I Just Never Understand Why Peeps Are Defending Companies.

i just never understand why peeps are defending companies.

Tale as Old as Time…

Bryke: Netflix created a hostile work environment so we left. What they’re making isn’t ATLA.

Ehasz: I reached out to Netflix to help with writing but they ghosted me and didn’t invite me to the premiere despite Kim’s best efforts. Every Recognized Cherokee Nation: Netflix disrespected our sovereignty by casting a registered member of a “pretendian” scam tribe which lets you pay to pretend you’re Cherokee regardless of whether you are or not, to facilitate the stealing of resources set aside to help disadvantaged indigenous people. Netflix responded by launching an aggressive propaganda campaign to misrepresent our objections as “just some Twitter user with no proof”. NATLA Apologists: Season 1 was really good! You guys just wanted a 1:1 remake! They did the best they could! Some things about NATLA are better than the original, even! Fans are just whining! Bryke only left to make Avatar Studios - ignore their angry parting statements about Netflix stifling creativity! Ousley is LITERALLY Sokka-coded and anyone who shares the Cherokee Nations’ objections are haters! Ignore that they brown-faced him with darker makeup! The only problem was too few episodes! The next two seasons will be even better and then haters will eat their words! I believe in Kim’s vision!

Albert Kim: I did what I was hired to do. I’m moving on and have no desire to show run two more seasons of this.

Netflix:

We told you.

Corporate cash-grab.

You’ll get the show you asked for.

AO3 IS IN TROUBLE IF CALIFORNIAN AGE VERIFICATION LAW PASSES

An upcoming Age verification bill centered in California will be voted on Monday-- And as always,instead of actually protecting kids, it will lead to more online censorship and privacy risks, as it will force websites hosting to verify their users age by sending their ID, your browser history would be linked to it. if you live California, call your reps and tell them to oppose the bill AB3080 as it highly unconstitutional.

They also deem LGBT content harmful to minors, as well as mentions of weapons and tobacco, putting them on the same level as NSFW content.

Since AO3 headquarters reside in California, much like Reddit, Twitter,Discord and Youtube (and others) who knows how bad the effects would be. Instead of just effecting Californians (even then its concerning.) the effects would be US or even worldwide. VPNs wont help.

Please take actions here (a script is included to help you) https://www.defendonlineprivacy.com/ca/action.php

Find your rep here https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

You can also send faxes using this https://faxzero.com/

If you don't live in California, please talk about this,tag your friends and urge others to take actions, make posts and tweets using the hashtags AB3080 and NoOnAB3080

More info HERE

i’m sure you’ve talked about this before, but did azula abuse zuko?

No. The Azula-Zuko relationship was extremely toxic, but Azula didn't act in an abusive manner or out of abusive motivations, and in fact it's almost impossible to construct reasoning which supports "Azula abused Zuko" without the same reasoning also supporting "Zuko abused Azula." It's important to consider all of Azula's actions toward Zuko within context:

1. Yes, Book 2 Azula lied to him, manipulated him, used violence against him, etc. None of this is good. But she did this within the context of Zuko being a declared traitor(whose very status made him a massive implicit threat to the throne, and who is traveling with another, even more dangerous traitor) who she's been ordered to hunt down by the Firelord, absolute ruler of her country. To put this in modern terms, it is as if your sibling was an exceptionally dangerous terrorist and it was your responsibility to hunt them down. An awful situation to be in, but you using violence would not make you "abusive." And it's worth noting that Azula doesn't strictly prioritize her mission against Zuko and Iroh, like you would expect she would if she was obsessed with controlling and/or hurting Zuko, but instead prioritizes other objectives for most of the season.

2. Azula gives Zuko a 100% chance genuine chance to regain his status and to prove his loyalty. It's worth noting that this is one of the times that being Azula's sibling works in Zuko's favor, because she would not have done that for anyone else, and no one other than Azula would have given him a second chance.

3. Azula responds to realizing that Zuko might be lying to her and throwing her, the Fire Nation, and their father under the bus by setting it up so that if Zuko was in fact lying, he would suffer the consequences for it, while also giving Zuko an opportunity to fix his mistake. "Abuse" is not a good paradigm to understand this, especially since the safest thing for Azula to do would have been to tell Ozai that she suspected Zuko was lying(but Zuko would not have had good things happen to him then, so you can see why she didn't go down this route).

4. As a result of #2, Azula destroyed the power-imbalance between the siblings and gave Zuko an equal, if not superior, status to her by getting him back in favor with Ozai and by getting the Fire Nation to regard him as a hero(remember, Zuko was seated at Ozai's right hand at the war meeting). There's every indication that, had Ozai chocked to death on a cheery pit, she would have supported Zuko's accession to the throne and loyally supported his regime. Again, these are not the actions of an "abuser."

5. First half of Book 3 Azula was generally kind to Zuko and made a serious effort to look after his emotional wellbeing. She's actively defensive of his status in "The Beach." And yes, she sometimes made fun of him and went too far in this, but that's normal in a sibling relationship.

6. After Zuko betrays her and throws her under the bus, commits massive amounts of treason, and joins up with a group which aims to overthrow the Fire Nation's government and kill Azula's father, yes, Azula treats him as a traitor and enemy of the state. But that's not "abuse," that's just being reasonable at that point. And yes, she's also extremely angry at Zuko in this period, but their relationship is mostly defined by being on opposing sides in a war.

In contrast, Zuko is almost continually motivated by his desire to violently "put Azula in her place" and/or kill her because he can't stand the idea of her being better than him. I need to make a more detailed post about this, but in almost every Zuko-Azula fight scene, Zuko actively pursues or seeks out the fight, or at least has an easy opportunity to retreat, but chooses to fight her because he wants to inflict violence on his sister. However, I wouldn't call this abuse because it's ultimately motivated by Ozai's abuse, and more importantly because it's not clear how far Zuko would go without the context of the war. Still, it's Zuko's personal motivations which drive him to try to hurt Azula contrast a lot with Azula's motivations as discussed above.

And it's not like we can take what happened in #1 out of the sibling relationship, especially since it played such a big role in the relationship being as toxic as it got, but it's important to understand Azula's motivations there.

I would really appreciate it if you reblogged this because I did, in fact, accidentally spend 40 hours on it!!

how is tdp justifying ethnic cleansing?

The show tries to present itself as "both sides in the wrong" conflict, completely ignoring that the situation presented does not call for it. (One group kicks an entire race out of their home and forces them to relocate. Hmm. If only there was a historical event that mirrored that.. OH WAIT)

The show has a huge bias against the humans and refuses to acknowledged how WRONG the Elves are. All while painting the elves as misunderstood victims, and humans as encroaching colonizers (oh the irony).

The show tries to sweep away the Elves' actions by going "But dark magic is evil 👹 and lazy 😞 and if the humans didn't use it, they wouldn't have been kicked out".

The way the show frames Dark Magic is even creepier. It condemns it while also ignoring how it came to be. Its treatment gives me huge "Other Religion BAD, Christianity GOOD".

"There is only way to use magic and that's define by the people in power"

-The Elves and the Dragons define the morality of magic in the show, despite having a history of attempting to genocide another race for practicing it in a different manner and when that fails, ethnically cleansing them.

Yet the show never makes any of the characters have to reflect on this. ACTUALLY. Rayla ends up agreeing with a racist, genocidal maniac and the show never punishes her for this. Her dismissive view of humans is never challenged. Because the show doesn't disagree with her.

There's other users who have delved deeper into this issues, far better than I could. They are under the tag Tdp critical.

Re-Blog if you want to see Azula get her Redemption Arc!

Come on.  Look at that face!