Not Enough Praise Is Given To The Actual Animation During The Seige Of The North. The Way Once Aang Merges

the least funny idea in my brain rn is that the vampire council had to impose flying trafic lights because vampires kept crashing in the air and falling to the ground. They run off mage magic and have bi-monthly inspections (where a mage sits on the back of a vampire for a very uncomfortable couple of hours). Tbf this also implys that vampires have to pay taxes to keep the traffic lights working and also that vampire insurance might exist but thats lame. I like to think the council see it as an investment since sky trafic laws means less falling vampires which means less news sites they have to pay to keep silent. It also stops fues from starting.

Honestly I wrote that just to write this:

So odds are the black cat miraculous is reallly powerful. Like it’s destruction and that’s pretty powerful. And even tho destruction and creation are equally good and bad for most humans when we think of destruction we think of evil villains. So what if the creators of the miraculous decided to maybe sorta add a extra feature as a defence mechanism of the black cat holder being force to act like a cat. Becuse honestly who’s gonna be scared of a person just flopping on it’s side sunbathing or a person so scared of water they run up walls to escape it

I’m realising how many ‘chat acts like a cat’ head cannons and fanfics and how few ladybug acting like a ladybug fics and whilst I know why it would be funny if she just randomly started crawling or mid fight she’s like startled and just secrets a sour fluid from let joints…. Ok yeah maybe it makes sense to not have many ladybug being ladybug fics

here's some more characters as quotes I've taken from a discord server I'm in cuss i enjoyed going back through our quotes channel and only got like 2 months in :) . Mostly said by me and wildly ooc Aguni: in my defence I'm a gay dad who wants to fuck other gay dads Chishiya: her toes make me wanna choke Kuina: like...on them? Chishiya: fucking obviously not their disgusting have mould on them Kuina: some people are into that  Niragi: I am Niragi holding a doll by its neck: good kid, nice quality, looks like the perfect football substitute  Chishiya: my girl got tiddies the size of mellons and a brain the size of a pea Kuina: jiggle jiggle  Arisu: OEE. OWW. THAT. FUCKING. HURTS. YOU CUNT. I LOVE IT. BUT OWWW. YOU BITCH. I LOVEI T. BARK BARK. FUDISFH. UGHHHH Usagi: I just??? posted a selfie  Arisu: without meeeeeeeeeee Hatter pressing his his hand on someone's heck: awww, cant breath? are your little lungs struggling to pull in air? your all withering and shaking. wanna know how I can tell your suffering? leans down its cuss I'm an empath ann: I hope you fall on your face and choke so up so much blood Edward fucking Collens finds you Arisu: should I give her boobs? Karube: yes Arisu: you have no rights she’s not having boobs 

this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

Arisu: I mean really this might be the most magnificent porn I have ever seen. I mean the audio quality? fantastic, the angles so you can see the hands move ever the tinesr amount? superb. And damn the moves themselves are getting me all riled up  Karube: Arisu...your watching a game of chess. 

Chouta: what the fuck is wrong with you Arisu 

I've been so negative to the LA so heres a few things that I genuinely loved. Spoiles ahead. duh.

Sukis eye make up. the yellow blend into red? a nice subtle change to her character design that reallly adds to her

Zuko having those avatar dolls and their eyes lighting up. was cute

Zuko getting so hissy and destroying his room cuss his journal was missing. very relatable, very silly, the way Iroh is just kinda there realllly shows their dynamic well and also shows how Zuko IS just a stressed teenager

all the maps and drawings on the walls. they are very pretty and I'd love to have some of them irl

the entire scene of Suki and Sokka training together. Sokka slowly following her, Suki directing his moves and changing his forms. it felt like a dance and reallly highlighted how beutiful and deadly martial arts can be. it was also just filmed very sweetly with little noise beyond a sound track and grunts. Genuinely the best scene of episode 2 (and maybe the whole show).

Zuko unirioncally trying to fight Kyoshi??? it was so random but SO fitting. I aspire to be as stupid as this dumbass.

Sokka going "leader vs leader" to Zuko when asking him to fight was very cute and I HOPE they keep this style of interactions in like season 3 if they get that far.

JET USING THE HOOKS ON HIS SWORDS TO CONNECT THEM AND USE THEM AS ONE LARGE EXTENDED SWORD??? so intresting. SUCH a good use of props and how dynamic the fights in this show COULD be.

Longshot. Idk they are just so funny to me, I love how they are just casually posed on a tree as they shoot the first arrow.

the mechanist telling Sokka that he's tallented when it comes to engineering. it was very sweet, although I feel like it might bite the writers in the ass eventually. but for now it was very sweet.

