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One more joke hate: You may claim to be a woman but biologically you are a featherless biped and thus a man.
Finally a good argument for why I'm actually a man
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cake is such an underappreciated band. i can’t believe we brought back low rise flare jeans before we brought back cake in the top 40
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I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits
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I don't think most people realize just how absolutely gorgeous the backgrounds are in blue eye samurai, and I don't just mean the big shots of a city or a forest. Episode 7 especially is choke-full of tiny details all over the place that are never the focus of the scene so they don't get noticed.
I mean look at this
Have you seen how intricate that instrument is? And we don't even get a full shot of it
The boxes in the background too!! Some of them have unique patterns that didn't even get used in other assets (I'd know, I've been obsessively collecting screenshots of background details LMAO)
And my god, the wall drawings are GORGEOUS. There was another one like this in episode 1 that I barely paid any attention to when I first watched this show
It's not just the backgrounds, even tiny items and furniture have the most beautiful patterns and drawings. SO much effort went into making this world and so much of it doesn't receive enough appreciation.
I really hope the studio behind bes gets to release an artbook where they show stuff like this, they deserve it!!
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which is definitely not an omen
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I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.
One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.
Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.
Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.
So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.
It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.
That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.
News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.
Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:
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#where does 'for a team for a sport that doesn't technically exist' fall?#i need more excuses to wear the hades tigers jersey
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it's hilarious how if you do any amount of research into life or death melee combat the prevailing themes that emerge are that
you're gonna get tired very quickly
tired leads to injured, injured leads to tired, tired leads to—
you're not gonna be as composed as you expect
humans are more fragile than you think and also more durable than you think. both are true and neither stop them from dying of an infection later (DO NOT GET BITTEN)
DO NOT GET STABBED (generally good life advice)
DO GET A SPEAR
knights are faster than you think
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The simple way I do it is that the "innocent" village? Yeah, that's where all the workers at the death camp of a prison she was kept in lived.
It also very neatly also explains why the hell she didn't do something like "escape to anywhere out of the Fire Nation" (even if she didn't think she could go back to the SWT without endangering her people). If the village is still profiting over the bones of her people, if she's the only one who remembers the names of the people in the mass graves, then how can she leave?
If anything, yes, I will play up the fact that she's a genocide survivor, a concentration camp survivor, and she's got all the right in the world to deeply resent what was done to her and her people. And to bluntly state just how disgusting I find it that Bryke decided to not only side with the oppressor, but to have Katara be okay with handing Hama over to the exact same people who fucking tortured her for years, the same people who were ultimately behind the death of Katara's mother.
Like what in the actual fuck.
Do you have any thoughts about Hama? I know shes a single episode character, but i think about her on occasion, and when other bloggers write about her (and fics mention her) it seems to flatten her into the Worst Possible Villain
One of the few indigenous elders, one of the only older female benders, one of the few indigenous resistance fighters, and a survivor of genocide gets demonized by the narrative and treated as absolutely evil? Yes, there are issues with how Hama got depicted, mostly because there are almost no other characters in those categories to serve as positive counterexamples.
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Jack Black did more of Hit Me Baby One More Time, and I am living for this.
What an ad for Kung Fu Panda 4
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#i cannot believe people think ursala vernon does not understand narrative tension#oh wait yes i do#ffs context people#exhibit a in 'read the quote in context'
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For those that are going to miss the eclipse on Monday, I have created a simulation of what the eclipse will look like along the path of totality
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No context no nuance. Pick
Apotheosis: To become a god
Deicide: To kill a god
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It is very, very telling that Azula was never taught a language in which she could express her love and care in a healthy way, but she tries to anyway with an imperfect tongue.
Zuko was taught how to express care and affection in multiple ways, in word and deed, by Ursa and Iroh at the very least, and he uses none of these to extend any to his younger sister.
Azula is a child who only has a hammer and is trying to use it to build everything because it is the only thing she has. Zuko has the entire toolbox but refuses to pick a single tool up to do the work.
the crucial fact of zuko and azula's relationship that makes it so insanely compelling is not the tried and true facets of siblings on opposite sides of a war, sibling rivalry turned murderous, or siblings who are divided by their parents' favoritism; it's the fact that despite being the older sibling, zuko is the one who doesn't care about azula while azula cares about him even when it goes against her best interest to do so. i think this makes a lot of people who want to see zuko through the fanon lens of this awkward turtle duck who's just doing his best and isn't super angry and volatile deeply uncomfortable because it so directly contradicts that reading of him unless they completely strip azula of her sympathetic and human traits. but that reading is not only unsupported by canon, it's boring.
the truth is that azula cares about zuko (in a very distorted way given how her upbringing and trauma restrict her ability to express it in a way anywhere in the area code of healthy) to the extent that because she chooses him over herself in bringing him home (because it is an insane retcon that implies she is near omnipotent to say she knew for certain the avatar was not really dead and was just going to scapegoat zuko, not to mention it makes very little sense and is, again, boring), she loses everything. and zuko cares so little for azula that he only feels anything remotely close to grief about it all when he sees just how badly she's hurting.
as much as i think his redemption arc leaves to be desired in terms of the political implications of it, zuko does have a good heart. he does want to do the right thing. it's just that azula has always been his blind spot, and that makes their relationship so much more interesting.
#atla#fire hazard siblings#the problem with using hammers is when some things don't take well to hammering#and i'm very serious that zuko is the one with ANY context for other tools#other healthier ways to express love and affection because he experienced them to a far greater degree than his sister ever did#honestly expecting azula to be demonstratively soft in her caring is some ex nihilo shit#(although half of turtleduck Zuko fandom seems to think 'good sibling' equals 'fawning sycophantic doormat'#and the other half seems to think it equals 'violent attack dog but only if Zuko gets to hold the leash')
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#batteries are hard#no really storing energy for use later is a hard problem if you want to do it at massive scales#remember when people were all talking about hydrogen fuel cells? it's not that the idea didn't work it's the scale#and the cost to create batteries that can handle the load
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They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven’t had your “third” death. You decide to find out why.
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