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Can you explain to me how it is that Zuko and Jet are foils for each other?
Thank you so much for choosing to ask me, I love rambling about Avatar so much 💖
Hmm, I'm not necessarily sold that Zuko & Jet are truly character foils. It's possible I said that they were in the past, but I don't remember saying it. Having thought about it just now, I think I would say that they're more like characters who have a lot in common. TLDR: Zuko & Jet are very important to one another's character arcs & they have certain parallels, but I would not say they are narrative foils.
Character foils are characters that exist to completely contrast another, & sometimes to show what their foil could be under different circumstances. For example, Katara & Azula are fairly clear-cut (in my opinion) foils. Prodigy benders with less naturally talented older brothers & distant father figures & missing mother figures. The key difference is that Katara got the love & affection Azula never got while Azula got the privilege & opportunities for training Katara never got. Also, their personalities are pretty much opposite with Katara being warmhearted, compassionate, & idealistic & Azula being cold, calculating, & pragmatic (not to even get into what they represent to one another as opposing elements & on opposing ends of the war because already I'm making a question about Zuko & Jet about Azula & Katara lol)
Zuko & Jet don't exactly have that clear-cut character foil relationship, although they are important narratively to each other & they do have parallels. Zuko is a banished prince searching for redemption & honor in his father's eyes. Jet is an orphaned rebel seeking revenge for the loss of his family & his people as well as caring for other orphans. I don't actually see anything with their backgrounds to represent the whole "in another life this could be you" thing. & aside from Jet being charismatic & Zuko being awkward, their similarly violent & angry outlooks on life are too similar for them to contrast one another in that way.
If you ask me, Aang is Zuko's foil. "But Rose, you just said that Jet didn't have enough similarities with his background to Zuko, how does Aang?" Hear me out. The entire narrative of the show focuses from day one on the contrasting values & personalities of Zuko & Aang. Zuko is angry & brash. Aang is soft & kind & carefree. That's to not even get into the fact that Zuko is fire & Aang is air & that Zuko represents the Fire Nation & Aang as a sole genocide survivor represents the harm the Fire Nation has done.
"The Storm" (one of my absolute favorite episodes) is where we really see it drilled in that Zuko & Aang's fates are intertwined & that their stories are connected as more than just enemies. We see in flashbacks as Aang, scared & overwhelmed, runs away from his duty to the world. Meanwhile, we also learn the story of how Zuko was banished. These stories are presented to the audience directly as parallels, showing that the two aren't so different after all. & before anyway says "but they don't show what the other could be in another life" to be clear, I said that could be the role of a foil. But also a foil can just highlight certain traits in a character & contrast their values with another (which - that's Zuko & Aang's entire story even when they reconcile they can't agree on things like murder & revenge)
We also get our first hint in "The Storm" that Zuko can reconcile with his foil & become a more peaceful, better person in both the information that Zuko was burned & banished for wanting to protect innocent lives & Zuko's decision to prioritize his crew's safety over capturing Aang.
Anyway, that was a tangent - Zuko & Jet!
Yeah, I don't think they are foils. Zuko & Jet are two very angry young teens who have suffered more trauma than anyone their age should because of the war. But when they finally meet, it's not to contrast them as people so much as to compare them.
Zuko & Jet meet when they're in similar parts of their character arcs, which is fun. Zuko is starting to consider his uncle's idea of a quiet life in Ba Sing Se. Jet is reconsidering his violent ideals & willingness to hurt people. They meet & both agree to steal food for the other refugees.
Jet experiences shock & betrayal when he begins to suspect that Zuko & Iroh are firebenders. We all know how that goes down with the iconic "I'll give you a show!" showdown :D
...& less fun, we all also know how this entire arc ends up going for both characters. Jet loses his life & it's turned into a cheap joke rather than at least given narrative significance & Zuko gets a redemption arc. What? No, I'm not bitter.
Anyway, I think that Zuko & Jet both experience a lot of anger for very different reasons. They both represent some of the show's not so black & white exploration of morality in war & when it comes to child soldiers. They've both experienced loss (Jet with his family, Zuko with his mother). Their roles in one another's arcs are significant. But that doesn't necessarily mean they are "foils." Actually, I think that their angry personalities & shared penchant for the dramatic (see: their fight scene) make them significantly not foils.
This got long it's just that I love talking about what different characters represent to each other - anyway I love Zuko & Jet & I wish we'd seen way more of them interacting. They are narratively significant to each other. I just wouldn't necessarily say they're foils.
#zuko#jet#aang#atla meta#my atla post#i'm not sure how well i explained this#i kept going off on tangents lol#but yeah i think they are narratively significant to each other but not foils
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Cellbit: Yeah, [Bobby is] our son.
