Can we talk about this scene
for a minute? Because I tear up literally every damn time I watch it.
After losing his son, Iroh
fought tirelessly to save his nephew from Ozai’s brainwashing, no matter how
hard Zuko tried to push him away. But even after years of sticking by him
through every dead end and reckless gambit, Zuko still goes back to his awful father. Once
again, Iroh couldn’t save his son and it just kills him.
Then the kid shows up with team Avatar, because it turns out
some of those proverbs got through to him after all.
But the part that really gets me is Zuko’s perspective.
Sitting outside that tent,
he’s so damn scared. He’s so convinced Iroh hates him, he won’t even go in
without a pep talk from Katara. Everyone else can see that Iroh will be proud
of what his nephew has done since they last met, but Zuko can’t. When Zuko goes
in to see the family he disappointed, he’s braced for yelling and fire and rage
because that’s what he’s been raised to expect when he screws up. Pissing off
his father got him disgraced, burned, tossed in the street, told he didn’t
deserve to be alive, and shot at with lightening. A lifetime of experience says
he should be
scared. He doesn’t expect to be forgiven, he just wants Iroh to know he’s
sorry.
And then Iroh’s not even mad. NOT EVEN MAD.
Mercy and compassion are so alien to Zuko that immediate forgiveness wasn’t
even a remote possibility. He’s so utterly confused, but at the same time, so,
so relieved. He hasn’t lost his only family. The only person who stayed by him
all those years in exile. The only father who loved him.
They both thought they’d lost
the only family they had left. Instead, they find themselves closer than
they’ve ever been. And I tear up every damn time.
Alright more learned people of tumblr, I have a question. I keep seeing the news article about the trans woman at a spa who was naked in the women’s changing room and flashing peen. That’s not a regular normal thing right? I thought we had all agreed that women have the right to not be exposed to penis they don’t want to see?
If you go to a naked spa, you will see naked women. To say ‘I consented to seeing naked women but not this kind’ is like saying 'I consented to seeing breasts but not saggy ones,’ or 'I consented to seeing young women but not old ones,’ or 'I consented to see this skin color but not that skin color.’
If you really think that trans women are actually women and not cosplaying men, which they are, you know, actually women, then do the same thing you’d do if you were in the changing room with a cis woman and don’t fucking look. The idea that a trans woman with a penis is doing something wrong to you by existing in a space where she otherwise has a right to be as a woman is an inherently transphobic one.
If you say to yourself: if this woman were cis, would her actions be viewed as inappropriate? and the answer is no, then insisting that she do something different for your comfort is discriminatory and not treating her like the woman she is.
But what if I have trauma about penises?
That is a problem that you should work out with your therapist, and it isn’t that random trans woman’s responsibility. If she’s behaving the same way as all the cis women around her, and not directly doing something to you personally, just going about her naked life in a naked spa, then you making your trauma her business is you being aggressive toward her, and making your problems her problem.
And that’s not okay.
If you’re not at a stage in your trauma recovery where you can treat an unrelated human being with the respect that she deserves, then don’t go to a naked spa. This is the responsible thing to do.
This idea that 'women shouldn’t have to see penises if they don’t want to’ is an ideal that TERFs have pushed hard in an attempt to try to close trans women out of spaces just like this.
And to make this even more 'what the fuck are you talking about’: WiSpa is an explicitly trans-affirming spa. So if you go to a trans-affirming naked spa that advertises itself as such and then complain about seeing a trans woman’s penis in the change room?
She’s not the dick. You are.
The ‘incident’ was also deliberately staged by TERFs, but yes, all of the above.
So, this hasn’t crossed my dash yet. (Not blaming anyone, there is soooo much going on in the world and I’d also missed it in the noise).
There is currently a strike at Frito-Lay. in Topeka. These workers are striking because:
They were being forced to work 84 hour weeks. The company’s best offer so far is a 60 hour cap. This is shit we fought for a century ago, people.
Their generous offer also includes a whole 4 percent wage increase…over the next 2 years. I’m not sure what COL is in Topeka, but… Well, it’s better than the entire 77 cents they’ve apparently gotten in the last decade.
There’s also a report that a worker literally collapsed and dropped dead on the line and the foreman’s response was to make them move the body out of the way and put in a replacement. (However, this is unconfirmed and, of course, the company denies it).
There have been multiple OSHA violations at this plant over the last few years, including a forklift accident that’s under investigation.
