I’m begging you, if you’ve ever written or made anything original on here please back it up in some form or the other now. The fact tumblr is blocking the wayback machine is the clearest sign they’re nuking this website and everything else is just a smokescreen for their intentions.
Ouch. I don’t know if they plan to delete everything really soon or just, like whatever unfortunate posts they randomly flagged, but whatever is up, this is very ominous.
Anyway, even if Tumblr ends up staying up for years after this I don’t trust this site anymore and I absolutely agree that if there’s anything on here someone would miss if it was gone, they should back it up!
They are blocking WayBack; I just tried to save my homepage and it denied me.
prince zuko got you all out here thinking every dark haired antagonist boy is gonna do right in the end when zuzu was the exception not the rule
I really wish it weren’t though? I think it’s really telling that a lot of people like redemption arcs because we want to see people be good despite their pasts. The fact that there are so little redemption arcs in media is very upsetting because it just sends the message that people can’t change which we know is not true. I absolutely don’t mean this for characters like Kylo Ren though lol
Redemption arcs are hard and Zuko’s was successful for a couple of reasons:
1) Zuko wasn’t the worst character in the Fire Nation. From really early on it was shown that, compared to Zhao, Azula, and other Fire Nation leaders, Zuko was consistently more noble. He tried to be a good person and do the right thing, even when doing so led to him suffering for his actions.
2) Zuko suffered for his mistakes. He suffered when he turned away from Iroh, he suffered when he betrayed Iroh, and he suffered even after his face turn. There were consequences for his mistakes; he didn’t get off scot free because his childhood was hard. He was still held accountable by the narrative and made to take responsibility for the wrongs he did.
3) Zuko made tangible amends to the people he hurt. He rescued Hakoda, helped Katara get closure, and became Aang’s firebending master. He put in work to make up for the things he did and rebuild bridges with his new allies.
Most redemption narratives fail because the guilty party is guilty of much greater crimes than failing to capture the hero, never works to make amends, and never suffers for their mistakes. You wanted to see Zuko redeem himself because he had the capacity, wanted to do the work, and paid dearly for his mistakes.
you’re right and you should say it
I mean also can we please not dismiss that Zuko was literally a child on a path toward figuring out that his (abusive) family’s beliefs & actions were wrong, whereas characters like Kylo Ren are actualfacts adults who grew up with a host of good role models to choose from? Not that adult characters can’t be given redemption arcs, but imo this is a huge part of what makes Zuko so immensely sympathetic. Even his worst decisions are often motivated by “being a teenager who’s desperate for his family’s acceptance”, not “being an entitled white boy” or wtf kylo ren’s motivations are supposed to be.
So who else misses 2012 and the “they all live in the tower and tony made them separate floors” fanfics after seeing that shit fire angsty trailer
Bold of you to assume I’ve ever moved on from this
Fam, 2013 Avengers fandom is still lit, idk what to tell you. We stopped at Winter Soldier long enough to pick up Bucky and Sam and haven’t looked back since.
(Rolls past with my wheelbarrow full of interesting comic based characters that they’ll never bother including in the MCU because they’re not white dudes)
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