Roier: What?
Cellbit: He's our son, no? Or not? Am I not?
Roier: I mean… he's already dead. [...] By the time we got married, he was no longer around. So in theory, in theory-
Cellbit: But in my heart, he is my son.
Roier: Oh, that's fine, in your heart, yes. In your heart, yes. But actually-
Cellbit: He could have been my son, he could have been.
Roier: But actually, he is my son and Jaiden’s.
Cellbit: Yes yes, definitely, of course.
Roier: [Smacks him] Exactly. Well, you're the step-father, you know?
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Cellbit: Hey Tina, have you met Bobby? I don't think you did, right?
Tina: I met him a little bit earlier, he's so cute!
Roier: Aww
Tina: I told him I like StarBobby.
Cellbit: Yeah, it's our son.
Roier: What? But-
Cellbit: He's our son, no? Or not? Am I not?
Roier: I mean... he's already dead.
Cellbit: That's true, that's true.
Roier: By the time we got married, he was no longer around.
Cellbit: That's true, true.
Roier: So in theory, in theory-
Cellbit: But in my heart, he is my son.
Roier: Oh, that's fine, in your heart, yes. In your heart, yes. But actually-
Bagi: Am I the auntie?
Cellbit: He could have been my son, he could have been.
Roier: But actually, he is my son and Jaiden’s.
Cellbit: Yes yes, definitely, of course.
Roier: [Smacks him] Exactly. Well, you're the step-father, you know?
Bagi: So I don't think I'm your auntie, sorry. Unless you want to!
Cellbit: Yes, fake dad, fake dad. Fake father.
Roier: But it's ok. It's ok.
Cellbit: It's ok, it's ok.
Roier: It's this dumbass' fault he died anyways.
#Roier#Cellbit#Guapoduo#Bobby#QSMP#Saw people straight up lying about what they said during this exchange so this is just me slapping down the receipts#Roier's right though! At that point in time he and Cellbit weren't married nor did they have that kind of relationship#If Bobby hadn't died maybe Cellbit COULD'VE been some kind of guardian to him#But Bobby is; and has always been; Roier and Jaiden's son#As a side note#With how involved Roier is in fandom stuff#I'm sure he's seen how frequently Jaiden gets left out and/or replaced with Cellbit in family art#So whether this is his gentle reminder to fans or just him establishing a boundary in a relationship: Roier is based#And it's a disservice to his and Cellbit's characters to take their words out of context and/or purposefully misinterpret them#Cellbit understood where Roier was coming from and explained how he saw things#(''I could've been'' ''in my heart'' etc.)#and Roier explained his perspective#(''We weren't married yet'' ''He was already dead by then'' ''Jaiden and I are his parents'')#Communication is the foundation to any good relationship!#and Guapoduo do it well. Usually#The fandom could learn a thing or two from QSMP; aka ''Communications SMP''#Bagi in the background going ''I'm an auntie? :D'' then ''oh no I'm not your auntie'' then ''Haha UNLESS?'' is so funny
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if i don't hear myla's singing voice again by the end of this game istg i'm gonna have A Talk with team cherry
(no spoilers please, i'm playing hollow knight blind!!)
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#hollow knight#fanart#myart#comic#i noticed smth was wrong when i was exploring for map completion and the preacher/audience bugs near greenpath were infected#and then i went to crossroads. weird orange haze from the well. it was infected.#so after making sure everyone in dirtmouth was ok i made a mad dash to myla bc last i checked she was singing about darkness#i genuinely cannot even begin to explain how distressed i was when she raised her weapon against me#the last time i was this distressed about a video game was like. probably the t.surumi island quest#you simply had to be in call w/ me bc i was literally wailing over myla#i didn't kill her. i'm still holding onto hope that when i unlock the seal and we fix whatever's going on that she will be cured#we aren't giving up until this game is over
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Can I just talk about how much I love the wordplay of “Suburban Legends”???
The way that an urban legend is a story that’s been passed around so far and wide and often that it’s accepted as true (folklore, if you will) or at least believable or exciting enough to keep passing on from campfire to campfire.
And then in this song it’s suburban legends because the story’s been papered over, it’s become a cliche, a poor replica of the real thing. The (cool) urban legend of this hot, epic romance for the ages everyone would talk about forever has been replaced by the (all too familiar, devoid of authenticity) suburban legend of being toyed with and losing herself in a relationship that once again leads to heartache because they can’t be genuine with each other about what they actually want. It’s not a cool story; it’s pedestrian, it’s another blip in the radar of their young lives (just like the suburbs are the epitome of boring in pop culture, cookie-cutter and bland and forgettable and soulless, compared to the magic of the city where anything could happen and everyone wants to be in). It’s not an epic love story for the ages, they won’t be spoken of far and wide, they’re on the periphery of the real thing but never quite making it.
