Thematically For Me The Final Life Series Would Have To End With Either Grian Or Jimmy Winning (circular

this show is like??? so serious but that's honestly boring so instead here's more headcannons that mean nothing when paired with cannon but you probably cant deny all themed around Arisu because.. idk he's cool? kinda  Arisu cant cut a bell pepper. like he just cant. he somehow either cuts himself, smash it, end up denting the knife. its like a curse  this man has drank toilet water before. twice. on two separate occasions   he has a mole directly on his right hip bone that he taps every night as part of his  night time ritual  He’s had 4 of his teeth taken out of his mouth and punched the dentist whilst the first one was being pulled out. to prevent this from happening he held a stuffed dog and by the time all were pulled out the dog had been decapitated and stuffing was over the entire office. ( he was swiftly banned).  he's never eaten a Kiwi yet says its his favourite fruit to strangers that ask. there's no reason for this and he never plans to eat a Kiwi but its amusing all the same. he had a pet goldfish as a child but one day he saw it wasn’t moving and thought it drowned so he scooped it out and gave it a funeral not realising he had lowkey just suffocated goopy the 5th (the name of the fish duh). His dad never explain it to him but also never brought him a new fish or pet ever again 

I like to imagine if you piss of hatter he just spits at you like an angry lama. Like something like this I guess  Chishiya: what if we didnt do that  Hatter Spits at him hitting his eye Chishiya: oww shit did you spit at me?  Hatter Spits at his other eye  Aguni: means he disagrees, next person? 

The way that I understood it was that supernatural creatures like Seers or witches/mages where encoded into their DNA. Like no matter what Ethan and Benny did there was no way to never NOT become these supernatural creatures (even if they did have special moments to 'unlock' this ability. Although for me it feels more akin to learning to run rather than magical girl transformation type unlocking but thats boring). On the otherhand things like vampirism or lycanthropy are similar to a disease but just....amplified. and so the miracle cure would then work as an almost super antibody rather than a purification of anything supernatural. It's a vacine not holy water ya feel? Although this view is also SOOO borring and basic so ya know ignore me.

Okay so Ethan drank the Supernatural all cure and he was still a seer after, I feel like this tells us something but I can't quite articulate what right now

Wanna know why I love avatar so much? Cuss the avatar really was the friends we made along the way. This isn’t some big deep dive into the morals of the show so be warned, it’s as surface deep as you can get but…

Being able to bend all 4 elements isn’t what the avatar is. The bending is just a physical representation of bringing those 4 clashing cultures together. Without Aang there is no reason for zuko, toph, katara or sokka to be friends. But because of him they are. They as representatives of their nations work with the last air bender (AND THE AVATAR!) to bring peace.

Because one man, one culture, cannot be the defining force in a universe. It’s just not true to reality. Sure some people helped more than others (the earth army was larger than the water tribes) but it was still a group effort. Everyone has to put effort in to keep their world at peace because every nation/ element plays a role in sustaining their life.

Honestly would love to write a fic about the avatar spirit dying/ disconnecting with humanity after aang gets stuck in the ice to further explore this idea but …. Im lazy.

i cannot BELIEVE they're dragging hugh jackman's corpse back into the marvel movies after promising like 50 times that this really is his last movie guys i promise no more wolverine guys he's not gonna be back again i swear. all so he can have gay sex with deadpool

trans Fabian is rotting my brain rn and its just ???? perfect.  him finding out his parents wrote him down a boy and being ecstatic and then realise oh shit I'm dorming with cisboy and panicking to the point he drags his massive suitcase all the way back to the gate in hopes of god randomly sending his parents back to pick him up ( they don't and victor ends up pissed at him and definitely makes a comment or two about him being a whimp but trudy is the girlboss she is and comforts him thinking he’s just homesick). Anyway he walks into his room finally and sees the man the myth the legend, Mick whos got sports gear everywhere and a massive Smile who rushes in to give him a hug because he's stoked about this to have a brother at this school and Fabian thinks for a moment that actually maybe this is going to go well. and it does go well because Micks epic and when he finds out Fabian is trans dude doesn't know what that means he just sorta goes “....we’re still roommates right?” because he couldn't care less what his friend is as long as Fabian is his friend. 

