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sapphic-agent · 1 month

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Let's Talk About How Book 3 Ruined Aang

If you've seen any of my prior ATLA posts, you know that I don't hate Aang. In fact, I quite liked him in Books 1 and 2. He was flawed, as all characters should be, but the show didn't shy away from those flaws or justify them. He was called out for burning Katara and rushing his firebending, Sokka and Katara were rightfully upset when he hid Hakoda's letter, he willingly owns up to the fact that his actions helped drive Toph away, and his entire arc after losing Appa and finding hope again in The Serpent's Path was beautifully done.

(Hell, even in The Great Divide Katara says what Aang did was wrong and he agrees. It's played for comedy, but the show still makes the effort to point out that what he did wasn't the right thing to do. You're just meant to understand that he was fed up and acted off of that)

Those flaws and mistakes were addressed and improved upon and helped Aang to grow as a character.

But for some reason, that aspect of Aang's character was completely flipped in Book 3.

The best examples of this are in both TDBS and EIP. Both the show and the fandom are too quick to brush off that Aang kissed Katara twice without her consent, one of which after she explicitly said she was confused about her feelings.

(And yes, she is angry in response and Aang calls himself an idiot. But after this, it isn't really addressed. They go on like nothing happened for the rest of the episode. Aang's lamentation comes from screwing things up with her romantically, not that he violated boundaries)

The show never really addressed why what he did was wrong. Not only because he wasn't given consent, but also because both times he isn't thinking about what Katara wants. In both instances, Aang is only thinking about himself and his feelings. This is something that persists through a lot of the third book. And by Sozin's Comet it ultimately ruins any character development he had built up in the second book.

One thing I feel was completely disregarded was the concept of having to let go of Katara in order to master the Avatar State.

For me, the implication wasn't that he had to give up love or happiness necessarily. He was emotionally attached to and reliant on Katara, to the point where she was needed to stop him from hurting everyone around him and himself. This is obviously detrimental to his functionality as the Avatar. And the point of him "letting her go" wasn't that he had to stop caring about her, it was that his emotional dependency on her was stopping him from being the Avatar he needed to be and that was what needed to be fixed. I don't even think it's about the Avatar State itself, it's about being able to keep your emotions and duty as the Avatar separate.

(If you look at Roku, he loved and had a wife. It wasn't his love for her that messed everything up, it was his attachment to Sozin. He wasn't able to let Sozin go and not only did he lose his life for it, the world suffered for it. It's the unhealthy attachments that seem to be detrimental, not love itself)

And Aang realizes that in the catacombs, which is how he's able to easily enter the Avatar State and seemingly control it. He let Katara go.

So then why does it seem like his attachment to Katara is not only stronger, but worse in mannerism? He liked Katara in Books 1 and 2- obviously- but he was never overly jealous of Jet or Haru. He only makes one harmless comment in Book 2 when Sokka suggests Katara kiss Jet.

But suddenly he's insanely jealous of Zuko (to the point of getting frustrated with Katara over it), off the basis of the actions of actors in a clearly misrepresentative play. Katara showed a lot more interest in Jet and Aang was completely fine with it.

(Speaking of EIP, Aang's reaction to being played by a woman was interesting. He wore a flower crown in The Cave of Two Lovers. He wove Katara a flower necklace. He wore Kyoshi's clothes and makeup and made a funny girl voice. He willingly responded to Twinkle Toes and had no issue being called that. And for some reason he's genuinely upset about being played by a woman? Aang in Books 1 and 2 would have laughed and enjoyed the show like Toph did. His aversion to feminity felt vastly out of character)

I guess my point is, why did that change? Why was Aang letting go of Katara suddenly irrelevant to the Avatar State? It felt like him letting go was supposed to be a major part of his development. Why did that stop?

Myself and many others have talked about The Southern Raiders. The jist of my thought process about it is his assumption that he knew what was best for Katara. And the episode doesn't really call out why he was wrong. Maybe sparing Yon Rha was better for Katara, maybe it wasn't (the only one who's allowed to make that choice is her). Pushing forgiveness? That was wrong. But the episode has Zuko say that Aang was right when the course of action Katara took wasn't what Aang suggested.

Katara's lesson here was that killing him wouldn't bring back her mother or mend the pain she was going through and that Yon Rha wasn't worth the effort. That's what she realizes. Not that she needed to embrace forgiveness. How could she ever forgive that? The episode saying Aang was right wasn't true. Yes she forgives Zuko, but that wasn't what Aang was talking about. He was specifically talking about Yon Rha.

