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THE SCENERY OF THE LEGEND OF KORRA

it doesn’t mean a damn thing if they love you if they’re not treating you well. loving you doesn’t mean they’re good, and it doesn’t mean they deserve you, and it doesn’t mean they treat you properly.

it doesn’t mean fucking SHIT if bad parents love you. it doesn’t mean SHIT if a bad partner or bad friend loves you.

pidge wants to leave the team in season 1 and comes to realise that the paladins need her and she can’t act on her personal feelings but that lesson is thrown out the window in season 5 when she’s blinded by her emotions & basically forces the team to exchange a prisoner with enormous knowledge of the galra empire for her dad? and is NEVER shown to reflect on her actions?? 

allura’s arc in season 1 & 2 is about unlearning her prejudices (side note: NO ONE - not even shiro - stood up for keith when she treated him like shit. they’re literally the worst friends a guy could have) but then returns to her black-and-white thinking just one (1) season later. then there’s “crystal venom” - allura letting go of her father and becoming her own person, but now in season 5 she’s all about becoming a great alchemist - an “interest” of hers that was never brought up before. not to mention her magic abilities are used as a wild card, she just gets Power Ups whenever it’s convenient at the moment and ugh

in season 3 it’s revealed that alternate realities exist (something that hasn’t been of importance since then) and allura has to learn that she can’t trust everyone blindly, but now in season 5 she’s written as conveniently naive so it’s easier for lotor to manipulate her like……wh y,.

there’s so much more stuff like how the paladins only became wary of kuron after is ideals clashed with THEIRS, but not when keith - the person closest to shiro - was so fuckgi n uncomfortable around him. also, half of season 3 focused on lotor’s trans-reality comet and the sincline ships just for them to be never brought up again (just like alternate realities i guess), and i honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the oriande subplot is yet another thing in vld that doesn’t actually matter in the long run. and i’m just so frustrated bc the pacing is horrible and at this point the plot is shaping the characters when it should be the other way around, so watching vld feels kinda like this:

There are so many young people who are pro-censorship to a frightening degree, happy to shame people for not meeting their impossible and subjective standards of morality, who seem to be almost incapable of thinking critically rather than in black and white, emotionally rather than factually based terms, who consider thought-crimes worse than actual actions that people take against others, and who—quite frankly—seem like they’d be absolutely thrilled to live in an Orwellian dystopia because they’re under the ironic belief that if everyone around them is corralled and controlled and forced to live lives based on what they think is pure and wholesome and good then the world will be a perfect place.

There’s such a lack of critical thinking, unwillingness to see nuance in any argument, and just a lack of the basic human understanding that people are different from one another and that one individual experience is not the end all/be all of all experiences on this site that it’s just honestly disturbing and, in many cases, basically cult-like.

And I get that this is a positivity blog and this post might not ‘fit’ here but positivity isn’t just “uwu you’re valid” text set against a pastel pink background, it’s also encouraging people to think and to act and to live in a way that is understanding of other people, to be an open-minded observer to the world and to think critically and be willing to listen and to learn, and there are many, many people on tumblr who not only do not want to do that but who happily embrace their ignorance, their hate, and their refusal to even consider that they could ever be wrong about anything even when the facts are shoved directly under their nose and…that is seriously not a good way to live as an individual and it’s an absolutely harmful impediment to any kind of community or society that people may try to build.

If you want to do something positive in your life and the lives of others and you take any piece of advice from this blog then take this: listen more and talk less, think before you react, try to understand other people and where they’re coming from even in cases where you feel like you’d rather bash your head against the wall than put yourself in their shoes, and try your absolute hardest to unlearn your black and white/all good or all evil thinking (or at least learn how to recognize it and think past it) because I promise you that it’s going to be complete poison to every single aspect of your life if you don’t.

then i begin to treat them how they treat me

and that’s when people usually notice that there’s a problem

“you acting different”

Again this is my personal take on color! It really depends on the situation and what you personally value, and in the end practice is your best friend.

links:

genice’s color practices

color palette challenge (one iteration of it; there’s lot of people who made them)

(not mentioned, but helpful)

Patrick (H) Willems’s video essays on color in film; specifically his ones on

Wonder Woman and Marvel

I thought he had one on John Wick too but I can’t find it. If you like saturated colors though, check that movie out!!