Me forcing my uni tutor who assigned us a 60% weight media research project to read an in-depth content analyse of Batman & Robin screen adaptations and why fridging, killing or excluding Robin or transforming him into an adult fails to foreground fatherhood as a prominent theme in Batman media, excludes and erases nuances to a symbolically masculine character thus reproducing toxic masculinity and is indicative of the erasure of complex father figures in media as opposed to the over-prominence of the mother figure-
[ID: a tiktok by @/christiantheshowm, with a caption that reads “Millennials/Gen Z’s as Therapists:” and is a conversation between a therapist and his patient. The therapist is a black man with a beard, wearing a suit and round glasses. the patient is a black man lying down on a couch with one hand resting on his head. he is also wearing a white hoodie. the hoodie is up and the drawstrings are pulled tightly so that only his eyes, nose, and mouth are shown.]
Transcript:
Therapist: So how have things been?
Patient: Maybe I was just put on this earth just to die.
Therapist: Ok.
Patient: Like I’m not meant to find love or be happy.
Therapist: I got you.
Patient: Like I’m just supposed to die.
(the patient turns to the therapist who nods. the camera zooms in.)
Therapist (putting a pen up by his mouth): It do be like that sometimes.
What she means: In Legally Blonde, Elle only gets accepted because she’s hot and sent a video, but she had a 4.0 and got a 179 (out of 180) on her LSATS. Sure, her major was in Fashion Merchandising but that’s a business major, and the fake school she was at was supposed to be UCLA so she had a business degree from a major college, probably went to a great high school, had a 4.0, and a 179 on the LSATS and at that point she would have been automatically accepted so why did they make it sound like she was such a bad risk? She even had leadership experience as president of a major chapter of what is apparently a huge sorority, since Delta Nus are shown as everything from cheerleaders to senators. Harvard should have been desperate to take her. She should have been able to get in if she turned in a cocktail napkin with her name written on it. So why make up the bullshit excuse of “multiculturalism” to justify letting in an extremely qualified and highly driven candidate just for laughs? Elle Woods deserved to go to Harvard and she earned that place with academic excellence and not by being hot.
This characterization is definitely emphasized with Ty Lee’s acrobatics, flexibility, and ability to hit pressure points. There’s a level of subtlety and precision that is required for such skills. She had to know her own body to be able to bend it in such ways, and she has to know other people’s bodies to be able to disable them.
One of the best twist moments in Avatar is when Ty Lee suddenly and dramatically turns against Azula at the Boiling Rock. Azula was completely convinced that Ty Lee would obey her without question forever, but Azula wasn’t the only one fooled. Mai is just as shocked when Ty Lee rebels as Azula is. Ty Lee’s survival instincts were so sharp that she never let anyone know what she was thinking, not Azula, not Mai, and certainly not Zuko.
Zuko really believed that Ty Lee didn’t understand who he was at all. He completely bought into the act that she’s just a puppet for Azula, who lives in her “little Ty Lee world where everything’s great all the time”. But the thing is, Ty Lee is one of the most perceptive characters in the show, and she’s excellent at keeping that on the down low, but she sees a lot more of Zuko than he thinks, and a lot of what she sees is very familiar to her.
Overshadowed by prodigious siblings?
Wanting to be acknowledged for the talents you have rather than the talents you don’t?
Kept in line by fear?
Spending your whole life bending over backwards to fit the persona the royal family has set for you?
people with bad taste are always like “yurr hurr The Beach is about zuko and mai and how they’re a great couple” while intellectuals know that Actually The Beach is about mining any and all of the untapped friendship potential of this striking exchange
And pretty much from the moment you meet her, it’s fairly clear that there’s more to her than her lighthearted, bubbleheaded persona, long before she uses her battle skills. Look at what happens when Azula recruits her.
Azula used blatant intimidation tactics to get Ty Lee to comply, ordering the net to be set on fire and all the animals released (which, for the record, would not only have endangered Ty Lee but the circus creatures themselves–I bet Ty Lee was attached to them, and that would’ve been a double threat in itself). Ty Lee is visibly terrified, but instead of calling her out or letting Azula see that she was intimidated, she says this:
Instead of endangering herself by pointing out that Azula crossed a line, Ty Lee falls back on her talk of “the universe” and “auras,” talk that canonically gets her indulged or dismissed but never taken seriously.
She knows that Azula’s dangerous. There’s no way she doesn’t know that Azula is threatening her. But if she can keep Azula from realizing she knows that, she’s a little safer.