I know in a past post I complained that Aang taught her bending to much, BUT Jet helping her open up about her mother and it helping her bending was an intresting take. I can see why people would hate it, but also why people would like it. Its intresting, its unique, and introduces an intresting paralel of Katara struggling to bend because of her emotions, and (hopefully) zuko facing that same issue later on in the series.

OMA AND SHU. best change of the entire series, truly the ultimate step up from the og, it works so well. I've seen this change in fanfiction and always loved it there, so happy it's now in a cannon media. Also the art work as they explain is very very beutiful.

Jets actor is honestly pretty fucking good. his "I thought you were on our side. On my side" speech in episode 4 was very sweetly done and it FELT complex with his emotions. espeically the choked up "i am nothing like the firebenders" MY GOD. Its a different take on Jet that shows a bit more of his sympathy then in the show and I think it realllly works. Props to the actor.

Zuko struggling to lie during episode 4 and make up excuses as he walks around the prision. Its so fucking funny to see him struggle and be all "well...my comanders gonna be pissed if I don't get to my duty in times" its so funny. I love Dallas I think he does a great job with Zuko and his characterisation will only get better if the show continues.

changing it to Sokka and Katara in the cave from Aang and Katara is honestly pretty cute? I know it takes away from the building romance with Katara and aang (although the show has cut so many of their interactions then this time it really WOULD feel forced) BUT it does work to expand and examine the theme of family that Avatar as a thing LOVES. Its espeically sweet arfter we've seen Katara and Sokka struggling deeply with each others wants and desires earlier in the show (espeically since this is stright arfter Jet). ( I am slightly pissed that its KATARA who is the skeptic in the tunnels. they could have the same argument with Katara being the one to believe. but oh well). Their argument was well worth it, it was long building, and truly felt like the two had buckled under the stress of leaving their tribe. Plus with the glowing crystals its like they are surrounded by stars which I think adds to the idea of missing home.

finishing the song secret tunel to then go "yeah there doomed!" with the biggest smile on his face. 10/10 comedy.

The arctitexture of the Omashu palace AND the crystals he bends are extrodinarily stunning. I mean the crytals look like smash beer bottles when broken, but when they are crystals???? suppper pretty.

ZUKOS PONY TAIL DOES THE PONY TAIL SWING BACK AND FORTH! Okay I know this is dumb, ut in the animation it didn''t happen as much or as extreme so it pleases me that real world physics are happening. Plus its just so silly.

The earth benders talking about how much was LOST during Irohs siege of ba sing se was pretty powerful. I've always been slightly irked that they wash over Irohs past and that he is JUST a good person, so it felt pretty cool that they took the time to kinda have him be....confronted by it? "I was a soilder" "you were a butcher!". It was a very quick examination of grief and ptsd, we got to see Irohs own sort of views about what happened, we got to see another persons desire for revenge because of the war, it was an odd scene for what we know of Iroh but it WAS intresting.

The funeral scene. "what a great honour for you and Lu ten to die in service of the fire nation" AND THEN ZUKO ACTING LIKE IT WAS WRONG TO SAY THAT. god. And then offering the medal that lu ten gave him to Iroh to properly comfort him? I was sobbing. It was a beutiful examination of Zukos conflict with what is expected of him, and what he WANTS to do. and then sitting by his side when no one else would? and Irohs tears only NOW comming once Zuko joined him? It was reallly and beutiful scene. I am so happy they added this.

genuinely when it was revealed that the tunnels where changing??? chills. I expected it. but it still shook me to my core. Maybe its cuss of the funeral scene before hand but either way props to them.

Okay so the animals sometimes looks goofy, BUT they also express WHAT they are so well. I love all the animals they look so fluffy and silly.

Iroh using the chains against hte earth soilders, once again some fun fight choreography and I am living for it.

Katara finding the badgermoles reacting to emotions with like...wonder and then Sokka going all "soo uhhh Mr badgermole" Was SO cute and in character.

Sometimes theres issues with the earth bending speed, but in the Bumi and Aang fight I found all the speed rather fitting. When he threw rocks, he THREW them. espeically the smaller rocks those shits are DEADLY. I mean that recreations of the animations scene where he bends over the rock looks goofy, like I get it but it didn't quite translate well BUT The rest of the fight looked pretty good. (and whilst I GET why it was important for Aang to face this challenge of this or that, it was upsetting for BUMI to be the one to do that. There are multiple other characters where it would make more sense, with Bumi being an old friend it just feels wrong. "you think like a child" "Is that really so bad?" was very sweet though.). I think Im a little over critical of what they've done to Bumi. it is a sweet story line and I can KINDA understand Bumis stance. realistically it wasn't that awful of a change its just jarring cuss its BUMI. Love his dress though I think it REALLY adds to this diversity of cultures and earth kingdom citys.

