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#ml #miraculous ladybug #yall who are voting yes #don't lie to us #the show is shit with good enough worldbuilding to make up for it

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I'm curious let's go

#who the fuck would win between two actresses #ill say my discord icon cuz she’s wearing that heavy hand ornament and can beat the other person with it

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all the second hand embarassment was worth it for that twist.

that being said, this entire show from sun jae's perspective is definitely a came back wrong/monkey's paw shit.

you move in, and develop a crush on the girl next door. despite having a face that looks like yours and being as tall as a fucking tree, she is somehow oblivious to your existence. then, she randomly comes in and hugs you during the middle of swim practice, proclaiming her love while you just stand here cuz fuck how is this real. now however, the girl you have a crush on is acting really fucking weird, and keeps making weird predictions that are surprisingly true and weirdly invasive. she also keeps randomly following you and also appears to be

#lovely runner #kim hye yoon #byeon woo seok #kdrama #korean drama #lovely runner kdrama #im sol #byun woo seok #ryu sun jae #i wanted to die watching half those scenes #more power to girly cuz i'd die if anyone did that to me or if i did that to anyone #but that twist was wild and honestly respect to the show #it certainly explains why dude puts up with her like this #right now in his head its like 'one on hand my crush loves me on the other hand she seems to like this other guy and is now weirdly invasiv #and weird.' eh. he says. you win some you lose some #anyway it could also be that dude just didn't see anything wrong up until the swim pants thing which he finds out isn't her fault #i mean dude accidentally rents porn from her family store and accidentally declines her myspace friend request #if anything her being a dumbass probably solidified his faith in himself that this could work out

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this is a really odd thing to consider with atla, but for a show that loves taking liberal scoops of hinduism, buddhism and south and east asian cultures for its worldbuilding, atla is really weird about letting its characters practice religion.

everything in atla is people taking about spirituality, defining themselves with spirituality, yet nobody engages it in the context of belief. we are given the concept of worshipped beings in the atla universe; tui and la and agni for example. but none of these gods are ever seen as gods that the characters hold belief in. we barely get a framework of belief with the earth kingdom (the earth kingdom is examined politically and never religiously in the series) which would actually be interesting because so many cultures did have a god or goddess of the earth. the water tribe goes into cultural rituals, but only for an episode. we know nothing about air nation religious practices beyond nonviolence bad and vegetarianism. even the fire nation is practically a blank slate.

it's almost like the creators were nervous at the idea of letting the characters practice a religion, even a created religion that's foreign to the majority of their (most likely christian) audience. the weddings are very christian-coded (you're telling me that the FIRE nation wouldn't have a hindu-style marriage which literally involves FIRE), and the characters are never seen worshipping or participating in cultural festivals beyond the usual 'oohh fireworks and food' type thing. normally i wouldn't care, speaking as a former kid who did spend religious festivals like that, but if you're going to put characters forward that practice eastern religions and then have them interact in the most surface level way possible, what's even the point?

#avatar the last airbender #atla #atla meta #cultural appropriation #religion in art #bryke #i guess this would be anti bryke? #religion #fire nation #earth kingdom #water tribe #air nation #worldbuilding

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there's baiting and then there's whatever this is.

#killed me #bro what is this bollywood shit #as a south asian YES #not the finger curl at the end #he wants to hold on and is left with the trace of the scarf #two seconds and more romance than the whole of kataang #atla #zutara #atla live action

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So here I was

enjoying the details of Oma and Shu in the LA: how Shu has a very Chinese-inspired hanfu outfit and Oma has a very Indian-inspired sari outfit and I realized—

—wait.

Wait.

Shu has a long blue scarf.

Well, well well.

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edited to correct Shu's outfit misidentification.

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man, all you zutara guys are way better at this shipping thing than me. i read through like ninety different metas about the symbolism of the colors associated between the two, the fact that the two of them are the emotional story arc of ATLA, and how their romance falls more into the canon themes of the franchise.....

and then i'm here like, he took lightning for her and she was aang's mom in an episode. i'm sold.

#in honor of atla live action coming out and making me revisit my atla brainrot again #atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #atla zuko #katara #atla katara #zutara #zuko x katara #katara x zuko #no offense to kataang shippers but the fact that katara played aang's mum is enough for me to debate writing an oedipus AU of atla starring #these two #special mention to me signing up for the zk big bang with no ideas

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this is strictly between christian denominations ex. anglican and catholic

reblog with your answer and your religion

#no #hindu

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this is strictly between christian denominations ex. anglican and catholic

reblog with your answer and your religion

#religion #religion tag #christianity #judaism #islam #hinduism #buddhism #sikhism #jainism #atheism #catholicism #protestantism #catholic #protestant #mormonism #baptist church #interfaithdialogue #interfaith #interfaith relationships #interfaith dialogue #sects #tw religion #religion tw

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hunger games and tbosas didn't imprint themselves on me the way that they did for many people, but it did make me wonder what the population was like for panem. oh god. where do i start with this. all of district 12 can somehow cram themselves into one waiting area so this lady can read names out of a bowl. that bowl was not full. how little people are there in this expanse of country. appalachia today has like millions of people living there. can you imagine cramming the entire of new york city into one waiting area so this one lady can pull names out of a fucking bowl. that's ignoring the other population in new york state. california has like 58 million people. televise or digitize that shit. how horrible were the conditions of panem that they can fucking herd an entire district into one waiting area when today you can barely fit an eighth of a small city into four football stadiums.

#hunger games #suzanne collins #worldbuilding #panem #the hunger games #thg #thg series #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #what happened in those wars man #i always thought that like panem was a tiny portion of the former us in like the east coast #not that it fit over the entire us area #the way they write about it it's like 50k tops for the whole population

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Manuscripts don't burn.

#the master and margarita #writing #beautiful writing

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7+8 = 15

20+40+15 = 75

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#who even are like half the people here #there's peeta #that dude from the hunger games ripoff #that novel with the marriage pageants #and edward cullen #anyway peeta ftw #thg

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pray for Israeli and Palestine sides

i do.

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the hoo books are a bit iffy at times, but i will never forget when I first read calypso is ranting about francis drake and his elizabeth and I legitimately thought that rick riordan implied that francis drake was in love with queen elizabeth I.

#pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy series #pjo series #pjo tv show #pjo hoo toa #pjo fandom #calypso #leo valdez #pjo leo #heroes of olympus #hoo #leo #pjo calypso #hoo series

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as the holidays come to a close, i'm left to wonder....

how does religion work in the pjo universe?

#pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy series #pjo series #pjo tv show #pjo hoo toa #pjo fandom #percy pjo #annabeth pjo #like i know rick riordan is a white goyische man #so he probably didn't think this through and just assumed that they all celebrated Christmas culturally #but how does religion play in the pjo universe #even if you're like christian do you just leave religion when you come to camp #like i understand that most kids are pretty irreligious and probably won't care about leaving religion #but as someone who went to religious school there's at least one kid who is devout as fuck and'll just keep practicing #also like plenty of religions practiced today are the same age as the ancient greek religion- ex. judaism and hinduism #how does that clash work-there were exchanges of jewish and hindu culture in the ancient greek era so it's safe to assume jewish and hindu #half-bloods would exist #also on the hindu can of worms- we are also a polytheistic religion #does belief in that renounce any connection to the greek gods #also the comedic potential of the clash in SO underutilized #i can see luke at some point just scraping the food into the hermes fire saying 'accept my offering- o g-d who is NOT greek' #or some other camper reciting the brahmarpanam or offering Du'a while offering food to the gods #you can't tell me at least one kid yelled up at the sky 'well i'm converting now! fuck you dad!'