#because he is a smol bean

[comradekatara]

You've mentioned Zuko's "inability to kill" before, so could I ask you to elaborate on that?

sure. zuko is banished for, essentially, committing treason. he says to ozai that he was banished for "speaking out of turn," but simply speaking out of turn is not actually why ozai banished him. zuko said that people shoudn't have to die for the sake of further empowering the fire nation, and that goes against their nation's entire ethos. zuko lacks, as azula puts it, that "killer instinct that is just so fire nation."

while zuko does set fire to suki's village in his quest to capture aang, and you could argue that he may have committed other such acts offscreen, we never actually see him outright kill anyone. unlike zhao, who kills the moon, and azula, who kills aang in a manner that would have ended the entire avatar line had katara not revived him, zuko threatens and intimidates and harms, but when it comes down to it, he does not actually kill, because he simply cannot.

he threatens to kill zhao, and if he had killed zhao, no one in the audience would fault him for it. zuko does not even burn him upon winning their agni kai, going against custom; zhao calls him a coward for it. zhao tries to kill zuko on multiple occasions, including when he blows up zuko's entire ship. but, when the ocean spirit is dragging zhao under, zuko still extends his hand in a futile attempt to save zhao. contrast this scene with sokka arguing to leave zuko for dead in the same episode. he legitimately does not have a problem with letting zuko die, because, as he says, zuko would do the same thing to them (at least, sokka seems to think so).

sokka kills combustion man, toph kills yu and xin fu, and neither of them have any regrets. conversely, katara cannot kill yon rha, and aang cannot kill ozai. like sokka and toph, they are justified in killing these men, perhaps even more so (since yin and xin fu did not actually attempt to kill toph, "only" kidnap her), but they ultimately choose mercy. like zuko on kyoshi island, aang and katara's actions, such as blowing up the factory in jang hui, may have had indirect casualties (i don't count aang being merged with the ocean spirit because he was not truly in control), but they are never able to kill directly, because when faced with another human being, regardless of how much they may hate them, their pathos prevents them from delivering that killing blow.

zuko, as a foil to aang and katara and the deuteragonist of the narrative, is also someone whose instincts prevent him from being the cold-blooded killer his nation expects of him. it is why, unlike the rest of his family (including iroh), he is unable to produce lightning; he is too sensitive to become the perfect weapon his father wants him to be, which is why azula's reveal is so thrilling and terrifying to the audience, because she is what ozai wants in a protege, unlike zuko, who try as he might, fails at embodying the fire nation values of ruthlessness and power at any cost.

#some caveats before anyone misinterprets me: #1) zuko has still done awful things. i am not saying that he is 'inherently good' or that because he has 'good inside him' that makes it ok #just as i am not saying that azula is 'inherently evil' for having that killer instinct. morality is far more complicated than that #this isn't a 'zuko smol bean uwu' post. i'm just stating facts from the show #just because he never directly killed anyone and just because he was abused into believing he was doing the right thing #does not mean that he did not do bad things (burning suki's village being the most tangible harm we see him cause iirc) #he just cannot kill people directly which is crucial to understanding his character esp as he relates to aang and katara #2) i am not faulting sokka and toph for killing people! and anyone who thinks that i am saying that is a dumbass. ok bye #asks #zuzuthelord #analysis #zuko #not tagging everyone else

[soullessjack]

Also just since my one jack-psychosis post made its rounds i’d love to add on these things for extra salt in the wound:

-> “jack smiles, so happy to be so needed, so loved.”

-> “they’ll never want to be friends again.” [“and that’s important to you?”] “they raised me. taught me to be who i am.”

