honestly the Netflix live action and animated avatar are both improved if you think of them as narrative foils

like, yeah, the live action is just a money grab. But if you treat it as a sort of, alternate version of the same story and compare the two, it reveals and highlights some interesting things about the characters, their world, and the audience.

And yeah, not all of it is super good. Like how current audiences are less interested in seeing specific kinds of character development (looking at you, Sokka's misogyny arc)/less forgiving of different things than they once were.

And some of the stuff I find most fascinating is the stuff people are mad about. Like, the whole "Kyoshi gives Aang a vision to drive him to the north faster instead of stopping to ride the koi etc."

The live action has both: cast people who actually look like children to play the kids (it's easy to forget animatedAang is 12. Much harder to forget live action Aang is.) and also removed a lot of their immaturity.

It's like "Hey! Kids are fighting this war! And they don't get to be kids in this version!"

I dunno, it's just interesting to me to see these stories as foils instead of focusing on which one is the better version.

having adhd and being a creator is like being on a timer. oh sorry you have this art idea? well you have approximately 12 hours to start it and 6 hours to finish the task or else you will lose interest and inevitably move on. oh you have an idea for a one-shot? well you’d better finish it in a day unless you want to banish it to your wips forever. ding dong bitch

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howdy pals!! i’ve been taking some time away from my wip to recover from university work, so i’d like to hear more about yours instead! :-)

💭  tell me the premise of your wip using up to 5 emojis and i will reply with a wildly uneducated guess 

🏞👹🤐🏕♥️🔥

This is a manipulation tactic that men use to make it such a pain in the ass to set a boundary with them that you don’t attempt it again

Say “good idea” and keep it pushing

No but really. When anyone does this to me my response is always “well, if you can’t talk to me without talking about X, then yeah, that’s really the only solution.”

When they get defensive about “our friendship/relationship/etc really means so little to you???” Come back with “Ive always thought our relationship was built on more than whether or not I find X funny, but if it isn’t, then we’re not really compatible.”

It sets the boundary while getting across exactly how ridiculous they’re being.

you steal one girl’s astronomer boyfriend and here comes all her different lives to murder you 🙄 pack it up rose and roxie and rose and the photographer and

this is why I love this joke:

Jesus was fond of telling his followers not to worry about how they’d afford food tomorrow because God would provide. But Jesus told them this while handing out free bread and encouraging them to help people who were in need, making them the outlet through which God would provide for others

My mother was a waitress, we live in an area that has a lot of Christians and people would often stiff her on tips. Instead they’d leave a pamphlet with quotes from Jesus saying not to worry because God would provide

Jesus’ message was never that God would magically put food on people’s tables. God would provide opportunities to help each other, like the boat captains offering to help the dying man. That only works if people actually help each other

When I first heard this joke as a teenager I laughed at the guy who didn’t take the help that was offered to him. As an adult, I think of all the Christian politicians who vote against food stamps and I want to tell them “You were the boat captain but you steered away from the man in need instead of offering him help. Is that really what God wanted you to do?”

hey hellsite

I was there when this whole thing popped off (literally the first to respond to OP) and I still haven’t gotten over it. The entitlement alone. It’s outrageous.

You know what thats awesome! Thats the scream of a man who died like 3000 years ago

MC RIDE???

... is that what started all of this???

the difference between tumblr and twitter is that pretty much everyone on tumblr needs some kind of compassionate intervention in their lives, but at a low background level. Twitter has 99% normies succumbing to internet brainrot and 1% just the most outlandish personalities you’ve ever seen. 

your average tumblr personality is a shaking dog in a Sarah McLachlan appeal, with enough time and care they can be rehabilitated and placed in a loving home. your average big-time twitter account should be sent to a prison colony on the moon

how quickly we forget our past on this site…

Friend I was here for the bone stealing witch. Even as the sun and moon hid their eyes and averted their gaze I saw the witch walk without fear of the laws of God nor man and steal those bones and sell them on etsy. The amputated toe. The breast milk jewelry. A man who against any law of heaven desires to own another human as a pet reblogged my star wars discourse posts. You want to talk about racefaking cannibal mermaids?? Bah! How many kickstarter scams for cartoons that sounded unbearably twee have come and gone? How many stars risen and fallen? I remember when this site had a sizable userbase of meth enthusiast who just posted aesthic shots of their stash and rigs. Where are those crank aficionados now? Gone like so many others. And yet I remain! 

And when I tell you that twitter is worse than any of that you should heed my words!! 

#DO NOT CITE THE DEEP MAGIC TO ME WITCH#I WAS THERE WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN

I had forgotten about the bone witch 😔

workshopping a YA novel where the government divides everyone into social classes based on whether they like cilantro or think it tastes like soap

on their 12th birthday everyone has to try cilantro for the first time in front of the whole community and report back on their opinion so they can be properly categorized and she says “it’s okay i guess” and she gets dragged offstage by the pro-cilantro government militia

groundbreaking concept! how do we shoehorn it into a love triangle

guy from an island where they've never heard of cilantro

May i offer some worldbuilding?

The cilantro division began because of eugenics. Protagonist and co. discover that the cilantro-tastes-like-soap gene is also linked to something the government finds undesirable. Empathy, maybe, or a genetic lean towards non-conformity. And/or the cilantro-tastes-good gene is linked to things like obedience. These links, we discover later, are bullshit, but those in power believe in it so fiercely they’ve based an entire society around it.

The soap class is given every disadvantage and taught they deserve it to prevent them from having the ability to rise up, while the cilantro tastes good folks are taught they are the chosen ones. Cilantro would be considered sacred. Not a god in and of itself, but used in the worship of gods. The soap class is given the “sacred duty” of growing cilantro for those in power.

Also I think the best friend character should be a guy who loves cilantro but pretends it’s terrible so he can stay with his family (who all hate it.)

And as the story goes on we find more and more people are lying about their feelings on cilantro which is something protagonist never considered because her whole family has always loved cilantro, and lots of people in the soap class never considered lying because the propaganda is shoved so deep in their psyche they genuinely believe they deserve their fate to some extent, and people in the tastes good class are actually exposing their children to cilantro early on so that even if they hate it they can get used to it so they can pretend to like it, and families in the tastes good class are regularly ripped apart by a child who thinks it tastes like soap because if I like cilantro and you like cilantro and our child doesn’t like cilantro, then one of us is lying about something.

In the end, we realize the classes were never based on cilantro at all, because of all the manipulation the upper class was doing. It’s always been based on propaganda and convincing one group of people they were worthless to get yourself and your friends ahead.

Why do I keep losing things? Aka Nothing good has ever come from trying to "just not forget"

(I whipped up a quick comic cause I had a joke on my mind, but I'll be doing a whole graphic on coping with memory issues!)

The last panel is based on an incredible video by How to ADHD

The saying out loud thing is legit. It’s the only thing that keeps me from constantly forgetting packages in my mail truck.

bitches see a text and are like ‘ill reply when i have the social and emotional energy for it’ and then forget about it for a week....anyway i’m bitches