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Koji was an interesting guy, talented artist, and my personal friend. This was so sudden and unexpected for all of us, and a stark reminder at how quickly someone can just… disappear. Please keep him and his family in your prayers.

(Repost) Poor (lucky??) little Ollie getting the flustering of a lifetime Gift art for @hircinecapra

Victoria✨ If Victor was a w*man 😂

(Repost) After the Riders Arc, Byte rushes to find an abandoned structure in the Emeraldville ruins... 🤣

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This is because the showrunners don't really know the difference between right and wrong, and can't reason through how someone fighting for evil might defect to good. In the original, none of the good people who influence Zuko try to do so by convincing him that he and his people are evil. They influence him by cultivating and appealing to his better nature. Obviously Iroh is the most significant, and in his years of mentoring Zuko he never once tries to even sow the seed of the idea that the Fire Nation might be in the wrong. Instead he just teaches Zuko to be honorable, brave, and kind. Kind doesn't take very well, but honorable does. Over the course of the story, these principles he has been inculcated with come more and more into conflict with his loyalties, eventually forcing a confrontation. Even that confrontation is not "honor vs blood" - that's too simplistic. His crisis is the realization it is no longer possible to be loyal to his entire family. His father's dishonor has already divided the clan. The new Zuko isn't honorable at all, because the showrunners don't understand how a "badguy" could have great moral qualities (and even be more moral than many of the "goodguys" in certain ways) that would ultimately lead him to become a hero. That is, Zuko in AtLA is already a "hero" before switching sides, in that his behavior is heroic. He's a brave warrior who fights for his family's honor and the success of his people. At least, he thinks that's what he's fighting for. In reality what he's doing isn't best for his people. That's the crisis. That's the change. What they want new-Zuko to do is totally reject his own identity, rather than finding its real core. The Fire Nation feels a bit too much like "white colonizers." The original's idea that the Fire Nation was a truly great people who became misguided is no longer acceptable, so all virtue has to be stripped out of it. Note that Zhao, who was fearless in the face of death originally, is made a sniveling coward in the live-action. Examining the difference between courage and stubbornness is a bit too complicated for this "more mature" adaptation aimed at "adults." The badguys are all just thieving weasels now. Zuko suffers the worst because he was the best.

My God, they ruined this show. Thank God I wasn’t stupid enough to try watching it

You could have that as your king. Instead, you have Fauci. (Lots of little Faucis.)

@bonsoirdude It’s crazy to think that if Gigi and her perverted friends had their way, IDW would just be a trans gay porn comic. They’re already making it as close to that as possible while still barely skirting Sega’s rules.

How does this help Sega sell more Sonic games, comics and merchandise?

Nick Fuentes delivers an overview of Jewish and Zionist identity and how it developed: for 2,000 years since expulsion from the Holy Land, Jews have been a stateless minority — the congenital outsider with their own religion, language, and rituals, repeatedly exiled and segregated. That environment forged a tribal, prey-animal psychology: even secular Jews fear the majority will rise up to crush them, because every criticism looks like the next expulsion. "This is the psychology of Jewish people." [AF 1526]

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@riinity LOL 😶

@Scopuli @AdamMGrant Listening to women is civilizational suicide and it makes everyone miserable, including them

It's sad that women's success is a threat to marriages. 544k couples, 29 countries: Separation is 36% more likely when women outearn their partners. The risk goes up further if they have children. A woman's prosperity should be a source of pride, not relationship conflict.

@AdamMGrant You’re missing the point. The pride *is* the source of relationship conflict. When women are with a man they view as lower status they are instinctively disgusted and want to “trade him up” “I make more than him. I can do better.”

Imagine pretending this isn’t really fucking cool We killed this so infinity foreigners could flood our borders and dissolve our nations while perverts do drag and gay porn book readings for children

Higher earning women more likely to end their marriages with lower earning husbands. Women most affected.