And that was wrong. Aang can choose the path of forgiveness, that's fine. That's his choice. But dismissing Katara's trauma in favor of his morals and upbringing wasn't okay.

I know it sounds like this is just bashing Kataang. But it's not simply because I don't like Kataang, in my opinion it brings down Aang's character too, not just Katara's. But let's steer away from Kataang and Katara for a minute.

The one thing that solidifies Aang's character being ruined in Book 3 for me is the fact that he- at the end of the story- does the same thing he did in the beginning.

He runs away when things get hard.

Aang couldn't make the choice between his duty and his morals. So he ran. Maybe it wasn't intentional, but subconsciously he wanted an out. And this is really disappointing when one of the things he was firm about in Book 2 was not running anymore. His character went backwards here and that's not even getting into the real issue in Sozin's Comet.

There's been contention about the Lion Turtle intervention. For many- including myself- it's very deus ex machina to save Aang from having to make a hard decision. And that in turn doesn't reflect kindly on his character.

Everyone- Sokka, Zuko, Roku, Kyoshi, Kuruk, and Yangchen (who was another Airbender and was raised with the same beliefs he was and would understand which was the whole point of him talking to her)- told him he had to kill Ozai. They all told him it was the only way. And he refused to listen to any of them, rotating through his past lives until he was given the answer he wanted.

And before anyone says that I'm bashing Aang for following his culture, I'm not. Ending the war peacefully, in my opinion, wasn't the problem. In a way, I think it allowed the world to heal properly. However, that doesn't make up for the fact that Aang refused to make a choice and face the consequences of that choice. Instead, he's given an out at the very last second.

Even if he couldn't kill Ozai and someone else had to deliver the final blow, that would have been better than the Lion Turtle showing up and giving him a power no one's ever had before. It would have been a good compromise, he doesn't have to have blood directly on his hands but what needs to be done needs to still get done. It would also show that being the Avatar isn't a burden he has to bear alone. That when things get hard, he can't run away but he can rely on the people closest to him to help him through hard decisions.

All these issues aren't necessarily a problem with Aang. Aang prior to Book 3 didn't have most of these problems. This is a problem with the way he was handled

#aang critical #anti aang #tagging just in case #i don't want aang stans accusing me of cross tagging #it's really not anti aang tho #long post #anti bryke #this is their fault #look how they massacred my boy #anti kataang #katara deserved better #she's not the focus here #but i thought I'd add that there #character analysis #atla critical #anti book 3 #which is kind of an exaggeration #because a lot of book 3 is great #it's just most of the latter half

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emblazons · 11 months

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"We came as soon as we heard."

Mike, Will & Lucas in S04E09 - The Piggyback aka: Lucas getting the hugs he absolutely deserves + Mike referring to him and Will as "The Royal We"

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lloydfrontera · 1 year

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tfw when you write an entire novel with two protagonists that spent the entire plot getting closer to each other, becoming best friends and eventually both of them deciding they would rather die than allow the other to not live a long, fulfilling life, their friendship carrying most of the emotional weight of the entire plot and the emotional climax being one of them sacrificing his life so the other can live and then the other crossing literal universes to find him, a tearful smile in his face as he confesses how much he missed him. which is the scene you wanted to write and show the most because, again, this is the pay off to the slowburn you've been writing in the entire novel and what everything has been building up to since the very first chapter. and then you end the novel by having them share a smile, finally confident they'll be able to have a happy future.

but you also just gotta have one of them marry offscreen because everyone knows you can't be happy if you're not in a het marriage with kids lmao it's whatever it's okay i'm fiNE-

#i talk a lot <3 #the greatest estate developer #lloyd frontera #this post was going to be so much more bitter this is me being nice akjshdkahdk #i just....... i'm sad alsjdsjkal #and i don't think i'm wrong to be. like i'm not disapointed bc i don't actually expected lloyd and javier to be together #i'm not that optimistic lmao #but i did have the hope tged would have no romance #because lloyd and javier were already doing so much in the emotional and relationship development front of the plot #that adding romance just feels. awkward. like an aside. an add-on that affects none of the plot and is just there to make sure #no one accidentally gets confused and think those two are in love #and guess what! most of the romance does happen in literal side stories! literally an add-on that does nothing for the plot! i hate it!#it's the heteronormativity and amatonormativity of it all :/#do i think it would've been cool for llojavi to be canon? absolutely! do i think it was necessary for the plot? nope!#they were already perfect the way they are! their friendship is the core of the entire plot and their relationship to each other #is what ultimately moves much of the plot in the latter half!#which is the way relationships should work in fiction! not just have them for the sake of having them!#lloyd didn't need a romantic subplot because the plot was already working perfectly without it!#also what's the point of having a character constantly think about what their idea of 'happy life' is if you're not going to challenge it #it's about the hero's journey of it all!!!#i have things to say dang it!#javier asrahan #tged