#HE LOVED THEM SO MUCH NO WONDER HE WENT INSANE OVER LOSING THEM 😭😭😭 #also can this be the start of the fandom actually talking about him….paychisus included we are simply very lacking in jack meta #we’re lacking any acknowledgment of jack that isn’t a condensed ableist mischaracterization lmao #spn #supernatural #jack kline #sam winchester #dean winchester #tfw2.0 #castiel #spn scripts #spn meta #spn 14x19 #cannot stress enough that the idea of him as just being their adoptive baby to fix everything and make it all domestic is a gross #misrepresentation of how TFW2.0 actually works and how exactly jack feels about them #they’re his friends they’re his dads they’re IMPORTANT to him and he’s not only willing to harm/risk/sabotage himself for them #but he’s also very VERY willing to kill for them too #which is also highly glossed over in the fandom bc precious smol bean-ification runs rampant around here but i digress #guy who would very easily destroy the world because his surrogate fathers are his world 😝😝🥹

[onlyzhuyilong]

“Zhu YiLong usually shows a mature calm side in the public eye, but in private he has a child-like nature. When he entered the interview room that day he saw there was no camera so Zhu YiLong comfortably put his feet up on the bars under the chair, and wrapped his arms around his knees, and curled himself up into a comfortable ball. He was just more relaxed when being interviewed when the cameras were off and he could just speak without overthinking things.”

(a/n interviewer describes him as 孩子气 (haiziqi which mean literally “childish” though probably better phrase in English as child-like or young at heart (?) (or as I call him a certified smol bean in his natural habitat))

#he is really a smol bean #zhu yilong #朱一龙 #朱一龍 #주일룡 #text posts #all I can call him as a nickname is BaoBao because he is a BaoBao :c

[boxwinebaddie]

this ask about whether ravenstan ever gets to read jerseykyle’s letters from his special stan notebook is taking me a while because i’m in the writing mood and want it to sound really nice, but there’s this soul crushing part i just finished writing abt kyle often not even using the journal to write stan letters, but rather, as a utility tool where he takes down notes of things he needs to remember or…grocery lists for things the house needs.

and i wrote this little stream of consciousness about how kyle feels in grocery stores that broke my heart a little and i wanted to share it with all of you because i think it speaks a lot to how he’s struggling and how his broken psyche works and whirs almost robotically. anyways there is a large tw for ed, please heed that warning and read with caution. i promise i never write from a place of shock value, my work is always written as a cautionary tale and an authentic depiction of just how much our warped perceptions can alter out real lives.

#nina writes sometimes #i wrote about this in og rm6 #but i feel like i like this much better because its v poignant #and really shows you how much kyle goes thru each day #how much he punishes himself and how imperfect he feels #how he seems so hardlined and regimeted #but little fantasies of stan keep him grounded #that he is a romantic loving and gentle thing at heart #even if he pretends not to have one and thinks that he #is not made for something like love #idk i can never tell if the things i write are well written #but i wanted yall to get a glimpse into jersey's psyche #because i find him extremely interesting as a protagonist #because i feel like a lot of protags are very like i'm a smol bean lol i'm sweet good and likeable; i like that jersey is so unpleasant #i like that he's a very unreliable narrator whose narration is very shrewd skuewed and negative #i feel like it subverts that genre and flips the whole troupe on its head which is kind of what rem(ember) is all about #i espec wanted it to feel that way when we learned stan isnt a smarmy sexy suave rockstar but is actually super awkward #idk i like my weird little au world i hope you enjoy this

[obstinatecondolement]

I am still in my feelings about that "I didn't transition to look like Elliot Page: I wanted to look like Hank Hill" thing because like?? Very fucking rude to Elliot Page first of all?? What the fuck is the subtext here? That he doesn't look enough like a "real" man and is some kind of dilettante who we shouldn't take seriously until he mans up, or something?

Also like... as far as I know Page is not attracted to men, but it feels vaguely homophobic? "I want to be a Normal Straight Man who looks like a Regular Guy not a fucking [slur redacted]" Like fuck off? And it had so many notes! How is policing the gender presentation of other transmasc people being so roundly fucking applauded, oh my god.

