You could rattle the stars

Fire Lord Zuko waiting until the day he reaches the age of majority to pass this law, lest anyone think he is a coward

Zuko fights it for them.

Which, especially in more rural towns (where Agni Kais are less of a public event and more of a fast and violent duel) is terrifying because you challenge your neighbor’s kid over a stolen chicken-fish and all of a sudden the Fire Lord is showing up???

Firelord Zuko: *wakes up in a cold sweat near midnight*

For so long, all I wanted was for you to love me. To accept me. I thought it was my honor that I wanted, but really, I was just trying to please you. You, my father, who banished me just for talking out of turn. My father, who challenged me, a thirteen-year-old boy to an Agni Kai. How can you possibly justify a duel with a child? 

It was to teach you respect. It was cruel and it was wrong! Then you’ve learned nothing. No, I’ve learned everything! And I’ve had to learn it on my own. Growing up, we were taught that the Fire Nation was the greatest civilization in history, and somehow the war was our way of sharing our greatness with the rest of the world. What an amazing lie that was. The people of the world are terrified by the Fire Nation. They don’t see our greatness, they hate us! And we deserve it. We’ve created an era of fear in the world, and if we don’t want the world to destroy itself, we need to replace it with an era of peace, and kindness. 

Your uncle has gotten to you, hasn’t he? Yes, he has. After I leave here today, I’m gonna free Uncle Iroh from his prison, and I’m gonna beg for his forgiveness. He’s the one who’s been a real father to me. But I’ve come to an even more important decision. I’m going to join The Avatar, and I’m going to help him defeat you. I know my own destiny. Taking you down is The Avatar’s destiny. Goodbye.

Thiers is the idea of falling in love all at once with someone you didn’t know was there before, someone you feel right away that you’ve known forever. That, sometimes, finding your forever person means being afraid of losing them, but choosing them anyway, choosing to take it one day at a time, choosing to be there on the bad days, to do the dishes if they can’t anymore. That Jamie went from a woman who didn’t believe people were worth the weight of how exhausting they could be to someone who is willing to lovingly, gently walk through the increasing bad spots for her lover. That Dani is the kind of person who refuses to haunt someone she loves so much, that she chooses instead to guard her with a hand on her sleeping shoulder instead of dragging her down into the depths with her.

the haunting of bly manor is such a good example of well done queer horror/tragedy.

yes they did kill one of the lesbians off at the end, but they gave us their happy ending, they really did. they gave them the happy domestic romance and longing and yearning and grief all in one, and it absolutely obliterated me, but it was so beautiful.

and the most incredible thing was framing it as the fear of loss, the fear of outliving your partner who you love so deeply and completely that you cant think of anything in the world more terrifying than that.....

to then present us with a kind of acceptance, while still embracing that grief and longing...?

it was so absolutely refreshing and honest, and this series was genuinely so excellent, it really lived up to the high expectations hill house left me with. it really managed to be just as impactful and beautifully crafted, while doing something that was simultaneously so different and so similar.

it was its own unique story, and explored some important themes of its own, but it tied itself thematically to the first series in such a natural, fluid way.......

grief, guilt, loss, desperation, longing, and in a very poignant way, moving on.

Jamie in all the years after dani's final sacrifice never once saw her even though she kept looking for her in every reflection and she left the door open just a crack hoping Dani would come back. We know from what she narrated that viola kept forgetting more and more about who she was, her sister, her husband and eventually her daughter. We also know it happened quite rapidly because the plague outbreak happened a decade after she became the lady of the lake and she had already forgotten a number of things so I guess in two or three decades at most Viola was already empty, without any clues as to her previous life.

Jamie, knowing this, must have assumed the same happened to Dani. Forgetting her identity, her desires and eventually the love of her life over the course of what I assume are three decades from dani's sacrifice to the wedding. But we know that's not what happened because although Jamie can't see her Dani is there with her meaning she remembers her wife, her best friend and true love. Dani's soul already was fundamental in breaking the curse because she wouldn't trap anyone in bly manor unlike viola so what if she affected the forgetting process too? What if it happens at a much slower rate because viola was consumed with rage while Dani was overwhelmed with love? What if it doesn't happen at all and Dani gets to remember Jamie forever? I don't know what to hope for but I am hopeful.

And Bly manor is like: we’re going to explore the trauma of loving someone despite risk of losing them in its many forms and we’re going to do it through ghosts who ‘possess’ rather than love, show multiple levels of love and loss and the haunting is going to come from a person who was forgotten by those she loved rather than the house itself.