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fishyfishyfishtimes · 1 year

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Fish fact #476

Hagfish!

This class of 88 different species are interesting fish, as they are the only animals to have a skull made of cartilage but no spine!

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enlichened · 16 days

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The thing thats consistently bothered me the most in the fallout show is the racism. I would hesitate to recommend it because of that alone. And there was obvious love that the set and prop designers, actors, costume department, and even maybe the writers put into the show! There are themes and characters in fallout that i'm certain would resonate with fans of color!

It KILLS me that so many of the fallout entries are damn well unplayable/watchable in this regard because the writers simply Don't Care how the people in their work are presented. That this like hugely popular world with a lot of worldbuilding and thought behind it does such wrong to so many people, fans and otherwise, that you cannot find any game in the series that does it right or well. It alienates a lot of people who might've been fans just because the majority white creators and fanbase don't give a shit, and I'm sick of it.

it's not enough to say "in the fallout in my head that racism doesn't happen," you actually have to put some things into PRACTICE. Allow space in your head, your games/show, your fan spaces for people of color! notice and say something when you see racism coming from media, yourself, and others!

#like its not AS bad as other fallout media but isnt that the fucking kicker. that its not AS bad #and in fact the games im thinking of that are most egregious in their racism ARE interplay/obsidians games.#bethesda is NOT free from criticism or racism. just look at the elder scrolls.#all of the fallout games have been terrible to different extents to their black characters #the games are TERRIBLY sinophobic. the great war being pinned on china allows for SO much racism in the writing and in fan spaces #but fallout 2 and new vegas specifically have awful and degrading representations of indigenous people. to the point where i wont play 2.#and now this show treating maximus nearly one to one with how star wars writers AND fans treated finn? its not okay #personal /#fallout show #fallout blogging #racism #antiblackness #colonialism #fallout #if not for this i would have thought that the show was GOOD. surprisingly compelling. anti capitalist messaging. but its just. all the time #and this is coming from a white person! i can only listen and imagine how painful it is to play these games or watch the show #and be the butt of the joke every time!!! or the villain or the fool or the one who dies or the nameless entry.#maximus gets to have Some time in the light as a protagonist but for the beginning half of it he's treated SO awfully by the writers #and the latter half does not do enough to make up for it #EDIT: I JUST FINISHED THE SHOW AND THEY FUCKING MADE IT WORSE....#taking max out and having lucy leave him. for what exactly. why did they have to undermine him and make him look stupid at every opportunit #AND. two of the more major black women being evil capitalists juxtaposed by some white guy who opposes? .........................#like im glad moldaver was there. i guess. but even she is posed as the villain for the good majority of it and kills innocent people #for no reason and. UGH

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dollsome-does-tumblr · 2 months

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i watched becoming jane in small increments over the past few days because i was really craving the aesthetic even though the love story drives me nuts, and wouldn't it be so much better if at the end, the reunion went like this?

old ("old") jane: omg, tom lefroy! HI!!!!!!

old tom: jane austen! no way! it's been forever!

jane: how ARE you? oh my god, do you remember when we were twenty and we hated each other and then we almost eloped? wasn't that HILARIOUS?

tom: oh ho ho! how jolly! we did have fun!

tom's daughter jane who is named jane because that was one of approximately four women's names in circulation at that time period: oh my god, jane austen, you're the COOLEST!

jane: damn right, little lady! 😎 here's a sweet excerpt from pride and prejudice

everybody: (cheers)

#now that i am in the latter half of my thirties i just feel like there's no way they would still be this sad over a brief fling at age 20 #like sorry. but life usually has a way of making you continue to carry on every day and making your hurts lessen.#you'd get over it and not be the most faded and tragic-looking people imaginable.#i get that it was five minutes later in the movie but it was two decades later in the narrative #(i realize i'm contradicting some persuasion vibes here somewhat but i don't care i hate this movie's choices)#dollsome's deep thoughts