#like I've also been seeing a lot of transition timeline stuff where the subtext seems to be #'oh wow when he started out he was just a silly little girl trying to be an uwu smol bean elf prince #but thank god! now he's jacked and has a big beard! a real man!' #dude!!!! #what your body looks like shouldn't be the deciding factor in whether or not you 'deserve' to be correctly gendered???? #I know guys who've been on t for years and have had top surgery and still do not pass even more than half of the time #and I know guys who passed as soon as they got a haircut and started shopping in the mens section #because of physiological factors beyond any of their fucking control! #even notwithstanding hrt and surgery! #I'm always going to be the height that I am #my hands and feet will always be small #even with body fat distribution changing my hips will always be wide #so if I still got misgendered after medically transitioning would it be because I just wasn't trying hard enough? #because that's what it fucking sounds like these people are saying #also! men don't stop being men if they don't style themselves like hank hill??? #stop talking like someone who'd tell swishy gay guys that it's their fault homophobia still exists #because they keep 'rubbing it in everyone's faces' #I hate you I hate all of you

[rainbowsunflower]

Louis on the Late Late Show (Sep. 13th, 2022)

#louis tomlinson gifs #louis Tomlinson #louis gifs #hlcreators #hledit #hljournal #dailytomlinson #1dsource #tomlinsonedits #trackinghome #cute Louis Tomlinson #my gifs #late late show 2022 #fitf promo #I know everyone already made a million gifs but I wanted to gif it too because he's a cute smol bean and I love him very much okay

[theyellowhue]

Win being terrified of loving Team because he’s afraid that he can’t keep Team because Win has never kept something for himself, not really

And that gives cracks to my heart

#phawin better square up because i cant stand seeing the smol bean all weepy #i will riot if they just leave team in the hallway #its one thing to keep win's hair in a hideous ponytail #but its another thing to leave team in thinking that he has lost the only person that he has been completely vulnerable to #winteam #win phawin wanichakarnjonkul #team teerayu siriyothin #between us #between us the series

[jesseweneedtocock]

rewatching the terror is good for my soul because it lets me remember i liked goodsir

#to me he has the gerri from succession issue which is i don’t watch for long enough and start to hate them based on fandom things i see #then i rewatch the show they’re from and i’m like Oh yeah they’re a bad bitch it’s just people on the internet are enjoying them wrong #insane to see people online say with their whole chests that he’s exempt from the imperialism because he’s really niceys #sad to report that analyses have been flawed and that this character is indeed a flawed human being and not a Smol Bean #the terror

[suzandlucifer]

I told my fiancé that I love Bob Floyd with my whole heart and he said “How? He only talks in like four scenes”.

Joke’s on him, I’ve loved a man on less.

#do people still say smol #because I have an overwhelming desire to say he is a smol bean #smol bob must be protected #but also Lewis Pullman can get it #and that’s just the truth #top gun: maverick #bob floyd

[leviiackrman]

just two smol gnomes sharing one brain cell…

Jean belongs to my beloved @dihardys || based on results from this uquiz || more art

#my art* #oc: asami enatsu #m.oc: jean boucher #dihardys #artists on tumblr #listen I LOVE THEM #look at the smol beans #we talked about them being garden gnomes so of course they’d be gardening together #I hope you like how he turned out🤍🤍 #he’s just so pure I love him sm #I ended up spending all day on this #purely because I too have only one brain cell and because I’m dying of a head cold #but this was so worth it #chuckhansen #confidentandgood #jackiesarch #arklay #sstewyhosseini #florbelles #risingsh0t #unholymilf #marivenah #simonxriley #hoesephseed #thomrainer #shellibisshe #roofgeese #liurnia #denerims

[onlyzhuyilong]

ZYL being a humble smol bean (to his father in the audience).

#zhu yilong #朱一龙 #朱一龍 #주일룡 #my gifs #I know he was reacting to his 爸爸 but he’s a smol bean regardless but fine he’s reacting to his father who is a great guy bless him #it still feels odd because Long Ge is such a private guy ya feel and I love that about him idk

[jellyjam]

i do not like the fanon characterization of pavitr.

