier who took the petition and the assassin who got the petition taken away both stood there facing each other as if time had stopped. Back then, they did not know that it was the beginning of their love, which would lead them through their long hard journey.

#she's soo me #the matchmakers

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E16

#the matchmakers

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The wedding night

#absolutely obsessed with them #the matchmakers

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i've been rereading tonari no kaibutsu-kun for the past few months and had this sort of epiphany that the storyline makes SO much more sense if you read it assuming shizuku, haru and natsume are all neurodivergent teens that had to parkour their way into societal norms like! it makes so much sense! and this is why so many people dislike it so much - they don't understand that the three of them struggle with the same things in (very) different ways, hence why they grow so beautifully together!! they are platonic soulmates do not separate them

#tonari no kaibutsu kun #mizutani shizuku #yoshida haru #asako natsume #my little monster

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VIVIZ ✶ for MAPS NOVEMBER ISSUE

#viviz