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eonslice · 2 years

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ctntduo if they talked during the lore finale

#I NEEDED CQUACKITY TO CALL CWILBUR OUT ON HIS SHIT AND HELP PUSH HIM TOWARDS THAT FINAL CONFRONTATION WITH CTOMMY THAT HE KEPT AVOIDING....#that lore stream was a bust the ending we got was so ass shit fart and balls idk WHAT wilbur was thinking #it just felt like cwilbur running away again without growing or learning anything #so ive erased the entire latter half of the stream and reconstructed the correct ending in my brain where cwilbur finally puts himself #below tommy and admits that he's vulnerable and that he isn't the leader tommy saw him to be and how he's hurt tommy in the process #cwilbur saying cq was the last man he needed to apologize to shouldve been him dragging out the confrontation with ctommy with cq seeing #that and calling him out on his bullshit then building up to cwilbur's real final apology to the person he's hurt the most: ctommy #GUH. we couldve had it all.......#my art #dsmp #dream smp #fanart #tntduo #tnt duo #c!tntduo #wilbur soot #revivebur #revivedbur #quackity #c!quackity #c!wilbur

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callie-flower · 9 months

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man okay. i'm a simple woman but i really do love anytime videl interacts with anyone else in the family aside from gohan like. especially if it's goku or vegeta or bulma or chichi or krillin ykw? it's so fucking wholesome to me in a way i can't explain lol i just love found family so much. they all just so easily said yeah she's our kid now too even before gohan realized his feelings towards her and i'm so. i'm normal about it. they really adopted her as a daughter in law before they went into a relationship........

#dragon ball z #dbz #saiyaman saga #world tournament saga #gohan #videl #ghvi #hanvi #goku #vegeta #chi-chi #bulma #krillin #liveblogging #callie liveblogs #lol. sorta. i've already seen most of z up until cell saga when it aired on nicktoons as a kid and the movies even earlier in age #just going through all the latter half i missed and always wanted to watch as a kid

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dearreader · 1 month

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im at the point in the parks and rec rewatch where they got really really big and it kinda loses some of its charm

#i’ll finish #but like… i love the show (obviously my most long term url was inspired by ben wyatt)#((if you remember that url you’re entitled to a veterans discount))#but getting older i can kinda see it’s not as good in the latter half #though it’s still really really funny #can’t believe nbc canceled the show because the actors were getting to big and nbc was worried they wouldn’t return #like… yeah rashida jones and rob lowe left in season 6 #but that doesn’t mean a lot of people would leave #especially with how attached the cast was to the characters #like they all just said fuck it and did a zoom call special episode durning the pandemic to help spread awareness #like i do not think anyone would’ve left the show until it hit like MAYBE season 10 #but that’s just a theory #anyway i’m most likely going to finish this tonight (probably go back and rewatch a few episodes i passed out during)#then start a fmab rewatch cause i don’t know if i got the energy to read currently #though i do wasn’t to draw later #kelly babels #kelly watches things

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todayisafridaynight · 11 months

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I have noticed that there are two types of Yakuza fans... the ones that make analysis and the ones that say: "I want this man fucked to pieces."

yeah thats about right

#snap chats #the latter half scares me and is the reason why i stop going on twitter so much now #i go there to post and talk to clients obvi but for the most part im just so tired of seeing weird shit said bout my faves

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shadowglens · 8 months

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shadowheart leaving shar behind being the thing that helps cress leave bhaal behind i'm 😭

#txt #bg3 spoilers #cressida x shadowheart #like cress regressed morally throughout the latter half of act 1 and most of act 2 #she murdered her way through the underdark and shadow cursed lands and honestly was so close to slipping over that ledge #but it was always shadowheart who managed to drag her from that ledge - unknowingly or otherwise #it was always shadowheart and that tender look in her eyes that quietened the urges #so when shadowheart willingly throws that spear into the darkness and by extension leaves shar behind ..... it genuinely shocks cress #it was all shadowheart ever wanted! and has risked her goddess' wrath! and yet she did it anyway!#cress had it on the tip of her tongue to force shadowheart to kill nightsong! if they weren't so close by then she would've tbh #but she forced herself to give shadowheart the choice and she chose Good and it Ruins cress #anyway all of this to say i only just started act 2 with cress but i'm already up in my durge feels #and i think cress is gonna eventually resist bhaal and go the redemption route #doesn't mean it's not gonna fucking hurt for her though

