#verbiage

“Can we please change the verbiage from ‘defund’ to ‘reform’?

Bandai America has made a lot of moves to eliminate the Japanese verbiage in the Tamagotchi On app. However we must keep in mind that the Japanese version and North American version are both hosted on the same servers.

Considering that SPOP (or at least this arc of SPOP) will last for 4 seasons and taking into consideration the assumption that catradora will become canon, I feel like the best way of handling Catra’s redemption arc, while still giving the main plot time to breath, would be by having her switch sides by the end of season 3 and having her spend season 4 proving herself.

Like imagine her actually having to prove to a bunch of people that hate her that she actually wants to help them and thinking about how she had it all in the Horde, but she was still so unhappy there. Give her the Zuko treatment and have her have episodes with every member of the main cast. Have Adora be her only support or, even better (or worse, if you are not a fan of angst) have Adora be the most skeptical of her.

Can you imagine an Adora that is so tired of giving Catra second chances and trying to get her to join the rebellion, that when Catra finally does so she simply doesn’t trust her anymore? And then we can have Bow and Glimmer being both their main supports. Having an outsider’s perspective, realizing how much those two matter to each other and helping them end up together in the end.

well, i love a good dosage of antagonism, but not just being enemies for enemies’ sake. i’m interested in ships where the antagonism makes them question each other, where they can have these elaborate arguments about identity and morality that really shift the axis for both of them. i mean i also love the mean-spirited banter and them having fun trashing each other, but i LOVE a good philosophical “if i’m your enemy what does that make you” quandary. i gravitate towards dark themes and aesthetics, but that shouldn’t preclude stuff like fluff, and friends-to-lovers or any of the “soft” or “vanilla” kind of pairings. it just matters how that connection is dealt with. you can have messy, unresolved fluff and ambiguous friends-to-lovers or off-putting or even "disgusting” bonds that don’t make them better people yet give them hope and comfort in solitude. so when i say “dark” i really mean painfully human and messy. anything that’s too glossed over and glittery and nice and wholesome and “we’re eating marshmallows and cuddling under a blanket and learning about trauma and consent in a safe space uwu and there’s no conflict in sight” rings incredibly hollow to me and just not human, ultimately. lol sorry for word vomit, but i hope this makes sense. 

The title of this was going to be "Can we talk about how Iida is a awesome friend?" but the introduction was too long ... This is too long in general... and I end up talking more about Todoroki than about Iida himself.

In chapter 202, Tokoyami said this without really knowing what effect it will have on Todoroki. He is partly sharing his concern that he wasn’t enough to represent Hawks. According to his own perspective, of course. Remember that he is an edgeboy after all.

Tokoyami respects Hawks a lot after that talk they had and maybe thinks that something similar can happen with Todoroki. In the end, what Tokoyami wanted to do with these words was to give Todoroki encouragement for his battle and apologize for his own performance.

But... that wasn’t what happened.

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