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@Grimdogx Not really, even the likes of Kuvira or Suyin can't change the form of metal as fluidly as a waterbender could. And the mecha was kinda shown to not be too reliable.

@Arthurhrh These Benders control Metals shape and size and do it as fluidly as other Benders control their elements. The series ends with them building a fuckin Mecha bro. Inevitable Industrialization will make Metal Benders kings of the art.

Toph could only do it because of her Seismic Sense. In the thousands of years bending existed alongside metal works none of them figured it out because they couldn't. The issue narratively is that if Earthbenders can do this it's sort of a given they'll eventually just take over

@Grimdogx It doesn't need to be a large rock either, and earth benders don't need to be in direct contact with the rock either Plus metal armor might be one the things that help the least against bending. Most earth and air moves are based on blunt force, let alone air and water.

@Arthurhrh They are wearing form fitting armor made of metal they have absolute control over in the modern era. It's also leagues faster than typical Earth bending and can be done at a distance with no contact. A Metal bender doesn't need to raise a rock, they can just flick a wrist.

@Grimdogx The weaknesses of earth bending are it's rigidity of form (which metal still has even if to a lesser extent) combined with it's environmental limitations, which are not changed Plus generally speaking shoving a rock between you and a hostile metal implement is a way to counter it

@Arthurhrh Any Earthbender can Metal Bend. The weakness of Earthbenders was that they were slower than other Benders and couldn't counter metal implements. Metal Benders have none of these weaknesses, Given how rapidly it's being adapted it's a given that it'd eventually be standardized.

@MrOvis_ Toph did bend metal without touching it in the original series. And it makes sense the use of metal bending would have more finesse than when it was invented.

This scene is a good example of my issue with metalbending in Korra. In the original series, Toph had to be in physical contact with the metal, because it was much harder to bend than actual earth, because she was bending the impurities within it. Meanwhile, the metal bending in Korra is basically the opposite, they actually bend with far more precision than anyone bends earth with, which doesn't make any sense. It's kinda in the same vein as the lavabending, where instead of applying any actual logic to it, they treated the bending as pure sorcery. Korra doesn't learn it from anyone, she just has it, because she has more Bending Midiclorians than everyone else, I guess.

@lightning189 @naMnaSYt Republic City has some New York in it, but is pretty clearly inspired by the likes of Hong Kong and Shanghai.

@naMnaSYt Because Bryke, for some reason, looked at 1920's New York then took a can labelled "Vaguely Asian aesthetic" and smeared it all over it.

why is this modeled after like 1920s america

@naMnaSYt *Fire Nation

@naMnaSYt I mean, the White Lotus kinda publicly freed Ba Sing Se from the Earth Nation while wearing their organization's colors. There's not really a way back to secrecy after this.

I really don't like how The White Lotus is the public organization that has say over the Avatar there is no way the original White Lotus or the Gaang would allow this despite what this show tries to tell you

@andirarahman @NihilNothings Cops need the idea of social norms existing in abstract, but not really for it to impact their own lives

@Arthurhrh @NihilNothings It’d make more sense for her to be a bandit than a cop imo. And cops kinda need social norms as a pretense for their violence.

Korra is the worst Avatar because she's essentially a cop & imperialist that serves to preserve the Neoliberal world order alongside preventing the modernization of a backwards peripheral nation (i.e. Earth Kingdom). This is because the show was made by Liberals.

@NihilNothings The Earth Kingdom is kinda of the single largest, wealthiest and most populous state in the ATLA world by a few orders of magnitude. Not really perihpheral, nor is it really portrayed as backwards (it's a monarchy, but so is the Fire Nation and the Northern Water Tribe),

@andirarahman @NihilNothings Eh, cops don't really care about social norms that much. Toph always liked violence.

@NihilNothings One of its biggest sin in my eyes is them making Toph a police officer of all things when her entire character arc was about breaking free from suffocating societal norms. Talk about character assassination.

@greenstick1234 @Beetrootius @az10xzbaxkup You can consider mixing multiple cultures under a single political entity in the setting tasteless (though that was the case for most pre-modern empires, nationalism is a pretty new thing), but it pretty evidently wasn't done thoughtlessly.

@greenstick1234 @Beetrootius @az10xzbaxkup Oyaji is from Kyoshi Island, which indeed has Japanese inspirations. Haru's village is not that far from there, so they may very well share some culture. We never get to see where Teo is from, but Gaoling has Tang China aesthetics (and cantonese is close to tang-era Chinese)

I know asian americans probably like this, but mainland asians would probably be weirded out by this. Imagine Javanese culture being said they are the same as Dayak Culture- mashed all into one.

@ArsonS43430 @schrondonowitz By most of the (of debatable utility in the medieval context and completely useless in the 19th century) definitions of "feudalism" as a concept, no, not really. Pre-Revolutionary Russian agriculture was very much geared towards exportation in the global scale, for starters.

@Arthurhrh @schrondonowitz Sure it was integrated into the world economy. But as far as the workers relationship to power, it was a lot closer to a feudal system than a capitalist system like Britain or the US.

even in the original book the pigs ends up selling all their ideology and the interest of the farm for their personal gain so one could make the argument that it was already a critique of capitalism, plus still in the book before the animal revolution they live under human capitalism and life's ain't much better so in many aspect this bookwas a very good representation of the communism VS capitalism relations

@greenstick1234 @Beetrootius @az10xzbaxkup The Earth Kingdom is explicitly highly diverse and politically fractured, and the series went out of its way to depict each part of it the main characters visit its own cultural identity and characteristics. Borrowing from multiple cultures was almost certainly part of that.

@Arthurhrh @Beetrootius @az10xzbaxkup i still find copy pasting irl hanbok and irl qizhuang and irl peking opera makeup etc etc into ONE region (earth kingdom) to smell of snth that starts with o and ends with rientalism. it gets even worse when u look at the etymology of earth kingdom names (they literally named a+

@ArsonS43430 @schrondonowitz Pre-Revolution Russia was largely agrarian, but deeply well-integrated into the worldwide capitalist production chains. Also, feudalism's usefulness as a term is debated when talking about the medieval period, and inexistent in the early 20th century.

@schrondonowitz The farm before the revolution wasn’t really capitalist. It’s the Russian revolution. And Russia was not fully capitalist before the revolution. It was like basically still feudal

@Happy_Says_Aye @OmoAlade007 Hangers can be used to induce abortions (and will often lead to infections and potentially deadly health complications), often by desperate women without access to safer means.

@OmoAlade007 Can someone explain the hanger? This is like the 4th Eve image of her holding a hanger

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@greenstick1234 @Beetrootius @az10xzbaxkup I mean, it's a mish-mash, but one done deliberately and knowingly (presumably to avoid making it a boring copy of a real life culture), unlike Aladdin where they just tossed everything between Marrakesh and Malacca into a vaguely oriental misture with little regard for anything.

@Beetrootius @az10xzbaxkup +mash smoothie (much like aladdin). i always roll my eyes bc my SURNAME (very common) is literally a character's first name

@az10xzbaxkup I mean, there's a difference between "It's all the same, just lump it all together" and "Let's include researched details from various cultures to make the fictional one interesting rather than just a copy"

@vinisnothere Na maioria esmagadora das instituições cotas raciais são uma subcategoria das cotas socioeconômicas, fofo.

precisamos de menos cotas raciais, de genero, de isso, de aquilo e mais cotas sociais, só tem filho de empresário nas Universidades Federais