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imflyingfish · 4 months

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Btw im on rewatch 3 of the rats smp in a year

#yayyyyyyy #tbh i think em?#em i feel like theres a possibility of a eorld where u watch it with me and probably cringe really hard at it too but also really enjoy it #i think you would like krow most #because i really like krow #i dont eatch it often but it has some of the best lines ever #btw when i watch rats smp my lord is it an emotional rollercoaster #not because its like ooohhh the anngssttt #no sometimes its just the roleplay that makes me have to stop and have an emotional moment before carrying on i tend to talk to myself a lot #while watching it #idk but i like the tension and how fun the series is and how well its paced #i AM a bit annoyed at how the latter half of the series turned into CAMEO after CAMEO after CAMEO #however i do underdtand that obviously rats really wasnt meant to go on as long as it did and the mods did #an awesome job eith what they had and like. cameos just were the best way of generating massive hype events without #having ti change too much of the story or to create new gameplay #anyway

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ambrostikal · 4 months

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⟡ ⫽ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐍'𝐒 𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆.

— The survivors were split into two different groups. Those who remained on the planet became the "Land Walkers", while those who were trapped on the newly-formed Angel Island when it ascended became the "Sky Dwellers". Both sides were unknowing of the other's existence, and never interacted with one another. Potential contact became impossible after a certain point, as Angel Island gradually drifted away across the globe.

— The Land Walkers attempted to return to as normal of a lifestyle as they could manage, making one of their own the new chief and repairing what they could of their home. The Sky Dwellers however were directly exposed to the M.E. and its intense energy. Knowledge of the gem had already existed in the Knuckles Clan, and many members being able to stay in close proximity to it for the first time (as Chaos was no longer present) allowed them to study & learn more about it.

Namely, the prayer that their chieftain prior to Pachacamac (his mother & Tikal's grandmother - Mesoa) shared with the clan long ago slowly became better understood as time went on. The Chaos Emeralds also remained on what still stood of the Emerald Shrine. As a result, the Sky Dwellers became more connected to chaos energy and spiritual as a whole.

— Due to a vision of the past received by one of the echidnas utilizing chaos energy, the Sky Dwellers learned that Pachacamac's planned theft of the Chaos Emeralds was to blame for their clan's fate now, and that Tikal saved the world by sealing Chaos and herself within the M.E.. Tikal was regarded as their savior, and deemed a type of patron deity who watched over them now. (She did in fact maintain some sense of sentience while in her dormant state, and was aware that echidnas still lived.) A rumor formed and was passed around that the reason why their floating island was created in the first place was because Tikal wanted the rest of her people & the emeralds to be as safe from outside forces as possible.

— Over the next 3,000+ years, the Knuckles Clan's population suffered from terminal decline. New children born and raised only prolonged the inevitable. Eventually, all of the Land Walkers disappeared and left what is now known as the "Mystic Ruins" behind. The Sky Dwellers remained on Angel Island for longer overall, living off of the lush ecosystem nurtured by the M.E.'s energy & unplagued by natural disasters, but was not spared in the end. Knuckles is the last living member of the Sky Dwellers (and the Knuckles Clan overall - excluding Tikal's special status), having become orphaned, alone, and was delegated the role of guarding the M.E.. at a very young age.

#🎔 ( meta. )#knuckles clan.#/ ive likely made a post of this already in the past; but consider this the updated version \#/ i really like this premise here. ive seen other ppl in the fandom share their headcs abt the echidnas over the years \#/ never jived with most of the them since they just...never made much sense imo? \#/ the ''knuckles is a creation of the m.e. through tikal'' theory in particular. i mean no shade but hmm no thanks \#/ i like the idea of tikal being the ''creation'' half compared to chaos' ''destruction'' half \#/ but she wouldnt create an echidna just to leave them perpetually alone in guarding the m.e. lol. she aint cruel like that \#/ this is how i personally view the latter half of the knuckles clan's history & its what my take of tikal will follow by default \

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lavenderjewels · 1 year

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ive complained about not knowing nobaras dead or alive status but i will be distraught if it’s revealed she’s genuinely dead

