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Jade

@heroldtoart

My hoard of shiny trinkets and knickknacks profile pic by the wonderful @ashleyrowan
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Nothing funnier than Link getting the Tony Hawk treatment

[Please do not dub this comic! I’ll be releasing it for the VO community in a few weeks! <3]

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OHHHHHHHHSFHDJFB GDARE YOU KIDDINGEMEEEEE

ok i have had a LOT of time to think about these parallels.

in itsv, miles isn’t fully spider-man yet. he’s wearing the kids’ costume that doesn’t even fit. peter is the experienced spider-man, wearing the suit, who’s telling him he knows better and that he should sit this one out. but miles doesn’t. he takes his leap of faith and becomes spider-man. 

in atsv, miles has a brand-new suit. he’s been spider-man for longer, and he’s had time to figure out what works for him. 

peter comments on his new suit design and says it looks like he’s bleeding from the armpits. it’s meant as a joke, but it’s also a subtle nod that a lot of time has passed. peter doesn’t quite get how much miles has changed and come into his own. 

in the scene where they have a heart to heart, peter is wearing a bathrobe covering up his spidey suit, showing how he’s out of touch with miles. he’s not the best mentor he can be right now. miles is the one fully displaying the suit. he tells peter he wants to be spider-man in a different way—peter told him in the first movie to “do it like you,” and that’s exactly what miles is doing. 

in both scenes, peter thinks he knows better. but miles flips it right on his head and proves that he’s gonna do his own thing. 

“Did you see the way that little girl looked at me? Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And I’m the monster? I don’t know what’s scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart or that sometimes I just wanna let ‘em.” “We have to get you out of here. Over the wall. We won’t stop until we find some place safe, okay? We’ll go. Together. No matter what we do, we can’t change the way people see us.” You changed the way you see me... Didn’t you?

NIMONA (2023), based on the comic by ND Stevenson, who came out as transgender in 2022

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i have seen 3 different takes IN A ROW of xenk from the dnd movie OBVIOUSLY representing:

  • the DM's friend who wanted to bring his high level character in to play for one session
  • an NPC the DM realized was OP and couldn't let stay with the party
  • the one friend in the group whose schedule is never open, so the one time they actually make it they get to do all the coolest bits to make up for that

and none of these are wrong.

meanwhile I'm convinced that he's a cameo of a player character from a previous campaign brought in as a NPC by the GM specifically to delight the players

The Blue Spirit putting out firebending with a bucket of water is the absolute funniest thing ever done in avatar combat. It just is.

katara: *kicks zuko’s ass without even blinking* zuko:

I literally just watched this episode, and I’m sorry, but there’s one thing funnier:

Zuko couldn’t speak during this whole fight/escape in case someone recognized his voice. Can you imagine the frustration he must have felt having to go through an entire fight without yelling? Zuko???

Especially while dealing with Aang’s shenanigans?!?!?!

One of my favorite parts of rewatching the episode is imagining everything that must have been going through Zuko’s head during that escape.

Aang: Wait! My friends need to suck on those frogs!

Zuko, trying not yell out of anger and confusion:

It gets funnier when you think that he could absolutely, no problem go through a battle without yelling once, as seen here and yet chooses to be a dramatic gay and holler at the top of his lungs at every opportunity. 

That says a lot about how he firebends vs how he fights with the dao blades.

He actually can’t, at this point, fight without yelling if he’s using firebending. In The Firebending Masters, he says he’s been relying on anger and rage to fuel his bending, so yeah, in every firebending fight, he’s drawing on rage and hyping that up by yelling. Someone has pointed out that after he finds the original source of firebending, he stops yelling all the time - I haven’t checked that personally but it does seem accurate.

But he doesn’t need to draw on fury to firebend when he’s the Blue Spirit. He can fight in total silence when he’s working with a weapon he’s more in touch with, when he doesn’t need to draw on hate or anger to fuel it.

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cannot believe there are people who aren't familiar with the 2002 movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. it's not remembered as one of the animated classics of the early 00s because it's so different than other beloved movies - no talking animals, no fantasy settings, limited comedic elements - but my god did it shine in so many other ways. arguably some of the best 2D animation ever created, outstanding soundtrack, an hour and a half of pure anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism in a kid friendly story about horseys.