#like i always see him potrayed as a ''uwu smol bean'' type of character but like i really don't get that vibe from him from the movie???? #if anything he's kinda cocky #i promise you he can say fuck #also making him out to be dumb as if he didn't literally say he doesn't even have to try in school because he's a top student? #idk im not even that into spiderverse but it always annoys me how fandoms butcher charcters and reduce them to one thing that isn't even tru

[leverage-ot3]

okay so writing this I’m not sure if our fandoms overlap but I now have a MIGHTY NEED for the leverage crew to take down gretchen’s experiment and save the teens in the wilds

so the crew finds out through X means that there is a social/psychological experiment running that stranded teenagers alone on deserted islands with no supplies or support and they’re fucking HORRIFIED

they want to have gretchen and her crew ruined and jailed IMMEDIATELY but getting these kids off the island took precedence

in the shortest time crunch the team ever made (not counting the bottle job), the leverage crew landed on the bunker island where the two groups of teens were now together

the teens are like super skeptical about a random group of people landing on the island claiming to be saving them (they don’t want to have a repeat situation) but they are very open and honest to them and honestly who could come up with ‘yeah so we’re a group of thieves that picks up where the law leaves off and support victims of unfair power structures and the rich and powerful’

i just wanna see the leverage crew save these kids, fucking destroy gretchen, and send seth to jail idk

maybe strand gretchen’s team on a deserted island for good measure, per the teens’ requests

like

hardison to the teens after giving them all food and sitting them all down to hear the full story: so you’re telling me that they literally dropped you onto an island with a wild jaguar

kirin: yea

scotty: it literally almost ripped bo’s leg off

hardison: and they literally let your arm get bitten off by a shark

rachel: I mean technically they didn’t make it happen but I mean yeah they did

fatin: they made us think nora was eaten by sharks

leah, just happy everyone is finally on the same page as her: it was literally psychological warfare

eliot, cracking his knuckles: I actually haven’t punched someone’s teeth out in a while-

#i have tentative ideas for a fic but we all know how if my hyperfixation goes away so does the writing LMAO IM SO SORRY #the heartbreaking feel when you go back to a tumblr tab when you paused writing a post and it refreshed and you lost it #so you have to write it again #would the leverage crew be ethically okay with stranding gretchen and her crew on a remote island to fend for themselves? #i honestly don’t know #BUT if the teens really wanted it to happen would the leverage adults really have it in them to say no??? #they see these kids and see breanna and they couldn’t IMAGINE something like that happening to their lil smol bean chaos goblin #so I feel like they wouldn’t be TOO adverse to it ya feel #plus they aren’t the ‘good guys’ and the show has made that point many times. they’re just the good bad guys #in this vein I would also like to see at least one or two of the kids become thieves in training like I can’t decide who but I’d like to see #it happen #i feel like toni would have fun being a hitter #WAIT #what if the gang finds out through hardison’s foster family network #like maybe ian is the son of one of the foster siblings and when the DOD (or whatever organization they went to) couldn’t find the teens or #do anything to stop gretchen they got involved #oh yeah and also eliot has canonically always been very protective over kids (like they all are but like) and adopts them on sight so you #KNOW he’s about to do some SERIOUS damage #ALSO. THE TEENS GET TO TAKE PART IN THE GLOAT. NOT EVEN AS A TREAT. JUST BECAUSE THEY SHOULD #oh yeah and also. breanna heard about what henry did with the whole black parade thing and high fives him #meme kings and queens see each other okay #breanna decides that if she’s ever interrogated she’s gonna try that because she thinks it would be hilarious #parker: sorry but I think no stabbing wednesdays will have to be postponed until further notice #leverage #leverage redemption #the wilds #crossovers #leverage x the wilds #mine #if you’re a fan of the wilds let’s chat!!! i love talking with y’all about shared fandoms and crossovers

[theyellowhue]

not to be dramatic, but i would commit crimes for Team.

because look at Team!!!

he is just so soft. 

Oh gods, he is so soft 

#team my smol bean is so adorable i will scream #winteam #between us #between us the series #team teerayu siriyothin #i will keep talking about team and how precious he is because look at him

[allwillbecomeclear]

he's like a little bean🥰

#i love my little bean #binx #he is so smol #sometimes i can't find him because he is smol #my kitty

[felly-the-smol-coffee-bun]

OPEN UR HEART TO SALVATION!

Baby boy baby<3

#my mind is going brrr because I love my bby so much <3 #he was doing bad stuff but he is still bby #FREE HIM CRAIG!! #he is a precious smol coffee bean and nobody shall hurt him!! #south park #sp tweek #tweek fanart #imp tweek