Seeing Zuko with that bandages arround his head and all his hair kinda really hurt. Also the use of leaves from the vine again. very sweet. "home. everything I need is on this boat" IT MADE ME SOB SO FAST. For all this shows changes, the changes they do with Zuko and Iroh work. The way Zuko saw the air bison and STILL chose getting his uncle to safty over even mentioning them? wonderful.

THE ICE DISKS! KATARA LITERALLY SAYING SHE GOT IT FROM THE EARTH BENDERS! its pretty cool. I like that they are already going deep with the benders taking elements from other bending styles is super fun!

Sokka and the little girl

Can’t lie Dido’s suicide is the best thing to happen to both Dido and (kinda) Aeneas. Cuss like listen okay Dido lusting over Aeneas is not his fault! It was the Gods work and then Dido’s sister that convinced her to act on her divine feelings.

Is Aeneas still kind of an ass? Yes. He still took her univera status from her, allowed her kingdom to collapse since she was following him like a duck, and then go on to denounce their (tbf unofficial) marriage . These aren’t great things but they also wouldn’t have happened without Juno, Venus and Cupid.

Anyway the reason why it’s good is cuss Dido gets to be with her husband- her one *true* love. The person she swore off men for. The person who even in death she craves to be in his arms! Like sorry but her suicide is what allowed her to return to him. Not to mention it’s what broke cupids spell AND brought her so much sympathy from Juno (who yes… is to blame) that she sent Iris to cut her life thread short. Ya know. BREAKING FATE! Her death is horrible but it’s also the kindest fate she could ever have once the Gods caught sight of her.

For Aeneas it’s not so much her suicide but the leaving, he does it for his son! It’s not even for himself he doesn’t care, mercury ‘manipulates’ Aeneas using his fatherhood and leader role against him to not only force him out of Carthage but to leave THEN and there. I mean come on, Aeneas isn’t pleased with Didos death, in book 6 he uselessly reached out to talk to her and in book 11 he buries his surrogate son, Pallas, in robes SHE gifted. He doesn’t forget her. Her last mention is with the son that he could never truly have. The family he could never have *because* of Rome. It’s depressing.

But it’s better than loving a man because the Gods forced you. It’s better than watching your kingdom slowly crumble around you and you not having the ability to care. It’s better than failing as a father and the carrier of your cultures future. It’s better than ignoring the call of the Gods.

wait wait wait this has been said ( if I'm even correct in rembering) but didn't Karube legit like call for Arisu to look at him in his last moments before his head just went BOOM?? like???? that's kinda fucked??? and like they knew at the very least their gonna be killed AND YET YOU CHOOSE TO HAVE YOUR LOVER BEST FRIEND WATCH YOUR DEATH AND BE FORCED TO LOOK AT YOUR DEAD BODY FOR LIKE WHAT REASONS??? AS A LAST PRANK?  like yo sorry dude for making you see my neck get lowkey exploded and watch as my dead body just flops to the ground but dude calm down it was just a prank bro no need to get all sad over it.  LIKE ITS KIDNA WHACK ???? but like idk get it you dramatic homo do your thing

I both love and hate Oedipus Rex because the end is so stupid.

The whole play is (in one interpretation!) about self-identity and the battle between knowing who we are and how we are percieved by ourselves and the world around us. You'd expect for Oedipus to end the play fully relalized and yet...

By blinding himself, which, yes it is out of guilt and is a form of self-flagellation, but it also acts as a way to continue ignoring who he is. Without eyes he cannot see his children, the genetic abominations, nor does he have to see the world he has helped corrupt. He can continue to live in bliss. In his blindness he does not become Tiresias- he is not a prophet- he is just a pathetic man as scared as us to see himself in the mirror.

YES YES YES EXACTLY LIKE THAT OMFG ITS PERFECT 

at the beach there is definitely an inflatable kiddie pool that was originally filled with like idk vodka but now its used for its intended purpose and sometimes Hatter sends people there as punishments.   so now imagine Arisu sitting in a inflated kiddie pool hugging his knees to his chest awkwardly because Usagi forced him to wear duck covered arm floaties.