Do you get the impression the live action is treating us like utter morons?? Like I thought that making it aimed at an older audience would open the doors for more subtle story telling, but no, they're just using monologues to tell us eveything! Like in the second episode Katara's like 'oh his power isn't that he's the avatar, it's that he ~connects~ to people'. Girl we're not idiots we can see that!! And the first episode with Aang's goddawful 'I don't want this responsibility' monologue
THIS, YES. The word that keeps coming to mind is definitely "subtlety". The show for literal children? Had it. The remake for adults? Not so much.
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abusive parents @ their kids: stop being so sensitive! you just need to toughen up! you can't complain when you're being forced to work or beaten or punished for things that you can't control, or shunned or scapegoated or neglected or threatened or insulted or humiliated or blackmailed or rejected or betrayed or being told you're utterly unlovable and worst thing that's ever happened to humanity. Stop making such a drama out of everything!!!!!
abusive parents if their kid looks at them wrong or says 'no' once: you've ruined my entire life you demon, you monster, you are evil and you need to be punished, what you've done just made me lose my job sanity and last bit of happiness I had, you horrid creature you'll pay for this, this is normal and totally not overly sensitive dramatic behaviour, it is you who are wrong for daring to stand up to me and ruin everything good in my life this way!!!!
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You said in tags once that pedophiles and child predators aren't the same, can you explain why? /GEN
For the same reason that people with any kind of attraction to anyone ever aren't all rapists/don't all pursue romantic/sexual feelings that could or definitely would hurt the other person. Because paraphilias are simply the morally neutral state of experiencing attraction and rape/grooming is Not That. Because people *choose* to hurt others, but not what they feel. Because a good majority of child sexual abusers aren't even pathologically/paraphilically attracted to children, they *just want to hurt them because they can.* Because they're dissatisfied with something in life, or want a punching bag, or want to feel powerful, etc etc.
It's not really different conceptually from physical abuse. Do people do it because they have icky feelings about liking blood or violence? No. They do it to feel powerful. Sexual abuse is not about sex but about power. Hope this answers your question. I've answered it a good million times on this blog but eh I'm in a generous mood.
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Just a reminder that having multiple characters with the same marginalized identity in your story does not make the author automatically immune to using tropes harmful/reductive/insensitive to people with that marginalized identity. You can write a story with tons of women in it that still has tons of misogyny, you can write a story with tons of people of color in it that still has tons of racism. You can write a story with tons of queer people in it that is still queerphobic. Writers cannot “I have a black friend” (or character in this case) their way out of actually treating their marginalized characters with respect. Every writer has been shaped by a highly unequal society along many different lines and that continually reinforced world view is bound to show up in their storytelling. It takes effort to unlearn all that shit, and plenty of authors, however well intentioned, haven’t put that effort in enough to avoid falling into those traps.
This isn’t saying that the thing that happened was homophobic/ableist/ageist per se, I’m just saying that “there are other characters who weren’t fridged” is a shit counter argument to that claim.
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With your touch, my life begins
©Clémentine Circaetis
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ill just say. dont unblock the side order spoilers tag if youve cleared the tower in side order once. youve gotten like. only ~40% of the content side order has through doing that and there WILL be spoilers from the latter 60% that you get by beating floor 30 with every pallet. every post i put in the spoilers tag is from the perspective of someone who's (almost) 100%ed the dlc so my posts could still spoil you
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So uhhhh
I think my wacom tablet is officially dead fr lmao
That thang has been finicky for like four months ish its about time ((fitting since the ai thing happened))
The last thing I drew from it was a spicy drawing of PriceRaven, what a way to end it🤣
Thinking of getting the HUION Inspiroy H640P tablet since its one of the recommended drawing tablets I see around reddit, plus it is within my price range
Till then, I suppose drawings will pause for some time before I can get a new one!
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