JUNE 30TH

I like the idea that chat is actually really good at keeping his identify because of how chatty he is. like imagine an interviewer asking “so how old are you” and chat thinking nothing of it just goes “oh yeah I'm 14″. but he's not 14 he's actually 15 he just forgot he turned 15 3 months ago but oops oh well cant change what just splatted out of his mouth now so the entirety of Paris now believe they have a 14 year old superhero. I mean they did but now its confirmed for them. in other news all  the people at my normal dog park now believe I am 2 years younger than i actually am because I forgot time has passed. 

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the death note musical is SOOO fun because it presents a universe were Lights sister genuinely could be more insane than him. She's cannonically a misa (the artist) fan and so IS A POP GIRLIE FAN! have you seen how insane Nicki Minaj or taylor swift fans are???? This is no hate to their fans at all, but also, a Misa fan girl would 100% be like pop girlie fans but WORSE. and thats the universe we deserve most honestly. Like lights plans are so boring but you know who's plans are fun? Sayu who is currently planning to sell her parents matress to pay for plane tickets to go see a Misa concert.

I'm feeling you, I understand completely. Also that mention of seers having vampiric origins has created a brainworm in my head omg I need to go do some fucking research

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

Hearing Aang over explain how bending works each episode is genuinely so annoying. Now listen, I know the original show also has info dumped about bending. But at appropriate times! 

It feels like whenever Katara is bending with Aang around he just takes the time to say how air bending works. And then Katara can magically do the move. It doesn’t draw this obvious distinction between the bending forms, if he had said that for air benders it's about blah blah or if he had mentioned how a friend used to do an exercise where they follow the push and pull of the ocean that would be decent. It would show the difference, show how Aang as a bending master can be helpful, but also how he isn’t a stand-in for an actual water bending master and also explain why HE can’t just start water bending like a genius. 

I think a lot of the issue stems from making Katara an idiot when it comes to water bending. She couldn’t even draw a water droplet up in the live action, yet in the animated show she was teaching aang during the first few episodes what she DID know. This allowed for the two benders to play off each other, to explore Kataras own self-worth issues when it comes to being the last bender of her tribe, and also explore how Aang's inability to self regulate because he is 12 can unknowingly hurt his friends. But in the live action, Katara isn’t skilled, she can’t do anything, they literally remove the entire fighting scene of Zuko's ship which is SUCH an important moment for Katara and her bending! It's frustrating. Honestly if she can’t even teach herself to lift a water droplet on her own I don’t have that expectation of her growing into a master bender status once she DOES learn the actual forms. It's her determination, her natural ability, her attempts to use her bending to help that make her a really interesting and powerful character in the early episodes of season 1. She doesn’t have that in the La and any sense of natural talent or personal experimentation is replaced with Aang going “well the monks said-”.

No Aang, the monks didn’t say anything because Air bending and water bending are different bending  forms!

Okay, okay, back on the Farm thing-

Who would win: Hatter's farm, which apparently has more than just ducks, or Karube's emu farm. Just so you know, there's a lot of emus, but there are also a whole lot of ducks.

But, well, now Hatter has a horse, a cow, and a goat in this extended universe, so.

Emu farm all the way. those things are monsters. A cow will charge them, yeah, but they're not fantastic at turning in my experience of being charged by cows and also they're quite easy to outrun ( cows are like 40km/h max and emu is 50km/h.). the horse might be hard to deal with since they run around 88km/h and have a really hard kick but I feel like one against ALOT of emus won't work. It will probably take down a lot but eventually even the mighty fall. the goat might be hard since it's a good climber but goats are also often small and I feel like it will fall as well. the ducks might annoy the emus to death but it would end in a battle of the pecks and ducks are just so small. they'll be attacking the emu's feat but the emus could attack all of the duck cuss of the height difference. however, if we include hatter in this (cuss let's be real that mans basically a farm animal) then the Emus still win because THEIR FUCKING HORRIFYING I MEAN REALLY IF I SAW ONE I WOULD START SOBBING UNCONSOLABLY THEIR MURDEROUS DEVIL BIRDS.

I haven't slept in like 2 days not the point I have the fantastic idea that Kuina would play a sort of cupid at the beach. She’d pair up couples left and right and centre. the catch? she pairs up the worst possibly star signs imaginable because if they fail she 1) gets good drama ( it isn't like TV is available) and 2) can ‘prove’ to chishiya that star signs are real

Not enough praise is given to the actual animation during the seige of the north. The way once aang merges with the water spirit the only colour we see is the RED/ black water of the oasis (like the blood from Tui has stilled tainted it) and the water aang/La is pooling through the city.

The way all light just vanishes once Tui is killed. But also how fire bending forces light back into the world for just those few moments. It really brings in the theme of equality and fluidity in the boundaries of elements cuss both the moon/water tribe and the sun/fire nation in that moment are shown as bringers of light. Idk I think it’s just a really neat trick.

Another part is how only yues eyes are coloured in. Eyes are the windows into the soul/spirit blah blah blah she’s the moon spirit blah blah blah it’s a really cute detail.

Idk sometimes I feel like because it’s animation it’s very easy for some people to just…overlook the story telling aspects of it. Because it’s less detailed then a live action piece but I mean that’s just incorrect. The animation and the way they almost continuously use motion and fluidity in scenes (eg. People’s hair blowing in the wind, fire of water moving in the background, random side characters having lives outside the main narative) This then means that when still shots are used it’s all the more impactful. They rarely just do a still image with the screen ‘moving’ across like a lot of anime’s do UNLESS its a landscape/building their showing off. even then theres often something moving.

I tend to give a lot of (joking) criticism to season 1 for its weaker animation compared to the other seasons (I assume due to budget plus the animators becoming more accustomed to the style later on). But there are some moments that are just…breath taking. The care put into this series at all levels is something I don’t think I appreciate enough which sucks.

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