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Lauren • She/Her • Autistic & ADHD
Bi & Ace Spectrums • INFP
Intersectional Feminist
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Perpetual Oddball of Sarcasm and Misery with a Reading List of Cosmic Proportions
I’m a fan of Saga, The Walking Dead, The Hunger Games, The Lunar Chronicles, Outlander, Timeless, Game of Thrones (sometimes), Twilight (occasionally), Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend Of Korra, and a bunch of other stuff. Carrie White and Bree Tanner deserved better.
Currently reading: Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
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bongjoonheaux

Did Disney just quietly give up on the live action Hercules remake? I hope they did. I can't stand the idea of them botching a remake of my favorite Superman movie. We already have so many terrible live action Superman movies

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Disney's Hercules being a Superman movie is a blazing hot take and I'm obsessed

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bongjoonheaux

I absolutely did not come up with this but once you notice the parallels it's hard to stop: Disney's Hercules is about a god being adopted by two farmers and growing up to be decent young man, with the only signs of his un-human nature being his supernatural powers and an emblem depicting his true heritage. He feels alienated by his own abilities, until his adoptive parents reveal the truth of his heritage; the god finally meets his true father, or at least a representation of his true father, who explains what happened that caused him to be abandoned on earth and adopted by the farmers. Upon discovering his heritage he sets out to become a hero, initially finding himself struggling to get by in the big city due to his small town folksy demeanor. He also, significantly, falls for a cynical woman who thinks said demeanor is an elaborate act. While she's impressed by his heroics, it isn't until she spends time with him that she slowly warms to him despite her earlier cynicism. The city embraces him as a symbol but despite his feats, it's not until he sacrifices himself in the name of love and becomes aware of his mortality that he becomes a true hero.

I'm not gonna say there's a total 1:1 lineup (like Phil doesn't solidly match up to anyone specific in the general Superman story and I wouldn't call Hades a good Lex Luthor stand-in) but the bones of it is VERY Superman

#you know what….#this kind of reminds me of how i compared the first thor movie to disney’s enchanted#hercules#disney hercules#superman#clark kent#dc#dc comics#disney#movies#parallels
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inkdrawndreamer

One of my favorite parallels from Saga that also makes me super sad is one regarding Izabel. In the very beginning of the series, before Alana and Marko even meet her, they are trying to figure out how to raise Hazel. When Marko asks Alana what she wants to do, her response is “I want to show our girl the universe.” Much later, when the family is camped out on Phang, Robot is questioning Izabel regarding her loyalty to Marko and Alana after she offers to do recon for him. She tells him, among other things, “They’ve treated me like their flesh and blood. They showed me the universe.“ 

Marko and Alana did show their girl the universe–both of them. Izabel is as much a part of their family as anyone else. She helps them and keeps them safe even up until the moment of her death. When Hazel feels her die, Marko and Petrichor are both determined to find her. She provides counsel to just about everyone at some point and helps them stay clear-headed. She clearly died young, but even after she died, she got to travel far beyond the planet she was born on, and was apparently the only person in her immediate family to ever do so. I don’t think she was like a daughter to the couple exactly (I get the feeling that she was technically older than either of them), but she was certainly family.

#it's missing her hours#izzy my beloved#saga#saga comic#saga spoilers#saga izabel#comics#parallels
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ehzula

ATLA Character Foils: 1 of ??? Close-ups on Instagram

The playing card theme is to illustrate the many parallels and contrasts there are to Azula and Katara. Wrote a lil’ something to go along with it but it ended up being quite long so…oops lmao. Also open to suggestions for who to draw next!!

The way Katara and Azula mirror and contrast one another has always been fascinating to me. They’re brilliant foils of one another not just because they’re literally on opposite sides in war or because of the symmetry of fire and water, of drawing energy from the sun vs. the moon, but because of the way their stories seemingly echo each other’s but then diverge, highlighting Katara’s triumph and Azula’s tragedy.
They have shown immense potential in their ability to bend their respective elements, and they become so technically advanced they can lightningbend and bloodbend. Azula hones her skill with precision and ease from a young age, in an environment that allows her to cultivate her talents. Katara’s journey in mastering waterbending is experimental and without guidance until she leaves her tribe. Azula’s prowess is plain-to-see, whereas Katara’s potential is initially merely foreshadowed — like in the pilot when her emotions cause her to waterbend powerfully, but inadvertently. Azula revels in her ability to bend lightning and uses it incessantly, but when Katara bloodbends, it is by force and she continues to be horrified by the idea of controlling someone that way.
Katara’s compassion and warmth and Azula’s cruelty and cunning are talked about a lot. These are traits that typically define them, but I think they’re also a product of their communities and relationship with their mothers. Katara grew up in a tight-knit community, in a loving family until Kya was murdered. She embodies this and fills the role of a mother figure through her attentiveness for Sokka, then for the rest of the Gaang. Azula grew up with the pressure of perfection, arguably in an oppressive nation, and doubts Ursa’s love for her. She internalizes this, and then perpetuates it by using fear to control those around her.
But Kya and Ursa also form an emotional core to Katara and Azula’s characters. They are at their most vulnerable because of their mother’s and we see an almost jarring swap in the way they act. When Katara confronts Kya’s murderer, there’s a banked ferocity in her that rears its head. When Azula returns to the vacation house her family visited when Ursa was around, we see Azula as a regular 14 year-old girl — she gets jealous and lashes out at Ty Lee, apologizes and takes her advice. She reveals just enough sincerity and insecurity thinking about Ursa to give us a glimpse of her sensitive side.
Of course, any desire of Katara’s to act in vengeance is tempered and she doesn’t end up hurting her mother’s murderer, and Azula proceeds to make a flippant remark that firmly shuts the door on the softer side of her before we can get another glance.
They’re also victims in their own way — Katara of trauma and Azula of abuse. But where Azula’s story ends in tragedy, Katara triumphs. She receives external love and affection and it shapes her; she’s attentive and caring and nurturing and this forges a support system of friends that ground her, but they also lift her up and protect her. Azula doesn’t stay a victim either, perpetuating the damage that turned her into the monster she believes she is. Azula’s support system is non-existent at worst and tenuous at best, partially by her own doing, so when she’s on the brink, she plummets. In the end there’s no one to protect her — Mai and Ty Lee have stood their ground, Ursa’s long gone, and she’s just something to be jettisoned to Ozai.
This is also why Azula’s character is so heartbreaking to me. You can see the faintest shadows of a version of her skirting around the edges of Katara’s story. But then you remember how their stories diverged — how she’s responsible for her actions despite the sympathy you have for her pain, and a bright light is cast on the Azula that ends up shackled to a grate, because this is the only Azula that matters to the people that she’s hurt.
#katara#azula#princess azula#avatar the last airbender#atla#fan art#atla fan art#parallels
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hashtagloveloses

just a couple of soft gays saving the world

with metal hands from their fathers

who want them to join their shitty dealings

but they said no and got fabulous instead

and who are really good pilots

and also big gearheads

SO TRUE

#asami sato#luke skywalker#legend of korra#the legend of korra#avatar the legend of korra#atla#avatar the last airbender#alok#atlok#star wars#atla spoilers#korra spoilers#star wars spoilers#parallels
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