here's some characters as quotes I've taken from a discord server I'm in. Mostly said by me and wildly ooc. Chouta: yep these are words Kunia: woooo no rights! Usagi: its ok dude he's also weird your perfect together  Arisu: no no no he's weird but not “lemmy send my fav p0rn and then also send racoon pics and then more p0rn” weird like I am Chishya : do you think racoons make p0rn?  Chishya : I hope a tentacle crawls down your throat and chokes you Niragi: so do I  Aguni: he's not a daddy just a dad I'm the daddy here- WAIT SHIT NO Arisu: dude do you know what I was doing yesterday? Karube: my mum? Arisu: ew no I was gonna say my math homework  Chishya : you just like seeing people in bikinis at the beach Kunia: no I like pretty people in ball gowns we’ve discussed this Arisu: listen I don't wanna be her I wanna be in her- on her- on- in....Listen I don't wanna be her I wanna be under her Hatter: I want to sniff gods crusty underpants Kuina to Chishya : No, no ,no. you cant put hentai on your godforsaken media presentation about how modern media is rotting the younger generations brains Karube: do your tits have milk? wait wait wait no not like that I swear I just wanted to make boob cheese I swear 

Joy absolutely brought fabian a shit-ton of fabs during the summer as a joke on his nickname. He’d be like “I’m so hot” and bam 5 minuets later she’s shoving a fab ice lollie in his hand cuss she’s just so kind

Hatter would steal you the most fanciest, expensive and insanely big ring for you to propose with and then would try convince you to trade rings with him because he wants it hes pretty princess he needs the fancy ring to attend his tea-parties with Aguni, his farm animals, and Arisu

The removal of the sexism pisses me off not because it just affects Sokkas character but because it has ruined almost every woman in the show.

Suki takes off her make up often, as if it isn't a large part of her cultural identity and personality, as if her being a kyoshi warior and her destinctly femenine clothes are something to be ashamed off or that hinders her. Because its only her that gets this treat amongst the warriors, and shes the only main kyoshi warrior for the audience.

Yue's entire character is removed. It is replaced with what I think is meant to be a sympathetic princess to the people, she joins the nans in the kitchens and make deserts for the children. Like a disney princess whose quirky and silly and held back only by her title of a princess. Gone is the battle between her desire to help and her duty to be a water tribe ideal woman. Gone is her realising that the best way to help her people is to not be an ideal woman, but to take action and to do what no one else can, to become one with the moon so that she can forever help not just her tribe but the entire world. It is depressing, it is deep, it isn't fair to her but when has the world ever been fair?

Katara aswell. Her bending is forever unlocked by men (Aang and Jet), her defiance of authority is lessened and her naievety is also changed. A lot of her motherhood role is also completlty gone since they have changed Sokkas sexism into elder brother smothering. Her fight with Paku holds a lot less significance since she has no RAGE behind her. No rage that has built for YEARS as time and time again people have said no to her face for being a woman, for being weak, for not being enough simply because of who she is. that doesn't exist for her anymore because the water tribes are just...nice. We see one bad person in the water tribe and its Hadoka and he's mean to sokka! Kataras rage comes from Paku saying no to her, and whilst thats swell, it changes her entire "I'm a master now" moment into just...lame girlbossery. Thats kinda how the entire last 2 episodes felt like for her character. A common girlboss character without the emotional depth to make it femenism.

I think my main issue is that both shows set themselves up as being femenist by nature. The og show wanted to tackle issues with sexism, using book 1 as its main demonstration with it, but the theme still follows throughout the narative. netflix's show outright said they were removing the sexist elements. When you place youself onto that pedastal, any sexist writing you have becomes emphasised.

The og show undoubtably has sexist moments! Irohs comments to June are the most obvious to me, a long with a couple comments from Zuko later on. You can certainly argue that the extreme lack of GOOD mother figures is an issue (Kat and Sokkas mother is dead, Zukos is 'dead', and Toph is awful and rather quite compared to her father). Theres other examples, although currently my brain cannot think of any since I don't often write indepth critisms.

The live actions main point of sexism is its female main characters. we literally meet Yue in the kitchen! Women can be in kitchens but that is certainly a choice! Theres this strange hatred for make up aswell, yes with Suki but also with Sokka. His war paint is removed. Its like saying make up cannot be worn by strong fighters which is rather sexist. Speaking off: not putting Sokka in the kyoshi outfit is just...dumb? If you want to show him learning the style, having him wear the outfit. Its an aspect of the style and philosophy. A man wearing make up and a skirt doesn't emasculate him yet the show makes it feel that way with the refusal to do it. "Oh but then you'd have Sokka and Suki kiss in the kyoshi outfits" who cares. "it will look like lesbians" it won't. Even if it did, who cares? you can't be 'femenist' and anti-lesbian. Putting Sokka in the Kyoshi outfit, having him respect it, is just as important as having Aang learn the other elements, or Iroh creating lightning redirection. Why? because it shows a respect of culture, and how you can blend that into your own way of thinking. It's cultural extchanged based on respect.

When you name yourself femenist, yet have explicitly sexist writing, your GOING to get dogpiled with critism based on that 'femenist' msg.