The Removal Of The Sexism Pisses Me Off Not Because It Just Affects Sokkas Character But Because It Has

I both love and hate Oedipus Rex because the end is so stupid.

The whole play is (in one interpretation!) about self-identity and the battle between knowing who we are and how we are percieved by ourselves and the world around us. You'd expect for Oedipus to end the play fully relalized and yet...

By blinding himself, which, yes it is out of guilt and is a form of self-flagellation, but it also acts as a way to continue ignoring who he is. Without eyes he cannot see his children, the genetic abominations, nor does he have to see the world he has helped corrupt. He can continue to live in bliss. In his blindness he does not become Tiresias- he is not a prophet- he is just a pathetic man as scared as us to see himself in the mirror.

Kuina is probably very pro-turtles and I feel like to piss her off Last boss will ONLY use plastic straws. And I mean only. drinking dr pepper? straw. drinking water? straw drinking black coffee? straw eating soup? straw spaghetti? straw  this man has most definitely eaten an entire 3 course meal with a plastic straw to spite Kuina and she just couldn't react other than crying because wtf is this dumbass doing

I love how they gloss over Spencer getting Anthrax poisining so quickly. I mean they do this for ALL traumas but I feel like they should've at least shown him struggling to breath whilst running for the next few cases, maybe some people being double worried to let spencer go into crime scene alone, and of course spencer holding this against them. I need them to go "spencer I don't think-" "Who was it that helped solve a case whilst DYING of Anthrax??? cuss last I checked you wern't the one laying with a breathing tube up his nose for a week. So anyway this 6th cup of coffee is super needed at 11am"

In a fairy tail here's the roles of characters. yeah. woo.  Kuina is the pretty Princes who fucking wrecks her captures ass  Usagi is the other pretty princes who comes to save Kuina by offering her a horse as a getaway car  chishiya is the horse  Arisu is her butler  Hatter is a random bird that the villain owns and screams the future but its really lame things like “mark from down the street will have waffles on Thursday at 3am whilst watching titanic”.  He also only speaks in French  Aguni is like the villains cat that is always arguing with the bird/hatter except he only speaks Polish  Last boss is the story teller who's like narrating it all and is sat on a bean bag with a pop up book in his lap as a bunch of kids stare at him scared 

omfg that's genius I love it 

Alice in borderland au where everything’s the same but hatter is animated like a cartoon

Sokka painting Kya and Zuko is there (yes this is posted on TikTok too) (OH MY GOD IM GENUINELY CONFUSED HOW TUMBLR WORKS THAT WHY IM NOT ON IT MUCH)

The way that I understood it was that supernatural creatures like Seers or witches/mages where encoded into their DNA. Like no matter what Ethan and Benny did there was no way to never NOT become these supernatural creatures (even if they did have special moments to 'unlock' this ability. Although for me it feels more akin to learning to run rather than magical girl transformation type unlocking but thats boring). On the otherhand things like vampirism or lycanthropy are similar to a disease but just....amplified. and so the miracle cure would then work as an almost super antibody rather than a purification of anything supernatural. It's a vacine not holy water ya feel? Although this view is also SOOO borring and basic so ya know ignore me.

Okay so Ethan drank the Supernatural all cure and he was still a seer after, I feel like this tells us something but I can't quite articulate what right now

My one thing I want in life is a deep 50k word social media mutuals who sometiems talk, to accidental pannel hosters together, to friends, to sorta awkward frenemies back to friends, to lovers Aguni/Hatter fic set as them like cosplayers. Aguni does more like video game cosplays and Hatter does more action movie/ cool tv show cosplays and shit.  Oh and also like sleep. Sleep would be nice aswell   

You know I do think it's interesting how strongly Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) makes the point that bringing someone back from the dead is inherently selfish.

I've seen it elsewhere but not nearly as unequivocally and plainly put. First, we have Majhal in episode 4 - an alchemist so obsessed with bringing back his dead love, he completely fails to notice that she survived and returned to him. And even once the truth is revealed... he rejects her, since she's not the ~perfect girl~ from his memories, but an old woman - an actual person, with an actual life.

And if you missed it there, we then meet Tucker, so obsessed with keeping his lifestyle and success as a State Alchemist he does, you know, that. And then he goes on to become obsessed with bringing her back - but not her, not really, as he straight-up tells Ed in the 5th laboratory - he wants the girl from his memories, the perfect, unchanging doll.

Both times, we see that those obsessed with bringing someone back from the dead aren't interested in bringing back a person, with thoughts and feelings and their own independent life to live - no, they want their idea of that person, the glowing angel who could never change, never grow, and never go wrong. And that also goes for Ed and Izumi too - Ed was so obsessed with bringing his mother back that he ignored Pinako, ignored the family that took him in, and selfishly put his brother's life at risk... for which he paid the price. Izumi lost her ability to have future children, any of them, stuck on a dream on the child she could have had. Both didn't want that mother/child - they wanted their loved ones, the ones they dreamed of, not the ones that were actually there.

Most times resurrection is brought up in media, it's with the lesson that "oh, the cost is too high", "oh, you're disturbing their rest", "oh, they don't come back right." It's rare to see it put so clearly, so obviously, so horrifically that actually, no, even the fact that you attempt it - even the fact that you want to - is an inherently selfish act, that turns your back on life and the living to chase a dream that may not have ever existed.

It's an interesting take on the whole idea, of death and life and memory and obsession. For all that 2003 dropped the ball on the ending, I do love the development they gave to the characters!