This Was A Word Vomit And I Do Not Apologize - Tumblr Posts

How Wenwu wore the rings like handcuffs, tying him back to the past, how he fought with his fists and taught Shang-Chi to do the same

And then Ying-Nan opening his hand, and SHANG-CHI FUCKING USING THE RINGS ALL FLOWING AND SERPENTINE LIKE HIS MOTHER AND AUNT, NOT LASHING OUT HARD AND SHARP LIKE A WHIP

THAT SYMBOLISM BABY (oh hey and that doesn't have anything to do at all with the yin yang the dragon did at the end, you know, like the light and the dark, the masculine and the feminine...)

Like can we talk about that?? That was just *chef's fucking kiss*

Got some very heavy ATLA vibes from this (hey Zuko?? Azula?? daddy/mommy issues?? masked ponytail dude?? The whole wind/water and how gentleness can be just as threatening as violence thing?? Yeah)

Them respecting the past but releasing it as well, omg. Something about that speaks very deeply to me, as I know from my own heritage, how trauma, pain, and grief just flow down through the blood

When Shang-Chi said that his mom would hate him for who he had become, but what she had actually said was to embrace both the light and the dark within himself and to accept what had come down to him from his mother and father and HIM REALIZING IT

IT WAS IN YOU ALL ALONG, YOU JUST HID FROM IT

God that's so fucking freeing honestly

I've spent so much of my life running away from my heritage and only begun to fully embrace it in the past couple years

That really resonated with me

Often I still don't feel like I belong to either side, but it's a growing process,, I'll get there some day