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Hey, I'm CJ (27, she/they) and this is my blog. I'm free to talk to about anything at all, but as a start, this is a multifandom board. From Harry Potter to Team Starkid to Disney to Avatar the Last Airbender to Dr Who to Star Wars. I like most fandoms and those I'm not a part of (almost always) give me time and Netflix.
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Cultural Anatomy: “The Swamp” Episode
Upon re-watching “The Swamp”, I realized that it’s not just the Swampbenders who are Vietnamese-inspired; the village that Zuko and Iroh beg in is also pretty heavily Vietnamese as well, hinting at how the duo are never too far away from the Gaang at any point during Book 2. You could basically call the entire area surrounding the Foggy Swamp something of a Vietnam analog.
The opening shot is reminiscent of the rice paddies found in Vietnam and Southern China.
The aerial shot of the nearby community features a tall stone building at the center of the village. The building bares a close resemblance to the Poshanu Cham tower temples in the Binh Thuan Province of Vietnam.
The thatched (dried plant) roof houses are also reminiscent of the kind found in rural Vietnamese farming communities.
Most people in this village wear a perfectly smooth and triangular hat iconic to Vietnam, nón lá. Nón Lá are made by layering dried palm leaves over bamboo frames. Seriously, this is the only village where we see background characters wearing these hats, which leads me to think the Vietnam parallel was very much intentional. The hat that Bushi wears in “The Painted Lady” is a distinctly Thai-style conical hat, which I’ll probably elaborate on at a later date.
The woman who gives Iroh a coin is pretty clearly wearing a coiled head-wrap called a khăn vấn, complete with a decorative flower.
The jerk who uses his sword to make Iroh dance for a gold coin is wearing an Áo bà ba shirt with the chest portion left unbuttoned, to emphasize his sleaziness. Áo bà ba means something like “Elderly Auntie Shirt” in Vietnamese.
The Avatar staff really went the extra mile to give each Earth Kingdom village a distinct look and feel.
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Mal's Avatar: The Last Airbender rewatch: The Chase 2.08
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They’re all at Tesco’s at the same time
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star war say if a kid hates sand too much its a problem for all of us but dune say if a kid LIKES sand too much it will also be a problem for us. the lesson of these two great sci fi works is that we should strive to be neutral to sand!
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list of things i’m desperate to see animated, #1: hot girl intimidation tactics
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#video#tik tok#science#please listen to the man not the woman cuz he's an expert and she's spouting harmful pseudo-science
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i am a loser in ways you can’t even wrap your head around
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Some oldie Vax sketches 💙 carrd
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I’m thinking about the Boots of Haste.
I’m thinking about this magic item so overpowered that their properties are absorbed into the TLOVM version of the Deathwalker’s Ward, into a Vestige. About what this retroactively applies to their meaning in the campaign. The Haste activating with the golden glow of piss armor fate - is the Haste allowing him to react to destiny in real time? Is it moving him to its whims? Or is it tied to Vax’ildan, Fate-Touched, free of the weave, all the threads pooling in the armor as he strikes neatly between the threads of fate, cuts them as he desires?
I’m thinking about what the Boots of Haste, in the campaign, mean for the twins. They’re Vax’s boots, without question, until he gives them to Vex before they face the dragon the killed their mother - and then it becomes a thing. Vex being lent the boots and making a show of not wanting to give them back. How by this point they are heroes of Tal’Dorei, of the world, and they banter about these like they’re kids again tussling over a toy, a little levity, a little delight. Because they’re twins first and foremost. It’s a game, it’s their game.
I don’t want to think about Vecna. I don’t want to think about Vax, turned to dust but his magical possessions, that Vax was gone but those fucking boots remained. Vex, absolutely devastated, putting them on. The rest of the cast, OOC, immediately teasing her for being greedy, for looting her brother. But that’s not it, is it? Because that’s what she has left of him, because she knows Vax would insist she wear them so they’ll keep her alive. Because she can pretend, maybe, he’ll try to steal them back. He has to. He always does.
I’m going to stop thinking, now, and just offer these lines from episode 105, and let them do more than my musings could:
I’m… thinking, again, now, about the last thing Vex’ahlia de Rolo ever says to her brother, Champion of Ravens, at her wedding. An attempt to play, to buy more time, to keep him here longer, or keep part of him here.
I’m asking you to think about what the Boots of Haste mean. About survival against the odds, about freedom, about fate - but about petty sibling antics, about finding normalcy when everything is wrong, about love in the little things. About how the Boots of Haste are overpowered, yes - but what matters is that they’re Vax’s, even in divinity, and that’s why Vex wanted them at all. At the end of the day, she just wants her brother. She just wants Vax.
And I suppose I’m wondering what TLOVM will do, without those fucking boots.
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And now for something completely different. Warming up for some bigger project, I decided to draw a favourite character of mine - and yes, I did enjoy a nice cup of Jasmine-tea while doing so.
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this video i found on pinterest kicks ass
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Concept art for Mulan (1998) by Sai Ping Lok
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The Miles Morales of the Phantomverse
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