They’ve now been striking since July 5 but, of course, it only hit the national media yesterday.
Because Frito-Lay is refusing to budge. They are attempting to make the excuse that union leadership agreed to the 60 hour work week and crappy pay cut…when union leadership only agreed to put it to a vote.
And this means that we need to put the thumbscrews on them. Remember, this is about 19th century style working conditions.
So, I’m calling on my followers to boycott Frito Lay’s until the strike is involved.
Frito-Lay owns:
Lay’s
Doritos (Sorry. I really am. I KNOW there’s no good alternative to Doritos, although Zapp’s are good if you can find them).
Fritos
Tostitos
Cheetos
Ruffles
Sun Chips
Baken-ets
Chester’s
Cracker Jack
Islen plantain chips
Funyuns
Grandma’s (the cookies)
Matador Meat Snacks
Maui style potato chips
Miss Vickie’s
Munchies
Munchos
Rolled Gold
Sabritones
Santitas
Simply
Smartfood
Stacys
The Walking Taco
NatuChips
PopCorners (this one wasn’t on their website, but was bought by Pepsi’s in 2019 with the intent of adding it. So best avoided just in case).
Yes, this really is more than half of the snack aisle. Suggested alternatives:
Kettle Brand Chips
Zapp’s (If you can find them. My supermarket had them once and not since, so I’m guessing the culinary cowards in this neighborhood were afraid of “Voodoo” flavored chips).
Pringles
On the Border for salsa.
Wise Cheez Doodles
Bugles
Utz
Store own brand alternatives, if your store has ones that are any good.
Cheez-its
Check before you buy and let’s tell these people they don’t get to treat workers like that.
This was posted on FB recently by someone supporting the strike!
a sixty hour work week
What the fuck?
Sixty hours is what they are offering instead of 84.
Don’t forget now is also a great time to look for your local brands!
As an aside: Snyder’s of Hanover is not owned by Frito-Lay, and neither is any product you find by Utz Foods.
Also, to replace your Tostitos, may I recommend Xochitl? Better flavor, and proud to be minority-owned. They aren’t as “scoopable,” but when the flavor’s in the chip, they don’t have to be.
She’s actually “correct” in a nefarious way by asking you to Google it yourself because, yeah, OP is wrong. He doesn’t use child slavery to source lithium…
He uses child slavery to source cobalt to make lithium batteries
So by asking you to do your own research on the lithium sources, she’s derailing in his favor.
This is the same tactic the United States Atomic Energy Comission (now just the Department of Energy) intentionally misinformed uranium miners, mine owners, mill employees, and the general public during the uranium boom in the 40s-60s.
The AEC would put together “informational” seminars, videos, and presentations as propaganda for mine staff, miners, downwinders, the public, anyone involved. Their main tactic was the insistence that “Uranium is so weakly radioactive, it presented no hazard in uranium mines ” and while that is *technically* correct, Uranium isnt what kills you, its the Radium and Radon that Uranium decomposes into… the VERY carefully selected words by people headong organisation are always insidious. Dont expect them to mean anything but exactly what they say.
The worst part is this tactic WORKS and we need to be pointing out the other part of the story not being told by these people whos only agenda is to grow their bank account while sacrificing human lives.
“But where’s that light coming from” BITCH IT’S FANTASY WHO CARES
Ok but also from a like, theatrical storytelling perspective, there’s a thing called “willful suspension of disbelief” which is basically the concept that in order to let ourselves be immersed and enjoy a story, we need to turn off our knowledge that it’s all fake anyway.
like yes, we all *know* it’s unrealistically bright for a night time war, but it needs to be so we can SEE the story being told, and the lighting designer used blue light to show it was night time. We KNOW that Sir Ian isn’t actually a wizard but we SUSPEND that DISBELIEF because we want to be entertained.
theres the moon, theres the stars, in this fantasy world the stars might be four times as bright or there might be two moons
or, considering this is a land without electric lights, its assumed that everyones eyes, including those of the viewers, have adjusted enough to the darkness that yes normal ass moon and stars provide sufficient illumination to actually see that the elf king is not wearing sweatpants like youd be able to tell or who the hell was that who just got stabbed thats kind of an important detail in an action scene
I'm Vinicius. I'm 30yrs old. I live in Brazil.
I'll post about stuff I like. This may include, but not limited to, Sword Art Online, Agents Of SHIELD, Agent Carter and Grimm.
I'm Vinicius. I'm 30yrs old. I live in Brazil.