Her mind 🤌
#I LOVE WHEN SHE PLAYS WITH WORDS LIKE THIS#idk I know I’m not articulating this well#taylor swift#1989 tv#me thinking too hard about taylor lyrics#lyrics analysis#suburban legends#writing letters addressed to the fire#1989 (taylor's version)#I'm sure someone's going to come along and explain how I'm wrong#and this will be embarrassing#but for now let me have this lol#luckily I'm all alone in this corner of the internet!#also: my brain immediately went to hooking up with. a high school bf#like you think it’s going to last while you’re in it#but you’re nothing more that a footnote in a yearbook
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i've been rotating postcanon knives in my mind for several months at this point, but i don't think i'll be able to draw his story beyond what i have already. so here's a glimpse of what's taken over my mind
(no romance included)
#trigun#trigun maximum#trigun fanart#trigun spoilers#trimax spoilers#artists on tumblr#millions knives#knives saverem#should i tag anyone else... idk#he's very sad. please give him a beverage#the “somebody” is livio btw HAHA#knives may or may not have a relationship with livio as well but i'm not as sure on the specifics so i didn't include him. sorry livio fans#“a series of circumstances” = i know what they are but i don't feel like explaining sorry SLKFJDSKLF#oh how i wish we got more information about what the world looks like postcanon#like is the plant dome accessible to the public? or did knives have to sneak in there LOL#<- unclear details like this are why i don't want to fully draw out this story#suicide cw#my art
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I have thoughts to articulate on how N.Elias's analisys of the (artificial, european) concept of "civilisation" being a natural predecessor to and justification of colonialism Does Not Ever mention the USA because at the time it was still in the middle of its transition into having a national conciousness of "this is the (static, perfect) model of democracy and we should export it everywhere". And now its. yk. been doing that to the detriment of the rest of the world. But I'm notoriously bad at articulating thoughts. Anyways read Norbert Elias and think about the current panopticon-like state of things and what the west did with it 👍for me
#[.txt]#infodump tag#i have a uni course on. kind of exactly this. and I find it deeply interestinggg but I can't put it down correctly enough.#as a guy whose main interest is systems of repression I find Elias's work terribly fascinating. I should read Foucault also.#sorry if this sounds pretentious I am not a knowledgeable person I don't know how to explain my thoughts well. so.#this is all very surface level i'm sure. baby's first thoughts on imperialism or something
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reading gideon the ninth:
reading harrow the ninth:
#htn#tlt#everything has gone from like. 50 to 1000#like sure there were things going on before and I had to pay attention#but now I have to pay ATTENTION#like okay. okay harrow is 'remembering' that there was a sleeper or whatever#and there was a 2 hander with it. under it. okay. okay so what does that mean#and this 'body'#which for some reason she's continuously hallucinating?#and the whole thing with the letters and ianthe#i'm trying to parse through everything but I don't know how much I can figure out and how much is explained#by context and events I simply haven't been told about yet#so it would be fruitless to surmise because I quite literally can't know yet. missing pieces#based on current knowledge my assumption is that for some reason harrow has retroactively altered her memories#for an unknown purpose#because ianthe's 'who? oh the cavalier' at the beginning leads me to believe she recalls gideon just fine. and that gideon was in fact real#though there's something going on with her#well yeah no shit she's disappeared straight up#not like disappeared like gone missing but she's straight up been erased from the story like she doesn't exist#except for these tiny mentions#of a two hander#which also brings to question the importance of a reader in a story#but that's a whole other can of worms#the point is I have to pay so much more attention now#i love it I love being confused (genuinely)#the first book was fine but it wasn't like this#anyway. harrows the fucked up scrunkle cat of the group and I'm endlessly amused by it
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Hey all! So if you didn't see it yesterday there is a new Wingfeather trailer for season 2! It's pretty epic!
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There's also a new season 2 poster in their shop, and since it has Peet on it I bought it immediately even though I really don't have extra money to spend this week. xD It also has what I think is the first official/finished look at Maraly?!? (the character, not my kitten) As well as the Fork Factory, Claxton Weaver and the Overseer. 👀👀
https://shop.angel.com/pages/wingfeather
Season 2 covers the first half of book 2 and is releasing sometime this year!
