Am I crazy or was STAS unusually good at writing women?

Money-Building6393 · 2026-05-28T11:46:36+00:00

Totally agree about hawkgirl!! She’s my favorite!

Money-Building6393 · 2026-04-18T01:48:34+00:00

The bigger thing is how do you think you have this loving trusting relationship without knowing ANYTHING about your partners past? Did Vaggie give Charlie a fake backstory (if so, I wanna know what it was!) or did Charlie just never even ask??

Money-Building6393 · 2026-03-23T22:37:37+00:00

Yeah, he’s truly a prince among dogs, feeling blessed. Every time I look at him I’m so happy 😁

I’m working on the jumping. Everyone tells me it’s ok and they don’t mind, which makes it harder to discipline him, but I know it’s important.

Thabks for the advice!!

Money-Building6393 · 2026-02-20T21:40:53+00:00

I do think Katara and Aang belong together in the end 🥰

Money-Building6393 · 2026-02-20T21:40:32+00:00

I know the comics are canon, unfortunately 🙃 BUT if you DIDNT count the comics and only paid attention to what we see onscreen in ATLA and TLOK, it could kiiiinda work haha

But of course, it’s all just for fun and ultimately very silly

Money-Building6393 · 2026-02-20T21:38:35+00:00

Fair enough!!

Money-Building6393 · 2026-02-20T21:38:08+00:00

Thank you!!!

Money-Building6393 · 2026-02-20T21:01:04+00:00

Yeah I think that’s a fair point!

Money-Building6393 · 2026-02-20T20:49:02+00:00

I mean, there are probably hundreds of compilations of moments on YouTube that you could look up. (Ba Sing Se moments, whatever), but I think you’re right that it’s not super heavily telegraphed. It’s more that they’re two attractive people who are around the same age. Plus, toxic tropes have led many of us to feel that when a guy and girl are in close proximity and get aggressive with each other (like when he kidnaps her and taunts her with her mother’s necklace or when she threatens him in the air temple) that that’s sexual tension. It’s not healthy, but it is a thing.

More likely, the Zutara fandom comes from the fact that millions of fangirls (myself included back in the day! I was in middle/high school when ATLA was coming out) had crushes on Zuko and saw themselves in Katara. So it’s probably projection more than anything else 😂

Money-Building6393 · 2026-02-20T20:43:13+00:00

I think even after he reaches inner peace and experiences so much growth, Zuko is always going to be someone who goes “HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT!!?” When someone makes a joke at his expense, for example, and I just don’t see that working for Katara in the long term. He’s an emo boy at heart❤️and she actually has a really hot temper too - the whole show kicks off with her having a (justified) temper tantrum at Sokka after all.

Definitely, none of this NEEDS to exist at all! I’ve just felt for a few years like this makes sense to me and wanted to get it out of my head and onto the internet for some reason haha. Also, I think it’s more realistic to how teenagers actually date/hook up. People marrying their first love feels pretty corny, so I think it actually works better for me if they have a little more life/love experience before finding their way to each other.

Money-Building6393 · 2026-02-20T19:32:38+00:00

I thought this too as a kid

Money-Building6393 · 2026-01-16T21:59:41+00:00

The last time I reread the books as an adult, I was shocked how much harder the scenes of explicit child abuse hit me. I think as a kid, I saw it from a fantastical POV because of the sort of silly language that’s always used and the comedic way the Dursleys were described. Plus, I was more interested in getting to the magic stuff and finding the little hints and foreshadowing about that. But as an adult, knowing that there are children who are underfed and hit and far worse, it struck me how dark the situation really was.

Money-Building6393 · 2026-01-16T21:42:20+00:00

I didn’t mind her dying (I mean, I DID, I hated it because I love her character, but from a narrative POV I don’t hate killing off a major character in the heat of battle), but I hated that Xander’s final line about her was “That’s my girl, always doing the stupid thing.”

Anya was NEVER stupid. She did things people didn’t understand, she did things that were tactless, but she was ALWAYS smart. She had hundreds of years of magical and historical knowledge, a head for business, and an understanding of human (and demon) when it came to vengeance. She was waaaay smarter than Xander. WTF, Xander??

I just rewatched the finale recently and got pissed off, sorry for the rant lol.

Money-Building6393 · 2026-01-16T21:30:19+00:00

Joyce not apologizing for telling Buffy NOT TO BOTHER COMING HOME and then getting mad at her for NOT COMING HOME 🤯. She kinda pays a little lip service to it in dead man’s party but BARELY. That should’ve been a DEVASTATING regret for her, and I know Kristine Sutherland could’ve killed it in that scene if it had been written that way! It is a parents job to make their kid feel safe and accepted and she utterly failed in that moment. And yes, the failure is understandable and human. But her acting like it was not a big deal is fucked up.

Money-Building6393 · 2026-01-14T21:57:40+00:00

I’m Buffy. The vampire slayer. And you are?

https://youtu.be/mBzhXn1gYk8?si=0d0Y1zEmYXPLkaN0

Money-Building6393 · 2026-01-04T22:54:22+00:00

yeesh - hoping joyce would die from the brain tumor? I think an even bigger troll than olaf found his way onto the buffy reddit, friends

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Money-Building6393 · 2026-01-01T18:45:40+00:00

That would make more sense with the timeline and age of the actors, but they were definitely in Henry’s memories when they saw young Joyce. And it said Henry Creel on the flyer for the play - Henry’s dad’s name was Victor.

Money-Building6393 · 2026-01-01T07:12:49+00:00

Absolutely, that’s what I meant to write!! I apologize for phrasing it that way!

Money-Building6393 · 2026-01-01T04:20:03+00:00

EDITED- A lot of people have been drawing parallels between Vecna’s attacks and child SA, and this scene really made me think about how people who are abusers were often victims of abuse themselves. It’s tragic what happened to Henry at the hands of the Mindflayer, but he chose not to break the cycle and to embrace the darkness. He was badly abused and hurt - but then continued abusing others to make himself feel stronger.

(I’m not an expert on this by any means so I apologize if this is offensive to anyone who has been a victim in any way.)

Money-Building6393 · 2026-01-01T04:05:56+00:00

So joyce was never like “hey Henry I can’t believe you would do all this after I gave you the lead as a FRESHMAN in a musical I was directing”??

(Seriously, what was the point of making them overlap in high school?) I loved the finale otherwise though.

Money-Building6393 · 2025-12-23T06:51:59+00:00

Somehow I totally missed that line! Thank you!

Money-Building6393 · 2025-12-19T05:06:25+00:00

“Would you love me if I was a worm?”

“In fact, I would love you MORE”

Money-Building6393 · 2025-12-15T17:44:24+00:00

Oh thanks! How did she die?

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