Anxious Chupacabra

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!"

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.”

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

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.

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!)