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The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?

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going insane about Three Stories to an audience of no one because the way House retells things is genuinely so interesting. everything is exaggerated. patients are merely caricatures of themselves. carmen electra is there.
i have SO MANY THINGS to say about this episode and i'm not even halfway through it oh my god. house's version of cameron is so...polite. soft spoken. overly caring. caricature cameron. this is not cameron. and the guys are barely there which...could mean nothing...but this is immediately after the episode with house and cameron's date...
here is some more misc season 8 fanart :))
going insane about Three Stories to an audience of no one because the way House retells things is genuinely so interesting. everything is exaggerated. patients are merely caricatures of themselves. carmen electra is there.
i just don’t get it. where are all the women. where are all the women in your fanfictions. are they all out of town? did they all go on vacation together? do they all have a dentist appointment at the same time?

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In Avatar fics the seems to be a trend where Toph put her hand on peoples face's (usually Zuko's?) to see them and I can't help but imagine that if she wanted to see someone's face she would get them to lie in the dirt (or trip them into it) face first then put her hands on the ground to let earth sense see for her
I will say that the "Toph is the chaotic violent tank gremlin who wins every fight" bit the avatar fandom does is getting pretty old. Like it is fun. But I think a lot of people will genuinely not acknowledge any "weakness" from Toph? I sometimes feel like the fandom was trying really hard to not assign her the typical "weakness" and "vulnerability" that is usually attributed to disabled characters and the pendulum swung too far in the other direction. Like i barely see an good critical analysis of Toph. All the stupid "katara is the Gaang's mom" takes exist because of people ignoring Toph's emotional issues in the chase and the runaway. Toph just feels really ignored in the respect of the complex, tragic characted she is, in favour of the "hehe Toph could beat Ozai" jokes.
Yeah, Toph gets treated very reductively ime. In the show, most of her flaws are emotional – she can't ask for help, she's not good at talking feelings or showing affection (punching people doesn't count), she tries to be detached about everything, and later on, she's a terrible mother.
But in fanon, all of those emotional complexities are dropped for "haha eaarthbender go punch" :/
Exactly! Toph has such deep complexities as a character, but a lot of people just ignore that. It's annoying, because it cheapens not only her character, but also her relationships with others.
I wrote like exactly one meta on Toph. I'm pretty proud of it, but it's not only just about the only one I've written, but (with maybe like one exception) just about the only meta I've ever seen anyone write about her. The ATLA fandom isn't interested in things other than "Toph smash," and that's a shame. Maybe someday I'll have more ideas on what I can say about her. I hope I do, because it seems like very few other people are the least bit interested in saying anything substantive about her.
No, because why the fuck did Iroh leave Zuko alone to deal with ruling a nation that is hated by the world.
if I had to guess it would be to avoid having Zuko looking like a puppet... Which means Zuko has like Mai and Ty Lee as Fire Nation allies and Ty Lee leaves early on I think...
I like to imagine Azulon played favourites between Iroh and Ozai.
I was recently rewatching Zuko Alone, one of my favourite episodes in ATLA, and I was struck by the elderly Firelord Azulon, a seemingly joyless and cruel man, responding to Ozai's request to make him Fire Lord. When Ozai asks his father to revoke Iroh's birthright and make him, the second son, the Fire Lord, Azulon doesn't immediately call him a traitor. He doesn't use the word treason at all.
He says, "You suggest I betray Iroh? My firstborn? Directly after the demise of his only beloved son? I think Iroh has suffered enough. But you? Your punishment has scarcely begun."
The word "betray" is so interesting here, it's doing so much. It suggests a bond of loyalty between Azulon and Iroh. He goes on to describe Lu Ten as a "beloved son", which is such a warm and loving phrase for these merciless dictators who don't seem to have any kindness to spare for their own family. Azulon obviously favours Iroh and by extension Lu Ten, and we see this when he goes on to demand that Ozai kill Zuko.
Zuko is not, in Azulon's eyes, a "beloved" grandson. Likely because he is Ozai's firstborn, and Azulon doesn't actually seem to like Ozai. Iroh losing his son is "suffering enough", but Ozai losing his son is "a punishment that has scarcely begun".
It suggests to me that Iroh was always Azulon's favourite, and Ozai has resented this for years. It's not just that Iroh was the crown prince, the heir to the throne. It's because Iroh was born luckier than Ozai. Because their father loved him more.
And I think this is probably intensified by their sharp personality differences. Iroh is warm, funny, kind, thoughtful. Even when he was a conquering general attacking Ba Sing Se, he sent gifts for his nephew and niece. Perhaps they weren't the best gifts (Zuko loves his knife, but he sent Azula a doll), but my point is, can you picture Ozai sending Lu Ten a present? Even a bad one?
Later on, in the "Firebending Masters" episode, Zuko says that Iroh killed the last dragon "long before (Zuko) was born", meaning that Iroh was STILL a conquering warlord type when he met Ran and Shaw, and he still lied to keep them safe. Meaning that he was never as cruel as Ozai, and he always had a greater appreciation for the world, even at his worst.
And this man is Azulon's firstborn and favourite son. It must burn Ozai up, pun intended lol. He probably never could understand the bond between Azulon and Iroh, he was probably always on the outside, seething with jealousy and resentment and convinced that he'd make a better Fire Lord because he was more ruthless than Iroh.
And this trickles down to the way Ozai treats his own children. Zuko, for reasons that I've often found inexplicable, was always on Ozai's shit-list. Yeah perhaps it was because Zuko was just not as prodigious as Azula, but also I think it's because Zuko frankly reminded him too much of Iroh. And he's trying to compensate for those feelings of resentment by favouring the spare, Azula. Even if Zuko hadn't been banished, I really doubt Ozai would have let him succeed the throne. He'd have given it to Azula because she is the second child, and Ozai himself is a bitter and resentful second child who had to live in his brother's shadow all his life.
Maybe this is all just a big reach but I find it interesting to think about, haha. I often wonder what kind of bond Azulon and Iroh must have shared. Perhaps they laughed over tea together. It's fascinating to try and fill in the gaps.
About certain scene
Whenever I read yet again that Azula is a monster because, as an 11-year-old, she smiled when she saw Ozai publicly scarring Zuko, I think of, for example, the cute children of 14th-century Italy who amused themselves by attacking prisoners sentenced to execution and literally tearing them to pieces. Optionally, they could, for example, go to the deceased's wife with the severed head and show her this gift through the window. And what's characteristic is that such children's behavior was considered an act pleasing to God by the church. Some priests who observed such reprisals even wrote that they saw divine providence in it. Children are essentially immoral. Morality in children is shaped by society. And the morality of different societies in different periods of history is different. How many people looked on with disgust at that execution?
Literally only Iroh, and even he simply watched, but did nothing or said anything. But he is the eldest son of Azulon and a whole general and the Dragon of the West, but he just watches and that’s all.
And one more thing. Zuko in this scene was portrayed as a cowardly brat, capable of nothing but barking on old man, and then, when it came down to fight with strongest adult firebender, he chickened out. Compared to him, you really feel sorry for Aang, but not for Zuko. Because Aang's actions were proactive, not pathetic capitulation to circumstances. Going against authority and his predetermined destiny was a very manly act on his part. And compare that to Zuko, who, on his knees, begging for mercy with tears in his eyes. He could have resisted at least a little; it would have been more honorable for him.
It would probably also got him (Zuko) killed. There might also be a difference between picking a fight with a general and picking a fight with your father, the guy with the divine right to rule over you. Also Aang got like 3 seasons of prep time to pick that fight (sure he's like 1 year younger than Zuko was, but Aang also has the benefit of being the strongest bender.... and started the show as a master Airbender)
What does manliness have to do with anything?