#the wingfeather saga tv show#the wingfeather saga#wingfeather saga season 2#sara cobbler#peet the sockman#maraly weaver#the cognitive dissonance I feel about maraly in the show not having black hair when maraly the kitten does is just#they have the same face tho Idk how to explain that but they do#me @ the wingfeather creators: hey why didn't you fully match this character design to my cat akjlghjfasgdslafjgdf#the fact that they switched sara and maraly's hair colors from book to show is so funny to me#not that I think it ever explicitly states their hair colors but I'm going off the joe sutphin illustrations#Idk maybe they did... now I need to check xD#y'all there's a shot of sara in the fork factory in the trailer and it looks EXACTLY#how I pictured it in my mind how'd they do that#I'm gonna go through the trailer frame-by-frame and make sure I didn't miss any shots of peet#he has one (1) obvious trailer moment#I keep reminding myself that it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to sideline my boy and have the plot make sense#because we HAVE to see peet go to the phoob islands because he HAS to be there to save tink#still sitting here wondering how they're gonna handle nugget#they HAVE to do that well or they will loose SO many people :/#I have fanfic ideas for that actually someday hopefully I'll write them#Youtube
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crying at 7am bc your best friends are Science Brains and try to explain the Cool Concept of Dimensionality to you but you are Too Dumb To Understand
#DONT CALL ME SMART!!!!!!!#I AM NOT AND THATS OKAY#IM A DUMB BITCH AND THATS FINE#okay moving on#i'm so confused#literally how does the y axis change based on what you're doing#how is it measuring different things in different contexts#and how the fuck is TIME a dimension!!!!!!!!#HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE#'well bc you can be in the same location at two different times and it's technically a different location' i'm gonna cry what does that MEAN#HUH#mushroom i love you and i love that your interested in so many amazing things#but i'm SO CONFUSED#science side of tumblr do NOT explain#my poor brain#my partner tried explaining it to me too and that made me more confused#what a great way to start the day 😂😂#literally so lost#science brains yall scare me just a little bit#im only mostly sure that you aren't all just doing witchcraft#insanity#anyways#personal rambles#mushroom and stick against the world#not stargate
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hey what if i made a speculative gashu fic about his father. and kai. and the generational cult of asunaro
#hey fun fact my running theory is that umm... i don't remember his name let me check the wiki rq#SHINOBU GOKUJO. the guy who ran the first death game or whatever#i've always assumed he's related to the satous somehow due to how much his hair + posture look like kai's#so if i did write the fic i'd likely imply that gashu's father or perhaps father in law is shinobu#i'm leaning more towards father-in-law#would explain how the last name got lost and also how his hair looks like kai's but not gashu's#his idealism is very reminiscent of gashu's as well but i'd have to replay the game to be sure#if all of my headaches and issues go away i might get onto actually replaying yttd tomorrow. or at least sometime this week.#but that likely will not happen. We'll see !
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G1 Transformers is so funny because every time Megatron gets injured Starscream is there ready to steal leadership from him no matter how little Megatron is actually impaired by it.
It usually goes something like this
Megatron: Ugh my period is killing me, Soundwave, I'm gonna need Roboibuprofen
Starscream (who was eavesdropping): GASP *running over to the others* Decepticons! Megatron has gotten his period making him weak and unfit to lead the Decepticons. Therefore, I, Starscream, am your new leader! Follow me! *turns into jet*
#transformers#megatron#starscream#I starscream am your new leader#I kind of tried to emulate g1 speech with starscream#I'm not sure how well i did though#transformers g1#megatron has fallen#honestly since this is g1 Starscream eavesdropping is probably just him standing in the same room#added more text on to try to make the joke land a bit better and explain what i was thinking when i thought of this ignore me#maccadam
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I guess I never posted this, because I wrote it in 2013(?), before I started this blog, and never went back for it. I think it holds up though.
The first words I ever had for feeling like I can’t form memories at the speed of life.
bonus content: the recording @narcissistcookbook made of it, under a previous (secret) identity.
#bonus bonus content#explaining to Don that i'm very picky about how my poems present typographically#and that i couln't type it into tumblr because i don't think in sans-serif#i'm well aware that's the most pretentious thing i've ever said but here we are.#D: Okay but I don’t think you think in Times New Roman Either#K: I don’t. I’m pretty sure that’s Georgia.#(It’s actually Cambria)
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#I don't know if I'm autistic or anything (though it has been suggested to me. and I believe in their beliefs)#but if I were then my sister Definitely would be as well#and it would explain or at least put in context much of how we're both Like That#(yeah she's also a trans woman)#(oh yeah I don't feel the need to like claim it for myself or find out for sure or w/e. some things written with autistic people in mind ar#personally relevant to me either way. I have the same political commitments either way. I care about my autistic friends either way#and formal diagnosis would absolutely be a negative for me. no use case for me to seek that out)
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Are we ready to discuss how unfair it is that the big reason Tallulah & Leo are distrusting of the new eggs is bc they were found on purgatory island?