#jjk spoilers #HALF of me is: ok it’s vague to make it a huge reveal since gege added that healer character out of the blue #and it would parallel the other ‘jokes on you im alive’ yuuji and geto (kinda) moments #other half is: gege wasn’t sure if she’d fit in the story so left it open and will confirm if she’s dead or alive later #the latter would kill me like nothing else #also!! gojo Cannot get unsealed before we learn about nobara I refuse to think it’ll happen #(watch as next chapter arrives and proves me directly wrong)#just like that time I was so sure yuki would survive and then 🤡✨#excited for next chapter though now we’re getting everyone together and REALLY pushing things along #it’s always when im most enjoying the story that I feel the tension of whether or not I’ll like what comes next #i probably posted on here before about this but #I always thought megumi didn’t reeeally shine as a character until post shibuya and was the weakest of the trio beforehand #but now we had all this time with him—I want nobara to have focus if she’s alive #‘if she’s alive’ 🤡🫠🤒🙃😞😔😫🥴#kugisaki nobara #jjk manga spoilers #just in case 😅

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intuitive-revelations · 1 year

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Silly thought I just had writing the tags to that last post... does the existence of Dr. Who's neice "Louise" in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. imply the existence of an "Irving Who"?

Or for that matter, another niece other than Maggie in the main timeline, either via Brax or by some other sibling, like Ulysses and Anne's half-Time Lord/Human daughter?

#only thing which harms that latter idea is that it's the half-sister's male child who “becomes a future Time Lord renegade”#it's a bit unclear whether the son is an only child or just the only boy from the quote i see #(if the latter Louise might be the equivalent of one of his sisters)#if the prior then there's room for possibly the most niche and fanwank-y trans headcanon ever #which of course I'm immediately considering adopting #(...or just alternate universe version shenanigans but that's much less fun)#Doctor Who #DW Theory #DW Meta #Dr Who and the Daleks #Dalek Invasion Earth 2150

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eijiroukiriot · 2 years

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it’s like every day i flipflop back and forth between “katsuki should say ‘eijirou’ as many times as he can all the time. ‘eijirou come look at this’ ‘jesus christ eijirou it’s 7 a.m.’ ‘eijirou, steak or fish tonight’” and “i need krbk to call each other baby or else i’ll die”

#idk if it's obvious from the every piece of content i've made in the last 6 months but i've like been stuck on this one #and not to like accidentally peek a little deep into my psyche but it might be bc for the brief time i had a gf last year #we dove like REALLY hard and heavy into the pet names #i did not enjoy being in a relationship with her (largely bc it was so affectionate so fast) but. i did like the affection #and honestly thinking back on the times where we did call each other 'baby' specifically it felt like so much bigger than 'babe'#which is probably why it sounds so gross to some people but the more time goes by and the more i think abt what an actual good #relationship would look like to me. the more i feel like being able to say 'baby' and not have it be cringe would be a factor #which is why i've been so stuck on making things that make krbk say baby. as stupid as it is #i really do love bkg saying eijirou and think that's the more in character option anyway #sometimes your krbk has just gotta be a little self indulgent though you know?#and other times it can be realistic and so so good #if this fic i started last month ever does see the light of day....and it might bc i do like the premise #it'll maybe be the most realistic take on bkg as a part of krbk that i've ever written #not to keep rambling but also thinking back on the way i've written bkg over the years i really do think his character lends itself to #a lot of levels of realistic vs indulgent #weird wording but i'll explain #in canon he's so analytical and thoughtful at heart you know? but he's also 16 and brash and impulsive and plain dumb sometimes #once again thinking about how i didn't actually like him that much on my first watch until the latter half of s2 #where his characterization starts to become a little more day-to-day instead of really heavy digging into HIS psyche #so he just shows up over and over again to get mad about something stupid and it's endearing #like 'who is this guy'#so you can write a bkg who's very out of his element and hotheaded and thinks of himself differently than he actually comes off #or you could write a bkg (like the bkg as of late) who's very in control and calculating and doesn't let his guard down #neither side is technically inaccurate but it can be hard to strike a balance bc those things sound very out of sync with each other #so within krbk you can write a very 'actions speak louder than words' bkg who is kinda neutral-cold most of the time #or you can write the goofier 'i won at romance and i'm gonna rub it in your faces' easily swept off his feet fandom favorite bkg #which can be very good #and if anything the fact that he really does keep his guard so high up so often makes you WANT to write him being sappy #especially when he's grown up #have i ever mentioned that like the stock photo of krbk in my mind has aged up?

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