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Maybe -- just MAYBE -- don't spit on other characters and ships and works when the artist you congratulate and reblog from also draws those?
Behold esama's rules for writing dialogue*
These are rules I generally adhere to in my own writing, they aren't gospel or meant to be the end all be all of writing. Also it should be noted that like all rules, these too are made to be broken when and where it serves the text. This is not about grammar or Correct Use of King's English™, this is just a list of personal style choices.
you've heard of death of the author, now get ready for death of the audience: where instead of basing your reaction on a thousand uninformed opinions online, you actually read the text and engage with it
girl help there's people on this post who can't actually read my text
It's such an amazing feeling when someone picks up on something in your writing that you 100% intended but didn't think people would notice. Like, YES!! My writing properly conveyed the thing it was supposed to!!! You are so awesome for noticing that!!! I am so awesome for writing that!!! I feel so good about my story now!!!!
i think i don't really vibe with most other fans of my favorite male characters is because they usually depict them too much of a man, and i am not interested in men, i am interested in The Character. and i am not saying that they should depict them as women, or nonbinary, or should depict them as feminine, no, not at all. but there's like, you know, you can depict a male character as The Character, and you can depict them as The Man. do you get me? like, i go to the fandom looking for art and fics, and it's just, regardless of his actual characterization, it's all just fantasizing about some kind of an abstract dominant patriarch, wearing my favorite character's face. it may be the most totally-wouldnt-have-normal-relationships (and sometimes even would-literally-abuse-you) kind of guy, and you join a dedicated space for his fans, and all they talk about is how they want to marry and start a tradcore 50s style nuclear family with him. it can be a guy who's arrogance and attempts of domination are explicitly shown to be a facade that hide the fact that he's actually kind of a massive pathetic wet loser, and you go to his fics, and they're all depicting him as a caricaturish daddy dom. at this point it's like, do you even like the character at all, or do you just like The Man, and project this man onto whatever character you find visually attractive? and these people kind of, really really poison actual discussion of the character, who is kind of a fucked up evil person (i only like *those* types, so im talking about them) because they see analysis of the actual character as an attack on their fantasized daddy dom husband, who is actually isn't The Character at all, and is simply a face of the day for The Man

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it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!
Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian but it’s Toxic by Britney Spears
I’m gonna propose something: if your combat/ass-kicking sequence can’t fit to a top 40 female-vocalist Banger like “Toxic” or “Mama Mia” or “I Need a Hero” you’re not Doing It Right.
At this point its starting to feel like Editors are using 140-150bpm as a standard for action sequences, and I cant say I hate it.
I agree wholeheartedly with every point above but I watched this first with the sound off because I forgot that was an option and what struck me most is how efficient Luke's lightsaber style is. Almost every flourish he makes and all of what, 2 entire spins?, is defensive to better parry blaster fire while nearly every offensive swing he makes is basically a head or chest level kill shot. If I had to make a guess about his character I'd say this vintage twink has probably Seen Some Shit and maybe comes from a background where resources are scarce and help is far away so if you get in a fight you have to end it before it starts or you're dead meat
deeply want a time travel fic where Luke visits the old republic and the Jedi are like “that’s not a dueling style” and luke is like “yea am not doing much dueling tbh”