Because she’s one of maybe two people Azula never considered as potential enemies–even (especially, but that’s another thread) Ozai is a threat in her mind, but Mai and Ty Lee are the closest thing Azula has to trusted friends, right up until their betrayal.
Ty Lee’s spent a lifetime cultivating a personality that not only allows her to stands out among her siblings–it protects her from being treated as a threat. When you’re friends with Azula, that is an essential facade to maintain. and she does it consistently enough that no one ever sees through it.
All of the Fire Nation kids are so messed up. Zuko’s just the one who gets in the most trouble, because he’s the only one who doesn’t have a mask.
((I love this question and my answer always changes each time I think about it.
I give you:
Katara and Aang are a young, newly wed couple trying to get by on the very few dollars they have. They so poor Sokka lives with them, which is fine. It’s fine. It’s great. Absolutely fine to have your brother live you and your husband. Most people want some alone time, but this is fine. It’s fine. No really, Aang, go play more video games with Sokka. It’s fine. I’m fine. This is FINE.
Katara is a medical student that works at the hospital when not in school. She’s also popular on social media where’s she’s something of a social justice activist, constantly calling out for Social Health Care, and pointing out how pollution, wealth/social class and bigotry affect the health of the people.
She also gives helpful tips on how to stay healthy mentally and physically and is well known for her watersports posts (She spends most free time surfing or playing on her all-girls water-polo team).
Aang is a bit of a jack of all trades, but mostly boils down to “Professional Volunteer.” He works at the Community Center, which constantly puts him in the heart of most community projects, like food drives, city council meetings, school fundraisers, community parties, and the animal shelter. He has a degree in Sociology and is studying Social Activism, though he’s not sure what he’s going to do with either of them.
He’s a hard-co Vegan and will go on rants about the oppression of animals and the harm the meat-industry has on the environment if you let him. He doesn’t drink but dammit he loves Kombucha. He’s one of those guys literally COVERED in tattoos.
He and Katara have a giant dog Appa, a cat Momo, and are constantly fostering new pets that Aang always gets too attached to.
Sokka works as a city manager. Well, he works with the City Manager. He’s, like, the right-hand man! The personal Assistant. Okay, he’s the intern–and has been for the past two years. He’s got some really great ideas to modernize this city, create jobs! If his bosses would just listen!
He spends his free time developing his own video games, listening to Podcasts (Which he thinks makes him an expert on most subjects), and getting his butt whooped by his girlfriend Suki at her Cross Fit class.
Toph is Aang’s former Roommate (He attempted to train Appa as a Seeing Eye Dog. It didn’t go so well.). She’s studying Criminal Justice, but mostly just really enjoying her time finally away from her overbearing parents–which means she’s acting out and “rebelling” in ways she probably should have gotten out of her system in her teenage years. She likes bars, sports games, hanging out with friends until ungodly hours, and going to Suki’s CrossFit Class to show up Sokka.
Zuko got it rough. He comes from a life of privilege–all the best schools, never having to get a summer job, his whole college paid for, only to be cut off by Dad the day of graduation. It’s been a lot harder than expected to find a place where he belongs, and he’s getting pretty tired of living at his Uncle’s house, feeling like a child. But his uncle is good to him and the money he earns working part-time at his Uncle’s Cafe gives him SOME savings of his own. Unsure where or what to do, he’s finally given into his Uncle’s nagging to “Get out there,” so he went to just ONE city BBQ, which is how he found himself covered in Dog Hair, walking besides a Big Bald Guy with tattoos, listening to another dude talk about some video game he’s developing, on their way to a Crossfit class.
Edward Cullen getting bullied by gen Z'ers in the hallways being called “sucker” because he rambled on for 30 minutes in history class about world war one until someone snapped said “ok we get it Nosferatu you were there and fucked Ferdinand himself”
like I’m barely gen z but these teenagers are on a totally different level of unhinged funny I’ve seen their tik toks. the Cullens literally don’t stand a chance they’re just gonna have to settle one day for a small school where everyone acknowledges that those are the vampire kids. and they all agree to just not tell anyone like the crowd in the Hannah Montana movie.
the Cullens would have to stop going to high school bc gen z is too powerful and would sniff out their obviously bizarre immortal energy in seconds like bloodhounds and expose them as literal vampires within days
the sexual tension between two gas stations on the same intersection
I’m so sick of this shit. Two gastations can’t even be on the same block without some walnut shipping them, while I can’t find a single fic for dennys/applebees with dennys bottoming.
you’re literally out of your mind if you think Dennys isnt a top