Or are we still on our "They're 100% valid for their feelings" arc...
(further explanation under the cut)
To clarify it is NORMAL and OKAY to be wary/distrusting of new people in your life bc that can be very scary! Even more so to a literal child.
But I'm focusing on how it seems as if a lot of the focus is on the fact these new eggs were found ON purgatory island... and THAT'S where their distrust is majorly from (we (as far as i'm aware?) have no idea if Sunny, Pepito & Empanada are from purgatory island they were just found there like the original eggs...)
just PLEASE imagine one of the players sitting down with Tallulah or Leo and listening to them explain their uneasiness around the new eggs and explain to them that yes. change is scary, new people are scary but the emphasis on where these new eggs came from is not the way to go about their unease and it (and I cannot emphasis this enough) is not a good reason. JUST JUST IMAGINEEE
"I'm not from this island either, y'know?"
"But you're not... from that island."
"I don't exactly have memories from before this island. Maybe I was."
I DUNNO BUT DO YOU SEE THE VISION ???
#qsmp eggs#qsmp#discourse#? maybe#qsmp Tallulah#qsmp leonarda#no hate to them at ALL btw#they're valid in their feelings... to a point 😭#I just desperately want a player any player to sit down with them and put it into perspective for them :((#and if any of the other eggs have stated their dislike for the new eggs im so sorry#I'm a Tubbo main and rarely watch other perspectives 😭#Im not sure how well I explained myself but I hope I did okay?
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2023 reads / storygraph
The Poisons We Drink
YA urban fantasy
a girl who brews powerful potions is coerced into making potions to interfere with D.C.’s most influential politicians in an attempt to stop a dangerous Witcher Registration Act from passing, and will do anything to protect her sister after their mother is killed
bi MC, nonbinary love interest
arc from netgalley
#The Poisons We Drink#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#this is…….a lot of cool ideas but also so many elements and high stakes that i kinda lost track of them#the pacing is weird. the worldbuilding is random?#why is brewing SO overpowered & risky for her but the other powers seem to have pretty normal low-scale risks?#it’s definitely ambitious and has some cool ideas and also some great characters just. didn’t execute as well as I’d like#as much as we’re told the main threat is the government trying to put through a Registration Act#most of the actual antagonism we see is from other Witchers?#like the systemic discrimination got a bit lost in the witcher family drama and murder politics#important things to say about oppression and police violence but like....idk#she has this ‘deviation’- essentially evil sentient magic inside her head (and you KNOW I love that trope)#but it’s barely explained and very underutilised? other than helping her get out of bad situations you could take it out & would barely#change anything#also it’s explained at the start that she’s an empath but other than the very occasional mention I kept forgetting#will also note that I bumped this up my tbr because I saw the author talking/promoting it as the MCs sister being aroace but no mention#maybe it’ll come up in a sequel (there weren’t really any places where it would have made sense to bring it up here) but idk#(just the way the author was asking for advice on how to write an ace character and stuff you’d assume that they’d….put that in the book?)#not really a critique of the book itself but anyway. I really wanted to like this but the way it was put together just did not vibe with me#edit: I saw the author say on twitter that the version used for ARCs was before ace stuff was added and that there's other signif changes?#so perhaps that will be there! i'm not sure if I want to read it again but might skim just to see what that's about
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I may be late but I never forget. Two months ago @dmagedgoods tagged me to fill this template out and at last I finally have. I’m... not much of a digital artist, so I’ve tried to compensate how I could. Unfortunately, resolution issues may undermine my efforts. I did my best though!
Due to having been tagged on this two and a half months ago I will not even be making an attempt to send this anywhere.
#I'm trying to hit that like middle school girl notebook doodles aesthetic here#to cover up the fact that all my photos were taken with a cell phone camera and obviously very little of this was filled digitally#gosh this took more time than expected!!#I'm very sad the little faces aren't showing up very well maybe I'll have to edit them out#digital artists often do these cute little faces I admire#I wanted to do that too!#I was really torn on whether to post this here or on the side blog since I usually put art there first#in the end just went with what had been tagged. partly because I'm not sure how I feel about how this looks ^^;;#anyway time to grab what sleep I can. It's five in the morning. help.#pfkm#pfkm spoilers#at this point sphinx I have given up on keeping them from you#balthazar lucienne#tristian#balthazar and tristian#I could explain the things where someone is occupying two spaces simultaneously but I don't think I will right now#anyway#dmagedgoods#emi art
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