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The Netflix adaptation of Avatar the Last Airbender was good actually!!!!

It’s not a one to one replica. It’s its own thing. It hits all the important story beats and (in my opinion) improves on many of the characters characterizations.

It’s ok to love both the original and the adaptations. I recommend anyone basing their decision of this show solely on the super-fans of the internet to do yourself a favor and give it a shot anyway.

It’s very clear to me that a lot of people gave it their all in making this show. The actors and actresses knocked it out of that park. The writing was decent and cohesive, and I’d be remiss to not give the effects team their due.

Please stop tearing these wonderful works down without first giving them a chance.

(apologising for the irrelevant tags on this long post but i just wanted this to reach as many fans as possible as we together make the kpop community)

here’s something about someone i’ve been meaning to address for a while now, lana, or by her birth name Eugenia Svetlana, debuting as a kpop idol.the mention of her stirred up some issues and arguments that i’d just want to give my personal opinion on.

she really shouldn’t be under the kpop label.

lana is russian, purely white, her family is european and in no way is she an asian girl. yet she continues to edit her photos to look more ‘korean’ by changing her eyes and nose, and exactly in what way does that not make her a koreaboo?like?? ma’am you are a white woman, please.

she could always go and start a career in any white (people) dominated country because that’s a place white people are in, everywhere. the mainstream media, where you will hardly ever see asian people flourish because there is absolutely no representation for them. after so many goddamn years kpop found a well deserved spot in the west and the mainstream eye without a 90% racist feedback. fucking finally. korean pop helped get other asians a well deserved seat in the achievements by using the help of mixed cultures. yes, not all kpop idols are korean, but they are all asian or at least mixed, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Indian.

as for nationalities, there are idols like Hong Joshua, Kim Matthew, Johnny, felix, chris and Park Chae Young (only to name 4 from a whole lot) who are from 

the west. but what’s similar about them?

they are korean. these musically talented people wouldn’t even get a chance in their countries because of their respective culture and race, which is why kpop was a home to them where they could stand on high positions without feeling like a minority in front of the rest of the industry and get thrown comments like “oh you’re probably good at maths” or “do you like,,, really eat,, dogs? i have a dog at home at that hurts me so much!”

there are too,some mixed idols. the reason they are accepted in because they are korean as well and face those same kinds of discrimination along with that, they share the same history and culture. Hansol,  Samuel and Kai.

But when the audience learnt that Samuel was half Mexican, his popularity and votings dropped drastically. Because of the flawed idea of perfection and beauty in not just Korea but also Asia as a whole. This is the same flawed and delusional standard that Lana is taking advantage of, by mixing her white self into the asian market as an asian.

Here’s a little example of how our standards are a slap on the face kind of bullshit.

As an asian myself let me just tell you how many times a day my TV tells me that I should be light skinned, how many relatives meet me and ask me that I’m not as fair skinned as I used to be and that’s making me less appealing or how my mother tells me to put something on my face before leaving the house so I don’t look dark.

And here we have Lana, using her white features and skin and body while dressing up asian, editing her eyes and nose and debuting under an asian label as the perfect asian beauty standard. Calling herself a Korean idol despite her zero relevance to the race or culture or even nationality. Wow. feuling those same sick ideas.

THIS IS A WHITE WOMAN FROM A PURELY WHITE ANCESTORY.

In no means am I saying that she’s a horrible human being or whatever the fuck, I’m sure she’s nice and probably good at idk , knitting, you choose. But my point only is that simply doing all THIS is so odd and disturbing. Let us have our space and freedom to see ourselves gain achievements let it be only on a single platform- it’s all we have. Literally all we have. Flying over to Korea to debut without absolutely any relation to asia makes no sense and trying to look a different race is so creepy ??

We’d all even overlook half these issues if her talent was admirable, but damn son, I’m really sorry to be this rude but I sat down to watch her stage performance completely open-minded… and it was terrible. So what really is making her an idol let alone a KOREAN IDOL? It wouldn’t be such an issue if she was In a group too, but she’s solo, a white solo koreaboo.

Maybe you might see this as a reach but for someone who lives in a country that was finally freed from colonisers just 70 years ago (people of that era are still alive so take that into perspective) and was crippled economically and culturally making us hate our own skins and languages, I’m sure I know how a foreigner comes to what you’ve created, smiling like a friend and shifts the standards and makes something your community set up for themselves and their happiness into their own.

And no, I’m not into supporting the whole idea of bullying her in her comment section or making fun of her to hurt her feelings, it’s dumb and doesn’t make us any better, but what I certainly do encourage is raising the knowledge of why her debut is bad and why her Korean fetishisation is gross and how her place would be anywhere in her country or America or any other white place but absolutely not the ONLY industry made BY Asians FOR asians.

…but lately I’ve been seeing more and more people tearing other people’s favorite groups down because of lack of achievements/popularity/international recognition/literally any reason/etc. They’re not always direct snubs, but that “my group is better than yours” kind of mentality doesn’t get anyone anywhere. It just makes people upset and starts fights between fandoms that lead to an increasingly toxic environment for everyone.

And if you’re a guy and you notice some creep is following or stalking a girl, and that she’s obviously uncomfortable or panicked, go ahead and say hi, long time no see, pretend to be her cousin, and tell her discretly you noticed there was a shady guy. Ask her if something’s wrong, if she feels unsafe, if she wants your help (very important - she may not trust you enough, no one could blame her, don’t take it personally). (and don’t you dare take advantage of the help you offered for a flirt opportunity, that would make you no better than the creep)

“JUNGKOOK COULDN’T PROPERLY SAY “HIDE THE ARMY BOMBS” AND LOOK WHAT HE DID OMG PROTECT HIM”

Hi~

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