Seriously. It also bothers me how so many of zukos colossal mistakes get written off because he felt felt bad and apologized, but god forbid one of the gaang, especially aang or katara, have a slightly unfair reaction and they are suddenly “toxic” or “annoying.”
I think the show itself feeds into this. Zukos arc is great but his join up with the gaang happened way too quickly. Realistically, Aang shouldve had a harder time accepting somebody who assisted in causing his literal clinical death. But the creators saw they only had a few eps til thr finale left by the time Zuko joined the gaang and decided they needed to include as many positive group interactions as possible. Everyones like “Aang is so forgiving tho!” Okay he can be forgiving and still be traumatiEd. Trauma is NOT. A competition but (lmao, the but. Im sorry i gotta say it tho) Aangs culture literally got genocided. Hes the one who lost the most, but because he always gets baxk up, his trauma is cast aside by the fandom. Like idk how many “gaang comforts zuko” or “gaang is protective of zuko” takes/scenarios i can stomach in such large quantity to anything else. First of all as if the rest of the gaang dont have to scale shitty experiences with life on their own. They all experienced tragedy except toph, but its only zuko who gets this immense level of sympathy?? It gets ANNOYING suffice to say.
I kinda get it cuz having absuive parents is far more relatable than everyone you know and love dying, but goddamn so many people in this fandom seem to hyperfocus on traumatized angst projection zuko and it low key pmo sometimes lol.
Obligatory zukos trauma is real and his arc is awesome. I enjoy his character in spite of the critique
I love Zuko but the fandom has a major problem infantilizing him
A family of fraternisers
AUs where Viktor is raised by Silco and/or Vander are funny to me, because that means that most of their children run off with “The Enemy”
I figure this is a setting somewhere between the main universe and Powder’s AU
Bonus “I learned it from YOU daddy” ZaunDads
Love Gray but this and the ending in general pmo so bad. Also would like to add that “ACME” dropping in and doing the thing Carmen has dedicated years of her life to fighting in one full swoop doesnt get talked about enough…like can u imagine how she mustve felt about that? Nothing ab that ending was happy for Carmen. I mean, she has to sit with the realization that she spent 6 months as a living manifest of everything she hated, is forced to contend with the fact that she probably killed ppl, has to see her life goal fulfilled mostly by someone else, AND feels the need to leave her found family behind because she thinls thats the best thing she can do for them as she doesnt deserve to be arpund them. And then she runs off to Argentina like meeting her mom will magically fix all of these giant bleeding bullet wounds in her mental health and heart.
In spite of being supposedly “women-led” and centered around female empowerment, Carmen Sandiego’s most well written snd complex characters apart from Carmen herself are Chase Devineaux, Gray Calloway, and Shadowsan. Like that is absolutely ridiculous. Your show thats marketed for its brown female lead actually sidelines said lead to prop up 3 male characters, 2 of which are white? (This is not a diss btw - i enjoy all 3 of these characters and i am NOTTT saying white and/or male characters dont deserve to be written well. Just understand that one of this shows selling point was brown female lead soooo the mental gymnastics to ignore that and prop up characters who dont fit that well at all ks low key wild.
i love gray he is my favorite
never will shut up abt him
BUT i can never get over this show having him being the reason vile is exposed. HOW DO YOU EVEN WRITE SOMETHING LIKE THAT
the show is called carmen sandiego but not even the titular main character, who has devoted EVERYTHING we see of her in the show to taking down vile, takes it down. Not even her found family takes it down in her place, to show that the bonds forged with people outside of your controlling family can leave such an amazing impact. NOT EVEN ACME TAKES VILE DOWN. like i wouldve preferred maybe julia and chase going behind chief's back to use acme resources to do their own investigation, but still, to not even have the organization built on stopping vile get that moment is insane.
hell maybe even carmen's old classmates defecting slowly could be worth something thematically
yeah no lets have the guy who was literally
a) meant to be the narrative vehicle for carmen to info dump the backstory in the first episode and intended to be written out
b) was bonked in the head with amnesia and only made a brief reappearance in one ep is s1 and an ep in s2 and no speaking lines in "s3"
c) had a focus in the first half of s4 which ended with him picking vile in the end only to have another change of heart the moment he returns as an antag in the final two eps
be the guy responsible for leaking vile to acme. no high stake rescue mission or final heist or deep investigation. nope just some guy tattle tale-ing lol to bring down an entire criminal organization.
yay female empowerment (jk kinda this show is good at writing female characters as just normal characters but it does greatly rub me the wrong way that carmen get side-lined in the finale of her own show by gray and shadowsan and yet the show claims to be empowering. easily could just be a writing issue tho and nothing to do with gender)
In all timelines, in all possibilities, only you
Jayvik you’ll always be famous in my heart
Every time Dick leaves the house Bruce gets a new kid
Dick : [leaves]
Bruce: oh god. Nest empty. Must have bird. Hrnnnnngh [adopts an orphan]
Dick: [returns] ........
Dick: Who the fuck is this?
Jason: Hi.
Dick: I was only gone 3 weeks!
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Jason: [Is dead]
Dick: [leaves]
Bruce: :🥺 b-but!!! I have no baby!!! Must have baby!! Alfred, call the guy!
Dick : [returns]
Dick: .... Bruce why is the neighbor kid here? And where'd the girl come from?
Tim: Hi. I live here now.
Stephanie: I don't live here but I might as well.
Dick: .... Bruce what the fuck. I was only gone for the weekend and Jason's grave is still fresh.
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Dick: [Leaves]
Bruce: [Vibrates intensely] Alfred--
Alfred: Already called, Sir.
Dick: [Returns]
Dick:....... (O . O)
Dick: H-hello.... Children.... Where... How.... ?
Cass, Duke, Terry, Carrie, Billy, Harper and Cullen: Hi.
Damian: I am the blood son.
Tim & Steph: We never left.
Dick: ....
Dick: [throws an apple at B's head] I ONLY WENT TO THE STORE BRUCE!!! IT WAS ONLY TWO HOURS BRUCE!!!! [Continues chucking produce]
Jason: [From behind Dick] I'm back, btw.
Dick: [Jumps out of his skin] AA--!!
YOU DONT UNDERSTAND IM LITERALLY IN LOVE WITH HIM SKJHBSKB
It’s true - I learned how to shoot with a camera before I learned to shoot with a rifle. I guess filming is just a small piece of the puzzle that makes up the picture of who I am.
saw this tumblr add a while ago - had to redraw it as dickkory
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